The purpose of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor

is to identify all the words and phrases used figuratively and metaphorically in everyday
contemporary English and to categorize each word or phrase not only by meaning but also by
what cognitive linguists and others have described variously as figure and ground, target and
source, physical basis and domain, in order to provide a reference for English as a Second
Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The compiler is a lifelong
EFL teacher of adult military students in Saudi Arabia. First, he identified and recorded words
and phrases used figuratively, along with short examples of use that highlight collocates to create
the alphabetized dictionary of collocations: the first entry is ablaze and the last entry is zoom out
(verb). Second, he used the tags to create the thesaurus. Examples of tags include container;
allusion; direction; weight; movement; temperature; theater; sports & games; person; increase &
decrease; resistance, opposition & defeat, etc. The result reinforces the important role figurative
language plays in common and everyday language and the importance that collocation plays in
distinguishing such language. The work provides many insights. For example, while much
figurative language has arisen from the domain of the theater, the thesaurus shows the majority
relates to three areas: development; attention, scrutiny & promotion; and performance. Another
insight is to show how often words for people are used figuratively: outcast, butcher, author,
guide, cheerleader, etc. The work has implications for ESL / EFL teaching, which tends to focus
on the literal meanings of words, usually the first sense in a dictionary. Clearly, more attention
should be paid to other senses of words, and this work will help to identify and classify them.
Besides ESL / EFL teachers, the work will interest ESL / EFL curriculum developers and
materials writers. It could be a part of an ESL / EFL teacher-training course. It provides a model
for similar works created in the future by lexicographers and applied and cognitive linguists.
Preliminary short discussions based on the work include (1) 60 + common metaphors (2)
Collocation (3) Epithets (4) Persons (5) The “container” metaphor (6) Grammatical metaphor,
fictive verbs, etc. (7) Past, present and future (8) Allusions (9) Euphemisms (10) Gestures and
bodily reactions (11) Shapes and parts-whole (12) Animacy (13) Persistence, survival and
endurance (14) Old and new clichés (15) Quotations (16) Synonyms and opposites (17) Lessons
and exercises (18) To the ESL / EFL teacher, which focuses on how the dictionary and thesaurus
impacts the knowledge and experience base of the ESL / EFL teacher and (19) An alphabetized
list of the thesaurus categories.

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A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative
Language and Metaphor

by Joseph Gagen Stockdale III

October 19, 2020

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Table of contents
1. Dedication 4
2. Introduction 5-9
3. 60 + common metaphors 10-15
4. Collocation 16
5. Epithets 17-18
6. Persons 19
7. The “container” metaphor 20
8. Grammatical metaphor, fictive verbs, etc. 21
9. Past, present and future 22
10. Allusions 23
11. Euphemisms 24-25
12. Gestures and bodily reactions 26
13. Shapes and parts-whole 27
14. Animacy 28-30
15. Persistence, survival and endurance 31-32
16. Old and new clichés 33-38
17. Quotations 39-41
18. Synonyms and opposites 42-44
19. Lessons and exercises 45-46
20. To the EFL / ESL teacher 47-51
21. An alphabetized list of the thesaurus categories 52-58
22. The dictionary of collocations 59-874
23. The thesaurus / categories 875-1229

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Dedication
To my father—a teacher and a theater man. I thought of you every time I added a word or
expression to the category of theater in the thesaurus.

And to my students—Emiratis, Hondurans, Mexicans, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Kosovars—past,

present and future.

But this work is especially dedicated to the adult military students I taught in Saudi Arabia,
starting in 1983 and ending in 2017.

The lyric from Mutanabbi that you taught me will beat in my heart as long as my heart beats.

I know the desert well,

The night, the mounted men.
The battle and the sword,
The paper and the pen.

Joseph Gagen Stockdale III

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Introduction
I compiled this work with my adult Saudi Arabian military EFL students in mind. The third
entry in this dictionary—about-face—is something I've seen my students do many times on the
maidan, or parade ground, in Dhahran, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. A literal about-
face, not a figurative one. The literal tends to come first in English language teaching and
learning, and in our dictionaries, but the figurative usage can be right behind, if only taught. Of
course, the figurative meaning of about-face relates to reversal: a government can do an about-
face on something such as a policy.

In my classroom, when I would casually mention that a hurricane had an eye (resemblance), or a
bed had a foot and a head (orientation), and not only the earth but also a school had an
atmosphere (environment), my students would often react with astonishment and dismay.

"English is crazy," one of my students said, memorably. A Harbi. Or a Mutairi, maybe.

And yet, those same students had no problem exemplifying figurative uses of words. When I
taught a group of students the figurative use of magnet, and gave them a little time to think about
it, one student shot his hand into the air and pronounced, "Makkah is a magnet for Muslims."

I highly praised him—a Zahrani, I recall…

The key for such exemplifications lies with collocation. With magnet, the important collocating
preposition is for: X (be) a magnet for Y. This little formula with its collocating preposition
allows students to create their own, novel exemplifications.

I remember once teaching basic English in a dusty classroom overlooking a parade ground
ringed by date palms, in the early days of personal computers. The vocabulary item I was
teaching was window. I introduced the word in the usual, literal way, but I also mentioned that
TV shows could be a window (portal) to other countries and cultures. This was in the old days
before smartphones.

And a bearded naval officer—a Qahtani?—shot his hand into the air and said, slyly, "Windows."

It took me just a second to get it. Well, of course! Microsoft Windows!

Another time, I remember teaching a lesson on shopping that included the word mall. This
provided me the opportunity to speak for a brief moment about mall rats, girls and boys who go
to malls to flirt. Saudi Arabia has malls, girls, and boys, of course, but flirting is not supposed to

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occur, and premarital sex can be a death sentence. Not only that, but in Saudi Arabia comparing
a man to an animal of any type is potentially a deadly insult.

After the lesson, a cadet approached me and confided in a whisper, "My brother is a big mall
rat!"

I loved how he modified the phrase with big!

In fact, it was my Saudi students that got me interested in the figurative and metaphorical use of
language in the first place. They would talk to me of Islam as a path, refer to the character of a
person or nationality as being straight and crooked, insult people as snakes, devils, dogs, and
pigs, and compliment me on my "white" heart. In Riyadh, the center of the country, I taught in
view of a prominent ridge called "The Camel's Nose" in Arabic. When I taught in Jeddah, in the
western part of the country, I learned from my students that the city was known as "The Bride of
the Red Sea," and it was from Arabic poetry that I learned expressions like, "Her face gleamed
like the moon on the 14th of the month."

I have not thought of pigs, hearts, geographical place names, cities, and the moon in the same
way since.

It's interesting to reflect that there are no actual pigs in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam where
the Qur’an forbids the eating of pork. And yet, you hear the word all the time there, not in its
literal sense as the animal, but as an insult. And that is how it is entered and categorized in this
work. Animals are commonly related to insults, just as they are commonly related to character
and personality and many other things, including predation and epithets.

I'm sure you can think of many examples.

"If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you," is a proverb I learned in Saudi Arabia.

I like the figurative world because it is connected to the natural world, a world I admire, and not
just through the window of an automobile. It includes creatures from childhood like monsters
and witches, as well as words that come from "grown up" subjects like astronomy, history,
physics, and medicine. In the figurative world, words still refer to older technologies and
practices like sailing, mills, farming, and hunting, and somehow I understand them. The
figurative world maintains allusions to literature, to the Iliad and the Odyssey, Dickens, Mary
Shelley, and the Bible. In the figurative world, drumbeats still carry a message, a simple object
such as a coin or a chain can express a fundamental relationship, a pancake can express a shape
or configuration, and a “tug of war” between an aircraft and its crew can have real consequences,
resulting in hundreds of fatalities. A bubble can symbolize a pandemic.

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Figurative language offers synonyms, antonyms, and makes connections. You can be up to your
neck or up to your eyeballs in something. Take your pick! If you have a problem, you can tackle
it or punt. Both those words come from American football. Or, you can kick the can down the
road, something I often did as a boy. You can stroll / coast / waltz / or sail to success. You can
say, “That ship has sailed,” or you can say, “That train has left the station,” depending on
whether you are into ships or trains. When it comes to resolution and conclusion, you can bury
the ghosts, or put something to rest. If you wish to avoid or separate yourself from something,
nautically you can steer clear of it, or give it a wide berth.

And the figurative world makes just makes sense. Is it any surprise that words and expressions
from the field of education often relate to assessment? Alcohol to restraint and lack of restraint?
The family to relationship? The theater to attention? Gambling to fate, fortune and chance? A
boat or a horse to control? Religion to messages? Sleep to consciousness and awareness? The
tongue to speech? Health and medicine to condition and status? Targets to hunting? Weight to
substance? Clothing to concealment? Chess to strategy? A table to negotiation, or inclusion? A
door to access? Affliction to wounds and scars? Love and marriage to pursuit, capture and
escape?

That last tends to surprise and delight those who haven't thought of it before.

The figurative world is a great way to organize words and phrases to produce language that
really sounds natural, the type of language that we seldom if ever teach from our textbooks, and
that our students often surprise us with by acquiring on their own, outside our classrooms. It is
the difference between “I understand” which we teach and “I see” or “I get it” which we don’t.
As English language teachers, we tend to think of the future as a grammar lesson. But the future
can also be thought of as movement, direction and even as a container. The future is forward.
And if the future is forward, then the past is… behind! The same for progress. Achievement is
up, decline is down. The same for proper conduct. Direction is very relevant to numbers. Sales
are up! Down! Soaring! Plummeting! Sky-high! Rock-bottom! Through the roof!

Not to mention that the future may relate to the horizon.

Saudis will spend the night out in the desert on full-moon nights, and spend a night out around a
bonfire in the winter. Like Russians, they enjoy searching for mushrooms in season, except in
their case they are hunting for desert truffles. In Saudi Arabia a young man might walk miles to
get from one place to another. While walking, he will notice the ashes of old campfires, and the
footprints of those who have walked the path before him. He will pay attention to the weather,
and to the light. If he is out past sunset and has planned ahead and carried some wood, he might
light a fire for warmth or companionship, and notice other such lights on the horizon, or across a

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valley, and he will notice the stars in the sky. Such a person will already know the physical bases
of words like trail, fire, footprint, beacon, weather, and star and will feel the shock of
recognition in their figurative and metaphorical usages.

The figurative and the literal can become controversial. In 2011 in the US, the elected politician
Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot after Giffords' district had been targeted on a map with
cross-hairs by an ideological opponent. In a coda, in 2019, Roger Stone apologized to Judge
Amy Berman Jackson for posting an Instagram photo of her next to a rifle scope’s crosshair. She
said, “Roger Stone fully understands the power of words and the power of symbols. In this age
of social media there’s really no such thing as a takeback... There’s nothing ambiguous about a
crosshairs.” Another important case regards the use of crusade by President George W. Bush,
when he said, “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while...”

Figurative usage and metaphor are not trivial. Wall Street "mines" newspaper articles and tweets
for the figurative usage of words like abyss—as in "Greece is at the edge of a financial abyss”—
which can spark declines in the market. In language, the idea of substance can be associated with
weight, and cognitive linguists have conducted experiments based on the idea that the actual
thickness and weight of something, like a paper file, can influence people's attitudes about the
substance of a person.

Metaphor is nothing new: the ancient Greeks discussed it. Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., in his book
Word Origins (published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1950), wrote, “Up and down are two
other strange words that tie into the mysteries of space and even of religion and our human ideas
of values,” in the chapter entitled “word oddities,” and he goes on to explain and give good
examples. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Light and darkness are our familiar
expression for knowledge and ignorance... Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively
our image of memory and hope.” (Nature, Chapter 4, “Language”). Cognitive linguists speak of
metaphors like these as “bad is down,” “good is up,” “knowledge is vision,” “past is behind
ego,” and “future is in front of ego.”

For students learning English, this dictionary should help them learn the figurative uses of words.
The entry word is, in most cases, basic. The collocations are rarely more than two or three words,
slightly harder, and the exemplary fragments and sentences are harder yet. And so this dictionary
is scaffolded for every level. It goes without saying that basic English (to include figurative
language) is the foundation for all those other Englishes: academic English, aviation English,
business English, medical English, military English, scientific English, technical English,
English for Peace and Conflict Studies, etc.

It took decades for the fruits of research on collocation to get into our curriculums, materials, and
dictionaries. The revised and updated version of the military curriculum I taught for so many

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years in Saudi Arabia—the American Language Course (ALC) created by the Defense Language
Institute (DLI)—now contains many excellent exercises that are based on collocation. It is my
hope that the next big effort for the ALC/DLI and in language teaching in general will be to
incorporate the figurative uses of words into curriculums and textbooks.

This dictionary and thesaurus should encourage and help.

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60+ common metaphors
These metaphors are based on the work and represent a lot of language. The bolded words are
categories in the thesaurus and the italicized words have entries in the dictionary. The first
metaphor relates the hand to attainment and possession. A hand, of course, can relate to many
other things: see the category hand in the glossary for the many things a hand can relate to. But
the hand relating to attainment and possession is a common metaphor.
1. The hand can relate to attainment and also to possession: “It was in my hands, but it
slipped through my fingers and now it is forever out of my grasp / reach.”
2. Sleep can relate to consciousness & awareness: “The government is sleeping, and our
politicians need to wake up.” So can the eye: “A minority of clear-eyed scientists saw it
coming. Still, non-scientists were blindsided, and, when the catastrophe occurred, it was a
real eye-opener.”
3. Royalty often relates to the superlative: Burger King; Mattress King; Aretha, the Queen
of Soul; “aristocratic wine at democratic prices” (an advertisement); “Banff, the
Canadian National Park, is the crown jewel of the system.”
4. A name relates to reputation: “Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.” “You
have blackened our name.” “That company has a good name.”
5. A horse can relate to control & lack of control: “We need to rein in galloping /
runaway inflation.” “Hydroelectric dams harness the power of rivers.”
6. Mining can relate to searching & discovery: “I began to dig into the old case and
uncovered some interesting facts. Not all the leads panned out. It was in the old police
case file, however, that I struck gold.”
7. The family commonly relates to relationship and to division & connection:
“Intelligence officers have always held an orphan / stepchild position in the military
compared to the favorite son status of tacticians and logistics officers.”
8. Language from the military and weapon categories is often linked to conflict and
accusation & criticism: “Facing sniping from his own party and a fusillade of criticism
from the opposition, he has fired a broadside in his defense.”
9. The theater often relates to development, and also attention, scrutiny & promotion,
and performance: “It is only the first act of the legal drama, but already the spotlight has
focused on jury selection. The trial promises to be quite a show.”
10. Chess often relates to strategy: “It’s a geopolitical chess game and the pawns in the
struggle have no idea what the endgame will be.”
11. A table can relate to position, policy & negotiation: sit down at the table; on the table;
off the table; come back to the table; turn the tables. Or inclusion & exclusion: a seat at
the table. A tent can relate to the same idea.
12. Movement and direction can relate to action, inaction & delay and progress & lack of
progress: “We’ve got to move, and we’ve got to move forward, not sideways or
backwards.”
13. The center & periphery often relate to society: mainstream; center; fringe, on the
margins.

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14. Height can relate to importance & significance and primacy, currency, decline &
obsolescence and superiority & inferiority: “LeBron James is literally and figuratively
a towering figure at the height of his career, at the very pinnacle of success, head and
shoulders above his rivals. And while his star may now be at its zenith, it must be that
every star will set.”
15. Journeys & trips can represent life. After college, you set out / embark on a course. You
encounter crossroads or forks in the road and choose your direction. You might follow in
someone else’s footsteps or blaze your own trail. You will cross that bridge when you
come to it, encounter obstacles in your path and take shortcuts and detours. Milestones
along the way might include marriage, children, and promotions. Life can be a hard slog,
and some fall by the wayside. But hopefully you will be happy and content when you
reach the end of the road, especially if you are one of those who took “the [road] less
travelled by.”
16. A line often relates to behavior: “You are out of line. You have crossed the line. You are
over the line. You have crossed a red line.”
17. An animal can relate to predation, especially a lion, wolf or shark: “Famine still stalks
the inhabitants of the Sahel.” “If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you.” “His critics are
circling, they can smell blood in the water, and they are out for blood.”
18. Smell often relates to evidence and corruption: “I began sniffing out government
corruption. And when I got wind of the business deal, I immediately detected something
fishy. Something stank, and by the time I had finished my investigation, the stench filled
my nostrils.”
19. Affliction can relate to a creature (like a ghost) and health & medicine and to a mark
(like a scar): “He was never able to exorcise the ghosts of Afghanistan, heal his
emotional wounds, and the mental scars of his service are still livid, raw and itchy.”
20. A weight or a burden can relate to oppression: “I was weighed down by a heavy load of
debt that I knew I would never be able to get out from under, and the repossession of my
car was the last straw.”
21. Health & medicine can relate to the condition & status of something: The economy is
on life support / moribund / weak / recovering / healthy / robust, etc.
22. Ruins can relate to destruction. “Even though my company had collapsed, and my
reputation was in ruins, I began to rebuild.”
23. Water can relate to the size and force of movement: “The number of asylum seekers
began as a trickle or stream and is now a flood. A groundswell of immigration is
threatening to inundate the border, and those opposed to migration are characterizing it as
a tsunami.”
24. Rain, a storm, a wind, or natural disasters like an avalanche, a landslide, an
earthquake, or tsunami, and great forces like a volcano, a river, the sea, a fire, a wave
and water often relate to amount and effect: an avalanche / blizzard / firestorm / flood /
deluge / landslide / tidal wave / tsunami / storm / surge of criticism, protest, etc.
25. Direction and height can relate to behavior and character & personality: “An upright
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 his enemies of low repute. To such a man, morality is straightforward, and his opposite is
a snake, taking a twisted path.”
26. Astronomy can relate to the idea of primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: “One
boxer’s star is rising, the current champion’s star is at its zenith, while the former
champ’s star is setting.”
27. Books & reading can relate to development: “When I graduated from university, it was
time to close the book on that stage of my life, turn the page, and start a new chapter in
my life.”
28. Food & drink can relate to consumption and to absorption & immersion: “I developed
a taste for exploration as a young boy. I gorged on the books of explorers, I devoured
them, I drank in / lapped up / gobbled up adventure stories and digested their lessons
learned, and my appetite for them was insatiable. Soon I began taking little voyages of
my own about the neighborhood and developed a taste for freedom. In fact, I became a
glutton for it.”
29. Sports & games commonly relate to competition: the contest of measure and
countermeasure (warfare); the space race; we are ahead of them; we must not fall behind;
they are outpacing us and we will have to do better to keep up; when it comes to global
warming, there will be winners and losers; she is jockeying for position; he is the front-
runner, etc.
30. A season can relate to growth & development and decline: “I am in the autumn of my
life;” nuclear winter; the Arab Spring...
31. The day can relate to past & present and future: in the old days; back in the day; those
days; yesterday; these days; nowadays; a new day; in the coming days, “hopes and
dreams for a better tomorrow.”
32. Hygiene is related, too often in a sinister way, to violence and concealment & lack of
concealment: a military “cleanup” operation; ethnic cleansing; “wash the filthy scum off
the streets,” whitewash, sanitize, scrub, launder, etc.
33. Water (swimming and drowning) often relates to survival & endurance: “My first
semester at college, I felt like I was I out of my depth and drowning. I was just treading
water, barely able to keep my head above water and stay afloat. Letters from home were
a real lifeline. Things are much better now.”
34. Equilibrium is often related to disruption: “The company has shaken up the industry
and rattled the major players by overturning accepted assumptions and norms.” It is also
related to fairness: “The idea will tilt the balance and create an unequal playing field.”
35. Temperature can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “Relations between the two
countries, previously frosty, have begun to thaw, but they can in no way be described as
warm yet.”
36. Direction up or down can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “You look downhearted.
Cheer up! I can see you need a lift. Let’s do something to raise your spirits.”
37. A clock and the time of day can relate to timeliness & lack of timeliness. So can a
window: “We had better hurry. The clock is ticking. It’s no longer early in the morning,
it’s late in the day. We’re in a race with the clock now, and the clock is winding down.
Our window of opportunity is closing fast.”

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38. Natural obstacles can relate figuratively to obstacles & impedance: headwind; shoal;
morass; mud; quagmire; quicksand; thicket; logjam; snag, etc.
39. A desert or oasis or jungle or swamp or island or sea and other geographical features
are often used figuratively to describe an environment. “Too many urban areas are food
deserts with little access to fresh food.” “It’s a jungle out there, be careful.” “The area is
an island of affluence in a sea of squalor.” “We must drain the swamp of Congress.” The
air, the atmosphere and the climate can be used to talk about environment in general.
“There is tension in the air / atmosphere, and a climate of fear.”
40. A plant and farming & agriculture are often related to growth & development:
“Christianity found fertile ground in the Philippines, where the seeds the missionaries
planted took root and flourished / flowered / bore fruit.”
41. Standing, sitting & lying can relate to many things, including dominance &
submission, and resistance, opposition, & defeat, and also action, inaction & delay.
These meanings are often combined in a series: “We can’t take this lying down. Why are
we just sitting on our hands? We can’t stand by any longer. It’s time to stand up and
make a stand.”
42. Health & medicine; addiction; love, courtship & marriage; and religion can all relate
to enthusiasm: “I’m crazy about dragonflies”; “Adrenaline junkies risk life and limb at
the X games for their sports”; “To meet a walrus is to fall in love with a walrus” (a walrus
researcher); “It’s a bit of a disease” (Jay Leno on his vehicle collection); “Mountains are
truly cathedrals” (the great “Big” Jim Whittaker, climber). The opening line of Norman
Maclean’s book A River Runs Through It reads, “In our family, there was no clear line
between religion and fly fishing.”
43. The Galapagos Islands have become an epithet for the biodiversity of endemic species.
The fascinating Yemeni island of Socotra has been called the “Galapagos of the Indian
Ocean.” Alaska’s Pribilof Islands are known as the Galapagos of the North. In Unesco’s
World Heritage Site citation, Lake Baikal in eastern Russia is referred to as the
Galapagos of Russia. The Hawaiian Islands Marine National Park has been referred to as
the American Galapagos, and the Haida Gwaii have been referred to as the Canadian
Galapagos.
44. Allusions from the Iliad & Odyssey relate to the following: attraction (siren); affliction
(hector); subterfuge (Trojan horse); journeys & trips (odyssey); message (Cassandra);
protection & lack of protection (Achilles’ heel), superlative (epic and Homeric), and
alternative & choices and danger (between Scylla and Charybdis). This vocabulary will
live in the language long after the details are forgotten.
45. Alcohol can relate to several things: activity (ferment); behavior (binge, drunk, and
inebriate); concealment & lack of concealment (bootleg and bootlegger);
consciousness and awareness) (black out); control and lack of control (drunk); feeling,
emotion & effect (hangover, intoxicate, intoxicate, intoxicating, sober, and sobering);
mixture (cocktail); and restraint & lack of restraint (binge, drunk, and inebriate). You
don’t have to be a drinker to be “drunk on power / success.”
46. Falling can relate to fate, fortune & chance. If you are on thin ice, you might fall
through the ice and drown. Likewise, when you go out on a limb, the limb might break

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 and then you will fall to the ground and die. If you are hanging on to your job by a
thread, that thread might break. If you are walking a tightrope, you might fall off and die.
If you are teetering on the edge of a precipice, you might fall and die. The sky can fall. If
your head is on the chopping block, the blade could fall on your neck and your head will
roll. That blade might be the Sword of Damocles. Or perhaps you are waiting for a shoe
to drop or fall.
47. Cards can relate to fate, fortune & chance: “The cards were stacked against Rubin
Carter from birth. He was dealt a hand nobody could play. But by the luck of the draw, a
sympathetic judge was selected to try his final case of habeas corpus.”
48. A euphemism is often used for death. Expressions include pass away; the fallen; lose
(through death); resting place, etc. A set of sinister euphemisms relate violence to
hygiene: ethnic cleansing; brainwashing; sanitize; scrub; a military cleanup, etc.
49. Money can relate to obligation: “The grateful nation owes a debt of gratitude to the
sacrifices of its military. We can never fully repay those who paid the ultimate price for
our freedom.”
50. Money is often related to cost & benefit. “I made a costly mistake, I paid a price for my
mistake, it took a toll on me, but in the end I profited from it, though it took years and
years before I understood what exactly the payoff was.”
51. Society can relate to a person like a leper, castaway, outcast, pariah, and hermit. Such
people might find themselves separated from the mainland, on an island, in the
wilderness, left out in the cold, outside of the tent, on the fringe, on the far shore, etc.
52. Noise and movement are often related to activity: The factory floor was a beehive of
activity, swarming with workers, with machines large and small humming and buzzing.
53. Gesture can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “The latest college admissions scandal
has some people shaking their heads, others rolling their eyes, and a few wringing their
hands.”
54. Cloth can relate to division & connection: “We are used to traveling around on an
interwoven, tight-knit, seemingly seamless system of highways. But some strands have
become frayed.” So can a rope: “A nation is bound / tied together by its system of
roads.”
55. Containers can relate to situations: “I got into trouble, I was in a tight spot, trapped,
desperate to get out.”
56. Love, courtship & marriage can be connected to attraction & repulsion and to
pursuit, capture & escape: “She was the darling of Wall Street, she had no problem
wooing and seducing eager investors—including ex-generals, one ex-president, Henry
Kissinger, and two nationally important families—and she had the media swooning.”
57. Sound can represent conflict: “His comments caused an uproar and howls of protest,
with many clamoring for an apology, and outcries for his resignation.”
58. An explosion or a weapon from the military can represent danger: On a bad day
academia can be a minefield full of booby traps, trip wires and hidden landmines.”
59. Verbs of hitting, slamming & lashing are often related to the force of storms,
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 pummeled inland areas with winds and rain, and knocked out the power grid before
moving on to clobber the mainland.”
60. Direction (up and down) can relate to hierarchy. “When I started out in my job, I started
out at the bottom. I was low man on the totem pole, and literally everyone in the company
was over me. With hard work and perseverance, I began to rise up. I began to climb the
career ladder. When my superiors realized I wanted to take care of those under me, and
not just please my higher-ups, I rose even higher. Today I am not at the top of the
pyramid, but I am very happy where I am, and I am ready to assume additional
responsibility.”
61. Religion often relates to message: He has used his bully pulpit to preach the gospel of
American exceptionalism, and his crusade has been wildly popular, particularly when he
preaches to members of the choir.
62. Sensation can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “That guy is irritating, he rubs me the
wrong way.” “Yeah, he can be abrasive. But you’re too sensitive, you need to develop
thicker skin.”
63. An animal often relates to conflict: You can bristle, get your back up, and stand your
ground. You might then go head to head and butt heads, or lock horns with someone.
You might be out for blood, smell blood, and draw blood. Or you might give ground, turn
tail and run, or lie down and roll over.
64. Attention, in the glossary of this work included at attention, scrutiny & promotion,
often relates to explosion, light & dark, and sound. Most Americans, and every child,
delight in these three things simultaneously every Fourth of July. Not necessarily dogs, or
recent combat veterans. And so our internet influencers skyrocket to success and things
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Collocation
Why compile a dictionary of collocations for words used figuratively, and not just a thesaurus?
As Susan Hunston noted in a personal communication, “The crucial point that metaphoric uses
are distinguished by collocation has...been made, most notably by Prof Alice Deignan of Leeds
University.” Of course, every word is characterized by its collocations, and collocation is key for
use. But the collocations of words used figuratively and literally can differ.
Pitfall, entered in this work in hunting, and danger, and also walking, running & jumping, is
an interesting word and worth discussing in terms of collocation. Like many words, most of us
will only encounter this word in its figurative sense. People around the world still hunt and trap
for a living, but most of them use more modern methods. I can only imagine that it takes a lot of
work and time to dig a pitfall, unlike the fictional pitfall from “The Most Dangerous Game” by
Richard Connell, a short story I taught as the ESL co-teacher of a high-school language-arts
class. What I know about these old methods of catching animals comes from films like Chang: A
Drama of the Wilderness (1927) in which animals were most definitely harmed, or a book like
Dersu the Trapper by V.K. Arseniev, when he writes about ludevas, or game fences. As he
explains it, instinct impels an animal towards water or a salt lick. A game barrier prevents the
animal from going in the direction it wants to go. So the animal walks along the fence,
eventually coming to an opening in the fence it can get through. It is there that the trapper has
dug the pitfall, and the animal falls in.
The main collocating verbs for a literal pitfall would be dig, cover, fall into and fill in: a hunter
must first dig a pitfall and then cover it and hope that an animal falls into it, and when he leaves
the area, he should fill in the pitfall so as not to deplete the stock of game in a wasteful manner.
Like the word hole, adjectives might be deep or shallow. In a series with and or a comma linking
it to similar words, an attested example is “pitfalls, deadfalls, and snares.” Trap, pitfall, and
snare are often used figuratively, but deadfall seems to have fallen by the wayside.
For a figurative pitfall, important collocating verbs are: identify, avoid, navigate and skirt. This
makes sense as a series. Skate around, an attested example, makes me question the writer’s
mental image of an actual pitfall, even if skate is being used figuratively. A figurative pitfall can
await the unwary. Common adjectives for a figurative pitfall are almost always classifying: a
medical / clinical / diagnostic / constitutional / legal pitfall. (Our curriculums tend to do a
horrible job of teaching classifying adjectives.) Or adjectives relate to significance: biggest /
greatest / main / major / important pitfall. Or possibility and frequency: a common / possible /
potential pitfall. A common preposition for “pitfall + preposition” is in: pitfalls in diagnosis /
evaluation / interpretation / management, etc.
Similar words used figuratively to express danger include: bomb, booby trap, landmine, line of
fire, minefield, powder keg, and tripwire, all from the military domain. A less used but perfectly
apt word is “third rail” which refers to trains, electricity, and electrocution: “Social security
reform / gun control is the third rail of US politics.”

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Epithets
Most of us learned epithets like “Rosy Fingered Dawn” (The Iliad) and “The Whale Road” and
the “The Swan Road” (Beowulf) in high-school literature courses. In the early 1900s, when
whaling, walrusing and sealing were still big industries, writers would refer to important and
powerful men as the “great whales of their profession.” Times have changed. Nowadays, we use
epithets like “Mick (a blue terrier) is the Michael Jordan of the dog-show world” and “We know
that Bolivia / Afghanistan can become the Saudi Arabia of lithium” and “Majid Abdullah, the
Pele of the desert...” and “The fight against Tamil rebels was Sri Lanka’s Vietnam.” In this work
epithets are recorded in the dictionary, and they are collected in the thesaurus in the category
epithet.
Epithets commonly occur in the form, “the X of Y.” Mick (a blue terrier) is the Michael Jordan
of the dog-show world. The Pribilofs are known as the Galapagos of the North.
Alternatives include “(the) Adj + X.” The adjective might be an adjective of nationality. The
Haida Gwaii Islands have been referred to as the Canadian Galapagos. The Hawaiian Islands
Marine National Park is the American Galapagos. “He studied counterinsurgency at Duntroon,
the Australian West Point.” Or the adjective might be a color. In the early 19th century, in
northwestern Illinois, lead was referred to as gray gold. In the 19th century guano was referred to
as white gold. Oil is frequently referred to as black gold, so are the wonderful Khawlani coffee
beans, picked red but dried until black, in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan province. And it is possible that
the blue gold of the future will be bulk water shipments to arid countries. Cobalt has also been
referred to as “blue gold.”
Yet another pattern is “(the) Possessive s + X.” The coral Triangle has been called the Ocean’s
Amazon. “Why Eritrea is called Africa’s North Korea.” Hubei Province is China’s new Ruhr
Valley. The Bali bombing was Australia’s 9/11.
Epithets are commonly introduced by called: Why Eritrea is called Africa’s North Korea (The
Economist magazine); West Virginia has been called the Saudi Arabia of coal; the Great Bear
Rain Forest is often called the Amazon of the North; Cerén is sometimes called the Pompeii of
the New World (El Salvador); Borneo and its forests are sometimes called the lungs of Southeast
Asia.
Or there is the variation with so-called: Kamuzu Academy in Malawi is the so-called “Eaton of
Africa.”
Or considered (to be): the Andrea Doria is considered the Mount Everest of wreck diving;
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy is considered to be Thailand’s West Point.
Described as can be used: the campaign is often described as the Stalingrad of the East (Battles
of Kohima and Imphal in World War II).
Or dubbed: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed America’s salad bowl;
Xiyuangualu lychees were dubbed “the king of fruit”; Travis Patriquin has been dubbed the T.E.
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Known is quite common: he is known as Korea’s Great Gatsby for his lavish lifestyle (Big
Bang’s Seungri); the Pribilofs are known as the Galapagos of the North; Ibrahim Rugova was
known as the Gandhi of the Balkans; Bhutan, once known as the hermit kingdom of the
Himalayas; the crash landing became known as the Miracle on the Hudson (Flight 1549).
Or refer to can be used: Unesco’s citation refers to Lake Baikal as the “Galapagos of Russia”; El
Paso is often referred to as the Ellis Island of the Southwest.
Finally, said to be: the Palestinians are sometimes said to be the Jews of the Arab world.
Note the tendency for the use of the passive, and the various adverbs of frequency.
Epithets often relate / compare (1) people to people (Ibrahim Rugova was known as the Gandhi
of the Balkans) (2) geographical places and areas to geographical places and areas (Pipeline on
the North Shore of Oahu is the Mount Everest of surfing waves) (3) institutions to institutions
(Kamuzu Academy in Malawi is the so-called “Eaton of Africa”) and (4) events to events (the
Kuta Beach bombing was Australia’s 9/11).
Epithets can be quite thought provoking and the points of similarity (and dissimilarity) are
always open for discussion and debate.
Consider Vietnam used as an epithet. That war has been compared to Egypt’s intervention in
Yemen, which occurred at the same time; Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s;
British involvement in that same country in 2006; and the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009).
Both Colin Kaepernick and Meghan Rapinoe have been described as their generation’s
Muhammed Ali.
Such diverse peoples as Indo-Caribbean immigrants, Palestinians, Chinese, and Latinos have all
been characterized as Jews, respectively of the Caribbean, the Arab world, the Far East, and of
the 21st century. While the primary meaning relates to diaspora, nuances are certainly involved
in every case.
Epithets for geographical places are quite common. Cities are often compared to a pearl: Manila,
the Pearl of the Orient; Dubrovnik, the Pearl of the Adriatic, etc. But my favorite is the one for
Lake Baikal, “the Blue Eye of Siberia.” On the BBC news world map, you can just see it to the
east of the larger Black and Caspian Seas and the smaller Lake Balkhash. My eye never fails to
note it due to its beautiful epithet. In every respect it is an amazing lake. It even has
archipelagoes. I would love to visit it one day.
Finally, epithets often relate to royalty: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul; Pat’s King of
Steaks; John George Bartholomew, the Prince of Cartography. Or to the family: Mohammad Ali
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Persons
A name for a person can figuratively relate to many things, especially a role. These names come
from a number of domains.
A person might relate to an occupation. A butcher is associated with oppression, warfare, and
slaughter, even though the friendly butchers at the supermarket where I buy my meat seem to be
perfectly normal, friendly and helpful folks. We should all be a good steward of the land, even if
we don’t work on ships, trains, or airplanes. You can be an ambassador without being a member
of the State Department, as Mike Tyson was when he visited China to promote boxing.
“Adjuncts are the field hands of education” doesn’t mean that adjuncts literally labor in the fields
and pick crops, as Cesar Chavez did. It means that they stoop to gain employment, get their
hands dirty teaching actual classes, do all the heavy lifting, have little control over what they are
paid, work seasonally, and usually have to travel a lot.
The names for members of a family used figuratively is a large category, no surprise, as the
family is basic to every society. Some of the connotations seem as if they came from 19th
century England as written about by Dickens, or from fairy tales. An orphan is bereft: “We need
to develop orphan drugs for orphan diseases.” A stepchild is neglected: “Intelligence officers
have always held a stepchild position.” The favorite son is favored: “Obama was welcomed to
Ireland like a favorite son.” The stepmother is evil and hates the poor stepdaughter: “The EU is a
heartless stepmother trying to drive Greece out of the family.” Mother and father commonly
relate to creation: “Cokie Roberts, a founding mother of NPR” and “Ibrahim Rugova, the father
of Kosovo...” Is it any surprise that twin represents connection? “The South’s familiar twins,
temperature and humidity...”
When we talk about society, we often use the words outcast, leper or pariah for those who are
shunned and marginalized. Or castaway, like those poor unfortunates on Tromelin Island in the
Indian Ocean. Or hermit, for those who voluntarily or involuntarily withdraw, like the Japanese
hikikimori, or modern-day hermits.
Persons who are mentioned in regards to the future and making predictions include fortuneteller,
oracle, prophet, soothsayer, and seer.
From the experience many of us had in our grade school and tweens and teens come babysitter,
bully, coach, chaperon, cheerleader, den mother, golden girl / boy and grownup.
And many persons come from the domain of religion: acolyte, choirboy, convert, crusader,
devotee, disciple, evangelist, guru, heretic, iconoclast, martyr, missionary, oracle, prophet, and
soothsayer. A subset of these persons relate to message, no surprise, as every religion has its
message.
All of the italicized words in this section have their entries in the dictionary, along with their
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The “container” metaphor
An expression like, “He has love / hatred in his heart for...” serves to remind us that the heart can
be thought of as a container, just like a pitcher or a glass, based on the preposition in.
We have cognitive linguists to thank for identifying the container metaphor, and any ESL / EFL
teacher will recognize its explanatory worth for idioms related to the heart, such as “I poured my
heart into the job,” “I poured my heart out to her,” “She fills my heart with joy and laughter,”
“The government wants to instill / put fear into the people’s hearts,” “They have goodness / hate
/ joy in their hearts,” “We’re going to hold / keep Lori Piestewa in our hearts forever,” etc.
Idioms like these do not seem so arbitrary, random or odd when we think of the heart as being a
container.
A situation is often thought of as a container: I got in / into trouble and I don’t know how to get
out. I’m in the doghouse at work. I got in hot water with the boss. We’re in a tight spot.
Feelings and emotions can be thought of as being inside a container: Don’t hold it in. Don’t
bottle it up. Pent-up frustrations can lead to violence. Open up. Let it out. I felt drained / empty. I
felt a sense of emptiness (depression).
The container metaphor, while extremely interesting and useful, is not perfect. For example, the
mind is a container in an expression like, “What do you have in mind?” or “He is close-minded,”
or “Try to keep an open mind.” But the mind can be more like a platform in an expression like
“What’s on your mind?” This can be discussed with students.

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Grammatical metaphor, fictive verbs, etc.
Angela Downing, in English Grammar: A University Course (Third Edition), devotes Chapter 27
to grammatical metaphor. She explains what that is, and gives good explanations for
restatements that are not “typical.” She also gives excellent examples in that chapter, such as
“Our evening walk along the river took us to Henley” and “August 12 found the travellers in
Rome” (her examples) in which take and find are not used in their normal senses. Based on her
work, I have included the following categories:
Fictive communication verbs include: say, tell, and read. “The sign said, “Do not enter.” “The
data told us there was a problem.” “His watch read 2 PM.” Read especially collocates with
gauges and dials. There are many more verbs like these.
Fictive motion. These verbs include go, run, and follow and are used for things like paths, trails,
rivers, roads, ropes, etc. that are essentially lines. Of course, there are many more such verbs. In
her wonderful article, “Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering,” Ekaterina Egorova
identifies over 70 fictive motion verbs from the world of mountaineering.
Fictive position. These are verbs that relate to position: stand, sit and lie. “The house sat on a
hill,” “A lamp stood in the corner,” “The city lies in a valley.” They make a nice teaching set and
can be taught as alternatives when we teach the “there” construction lesson.
Fictive meeting & seeing includes verbs like meet, encounter, find, see, and witness. This takes
care of Downing’s examples, “August 12 found the travellers in Rome,” and “The last decade
has witnessed an unprecedented rise in agricultural technology.” An attested example I just
included in this work was, “23 May saw over 250 climbers trying to summit Mount Everest.”
Clearly, the use of find, see, and witness collocates with a date or period of time at the subject
position.
Fictive possession includes verbs like capture, grab, grip, hold, possess, and seize. “Now that
we have captured your imagination, don’t make us come after the rest of you” is a clever TV
advertisement from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian Nation promoting tourism.
Fictive transportation verbs include ones like take, carry, transport, bring, etc. This is how I
have categorized “Our evening walk along the river took us to Henley.”
The Verb to noun category collects nominalizations of verbs, a very important feature of
grammatical metaphor, according to Downing. Five contemporary and popular examples include
“It looks bad” / “That’s not a good look”; “When will she reveal her secret?” / “When will she
make the big reveal?”; “What you request will be difficult to fulfill” / “That’s a big ask,” ;
“Chris Boswell doesn’t panic” / “Chris Boswell doesn’t do panic” ; and “The company failed” /
“It was a stunning fail (aeronautical software).”
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Past, present and future
We tend to think of the past & present and the future as lessons on grammar. But there are
plenty of figurative and metaphorical ways to express the past, present and future, and they are
all worth thinking about and mentioning to students.
A day can represent past, present and future. When we speak of the present, we can speak of
these days and nowadays. And when we speak of the past, we can say those days, or the old
days, or back in the day. When we speak of the future, we can say, “Tomorrow...”
The past, present and future is often thought of as movement based on a point of view. The
statements, “Winter is approaching / coming / on the way” and “the big day has arrived” imply
that things in the future come towards us. And that might be along a road: “When you don’t
know what’s coming down the pike, you worry.” We commonly use this idea for scheduled
events like deadlines, holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, seasons, etc. The idea is also expressed
in statements like “We will have to stay here for a time to come” and “There might be problems
in the coming months.”
But it can also seem like it is we who are moving toward the future: “We are approaching /
coming up on the fifth anniversary of...,” etc. And “we” can be extended to inanimate things we
would ordinarily never think of moving: “The region is heading towards war.”
Sometimes our forward movement makes it seem like we have all embarked on journeys &
trips: “Nobody knows what is on the road ahead.” “Your job will get easier down the road.”
And time can relate to things, like the horizon: “War is on the horizon.” Or a crystal ball and
fortune teller, especially in relation to predictions. The past can relate to a clock: “We don’t want
to turn back the clock.” Or a time capsule. Or a fossil or dinosaur for something or someone old-
fashioned.
Like the idea of heart mentioned above, we can think of the future as a container: “Nobody
knows what is in the future.” “I wonder what the future holds.”
Way back in 1836 Emerson wrote, “Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our
image of memory and hope.” (Nature, Chapter 4, “Language.”) No doubt he was thinking of
expressions like “Looking back on my life...” or “I’m looking forward to the wedding...” This
sounds very much like the “the future is forward, the past is back” metaphor of today’s cognitive
linguists.
I developed a special interest in Saudi Arabia in teaching language relating to the past, present
and future. That is because, like many places in the world, Saudi Arabia is modernizing swiftly
but unevenly. The past, present and future can all seem to exist in the same place at the same
time. Generations, tribes, areas of the country, and even young men of the same age who grew
up in the same place and tribe may be more modern, or less modern. As a teacher I donned the
role of an elder, and would often make my students laugh by referring to myself as a fossil, or a
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Allusions
In this work a list of allusions in contemporary use can be found at allusion, allusions to history
can be found at history, and allusions can also be noticed in the epithet category.
Adjectives that we often use for size are allusions: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, colossal,
gargantuan, Goliath, leviathan, Lilliputian, Olympian, Pharaonic, jumbo, etc. On National
Public Radio, I recently heard a commentator refer to Joe Biden as a political behemoth, which
created an image in my mind that made me laugh. The word jumbo comes from the name of an
Ethiopian elephant exhibited in the US and Canada by P.T. Barnum.
Other allusions come from old stories and children’s stories. The Goldilocks fairytale has given
us the modifier Goldilocks with the meaning of “just right” or “the sweet spot”: the Goldilocks
economy / place / principle / zone, etc. Cinderella relates to success in a phrase like “The school
has become a viral Cinderella story.”
Allusions like the Overton window and the Matilda effect have been coined recently and are
perhaps less well known than the ones mentioned above. They may or may not survive in a
hundred years.
Several allusions to Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey can be found in this work in the
category Iliad & Odyssey. Five of them are very common: odyssey (the Mars Odyssey); Trojan
horse (viruses, worms and Trojan Horses in computing); Achilles’ heel (the knees are the skiers’
Achilles’ heel); epic (an epic day of surfing at Waimea Bay); and siren (seduced by the siren call
of technology). These allusions will be remembered long after the details are forgotten of where
each ship came from and who slew whom in what order.
In these strange times of fake news and the internet, it is interesting to consider contemporary
allusions to fantasy & reality: curiouser and curiouser; El Dorado; heffalump (creature);
Kafkaesque (adj), never-never land; quixotic (adj); rabbit hole; Twilight Zone; and Walter Mitty.
Three of these allude to Alice in Wonderland.
And contemporary allusions to oppression include: draconian; Gestapo; inquisition; Lord of the
Flies; McCarthy; McCarthyite; Orwellian; pitchfork (oppression); procrustean; reign of terror /
fear; and witch-hunt.
Allusions reflect our more-or-less shared knowledge, memory, history, culture, and education.
Explaining allusions gives us a chance to teach and talk about many things besides just grammar
and vocabulary, including the biography and history of Jumbo the elephant.
In a North Carolina teacher-training class, an old biddy exhorted us to “go out and be the Johnny
Appleseed of books!” I took her exhortation to heart and am grateful to her for her advice.
In Saudi Arabia I was constantly amazed at what my Saudi military students knew and didn’t
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Euphemisms
In this work a list of current euphemisms can be found in the category euphemism. We
commonly use euphemisms for death, sex, and mental health.
In the early part of the 20th century, “to go West” meant the destruction of a thing or the death of
a person. A member of a tank crew in World War I wrote, “It’s a mile to your objective now, but
it’s a mile of thrills... A one-pounder in a hedge scares you with several well-placed shots before
it ‘goes west’ [is destroyed].” Paul De Kruif, in his book about the heroes and heroines of public
health titled Men Against Death, published in 1932, wrote: “In 1912 it [Rocky Mountain spotted
fever] had sneaked into [Dr. Thomas B.] McClintic ... The Montana doctor, McCray...woke up
with bloodshot eyes and an ache in his bones. In ten days McCray had gone West to join
McClintic.” Dr. Arthur Howard McCray had died in 1919.
What was the origin of this euphemism? I am speculating, but in the 19th century, America was
on the move, settling the continent to the Pacific. There were many dangers, including disease,
weather, violence, and accidents, especially drownings at river crossings. In Ordeal of the Union,
Allan Nevins tells of the son of John James Audubon comforting a dying cholera victim on a
wagon train in the Rio Grande Valley. “What hurts you, Ham?” Audubon asked. “My wife and
children hurt me, Mr. John,” the man replied. Even if the pioneers survived, they might never be
seen or heard from again back East. It would have been like they went West and died. (As the
photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper has said, “The cardinal points are always, historically,
metaphors...”)
Nowadays, nobody uses the euphemism “to go West” to mean that somebody has died or
something as been destroyed. Contemporary euphemisms for death include: “He has passed
(on).” We mourn his passing.” “He is no longer with us.” “He has gone away (too soon).” “He is
gone.” “We salute the fallen.” “The suspect is deceased.” “He succumbed to the injuries on the
way to the hospital,” “He was pronounced,” etc. That last is astonishing, as it simply drops the
predicate adjective dead, as though mentioning that word would be impolite.
Very sinister euphemisms relate to hygiene. I taught English in Kosovo, and the phrase, “Ethnic
cleansing” always makes me shiver. If you make the trek to Ibrahim Rugova’s grave—a
beautiful, peaceful spot high up on a hill overlooking Pristina on one side and the countryside on
the other, where there is a park where mothers bring their babies and children to play and where
the elderly sit—on the walk up your will noticed a plaque commemorating the victims of a
massacre. Such plaques are ubiquitous across Kosovo. And on a street alongside that park, there
is a villa with a plaque informing you that the villa is a place for the rehabilitation of torture
victims... While looking up at a window, I thought I saw a curtain move, and my hair turned
greyer. Once, on the walk down, I noticed a parked UN van and stopped to examine the sign on
its side. The van belonged to a forensic team that located the graves of executed Kosovars and
tried to identify the victims. The U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the university once said to me, “Why
is there a statue of a KLA guy with a Kalashnikov downtown? Why can’t they just get over it
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The military is well known for euphemisms. When a military airplane crashed through the roof
of a civilian warehouse here in the U.S, a military spokesman said, “We have secured the
armaments package, which will be properly disposed of. Safety is our utmost priority.” An
aggressive reporter got him to belligerently admit that the “armaments package” consisted of live
rounds and missiles, which thankfully had not gone off in the fire. It is worth noting that
Americans troops have not been bombed from the air since the Korean War, except for friendly
fire incidents and the odd drone. We have been very very lucky.
In the extraordinary documentary film A Sniper’s War the following exchange occurs: “What
does it mean ‘to do your job’?” / “To get rid of their snipers and gunners, so that our infantry can
move ahead.” / “What does it mean ‘get rid ‘ of them?” / “To eliminate. To kill.” In a report
about an ISIS cell, a reporter said, “The other two suspected members of this ISIS cell, by the
way, they are already off the board. Uh, the ringleader... was killed in a drone strike in 2015, and
the other was captured in Turkey, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison...”
In the U.S., the police are a paramilitary organization, with corresponding language, as
exemplified by an extract from a press release: “The officer involved in this particular OIS was
wearing his BWC, which captured the OIS as it occurred... In the coming days, the... Department
will be releasing our second Critical Incident Community Briefing, explaining what occurred
during the OIS on July 5, 2019.” From such language you would never guess that the press
release concerned the case of a 17-year-old girl who was shot to death after being pulled over for
speeding. (An OIS is an officer-involved shooting and a BWC is a body-worn camera.)
Even public officials grow sick and tired of their euphemisms. Police Chief James Cervera of the
Virginia Beach Police Department said the following at a press conference, after a mass shooting
on May 31, 2019.
“Right now we have a lot of questions. The whys, they will come later. Right now, we have more
questions really than we have answers. We are a little more than two hours into this event. And
we use the word event, that’s a cop term, this devastating incident that happened, that none of us
want to be here talking about, this devastating incident which is going to change the lives of a
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Gestures and bodily reactions
In 1836 Emerson wrote, “supercilious [means] the raising of the eyebrow (Nature, Chapter 4,
“Language”). Using his pattern, we could say that attention means the turning of the head,
confusion the scratching of the head, surprise the popping of the eyes, etc.
Every culture has its gestures, and gestures are an important nonverbal way to communicate.
Gestures can relate to such basic meanings as signaling yes and no, or signaling a moving car to
stop for you. I once noticed a book at a yard sale with the interesting title How To Speak Italian.
Curious because it was so thin and one of my brothers lives in Italy, I picked it up and opened it
up. It simply consisted of photographs of Italians making gestures, with text explaining what
those gestures meant. I laughed, because it does seem to me that the Italians seem to have a lot of
unique gestures.
But gestures, and the meaning of those gestures that are lexicalized in language, are not shared in
every country. A person who reads, “He received the thumbs up on his proposal” must know that
“thumbs up” refers to a positive judgment to understand the message. A person who reads, “His
statement left a lot of people scratching their heads” must know that the gesture relates to
incomprehension, even though no one actually does it. A person who hears, “I’ll keep my fingers
crossed,” must know that that gesture relates to hope and fate. Language associated with gestures
or a bodily reaction can confuse even those within the same country. For example, a Northerner
in the US might take a second to process the meaning of a statement like, “When I heard what
happened, I got chill bumps,” as said by a person from the southern Appalachians.
And gestures and particularly bodily reactions are often used to express emotional effect. If the
performance of a person in a play was wonderful, I might say it was breathtaking or it took my
breath away. If it was boring, I might say it was a big yawn. If it was horrible for some reason, I
might say it made me retch.
The importance of gesture in communication is an important part of the online experience. In
text language, smh stands for “shaking my head,” and in 2015 a face-with-rolling-eyes Emoji
became available. LMAO is an example of hyperbole.
Everyone nowadays should be knowledgeable about gestures. The thumbs-up symbol does not
mean the same thing in every culture. In recent years the okay sign—the sign formed by making
a circle with the thumb and index finger, has become an Alt-right meme. Using it in certain
contexts nowadays can have repercussions. In academia, eye-rolling can be considered a sign of
patriarchy and a micro-aggression, which causes some to roll their eyes. In different cultures,
winking can have a meaning you might not suspect. Pointing at a person or snapping your
fingers may or may not be appropriate.
For a listing of gestures and bodily reactions that have been lexicalized in American English, see
gesture and bodily reaction in the thesaurus. It is quite a large category and a rather important
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Shapes and parts-whole
How is a graph like the landscape? Well, both have peaks and valleys and plateaus. In addition, a
graph can have a spike, and the line might be in in the shape of a bell curve. Peaks, valleys,
plateaus and spikes and bells are not just things, but shapes.
In the dictionary I use, the horn of an animal is the first sense. “Shaped like or suggesting” is the
seventh sense. The tenth sense is geological: a horn is a geological feature. The Matterhorn,
geologically speaking, is a horn. In case you are wondering, the musical instrument is the eighth
sense. And that is the sense that we always teach.
Many simple words we teach have the meaning of “resembling or having the shape of” or
“suggesting” or “regarded as like.” Examples are everywhere.
The alphabet: A-frame; T-bone; V-neck; Z-drag.
Traffic and roads: bottleneck; dogleg; hairpin, T-intersection, U-turn, washboard (road).
Body shapes: heart (heart-shaped face); hourglass figure / waist; pear (pear-shaped body).
Parts of the body: A plane has a nose, tail, and belly. A bed has a foot and a head. A chair can
have legs, a back and arms. Needles, potatoes, coconuts, and hurricanes all have eyes. A
mountain range has foothills.
Words relating to shapes often appear in geographical place names: the banana belt; the Parrot’s
Beak (Cambodia and Guinea); the boot of Italy; the Wakhan Corridor; the Eye of the Sun (in
Monument Valley, Arizona); the Horn of Africa; the Florida panhandle; Ribbon Reef; Table
Mountain (Cape Town); the Coral / Afar Triangle; Wave Rock (western Australia), etc.
Younger teachers might not know what the washboard in a washboard road refers to. But I can
remember my mother using one, as well as an electric wringer, and a clothes line.
While I was teaching a high-school ESL lesson based on the map, a Honduran girl told me,
“Chile is shaped like a chili.” It was something I had never heard before and have never
forgotten.
In the dictionary I use, the very first main entry is A, and the first sense defines it as a letter. The
second main entry is also A, and the first sense defines it as a shape. It is like that for every letter
thereafter. The letters are not just letters, they are shapes.
Here’s a wonderful riddle: What has bridges, canals, cavities, clefts, fissures, floors, isthmuses,
mounds, orbits, pipes, pits, roofs, tubes, and walls, but is not anything related to the earth or a
building? A hint: the answer is closer than you think. Answer: the human body! This riddle
makes us realize that the body has many parts resembling terrain features and infrastructure.
“Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the
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Animacy
Anthropomorphism has been a feature of literature for ages. Anthropomorphic animal stories are
as ancient as Aesop and include favorites like White Fang by Jack London and “Rikki-Tikki-
Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Only once in Saudi Arabia, many years ago, did a very literal-minded
student rebuke me for telling a an animal story. I am pretty sure his classmates told him to shut
up, and I finished telling the story.
Traditionally in English things like a ship could be referred to as she. “Shelf life” is a relatively
old term, and products have been referred to as a family and “first generation / second
generation” for quite a long time. But the idea that technology is not only alive but sentient used
to be relegated to science fiction. One thinks of HAL from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Well, 2001 has come and gone, and almost anything can be animate and sentient nowadays. The
first obituary for a non-human being that I ever read was written by Henry Fountain way back in
2010 and appeared in the New York Times newspaper under the title, “ABE, Pioneering Robotic
Undersea Explorer, Is Dead at 16.” I can still remember how surprised and delighted I was by the
conceit.
Now technology is dumb, smart, or brilliant and can even teach itself (AI). One goal of the
Internet companies has been to habituate everyone, especially children, to address machines as
though they were people. They have given their virtual assistants names like Siri, Alexa and
Cortana and encouraged us to ask them questions, as if that were normal. They have succeeded
completely.
“Roaring Meg (an English Civil Wars-era mortar) resides at Goodrich Castle...” “Recent
investigation has found that the annual Great Whirl in the southwest Arabian sea has an average
life span of 198 days.” “So where did you find this comet, where is it living?” “We climb where
the avalanche lives.” “A cave breathes...”
Devotees, enthusiasts and experts, naturally enough, seem more prone to this kind of
personification than the rest of us. Laird Hamilton has said, “Jaws doesn’t like a north swell,”
and he ought to know. Colin Tudge wrote, “I met one in full bloom early one sunny July morning
in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.” Tudge was referring to a handkerchief tree. In the
same way, Linda Mapes wrote, “The tree first came into my life along with John O’Keefe, a
biologist...” Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, a Boise State volcanologist and National Geographic
Explorer studying the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua, explained, “Volcanoes like to speak in
low-frequency sounds that humans can’t perceive called infrasound. So we developed sensors
that we can deploy to listen to the volcanos talk to us.”
An official at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, once said,
“So the decision was made a number of years ago to take him off display and put him in
storage... To have that step forward, just slightly, gives him more of a presence.” He was talking
about Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit!
The above-mentioned Linda Mapes is a reporter and the author of Witness Tree, a tree that
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translating, giving it a voice... My connection with this big oak tree is very intimate. I started
visiting it when I was a science fellow at MIT and then I moved in, married the tree, really.” Tim
Rademacher, who created the Twitter software, said, “I thought, it would be so much nicer to
actually give the tree a proper voice and translate the data to reach a broader audience. I dream of
an internet of trees. The hope is that you can follow your local tree, and it doesn’t have to be
trees, you know, it could be other things that tweet, it could be a mountain.” And Clarisse Hart
said, “Considering the perspective of another organism is such an important thing for all of us to
do. It’s what is going to make the world better, ultimately.” (“This Red Oak Tree Has Its Own
Twitter And It Shares Insight About Climate Change,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 14,
2019.)
In 1989, after a deranged person tried to kill the Treaty Oak in Austin with poison, Texas,
thousands of kids addressed letters to the tree with messages like, “We’re sorry this happened,
get well soon.”
I suspect that I am not the only person in the world to have said, “Thank you” at the automatic
bank teller machine after withdrawing a little cash, or to secretly feel relieved and grateful when
“approved” appears on the machine that reads my debit card, or to mutter, “Okay, okay,” when
the bossy self-scanner at the store tells me to make sure I have picked up my change, as if I
would ever forget! That same scanner, which ends up saying, “Thank you for shopping at X,”
might just be responsible for the sad death of “You’re welcome.” Just the other day the
supermarket employ scanning my groceries at the checkout counter muttered “Come on, come
on” when the scanner was momentarily unable to read a bar code of a particular item. Her tone
was both irritated and imploring. I was waiting. There were people behind me.
It is common to give inanimate and non-human objects agency. A common pattern is as follows:
“I hadn’t planned to write a book on this topic, but the topic chose me.” The extraordinary
Bernard Tomic said, “Tennis chose me. It’s something I never fell in love with.” The last line of
Jim Bouton’s “gripping” baseball book, Ball Four, is: “You see, you spend a good piece of your
life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around.” Seize has a
similar idea, in an expression like, “This idea that math was beautiful seized Paul Dirac.” In the
film Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl, Xiu Xiu asks Lao Jin, “Are you really going to spend your
entire life raising horses?” and Lao Jin replies, “They raise me, too.” David Benioff and DB
Weiss, the writers of Game of Thrones, said, “When George Lucas built [Star Wars], he built us
too.” In a similar vein, and nicely qualified: “If it’s possible for a place to save a life Sils-Maria
saved Nietzsche’s.” A police officer said, “This job picks you.” A Japanese saying has it, “With
the first glass a man drinks wine, with the second glass the wine drinks the wine, with the third
glass the wine drinks the man.” Many of us have been there before! Another proverb like that,
common in Saudi Arabia, says,” A miser does not own money; money owns the miser.”
In New Zealand and Bangladesh, rivers have been recognized as living entities and granted the
same legal rights as persons.
There might be a bit of the animist in all of us. Colin Tudge’s quote above about “meeting” a
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bark from a cedar tree for a basket. “We talk to the trees. We say, ‘OK, we need some of your
bark to help us; we’ll make something beautiful.’ You have to talk to it and thank it for giving
you the bark. You have to go with a good heart. You can’t be cranky and fussy.” V. K. Arseniev
once recorded Dersu on an early phonograph and played it back to him. Dersu listened,
unsurprised to hear his own voice, and said, “Him talk true, not leave one word.”
See the dictionary entries for born and live.
On NPR, a person was talking recently about his favorite song. He said, “I’ll say I probably
listen to this song a few times each week, whether it’s in the car or just telling Alexa to play it.
There’s a story...” Suddenly, the voice of Alexa broke in: “Sorry. I don’t know that one.” And
the interviewee went on, “I’m sorry, that was Alexa that said that, um...” before continuing to
talk about his favorite song. This was not a toddler or a pet humorously upstaging an
interviewee. This was Alexa. Interestingly, Alexa’s intrusion seemed to have made the
interviewee lose his chain of thought and forget about the story he was about to tell. (“An NPR
Listener Shares His Signature Song,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, July 20, 2019.)
The first obituary I read for a machine was in 2010. The first time I heard a personal assistant
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Persistence, survival and endurance
Isn’t it interesting that people who have never hunted or trapped and who have never seen an
actual pitfall much less dug one or filled one in still use the word? That medical textbooks list
“pitfalls” in treatment? The use of a word like pitfall is a perfect example of how older
technologies and activities and periods of life have disappeared yet persist in the language.
In 1870, railroading was the second largest occupation in the US, behind farming. Nowadays
both occupations are much diminished. Grist mills used to dot our streams and rivers; these days
we might only see their ruins on a hike. Yet “grist for the mill” and “term-paper mill” reference
them. Figurative language from the category train and farming & agriculture continues to be
used.
At one time in our history the horse was king of the road and bicycles, electric trains and cars
shared the road with them, not vice versa. On May 3, 1908, a headline in the New York Times
screamed: “J. B. SCHUCHMAN HURT IN A RUNAWAY / Horse He had Just Bought for
Speedway Parade Dashes into a Trolley Car. / JUDGE THROUGH A WINDOW / Lands in the
Lap of Little Girl Passenger and Both Are Cut by Glass—Horse Breaks His Leg.” Nowadays in
New York City about the only reminders from that era are fading ghost signs on brick walls with
messages like: TO LET / CARRIAGES COUPES HANSOMS VICTORIAS LIGHT WAGONS
/ HORSES BOARD BY THE MONTH.”
Things have changed. Yet everyone still uses and understands language associated with horses. I
was lucky as a boy: my grandfather had a horse, and I have fond memories of riding him along
country roads and swimming him through the pond below my grandpa’s shack. You have to
cling on tightly to the mane of a horse when riding bareback, especially when the horse arises out
of the water up a steep bank. Words like runaway and reins and bridle and saddle and gallop are
used figuratively nowadays in a sentence like, “We have got to find a way to reign in galloping
inflation,” but for me those words will always have a psychological reality. It is not always easy
for a small boy to control a very large horse. I know that.
It was only after 1958 that more people crossed the Atlantic by boat than plane, yet figurative
language related to boats will always persist: the spaceship and spaceport pay homage to sailing
ships, and our old space shuttles were named for famous ships associated with great explorers:
the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Today, when we think of wireless
communication we think of connection to the internet, instead of Marconi and wireless
telegraphy. But “Internet communication has its roots in the wireless rooms aboard the great
ocean liners” as Kat Long has noted. I used to have a fading yellow and black Western Union
telegram I sent my parents from the Queen Elizabeth in a folder I labeled “My favorite things.” It
may still be there.
Religiosity has had its ups and downs in the US and elsewhere, but figurative language relating
to religion will never disappear, no matter how secular the world becomes. And every religion,
not just Christianity, has contributed words: fetish (West Africa), taboo (South Seas); Delphic,
muse, oracle, Pandora’s box, soothsayer (Greek pagan); karma, juggernaut, sacred cow, guru,

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mantra, avatar (Hindu); mecca and hegira / hejira (Islam); kowtow (Confucianism); mantra
(Buddhism), etc.
We Americans pride ourselves on our anti-monarchical revolution but we still and forever will
link the idea of royalty with the superlative in epithets like “Aretha Franklin, the Queen of
Soul,” “Burger King,” “Mattress King,” and the prom / 4H king and queen. I once attended a
country-themed restaurant in Atlanta with family members. My brother-in-law held his young
son up to a portrait of Elvis Presley and told him, “Say hello to the King.” We all laughed. Many
persons associated with royalty are used figuratively, less obvious ones including whipping boy
and handmaiden. Just because we had a revolution doesn’t mean we reject royalty.
At one time spitjack was a job category and there was a dog, Canis vertigus, that was actually
bred to turn a spit. Nowadays inserting a spit, once a common task, is a lost art. But the verb
skewer will always exist, in the sense,” We skewered him at the comedy roast.” Of course, there
are many words used figuratively that come from the category of food & drink. Likewise, there
were once hundreds of job categories related to the manufacture of cloth that are anachronistic
now in my adopted state of North Carolina. And yet, figurative language associated with cloth
persists.
Above, I mentioned my mother using a washboard. A washboard, a tub, and a then-modern
electric wringer sat on the porch of a house I once lived in as a boy. Once I got my arm stuck in
that wringer and had to be taken to the hospital. The pale scar on the inside of my arm just below
my left elbow is a reminder that a part of me went through the wringer...literally! After my
mother had scrubbed the laundry on the washboard, and wrung it in the electric wringer, she
would hang it on a clothesline to dry. As a boy, I was literally clotheslined once while riding my
bicycle, and when I got bigger and older the same thing happened on the football field, and
clothesline injuries are an important part of emergency medicine. Finally I would watch her iron
out the wrinkles with an electric iron. In the very old days before electricity, a clothes iron was
filled with coals from a fire, and the woman would moisten a sheet by spitting water on it. Most
of us don’t go through this process anymore to clean our clothes. But these words associated
with laundry and many others persist. And so politicians come up with a “laundry list” of
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Old and new clichés
English morphs and so do affectations, clichés, references (especially to technology), allusions,
and pronunciation. Following are things that I have noticed. Warning: my younger brother
David, the one who lives in Italy, calls me Il Gran Torino. I accept the epithet as an honor.
1. Old: Well... Current: So. Sure. So, sure... Right. Absolutely.
Well, so fur to answer that question...
2. Old: Yes. Current: Absolutely! Yeah.
3. Old: You’re welcome. Current: You bet! No problem. Sure thing.
Happy to do it. Absolutely. Thanks!
4. Old: start Current: kick off
5. Old: now, at this time Current: in this moment
6. Old: in a time Current: at (in) a place
7. Old: be like (in the future) Current: look like (in the future)
8. Old: enthusiastic, enthusiasm Current: passionate, passion
9. Old: earthshaking Current: seismic
10. Old: influence Current: inform
11. Old: ask questions about, think about Current: interrogate
12. Old: presence Current: footprint
13. Old: safe place Current: safe space
14. Old: assert oneself Current: lean in
15. Old: a debate / discussion / protest Current: a conversation
16. Old: story / account / tale Current: narrative
17. Old: opinions Current: voices
18. Old: tell your story Current: speak your truth
19. Old: express Current: give voice to
20. Old: speak up / out Current: speak truth to power
21. Old: protest Current: express frustration
22. Old: reveal (verb) Current: a reveal (noun)
23. Old: ask or request a lot Current: a big request, a big ask
24. Old: Let’s listen... Current: Let’s take a listen...
25. Old: It looks bad... Current: It’s a bad look...
26. Old: make something bigger Current: big (verb)
27. Old: It’s complicated... Current: So, there are a lot of moving parts here
28. Old: encounter Current: brush up against
29. Old: criticize Current: call out, throw shade at
30. Old: gang up on, tar and feather, Current: pile on
mob...
31. Old: coerce, force, push, manipulate Current: nudge
32. Old: ostracize, shun, banish, Current: cancel
blacklist, blackball
33. Old: change something Current: move / shift the needle
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35. Old: things have changed Current: the landscape has shifted
36. Old: reduce, decrease Current: dial back
37. Old: increase Current: ramp up / amplify
38. Old: develop, raise, increase Current: grow
39. Old: common-law wife Current: longtime partner
40. Old: delay Current: hit the pause button, slow-walk,
kick the can down the road
41. Old: category Current: bucket
42. Old: Twilight Zone Current: Black Mirror
43. Old: flyposting Current: internet advertising
44. Old: nickel victrola Current: Spotify
45. Old: upstage Current: photobomb
46. Old: a tip / solution / optimization Current: a hack
47. Old: take responsibility for Current: own
48. Old: closer, more detailed Current: granular
49. Old: What do you think? Current: What’s your take?
50. Old: Why? Current: How come?
51. Old: What’s going to happen next? Current: What’s the next shoe to drop?
52. Old: What did you learn from...? Current: What was your takeaway from...?
53. Old: Tell us about... / Explain... Current: Walk us through...
54. Old: Let’s calm down Current: Let’s lower the temperature
55. Old: old-fashioned Current: old school
56. Old: statistic Current: data point
57. Old: turning point Current: inflection point
58. Old: imported Current: sourced
59. Old: talents, qualifications Current: skill set
60. Old: custom Current: bespoke
61. Old: develop Current: unfold
62. Old: attached Current: baked in / on
63. Old: find one’s way in / through / Current: negotiate / navigate
around, etc.
64. Old: context Current: big picture
65. Old: climate Current: weather
66. Old: spectacular, amazing Current: epic
67. Old: air / launch / debut Current: drop
68. Old: a radio soap opera Current: a serial podcast
69. Old: history / background Current: backstory
70. Old: contact Current: reach out to
71. Old: accept Current: embrace
72. Old: support Current: buy into
73. Old: commitment Current: investment
74. Old: stereotype Current: meme / trope
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76. Old: course Current: trajectory
77. Old: exists Current: lives
78. Old: initiate, set off, upset Current: trigger
79. Old: comprehend something Current: wrap one’s head around something
80. Old: analyze Current: unpack / tease out / drill down /
dissect / autopsy / read / untangle, etc.
81. Old: affected by Current: touched by
82. Old: virus Current: meme
83. Old: mention Current: namecheck
84. Old: environment Current: space / ecosystem / terrain / landscape
85. Old: return Current: circle back
86. Old: change, shift direction Current: pivot
87. Old: switch Current: toggle
88. Old: reverse Current: walk back
89. Old: see Current: witness
90. Old: has created a lot of attention Current: has blown up
91. Old: disrupt / destroy Current: blow up, break
92. Old: a description / picture Current: a visual
93. Old: Having 15 minutes of fame Current: Having a moment
94. Old: a fad Current: a thing
95. Old: aware, awake, conscious Current: woke
96. Old: Mind your own business Current: Stay in your own lane
97. Old: compartmentalized Current: siloed
98. Old: wife / husband / spouse Current: partner, roommate
99. Old: very Current: big, crazy, insanely, mad, seriously
100. Old: a shrinking violet / pansy Current: a snowflake / teacup / orchid
101. Old: victim Current: survivor, conqueror
102. Old: blow up (become upset) Current: go off (become upset)
103. Old: a bird’s-eye perspective Current: helicopter view, the 30,000-foot level
104. Old: selected, organized, presented Current: curated
105. Old: made / produced Current: crafted
106. Old: active Current: kinetic
107. Old: pour fuel on Current: provide oxygen to
108. Old: sure (rhymes with “her”) Current: sure (rhymes with “door”)
109. Old: for (rhymes with “door”) Current: for (rhymes with “her”)
110. Old: tour (rhymes with lure) Current: tour (rhymes with bore)
111. Old: hun•dred Current: hun•nert (with an affected glottal stop)
112. Old: fooled Current: catfished
113. Old: a racehorse Current: an equine athlete
114. Old: They are doing very well... Current: They are killing it...
115. Old: reaffirm Current: double down
116. Old: distance, room, space between Current: daylight between
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 118. Old: slow down
119. Old: put the cat back into the bag
120. Old: getting ahead of ourselves
121. Old: exploit, make money off of,
make money / profit from
122. Old: supermarket tabloid newspaper
123. Old: tabloid headline
124. Old: protracted symptoms
Current: tap the brakes
Current: put the toothpaste back into the tube
Current: getting way beyond our skis
Current: monetize / reparations
Current: online edition of a newspaper
Current: clickbait (“She Was Reporting Live,
But Viewers Got WAY MORE Than
They Bargained For!”)
Current: Covid long-haulers

Some cliches are shorter, others are longer; some are more concrete, others are less concrete. An
exchange like, “Tadpoles are having a moment.” “Oh, really? I didn’t know they were a thing,”
sounds silly to my old ears. Some current clichés promote subtly different connotations.
“Exploit” or “make money from / off of” or “profit from” sound crass in a way that monetize
doesn’t. Nudge certainly sounds “gentler” than force or manipulate or pressure. Many current
cliches bring language into line with the latest technology, which, of course, is itself doomed to
obsolescence. Current popular cliches based on science and technology, like recalibrate (for
change) or datapoint (for statistic), seem to me to merely provide a scientific sheen to presenters.
Changing a word’s part of speech is quite the rage, as is “freshening up” an old cliché, like
changing “put the cat back in the bag” to “put the toothpaste back in the tube.” Metaphorically,
time seems to be used more and more as place: “We need to get back to a place where...” as
opposed to “we need to get back to a time when...” And a place has become a space!
Many current clichés are transformations of older clichés based on morphology and other
patterns, including sound. Earthquake has given us youthquake. Backlash engendered techlash.
Whitewash has become greenwash and sportswash and artwash, and a fourth meaning for
whitewash—favoring white people—was sanctioned by Merriam-Webster in September 2019.
The new breadcrumbing echoes the older gaslighting and astroturfing. Buckraking echoes
muckraking. The suffix -ize is popular in words like weaponize, normalize, monetize and even
soldierize: “Every drill sergeant trying to soldierize, trying to build a soldier...,” a retired general
said recently. A musician speaking about his racial and cultural roots and his music said,
“Everybody in America has to mainstreamify their blend.” And I am told China is apparently
focused now on intelligentized technology (IT), versus the old information technology (IT).
Pandemic has led to “infodemic,” in the same sentence, even: “The 2019 Covid pandemic has led
to an infodemic of misinformation.” In sociology and education—the “kitchens” for much new
language and redefinition—a safe place has become a brave place.
Changing a word’s part of speech is particularly popular, and nominalizations proliferate: “My
bad,” “a big ask,” “a bad look,” “an epic fail,” “let’s take a listen,” “you don’t get a takeback,”
etc. A major corporation claims in an advertisement that “We’re putting smart to work.” The
following appeared in an article in the Guardian newspaper: “Whataboutery doesn’t work here
because there has been nothing like this before.” Other and architect are used as verbs. The
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science things up.” An important writer for the Atlantic Magazine wrote, “Distrustful people
armor themselves up to feel safe.” An ABC presenter said, “And now let’s hoop it up, TJ, bring
us those highlights.” In an ESL high-school class, a Mexican kid once apologized to me for
something he had done by saying, “My bad.” The 15-year-old Honduran girl standing next to me
repeated the phrase aloud, repeated it again with emphasis, and cocked her eyebrow at me. She
was clearly a prescriptivist, not a descriptionist.
And the new language is constantly morphing. Survivor, which replaced victim, is now heard as
conqueror. Compartmentalize, which was replaced by silo, has become moat, and all three have
been used as verbs. Blackball, replaced by cancel culture, is now accountability culture. Climate,
which replaced situation or environment, is also heard now as weather. The old shrinking violet
or pansy has become an orchid, versus a dandelion. The old “bird’s eye view” has risen to the
helicopter view, the 3,000-foot level, the 30,000-foot level, and President Obama increased that
to the 40,000-foot level in an interview. But the author Fred Kaplan has closed the category out.
In an interview, he said: “Yuh know, on the one hand, this is kind of nutty (huh-huh), on the
other hand, hey, ya know what, uh, [Reagan’s] got a point, maybe you have to look at things
from 20 billion miles up to get this kind of perspective.”
And as the new language itself morphs, cliches start to get confused, as if people can no longer
keep them straight. “He was already on thin footing with the White House,” sounds like a
combination of “on thin ice” and “precarious footing.” A sports reporter once said, “We’re
seeing them close the wagon so to speak” when she probably meant, “circle the wagons.” “To
get one’s arms around something” has come to mean either “to wrap one’s head / mind around
something (comprehension)” or “to get a handle on something (control).” Perhaps the meaning is
morphing to mean both at once. George Stephanopoulos asked Dr. Ashish Jha, “How do we
begin to wrap our heads and our arms around how many people the president and his team have
come in contact with?” Who is wrapping their arms around whom or what in order to control
them? Could it simply be the old cliché “corral” dressed up as...a hug?!
And some of this strange language we all hear is simply the result of misreading a text: “The
[Republican] campaign would much rather be talking about the gaffes that Joe Biden made. But
instead they’re on their back fence... pardon me, their back foot here! I spoke to...” Or, “So I
have to ask you, as a Republican elected official, what do you make of the president and his
allies insisting over and over that mail-in ballots will lead to frog, will...to fraud... will lead to a
rigged election?” Or simply a mistake: “And we’ll be watching how this all transgresses over the
next couple of days.” “Don’t listen to the polls, don’t let that persway you.”
To “throw gasoline on the daily media feeding frenzies” as a political pundit said creates a very
bizarre image in the mind. It would be more natural to pour gasoline on a fire, or to throw red
meat, or chum, to a feeding frenzy. The political pundit who wrote about the need for a candidate
to “kickstart a moribund campaign” made me laugh. I would try to revive, reinvigorate,
resuscitate, or breathe life into that poor campaign. I would only try to kickstart or jump-start it
if it had stalled. A linguist giving a YouTube course on cognitive grammar said, “I can hear you
wincing,” and a pundit said, “You’re going to see a lot of grumbling on Capitol Hill.”

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But, to paraphrase Mary Norris, “You can have friends or you can point out their mixed
metaphors / clichés.” We have always had a schizophrenic view of correctness. On the one hand,
nobody likes to make a grammar mistake—and so people overcorrect and make mistakes. The
computer checks our grammar, flyposting for grammar programs speckles our computer screens,
and books chastising our poor grammar always sell well. On the other hand, criticizing a
person’s pronunciation, diction, grammar and especially dialect is simply unacceptable.
Reactions to such criticism is swift and often derisive: “Oh look...the language police are here!”
Much in our society is and always has been commercial, promotional, and self-promotional. And
our language reflects it: big, trendy, performative, curated, boutique, “throw it all on the wall and
see what sticks,” artisanal, custom, designer, bespoke, bedazzled (or is it bejazzled?), uber, meta,
hyper, upcycled, -forward, -informed, -driven, -ized, reinvented, pop-up, kinetic, fluid, deep,
generational, transactional, intersectional, insanely cool, “try this genius hack to...” In warfare,
bombs and missiles have gone from dumb to smart to brilliant.
Much of this language reflects social trends. And so there is signage in a public park addressed to
“animal parents” requesting that they clean up after their “animal children,” and a national
commentator referred to racehorses as “equine athletes.” In a society that is mad about celebrity
chefs and food carts, it’s not surprising we say “baked in / on” for “attached.” We have gone
from husband or wife or common-law wife to spouse to partner to roommate. It’s hard to know
what a “safe space” is. It is a word that has a Wikipedia entry (with multiple issues), as do
narrative and performative.
The new language is everywhere, created, disseminated, adopted and sanctioned at the speed of
the Internet. Many films—particularly the ribs of the “tent pole” franchises—consist almost
entirely of cliches. Cliches often appear in the music we love (DUH). Madison Avenue sells us
everything from burgers to insurance wrapped in sonic auroras of cliches and dialects. Media
presenters pepper their language with cliches, and so do their guest experts, politicians, former
presidents, priests, generals, academics and important magazine editors. As do the freelance
writers, and all those anonymous people who write the texts for the presenters.
People can’t help but notice the coining and proliferation of the latest cliches. A visitor noted at
the Merriam-Webster website, “Everyone on the Slate Culture gabfest has suddenly started using
[the word tentpole] this month, and now the NYTimes too.” Christina Applegate talked about
promoting a show “before it had aired, or dropped, or whatever they say at Netflix.” At the end
of the year there is always great excitement (for some of us, at least) when the dictionary
publishers decide on their “word of the year,” but throughout the year there are periodic press
releases to announce the sanctioning of a new word or updated definition. Needless to say, the
new word or definition is almost always controversial. That’s just good advertising and self-
promotion. (My prediction for 2020: bubble. Or perhaps rabbit hole, conversation, space or
guardrail.)

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Quotations
There are many wonderful quotes relating to or utilizing metaphor and figurative language.
Following are six that are meaningful to me.
1. “Words are signs of natural facts... Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit
primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of
the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought... / An
enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a
torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate
affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;
and heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of
memory and hope. / Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of
the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate
themselves are the beautiful type of all influence...” (Nature, Chapter 4 (Language), by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.)

I like the above because in a short space Emerson lists beautifully and concisely so many
metaphors. The “circles that propagate themselves” is entered in this dictionary at ripple.
A related word is splash. Both words are metaphors for effect that relate to water.

2. “It was doubtless an ingenious idea to call the camel the ship of the desert, but it would
hardly lead one far in training that useful beast.” (George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.)
The above quote reminds me that, while a metaphor identifies something that two things
have in common, plenty of things are still different. A ship does not have long eyelashes,
has not been branded, does not roar, gurgle, bellow, foam from the mouth to the point of
producing airborne balloons of saliva, etc. “The camel is a ship?” a Saudi military student
remarked to me once, disapprovingly.

And people will see things differently, as in the parable of the “Blind men and an
elephant.” Data, for example, is compared to a gas (the cloud); water (data stream); and a
solid (data mining). The spread of COVID-19 is often thought of as a wave, but Dr.
Roger Shapiro thinks it’s more like a wave in a pool that sloshes around, back and forth,
leaving and returning. The myth of Sisyphus can mean different things—difficulty,
futility, or something that never ends—and the adjectives promethean and quixotic can
have quite different connotations. It is not always clear which meaning or connotation is
meant. Many say we should view the problem of drug addiction as a public health issue,
not as a war on drugs, and yet the phrase “public health campaign” has always had a
warlike ring, and the metaphor of disease as an enemy has come to the fore in the era of
COVID-19.

But even if the similarities between two different things are not always obvious, or are
tenuous, they are usually worth thinking about. Allusions to Joe McCarthy, Machiavelli,
and Hector don’t really do justice to those men. The idiom “to hang somebody out to

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 dry” has come to mean abandon, but nobody hangs up their laundry and abandons it.
Gibbeting fits the idea much better and reminds me of a wonderful day in Piacenza when
my brother introduced me to the best pizza I have ever eaten and explained to me what
that iron cage high up on the outside of a building was. “Yemen was Egypt’s Vietnam”
makes me think of a host of dissimilarities. The title of Leon Talley’s memoir, The
Chiffon Trenches, shows just how “ingenious” a metaphor can be, how much ground,
time and human condition it can cover, from the bloodiest battlefields of Shiloh,
Passchendaele and Verdun to...well, to Vogue Magazine.

3. “I looked at The Sixteenth Round as puttin’ a letter in a bottle and throwin’ it out over
those 36-foot-high walls into the ocean of life, like a bobbin’ bottle, and hoping upon
hope that somebody, somehow, someday, will see this bobbin’ bottle in the water, take
this bottle up, read my message, and come to help me. And that’s what happened. That’s
what happened.” (Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. From “The Hurricane Tapes,” Ep6.
Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan, BBC Sounds.)

This strikes me as a particularly beautiful, eloquent and heartfelt use of figurative

language, using one extended metaphor.

4. “Yeah, I generally think this is a fairly minor deal. At the same time, it could actually
backfire on Bill Barr. Because, if he thinks it’s necessary to pre-spin this, that means that
there’s something in there that needs to be pre-spun. And if he’s too heavy handed about
that, it can actually just throw gasoline on the daily media feeding frenzies that we have
[inaudible].” (The commentator Jonah Goldberg on “Before Mueller Report Is Released,
Republicans And Democrats Take Sides,” NPR’s Morning Edition, April 18, 2019.)

I love this quote for its contrast to the one above it.

5. Elisabeth Moss: I just did it, and just kind of went as big as I could and threw it all at the
wall knowing the only mistake we could make was not going far enough. And so we just
went for it... / Rachael Martin: Did he ever have to pull you back. I mean did it ever feel
too far, or were you like, “Nope...” / Elisabeth Moss: I had turned it up to eleven and then
realized I had to go even higher... (“In ‘Her Smell,’ Elisabeth Moss ‘Turned It Up To 11,’
Then Turned It Up Some More,” Morning Edition, NPR, April 19, 2019.)

In the above, Elisabeth Moss is speaking about her performance in the film Her Smell. I
like it because it is a good litany of clichés relating to commitment & determination.
One has to respect her commitment as an actor. But when it comes to such declarations, I
like what Alex Lowe said: “There are two kinds of climbers. Those who climb because
their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”

6. “It can’t surprise us that our language began with metaphors. Words are being made
today under our own eyes in precisely the same fashion. Witness the terse and vivid terms
that the gangsters coin: gun moll, for the racketeer’s girl-friend; hot seat, for the electric

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chair; stool pigeon, for the traitor who acts as a spy for the police.” (Word Origins and
Their Romantic Stories by Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., 1950.)

This is a good reminder that language is constantly evolving, and what sounds novel and
contemporary today will sound as dated as Funk’s examples in twenty years.

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Synonyms and opposites
As teachers, we are accustomed to mentioning synonyms, opposites, and patterns like succeed /
fail / give up / try again. We can do the same with figurative language, and this dictionary and
thesaurus will help.
1. You can launch, roll out, unveil, take the wraps off a product, or drop it.
2. The opposite of tone deaf is... pitch perfect. A person can also strike all the right notes, or
have a tin ear.
3. If you achieve something, people might sing your praises, but more than likely your
achievement will be unsung.
4. Something can be a stone in one’s shoe or a burr in one’s saddle (affliction).
5. You can hew to a line or... go against the grain. Both phrases relate to wood.
6. You can face a problem or turn a blind eye to it or look away. You can kick the can down
the road or push something (like a decision) down the road. You can tackle a problem or
punt or try to run out the clock. Or, you can throw your hands up in the air or engage in
handwringing.
7. You can give a hand, lend a hand, or pitch in.
8. You can try to save your neck or your skin or your scalp (survival, persistence &
endurance).
9. Socially, you might find a place at the table or under the tent. Or, you might find
yourself outside in the cold, frozen out, in the shadows, on the fringes of society, out of
the mainstream, in exile, in the wilderness, on the far shore. You might find yourself to
be a castaway, hermit, leper, outcast, outsider, pariah, untouchable, a ghost. Good luck
with that!
10. A new job might be a plum position or a poisoned chalice.
11. In bad times your life might be on hold, and you might find yourself in purgatory or in
limbo. In a drought or a dry spell. You might be adrift, in the doldrums, unable to make
headway, going in circles, rudderless. Chasing your tail. Standing still. In a blind alley.
Or mired, sidetracked, stuck, stalled, in a rut and spinning your wheels. Going nowhere,
or backwards and lagging behind. Losing ground. Stumbling or taking a step backward.
12. Or, you can be on a roll with lots of momentum and traction, advancing, getting ahead,
going forward, making headway, gaining ground, leaping or vaulting ahead.
13. Somebody can add fuel to a controversy, pour gasoline on it, fan it, or provide oxygen for
it. Something can become an accelerant.
14. You can be up to your elbows /neck / eyeballs, in over your head, drowning, buried alive,
immersed, enmeshed, entangled, or ensnared in something like debt or some other
situation. I hope things get better for you!
15. You can hold your employees feet to the fire or light a fire under them. You can nudge,
push, prod, goad, cudgel, hector, or bully them, lean on them, twist their arms, strongarm
them, hold a gun to their heads, crack the whip, ride herd over them, etc. Just don’t
expect them to attend your birthday party! (coercion & motivation)

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 16. You can stroll, coast, waltz or sail to success (attainment). Something you do might be a
cakewalk, a stroll in the park, a picnic. Or a Gallipoli, a long hard slog, a trail of tears
(difficulty, easiness & effort).
17. If you are searching for something, you might hit pay dirt or fool’s gold.
18. A division might be the favorite son or stepchild / stepdaughter / orphan of its parent
organization.
19. You can say, “That ship has sailed” or “That train has left the station.” Both relate to
timeliness & lack of timeliness, which is quite a large category in the thesaurus, and no
doubt relates to the importance of time in our culture. The two cliches always make me
think of that scene from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: “Your dad loved
her very much. If there was one other cat in this world that could have loved her and
treated her as well as your dad, then it was me. But, unfortunately, for yours truly, that
train has sailed.”
20. You can try and throw somebody off the scent, throw somebody off the trail, or cover
your tracks. This language all relates to pursuit, capture & escape, and hunting.
21. The president might try to bypass, go around, sidestep, or make an end run around
congress.
22. In terms of interest and responsibility, something can be in your wheelhouse, in your
lane, or up your alley. Or not.
23. You can bury or exorcise the ghosts or put something to rest / bed / sleep. Bury the
hatchet or close the book on something. Put it behind you, let it go. Move on. Emotional
and psychological wounds can heal or scab over. These phrases relate to reconciliation,
resolution & conclusion. Just don’t forget, a buried hatchet can always be dug up.
24. In terms of sports & games, you can drop the ball, fumble, miscue, drop the baton, strike
out, or score an own goal. Or the opposite: hit a home run, hit a grand slam, hit it out of
the park, get your project through the uprights or across the goal line. In which case, you
might just want to take a victory lap. Or spike the football.
25. If you pull the plug on something like a project, it can go down the drain, pipes, or tubes.
26. You can be the father, godfather, midwife, architect or author of something like a plan or
policy or program.
27. Urban warfare (MOUT) versus desert warfare can be described as a different animal / a
different beast / or a different kettle of fish.
28. The Arctic might be a factory or a kitchen for weather. Both relate to creation &
transformation.
29. You can leave a rival in your dust. Or slipstream. Or rear-view mirror. You go, girl!
30. You can “cut corners” or “take a shortcut.” Or, the opposite, you can “go the extra mile”
or “go out of your way.”
31. “If you wanna win it, ya gotta bring it.” “I left it all out there on the floor along with my
guys.” (This connection is made at commitment & determination: coming, arriving,
staying, leaving & returning.)

People often pair conventional language with a cliché, almost like a translation, and will even
triple up on cliches: “We must oppose him, we must stand up to him.” “This looks like an

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inflection point, a turning point.” “What’s the next shoe to drop, what happens next?” “What
would justice have looked like in your view, what did you want to happen here?” “They want to
fill in the blanks, connect the dots, and figure out what’s going on.” “There is a possibility we
could see another pandemic in our lifetime. No one can run the odds about what kinds of
numbers that looks like, you know, how likely that is...” “The groups close ranks, they circle the
wagons...” “Out-of-step, against-the-grain, different-drummer types...” “It’s a race against time,
it’s a race against the clock to get these animals (stranded pilot whales) refloated.”

And two people talking together will use a cliché and conventional language, especially if one
person is younger (the person most likely to use a cliché) and the other older. “Are you dealing
with the FBI or reaching out to the FBI about its Federal civil-rights investigation?” “We have
been in contact with the US attorney...”

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Lessons and exercises
1. A lesson and exercise might focus on words related to health & medicine used
figuratively with the meaning of condition and status. Write the following on the board:
the peace process is dead and buried; the economic recovery has been robust; businesses
are ailing; the soccer team is on life support; small businesses are hurting; earnings have
been anemic; the economy remains badly wounded; the pace of economic growth is
moribund; reform is dead; the economy is healthy. Ask students to identify (or underline)
the words relating to health & medicine and also identify or underline the non-human
subjects. Discuss. Ask the students to organize the vocabulary on a cline from robust to
dead and buried.

2. Create a simple matching exercise to illustrate a simple pattern of figurative usage that
links problems (flaws & lack of flaws, etc.) to amelioration & renewal: If there is a
wrinkle in the plan, then we must iron it out. If an idea is stale, we need a fresh one. If
there is a security hole, we must patch it or fill it in. If our project encounters some bumps
in the road, we must try to smooth them out. If an argument is shaky, we had better
support or buttress it (or it might completely collapse and lie in ruins). If our skills have
grown dull, we need to sharpen or hone them. If a situation is explosive, we must defuse
it. If our wheels are spinning, we must find a way to gain traction and get unstuck. If the
wheels are turning very slowly, we will want to find a way to grease them. If we are
feeling a great burden, then we must find a way to get out from under it. If our society
suffers from a particular sickness, we must find a cure or remedy for it, etc.

3. Words and phrases for increase & decrease include: rise; explode; shoot up; soar; grow;
skyrocket; jump; go / shoot through the roof; peak, and sky-high. Words for decrease
include: plummet; dip; slide; drop; plunge; fall; tumble; and sink. The verbs plateau and
level off and blip are also usefully taught to talk about things that can be represented on
graphs. We commonly use these words and phrases when we talk about prices, numbers,
rates, ages and levels. These words make a good simple category exercise. Write the
words and phrases in alphabetical order on the board and ask students to categorize them
as “increase” or “decrease.” If your classroom has a smartboard with “Vortex” software,
create two vortices labeled “increase” and “decrease” and call on a student to slide each
word into the correct vortex. My students in Saudi Arabia liked Vortex exercises, because
if the student standing in front of the classroom at the board slid a word to the wrong
vortex, it was spit out to his consternation and the delight of the other students. Ask
students about important rates, prices and ages: the crime rate; the price of bread and
medicine; the age of first marriage, etc. Are they low, high or sky high / through the roof?
How have they changed over time? How do they compare with other countries or
geographical areas?

4. To focus on all the ways to talk about the future, including the idea that the future is a
container, ask students to select a piece of paper from a container. The piece of paper
would be like the piece of paper inside a fortune cookie. Each student would get a little
message about what lies in his future, what is ahead for him, what is on his horizon, what
is down the road, the fate that is approaching him. This exercise can lend itself to humor.
In some context and cultures, such an exercise would not be appropriate.

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5. The following is a simple fill-in-the-blank exercise that focuses on some of the figurative
language associated with fire: extinguish (verb); conflagration (noun); die out (verb);
spark (noun); die down (verb); ashes (noun). “The region is a tinderbox, and it will only
take a _____ to set the whole area on fire. The result will be a _____ that will burn out of
control and that no force, not even United Nations Peacekeepers, will be able to _____.
The fire will eventually _____, but I doubt it will ever completely _____. We can only
hope something positive will eventually arise from the _____.”

6. A matching exercise focusing on synonyms and antonyms that reflects natural language
use follows: “So people were able to keep it under wraps.” “Yes, they covered it up, is
what they did.” / “So you lost your patience.” “Yeah, I couldn’t hold my horses.” / “You
weren’t making any progress.” “No, we were just spinning our wheels.” / “Did he betray
you?” “Yeah, he threw me under the bus / stabbed me in the back.” / “Was the film
boring?” “Yeah, it was a big yawn.” / “Did the announcement surprise people?” “Yeah,
it raised eyebrows.”

7. The following matching exercise focuses on language taken from the category boat:
“Have you started the project?” “Yes, it is well underway.” / “Did Sam sign off on your
budget?” “No, she torpedoed it, but I’ll get the money somewhere.” / “Does Kim support
the project?” “Yes, he’s totally on board with it and is working hard.” / “Can you change
the production deadlines?” “No, it’s too late, that ship has already sailed.” / “Who’s in
charge of the working group?” “Austin’s at the helm.” / “How’s the intern performing?”
“Not bad, they’re learning the ropes.”

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To the ESL / EFL teacher
1. Because figurative language is such an integral part of common, everyday language, we EFL
/ ESL teachers should teach the terms literal and figurative at the beginning level and say
them at least as often as we say noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and collocation in our
classrooms. I don’t use the terms metaphor or idiom, because the former is so closely
attached to literary studies and cognitive linguistics, and the latter is associated with
dictionaries of idioms that include relatively useless expressions like “It’s raining cats and
dogs” that seem to imply that figurative language is somehow separate from or
supplementary to “real” language. To explain figurative usage to our students, we can use the
same language that we teach them in our lessons: “like,” “as,” “similar to,” “equal or
equivalent to,’ “comparison,” “resemble,” “suggest,” “has the shape of,” “has the role of,”
“acts as,” etc.

2. We teachers should get in the habit of looking at the dictionary entry for each vocabulary
item we teach. I must confess this is advice I didn’t always take during my career. In most
dictionaries, the first sense of a word is literal, and the second or further senses are usually
figurative, on the principle of metaphorical extension. The metaphoric extensions are not
always obvious to students, especially in curriculums that teach only the literal meanings of
words. It is also the case that for many words students will encounter a figurative sense far
more often than the literal sense. Different senses reinforce the meaning of the first sense and
recycle the word in a different context, thus increasing the chances the student will acquire
and use the word. “Extra” senses can also provide real communicative utility. For example, a
simple word like path can allow us and our students to talk about conduct, easiness and
difficulty, and the future, not simply a walk from point A to point B.

3. Just about every part of speech can be used figuratively: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,
and prepositions, even interjections. Seals are a magnet for sharks. He killed the proposal.
She greeted me warmly. It was a sharp / stinging rebuke. I am with you. Her performance
wowed me.

4. As English teachers, we all know the importance of collocation in vocabulary teaching. Often
there is a collocating preposition: Makkah is a magnet for Muslims. Or the phrase is pre-
modified by a classifying adjective: a political firestorm; financial doping in soccer; an
astronomical rate, a stellar record, etc. Most curriculums, including the ALC/DLI which I
specialized in teaching, do a poor job of teaching classifying modifiers. Collocation can
reveal sets of subjects and objects. It is an especially good way to recycle previously learned
vocabulary. It is foundational in teaching and learning language.

5. Prepositions. In our dictionaries, a preposition’s first sense is always spatial, and that is how
we always teach it. When we teach in front of, we always teach it spatially: “The car is in
front of the bus.” But that same preposition can refer to the future: “She has her whole life in
front of her.” And it can also relate to proximity: “The answer is in front of you.” Three

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 prepositions relate to allegiance, support & betrayal: “I am for the measure. We stand
behind the new law. I am with you in your attempts to change things.” When it comes to
hierarchy, a person can be above or below another person. To see a list of prepositions and
their non-spatial meanings, look in the glossary under prep, adv, adj, particle. Prepositions
are a big problem both in teaching and learning, and the more help we can give our students,
the better.

6. As noted above, we tend to think of the past, present and future as grammar. But the future
can also relate to objects like fossil, dinosaur, horizon, crystal ball, time capsule. Or to
persons like a fortuneteller, oracle or prophet. Time is very interesting. For example, time
can seem like a place: “We have been here before” (in the past) and “Where do we go from
here?” (in the future). Time can entail distance: “Spring is just around the corner,” and “The
Paris Olympics are still a long way off.” See future and past & present and time in the
glossary for possibilities. Many time expressions relate to prepositions, adverbs, adjectives,
movement and point of view. We can mention the underlying concepts in the appropriate
grammar lessons.

7. Don’t be afraid to think about and teach grammatical metaphor, which I mentioned above.
Grammatical metaphor simply provides alternatives to the structures we already teach. You
can say, “There is a lamp in the corner.” But you can also say, “A lamp stands in the corner.”
You can say, “We walked to town along the road” but you can also say, “The road took us to
town.” You can say, “I got home in early May,” but you can also say, “Early May saw me
back home.” You can say, “I had a lot of problems,” but you can also say, “I encountered /
met with a lot of problems.” “There has been...” can be restated as, “We have seen...” Offer
both choices. We tend to teach the former and ignore the latter.

8. When you teach a “bland” verb, try to think of a synonym that is figurative: Can you help
me, can you lend a hand? What did you find, what did you dig up? He betrayed me, he
stabbed me in the back. Be patient, hold your horses. I support you, I am with you, I stand
with you, I stand behind you, I will back you up, I’ve got your back! I understand, I see, I get
it. Don’t be afraid, you must resist him, stand up to him, take him on. Figurative language is
“simple” and grammatically easy to employ yet surprisingly useful in its ability to
communicate real ideas and emotions.

9. Never miss a chance to add value to a word. Is it also a shape? What are its parts? Is it a part
of a proper noun? A geographical feature? The name of a company or product? Is there a
euphemism for it? Does the word have an interesting origin and history (etymology)? Can
you use the word as a springboard for a bit of content? Consider words as Ed Needham did in
The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel by David Lagercrantz. In a
conversation with Alona Casales, Needham “proudly” says about Lisbeth Salander—whom
he only knows as the Wasp—“But you know what I did then... I looked up what the word
stood for... It turns out Wasp could mean all sorts of things...”

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10. As English teachers, we know all about teaching parts-wholes. And those parts are often
figurative. A chair has legs and a back, a mouth has a roof, a book has a spine. A bed has a
head and a foot. A mountain has foothills. Whole-parts like these are the basis of simple
riddles we learn as children: What has legs but can’t run, a back that can’t bend? And you
can use the first person pronoun to make such a riddle sound even more opaque and strange:
I have legs but can’t run, I have a back but it can’t bend... Of course, your students will insist
on stumping you with the riddles from their culture: Green castle, red window, black people
inside... What is it?

11. Try to think of and include a variety of subjects and objects for the words and grammar
patterns you teach. Ali / the bookcase is standing in the corner. Sugar / Sara is sweet. Open
the door / your book / your mind. A car / Winter is approaching. I’m allergic to penicillin /
people who think they know it all. A millimeter / life is short. / He introduced Ali to Salah /
drugs.

12. Clines are always useful for organizing vocabulary in sets. In “Lessons and exercises” above,
the first lesson involves organizing words relating to health & medicine on a cline. A similar
lesson could be given based on words relating to temperature that relate to emotion. Our
curriculums are good at teaching hot, warm, and cold. Less good at teaching tepid, or
lukewarm, or combinations like boiling-hot and freezing-cold.

13. Sets and series are always useful for organizing vocabulary. We teach “spring, summer, fall
and winter” as seasons; we can also relate that same set to initiation / growth &
development / decline and death. In Saudi Arabia, I used to give my adult military students
the following riddle: “A happy dancing young girl in a green dress. A strong young man with
yellow hair. A crying lady in a brown dress. A shouting angry old man with white hair...
What are they?” Arab students like symbolism and especially appreciate symmetry.
Language related to a plant and the life cycle of a fire relate to the same concepts. Sweet,
salty, bitter and sour can relate not only to taste but also to character & personality.

14. An easy lesson is to simply think of something you and your students might be interested in.
For example, students studying academic English might be very interested in words and
expressions related to analysis, interpretation & explanation. Some teachers are interested
in the expression of feeling, emotion & effect, and they will find a comprehensive listing of
such language in the glossary. My adult military students in Saudi Arabia—the home of the
Arabian horse—always enjoyed idioms associated with the horse, and I was also pleased to
discover many of them shared my enthusiasm for boxing. Of course, they had their favorites!
“Evander Holyfield...same same goat!” I remember a military student saying, defending
Mike Tyson. And I had to concede the point! Nothing could be so basic to all people as the
hand, so try doing a lesson just devoted to that. Meanings range from help & assistance to
oppression. And it is easy to pantomime expressions like hand out and give / lend a hand
and have the upper / whip hand. That would make a nice lesson in a place like Kosovo,
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 students—poor as they are—will insist on paying for your coffee. You want to give a good
lesson to students like that!

15. Expressions related to gesture and bodily reaction are easy to pantomime. I went to the
director to get his approval and he gave me the thumbs up. / I didn’t realize that, thank you
for opening my eyes. / That film bored me, it was a big yawn. Pairs like these make easy
matching exercises.

16. As mentioned above, a name for a person like pioneer, acolyte, steward, leper, butcher,
warrior and clown is often used figuratively. You can find a list at person in this work. It
requires very little grammar at all to say, “You are a bully!” Or, “You are a big bully!” Or,
“You are such a bully! and “Why are you (such) a bully?” Change the subject to a non-
human subject and add a category noun and you get, “And your country is a regional bully.”
Use the negative imperative + noun pattern and you get, “Don’t be a bully!” Use stop + being
+ noun and you have “Stop being a bully!” Figurative language, used with the most basic
grammar, is truly a communicative force multiplier. Suddenly, you can talk about
international politics.

17. Use analogies. I usually introduce them in the following form: Stand up is to resist as X is to
surrender. The center is to a circle as X is to a hurricane. Spring is to a young man as X is to
an old man. A period of time is to the life of a man as X is to a book. Articles can be
especially problematical and this is a chance to use them. When students give answers to
analogies like these, even when they gave me the anticipated answer, I always ask them to
explain their answers using complete sentences. Analogies like these can be used at the most
basic level and students find them novel and interesting. A ship is to the sea as _____ is to
the desert. Don’t forget to ask why.

18. Teachers can incorporate figurative language into routine classroom language. If your
students get too noisy, you can say, “Hey, turn down the volume!” or “Lower the
temperature!” or “Cool down” or “Keep cool!” or “Let’s dial it back!” or “Don’t be such a
hothead!” If a student becomes too impatient, you can say, “Hold your horses!” Instead of
asking if a student understands or not, you might ask, “Are you in the dark?” You can used
lexicalized gestures to praise: “I salute you,” “I applaud you,” “I take my cap off to you.”
When a student’s feelings get hurt, you can say, “A military man needs thick skin!” Students
tend to hear, note, and acquire such figurative language, especially if it is repeated day in and
day out. More importantly, though, it gives the figurative nature of language its due.

19. Feel free to say a little bit about the literal meaning for those words we use figuratively. If
you ever teach or explain the figurative use of castaway, for example, you might spend a few
minutes telling your students about those actual poor wretches on Tromelin Island in the
Indian Ocean. At the entry for scuttle I mention two instances where entire fleets of ships
were scuttled. Below the entry for amok is a quote from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred
Russel Wallace about that practice. Below the entry for earthquake (effect) is a rather long

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 entry from the same author, which will make those of us who have never experienced an
earthquake think about how incredibly destabilizing they can be. In the entry for whirlwind is
an eyewitness account of a black buran experienced in Lop Nur, Xinjiang, by Sven Hedin. At
blizzard, I have included a short quote from V.K. Arseniev and Dersu about an actual
blizzard, or purga. Below the entry for pioneer (person) in the dictionary, I note Rudyard
Kipling’s stirring poem “The Explorer.” There are always a few students who will find that
poem on the internet and read it, based on your recommendation.

20. Take a page from the quote from Emerson above and use the frames he uses to get your
students thinking about metaphor. “Right means...; wrong means...; the crossing of a line
means...; we say heart to express... ; a cunning man is...; attention is...; an effect is... Words
and phrases for that last are entered in the category effect. They remind us than an effect is
often thought of as a wave in a medium: ripples as in water, with the related word splash;
waves in the air like a shock wave; and sound waves like reverberation and repercussion.
That is the reason for expressions like: “His surprise resignation caused ripples / shock waves
/ reverberations around the world.”

21. Get students to notice language use in longer passages of speech or text. Vocabulary choices
are often predictable. For example, a crime story or crime podcast is bound to have words
based on hunting and searching & discovery. Many of those words will be figurative.
Articles about famous people will usually have language, both literal and figurative, relating
to importance & significance.

22. Here’s a good idea to make the figurative and the literal real to your students within the four
walls of your classroom. First, consult the category of books & reading in the thesaurus of
this work. Write “literal” on one side of the board, “figurative” on the other, hold up a book,
and go to work. You might start with spine. You can something like, “Look, do you see this
part of the book here. Well, it’s called the spine. And I have a spine! And I can break this
book’s spine, and I can break my own spine!” There will be many literal and figurative pairs
for you to talk about with your students. The dictionary of collocations will give you attested
examples of use and help you with the collocations. If you have a flair for the dramatic and a
perfect sense of timing, as you no doubt do, because you are a teacher and you have come
this far with me on our journey, you will save “close the book” with its meaning of
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion for the bell, the smiles, and the break.

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An alphabetized list of the categories in the thesaurus
Consider the category color (2). What can colors relate / refer to? What can colors
represent? When you visit that category in the thesaurus, you will see several subcategories that
might give you some ideas for when you teach your lesson on colors. One subcategory is “proper
name.” On the world map in my classroom in Saudi Arabia, I always enjoyed pointing out the
“color” seas to my military students: the Red Sea; the Black Sea; the White Sea; the Yellow Sea.
In the subcategory “character & personality” you will see the phrase, black sheep. I never failed
to mention my “black-sheep” brother John to my students. In the subcategory “experience” is the
word greenhorn. I always mentioned this, because I knew some students would pick the term up
and chaff one another with it. In the subcategory “feeling, emotion & effect” is blue, meaning
sad. The question, “Are you blue?” never failed to make my students smile. Not because Arabs
are literal minded—they talk about teachers having black and white hearts—but because the
ALC/DLI is so relentlessly literal. And I can do all this in an introductory class, using the
simplest grammar.
Now consider the category feeling, emotion & effect (1). How do we think of feelings,
emotions and effects? How do we talk about those things? There are many subcategories in this
category, and three of those subcategories are larger than the others: “direction,” “sensation,” and
“temperature.” This corresponds exactly to the metaphors cognitive linguists have identified:
happiness is up. Sadness is down. Affection is warmth. Emotional effect is physical contact. If
you combine bodily reaction and gesture, you get a fourth large sub-category. The ALC/DLI
actually includes “to hurt one’s feelings,” which is figurative, based on sensation. I have used
many expressions from this category in my classes, including ones like, “Are you down?”
“Cheer up!” “I will lift your spirits,” “Cool off,” “Don’t be such a hothead,” “Don’t be so thin-
skinned,” “A military man must have thick skin,” “You cut me!” etc.
name # name #
access & lack of access 2 baseball 2
addiction 2 basketball 2
affix 2 bell 2
air 2 Bible 2
alcohol 2 biology 2
allusion 2 bird 2
amount 2 birth 2
animal 2 blade 2
antiques 2 blanket 2
apple 2 blood 2
arm 2 boat 2
astronomy 2 bodily reaction 2
atmosphere 2 body 2
ax 2 books & reading 2
baby 2 bottle 2
back 2 boundary 2
ball 2 boxing 2
balloon 2 breadth 2

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name # name #
breathing 2 epithet 2
bridge 2 equilibrium & stability 2
bubble 2 erosion 2
bullet 2 exclamation 2
burden 2 explosion 2
burial 2 eye 2
canal 2 face 2
cards 2 family 2
carpets & rugs 2 fan 2
cat 2 farming & agriculture 2
center & periphery 2 fatness & thinness 2
chain 2 fence 2
chemistry 2 film 2
chess 2 finger 2
circus 2 fire 2
clock 2 fish 2
cloth 2 fist 2
clothing & accessories 2 flags & banners 2
cloud 2 flood 2
color 2 flying & falling 2
consumption 2 fog 2
container 2 food & drink 2
control & lack of control 2 foot 2
cooking 2 football 2
corner 2 force 2
cows & cattle 2 forest 2
crashes & collisions 2 fortification 2
creature 2 fountain 2
crime 2 fox 2
dam 2 frog 2
day 2 fruits & vegetables 2
death & life 2 functioning 2
depth 2 gambling 2
desert 2 gate 2
destruction 2 geometry 2
direction 2 gesture 2
distance 2 gift 2
document 2 giving, receiving, bringing & returning 2
dog 2 glacier 2
doors & thresholds 2 government 2
ear 2 ground, terrain & land 2
earth & world 2 hair 2
earthquake 2 hammer 2
electricity 2 hand 2
engine 2 hardness & softness 2

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name # name #
hat 2 middle ages 2
head 2 military 2
health & medicine 2 mining 2
heart 2 mirror 2
heating water 2 mixture 2
heel 2 money 2
height 2 moon 2
history 2 mountains & hills 2
hitting, slamming & lashing 2 mouth 2
hole 2 movement 2
horizon 2 music 2
horn 2 nail 2
horse 2 neck 2
hour 2 nose 2
house 2 nuclear energy 2
hunting 2 number 2
hygiene 2 object 2
Iliad & Odyssey 2 orientation 2
infrastructure 2 party 2
insect 2 pendulum 2
island 2 physics 2
journeys & trips 2 picture 2
jungle 2 pile 2
justice 2 place 2
key 2 plane 2
knee 2 plant 2
knife 2 platform 2
ladder 2 position 2
lap 2 potato 2
leg 2 predation 2
letters & characters 2 prep, adv, adj, particle 2
light & dark 2 pressure 2
lightning 2 proximity 2
line 2 pump 2
lion 2 puppet 2
love, courtship & marriage 2 purses & wallets 2
magic 2 puzzle 2
manufacturing 2 radio 2
map 2 rain 2
mark 2 rat 2
materials & substances 2 religion 2
meat 2 riding 2
mechanism 2 river 2
memorization 2 rocket 2
mental health 2 roof 2

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name # name #
rope 2 teeth 2
route 2 temperature 2
royalty 2 tent 2
rubbing & washing 2 theater 2
ruins 2 throat 2
scale 2 throwing, putting & planting 2
school & education 2 thumb 2
sea 2 ticket 2
season 2 tide 2
sensation 2 tiger 2
sex 2 toe 2
shadow 2 tongue 2
shape 2 tools & technology 2
shark 2 train 2
sheep 2 tree 2
shoulder 2 tsunami 2
sign, signal, symbol 2 umbrella 2
size 2 verb 2
skeleton 2 verb to noun 2
skin, muscle, nerves & bone 2 violence 2
sky 2 volcano 2
sleep 2 walking, running & jumping 2
smell 2 wall 2
snake 2 warehouse 2
snow & ice 2 waste 2
society 2 water 2
sound 2 wave 2
space 2 weapon 2
speech 2 weather & climate 2
speed 2 wedge 2
spider 2 weight 2
sports & games 2 wheat 2
stair 2 whip 2
standing, sitting & lying 2 wind 2
statue 2 window 2
stomach 2 wolf 2
storm 2 wounds & scars 2
sun 2 wrestling 2
surveying 2 writing & spelling 2
swamp 2 zoo 2
sword 2 ability & lack of ability 1
table 2 absorption & immersion 1
target 2 acceptance & rejection 1
taste 2 access & lack of access 1
tautology 2 accusation & criticism 1

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name # name #
achievement, recognition & praise 1 condition & status 1
action, inaction & delay 1 configuration 1
activity 1 conflict 1
adapting 1 confronting, dealing with & ignoring 1
admiration & contempt 1 things
affliction 1 consciousness & awareness 1
allegiance, support & betrayal 1 constraint & lack of constraint 1
allusion 1 consumption 1
alternatives & choices 1 content 1
amelioration & renewal 1 context 1
amount 1 control & lack of control 1
amount & effect 1 corruption 1
analysis, interpretation & explanation 1 cost & benefit 1
appeal 1 courage & lack of courage 1
appearance 1 course 1
appearance & disappearance 1 cover 1
appearance & reality 1 creating & transformation 1
area 1 curtailment 1
assembling 1 danger 1
attachment 1 death & life 1
attainment 1 decline 1
attempt 1 dependency 1
attention, scrutiny & promotion 1 destruction 1
attenuation 1 development 1
attraction & repulsion 1 development, easiness & effort 1
avoidance & separation 1 directing 1
bases 1 direction 1
behavior 1 dismissal, removal & resignation 1
biodiversity 1 disruption 1
branching system 1 division 1
campaign 1 division & connection 1
center & periphery 1 dominance & submission 1
certainty & uncertainty 1 driving force 1
character & personality 1 eagerness & reluctance 1
characterization 1 effect 1
coercion & motivation 1 empathy & lack of empathy 1
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & 1 enthusiasm 1
returning environment 1
commitment & determination 1 epithet 1
comparison & contrast 1 equilibrium & stability 1
competition 1 euphemism 1
complexity 1 evidence 1
comprehension & incomprehension 1 experience 1
computer 1 experimentation 1
concealment & lack of concealment 1 extent & scope 1

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name # name #
failure, accident & impairment 1 mind 1
fantasy & reality 1 mixture 1
fate, fortune & chance 1 money 1
feeling, emotion & effect 1 movement 1
fictive communication 1 obligation 1
fictive meeting & seeing 1 obstacles & impedance 1
fictive motion 1 occurrence 1
fictive position 1 operation 1
fictive possession 1 opportunities & possibilities 1
fictive transportation 1 oppression 1
flaws & lack of flaws 1 orientation 1
force 1 origin 1
functioning 1 past & present 1
future 1 perception, perspective & point of view 1
giving, receiving, bringing & returning 1 performance 1
gossip 1 person 1
group, set & collection 1 place 1
growth & development 1 portal 1
guilt 1 position, policy & negotiation 1
haste 1 possession 1
heart 1 power 1
help & assistance 1 predation 1
hierarchy 1 presence & absence 1
history 1 pressure 1
hyperbole 1 primacy, currency, decline & 1
idea 1 obsolescence
identity & nature 1 priority 1
importance & significance 1 product 1
impression 1 progress & lack of progress 1
inauguration 1 proper name 1
inclusion & exclusion 1 protection & lack of protection 1
increase & decrease 1 proximity 1
initiation 1 punishment & recrimination 1
insult 1 pursuit, capture & escape 1
interest 1 readiness & preparedness 1
involvement 1 reconciliation, resolution & conclusion 1
isolation & remoteness 1 reference 1
judgment 1 relationship 1
knowledge & intelligence 1 repetition 1
language 1 representation 1
leaking 1 reputation 1
location 1 resemblance 1
measurement 1 resiliency 1
message 1 resistance, opposition & defeat 1
migration 1 responsibility 1

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name # name #
restraint & lack of restraint 1 substance & lack of substance 1
revenge 1 subterfuge 1
reverence 1 success & failure 1
reversal 1 sufficiency, insufficiency & excess 1
role 1 superiority & inferiority 1
route 1 superlative 1
sacrifice 1 supplying 1
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity 1 surveillance 1
script 1 survival, persistence & endurance 1
searching & discovery 1 suspicion 1
sequence 1 taking & removing 1
sex 1 target 1
shape 1 taxonomy & classification 1
sight 1 throwing, putting & planting 1
sign, signal, symbol 1 time 1
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty 1 timeliness & lack of timeliness 1
situation 1 transmission 1
size 1 transportation 1
social interaction 1 unanimity & consensus 1
society 1 violence 1
sound 1 vocative 1
source 1 wants, needs, hopes and goals 1
speech 1 warning 1
speed 1 welcome 1
starting, going, continuing & ending 1 welcome 1
strategy 1 work & duty 1
strength & weakness 1 worth & lack of worth 1

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 ideological about-face
the literature of ~ includes…

The dictionary of about-face came

his ~ after…

collocations did an about-face

the military ~
done an about face
A he has ~ with regard to Israel (a leader)
♦ "Ready front!" "Present arms!" "Order, arms!" "Forward, march!"

ablaze (adjective)
"Column halt!" "About face!" (Military commands.)

reversal: direction / military

ablaze with speculation
the Internet was ~ about why... about-turn (noun)
set social media ablaze about-turn on the subject
his murder has ~ (of a young rapper) the government's seeming ~ of Islamic law

set Twitter ablaze diplomatic about-turn

his late-night tweet ~ this latest ~ on Syria
♦ “A Texas woman ended up burning down her home in a heated battle sudden about-turn
with a snake. When the Texarkana resident spotted the serpent in her
garden, she doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze. The flaming snake athletes are shocked and outraged at Wada’s ~
slithered into a nearby brush pile, igniting it and the house in a
conflagration...” reversal: direction

activity / initiation / feeling, emotion & effect: fire above (above the fray, etc.)
about-face (in an about-face) above the fray
he is trying to stay ~ (a politician)
in an about face
~, the President abandoned his plan to… behavior: direction / height

in an about face from a year ago above (above the law, etc.)
~, Congress voted to expand…
above the law
in an embarrassing about face not even the president is ~
~, officials acknowledged that… nobody is ~ (judge arrested)
reversal: direction / military superiority & inferiority: direction / position / prep, adv, adj,
particle
about-face (other)
aboveboard (adjective)
about face for Pakistan
his policies, if successful, will mean a real ~ aboveboard
everything I did was ~
about-face for the government
♦ This comes from the world of cards, and its opposite might be
the request is an ~ (Afghanistan) underhanded.
about-face from a year ago subterfuge: cards / direction
the space agency's new policy is an ~
abrasive (adjective)
about-face on the bill
he deserves credit for his ~ abrasive and annoying
he is ~
about face with regard to Israel
he has done an ~ brilliant and abrasive (m)
a ~ engineer named…
abrupt about-face
the admission was an ~ character & personality: sensation
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
belated about-face
the ~ won't fool the people (by a government) absorb (a country, etc.)
ecological about-face absorbed Kyrgyzstan
earth has done an ~ (NASA statement) Imperial Russia ~ and its nomadic tribes

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ability to absorb abyss (noun)
their language's ~ new words (German)
financial abyss
absorption & immersion: verb / water
there seems to be no way out of this ~
absorb (books, culture, etc.) on the brink of a (sectarian) abyss
absorbed books the country is walking ~ (protests)
he ~ by the dozen (self-learning at library) on the edge of electoral abyss
absorb the culture his campaign teetered ~, but he is scrambling his way back
a lot of the girls didn't really ~ (US models in Japan) fall into an abyss
absorbed a gothic sensibility women ~, and they can't get out (eating disorders)
he ~ which would imprint itself on his work plunged into a (political) abyss
absorbed (Islamic) principles and traditions the country ~ after…
the young prince ~ plunges (further) into the abyss
absorption & immersion: verb / water as Greece's blighted economy ~

absorb (punishment, etc.) pulled the (financial) system back from the abyss
the government ~
absorbed the (full ) force
he ~ of the explosion with his body (hero soldier) sliding into the abyss
the country is ~ (economy)
absorbed (a lot of) punishment
he ~ in the last round (a boxer) teetering towards the abyss
the city is ~ of bankruptcy
absorption & immersion: verb / water
worked his way out of the abyss
absorbed he ~ of crime and hopelessness
♦ In an article in The New York Times, "Computers That Trade on the
absorbed into Saudi Arabia News," Graham Bowley reports that the word abyss in an article about
Qatar might well have been ~ (history) the Greek financial crisis caused computers to initiate sell orders. Wall
Street mines such words from news articles and Twitter feeds to analyze
absorbed by the society the market.
they were ~ they invaded (Mongols)
destruction: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
forcibly absorbed accelerant (noun)
the three Baltic republics were ~ into the Soviet Union
absorption & immersion: water accelerant
Twitter is the ~ for so many to spew outrage
abundance (amount)
accelerant of (global) conflict
abundance of caution climate upheaval is acting as an ~
out of an ~, we are altering the production plan (virus)
accelerants of human misery
♦ This word comes from the Latin unda, or wave. The root is more
obvious in a word like inundate. Still, it’s a nice way to think of the
jails are ~
meaning. Whenever I hear this word now, I think of waves breaking on a
beach and flowing up the sand, engulfing everything in its path! described the internet as an accelerant
officials ~ that speeds up radicalization
amount / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: sea / water /
wave increase & decrease: fire

abuzz (activity) accelerate (verb)

abuzz with warnings accelerating their efforts
a nervous Muslim world is ~ of a threat from the West states are ~ to ban texting while driving

had people abuzz accelerate learning

the news ~ this morning (politics) pupils use pedal power to ~

kept this peninsula abuzz inflation is accelerating

gold mining and logging once ~ with activity ~, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says

activity: animal / insect / sound outbreak is accelerating

the measles ~

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increase & decrease / speed / starting, going, continuing & feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials &
ending: movement / verb substances / tongue
ace (noun) acolyte (noun)
ace acolyte of big business
it was time for me to bring out my ~ he is an ~ and corporate greed
ace in the hole acolytes of (US) capitalism
my ~ is that I can… he is like most ~
the fear card is his ~ (national security)
our nuclear arsenal is our ~ Obama acolyte
he is an ~ who… (politics)
strength & weakness: cards / gambling
tones of an acolyte
Achilles' heel (noun) he described her in ~
Achilles' heel swarmed by (young) acolytes
security was our ~ (US AID project in Afghanistan) he was ~ (a film director)
Achilles' heel of 3-D TV enthusiasm: person / religion
clunky glasses were the ~ (remedied) person: religion
Achilles' heel of the system acrobat (person)
the ~ lies…
linguistic acrobats
Achilles' heel of the West slang is fine for ~ (who can code-switch)
the Arabian Gulf is the ~ (oil and Iran)
ability & lack of ability / difficulty, easiness & effort /
Achilles heel for Chelsea person: circus
this is the ~—marking in the box (soccer)
acrobatic (adjective)
angioplasty's Achilles' heel
the problem is ~ (regrowth of tissue) verbally acrobatic
Clinton was more intelligent, calculating, and ~ (vs. Bush)
company's Achilles' heel
the ~ is that… ability & lack of ability: circus

skiers' Achilles' heel acrobatics (noun)

the knees are the ~
acronymic acrobatics
♦ According to Dante, Thetis, the mother of Achilles, dressed Achilles in the artificiality and awkwardness of the ~ (LGBTTIQQ2SA)
female clothes to keep him from going to war. Ulysses saw through the
ruse and convinced Achilles to join up. This caused Achilles’ girlfriend, difficulty, easiness & effort: circus
Deidamia, who had had a child by Achilles, to commit suicide. This is
one of the three reasons why Dante put Ulysses in hell.
act (insincere show)
strength & weakness: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
protection & lack of protection: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
hard-ass act
beneath their ~ they were…(young soldiers)
acid (acid debate, etc.)
maturity act
acid asides kids put on this ~ (high school)
she is famous for her ~ (a comic)
own act
acid blogger they came to believe too much in their ~ (Hitler, etc.)
people are disgusted with radio ranters and ~s (civility)
hard-to-get act
acid debate ditch the ~ (relationships)
the controversy has sparked ~ (religion)
ditch the (hard-to-get) act
feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials & you should ~
substances
keep up the act
acid-tongued how long can he ~

acid-tongued (m) put on an act

the ~ comedian (Groucho Marx) con artists know how to ~
putting on an act
a lot of guys seem nice, but they are just ~

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 he's lying, he's just ~ addict (chess addict, etc.)
everyone in high school is to some extent ~
performance / role: theater chess addicts
the Internet is great for ~
act (performance)
movie addict
circus act an adolescent ~
he's a ~ and he's killing boxing
crossword puzzle addict
vagabond act he is a ~
they morphed their ~ into today's World Tour (surfers)
bone fishing addict
balancing act hard-core yachtsmen and ~s
setting limits, encouraging independence is a real ~
total (TV) addict
juggling act I love TV, I'm a ~
trying to build a team is a hard ~ (basketball)
generation of (tanning) addicts
difficult act tanning beds spawned a ~
the King's got a lot more ~ than in the last decade enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine / person
tough act addicted (enthusiasm)
their father is a ~ to follow
performance / role: theater addicted to his sport
he was so ~ that he rarely spent a weekend indoors
act (clean up one's act)
addicted to fly fishing
cleaned up its act my friend and I were ~ for wild brook trout
the CIA director said the company had ~ (security)
addicted to a dating game
the city has clamped down on violence and ~
she’s a gamer, ~ called One True Prince
in the 1990s, Manhattan ~
passionately addicted
cleaned up her act
he was ~ to Beethoven’s music (Berlioz)
she checked herself into rehab, then ~
we thought she had ~, but… (athlete) enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine
clean up your act addicted (dependency)
you need to ~
addicted to (this kind of) high-paced content
amelioration & renewal / behavior: hygiene / verb people have become ~ (TikTok)
act (development) addicted to economic growth
we are ~
final act
the hostage drama saw its ~ played out (plane) addicted to oil
the family is trying to interpret his ~ (suicide) we are ~ from the Middle East
first act grow (increasingly more) addicted
on the world soccer stage, it was a stunning ~ (loss) as we ~ to modern technology
the ~ has closed with a tremendous finale (Civil War)
the ~ of the tragedy has been enacted (war) dependency: addiction / health & medicine
you've just seen the ~, the finale is yet to come (trial) addiction (enthusiasm)
last act
Ives addiction
and then began the long ~ of his life (a writer)
my ~ started one summer at music camp...
main act enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine
there was no preparation for the ~ (combat)
this is only the prologue to the ~ (banks fail) addiction (dependency)
the sideshow became part of the ~ (war)
he quickly became the ~ at the meeting (politician) entertainment addiction
corporate greed, ~ and political impotence (the US)
second acts
I think there are ~ in life, people can move on but... sex addiction
~ is not yet recognized as a psychiatric disorder
development: theater
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 we need to ~ (dependence on foreign oil) Adonis (handsome)
dependency: addiction / health & medicine
Adonis
addictive (adjective) the chubby man beat the ~ (Joshua vs. Ruiz / boxing)

addictive appearance: allusion

Thai food is ~ adrift
combat can be ~
adrift in the new multiparty sea
addictive (computer) games
politicians, ~, now needed campaign funds
~ are a moral hazard to youth (China)
seemed adrift
addictive thing
he ~ without the army for structure (troubled soldier)
this is an ~ that hurts the students (laptops in class)
behavior / enthusiasm / feeling, emotion & effect: spent years adrift
they had ~ in their diaspora (Somalis in Lewistown)
addiction / health & medicine
direction: boat
address (verb) control & lack of control / progress & lack of progress: boat
address the problems / direction
we must ~ that underlie the insurgency adult (development)
addressed more specific rumors adults in the room
she ~ as well (cold case) the cypherpunk kids versus the ~
address stereotypes adult table
be prepared to ~ when you hear them Japan wanted to demonstrate it was an adult sitting at the ~
addressed (such taboo) subjects experience: person
he ~ as race and sexuality (Pryor) growth & development: death & life
addresses this advance (in advance, etc.)
is there currently any legislation on tape that ~
days in advance
addresses the (invisible and visible) wounds the killing was planned ~
the center ~ of war
several days in advance
fictive communication: speech / verb models predicted the high pressure ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: speech / verb
what is coming in advance
add up (verb) we increased our radar so we know ~ (public health)
add up time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / distance /
her story didn't ~ position / prep, adv, adj, particle
added up advance (a day can advance, etc.)
she knew in an instant that it all ~ (signs of glue sniffing)
day advanced
analysis, interpretation & explanation: number as the ~, it got hotter and hotter
adhere (adhere to something) morning advanced
adhere to as the ~, the soldiers prepared for battle
they have a code that they ~, blue silence (cops) time: direction / movement / verb
adhere to the norms advance (verb)
countries should strictly ~ of international law
advanced in jumps
attachment: materials & substances / verb his career ~
adolescence (noun) advanced with giant steps
during its (starry-eyed) adolescence nuclear science has ~
A.I. ~, in the sixties (technology) advanced from guarded to good condition
growth & development: death & life the twins ~ (operation)
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 people who ~ or example afford to remain
we cannot ~ passive spectators to such acts…
advance the cause
~ of freedom in Africa (US) afford another Somalia
the UN cannot ~
advance medicine
the goal of the partnership is to ~, lower costs afford the disruption
we can't ~ that would bring (company policies)
advance our (own negotiating) position
as we ~ cost & benefit: money / verb
advanced rapidly aflame (resemblance)
mine technology ~ after World War II
aflame with fall color
career advanced the maple trees are ~
his ~ in jumps
resemblance: fire
science has advanced
nuclear ~ with giant steps aflame (adjective)
efforts to advance aflame
~ pain research the region is ~ (Middle East)
the Arab world was ~ in March 2011
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement / verb YA novels imagine a world ~ with uprisings
advance (noun) still aflame
his curiosity is ~ (a filmmaker)
advances in medicine
the 20th century saw great ~ aflame with (righteous) anger
at some moments we are ~
breathtaking advance
this is a ~ (legislative act) aflame with outrage
Republicans were ~ (politics)
great advance
anesthesia was a ~ in surgery aflame with violence
in the dying days of apartheid South Africa was ~
major advance
US physicians made another ~ in endocrinology set hearts aflame
his verses still ~ (the Persian poet Hafez)
medical advance
animal testing has led to many ~s set the social medial world aflame
he ~ after writing... (religion)
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement
aegis (noun) set aflame by (recent) comments
the classical music community has been ~ from...
under his aegis activity / initiation / feeling, emotion & effect: fire
he insists the newspaper is not ~ starting, going, continuing & ending: fire
♦ An aegis (pronounced EE-jus) was a breastplate or shield. It means
protection or sponsorship. afloat
protection & lack of protection: military / weapon keep the studio afloat
sentiment alone cannot ~ (MGM / debt woes)
Aegis Combat System
keeping the regime afloat
Aegis Combat System oil is ~
the ~ protects ships
stay afloat
proper name: military / weapon Iran can ~ without Western investment
afford (verb) he struggled to ~ (low-paying job)
he got us disaster relief to ~ (politician)
afford the economy is struggling to ~
doubt is a luxury they can't ~ (soldiers on way to Iraq)
survival, persistence & endurance: water
afford to fall after (at a later time)
we can't ~ further behind
afford to lose after horses
the President cannot ~ Iraq trains came ~ (technology)

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sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, against (opposition)
particle
against everything
afterglow (in the afterglow) I am ~ he stands for (politics)
in the afterglow against it
~ that follows the performance, the audience lingers... the Prime Minister is ~ (a proposal)
in the afterglow of another championship allegiance, support & betrayal / resistance, opposition &
a decade later, ~, he said… (an athlete) defeat: prep, adv, adj, particle
in the afterglow of (Obama's) election against (up against)
she found it easier to run ~ (a politician)
up against
in the afterglow of his (first big) role this is what cities are ~ (hacked for ransom)
he moved into the Chateau Marmont ~ (L.A. actor)
up against a history
in the afterglow of our (rafting) trip we were ~ of social injustice (prosecuting O.J. Simpson)
we relaxed and drank wine ~
obstacles & impedance: prep, adv, adj, particle
in the (mellowing) afterglow of victory
~, they don't seem so fierce (elected women) age (come of age)
in the afterglow of their Tony wins come of age
the films received increased business ~ will this be the year they ~ (team in Champions League)
basking in the afterglow growth & development: death & life
we're still ~ of the president's marvelous speech
he was ~ of a caretaker’s honeymoon period (team)
age (Age of Columbus, etc.)
♦ A full-page print ad for the Subaru Legacy asks the question, "Can a Age of Columbus
drive have an afterglow?" In the foreground is the sedan, parked on a
scenic overlook. In the background is a dramatic vista of the sea and
the ~ ushered in the Age of Copernicus (celestial navigation)
clouds just after sunset. Of course, the beautiful lingering light is the
actual afterglow. age of fiscal belt-tightening
in an ~
feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / sky
age of romantic giants
afterglow (other) in an ~ he was a titan (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
afterglow of those visits age of social media
the ~ has never worn off (celebrity visits restaurant) in this ~
afterglow of victory age of Viagra
the ~ was brief (political reformers) this is the ~, and Mr. Trink was its siren (Thailand)
post-World Cup afterglow age of technological wizardry
how will the ~ be reflected in attendance (US soccer) in an ~...
happiness and afterglow Gilded Age
the party is flushed with ~ (elections) the sixties were the ~ of rock journalism (excess)
feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / sky golden age
aftershock (noun) the ~ of quiz shows of the 1950s
the ~ of the detective story (between world wars)
aftershocks from 9/11 the Sopranos was the tripwire event that set off the ~ of TV
the ~ forced the company to cuts jobs nationwide (airline)
modern age
aftershocks from the (shareholder) revolt the ~ of blockbusters (films)
the ~ will be felt across the business world time: history
political aftershocks agile (adjective)
the ~ of the 2004 tsunami… (Sri Lanka)
agile development
feel the aftershocks ~ means constantly making small improvements
we will ~ of the financial crisis for a long time
amount & effect / effect / feeling, emotion & effect:
agile and adaptive
security must be ~ (terrorism)
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agile and responsive ahead (the future is ahead, etc.)
government must become more ~ to business
ahead of him
ideologically agile he has a great future ~ (athlete)
he was brilliant, funny, and ~ (a politician)
ahead of us
lean and agile the single most important task we have ~
the company is ~ we've got a good deal of work ~
lean, agile and focused ahead for you and your baby
the company is ~ on building better cars you probably have questions about what is ~
pragmatic and agile challenges ahead
we must be ~ in pursuit of human rights (diplomacy) prepare students for the ~ (military school)
smaller, (more) agile and innovative (m) Internet “father” Vint Cerf on ~
~ will survive choices ahead
remains (as) agile (as ever) he understands the hard ~ (a politician)
her mind ~ days ahead
ability & lack of ability: movement there are better ~

agility (noun) road ahead

no one knows what lies on the ~ (course of war)
agility
~ requires quick-minded, flexible leaders (military) STORMS AHEAD
~ (newspaper)
mental agility (m)
~ skills include physical toughness and ~ (military) task ahead
the ~ for engineers and scientists is to…
tactical agility
~ is first of all a mental state (military) book ahead
its good to ~ (camping reservations)
ability & lack of ability: movement
lie ahead
ago (two days ago) your best days ~
our best days ~
two days ago
they left ~ lies ahead
♦ This means “gone by.” no one knows what ~
I don't know what ~
past & present / time: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle we are ready for the struggle that ~ (war)
aground (run aground) look ahead
let's ~ to the future
run aground
he was sure the investigation would ~ and find no evidence looking ahead
~, clouds appear on the horizon (economy)
run aground on the shoals
the promises have ~ of changing sex ratios plan ahead
it's good to ~
relationship can run aground
the author-biographer ~ ♦ “We’re so focused on what’s ahead, we’re not worried about what’s
behind us.” (The boxer Anthony Joshua, speaking about his rematch with
Andy Ruiz Jr. AJ had lost the first match, in a tremendous upset.)
failure, accident & impairment: boat / verb
future / time: direction / journeys & trips / position / prep,
Aha! (Aha! moment)
adv, adj, particle
"Aha!" moment ahead (before a future event)
she says that she had an ~ in 2005 (administrator)
Aha! instant ahead of elections
the ~ in cognitive science, the Eureka moment... the increasingly bitter political climate ~ next summer

comprehension & incomprehension / consciousness & ahead of Medvedev’s visit

awareness: exclamation / speech the admission came ~ to Warsaw
well ahead
weather forecasters saw it coming ~ of time

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future / time: position / prep, adv, adj, particle surging ahead
Southeast Asia is ~ (aquaculture)
ahead (ahead of schedule, etc.)
went ahead
ahead of schedule the program ~ and was deemed a success
we are ~
♦ Don't get mad, don't get even, get ahead.
get ahead of the conversation progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing &
I’m not going to ~ that will take place (speculation)
ending: direction / movement / prep, adv, adj, particle /
timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / position / prep, verb
adv, adj, particle
ahead (go ahead)
ahead (competition)
went ahead with the event
ahead of those they ~ (in spite of pandemic)
Swedish living standards are way ~ in the US
starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / journeys &
miles ahead trips / movement / verb
it was ~ of every similar application
ailing (adjective)
two steps ahead
the virus was ~ (of preventative measures) ailing
businesses are ~ because of government regulation
way ahead
Swedish living standards are ~ of those in the US ailing economy
companies are feeling the effects of the ~
come out ahead the government is pumping money into the ~
I'm going to beat him, I'll ~ (mixed-martial arts)
ailing Macs
puts them ahead she tends to ~ (tech worker)
their strategy ~ of other banks
ailing (housing) market
competition: direction / movement / position / prep, adv, ending the deduction could cripple an already ~
adj, particle / sports & games / walking, running & jumping
condition & status: health & medicine
ahead (progress)
aim (verb)
far ahead
rich countries are ~ of poor ones in adapting to warming aim to please
we ~ (a store motto)
forging ahead
other countries are ~ (aquaculture) aiming for
and that's what we're ~ (making it easy for shoppers)
get ahead
never pass up an opportunity to ~ aimed for a Friday night liftoff
the space agency ~
marching ahead
the science is ~ (genetic tests) aim for a fun, less sanitized view
reenactors ~ of the Old West
move ahead
target / wants, needs, hopes & goals: verb / weapon
mentally ill people struggle to ~ in their lives
we must ~ into the future aim (noun)
moved ahead aim
he cautiously ~ with privatization if the ~ is to destroy vehicles, use mines (military)
moving ahead their ~ is to trigger fear and chaos (political assassins)
his friends were ~ while he was standing still their ~ is to survive (peasants)

plowing ahead aims of the campaign

we are ~ (difficult medical research) ridding Iraq of WMD is one of the main ~

pressing ahead aim of the ceremony

the Russians are ~ with fake social media accounts the ~ is to… (Swazi reed dance)
we are ~ in our efforts (government official) aim of that operation
push ahead the ~ was to… (Russian military in Chechnya)
we are trying to ~ aim of the symposium

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 the broad ~ was to report on and discuss the… other veterans of the Russian-Afghan war ~
aim of a show of force taking dead aim
the ~ is deterrence (military) his company is ~ at… (a competitor)
aim of storing target: verb / weapon
Glen Canyon Dam was finished with the ~ water for…
aimed
aim of overthrowing
it has the stated ~ the government (an opposition group) aimed at Muslims
a string of attacks by extremist Christians ~
aim in (my) life
before Qeis, I had no ~ (a student) aimed (specifically) at children
products ~
aim in (this) life
everyone has his own ~, and mine is to be a martyr aimed at the (US) military
protest ~ have waxed and waned (S. Korea)
nomads' (traditional) aim
the Tibetan ~ of maximizing herd size (vs. slaughter) aimed at the superstitious
attention-grabbing advertisements ~ (muti)
terrorists’ aim
if the ~ was to… aimed at abortion clinics and their workers
attacks ~ (US)
intended aim
regulating the forces and means toward an ~ (military) aimed at Pakistan's foreign community
an assault ~ (on a church)
stated aim
it has the ~ of overthrowing the government aimed at modernizing
he announced a series of reforms ~ the bureau
dual aim
the immunizations have a ~ (protect and prevent) aimed at preventing
mosquito-control programs ~ further cases (West Nile)
first aim
our ~ was to be competitive at the World Cup… aimed at punishing
laws ~ habitual criminals
initial aim
having sex might have been his ~, but… (murderer) aimed at reducing
regulations ~ noise pollution
primary aim
target: weapon
a ~ of ED intervention is to.. (domestic abuse)
strategic aim air (air of authority, etc.)
application of military capability in support of ~s
air of authority
traditional aim you'll carry an ~
the Tibetan nomads' ~ of maximizing herd size
air of indifference
ultimate aim she has a calculated ~ (teen girl)
his ~ is to…
air of invincibility
unselfish aim America's ~ is gone (international basketball)
most seem motivated by ~s
air of make-believe
one aim diplomacy can have an ~ (protocol, etc.)
the staff has only ~, turning fantasy into reality
air of respectability
several aims toy drives give bikers an ~
President Clinton and his advisers had ~
air of sophistication
achieve this aim she exudes an ~
to ~, we will have to…
air of superiority
target / wants, needs, hopes & goals: weapon he detected an ~
aim (take aim at something) arrogant air
he had a preppie, ~ about him
take aim at (pretty much every) race
his monologues ~ he can carry an air
you'll ~ of authority
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exudes an air breath of fresh air after the scandal
she ~ of sophistication he seemed to be a ~ of Watergate (politics)
appearance: air / atmosphere unexpected breath of fresh air
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere their designs were an ~ (fashion show)
air (environment) brings a breath of fresh air to the magazine
she ~ (new editor)
air he breathes
that’s the ~ that he has internalized (Nazi website) feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
amelioration & renewal: air / atmosphere / wind
environment: air / atmosphere
identity & nature: air / atmosphere air (hot air)
air (anger in the air, etc.) hot air
a plan without action is ~
in the air global warming is ~ (an opinion)
change was ~ (the law)
spring is ~ just (a lot of) hot air
war is ~ people talk about mine safety, but it's ~
the threat of litigation was always ~ (corporation)
a lot of hot air
anger in the air ~ blows out of Washington (politics)
there is much ~ (Xinjiang during the Olympics)
full of hot air
electricity in the air he's ~ (a politician)
there is a new ~ (after combat and death)
speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
fear in the air
with the general ~, people are paying off debt, not buying
air (into thin air)
feeling in the air disappeared into thin air
the ~ was he couldn’t have done it (charged at courthouse) she ~ (wanted for a crime)

environment: air / atmosphere vanished into thin air

feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere it was like she just ~ (woman vanishes)

air (up in the air) appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky

up in the air air (out of thin air)

the school year ended with her plans ~ appeared out of thin air
where things go from here is quite honestly ~ investors have ~
I think it’s still ~ a little bit (where athlete will commit to)
come out of thin air
up in the air whether ideas just don't ~
it’s still ~... (making a decision)
emerge out of thin air
still up in the air the fear of the undead didn't ~
her quest to land an internship is ~
when they can return to their homes is ~ (wildfires) create credit out of thin air
the Federal Reserve can ~
remains up in the air
the reason for the Moon Illusion ~ create profit out of thin air
♦ “Up in the air” can link in certain cases to a phrase like, “Nobody knows Wall Street can ~
how this plane lands” with the idea of resolution & conclusion.
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky
certainty & uncertainty: air / atmosphere origin: air / atmosphere / sky
air (breath of fresh air) air (clear the air)
breath of fresh air clear the air
she's a ~ (politician) they had a meeting to ~ (athlete and coach)
the blog is a ~ (field notes from scientists) an interview so she could ~ about what happened
his lay status is a ~ (new college president) if you had any lingering doubts, this should ~
I thought he was a ~, but it turns out he is an elitist
clear the air entirely
breath of fresh air for the city wouldn't that just ~ (making documents public)
the mayor has been a ~
amelioration & renewal: air / atmosphere / verb

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air (expose) albatross (noun)
air it out albatross of debt
you don’t have to ~ to the public where everyone can hear the ~ he had been dealing with... (a politician)
concealment & lack of concealment: air / atmosphere / albatross for Oakland
verb the quote has become something of an ~ (no there there)
aircraft carrier (turn an aircraft carrier) Afghanistan albatross
Trump inherited the ~
aircraft carrier
how long will it take, is it a matter of turning a ~ (change / affliction: allusion / animal / bird
reversal of diplomacy / foreign policy) Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.)
♦ “When I became president, one of the things I discovered coming into
office is you’re in charge of a big apparatus... It’s an ocean liner and not Alcatraz of the Rockies
a speedboat... Trying to change policy is really difficult.” (“Barak Obama
on 2020.”) ADX Florence in Colorado, sometimes called the ~

reversal: boat / military / movement / size Alcatraz of the South

Angola, the ~ (prison bordered on 3 sides by Mississippi)
airtight (adjective)
punishment & recrimination: place / epithet / justice
airtight alibi epithet: justice
his lawyers say he has an ~
Alexander (Muslim Alexander, etc.)
airtight case
prosecutors believe they have an ~ Muslim Alexander
he conceived for himself an identity as the ~ (Mehmet II)
seemed airtight
his alibi ~ epithet: military

flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere alight (activity)

alarm (feeling) alight with posts
social networking sites are ~ from…
alarm
~ as dump sites fill up and overflow... alight with (conspiracy) theories
the blogosphere is ~
alarm over the (rotten-egg) odor ♦ “We had now fairly entered the Molucca Sea. After dark it was a
there was ~ beautiful sight to look down on our rudders, from which rushed eddying
streams of phosphoric light gemmed with whirling sparks of fire. It
alarm over (gun) violence resembled (more nearly than anything else to which I can compare it)
most Americans feel ~ one of the large irregular nebulous star-clusters seen through a good
telescope, with the additional attraction of ever-changing form and
dancing motion.” (The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace,)
alarm about (the military's) conduct
the case raises ~ in Iraq (atrocity) ♦ "That night the fire-flies were in countless thousands, in millions, it
seemed... Suddenly, there was a blinding flash which for an instant lit up
the whole countryside, as a large meteor trailed its blazing tail across the
rising alarm sky... As at the wave of a magic wand the illumination of the insects went
~ over gun violence out... Then suddenly in the herbage there appeared a spark again, and in
half a minute the air was again filled with the thousands of elfin lanterns
reason for alarm weaving their ethereal dances." (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev, in
stay calm, there is no ~ Ussuria.)
so there was plenty of ~ activity: light & dark
raises alarm alight (fire)
the case ~ about the military's conduct in Iraq
set the region alight
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
conflicts could ~ (Caucasus)
alarm (warning) activity / feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: fire
sounded alarms alive (status)
Doctors Without Borders ~ (famine in Niger)
alive
sounding the alarm my business is ~, but not thriving
groups have been ~ about the Arab drug problem
still alive
warning: sound
the talks are ~ (negotiations)
the two teams are ~ in the playoffs (sports)

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very much alive part of our mission is to ~ (Trail of Tears)
jazz is ~, in Paris…
keep hope alive
stay alive doctors have a duty to ~
it's tough to ~ in today's economy (a business)
kept the initiative alive
condition & status: death & life the administration has ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life
keep memory alive
alive (alive and well) portraits can ~

alive and well keep romance alive

interagency coordination is ~ it's important to ~ (in a marriage)

alive and well in the UK keep the spark alive

regional stereotypes are ~ the dreams of what were ahead helped ~ for me (love)

remains alive and well keep the tradition alive

the movement ~ he does his part to ~ (sumo in Brazil)
condition & status: death & life survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
alive (activity) all (give something one’s all, etc.)
alive with activity gave it everything
the night sky, ~ (satellites, an eclipse, etc.) we ~

alive with rats commitment & determination: verb

the alley was ~ that evening... allergic (adjective)
alive with rumor
residential areas and offices were ~ (following attack) allergic to (small) boats
for those ~ in stormy seas…
activity: death & life
allergic to the concept
alive (come alive) economists are ~ of fairness (reform)

come alive allergic to him

they ~ (characters in a book / book review) I'm ~ (the two don't get along)
came alive avoidance & separation: health & medicine
the Peruvians ~ in the second half (World Cup soccer)
allergy (noun)
come alive at night
rats ~ allergy to stardom
he has an ~ (a successful actor, to Hollywood)
came alive in the second quarter
the team ~ avoidance & separation: health & medicine

come alive with activity alley (Ambush Alley, etc.)

the streets literally ~ (Toronto)
"Ambush Alley"
comes alive with young musicians fighting in Nasiriya, nicknamed ~ by the Marines (Iraq)
the campus ~ (summer music program)
sniper alley
came alive with a great tube ride this part of town was called ~ (Sarajevo)
he suddenly ~ (surfing competition)
Machine Gun Alley
comes alive when they called the area ~ (7th Cavalry / Iraq)
he ~ he talks about his passion
RPG Alley
activity: death & life an ambush on a stretch of road known as ~ (Baqouba)
amelioration & renewal: death & life area: military
alive (keep something alive) alley (Bat Alley, etc.)
keep awareness alive
Bat Alley
the need to ~ (of the Holocaust)
bats have been seen flying down ~ (passage in a cave)
keep history alive

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Shark Alley you have to read this, it's ~
a wave rolled along an area known as ~ (Farallones) check this out, it’s ~
route: animal experience: infrastructure

alley (Cyclone Alley, etc.) all-star (adjective)

Cyclone Alley all-star (legal) team
Bangladesh sits on "~" he had an ~ (rich pedophile)

cyclone alley group, set & collection: sports & games

Madagascar sits on a type of ~ in the Indian Ocean superlative: sports & games

Hail Alley alluring (adjective)

where Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming meet is “~”
alluring
iceberg alley the pitch is ~ (an educational fad)
the Bonavista peninsula is the province’s so-called “~”
attraction & repulsion: sex
it’s been a busy season in ~ (Newfoundland and Labrador)
ally (noun)
"Lightning Alley"
the corridor is known as ~ (Tampa Bay to Titusville) ally in curbing the spread
tornado alley countries hope that technology will be an ~ of the virus
spring in ~ (U.S.) not as an enemy, but as an ally
Democrats welcome change, ~ (politics)
Tornado Alley
~ runs from Texas through Oklahoma and Kansas conflict / help & assistance: military
area: storm / weather & climate altar (at / on / upon the altar)
alley (Death Alley / U.S. 61, etc.) at the altar of disruption
Blood Alley today’s tech world worships ~
Death Alley, ~, that's what they call it (a highway) at the altar of Donald Trump
Death Alley evangelicals ~
U.S. 61 is known as ~ (fatal crashes in Missouri) on the altar of (environmental) correctness
"hell highway" he would sacrifice energy independence ~
killed returning to the reservation on the ~ (Arizona) on the altar of greatness
expressway to death we are witnessing human flesh ~ (a boxer)
National highway 8 is known as the ~ (India) upon the altar of freedom
route: infrastructure you have laid so costly a sacrifice ~ (Lincoln)

alley (Silicon Alley) on this altar of the gun god

they are really human sacrifices ~ (mass shootings)
Silicon Alley
the dot com companies of ~ (NYC)
on the altar of that peace
~ Venice was to be sacrificed (France and Austria)
computer: place
on the altar of Radicalism
alley (Cancer Alley, etc.) he sacrificed the South ~ (southern view of Grant)

“Asthma Alley” sacrifice your children on the altar

the South Bronx is often described as ~ (pollution) don’t ~ of bad science (anti-vaxxer propaganda)

Cancer Alley sacrifice (energy) independence on the altar

they live in a region known as ~ (southwestern Louisiana) he would ~ of environmental correctness

“covid corridor” sacrifice rights on the altar of terrorism

the commuter corridors have become the ~ (East Coast / US) we can’t ~ (facial recognition)
area: health & medicine laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar
you have ~ of freedom (President Lincoln)
alley (up one's alley)
sacrifice: religion
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amalgam (noun) ambassador. Her cute good looks, for now, seem to be more than
enough.)

amalgam of (different) influences representation: government / person

Turkish cooking is an intriguing ~ person: government
amalgam of (changing death-penalty) politics ambush (verb)
there is an ~ and concerns about the system
ambush him with the news
amalgam of speed, timing, work-rate and pressure so tonight I ~
he beat Baranchyk with an ~ (Scot boxer Josh Taylor)
readiness & preparedness: military
mixture: materials & substances
ambushed
Amazon (epithet)
felt ambushed
Amazon of the North one man ~ by her appearance
the Great Bear Rain Forest is often called the ~ (BC)
readiness & preparedness: military
Ocean's Amazon
the Coral Triangle has been called the ~ ammunition (noun)
biodiversity: epithet / place ammunition for critics
this will provide ~
ambassador (role)
ammunition for lawsuits
ambassador of skateboarding it could be used as ~
he serves as the ~ (Tony Hawk)
political ammunition
ambassador for the Cherokee the "missile gap" provided ~ to air-power advocates
she will be an ~ (Miss Cherokee Fair / Eastern Band)
gather (political) ammunition
ambassador for the (Jaguar) brand he asked a foreign leader to help him ~ against an opponent
she had been the ~ (endorsement / athlete)
give ammunition
ambassador for marine life the video is sure to ~ to critics
whale sharks are a fantastic ~
accusation & criticism: military / weapon
ambassador for the sport
he is a great ~ (Vitali Klitschko / boxing) amnesia (noun)
ambassador for UNESCO collective amnesia
she is a goodwill ~ (a famous film actor) a ~ surrounds the Civil War (attitudes to slavery, etc.)
his participation in the ~ that surrounds those wars…
ambassador to the world
Ali is the goodwill ~ (the boxer) historical amnesia
this will deepen our ~ about the Civil War
brand ambassador the design displays a sense of ~ (a monument)
the reality star is a ~ for the popular clothing brand
consciousness & awareness: health & medicine
goodwill ambassador
she is a ~ for UNESCO (a famous film actor) amputate (remove)
de facto ambassador amputate
he serves as the ~ of skateboarding (Tony Hawk) ~ before the infection spreads (poor players at Man United)

tireless ambassador
he was a ~ for Beaujolais Nouveau (Georges Duboeuf)
sees himself as an ambassador
he ~ for his sport (Tito Ortiz and mixed martial arts)
♦ "I don't even know what an ambassador really was. When I think of
ambassadors I think of living off government money and jet-setting with
girlfriends." (The great boxer Mike Tyson, on a trip to China to promote
boxing.)
♦ “She is now training to become their new ambassador.” (Flerken, a half
African serval cat and half domestic cat. She is not wild enough to be in
a zoo but too wild to be in a home. Seized by the UK Border Patrol as an
illegal pet, she has found a home with the Ark Wildlife Park. It is doubtful
she will have to take any pencil and paper tests to become their
dismissal, removal & resignation: health & medicine / verb
division & connection: destruction / health & medicine /
verb
amok (run amok)
ran amok
the regulators sat by while the financial industry ~
the military ~ in Manchuria (Japan)
run amok
this is the result of a system ~ (justice)
“Macassar is the most celebrated place in the East for “running a muck.”
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or twenty persons are sometimes killed or wounded at one of them... A
man thinks himself wronged by society—he is in debt and cannot pay— amp up (verb)
he is taken for a slave or has gambled away his wife or child into
slavery—he sees no way of recovering what he has lost... He grasps his amped up the discussion
kris-handle, and the next moment draws out the weapon and stabs a the film really ~ about global warming
man to the heart. He runs on, with bloody kris in his hand, stabbing at
everyone he meets. ‘Amok! Amok!’ then resounds through the streets...”
(The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.)
amping up their rhetoric
Republicans are ~ (politics)
behavior: mental health
control & lack of control: mental health amped up the violence
high tackles led with the helmet have ~ in football
amped (strength)
increase & decrease: electricity
amped up with (plenty of) chilies
the dish is ~
anathema
amped up audio system anathema to the Koch network
the car has an ~ tariffs and trade wars are ~

strength & weakness: electricity sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

amped (feeling) ancestor (noun)

amped up ancestors of (today’s) potatoes
the importance of the game has both teams ~ they are the ~ (Peruvian wild potatoes)
he was so ~ that he didn't notice… origin / relationship: family
amped up on sugar and carbs anchor (noun)
kids who are ~ can't learn as well
anchor of the (Egyptian) government
amped up men the military is the ~ right now (2011)
she had no business walking through a mob of ~
anchor for the development
remain amped up the golf course is the ~ (apartments, condos)
after a performance he would ~ (musician)
anchor babies
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
opponents of immigration talk about "~"
amplify (verb) anchor tenants
amplified flaws malls need ~
the media, desperate to get it out, ~ in the reporting bases: boat
amplify those ideas anchored
a conservative media ecosystem helps ~ (alt-right)
anchored in old ways
amplify their message leadership is still ~ (politics)
they use social media to ~ (extremists)
movement / progress & lack of progress: boat
amplify his message
he counted on his critics to ~ ancien regime
increase & decrease: sound / verb ancien regime of Hosni Mubarak
message: sound / tools & technology / verb Morsi replaced the ~
amplified creature of the ancien regime
to his detractors he was a ~ (politics)
amplified by the media echo chamber
their views are ~ (stock analysts, commentators, etc.) factions of the ancien regime
negotiations among ~ and Gulf monarchies (Yemen / 2015)
amplified by the media megaphone
an analyst, his voice ~, can send a stock soaring or sinking candidates from the ancien regime
~ (Field Marshal Ahmed Shafiq, Amr Moussa, etc.)
get amplified
conspiracy theories ~ by conservative cable news stars past & present / time: allusion / history
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: allusion /
increase & decrease: sound
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anemic (adjective) angel (behavior)
anemic angels
earnings have been ~ in fairness, the North Koreans have been no ~
sales have been ~
economic growth has been ~ perfect angel
turnout was ~ (election) he's a ~ with everyone but us (a 15-month-old)

anemic 1.5 percent behavior / character & personality: creature / religion

the rate of economic growth slowed to an ~ angel (superlative)
anemic attempt angel
their ~s to address the issue she was an ~ to so many of us (exoneration lawyer)
anemic economy Angel of the Battlefield
our ~ is a result of higher taxes (politics) Clara Barton was known as the ~ (Civil War)
anemic (job) growth lost an angel
he produced very ~ (a leader) Macedonia and the Balkans ~ (Tose Proeski)
anemic recovery ♦ When the Macedonian pop star Tose Proeski died in 2007 at age 26 in
poverty is on the rise in the recession and the ~ continues a car crash in Croatia, Archbishop Stefan, the head of the Macedonian
Orthodox Church, said, "Macedonia and the Balkans lost an angel." It
was a sentiment felt across the Balkans.
anemic response
people are upset by the military's ~ to the provocation superlative: creature / religion
strength & weakness: health & medicine angel (angel-faced)
condition & status: health & medicine
angel-faced child
angel (epithet) the ~ who tells lies
Angel of the Battlefield appearance: creature / religion
Clara Barton was known as the ~ (Civil War)
angel (Guardian Angels, etc.)
Angel of Death
Josef Mengele, the ~ (Nazi doctor at Auschwitz) Guardian Angels
Gardiens de Nuit is a French version of New York's ~
epithet: religion
proper name: creature / religion
angel (Angel of the Battlefield)
angel (guardian angel)
Angel of the Battlefield guardian angel
Clara Barton was known as the ~ (Civil War)
tell my son I will always be his ~ (suicide note)
allusion: military
self-appointed guardian angel
angel (appearance) Chen Si is the bridge's ~ (stops suicides)

princess or angel help & assistance: creature / religion

I want to be Britney Spears, no more ~ (Halloween girl)
appearance: creature / religion
angel (snow angel)
snow angels
kids create ~ in the snow
it's a great place to make ~ (Dubai mall)
made a snow angel
she ~ and posted it on YouTube (Johannesburg)
make a snow angel
they go outside and ~ after a sauna (Finland)
♦ A New England Patriots football player was once fined $10,000 for
making a snow angel after scoring a touchdown.
angel (trail angel, etc.)
lay-away angels
generous acts of kindness doled out by so-called ~
(Christmas)
trail angel
~s provide water, food, even lodging for hikers
~s figure out where hikers are likely to run into trouble
~s are a tradition on long-distance footpaths (AT, PCT)
~s left 30 1-gallon jugs of water and a note
a ~ left a cooler stocked with soda, water and beer
♦ Lay-away angels are anonymous people who pay for Christmas items
put on lay-away at stores. Trail angels leave water, food, and other
supplies along trails like the Appalachian Trail for the trail walkers, who
are not able to carry much.

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angle (from an angle) anodyne (adjective)
from every angle anodyne drone
I have considered the issue ~ the ~ typing away in her silent cubicle
from a new angle tend to be anodyne
these conclusions help us look at the tragedy ~ its public comments on due process tend to be ~
♦ An anodyne is a drug that soothes pain.
from ten different angles
I wanted to think through these issues ~ (a writer) feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
considered the problem from every angle
I have ~ anoint (verb)
look at the tragedy from a new angle anointed him one of the beautiful people
these conclusions help us ~ People magazine ~
perception, perspective & point of view: geometry anointed him as the candidate
analysis, interpretation & explanation: geometry the Democratic establishment has ~ (Joe Biden)
animal (different animal) anoint him as the Democratic nominee
Biden appealed to Sanders backers to ~
different animal
urban warfare is a ~ than fighting in the open anoint a political heir
the new style of aggressive ad is a ~ (Internet) he wants to ~
completely different animal sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
a virtual lab is totally different from a classroom, it's a ~
anointed
two very different animals
the map of the Pacific before and after Cook are ~ anointed the (art world's newest) star
he has been ~
♦ Bill Whitaker, ABC Correspondent: “This is your first Broadway
production. This is a different animal.” / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
Belgian choreographer: “What you call it, an animal?” (From a delightful
60 Minutes interview about West Side Story, February 16, 2020.)
answer (noun)
taxonomy & classification: animal
answer
animal (political animal, etc.) the ~ is in front of us

political animal answer is reform

he's a ~ and will probably go along with Israel (politics) the ~ and an awake electorate
identity & nature: animal fictive communication: speech
animal (party animal, etc.) antediluvian (old)
playboy and a party animal antediluvian hangover
he had a reputation as a ~ (a soccer player) it’s an ~ from far-off days (a judicial matter)
restraint & lack of restraint: animal antediluvian opinions
Irwin suggested that Churchill held ~
animal (insult)
antediluvian policy
animal its ~ of opposing women priests (job advert for vicar)
an ~ decided to take her life (murder of coed)
♦ Lord Judge, former lord chief justice: In my opinion, the time has
arrived when the requirement for the physical presence of a child—
animals come out witness or victim—within the court building should be regarded as an
all the ~ at night (the film Taxi Driver) antediluvian hangover from laughable far-off days of the quill pen and the
ink well.” (BBC, World at One, “An antediluvian hangover.” A child could
rabid animals be asked questions via video conferencing.)
they are ~ that should all be put down (looting and arson)
past & present / time: Bible / religion
wild animals primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: Bible / religion
they threw my boy in a cage with those ~ (prison) antenna (noun)
animals tormented him
those wild ~ until he became as mean as they were (prison)
antennae
I walk around with my ~ up, ready for trouble (gang)
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antenna for (racial) slights hospital ward in Europe. For example, a soldier has his right arm
amputated and when he returns to the ward he is greeted by his
he has no ~ (Nigerian immigrant in US) comrades as "Lefty!" Hillerman makes the point that, while such behavior
seems "barbarous," it is, in fact, an antidote against self-pity.
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
anthem (noun)
antique (adjective)
anthem
it's been an ~ ever since (Aretha sings "Respect") antique
it seems so ~ now… (a sentiment)
anthem of a (celebrity) campaign
Dylan’s “Hurricane” was the ~ to release Rubin Carter primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques
past & present / time: antiques
anthems for women
~ to accept themselves (Lizzo) antique (noun)
anthem among Pentecostals in the Appalachians antique
the song became an ~ ("There ain't no grave…”) the revenue system is an ~ (economy)
angry young man's anthem turned the telegraph into an antique
"Custer Died for Your Sins" was an ~ the telephone ~
rock anthem primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques
"Born to Run" is one of the best ~s ever past & present / time: antiques
date-rape anthem anvil (shape)
it’s been referred to as a ~ (an old Christmas song)
anvil top
identity & nature: music a cumulonimbus mass with a dramatic ~
anticlimax (noun) shape: tools & technology

sad anticlimax apart (division)

his last campaign proved a ~ (an admiral)
apart
development: theater they reunited after years of being ~
antidote (noun) wide apart
the two sides remained ~
antidote to adversity
a cheerful disposition and a sunny smile are the ~ grew apart
we ~ (divorce)
antidote to the boredom
provide an ~ of teaching numbers, months, etc. division & connection: prep, adv, adj, particle
avoidance & separation: prep, adv, adj, particle
antidote to criminality
empathy is the ~ (versus idea of "bad seed") apex (highest point)
antidote to cynicism at the apex of the boom
this book is an ~ he invested ~
antidote to the (poisonous) doctrine apex (of the fad's popularity) came
he was an ~ of extremism the ~ when…
antidote to violence reached its apex
violence is not an ~ (capital punishment) their rivalry ~ last year (two athletes)
antidotes to hatred and intolerance growth & development: direction
caring and sympathy are the best ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
antidote against self-pity apex (achievement)
our callousness was an ~ (hospital ward)
apex of their profession
antidote for stress women can still have kids and reach the ~
a break from work is a necessary ~ (vacations)
at the apex of her career
view (Tibetan) Buddhism as an antidote she is ~
some Han Chinese ~ to the materialism and greed…
achievement, recognition & praise: direction
♦ In "Seldom Disappointed," the great Tony Hillerman writes about the
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apex (apex animal, etc.) proper name: religion

apex animal
apparatus (government)
the tuna is an ~ security apparatus
apex predator he disappeared within the state ~
mankind is the ~ on earth big apparatus
orcas are ~s you’re in charge of this ~ (the president of US)
so-called ~s, like sharks, groupers and jacks
♦ “When I became president, one of the things I discovered coming into
~s have no natural predators of their own office is you’re in charge of a big apparatus... It’s an ocean liner and not
a speedboat... Trying to change policy is really difficult.” (“Barak Obama
hierarchy: position / animal on 2020.”)
predation: animal ♦ “How long will it take, is it a matter of turning an aircraft carrier?” (To
apogee (at an apogee) change or reverse diplomacy and foreign policy.)

operation: government / mechanism

at its apogee
the British Empire was ~ appetite (whet the appetite)
at his creative apogee whet audiences' appetites for films
when he was ~… movie trailers ~
growth & development / primacy, currency, decline & whet people's appetite for spending
obsolescence: astronomy / direction museums try to ~
apogee (noun) whet the appetites of fans
the ad campaign is designed to ~ (TV)
apogee of chic
Paris is the ~ whet the appetites of investors
the company's performance will not ~
apogee of his career
the film was the ~ whet appetites for a rematch
their fight ~ (boxing)
apogee of excellence
the Grande Armee reached its ~ (1805-1807) increase & decrease: blade / knife

apogee of fame appetite (appetite for fur, etc.)

Grant reached a new ~ (after victory at Chattanooga)
appetite for adventure
apogee of a trend baby boomers who have an ~
we have simply reached an ~ (minimalism in fashion)
appetite for electricity
movement's apogee the nation’s ~
it was the ~
appetite for fur
ascent, apogee and decline Russia's growing ~ (new wealth)
sport compresses life's natural trajectory of ~
appetite for gold
reached its apogee India's seemingly insatiable ~ (jewelry, dowries, temples)
the island ~ in the early Christian era
appetite for (royal) gossip
growth & development / primacy, currency, decline & the tabloids' ~
obsolescence: astronomy / direction
appetite for a (ground) invasion
apostle (person) commanders have little ~

apostle of niceness appetite for (our) money

he is the ~ (a poetry critic) a government that has an endless ~ (taxes)

apostle of positive thinking appetite for oil

he is an ~ we must reduce our ~

message / person: religion appetite (of the European rich) for porcelain
message: person the ~ was insatiable
apostle (Twelve Apostles, etc.) appetite for pornography
the ~ seems to be insatiable
Twelve Apostles
the ~ are a popular attraction (Victoria, Australia) appetite for profit

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 their ~ sharpened by years of drought (farmers) feed the (public) appetite
the Y has increased the number of debates to ~
appetite for scores
our voracious ~ that we can use to rank our kids (ed) reduce our appetite
we must ~ for oil
appetite for sensationalism
the ~ (on part of broadcast media) satisfies the appetite
nothing ~ for allegory quite like a zombie film
appetite for success
he had an ~ (a poet) suppress the appetite
perils and jitters ~ for private and corporate risks
appetite for timber
China's voracious ~ is deforestating Siberia (Russia) consumption: food & drink
appetite for cars, cell phones, appliances and services appetizer (noun)
the ~ increases daily (China)
appetizer
appetite for gambling this is just the ~, the main course will come later (battle)
North Carolinians appear to have a strong ~
development: food & drink
appetite for skateboarding
the local ~ applaud (verb)
India's (seemingly insatiable) appetite applaud the administration
~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, etc.) I ~ for doing that (politics)

nation's appetite applaud his decision

the ~ for electricity many people ~

endless appetite applaud her

a government that has an ~ for our money (taxes) her fans ~

insatiable appetite applauded and denounced

India's seemingly ~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, temples) they launched a movement that has been both ~

little appetite achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / sound / verb

commanders have ~ for a ground invasion... sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gesture / sound /
verb
local appetite
the ~ for skateboarding apple (proverb)
low (sexual) appetite apple
my boyfriend has a very ~ a stone from the hand of a friend is an ~ (Morocco)

political appetite red apple

there is no ~ for banning assault weapons (in the US) a ~ attracts stones (Turkish)

public appetite perception, perspective & point of view: apple

the Y has increased the number of debates to feed the ~ apple (Golden Apple / education)
sexual appetite Golden Apple
my boyfriend has a very low ~
she received a ~ (a teacher in North Carolina)
strong appetite sign, signal, symbol: school & education
North Carolinians appear to have a ~ for gambling
achievement, recognition & praise: apple / sign, signal,
voracious appetite symbol
our ~ for scores that we can use to rank our kids (education) apple (bad / rotten apple)
for the last few years, China has had a ~ for bauxite
China's ~ for timber is deforestating Siberia bad apple
one ~ spoils it for everyone else
control over his appetites ~s tend to find one another
he has no ~ (sex) don’t let a few ~s spoil it for the rest of us
appetite (for consumer goods) increases “bad apple” argument
their ~ daily (China) I don’t buy the ~ (war, combat and atrocities)
have (no) appetite rotten apples
I ~ for confrontation there are ~ in every barrel (bad cops)

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work of (a few) bad apples another ~ is to minimize civilian casualties
the Pentagon said the abuse was the ~ (military prison)
direction: movement
character & personality: apple / fruits & vegetables
approach (the approach of summer, etc.)
corruption: apple / food & drink
apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the with the approach of summer
its staff swells to 400 ~
tree, etc.)
future / time: direction / movement
apple
those ~s long ago fell from the Marxist tree (ideas) approaching (adjective)
♦ The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! (Often said of fathers and approaching elections
sons.)
the US has called the ~ unfair
product: apple / fruits & vegetables
relationship: apple / fruits & vegetables
approaching spring
melting snow and ~ brings thoughts of…
approach (winter is approaching, future / time: direction / movement
etc.) aquifer (noun)
date is approaching
the application ~
huge aquifer
I had this ~ underneath of stories (Stephen King)
end is (fast) approaching ♦ “I had this huge aquifer underneath of stories that I wanted to tell and I
the ~ stuck a pipe down in there and everything just gushed out. There’s still a
lot of it, but there’s not as much now.” (Stephen King: The Rolling Stone
war is approaching Interview.)
~ in the Arabian Gulf source: water / ground, terrain & land
deadlines are approaching amount: water
holiday shipping ~ archipelago (noun)
♦ "When you don't know what's coming down the pike, you worry." (A
businesswoman, speaking about government regulation.) archipelago of enclaves
in Kosovo, most Serbs live in an ~ (Strpce, etc.)
future / time: direction / movement / verb
approach (a number, etc.) archipelago of decency
they saw themselves as a small ~ in a rising sea of moral
approach 100,000 deaths pollution
as we ~ from the virus here in the U.S. archipelago of black sites
attainment: number he had been tortured in the CIA’s ~
♦ Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines are archipelago nations. The
approach (a better approach, etc.) crews of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, searching for a Northwest
Passage, perished in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Alfred Russel
potshot approach Wallace pickled orangutans in barrels and collected butterflies in the
I don’t like that kind of a ~ (politics and criticism) Malay Archipelago. The Solomon Islands archipelago saw fierce fighting
during World War II. Lakes and even rivers can have archipelagos: Lake
Baikal contains an archipelago.
take-no-prisoners approach
the ~ to justice configuration: sea / island
confrontational approach architect (verb)
his ~ was rejected as a relic of the past (coach)
architect a life
creative approaches ~ that feels full, genuine, rich and beautiful (influencer)
the competition rewards ~ to... (research)
straightforward approach architect them
he is able to take all my ideas and ~ (fashion industry)
straightforward approach
her ~ startles many (on pediatric safety) creation & transformation: infrastructure / verb
Carroll's rah-rah style and Stoop's more ~ vary sharply architect (creator)
we take a ~ to business (honesty, integrity)
old and new approaches architect of apartheid
a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, the ~ (South Africa)
NASA will pursue both ~ simultaneously
pillar of the (US) approach architect of change
she was a legendary ~ (a feminist)

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architects of the doctrine crisis (of enormous gravity) has arisen
the ~ remain its strongest defenders (military) a~
architect of (Iraq's) program appearance & disappearance / growth & development:
"Dr. Germ," the chief ~ for biological weapons (BW) direction / verb
architects of the Final Solution aristocracy (noun)
Eichmann was one of the ~
Cambridge intellectual aristocracy
architect of the war on terrorism the club was his entrée into the world of ~ (Apostles)
he is the ~
superlative: royalty
deal's (chief) architect
after the ~ was eased out… (hospital merger) aristocratic (aristocratic wine, etc.)
chief architect aristocratic wines
after the deal's ~ was eased out… (hospital merger) ~ at democratic prices (commercial)

creation & transformation: infrastructure / person superlative: royalty

person: infrastructure arithmetic
architected
parliamentary arithmetic
architected Johnson faces exactly the same ~ (as Theresa May)
how society is ~ (social justice) analysis, interpretation & explanation: number
architected for snap responses, speed, amplification strategy: number
the social web is ~ arm (twist arms, etc.)
creation & transformation: infrastructure
twisted arms to limit
area (territory) behind the scenes, the US government ~…

my area twist some arms

biology isn’t ~ the President needs to ~

area: ground, terrain & land coercion & motivation: arm / verb

arena (in / inside the arena) arm (get one’s arms around something)
in the mental health arena get our arms around the pandemic
this has become an issue ~ we need to ~ and save lives (Gretchen Whitmer)

in the legal one wrap your arms around all this

this will be debated in the political arena, not ~ it’s hard to ~

in the legislative arena get our arms around it

they would lose this battle ~ it’s important to try and ~ and figure out... (a report)

inside the legislative arena try and get its arms around
Republicans have the upper hand ~ this is a crisis the department will continue to ~
♦ “We’ve got to get our arms around this crisis [COVID] so we can get
in the political arena our arms around our economy and make sure that people are safe. So...”
these questions will be debated ~, not the legal one (Governor Gretchen Whitmer on ABC.)

in academic and professional arenas comprehension & incomprehension: arm / verb

develop their languages for use ~ control & lack of control: arm / verb

lose (this battle) in the legislative arena arm (arm of an organization)

they would ~
arm of the Kremlin
conflict: history / infrastructure / sports & games as an ~, Gazprom usually gets its way
arise (verb) distribution arm
Disney's ~, Buena Vista (movies)
arise
these are just some of the issues that can ~ (workplace) commercial arm
the Indian Space Research Organization has a ~
arises from the ashes
adoption is a miracle that ~ of despair political arm

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 the group's ~ got critics up in arms
her response only ~
evolved into an arm
Teach for America has ~ of the charter-school movement conflict: weapon
division: arm Armageddon
arm (right arm) political “Armageddon”
she would face ~ if his case makes it to a tribunal
Arafat's right arm
Abu Jihad was ~ (Kalil al-Wazir) turned a Sunday afternoon into Armageddon
the crane collapse ~
General Lee's right arm
"Stonewall" Jackson was ~ destruction: allusion / Bible
strong right arm armchair (armchair traveller, etc.)
the Home Fleet was the ~ of Britain's naval power
armchair analysis
importance & significance: arm psychiatrists may not engage in ~ (ethics and politics)
arm (at arm’s length) Armchair Britain
Today’s destination is Cornwall (~)
kept his daughter at arm's length
he ~ (because she was a manipulative drug addict) armchair critic
the ~s,. who have never achieved anything... (sports)
held at arm's length
he was ~ by the US for years (an authoritarian leader) armchair detective
an ~ is a fictional character who solves crimes
avoidance & separation: arm / distance
division & connection: arm / distance armchair epidemiologists
arm (open arms) beware ~ who have a solution to everything (pandemic)
armchair explorers
open arms, hostility, and indifference a tightknit community of ~ (Forest Fenn website)
US troops were greeted with ~
Armchair Mountaineer
greeted us with open arms the ~ by David Reuther (Editor)
they ~
Armchair Voyage
welcomed the Confucius Institute with open arms see all episodes from ~ (BBC)
many universities have ~
armchair warriors
welcome them (back) with open arms I have zero tolerance for ~ (a veteran)
we will ~ (rebellious soldiers)
♦ "This country has a history of opening its arms. Today, its arms were armchair travel and adventure
closed…" (Senator Barbara Boxer, on the failure of the Dream Act that books for ~
would have given a path to citizenship to young migrants.)

acceptance & rejection / welcome: arm

avoidance & separation: arm / distance
division & connection: arm / distance
arm (long arm)
real and armchair
he was popular with ~ sailors alike (Tristan Jones)
♦ “Nearly all advice sent to the King by armchair politicians is
impracticable nonsense.” (Don Quixote by Cervantes. Translated by
John Rutherford. Cervantes died in 1616, the same year that
Shakespeare died. It is an amazingly modern book.)

long arm of Iran ♦ “Some brave keyboard warriors on here tonight.” (Sarcastic comment
on BBC HYS boxing.)
Hezbollah is the ~
♦ “Does bring out the armchair critics, who have never achieved
long-arm statute anything, and think they know football.” (Jake 1234 in response to
Grover’s criticism about coach Gareth Southgate. On a BBC HYS,
they are subject to jurisdiction pursuant to Virginia’s ~ football.)
♦ When workers stayed in boarding houses and ate communally in a ♦ “Another keyboard coroner with his expert autopsy analysis from
dining room, they had to develop a “boardinghouse reach” or risk going thousands of miles away.” (Sarcastic comment on message board about
hungry! a police shooting.)
coercion & motivation / extent & scope: arm ♦ “If they can’t grapple him down or use nonlethal weapons they are the
problem.” / “Well said from your armchair, when was the last time you
arm (up in arms) grappled somebody down? Not so easy in real life. I guess you didn’t see
the nonlethal being used, that didn’t work.” (A comment board on ABC
News under a story and video about a man who resisted arrest by two
up in arms over rising crime cops and ended up getting shot.)
the community is ~
♦ “I did one season of match fishing, because I wanted to know what it
was all about. If you’re going to write about fishing you’ve got to go and

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do it. This is the one sport where the public won’t tolerate an armchair army of zombies
writer. In every other sport a man who has never kicked a football in his
life can tell the England manager whom he should pick.” (Richard they band these computers together into an ~ (botnets)
Walker, angler, speaking with Roy Plomley on BBC’s Desert Island
Discs.) army of Ph.D.s
the vast ~ now roaming the universities
experience: house
army of (poorly paid) migrant workers
armed an ~ works in Saudi Arabia
armed with the information grassroots army
~, officials tracked down the criminals his war chest and ~ make him an unstoppable juggernaut
armed with a microscope ♦ “I think what people are worried about in this ad is that he says ‘army of
supporters’... We believe the language ‘army of supporters’ is not really
~, he measured… (a scientist) calling for an army but is calling on people who are normal campaign
volunteers.” (Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook,
armed with her new mobility about a 2020 political ad that called on ‘every able-bodied man woman to
the child begins exploring the world ~ join army for Trump’s election security operation.’ Some had criticized
the ad as an actual call to arms and voter intimidation. The interviewer
armed with vast computing power went on to say, “So, you’re making a judgment call there, right, that in
this sense “army” doesn’t mean real army...” From “How Facebook Is
~, scientists will try to model a nuclear blast Trying To Control Election Disinformation, Part 1,” NPR, All Things
Considered, September 30, 2020.)
armed (only) with her five senses
she makes diagnoses ~ (doctor) amount: military
armed with (fresh) search warrants arouse (verb)
police arrived ~
aroused suspicions
armed with cash, good will, and local knowledge what they said ~
they practice "public diplomacy" ~
consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb
help & assistance: military / weapon
arrive at (an answer, etc.)
armor (protection)
arrive at your answer
opponent's armor how did you ~
she uncovered a critical chink in her ~ ♦ “I hope you support where I come out (on my decision).”

chink in his armor analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
she found a ~ movement / verb
the one ~ has been… (an athlete)
he has not been able to find a ~ (tennis) arsenal (amount)
protection & lack of protection: Middle Ages / military / arsenal of medicines
weapon the ~ against biological weapons is limited
arm-twisting arsenal of (top-of-the-line) technology
the team set out last month with an ~ (search team)
a lot of arm-twisting
his job requires a ~ arsenal of tools
their ~ for evaluating applicants (colleges)
coercion & motivation: arm / violence
arsenal of (fire-fighting) tools
army (a large group) a growing ~
army of followers beauty arsenal
he'll have an ~ (Apolo Ohno at Olympics) the ~ you can count on (cosmetics)
army of pastors growing arsenal
evangelicals are spreading rapidly through an ~ there is a ~ of fire-fighting tools on the market
army of people brought history into the arsenal
it takes an ~ to get you ready (Sandra Oh / Oscars) Erasmus and his followers ~ of the Reformation
army of statistics ♦ On Sunday, January 27, 2002, an arms depot blew up on a military
base in the densely packed Ikeja area of Lagos. A series of blasts shook
he bolsters his analysis with an ~ the city, and chaos reigned as thousands fled, not knowing what was
happening. At a canal several miles away, in the darkness, more than a
army of (volunteer) workers thousand people drowned in a great crowd stampede. As is common in
an ~ pounded nails (community playground) such stampedes, many of the victims were women and children.

amount / group, set & collection: weapon / military

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help & assistance: weapon / military growth & development: direction
artery (route) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
ascent (other)
artery
the ~ poured across the US fueled development (a highway) ascent of his party
the ~ to power in 1968 led to…
artery on the (old) Silk road
the street was an ~ (Jibek Joly in southern Kazakhstan) rapid ascent
the company has seen a ~
artery of commerce
the Mississippi River is an ~ slow the ascent
action to ~ of their currencies
arteries of (global) trade
it is in all our interests that the ~ are kept free (shipping) ascent, apogee and decline
sport compresses life’s natural trajectory of ~
artery of water
the canal is a life-giving ~ (agriculture) growth & development: direction
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
clogged artery
Boston's ~ (the Central Artery) ashes (from the ashes)
bustling artery from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
the seventh floor overlooks a ~ (an avenue) Turkey rose ~
Central Artery from the ashes of apartheid
the ~ is clogged with traffic day and night (Boston) ~, Soweto is emerging as a vibrant place…
north-south artery from the ashes of despair
Route One, a ~ (Jerusalem) adoption is a miracle that arises ~
route: blood emerged from the ashes
branching system: blood the League ~ of World War I
Arthurian (adjective) rose from the ashes
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ~ of WW II
Arthurian figure
he became an ~ in Greek popular culture (Constantine XI) destruction / origin: fire
amelioration & renewal: fire
fantasy & reality: allusion / history / person creation & transformation: fire
allusion: books & reading
ask (big ask, etc.)
artwash (verb)
ask is that
artwash the regime really, our ~ we test the alternatives...
the government brings western influencers to ~
ask was
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb our biggest ~we wanted the conference to...
appearance & reality: hygiene / verb
big ask
ascent (on the ascent) what you want is a ~
on the ascent asking for a change is a ~
India is ~ (militarily and economically) he is demanding government documents, a ~
China is ~, and the US seems on the descent big ask of Trump
his career is ~ (an athlete) the Polish President went to Washington with a ~
seems to be on the ascent brutal ask for the young boxer
plagiarism ~ this is a ~ (a match in Russia)
growth & development: direction hard ask for an antiwar Belgium
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction it was a ~ (troop surge in Afghanistan)
ascent (with the ascent) quite the ask
with the ascent of the Nazis the idea of doing all that is ~ (privacy etiquette / guests)
her worst political fears came true ~ ♦ “Just lay out what your specific ask is.” “Our biggest ask was we
wanted the conference to...” (Heard on NPR.)
with the ascent of Chomsky wants, needs, hopes & goals: verb to noun
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asleep (adjective) asterisk (attention)
asleep asterisk next to his name
all the governments are ~ (Middle East) there should always be an ~ (drugs / a boxer)
♦ “I hope this film shakes people from their slumber.” (Spike Lee.)
giant asterisk
consciousness & awareness: sleep all 3 shootings, there’s a ~ next to them (a policeman)
asleep (at the switch, etc.) attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters

asleep at the switch astray (direction)

the regulators were ~ (oil spill)
gone astray
asleep at the wheel science has ~, gone off the rails, many times (Havana
several Republican incumbents have been ~ (election) syndrome)
many states have been ~ (girls marrying too young in US) failure, accident & impairment: animal / direction
the World Health Organization was ~ (response to epidemic)
consciousness & awareness: sleep
astride (position)
control & lack of control: sleep astride the Red Sea and the Sahel
failure, accident & impairment: sleep Sudan, ~... (geopolitics)
assassination (character assassination) configuration: horse / leg / standing, sitting & lying
character assassination fictive position: horse / leg / standing, sitting & lying
to call him an anti-Semite is ~ ♦ This preposition means to have one leg on either side.
calling him a racist is ~ astronomical (adjective)
character assassination through silence astronomical
inaction can be ~ the odds are ~
right-wing character assassination astronomical prices
the film is ~ masquerading as "history" the ~ of the so-called glamour health spas
cleverly orchestrated character assassination astronomical (suicide) rate
the FBI conducted ~ (US) a nation plagued by an ~ (Japan)
anonymous character assassination astronomical sum
early uses of the printing press included ~ this is an ~ (salary)
political character assassination size: astronomy
it was ~ (a script about John F. Kennedy)
astroturf (noun)
posthumous character assassination
the Jackson estate calls the HBO documentary a ~ perpetuate astroturf
corporations and special interest exploit media to ~
cesspool of character assassination
the Web site is a ~ (gossip site in rural towns) grassroots or astroturfs [sic]
we don’t know whether this is real ~ (protests)
victim of character assassination
he was the ~ appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
/ subterfuge: infrastructure
accused her of character assassination
he ~ astroturfer (noun)
conduct character assassination astroturfers
I'm not trying to ~ ~ present themselves as grassroots organizations
used character assassination astroturfers aim
they ~ against him ~ to make you think you’re an outlier when you’re not
smells of character assassination astroturfers claim
the criminal case against him ~ ~ to debunk myths that aren’t myths at all
accusation & criticism: speech / violence appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
speech: violence / subterfuge: infrastructure

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astroturfing adding to the ~ was… (Middle East)

astroturfing atmosphere of (funereal) gloom

an ~
~ masks the sponsor, who is not grassroots
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment atmosphere of stereotypes
an ~ among the restaurant workers (who tips)
/ subterfuge: infrastructure
Athens (Athens of Asia, etc.) atmosphere of tolerance
the ~ he had seen on US television (towards gays)
Athens of Asia atmosphere of trust
Samarkand briefly was the ~ (Tamerlane) they established an ~ (US company in China)
epithet: school & education
atmosphere of denial and repression
atmosphere (in / within an an ~ (pedophilia and the priesthood)

atmosphere) atmosphere of hopelessness and poverty

Gaza's ~
in an atmosphere of suspicion
they live ~ atmosphere of hostility and distrust
the ~ (Middle East)
in an atmosphere of tension and gloom
people resumed their lives ~ (after rioting) atmosphere of a (medieval) market-pilgrim town
the old quarter had the ~ (Lhasa)
in a post-Sept.11 atmosphere
security concerns ~ atmosphere at Central Command
the ~ was one of confidence
in a carnival atmosphere
discussion should not have to be conducted ~ atmosphere on the plane
the ~ remained calm (hijacking)
in a welcoming atmosphere
have people come together ~ (party) carnival atmosphere
there was a ~ (peaceful anti-war protest)
within the cloistered atmosphere
she felt secure ~ (psychiatric ward) family atmosphere
companies used to have a ~
in this highly charged atmosphere it's a ~ (Wild West Weekend at historic village)
~ the bombings started (Saudi Arabia)
party atmosphere
in a calm atmosphere a ~ had taken over
~ we tend to win the debate (gay marriage) the ~, the trinket booths (Gay Pride parades)
in an (intensely) partisan atmosphere team atmosphere
~, reform is very difficult (US Congress) create a ~ (sports)
in a safe, discreet atmosphere work atmosphere
exploring her girl/girl fantasies ~ (brothel) a ~ notorious for backbiting
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate classroom atmosphere
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather & he created a ~ in which we could say anything
climate
hometown atmosphere
atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.) creating a ~ for Atlanta’s transplants (sports bars)
atmosphere pressure-cooker atmosphere
the ~ inside the MGM Grand arena was festive the accusations underscore the ~ in the region
at the opening of the trial, the ~ was electric
anti-immigration atmosphere
atmosphere of acceptance Sept. 11 has not yet led to a massive ~
promote an ~ for new staff members
accepting atmosphere
atmosphere of (open) access Amigos in the Dominican Republic has an ~ (gays)
an ~ at administrative buildings (pre-9/11)
inviting atmosphere
atmosphere of (such sacred) ceremonies US's ~ makes terrorist activities inevitable
the spiritual ~ (Wicca)
freewheeling atmosphere
atmosphere of distrust Krasnoyarsk's ~

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electric atmosphere you bodies are our new ~ (suicide bombers)
the ~ in the city when a pride event is in town ♦ “In 1945, news reached the camps that the US now possessed the
atomic bomb. According to Solzhenitsyn, this unexpected development
friendly atmosphere gave hope to many prisoners, who began to pray for atomic war.” (“On
the ~ that originally drew foreigners to Wisconsin The Prison Highway, The gulag’s silent remains,” by Ian Frazier, The
New Yorker, August 30, 2010.)
liberal atmosphere ♦ The original target for the second atomic bomb was Kokura. But
Khujand had a surprising ~ (Tajikistan) because Kokura was clouded in, the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
♦ “I felt no remorse or guilt that I had bombed the city.” (Charles W.
peaceful atmosphere Sweeney, pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in
preserving the ~ (synagogue after 9/11) World War II.)
♦ “I don’t feel any guilt or blame about it. I think my view really is if we
poisonous atmosphere hadn’t done it someone else would have. And it would be with us in any
a "~" has descended on the Times (firings) case.” (Lilli S. Hornig, who worked on the Manhattan Project. From “The
Bomb,” PBS, 2015.)
supportive atmosphere ♦ According to General Eisenhower, the four “tools of victory” that won
this ~ (at a psychiatric hospital) World War II were the bazooka, the jeep, the C-47 Skytrain, and the
atomic bomb.
a ~ for scholarly development (university)
destruction: explosion / nuclear energy
toxic atmosphere
political leaders have contributed to a ~ (politics) atomization (noun)
volatile atmosphere atomization of literary journalism
it's a ~ (national outrage over child abuse by clergy) the ~ and getting paid for it (online reviewers)
carnival-like atmosphere division & connection: physics
a ~ outside the soccer stadium
atrophy (verb)
cauldron-like atmosphere
the energy of the crowd in the ~ (World Cup) has atrophied
its military capacity ~ (NATO)
quiet, safe and orderly atmosphere
attenuation / condition & status / functioning: health &
promote a ~ (public library)
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
cost, taste and atmosphere attached (attributed)
~ are important in a restaurant
attached to depression
food, atmosphere, music
there is a severe social stigma ~
~ (New Orleans)
attached to it
size, location and atmosphere
cross burning has a history of racial intimidation ~
think about company ~ (looking for a job)
attached to that
atmosphere prevails
no undue significance should be ~
an accepting ~ throughout the Dutch Caribbean (gays)
attachment: materials & substances
enjoy that atmosphere
some people don’t ~ (Virgin Galactic vs. SpaceX) attachment (noun)
poison the atmosphere attachment to him
fear and distrust can quickly ~ (epidemic) younger black folk have less of an ~ (older celebrity)
♦ “For me to be here and to sample the atmosphere, I don’t think I’ll see
or hear an atmosphere like this again. The atmosphere was just attachment: materials & substances
attack (under attack, etc.)
something that took my breath away... I have never seen anything like
this before. I’ve played at Anfield when there is a superb atmosphere but
this is something else, something special.” (Alan Shearer on Liverpool’s
amazing victory against Barcelona in the Champion’s League second leg under attack
semifinal.)
the feeling in Egypt was that all Arabs were ~
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate South Korean culture is ~ (insults about food)
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather & under attack worldwide
climate he read of how Muslims were ~
atomic bomb
come under attack
atomic bomb for poor people such practices have ~ as cruel to animals (cages)
terrorism was the ~ (Pablo Escobar) his methodology has ~

cruise missiles and atomic bombs accusation & criticism: military / weapon
conflict: military / weapon

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attack (noun) she ~ of assertiveness and self-confidence

attacks on athletes punctured Slater's aura

he ~ of invincibility (surfing)
personal ~ at games (fan abuse)
appearance: air / atmosphere
attacks on their self-esteem and dignity
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
dealing with ~ (stereotypes, etc.)
auspicious (adjective)
attacks against Saudi Arabia
he condemned Western media ~ (Abdullah) auspicious politically
everything is ~, Grant will surely be elected...
attack ads
we are seeing ~ of every kind (election) ♦ This comes from the Latin for bird and see and means, “The omens are
good.” At certain times and in certain places, the direction of flight of a
bird might determine whether or not a camel caravan set out that day.
attack mode Romans would cut open a bird and study the entrails. Of course, the
she is in a real ~ early Puritans in the US avidly studied nature for signs.

media attack fate, fortune & chance: bird / religion

he condemned Western ~s against Saudi Arabia
author (person)
direct attack
under ~ you could use the quivering-lip approach author of his own misfortune
he fully accepts he was the ~ (arrested)
latest attack
this ~ stung local parole officials (calls to end system) author of her misfortune
the court argued she had been the ~
personal attacks
~ on athletes at games (fan abuse); authors of our own life stories
ladling criticism or indulging in ~ we are not the ~ (addiction versus free will)

fend off some (major) attacks creation & transformation: books & reading / person
he has had to ~ (a politician) person: books & reading

accusation & criticism: weapon autopilot (on autopilot)

attacked on autopilot
he's ~, his fingers go to the same place (gamer)
attacked from above and below
the ice is being ~ (floating ice shelf / global warming) behavior / consciousness & awareness: plane

destruction: military / weapon autopsy (analysis)

aura (noun) autopsy of the Cuban vote
so what’s your ~ in Florida (radio show)
aura of assertiveness ♦ “So what’s your autopsy of the Cuban vote in Florida?” (Asked by Lulu
she projects an ~ and self-confidence Garcia Navarro to her guest on NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, “The
Cuban Vote in Florida,” November 11, 2018.)
aura of prosperity
Turkish businessmen sported an irresistible ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health
& medicine
aura of an (18th-century English) landscape
the pond possesses the ~ autumn (in the autumn)
aura of a shrine in the autumn of his life
the images in the hall add the ~ (SuAnne Big Crow) he was ~

aura of unreality in the autumn of the year

an ~ descended over the mountain (disaster) but now the days are short, I’m ~ (Sinatra)

aura of doom and gloom growth & development / decline: season

an ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: season

archive's aura avalanche (noun)

the exhibit has an ~ of dense, ordered information
avalanche of applications
romantic aura it failed to prepare for an ~ (passports)
the pond possesses the ~ of s landscape portrait
avalanche of (prejudicial) comment
projects an aura the murder trial was nearly derailed by an ~ on social media

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avalanche of data awake electorate
an ~ given the Russians the answer is reform and an ~
♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR,
avalanche of publicity Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term
the disappearance triggered an ~ (Chandra Levy) woke has had its day and should be retired.

avalanche of (unfavorable) publicity consciousness & awareness: sleep

the ~ that resulted from... (politician)
awaken (awareness)
avalanche of e-mail
his most recent column drew an ~ to Salon editors awakened to the horrors
on that day, the world ~ of apartheid (South Africa)
avalanche picked up speed
as the ~... (calls for politician’s resignation) awakening in Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, and Jordan
Arab peoples are also ~ (after Tunisia, Egypt and Libya)
amount & effect: snow & ice
awaken people
avatar (noun) we're trying to do what we can to ~
default avatar people are awakening
Twitter did away with the egg as its ~ slowly the ~
create your own avatar consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb
some online video games allow you to ~
awaken (nature, etc.)
representation: religion
awakening from (its winter) sleep
avenue (portal) nature is ~
avenue of advancement taiga awoke
India's dalits need a new ~ the ~ (at dawn)
♦ “The sky turned from black to deep blue, and then grey and cloudy.
new avenue The shades of night began to shrink into the bushes and ravines. In a
India's dalits need a ~ of advancement few minutes our bivouac was astir again; men started talking; the horses
stirred at their ropes; a pica piped on one side, and lower down the gorge
dark sonic avenues another answered it; the yaffle of the woodpecker rang through the forest
her songs lure listeners down ~ (Billie Eilish) and the melodious whistle of the oriole. The taiga awoke...” (Dersu Uzala
by V.K. Arseniev.)
portal: infrastructure
activity / resemblance: sleep
avenue (route) awakening
avenue of attack
9/11 awakening
his wrongdoing gave lawyers an ~
part of it was a ~ (desire to "do more" for others)
fruitful avenue
religious awakening
this might be a ~ for further research
the ~ is partly an outgrowth of the war (Bosnia )
legal avenue spiritual awakening
pursue all reasonable ~s
she had a ~
reasonable (legal) avenue consciousness & awareness: sleep
pursue all ~s
awash
all avenues
Canada will pursue ~ to assist the jailed men awash with (at least 10,000) floral bouquets
the church is ~ (for murdered girls)
pursue (all legal) avenues
we will ~ awash with weapons
route: infrastructure the Horn of Africa is ~
Libya is ~
awake (adjective)
awash with corruption, venality and graft
awake to what happened the government is ~
everyone seems to be wide ~ (elections)
awash in allegations
awake American India is ~ of corruption
he signs his posts, "an ~"
awash in cash

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 the company is ~ and looking to buy many in traditional medicine have ~
awash in flowers, firecrackers and fine foods ax to grind about something
Chinatown is ~ (Chinese New Year) there are always going to be people with an ~
amount & effect: water ideological ax to grind
he has no ~ (a writer writing about capitalism)
away (a week away, etc.)
personal ax to grind
two weeks away he has a ~ (a critic)
we are just ~ from the first vote
political axes to grind
mouse click away unions and companies often have ~
it was just a ~ (evidence of public shaming)
punishment & recrimination: ax / blade
just a plane away revenge: ax / blade
we are ~ from having cases here (COVID-19)
axed (curtailed)
just a week away
and now, with the decision ~, the clock is ticking axed
the event was ~ (because of pandemic)
future / proximity / time: distance / prep, adv, adj, particle
curtailment: ax / blade
AWOL
went AWOL
the Federal government ~ (in defending a health act) B
allegiance, support & betrayal: military baby (relationship)
condition & status: military
ax (noun) Elam’s baby
the idea may be ~, but he has looked at it critically
budget ax his baby
many state programs will succumb to the ~ (shortfall)
the Gulf of Mexico is ~
the camp may fall to the ~ (for teens)
Cooper refers to his camera, made in 1898, as ~
faces the ax my baby
the show still ~ (TV)
this is ~ and I want to keep growing it (a business)
fall to the (budget) ax it's ~ (Ferrari 458 Italia)
the camp may ~ (for teens) our baby
succumb to the ax this is ~ (fire spotter speaking of his tower)
many state programs will ~ (budget shortfall) ♦ “I don’t have kids but I feel that it’s like letting your baby go and grow
up. So she’s on her next step before she goes up to the moon. And you
taking an ax have to do it.” (Dafna Jackson, an advisor at SpaceIL, after the
Beresheet spacecraft was shipped to Cape Canaveral, to be launched
he is ~ to spending into space by a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. Sadly, there was a glitch at the
♦ Climax, Demon, Endurance, Cock of the Woods, Red Warrior, last moment, and the spacecraft crash-landed on the moon.)
Hiawatha, Hottentot, Black Prince, Black Chief, Battle Axe, Invincible,
XXX Chopper, Woodslasher, Razor Blade, Stiletto, Forest King, Young enthusiasm / relationship: baby
American, Gorilla... (Late-19th-century model names of axes used to cut feeling, emotion & effect: baby
down the North American forests.)

dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / tools &

baby (development)
technology baby of the publishing world
ax (ax to grind) compared to physical book sales, audio is the ~
growth & development: baby / death & life
ax to grind
he just has an ~ (criticism) baby (novice)
sometimes a source has an ~ (journalism)
baby boxers
axe to grind two novices, two ~ fighting one another (a boxing bout)
he is motivated not by truth but an ~
experience: baby
ax to grind with the CIA
he has an ~ baby (younger)
an to grind with midwives baby of the family

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 I lost my brother, the ~ (his age was sixty-five) past & present / time: place
past & present / time: direction
growth & development: baby
back (go back in time, etc.)
baby (baby face, etc.)
go back
baby face let’s ~ to where it all began (a podcast)
he grew a full beard to hide his ~
go back in time
appearance: baby / face
walking backwards encouraged their mind to ~ (experiment)
baby (vocative) we will ~to learn about... (prosecuting a cold case)
I would like to ~
baby
so tell me, ~, do you want me to… go (too far) back in time
I don’t want to ~, but... (exposition)
honey, baby, sweetie
he addresses me as ~ and other inappropriate names go back (more than 100 years) to an epic tale
we ~ of survival (Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expedition)
vocative: speech ♦ “Five Ways you could become a memory champion” by Claudia
babysitter (role) Hammond, BBC, 29 March 2019, mentions an interesting experiment at
the University of Roehampton that links the past (and memory) to actual
physical backward movement.
babysitter for the world
I'm tired of America being a ~ (illegal immigration) past & present / time: direction / journeys & trips /
movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
electronic babysitter
they were the perfect “~” (Disney animated films) back (back then)
$40,000-a-year baby-sitter back then
I'm a ~ (an unhappy corrections officer) ~ in Russia, it was a cutthroat business (oil)
I’ll admit it, I was fond of the gin myself ~ (Falesa)
dependency: baby / family / person
person: baby past & present / time: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle

back (support / verb) back (behind somebody's back)

back Obama behind her friend's back
will Hispanics ~ she went after him ~ (dated friend's boyfriend)
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / direction / position / went behind my back
verb he ~

back (return) whispered behind her back

people ~
season is back
and now the ~ (after a hiatus / a TV series) whispered "queer" behind his back
people ~ (student)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: prep, adv, adj,
particle badmouth your spouse behind his or her back
don't ~
back (take somebody back in time)
ridicule (negative) leaders behind their backs
takes me back people typically ~
that ~ (a song / memories)
talk about bosses behind their backs
transported audiences back in time if you want a promotion, don't ~ (gossip)
he ~ (a singer) ♦ "Out here, people had a smile on their face and a dagger behind their
back." (Bigotry and discrimination.)
takes you back in time
a trip to Abkhazia ~ to the Soviet past allegiance, support & betrayal / subterfuge: back

past & present / fictive transportation / time: direction / back (we won’t go back, etc.)
movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
going back
back (back to where) there is no ~ (on a decision)

go back resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / walking,

let’s ~ to where it all began (a podcast) running & jumping

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back (no way back, etc.) back (break the back)
no way back break your back
there is no ~, the people won’t forgive this (protests) she'll ~ if you're not paying attention to her (basketball)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: journeys & broke the back of the campaign
trips those defeats ~ (primary elections)
back (scratch somebody's back) break the back of the Covid epidemic
the vaccine could ~ (live virus BCG)
scratch my back
you ~, I'll scratch your back (mutual aid and assistance) break the backs of defenders
the plan is designed to ~ (Baghdad)
social interaction: back / verb
destruction: back / verb
back (back and forth)
back (back to the wall)
back and forth on that
there has been a lot of ~ (political issue) backs are to the wall
our ~
position, policy & negotiation: movement
social interaction: movement backs are (really) against the wall
our ~ (sports tournament)
back (pat on the back / verb)
survival, persistence & endurance: back
pat yourselves on the back resistance, opposition & defeat: back
you did well, ~ (praise)
back (watch your back, etc.)
achievement, recognition & praise: back / gesture
got your back
back (pat on the back / noun) I've ~
pat on the back guard your back
give yourselves a ~ (praise from teacher) you've got to ~
achievement, recognition & praise: back / gesture watch your back
back (get off my back, etc.) ~ (a warning)
watch his back
getting rich on the backs
he failed to ~ (leader deposed in coup)
publishers are ~ of libraries and academics
watching my back
get off my back
it's good to know that you are ~ (protecting, supporting)
~ and leave me alone
danger / protection & lack of protection: back / direction /
get them off my back
position / verb
try and ~ (superiors)
affliction / conflict / oppression: animal / back back (get one’s back up, etc.)
back (carry something on one’s back) got his back up
a good bowler ~ and we couldn’t stop him (Ashes cricket)
carried the team on his back
he ~ (football player) got my back up
his tone just ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: back / burden / weight
got my back up about the request
back (turn one's back) he ~
turned her back on Hollywood resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / back / dog / verb
Jamie Lee Curtis ~ (chose to live elsewhere) conflict: animal / back / dog / verb
turned its back on the victims back away (verb)
the West ~ (Rwanda genocide)
back away from the issue
turned his back to anyone Democrats are starting to ~ (impeachment)
he never ~ who needed help (a priest)
avoidance & separation: verb / walking, running & jumping
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backbiter (person) backbone (courage)
annoying backbiters takes backbone
the ~ who had plagued him as an army officer for Republicans, it ~ to stand up to Trump
affliction: animal / back / person / predation courage & lack of courage: back
strength & weakness: back
backbiting
backbone (Devil's Backbone, etc.)
backbiting, exclusion, rumors
girls use ~ (girls bullying girls) Devil's Backbone
the road is called El Espinazo del Diablo—the ~…
behavior: animal / back / predation
♦ There are Devil's Backbones in New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa.
conflict: animal / back / predation
proper name: back
backbone (basis)
backbreaking (adjective)
backbone of Al Qaeda
Uzbeks and other Central Asians are the ~ in the area backbreaking labor
a coal miner's capacity for ~
backbone of the (rebel) army
the Dinka tribe, which formed the ~ (southern Sudan) backbreaking shift
after a ~ (at a nursing home)
backbone of the company
these people are the ~ backbreaking work
~ for 50 cents a day (Africa)
backbone of the (Louisiana) economy
shrimping is the ~ (oil spill) backbreaking and dangerous (m)
it was ~ labor (diamond mining)
backbone of the (Chilean) economy
Atacama’s copper mining industry forms the ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: back
backbone of (the Navy’s) leadership back burner (on the back burner)
surface warfare officers are the ~
on the back burner
backbone of his (political) party that all seems to be ~ now
they are the ~
on the budget back burner
backbone of rigor the environment is ~
in science, sharp criticism is the ~
remained on the back burner
Backbone of the World the tax issue ~ (politics)
Native Americans called these jagged peaks the “~” (Glacier
NP) sits on the back burner
the climate-change issue ~ in Washington
backbone and nervous system
the Nile provides Egypt with a natural ~ put the issue on the back burner
he ~ (a politician)
financial backbone
the oil pipeline serves as the ~ of the country put on the back burner
a lot of the department's works has been ~ (priorities)
infrastructure backbone ♦ “I think there has been a vacuum of course recently, I think Iraq has
Amazon provides the ~ for major firms (servers) dropped off the radar screen, it’s very much at the back burner...” (Laith
Kubba about US engagement in Iraq.)
transportation backbone
Greyhound is the ~ for people who can't afford… importance & significance / priority / superiority &
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position
bases / skin, muscle, nerves & bone: back
back burner (to the back burner)
backbone (branching system)
relegated to the back burner
backbone of the Kamchatka Peninsula major problems have been ~ (Saudi Arabia)
the Sredinny Range, the ~
pushed (climate) issues to the back burner
Guinean backbone the economic crisis has ~
Mount Nimba is part of the so-called ~ (Guinea)
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
branching system: back
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position

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back down (verb)
back down
the compromise allows both politicians to ~
she’s an artist who won’t ~ or bow to convention
backed down
faced with a coup, the government ~
the government ~ and commuted the death sentences
backing down
she is holding her ground and not ~
appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny &
promotion / importance & significance / perception,
perspective & point of view: center & periphery / picture /
position / verb
center & periphery: direction / position / picture
backing (support)
backing from the university
she received some ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / position

back down from a confrontation backlash (noun)

analysts believe he will ~
backlash against (bilingual) education
refused to back down today in the climate of ~
the protestors have ~
anti-American backlash
forced him to back down the government has struggled to prevent an ~ (Yemen)
a political firestorm ~ (King)
climate of backlash
backing down today in the ~ against bilingual education
she is holding her ground and not ~
backlash has started
conflict / dominance & submission / resistance, opposition the ~
& defeat: animal / back / standing, sitting & lying / verb
sparked a backlash
backdrop (against a backdrop) his crusade has ~ (make school lunches more healthful)
♦ A backlash against Facebook and technology has been referred to as a
against that backdrop techlash.
~, it's not a huge surprise (attack on consulate)
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / violence / whip
against the backdrop of the Cold War reversal: direction / violence / whip
it was ~ that… (Eisenhower speech)
backlog (amount)
against a backdrop of (ongoing) violence
negotiations go on ~ (Middle East) backlog
prolonging the process and swelling the ~ (visa requests)
context: picture / theater
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture backlog of cases
the FBI has a huge ~ (security clearances)
backed
backlog of planes
backed by Iran because the weather will create a ~ waiting to land…
the rebels are ~
backlog of work
backed by the US the NTSB needs to move on to the ~ that…
he has been ~ and other countries (Guaido vs. Maduro)
paperwork backlog
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / position reducing the overall INS ~
backfire (verb) processing backlog
foster kids remain orphans due to a ~ (adoptions)
backfire
♦ The backlog is the large log at the back of a hearth
the campaign may succeed but it could also ~ (military)
amount: pile
"circle-the-wagons mentality" backfired
the ~ backpedal (verb)
reversal: verb / weapon backpedaling on key demands
background (fade into the background) China has been ~ (trade dispute)
backpedal on the whole idea
fade into the background
they began to ~ of national standards (education)
many prefer to ~ (teen-model sites on Internet)
backpedals on (tax) pledge
faded into the background
top Republican ~
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back-pedal from his comments
he continued to ~ (a politician / BBC)
backpedaled after fierce criticism
the coach ~ from Chinese fans, sponsors, and partners
reversal: direction / mechanism / movement / verb
back seat (take a back seat)
take a backseat to my job
my job and family began to ~
take a back seat to unseating
issue must ~ the current president
taking a second seat to schedule and cost
safety and quality were ~
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
inferiority: direction / position
backstabber (person)
backstabber
he's a ~, watch out
he's the worst kind of ~, he poses as a friend
backstabber or turncoat
being a ~ is offensive to most people
two-faced backstabber
he's a ~
traitor, a backstabber and a fraud
former fans have been waiting to call him a ~ (basketball)
allegiance, support & betrayal / behavior / character &
personality / person: back / knife
backstabbing (noun)
approval of the nominations came after ~
backstage politics
the organization is rife with ~ (sports)
backstage role
the administration playing a ~ in trying to resolve…
he played a pivotal ~ in persuading…
backstage self
we have a private, ~, versus our public self
backstage political struggle
he settled the ~ by choosing… (UN)
backstage lobbying
there has been ~ by Washington (diplomacy)
backstage maneuvering
there has been a lot of ~ (diplomacy)
backstage wrangling
after weeks of ~, the Party has decided…
backstage policy making
he was a master of ~ (Labor Party)
operates backstage
he operates ~ (an athletic booster)
concealment & lack of concealment: theater
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater
backstop (noun)
backstop against the president’s worst instincts
he was a ~ (government)
♦ “A backstop; a guardrail; trying to keep the President from going
outside the bounds; minimize the damage...” (“John Bolton’s Place in
Ukraine Policy” by Mara Liasson, NPR, Morning Edition, October 25,
2019.)

backstabbing help & assistance: baseball / boundary / infrastructure /

~ is an art (African politics) sports and games

back-stabbing and bad-mouthing backtrack (go back in time)

~ on the "Survivor" TV show
backtrack
backstabbing and betrayal I think we have to ~ a bit (a history discussion)
~ remain a function of all our lives
past & present / time: journeys & trips / movement / verb
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / knife
backtrack (reversal)
behavior: back / knife
backstage (adjective) backtrack
the union has had to ~ on its demands
backstage advisor reversal: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
he remains a ~ to Putin
back up (verb)
backstage contacts
there have been ~ between them (diplomacy) back up
backstage diplomacy let’s ~ and get big picture for a second (NPR radio show)
~ has turned to more open confrontation perception, perspective & point of view: picture / position /
backstage look verb
the documents and testimony provide a ~ at why… backward (adjective)
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 Ataturk took a ~ and made it modern center & periphery / isolation & remoteness / progress &
lack of progress: river
backward tack
I am embarrassed by the ~ of this administration backyard (in somebody's backyard)
backward traditions in China's (own) backyard
the Prophet (PBUH) did his utmost to eradicate ~ ~, Southeast Asia…
culturally backward (m) in Russia's backyard
stoning takes place in remote and ~ areas Kyrgyzstan is ~ (politics, etc.)
progress & lack of progress: direction proximity: house
backwards (progress) backyard (other)
step backwards backyard
to me this seems like a huge ~ the Sunset Beach wave was my ~ (Hakman)
go backwards historical and rightful backyard
we should not ~ down the road toward nuclear power China sees northeast Asia as its ~
sliding backwards not-in-my-backyard (m)
we are ~ to a less enlightened time this is one of those ~ issues (Nimby)
move us backwards proximity: house
the election will ~ economically
badge (badge of honor)
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement
badge of honor
backwards (past) playing from memory is a ~ (pianists)
go backwards criticism from him is a ~ (politics)
they want to ~ to a romanticized past that never existed became a badge of honor
look backward the "one-percenter" label ~ (bikers)
New Year's day is a time to ~ and forward wore its cutting-edge approach as a badge of honor
some ~ to a (reputedly) glorious past for answers the bank ~ (hacked)
marching backwards wore his scorn as a badge of honor
it feels like this country is ~ to the Middle Ages (religion) she ~
past & present / time: direction / movement / prep, adv,
wore her conviction as a badge of honor
adj, particle she ~ (the suffragette Susan B. Anthony)
backwater (noun) ♦ “The idea you could hold your liquor and type a new lead on a breaking
story was a badge of honor.” (The great journalist Pete Hamill, about
journalism back in the day.)
backwater
in 1831, Southampton County was a ~ ♦ Thomas W. Bennett (willing to serve / Vietnam); Desmond T. Doss (1-
AO / Okinawa)... (Medics who refused to kill who were awarded the
Medal of Honor.)
backwater of the Office of International Affairs
he was transferred into the relative ~ ♦ The Seventh-day Adventists have a long and storied career as medics.
According to The 7th Day, by Booton Herndon, “Seventh-day Adventists
long-ignored (rural) backwater are loyal citizens. They have no moral reservations whatsoever about
paying taxes, saluting the flag, singing the national anthem, repeating the
in ~s pledge of allegiance—rather, they are proud to do so. They believe
sacredly that they owe allegiance to their government, for they believe
remote backwater that the principles of government were established by God. But they also
Darien remained a ~ believe that their duty of God comes first, and God himself, in the Fourth
and Sixth Commandments, specifically directed all men to remember the
rural backwater Sabbath and not to kill.”
Darien remained a ~ sign, signal, symbol: clothing & accessories / military
sleepy backwater achievement, recognition & praise: sign, signal, symbol /
military
oil transformed Khartoum from a ~ to a modern city
badger (verb)
stereotype of Turkey as an (agricultural) backwater
the ~ persists badgered him
the lawyer ~ (trial)
became a backwater
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badlands (environment) carrying (lots of generational) baggage
Boomers, Xers go to work ~
badlands of real life
students leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish ~ freighted with (historical and cultural) baggage
the N-word is ~ (racial epithets)
behavior / environment: history
control & lack of control: history rid himself of this baggage
Ray ~ (classification and mythical creatures)
bag (in the bag)
history: burden / journeys & trips / weight
in the bag oppression: burden / journeys & trips / weight / history
it’s not ~ yet (Liverpool wins EPL)
bailout (noun)
certainty & uncertainty: container
bailout
bag (collection) ~s are unpopular (of banks, national economies)
bag of narratives survival, persistence & endurance: boat
it is out of such a ~ that his book has been fashioned amelioration & renewal: boat
amount / group, set & collection: container bail out (save)
baggage (noun) bail out Mexico
the IMF helped ~ in the 1990s
baggage of marriage
the ~ (gender, religion, culture, etc.) bailing out (big) banks
the taxpayers are ~
baggage of the South
the racial ~ (US) bailed out the company
the government ~ (with loans)
baggage from his (ancestral) past
each person comes into the world with ~ (race, religion, survival, persistence & endurance: boat / verb
class, etc.) amelioration & renewal: boat / verb
baggage and attitude bail out (leave)
he dealt with all the ~ we had (poor kids)
bailed out
complicated baggage high-profile guests have ~ (attending a party)
soldiers take home some more ~ (from overseas)
bailed out of school
generational baggage he ~ in 2008 (an athlete)
Boomers, Xers go to work carrying lots of ~
bail out of this treaty
historical baggage the US may ~ (open-skies treaty)
the word crusade has largely shed its ~ in the West
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane / verb
political baggage dismissal, removal & resignation: plane / verb
the ~ of its anti-establishment origins (black studies) bailed out
pseudoscientific baggage
gay had a long linguistic history and no ~ (vs. homosexual) bailed out by the EU and the I.M. F.
Ireland was ~ in 2010
psychological baggage
survival, persistence & endurance: boat
students can arrive with ~ (suicides at MIT)
amelioration & renewal: boat
racial baggage bait (verb)
the ~ of the South (US)
a lot of baggage baited children
Biden has been around a long time and has a ~ (politics) the company ~, using nursery rhymes (advertising)
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting
cultural and historical baggage
the ~ that rugby lugs (in South Africa) pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting
bait (noun)
historical, cultural and religious baggage
the ~ (of marriage) bait
social and economic baggage the Iraqis didn't take the ~ (fire and expose themselves)
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 you can ~ or learn to pick your battles (relationships) balance the need against the risks
when it comes to trolls, don’t ~ (internet) we must ~ (combat rescues)
rise to the bait balance their assignments against their safety
he refused to ~ (speech) photojournalists have to ~
rises to the bait how to balance
trolls ask stupid questions to see who ~ (Internet) an example for ~ energy needs and the land
took the bait struggling to balance
I made a nice feint and he ~ (chess) young women ~ work and family priorities
the news media ~ (picked up story that was not true)
trying to balance
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting ~ the demands of work and family
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting
equilibrium & stability: scale / verb
bake (attach)
balance (in the balance)
baked delays into their schedules
airlines have ~ instead of improving operations in the balance
lives are ~, this is serious (COVID-19 pandemic)
attachment / relationship: cooking
configuration / identity & nature: cooking hanging in the balance
lives are ~ (tornado forecasting)
baked (baked in / into)
hangs in the balance
baked into the system Britain's future ~ (elections)
there’s a lot of waste ~ (pandemic and public health)
hung in the balance
baked into that term his life ~ (penalty phase of trial)
some evangelicals don’t like the assumptions that are ~
fate, fortune & chance: equilibrium & stability / scale / verb
baked in the cake
it was ~ (a man’s vice) balance (off balance)
attachment / relationship: cooking kept the actors off-balance
configuration / identity & nature: cooking he ~ by interrupting their line readings (film)
balance (verb) keep the enemy off balance
try to ~
balance the demands
trying to ~ of work and family throw the Soviets off balance
an assault to ~ and regain the initiative
balance a home and a career
for women trying to ~ throws the show off balance
his realistic portrayal ~ (a play)
balance militancy versus moderation
his speech had to ~ (MLK) throw the system off balance
it will ~ (the body)
balance (energy) needs and the land
an example for how to ~ disruption / flaws & lack of flaws / readiness &
preparedness: equilibrium & stability / scale
balance security and synchronization equilibrium & stability: scale
~ (special operations / military)
balance (out of balance)
balance civil liberties and national security
how to ~ in a war on terror out of balance
in a person with depression, these chemicals are ~
balance tradition with changes my priorities and life are ~
Inuit leaders try to ~
wildly out of balance
balance the need (for openness) with national security the sauce was ~, overloaded with… (food)
policies to ~
woefully out of balance
balance the benefits against the difficulties the system is ~ (politics)
you need to ~
priorities are out of balance
balance the human cost against the cost to the animal our societal ~
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values (as a nation) are (sadly) out of balance delicate balance
our ~ a dike collapse could destroy the ~ of fresh / saltwater
swung (way) out of balance ecological balance
the financial sector has ~ the dams would disrupt the ~ of the region
equilibrium & stability: scale fragile balance
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / scale the ~ between production and conservation (natural gas)
disruption: equilibrium & stability / scale
sense of balance
balance (work and job, etc.) we must restore a ~ to the debate (energy / conservation)
balance in my life checks and balances
the ocean represents ~ (Ken Bradshaw / surfer) she didn't go through the regular process of ~ (corruption)
balance between modesty and sexiness balance (of the Supreme Court) has shifted
aim to strike a ~ now that the ~
work / life balance attain a balance
the generations disagree on authority, teamwork, ~ ~ between mission accomplishment and environmental
workers who value a ~ protection (war)
know your limits to maintain a happy ~ and avoid burnout
destroy the (delicate) balance
wholeness, balance, wellbeing, health a dike collapse could ~ of fresh and saltwater (estuary)
pay attention to your ~ (Hozho)
find a balance
keeps his balance you have to ~ between racing and safety (Velux 5)
he ~ by leaving his work behind when he returns home
restore balance
strike a balance a decrease in OPEC's output would be needed to ~
aim to ~ between self-denial and overindulgence
strike a balance
equilibrium & stability: scale ~ between what is possible and what is probable (combat)
balance (noun) equilibrium & stability: scale

balance of chemicals balanced

restoring the normal ~ in the brain (antidepressants)
balanced approach
balance of the region a ~ for the listing of adult items on eBay
the dams would disrupt the ecological ~ a ~ might involve asking… (race, genes and disease)
balance of freshwater and saltwater balanced budget (m)
a dike collapse could destroy the delicate ~ (estuary) the ~ amendment
balance of stability and flexibility balanced diet
the ankle joint is designed for a ~ a ~ might not be on the menu
balance between existence and annihilation balanced perspective
the ~ was precarious (Homer) it is important to have a ~ (safety and study abroad)
balance between stability and mobility balanced and responsible (m)
the elbow joint displays an elegant ~ a ~ approach to development (Arctic)
balance between racing and safety racially balanced (m)
you have to find a ~ (5 Oceans race) the show has a ~ cast (theater)
balance between usability and security fair and balanced (m)
the ~ is a tricky one (computers) ~ news
fluid balance equilibrium & stability: scale
her ~ needs to be restored (medicine) flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / scale
trade balance balance of power
control the ~
balance of power
basic balance naked aggression to change the ~ (political)
the ~ of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter (Cambodian cuisine)
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 the ~ is so slanted (dating) Democrats are struggling to ~
♦ “If I had played ball, I would have left day one in a limo, you know, I
balance of power in Kashmir would have been living in a palace, you would see them giving me
it would have no impact on the ~ parades in Red Square.” (Edward Snowdon in Russia.)

shift in the balance of power social interaction: sports & games / verb
there's a ~ (relationships) unanimity & consensus: sports & games / verb
impact on the balance of power ball (ball in somebody's court)
it would have no ~ in Kashmir
ball is in your court
equilibrium & stability: scale the ~
balk (verb) ball will be firmly in the court of the governors
the ~ to decide how to move forward (pandemic)
balked at publishing
the network ~ his report action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things / position, policy & negotiation /
balking at (high sticker) prices
responsibility / social interaction: ball / sports & games
consumers are ~ (auto buying)
eagerness & reluctance / resistance, opposition & defeat /
ball (take one's eye off the ball)
starting, going, continuing & ending: horse / verb took his eye off the ball
balkanization (noun) some people think Obama ~ (rising unemployment)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / consciousness &
balkanization of the (professional) structure
awareness / failure, accident & impairment: ball / sports &
the ~ continued... (history of engineering)
games / verb
instance of balkanization
the term LGBTQIAA+ is a clear ~ (Jonathan Rauch)
ball (drop the ball)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land / history dropped the ball on this case
a lot of agencies ~ (serial killer)
ball (play ball)
dropped the ball in the case
play ball investigators ~
it is often good politics to ~
he is being punished for refusing to ~ failure, accident & impairment: ball / sports & games / verb
he has directed officials not to ~ (impeachment enquiry) ball (get the ball rolling, etc.)
played ball get the ball rolling
he would never have ~, he was a man of integrity we need to ~
playing ball this is a good investment to ~
helping to oust some third-world leader who isn’t ~ (NSA) sometimes it takes a gentle nudge to ~
he made attempts to ~ on this very thing
play ball with the Kremlin
you either ~, or… (business) got the ball moving
she ~ on the impeachment enquiry (politics)
play ball with (party) leaders
many candidates refuse to ~ in Washington keep the ball rolling
to ~, we must…
play ball with me
if you ~, I'll play ball with you started the ball rolling
he ~, and other businesses followed suit
play ball with newspapers CO2 may have ~, but… (global warming)
WikiLeaks may be willing to ~ for now, but…
starting, going, continuing & ending: ball / movement /
willing to play ball verb
she may be ~
balloon (verb)
need to play ball
the unions ~ (local hiring) balloon
as our entitlement commitments ~
refused to play ball
he has ~ with the EPA (politics) ballooned
the number of women (in prisons and jails) has ~
get Republicans to play ball usage of Zoom has ~ overnight (video-conferencing app)

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ballooning ballistic (go ballistic)
the debt is ~
long-term unemployment is ~ go ballistic
people will ~ when they read that…
ballooned into Wall Street's biggest crisis
the credit squeeze ~ since… went ballistic
she ~ (upset and angry)
ballooned to $14.4 billion she confronted her husband with the pictures and ~
the price tag has ~ (military project)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / rocket
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon / size /
verb balm (noun)
balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.) balm for the afflictions
his wisdom is a ~ of our age (a poet)
punctured the (helium) balloon
he ~ of the stock’s soaring price balm for the trauma
her films are a ~ that adolescents feel
destruction: air / atmosphere / balloon / hole
failure, accident & impairment: air / atmosphere / balloon amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
/ hole banana (noun)
ballooning (adjective)
banana peel
ballooning (pension) costs Iran put a ~ in front of the US and Trump put his foot on it
he blames the problem on ~
banana skin
ballooning (national) debt he’s a potential ~ (boxer speaking of tough next opponent)
voters are alarmed by the ~ ♦ “I slip on a banana peel, that’s tragedy. You slip on a banana peel,
that’s comedy.” (Attributed to Charlie Chaplin.)
ballooning deficit ♦ “Iran put a banana peel in front of the United States and President
the state is faced with a ~ Trump put his foot right on it.” (Cali Nasir’s analysis after an Iranian proxy
militia in Iraq killed an American. The resultant US airstrike against the
ballooning demand militia resulted in an outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism, including an
~ for oil is bound to be disruptive attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.)
♦ “It’s a potential banana skin because he’s relatively unknown...that’s
ballooning (Medicaid) expenses quite dangerous...So I’m taking him very seriously...” (Josh “the Tartan
government officials look to curb ~ Tornado” Taylor about his upcoming boxing match with Apinun
Khongsong. Taylor ended up defeating his opponent with a paralyzing
ballooning problem body shot in the first round.)
this spotlights the ~ failure, accident & impairment: fruits & vegetables
ballooning trade surplus banana republic
China has a ~ with the US
banana republic
ballooning (cost) overruns France is a ~ ruled by uneducated people (Koons’ Tulips)
the State Department agency tried to hide ~
♦ This phrase appeared in 1955. At the time, United Fruit controlled 42%
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon of the agricultural land in Guatemala and was very concerned by the new
socialist government which had promised land reform. That government
ballgame (different ballgame) was overthrown by a CIA-supported coup.

dependency: allusion / history

different ballgame
piracy is a ~ Band-Aid (noun)
different ballgame Band-Aid
it's a ~ when you don't… if it’s real and it isn’t just a ~... (a proposed program)
taxonomy & classification: sports & games the emergency operation is a ~, a short-term fix (famine)

ballgame (new ballgame) band-aid solution

this a just a ~ for a much deeper problem
whole new ballgame put a Band-Aid on a bullet wound
we're in a ~
we’ll always ~ (social justice)
online journalism is a ~
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
situation: sports & games
substance & lack of substance: health & medicine

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bandwagon (noun) the report concluded subsides offered ~

moaner bandwagon more bang for the buck

employers will get ~ from this program
post an opinion, don’t just jump on the ~ (sports)
on the Doncic bandwagon most bang for the buck
the president will focus on getting the ~ from…
I’ve been ~ for a long time (great Slovenian basketball star)
jumped on the bandwagon nutritional bang for the buck
greens offer ~
I ~, repeating the things being said around me (regret)
leaped onto the bandwagon get more bang for the buck
at Wall-Mart, you ~
the TV industry also ~ (3-D)
cost & benefit: sound
unanimity & consensus: music
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
attention, scrutiny & promotion: music
bane (noun) banished

bane of my life banished to the bullpen

he has been ~ (a pitcher)
the spinal brace quickly became the ~ (injured back)
dismissal, removal & resignation: society
greatest bane
acceptance & rejection: society
corruption is the single ~ of our society
♦ Bane relates to poison, and black henbane is a poisonous plant. banishment (noun)
Poison plants have had a long relationship to public health, animal
husbandry, traditional medicine, witchcraft, and murder. banishment of Brandon from the team
affliction: plant the ~ is complete hypocrisy (a religious honor code)

bang (with a bang) banishment from the hall

plagiarism can result in the ~ of academe
ended with a bang banishment from the league
the tournament ~, not a whimper it is time to end his ~ (a disgraced athlete)
finish (out his career) with a bang result in banishment
Tapia has a chance to ~ by... (boxer) plagiarism can ~ from the halls of academe
go out with a bang dismissal, removal & resignation: society
the players wanted their coach to ~ (by winning) acceptance & rejection: society
apparently he wanted to ~ (mass shooter)
bankrupt (adjective)
hit home with a bang
reality ~ bankrupt defense
it's a ~ (blaming victim for hate crime)
kicking the year off with a bang
deal makers are ~ (mergers) intellectually bankrupt
our way of managing parole supervision is ~
opens with a bang
the play ~, as… morally bankrupt
placating terrorists is ~
opened with a bang
the film ~ (good revenues) worth & lack of worth: money

returned with a bang banner (carry a banner)

he ~ (athlete has great day)
carry the banner of the National Front
start (out) with a bang she intends to ~ into the 21st century
I wanted to ~, so I…
carrying a banner for female athletes
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound she is ~ (Annika Sorenstam)
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
carrying a banner for black directors
bang (bang for the buck) he said he was not ~ (playwright)
bang for the buck from Special Operations representation: flags & banners / verb
the coalition gets plenty of ~ (war)
little bang for the buck

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banner (under the banner) experience: religion / water

under the banner of the ruling party

bar (bar is set high, etc.)
both men will contest the election ~ bar
under the banner of the IMU the ~ is set so high for him (performance)
armed men ~ invaded Tajikistan the ~ is down to “don’t do dumb stuff”

allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games

banner (behind the banner) barb (trade barbs, etc.)

behind the banner of reparations trading barbs
they hoped to unite the community ~ (protest) US and Chinese officials have been ~ (conflict)

allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners conflict: verb / weapon

banner (banner of Islam, etc.) barbaric (behavior)

banner of Islam barbaric power
the youth must hold aloft the ~ (King Abdullah) the people are under the boot of ~

hold aloft the banner reckless and barbaric

the youth must ~ of Islam (King Abdullah) the ~ attack (use of Novichok in England)
behavior: history
hide behind the banner
scoundrels ~ of patriotism bare (lay bare)
wave the banner lays bare the (latent) anti-Semitism
they ~ of religion the vandalism ~ that still exists in society
♦ NO WAR; TAKE YOUR WAR AND GO TO HELL; BUSH, BLAIR and
BERLUSCONI—ASSASSINS; NOT IN MY NAME… (Banners at a march laid bare the challenge
in Florence, during which 300,000 marched to protest the Iraq War.) the incident has ~ of the alliance (US / Pakistan)
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners laid bare the whirlpool
banner (size) his murder ~ of religious violence and extremism
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
banner ad
for 10,000 visitors, I made $330 per ~ (Internet) accessories / verb

banner headline bare (laid bare)

the newspaper ran a ~ declaring… laid bare in the (feisty TV) debate
~s trumpeted the news the candidates’ divisions were ~ (politics)
banner weekend concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
it was a ~ for HBO this weekend (many viewers) accessories
banner year bare (verb)
2000 was a ~ for genomics
size: flags & banners bared the excesses
the rally ~ of his movement
baptism
bare the secrets
baptism by fire the press can ~ of government and inform people
it was my ~ (new teacher) concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
baptism of fire accessories / verb
Salk referred to his time with Francis as a "~"
bare-bones (adjective)
experience: religion / water
bare-bones budget
baptized we want to have a ~ (saving money)
baptized in fire and blood bare-bones care
you have been ~ and come out steel (combat) under the plan, seniors will get ~ (health)
get baptized bare-bones and limited
you ~ pretty quickly in this business (death-penalty law) right now it’s ~ (opening park during pandemic)

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sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle, he has been a ~ (when he is good, team is good)
nerves & bone
career barometer
bare-knuckled (adjective) actors used the show as a ~ (Law and Order)

bare-knuckled approach closely watched barometer

he took a ~ to the rarified world of art criticism the index is a ~ of home prices

bare-knuckled politics measurement: tools & technology

even by the lowly standards of Washington, this was ~ baron (power)
bare-knuckled work drug baron
she counted votes and did the ~ that was needed (politics)
the notorious ~ Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
conflict / violence: boxing / fist
meat baron
bark (more bark than bite, etc.) he is nicknamed “the ~” (Clemens Tonnies)

more bark than bite power: history / Middle Ages / person

the US is ~ baroque (adjective)
substance & lack of substance: animal / dog / sound /
got baroque
teeth the war plan ~, insane, to the point where... (nukes)
bark (verb) complexity: history
barked barrage (noun)
"Look up," he ~
barrage
barked at them to stop no software can eliminate the ~ (popup ads / computers)
the policeman ~
barrage of combinations
barked at Rodriguez for running he reshaped his opponent’s nose with a ~ (boxing)
he ~ over his mound (baseball)
barrage of (graphic) pictures
bark commands at the TV Saudis get a ~ of Palestinians suffering…
people ~ (voice commands)
barrage of questions
sound / speech: animal / dog / verb
I was subjected to a ~
barnstorm (verb) his ~ barely left time for answers

barnstorming the state withering barrage

they have been ~ (politicians) their report came under a ~ of criticism (education)
♦ The rolling barrage was developed in World War I to provide what is
barnstorming for months described nowadays as "shock and awe" for attacking infantry soldiers.
after ~… (a politician)
amount & effect: military / weapon
message: plane / verb
barrel (at the bottom of the barrel)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: plane / verb
Barnum at the bottom of the barrel
I did my time ~ (worst job assignment)
modern-day P. T. Barnum
he is sort of a ~ (an arena builder and promoter)
finish at the bottom of the barrel
we ~ every year (a sports team)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: allusion / circus / person
stuck at the bottom of the barrel
barometer (noun) I'm ~ (pay scale)

barometer of their abundance hierarchy: position

but the catch rate provides a ~ (sharks) barrel (verb)
barometers of change
public tours serve as ~ (limited after 9/11) barreled up the Eastern Seaboard
the hurricane ~
barometer of (poor) nutrition
movement: force / verb
childhood anemia, a ~, is higher in India than China
force: movement / verb
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barricade (storm the barricades) ~s to correcting injustices (death-penalty cases)

stormed the barricades racial barrier

it helped to bring down some ~s (basketball)
he ~, time and again (to hold the church accountable)
storm the barricades of racism socioeconomic barrier
debate over the ~ facing black boys (education)
many left their studies to ~ (Martin Luther King)
storm the barricades of (male) resistance linguistic, cultural and psychological barriers
immigrants face many ~
women have to ~
storm the barricades for him lowering of (trade) barriers
the ~ (globalization)
many are ready to ~ (support for an embattled politician)
certain to storm the barricades glass ceilings and other barriers
~ barring women
shareholders will be ~ (losing money)
ready to storm the barricades stereotypes and other barriers
trying to break down ~ (foreigners)
she casts herself as an outsider, ~ (a politician)
resistance, opposition & defeat: history / infrastructure / broke (a lot of) barriers
she ~ (a famous woman)
verb
barrier (noun) lower these barriers
20 states have passed laws to ~ (expunging criminal records)
barriers to access overcame a (research) barrier
~ in that market are extremely costly (trade) by easily being able to grow the cells, he ~
barriers to (foreign) ownership put up (new) barriers
lower ~ of local industries as many European countries ~ (against immigrants)
barriers to participation bring down some (racial) barriers
a meet with the theme of overcoming ~ (climbing) it helped to ~ (basketball)
barriers to (import) penetration break down (racial) barriers
~ in Japan how to ~ in France
barrier between animals and humans get past the sex barrier
influenza could hop the ~ how do I ~ with guys (she waits, he loses interest)
barriers and stereotypes communicate across (cultural) barriers
coming out and tearing down ~ in "macho" professions people struggle to ~
age barrier obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land
no ~, no height bar, no gender gap division & connection: ground, terrain & land
class barrier Baryshnikov (Baryshnikov of football,
~s are deepening cultural and racial ones
etc.)
color barrier
broke rugby's ~ in 1976 Baryshnikov of football
he was canonized as “the ~” for his acrobatic receptions
gender barrier (Lynn Swann after Super Bowl X)
she broke a ~ (first Division I female football player)
Big Baryshnikov
pain barrier the ~ (Shaquille O’Neal, NBA)
practicing through the ~ (musicians) ♦ Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest NBA players of all time, has been
referred to as the Big Baryshnikov.
research barrier
by easily being able to grow the cells, he overcame a ~ achievement, recognition & praise: epithet
trade barriers baseline (noun)
the lowering of ~ (globalization)
baseline levels
cultural barrier it drops to ~ (a hormone)
despite language and ~s, people came together (protest)
people struggle to communicate across ~s baseline measurement
exposures may be difficult to interpret without ~
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baseline poverty the ~ televangelist was arrested in a public toilet
will Haiti return to ~ (after earthquake)
man bashing
baseline study some women are uneasy with ~
tedious ~s
speech: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / verb / violence
baseline of how accusation & criticism: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing /
we do need a ~ things have been in the past (polar ice) verb / violence
♦ A baseline relates to land surveying. bask (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation / measurement:
basking in the afterglow
surveying while he was ~ of a caretaker’s honeymoon period
basement (basement price, etc.) basked in the glow
basement price she ~ of being a global business celebrity
he thinks he can buy the company at a ~ bask in the prestige
in the basement major cities ~ of the Olympics
the ratings have been ~ (baseball) bask in that smile
decline: direction she knows what it feels like to ~ (of a handsome man)

basement (hierarchy) basking in (an Olympic) triumph

the U.K. is ~
in the basement for (high-school) graduates
we're now ~ (US education and the OECD)
basking in his victory
on a hot day, Boris Johnson is ~ (new Prime Minister)
hierarchy: direction
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / atmosphere /
basement (concealment) temperature / verb
behavior: animal / atmosphere / temperature / verb
internet’s dirty basement
if you peer into the ~ (conspiracy theories, fake news) basket (category)
concealment & lack of concealment: direction / house put him in the same basket
do you ~ as Snowden (Julian Assange)
bash (verb)
taxonomy & classification: container
bashing the democrats
the president has been ~ on immigration basket case
bash opponents basket case
“white privilege” is used as a political weapon to ~ Haiti has not always been a ~
from the standpoint of manufacturing, America is a ~
speech: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / verb / violence the economy is not a ~
accusation & criticism: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / he considered the company a ~ (an executive)
verb / violence
basket-cases of Central Asia
bashing (noun) the two ~, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Arab bashing Europe's basket case
the rising tide of ~ in America (post 9/11) Ireland used to be ~
Guat-bashing economic basket case
the crimes have a chilling street name, "~" (Guatemalans) Spain is an ~
Islam bashing North Korea is now an ~, propped up by China
the rising tide of ~ in America emotional basket case
detractors describe her comments as "~" (Ayaan Ali) the whole experience left me an ~
business-bashing (m) international basket case
this will dispel the ~ image of Obama (politics) Kissinger described Bangladesh as an ~
gay-bashing ♦ A basket case is a person who has had all limbs amputated. Its date of
inclusion in dictionaries—1919—means it probably references soldiers
issues include AIDS and ~ severely wounded in World War I.
he thought he'd be safe from ~ (high-school student)
ability & lack of ability / condition & status / functioning:
gay-bashing (m) health & medicine

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bastion (noun) baton (pass on the baton)
bastion of elitism hand over the baton to my son
he views golf courses as a ~ (Chavez) today’s the day I ~ (boxer retires with injury)
bastion of (racial) exclusivity passed on the baton to them
the sorority is a ~ Tony Pike ~ (running a hotel on Ibiza)
bastion of progressive government starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games
many see New Zealand as a ~ transmission: sports & games
bastion of (southern male) privilege baton (drop the baton)
the private club was once a ~
dropped the baton
bastion of religion the company ~ on this
Poland is a ~
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games
bastions of free speech
universities are no longer ~
batten (batten down)
bastion of tradition and authority battened down
the university is a ~ people have ~ (for a hurricane)

bastion for the militia battens down for monster storm

the neighborhood is a ~ Texas ~ (Hurricane Harvey)

Democratic bastion batten down the hatches

Chicago is a ~ ~ and prepare for another pounding (Hurricane Maria)

last bastion battens down the hatches

Las Vegas casinos are the ~ for smokers Europe ~ as Italy deaths rise (coronavirus closures, etc.)
public-employee unions are the ~ of labor strength ♦ “When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’ / Fellas, it’s
too rough to feed ya / At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said /
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military Fellas, it’s been good to know ya.” (“The Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot.)
bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.) protection & lack of protection / readiness & preparedness
coming to bat for NBC / survival, persistence & endurance: boat / sea / storm /
he is ~ against allegations... verb

go to bat for him batter (the hurricane battered the city)

nobody will ~ (a dictator under siege)
battered the city
allegiance, support & betrayal: baseball / sports & games / the hurricane ~ (New Orleans)
verb
force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb /
bathing (forest bathing, etc.) violence

dust bathing battering ram

a herd of elephants washing and ~ at a water hole
became the Reagan Republicans’ battering ram
forest bathing Carter’s support for gay rights and the ERA ~ (1980)
~ is a national pastime in Japan (shinrin-yoku)
conflict: fortification / military
sunbathing
naked ~ and teenage brains (Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2)
battery (recharge one's batteries)
topless ~ in a public place recharge my batteries
♦“ Where the sun is the doctor ain’t.” (An Italian mountaineer proverb that I make sure I take time to ~
relates to heliotherapy and a traditional treatment for tuberculosis.)
I asked for a leave of absence to ~
♦ “If water is scarce, take an ‘air’ bath. Remove as much of your clothing
as practical and expose your body to the sun and air for at least 1 hour. recharge his batteries
Be careful not to sunburn.” / “In some situations, you may be able to take
a snow bath. Take a handful of snow and wash your body where sweat
he resigned unexpectedly, saying he wanted to ~
and moisture accumulate, such as under the arms and between the legs, he travels to South America to ~
and then wipe yourself dry.” (FM 3-05.70, “Survival,” US Army, May
2002.) recharge his batteries in the US
he will ~ (soccer star)
absorption & immersion: water
amelioration & renewal: electricity / verb

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battery (amount) government's ~ the influence of graft (Serbia)

battery of tests battles of identity

in ~, language often becomes the front line (Berbers)
he took a ~
amount: military / weapon battle of wills
expect another ~ all the way to the final wall (swimming)
battle (verb)
battle of (former) champions
battled (in vain) to contain it was a ~ (boxing)
as fire-fighters ~ it (museum fire)
battle of the sexes
battling the swarms with insecticide the theme of “I Love Lucy” was the basic ~
authorities are ~ sprayed from airplanes (locusts)
battles of the next generation
battled for her life the civil rights ~ (animal rights)
she ~ on Sunday after a man shot her
battle against AIDS
battle for supremacy celebrate the small victories in the ~
cartels ~ in South Africa's taxi wars
battle against assimilation
battle against a (false) sense of complacency the age-old ~
we must ~
battle against (entertainment) violence
battled addiction a turning point in the ~
she has ~ all her life (an actor)
battles with (drug and alcohol) abuse
battled alcoholism Ramone discussed his ~
he ~ as a teen
battle with alcoholism
battles (severe) asthma he had fought a long ~ (a suicide)
he ~, which gets worse in stressful situations
battle with AIDS
battling the coronavirus she told in a quiet voice of her ~
he is still ~ (sick with the virus)
battle with cancer
battled the fire a near-fatal ~
for three hours we ~ (grass fire)
battle with Congress
battled (ice-glazed) roads a new front in the President’s ~ is opening
commuters ~ (freezing rain)
battles with unions and regulators
battled the spread waging fierce ~
critics have ~ of agricultural biotechnology
battle over the land
battling the (locust) swarms a lengthy court ~
authorities are ~ with insecticide sprayed from airplanes
battle over (reproductive) rights
battled windchills the ~ (abortion)
they ~ of 20 below (North Dakota)
battle over the terms
battle trafficking a legal ~ of the agreement
Irmi Basu and her center ~ (sex / Calcutta)
battle over the best method
battled in vain the so-called reading wars—the ~ of teaching reading
as fire-fighters ~ to contain it… (museum fire)
battle between his (warring) parents
cartels battle trapped in the ~
~ for supremacy in South Africa's taxi wars
battle between defenders and detractors
conflict: military / verb the ~ of the traditional canon (literature)
battle (noun) battle between the school system, county
the ongoing budget ~
battle
for Japan, the ~ is one of national pride (whaling) battle (going on) between commerce and creativity
learn to pick your ~s (disciplining a toddler) there’s a constant ~ (country music)

battle to curb battle for answers

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 the one last battle, the ~ (Agent Orange) long-running battle
the ~ over the rights of …
battle for the championship
their ~ (basketball) pitched battle
his entering the race could lead to a ~ for the progressive
battles for (championship) crowns vote
their epic ~
annual (funding) battles
battle for minds ~ on Capital Hill
this is a ~ (post 9/11)
bitter battles
battle for public opinion she resigned last June after four years of ~ (university)
losing the ~
daily battles
battle for the thermostat there are ways to diffuse ~ and teach your toddler
the ~ is waged in offices and homes across the nation
endless battle
battle scars toilet training doesn't have to be an ~
showing off ~ (football players)
ferocious battle
government's battle a ~ is being waged in California (same-sex marriage)
the ~ to curb the influence of graft (Serbia)
fierce battle
budget battle waging ~s with unions and regulators
an ongoing ~ between the school system, county
judicial battle
court battle this is the latest development in an ongoing ~
a long-running ~
legal battle
custody battle a ~ over the terms of the agreement;
he was the object of a fierce ~ animal-rights groups have had ~s with the federal
development battle government
on the losing side of ~s lengthy (court) battle
divorce battle a ~ over the land
a bizarre last chapter in a ~ (townhouse explodes) nightly battle
election battle how can I get my toddler to brush her teeth without a ~
he is facing a difficult ~ (Germany) long, hard battle
epic battle it's been a really ~ for me (cancer survivor)
their ~s for championship crowns (sports) age-old battle
he had an ~ with a mako (fishing) the ~ against assimilation
their ~ Saturday night (Ward vs. Gatti / boxing)
near-fatal battle
kite battle a ~ with cancer
it's time for the rokkaku ~ (kite festival)
day in, day out battle
turf battles a ~ with beavers
~ likely to ensue (federal agencies)
David-and-Goliath battle
visitation battle waging a ~ against Time Warner
~s involving grandparents
heat-of-the-battle (m)
textbook battles in the ~ racing (NASCAR)
~ are legendary in Texas
object of a (fierce custody) battle
public relations battle he was the ~
but is losing the ~
them-vs.-us battle
VHS-Beta battle it's a ~
the ~ at the beginning of the video era
aspect of the battle
coming battle redirected their attention to another ~ (anti-whaling)
he doesn't have any illusions about the ~ (legislative act)
epicenter of that battle
ongoing (budget) battle Birmingham became the ~ (for civil rights)
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object of a (fierce custody) battle latest battleground
he was the ~ green spaces are the ~ in the disputer (development)
years of (bitter) battles become a battleground
she resigned last year after four ~ (university) the state has ~ over the issue (abortion)
♦ “Byron visited; so did the Wordsworths—twice—and the architect and
in the (President’s) battle collector John Soane and thousands of others. They carried away
a new front ~ with Congress is opening skulls—Sir Walter Scott had one—and fingers and teeth and bullets and
cannon balls... A century later such battlefield tourism would flourish
turning point in the battle even if its more gruesome collecting tastes were suppressed.” (The site
a ~ against entertainment violence of the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium. From The Work of the Dead: A
Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur.)
tantrums and battles ♦ Years ago they had marched thousands of miles to legendary
~ (toddlers) battlefields... they had once gone to the ends of the earth and seen
beyond the farthest horizon... We looked at these men in blue, existing in
pensioned security, honored and respected by all... and we were in awe
facing a (difficult election) battle of them. Those terrible names out of the history books—Gettysburg,
he is ~ (Germany) Shiloh, Stone’s River, Cold Harbor—came alive through these men.
They had been there... and to watch them was to be deeply moved.”
lose this battle (Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood by Bruce Catton.)
they would ~ in the legislative arena
conflict / place: military
pick your battles
learn to ~ (disciplining a toddler)
bay (at bay)
♦ “We all got our daily battles, right?” keep oil drilling at bay
conflict: military we need to ~

battle (uphill battle, etc.) keep monotony at bay

the breaks in the narrative ~
long battle
kept at bay
he had fought a ~ with alcoholism (a suicide)
the modern world can't be ~ forever
uphill battle
remains at bay
it will be an ~ (political reform)
inflation ~ (economy)
small businesses have faced an ~ (online vending)
keep his furies at bay
facing an uphill battle
he works hard to ~ (troubled ex-boxer)
they are ~ (politics)
♦ This refers to the barking of dogs as they prevent a stranger from
fought a (long) battle approaching a cabin, or force a bear to climb a tree.
he had ~ with alcoholism (a suicide) avoidance & separation: dog / sound
difficulty, easiness & effort: military beachhead (noun)
battle cry
beachheads
battle cry US universities should not be ~ for the Chinese government
an oft repeated ~ of the anti-chain lobby (books)
get a beachhead
conflict: military you ~, like Social Security passes (progressivism)

battleground (conflict) presence & absence: military

battlegrounds of discontent
China's hospitals have become ~ (poor service)
battlegrounds in the (drug) business
hepatitis C is one of the fiercest ~ (drug development)
battleground for the future
the Gulf of Mexico is the ~ of offshore oil drilling
battlegrounds for (freedom of speech) issues
college campuses are ~
battleground state
Ohio is a crucial ~ (elections)
in the ~ of Pennsylvania, which Trump won in 2016
survival, persistence & endurance: military
beacon (noun)
beacon of hope
the center will be a ~ (Muhammad Ali Center)
the school is a ~ (in deprived Detroit neighborhood)
beacon of justice
the center’s reputation as a ~ had taken some hits (Southern
Poverty Law Center)
beacons of faith and optimism
the old prairie churches were ~ (US)
beacon of liberty
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beacon for (high-achieving) students lose your bearings
the school is a ~ (high school) when you're homeless, you kind of ~
♦ In a project that brought ancient Roman history to life, 500 flaming
beacons were lit along the 84-mile-lenth of Hadrian's wall, from Tyneside losing its bearings
to the Cumbrian coast. the city is ~, it's heritage (development)
direction: fire / light & dark / journeys & trips lost her bearings
she ~ in the pursuit of fame
beak (Parrot's Beak, etc.)
get his bearings
Le Bec d'Aigle it took him a while to ~ (a new job)
~ is a giant rock overlooking the calanque (Eagle's Beak)
get his bearings back
Parrot's Beak it took him a while to ~ (stunned boxer)
the ~ juts into Vietnam from southeast Cambodia
the Mano River flows through the ~ area of Guinea regain my bearings
after the birth of my first child, it took me time to ~
proper name: bird
♦ “We strayed from the path several times, but quickly corrected our
beak (area) mistakes. When we came across a tuft or a hillock, I tried to get a look
round, to get my bearings. Dersu took a bunch of reeds and mugwort
and bent it down as a patteran. I looked ahead and all round.
Eagles Beak Everywhere, on every side, extended the endless, waving ocean of
the ~ is a natural arch in Arizona grass.” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)

area: shape direction: journeys & trips / tools & technology

shape: bird
beast (insult)
bear (a bear of an epidemic, etc.)
beast
bear of an epidemic this person, not even a person, this ~... (a murderer)
he has a ~ on his hands (mayor and coronavirus rates)
wild beasts
force: animal those ~ shot you in the back (said at a funeral)
bear (a weight, etc.) insult: animal

bear beast (power)

the death of a child is almost too much to ~
beast
affliction: burden / verb / weight the weather is a ~ today across much of the country
oppression: burden / verb / weight he’s a ~ (said by NFL player admiringly about another)
bear (bear fruit, etc.) beast of a wave
another bruising encounter with a ~ (Nazare surfing)
bore fruit
their protests ~ only after… beast on the drums
she is an absolute ~ (10-year-old Nandi Bushell)
borne fruit
British attempts to deter Iran have not ~ beast, a monster
this storm is a ~ (satellite image of a hurricane)
bearing fruit
the development program appears to be ~ force / power / size: animal

Bears Fruit beast (different beast, etc.)

War on Piracy ~
complex beasts
product: fruits & vegetables / verb modern airliners are ~ (engineering, computers, etc.)
bearbaiting different beast
he insists his film is a ~ (sequel, not a reboot)
form of (human) bearbaiting
a judge summed up the show as a ~ (Jeremy Kyle Show) stubborn beast
Baranchyk, a ~, didn’t fall (exciting boxing match)
conflict: animal / violence
taxonomy & classification: animal
bearing (direction)
beat (defeat)
find his bearings
he spent two months trying to ~ and a job (new city) beat you
it was the weather that ~ (Mt. Everest)

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conflict / success & failure: sports & games / verb the embassy’s career officers were used to taking ~
beat (beat oneself up) taken a beating
she said her confidence had ~ (athlete)
beat yourself up the industry has ~ recently
if you slip up or hit a plateau, don't ~ (weight loss) the dollar has ~ abroad
its stock has ~ (a company)
beat yourself up over that
don't ~ (a performance mistake) took a beating
its reputation ~ in the financial crisis (rating service)
beat herself up for not being
she should not ~ around more to help her ailing mother took a (serious) beating
punishment & recrimination: fist / verb the Democrats ~ in the midterm elections

beat back (verb) taken a beating over its (contract) process

the Air Force has ~
beat back arthritis
taken a beating from the storms
he squeezes a golf ball at night to ~
the coastline has ~
beat back the epidemic
taken a beating in the media
in an attempt to ~, the government is... (Luanda)
he has ~ (an athlete)
beat back (mounting) skepticism feeling, emotion & effect: fist / verb
she is trying to ~ of her qualifications
beat up (storm)
beat back dirt and disease
their lives, a daily struggle to ~ (Kabul slums) beating up Texas
the rain and flooding is just ~ (ABC News)
fighting to beat back
Yahoo and AOL are ~ spammers force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb /
violence
attempt to beat back
in an ~ the epidemic, the government is... (Luanda) beaver (verb)
resistance, opposition & defeat: fist / verb beavered at neural nets
beat (beat down / the sun, etc.) AI scientists ~ for decades before...

beat down on the (black) rocks beavering away

the sun ~ (Kilauea) a small army of Canadian zealots was ~ at the case
our readers have been ~ (a prediction challenge)
beat down relentlessly
difficulty, easiness & effort: animal / verb
the desert sun ~
work & duty: animal / verb
force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / verb / violence
beckon (verb)
beaten (beaten up)
deep pockets beckon
get beaten up the Gulf’s ~ (arms sales)
he knows he'll get attacked and ~ (politics)
devices beckon
accusation & criticism: fist / violence the line is long and other ~ (tech convention)
beatification (noun) attraction & repulsion: gesture / hand / verb
fictive communication: gesture / hand / verb
beatification
his ~ has taken a long time (writer / literary canon) bed (put something to bed)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion put to bed
a successful launch will help ~ memories of the problems
beatify (verb)
put this (silly) incident to bed
beatify all Northerners we need to ~ (sports controversy)
she did not demonize all Southerners, or ~ (Stowe)
put questions (about his age) to bed
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb his performance didn’t ~, but... (elderly politician at debate)
beating (take a beating, etc.) put the tie to bed
public relations beatings they pushed forward to ~ but... (soccer second-leg game)

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starting, going, continuing & ending: sleep / verb there was ~ (World Cup victory)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: sleep / verb
construction bedlam
bed (jump into bed with someone) he surveyed the ~ (restaurant being built)

jump into bed with the Syrian government management bedlam

the Kurds don’t immediately want to ~ it’s ~ (at Fox News)
allegiance, support & betrayal: love, courtship & marriage / political bedlam
verb the system breeds ~ (government)

bed (lie in one’s bed) bedlam ensued

the announcement was made, and ~
lie in it
he has made this bed and he’s got to ~ (politics) bedlam engulfed the fans
~ (a victory)
responsibility: house / verb ♦ According to Wikipedia, this word comes from Bethlem Royal Hospital
judgment: house / verb in England. It was one of the first institutions to house the insane.

bedevil (verb) behavior / environment: mental health

bedeviled the governor bedrock (noun)

the scandal ~
bedrock of who we are
bedeviled his (own party’s) leadership quality is the ~ (Boeing)
he ~ by blocking compromise
bedrock of our storytelling tradition
bedeviled the (Democratic) nominee these 100 stories are a ~ (the Decameron by Boccaccio)
the story ~ right up until election day
bedrock belief
bedevils the people it's a ~ of mine (people have souls, animals don't)
corruption ~
bedrock policy
affliction: creature / religion / verb keeping employee costs down is a ~ (a retail giant)
bedeviled bedrock principle
a ~ is civilian control of the military (US governance)
bedeviled by the (sluggish) economy innocent until proven guilty is one of our country’s ~s
he found himself ~ (president)
bedrock value
bedeviled by (technical) problems he brought some ~s to the job (a cop about right / wrong)
the company has been ~ (autos) the ~s that make America unique (freedom of religion)
bedeviled by a lack bedrock of safety
the response effort was ~ of organization the ~
affliction: creature / religion bases: ground, terrain & land
bedfellow (companion) bedroom (sex)
unlikely bedfellows bedroom issues
a new album combines ~ (romantic / avant-garde) the church doesn’t know what it’s talking about on ~
examine your bedfellows ♦ “Well, he has one girl per book, approximately, and that’s one a year.
you need to ~ and ask yourself... (manosphere and far right) He’s a bachelor, and he moves around the world pretty rapidly. And umm
I don’t see any great harm in that myself.” (Ian Fleming speaking about
♦ “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” his fictional creation James Bond to Roy Plomley on BBC’s Desert Island
(Ismael about sharing a bed with Queequeg, from Moby-Dick by Herman Discs in 1963.)
Melville.)
“Why should we be afraid of latex, when we see that it can save lives...?
I just don’t mention [making condoms available] in my report to the
relationship: love, courtship & marriage bishop.” (A Catholic nun in Cameroon, dealing with the AIDS epidemic.)
bedlam (noun) ♦ “Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.”

bedlam sex: bedroom

it was ~, the whole city was on the run (Berlin 1 May) euphemism: sex

bedlam of the city bee (the birds and the bees)

the ~ recedes (in a courtyard garden) know about the birds and the bees
bedlam in the streets does she ~

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talk about the birds and the bees behemoth (noun)
I finally had that ~ with my son
♦ "Daddy, why is that turtle on top of that other turtle?" (A cute behemoth among (federal) agencies
commercial that shows a child watching a wildlife show on TV with his the Department of Defense is a ~
Dad. His dad is speechless.)
behemoth pickup trucks
sex: insect
~ roar down Main Street (oil-boom town in Texas)
euphemism: sex
online (classifieds) behemoth
bee (busy as a bee) the ~, Craigslist…
as busy as a bee economic behemoth
he was ~ China has emerged as an ~
activity: animal / insect
political behemoth
beef up (verb) other candidates understand that he is a ~ (Joe Biden)

beefed up (border) controls pop-culture behemoth

the US has ~ (against smuggling) the ~ Game of Thrones

strength & weakness: cows & cattle / food & drink / meat / lactating behemoths
verb Holsteins are ~ (versus Ankole cattle)
amelioration & renewal: cows & cattle / food & drink / 2,300-page behemoth
meat / verb it is a ~ (a government act)
beehive (activity) four-billion-dollar (accessories) behemoth
beehive Coach is a ~ (fashion)
the military hospital was a ~ (heavily guarded) built the company into a behemoth
beehive of activity he ~ (security)
inside, these buildings were a ~ (hospital) spells the end for a behemoth
activity / environment: insect the decision to pull the show ~ that dominated schedules
♦ The Behemoth was a huge land monster mentioned in the Book of Job.
beehive (Beehive cluster, etc.) Its aquatic counterpart was the Leviathan. Both creatures were controlled
by God, and symbolized God's power.
Beehive cluster
size: allusion / Bible / creature / religion
M44, the ~
proper name: insect
behind (behind schedule, etc.)
before (at an earlier time) behind on payments
we were ~
before tractors and combines
then I did plowing and scything, that was ~, you know... behind schedule
they were now almost 2 months ~
best-before dates
the ~ are usually 3 or 4 months after delivery (beer) falls behind
Faisal ~ (worker at Dairy Queen)
sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj,
particle fell behind on a (key) module
later, as Russia ~ (space station)
before (we have hard work before us)
fell behind in his mortgage
before us he ~ (money woes)
we have hard work ~ time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / position /
future / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle prep, adv, adj, particle
beginning (just the beginning, etc.) behind (competition)
beginning behind in the race
it’s just the ~ (first picture of black hole in space) Uber is ~ to develop autonomous vehicles
progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing & left behind
ending: journeys & trips / movement Nokia has been ~ by competitors in the smartphone market

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competition: direction / movement / position / prep, adv, put their differences behind them
adj, particle / sports & games / walking, running & jumping they sought to ~ (diplomacy)
behind (progress) put their (money) problems behind them
her new job ~
behind in school ♦ "Now that that is in the rear-view mirror…" (Behind us.)
he is way ~
♦ "That's all water under the bridge."
behind the (learning) curve ♦ “We’re so focused on what’s ahead, we’re not worried about what’s
we were well ~ (for a military operation) behind us.” (The boxer Anthony Joshua, speaking about his rematch with
Andy Ruiz Jr. AJ had lost the first match, in a tremendous upset.)
way behind past & present / time: direction / journeys & trips /
he is ~ in school
movement / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
well behind
we were ~ the learning curve (for a military operation)
behind (responsibility)
fall behind behind the bombing
we want to keep up and not ~ (government official) no one knows who is ~
the US could ~ China (digital currency) behind the machinery
fallen behind at Fremont he is the brains ~ that makes the wave (Kelly Slater’s wave)
he had ~ at Fremont, not just in history but... (school) behind the (new) policy
fell behind by 3 years he is a driving force ~ (a doctor)
our program ~ (space) behind the project
lag behind he was the brains ~
women ~ men in the most visible arenas of science responsibility: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
lagging (far) behind behind (basis)
US students are ~ (education)
behind this decision
left behind what could be ~
the poor are ~ (services go to wealthy)
behind these new levels
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement / prep,
what are the causes ~ of stress (colleges)
adv, adj. particle / walking, running & jumping
idea behind the program
behind (in the past) the ~ was to…
behind logic behind (military) training
the team's best days are ~ (sports) the hidden ~
behind her motivation behind the attack
now it's all ~ (wild lifestyle) the ~ seems to be to…
behind it personalities behind the inventions
the 100th mission is ~ (space shuttles) the exhibition is an attempt to bring to life the ~
behind us reasoning behind this
now that this is ~, we can move forward (divorce) the ~ is that…
it is tempting to believe the danger is ~ (terrorism)
the first phase of the pandemic is ~ story behind the plaque
do you know the ~
long behind
his best writing days were ~ by then theory behind this practice
the ~ is that…
get the case behind him
he just wanted to ~ (object of criminal investigation) driving force behind development
economics is usually the ~ (zoning)
left his old life behind
he ~ driving force behind globalization
the ~
leave our colonial past behind
the time has come to fully ~ (Barbados) driving force behind hostess bars
ultimately money is the ~ (Roppongi)
put his old life behind him
he tried to ~ lies behind

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 inequality in incomes ~ the divisiveness of our politics trucks ~
what ~ human behavior
belched smoke
bases: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle the engine ~ (coal-fired)
relationship: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
resemblance: bodily reaction / verb
behind (support)
Belichick (the racing Bill Belichick, etc.)
behind it
the government has to get ~ and the Prime Minister is racing Bill Belichick
against it (a proposal) he’s a little bit the ~ (Bob Bufford and Justified)

behind you epithet: football / sports & games

I'm ~ (I support you) subterfuge: football / sports & games

get behind the development believer (true believer)

it's time we ~ of renewable energy true believer in the cause
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle she was a ~ (Irish Republican Army)

behind (put something behind) progressive true believers

the ~ who flocked to Mr Sanders in 2016 (politics)
behind me
allegiance, support & betrayal: allusion
they tell me I have to put Nick’s death ~ (grieving widow)
identity & nature: allusion
put this behind us commitment & determination: allusion
we’ve got to ~ and move on with our lives (after disaster)
bell (warning)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / resiliency: direction
/ prep, adv, adj, particle / verb alarm bell
civil rights activists sounded the ~s
behind-the-scenes
warning bell
behind-the-scenes spiraling suicide rates sound a ~
a ~ of world hegemony
ring (any) bells
behind-the-scenes controversy one case doesn't usually ~ (epidemics)
fraught with ~
ringing the alarm bell
behind-the-scenes documentary the mayor is ~ as loudly as he can (coronavirus cases)
a ~ (making of a film)
sounded the alarm bells
behind-the-scenes negotiations environmentalist have ~ (pollution in Lake Baikal)
~ failed civil rights activists ~
behind-the-scenes role sound a warning bell
his ~ spiraling suicide rates ~
behind-the-scenes strategist warning: bell / sound

behind-the-scenes workers bell (bells and whistles)

a cadre of ~ (state fair)
bell and whistle
behind-the-scenes lobbying $3,200 for a top of the line model with every ~ (a toilet)
months of ~
bells and whistles
concealment & lack of concealment: theater it has more ~ than a fire engine (sports watch)
belch (verb) attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / train

belched up bell (ring a bell)

a great cloud of steam ~ through the hatch (burst pipe)
ring a bell
belched forth smoke, ash and lava did that name mean anything to you, did it ~ (murder)
the volcano ~
consciousness & awareness: bell / sound / verb
belched from the smokestacks
black smoke ~
bell (unring a bell)
belched (diesel) exhaust unring a bell

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 you can't ~ that has already been rung we had plenty of excuses to go ~
reversal: bell / sound / verb went belly-up
the company ~ (failed)
bell curve (shape)
♦ This refers to a dead fish or other animal dead in water.
distribution of a bell curve failure, accident & impairment: animal / death & life / fish
the scores have the ~
shape: bell
belong (verb)
bellwether belongs to the fifth century
of the great philosophers, only Socrates properly ~
bellwether election fictive possession: verb
Democrats are fretting about losing a ~
below (behavior)
bellwether of (global) conservation efforts
island initiatives are a ~ below you
that’s ~
bellwether of (economic) health
the housing market is seen as a ~ by many (US) behavior: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
admiration & contempt: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
bellwether of (African) progress
Ghana again became a ~ (peace, democracy) belt (area)
bellwether for the condition belt of ice
small businesses have become a ~ of the US economy in winter a 600-mile-wide ~ seals off Antarctica
bellwether for the industry belt of (coniferous) forests
the labor talks could serve as a ~ (airline unions) the taiga—the huge circumpolar ~
♦ A wether is a ram leading a flock of sheep. The shepherd attaches a
bell around the ram's neck, to indicate the location of the flock. Bible Belt
Atlanta versus the surrounding ~ (strip clubs)
direction: sheep
Black Belt
belly (orientation) the ~, an impoverished region of the rural South (US)
belly of a tank banana belt
the slug punches a hole in the ~ the lush ~ of southern Ecuador
belly landing farm belt
he questioned whether a ~ would work (space shuttle) Louisiana's ~
orientation: direction / stomach mineral belt
belly flop (noun) a large ~ west of Albuquerque

prime-time belly flop radiation belt

the ~s of earth
her speech was a ~
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games / water snow belt
few move from the sun belt to the ~ (US)
bellyful (amount)
ecologically diverse (transition) belt
bellyful of war this remote, fragile, and ~ between forest and steppe
I’ve had a ~
circumpolar belt
bellyful of promises and politicking the taiga—the huge ~ of coniferous forests
the people of Britain have had a ~
semiarid belt
bellyful of deceit, waste and incompetence the Sahel, a ~ that spans Africa just below the Sahara
there has been a ~ (New Labour)
25-mile belt
amount / consumption: food & drink / stomach oil fields clustered along a ~ between Basra, Kuwait
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / stomach area: shape
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / stomach
belly-up (adjective) belt (below the belt)
belly-up belt
he's known for hitting ~ (politics)

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behavior: boxing measurement: mark
restraint & lack of restraint: boxing
benchmark (other)
belt (under one's belt)
benchmark
one expedition (to Gasherbrum II) under his belt it is a ~ that we must keep in mind
he had ~
benchmark of skill
7 deployments under his belt I consider the Green Narrows as a ~ (kayaking)
he has ~ (first sergeant)
benchmark for toughness
6,000 jumps under his belt support for capital punishment is a ~ for politicians
a skydiver with ~
benchmark indicator
25 years (of Forest Service work) under his belt use objective criteria to establish ~s (environment)
he has ~
benchmark run
experience: clothing & accessories the Green Narrows is a ~ in the Southeast (kayaking)
belt (notch in a belt) standards and benchmarks
we are working on meeting ~ for curricula (education)
conviction notch in their belts
prosecutors just want another ~ (convict exonerated) barriers and benchmarks
when it comes to ~, snowboarding has the 1440° spin
achievement, recognition & praise: history / mark /
violence established (climbing's new) benchmark
the man who ~ (Tomaz Humar (south face of Dhaulagiri)
belt (tighten one’s belt)
performance benchmark
tightening our belts this summer it ranks first on three of the industry's leading ~s
we will be ~ (pandemic ruins tourist season)
reached (all) the benchmarks
sacrifice: food & drink he ~ on or close to schedule (child development)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink
set the benchmark
belt-tightening she ~ in 1996 (time spent in space)
belt-tightening at the Pentagon ♦ The round metal USGS plaques on mountaintops are benchmarks that
indicate height above sea level.
he will announce a new round of ~
measurement: mark
belt-tightening measures
the school will also take ~ like… bend (bend over backwards)
corporate belt-tightening bends over backwards to be
recent years of ~ the staff ~ cooperative
fiscal belt-tightening bending over backwards to comply
in an age of ~ we are ~ with the rules
sacrifice: food & drink bends over backwards being
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink he ~ polite
bemoan (verb) difficulty, easiness & effort: standing, sitting & lying / verb
bemoan the paywall bend (verb)
advocates of open access ~ (academic articles)
bend to demands
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb Shiites refuse to ~ by Sunnis that...
bench (verb) bend the government to their will
local leaders who wish to ~
bench him
the channel decided to ~ refuse to bend
dismissal, removal & resignation: sports & games / verb Shiites ~ to demands by Sunnis that...

benchmark (at a benchmark) caused him to bend

the threat ~ but not break
at or near that benchmark
these year's figures already are ~ (female graduates)

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resistance, opposition & defeat: materials & substances / besieged by the media
verb he was ~
beneath (behavior) besieged by questions
doctors have been ~ from patients
beneath me
that’s ~ besieged by reporters
he has been ~
beneath the dignity
is anything ~ of the Obama White House (politics) besieged by (corruption) scandals
his government has been ~
beneath you
that's way ~ (her reaction to his rude proposal) besieged borough
more food relief is needed across the ~ (Bronx / pandemic)
behavior: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
admiration & contempt: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle besieged politicians
the ~ have started a counterattack (politics)
Bermuda Triangle
amount & effect: fortification / military
Bermuda Triangle of airspeed
transonic is the unknown, it is the ~ (flying) bet (all bets are off)
legal Bermuda Triangle all bets are off
this is a ~, trying to figure out who’s at fault ~ (election)
certainty & uncertainty: allusion / history certainty & uncertainty / fate, fortune & chance: cards /
gambling / sports & games
berserk
betray (verb)
went berserk
the elephant ~ and killed its trainer betrayed no emotion
the 200-pound chimpanzee ~ and was shot dead by police he ~ while the charges against him were read
he hit a home run, and the crowd ~ (sports)
she ~ and stormed out (angry and upset) betrayed an erosion
the recrimination ~ of confidence (Israeli raid)
behavior / control & lack of control: mental health
betrayed a hint
berth (a wide berth) neither man ~ of anxiety
give her a wide berth betray a (profound) ignorance
I always ~ (a boss) animal rightists ~ about nature (opinion)
avoidance & separation: boat evidence / fictive communication: verb
concealment & lack of concealment: verb
beside (support)
betray (fail)
beside me
life is so cruel without you ~ betrayed him
he got clipped and his legs ~ (a boxer)
allegiance, support & betrayal: position / prep, adv, adj,
particle failure, accident & impairment: verb

besiege (verb) between (come between, etc.)

besieged (northern) Mexico come between them and their mom
violence has ~ the only thing that would ~ was death (mom murdered)

besieged NBC with calls division & connection: prep, adv, adj, particle
they ~ (to kill a story) bewail (verb)
amount & effect: fortification / military / verb
bewailed what they called
besieged defense contractor ~ declining weapons spending

besieged by email resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb

she has been ~ conflict / speech: sound / verb

besieged by lobbyists bewitch (verb)

Congress is ~
bewitched all

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 she ~ with a mesmerizing performance big bang (in a big bang)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
go out in a big bang
Bible (authority) he wanted ~ (suicide)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: astronomy / sound
Bible of sports
the ~ on the Internet (Internet site) Big Brother
Bible of (psychiatric) diagnosis Big Brother intrusion
according to the ~, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual why cave in to such a ~ on your privacy
Bible of the (social-media) movement oppression: allusion
the ~ is Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" allusion: books & reading
bible of psychiatry big gun (and heavy gun)
the DSM—the ~
big gun
Bible of Boxing they didn’t have their ~s tonight (injured players)
The Ring magazine, the ~… he has brought in another ~ to help in his Senate bid
so-called bible heavy guns
the DSM, the ~ of psychiatry… he is bringing out his ~ (wife and family / scandal)
psychiatric bible ♦ “When you wheel out your biggest gun to take down the incumbent
president, it frees Biden to be a lot more positive tonight.” (Political
the DSM is the ~ for mental disorders strategist Paul Begala, speaking about Obama’s direct criticism of Trump
♦ The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. at the Democratic Convention.)
♦ "Big guns" refer to artillery, the King of Battle. Artillerymen have been
sanctioning, authority, & non-conformity: Bible / religion traditionally referred to as Redlegs.
big (verb) ♦ "The Turks have 12-inch guns at Aqaba, Sir. Can you imagine what
that means?" (Lawrence of Arabia, the film.)
big his career up ♦ “This is the battle for Tumbledown Mountain, with the Scots Guards
he’s just trying to ~ and the Gurkhas going in on Monday morning in the early hours. The big
guns have been talking to each other, and now it’s the troops on the
big himself up ground who are moving in.” (A BBC reporter covering the 1982 Falklands
War.)
he’s just trying to ~ by using someone else’s grief
strength & weakness: military / weapon
big yourself up
do you really need to ~ by... bighearted
increase & decrease: size / verb big-hearted personality
big (big name, etc.) he was known for his ~
bighearted, (supremely) patient man
so big he was a ~ (speech therapist)
I knew this was huge, this was ~ (photojournalist)
character & personality / size: heart
big names heart: size
some ~ have not made official announcements yet (election)
big-league (adjective)
importance & significance: size
big-league hotel
big bang (“Big Bang” of country music, it's a ~ with a celebrity chef
etc.)
big-league philanthropy
big bang of the beginning ~ has its critics (Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, etc.)
the ~ of country music is supposed to be in 1927
big-league politician
“Big Bang” of country music he's a ~
the sessions at Bristol became known as the ~
importance & significance: sports & games
♦ The “Big Bang” of country music was 1927. That’s the year of the
Bristol sessions when both the Carter family and Jimmie Rodgers big shot (person)
recorded in Bristol, Tennessee. The rest is history.

origin: astronomy / epithet big-shot (Hollywood) director

he's a ~
children of big shots
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protozoological big shots the ties that ~ gradually become clear
before he was thirty Schaudinn was one of the ~
binds us to where
power: person / weapon making wine ~ we are (California)
billboard (noun) build and bind
book clubs can help ~ communities
billboard for what
Walmart is a ~ employment practices should be attachment / division & connection: rope / verb

representation: picture / sign, signal, symbol binding (adjective)

sign, signal, symbol: picture
binding changes
bill of health (clean bill of health) there are these legally ~ from Brussels (Brexit)

clean bill of health non-binding referendum

the bank was given a ~ (by auditors) Puerto Rico voted for US statehood in a ~

gives them a clean bill of health constraint & lack of constraint: rope
the E.P.A. still ~ (chemicals in tap water) binge (on a binge)
give investments a clean bill of health
analysts felt pressured to ~ or lose business on a building binge
China has been ~ for decades (infrastructure)
received a clean bill of health
the reservoir ~ from inspectors (prior to collapse) gone on a (hiring) binge
the company has ~
♦ This phrase probably relates to ships in foreign ports. Such ships would
be in quarantine until port officials determined that the crew was not behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol
carrying an infectious disease.

condition & status: health & medicine

binge (other)
billy club binge
the ~ is over (spending by elected officials)
psychological billy club the ~ was epic and so is the hangover (housing market)
it’s a ~ to coerce a person (lie-detector test)
binge of (skate-park) construction
coercion & motivation: violence / weapon the city continued the ~ (NYC)
oppression: violence / weapon
binge flying
bind (in a bind) London seeks to curb "~" (airport expansions)

leaving cities in a bind gone on a (spending) binge

a police shortage is ~ the Democrats have ~

put it in a bind behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol

Pakistan’s support for militants has ~ bird (the birds and the bees)
situation: container / rope
talk about the birds and the bees
bind (constraint) I finally had that ~ with my son

double bind know about the birds and the bees

too sweet or two shrill, the ~ for women does she ~
♦ "Daddy, why is that turtle on top of that other turtle?" (A cute
constraint & lack of constraint: rope commercial that shows a child watching a wildlife show on TV with his
bind (constrain) Dad. His dad is not able to reply.)

sex: bird
bind her
she questions the traditions that ~ bird-dog (verb)
constraint & lack of constraint: rope / verb bird-dogged him
we ~ at press conferences (Chicago protestor / mayor)
bind (connect)
affliction: animal / dog / hunting
bind pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting
the ties that ~
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bird's-eye (bird's-eye view) bite (resemblance)
bird's-eye view of the battlefield bit into him
drones give commanders a ~ the lash ~again and again (Call of the Wild)
bird's-eye view from a plane resemblance: animal / teeth / verb
you get a ~
biting (adjective)
♦ This has morphed to “helicopter view,” a “3,000-foot perspective,” and
“the 30,000-foot level.”
biting cold
perception, perspective & point of view: animal / bird / once the ~ arrives
height / position biting (social) critic
birth (creation) he was a ~
biting sanctions
birth of Pakistan
these are the most ~ every imposed
since the ~ in 1947
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / sensation / teeth
movement's birth
the city of their ~ (Kandahar / Taliban) bitten (enthusiasm)
nation's birth bitten by the action bug
Sunnis have dominated politics since the ~ in 1920 (Iraq) as a boy, he was ~
given birth bitten by the cycling bug
Atlanta has ~ to a new generation of rappers (US) as a youth he played soccer before he was ~
creation & transformation: birth enthusiasm: insect / sensation
birthday (creation) bitter (personality)
France’s birthday bitter
July 14 is ~ he isn't ~, just wiser
creation & transformation: birth bitter, angry and hostile
birthed (created) he was ~ (sick man with undiagnosed illness)
angry, bitter (m)
birthed in the mid to early 2000’s
I've talked to amputees that went through a real ~ stage
the movement was most likely ~ by two men (MGTOW)
creation & transformation: birth became bitter
he ~ to the point of suicidal (soldier back from Iraq)
birthplace (the birthplace of democracy, ♦ Don’t be bitter, be better!
etc.) feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste
character & personality: food & drink / taste
birthplace of democracy
Greece, the ~ bitter (bitter weather, etc.)
birthplace of Islam bitter cold
Saudi Arabia, the ~ they escaped into the ~ (house fire in winter)
birthplace of humanity bitter winds
Africa is the ~ ~ from Manchuria
birthplace of country music bitter (Balkan) winter
Bristol, Tennessee has been called the ~ (1927) the ~
origin: birth / epithet feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste
bit (champ at the bit) bitter (a bitter blow, etc.)
champing at the bit to start bitter battles
he was ~ she resigned last June after four years of ~ (university)
eagerness & reluctance: horse / verb bitter blow
starting, going, continuing & ending: horse the defeat was a ~ for Serbia and Montenegro (soccer)
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 the increasingly ~ ahead of elections next summer black (feeling)
bitter (international) controversy black depression
despite the ~ (oil project)
he fell into a ~
bitter disappointment feeling, emotion & effect: color
he proved to be a ~ (a judge)
but a ~ awaited us… (expedition) blackball (verb)
bitter dispute blackball him
they are locked in a ~ over Kashmir he has accused teams of colluding to ~ (an athlete)
bitter end acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society / verb
she maintained her innocence to the ~ oppression: color / mark / society / verb
it’s a ~ to a pioneering, powerful career (prison)
black belt (person)
bitter enemies
Ethiopia and Eritrea, ~... (fighting proxy war in Somalia) bureaucratic black belt
he was a skilled infighter, a ~ (State Department)
bitter fact
car-jacking is a ~ of life conflict: person / sports & games
ability & lack of ability: person / sports & games
bitter feelings
Iranians have ~ towards Saddam Hussein black box (noun)
bitter irony black box
in a ~, female military personnel guard captured Taliban the military is a ~, you never know what’s going on
~s whose inner workings are mysterious (brains)
bitter memories
helped erase ~ of the 1994 players strike (baseball) access & lack of access / analysis, interpretation &
explanation / concealment & lack of concealment: color /
bitter negotiations tools & technology
flight attendants are engaged in ~ with the company
black eye
bitter (late-night) negotiations
after ~ black eye for Rupert Murdoch
what a ~ (scandal)
bitter taste
the ~ of regret (bad decisions) black eye for the sport
when judges cheat, it's a ~ (Olympic figure skating)
bitter (family) power struggle
he is kept on the throne because of a ~ brought a black eye to the sport
they have ~ (swim coaches photograph nude girls)
bitter and long-running (m)
the bloody culmination of a ~ feud (cop / citizen) puts a black eye on the sport
it really ~ (cyclist admits to doping)
long and bitter (m)
a ~ family feud over the estate of Jimi Hendrix take a black eye for this
I don’t think Cleveland will ~ (fan riot)
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste
bittersweet (adjective) gives us (all) a black eye
it ~ (hunter on hunter who shot a tame deer)
bittersweet flaws & lack of flaws / reputation: color / eye / mark
the recognition was ~ (combat soldier who survived)
the victory was ~ black hole
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste legal black hole
black (Black Sea, etc.) he is being kept in a ~ (arrested)
black hole for communication
Black Sea Afghanistan was a ~ (no infrastructure)
Turkey has coast on the ~
in a black hole
Black Volta I was ~ (unable to easily communicate)
the ~ is a tributary of the Volta River
♦ In a black hole, the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
proper name: color In other words, nothing gets out.

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access & lack of access / concealment & lack of blanketed the city with (orange) dust
concealment / consciousness & awareness / isolation & the huge sandstorm ~ (Beijing / 2010)
remoteness: astronomy / color / light & dark
blanketed the Southeast
blacklist (verb) forests ~ before European settlers arrived

blacklist the (Chinese) company blanketed the area

the decision to ~ was seen as a bargaining ploy (tariffs) federal, state and local police ~ (manhunt)

acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society / verb blanketed (several) cities
oppression: color / mark / society /verb snow and ice ~

blacklisted blanketed mountains

snow ~ in the UAE, a rare occurrence
blacklisted
his books have been ~ (disgraced French author) configuration / cover: blanket / cloth / verb

acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society blanket (under a blanket)

oppression: color / mark / society under the blanket of snow
Black Mirror polar plants and animals ~

Black Mirror stuff configuration / cover: cloth / blanket

this is some real-life ~ (facial recognition) blanket (cover)
♦ Black Mirror is a TV science-fiction series created by Charlie Brooker
that updated the older Twilight Zone series. blanket of ash
fantasy & reality: allusion a ~ covered the orange and lemon trees (eruption)

black out (verb) blanket of clouds

a ~ hid Pumori, Ama Dablam, and other lesser peaks
blacked out configuration / cover: blanket / cloth
I ~ (alcohol)
consciousness & awareness: alcohol / color / verb
blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
black sheep blanket amnesty
he has offered a ~ to the soldiers (New Guinea)
black sheep of the family he does not favor a ~ for illegal immigrants
he's the ~
blanket guarantee
I was the ~ and took the wrong direction (gang)
is that a ~ that…
black-sheep brother
blanket policy
invite the ~ to the wedding
airlines handle it on a case-by-case basis, without a ~
character & personality: animal / color / sheep
blanket statement
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal / color /
it is a ~ that is just not right
sheep
black site (national security) extent & scope: cloth / blanket
blanketed
archipelago of black sites
he had been tortured in the CIA’s ~ blanketed by (lush) forests
access & lack of access / concealment & lack of Haiti was once ~ (now 90% deforested)
concealment / consciousness & awareness / isolation & configuration / cover: cloth / blanket
remoteness: color / light & dark
blaring (headlines, etc.)
blank (fill in the blanks)
blaring headlines
fill in the blanks ~, fleshy photos and breathless coverage (a tabloid)
they want to ~, connect the dots, figure out... (probe) attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
analysis, interpretation & explanation: school & education
blasphemy
blanket (verb)
committing blasphemy
blanketed (much of) the Northwest in ash is he ~ by… (analysis of war strategy)
the eruption ~ (volcano) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

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blast (criticize) bleed (noun)
blasted him for taking talent bleed
they ~this position (politics) the conventional explanation for ~ is… (military)
blasted her stanch the (talent) bleed
her critics ~ (politics) if the Army hopes to ~, it needs to…
blasted his predecessor leaking: blood / health & medicine
Obama finally ~ by name
bleeding
amount & effect speech: explosion / verb / weapon
accusation & criticism: explosion / force / military / verb / financial bleeding
weapon you need to stop your ~ now

blast (destroy) leaking: blood / health & medicine

blasted the Bahamas with (maximum sustained) winds blemish (noun)

Hurricane Dorian ~ of 185 m.p.h. blemish on the game
destruction / force / power: explosion / verb his injury was the only ~ (sports)

blasted apart ugly blemish

the Charlottesville tragedy was “an ~” on the US (2017)
canon has been blasted apart
but that ~ (doctors withhold prognosis) flaws & lack of flaws: mark

destruction: explosion blend (mixture)

blaze (verb) blend of fear, anger, need, and love
their relationship was a toxic ~
blazed
thank you, Penny Marshall, for the trails you ~ mixture: materials & substances

importance & significance: history / journeys & trips blend in (verb)

blaze (in a blaze of glory) blend in
Tom Wolfe did not ~ (clothes, writing)
went out in a blaze of glory
he ~ (Custer) easily blend in
drug traffickers ~ (Atlanta)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: fire / light
concealment & lack of concealment: mixture / verb
bleed (verb) attention, scrutiny & promotion: mixture / verb
bled across borders blessed
the crisis has ~ (terrorism)
blessed
bleeding into everything with sun and wind, California is ~ (renewable energy)
politics is ~ (Dancing with Stars kerfuffle)
blessed with (over) 100 waterfalls
bleeds into their personal lives Sri Lanka is ~
inevitably their work ~ (FBI hunters of serial killers)
blessed with good looks and money
bleeding us dry she wasn't just ~, she was also smart
this price war is ~ (destroying our profits)
cost & benefit: religion
bleeding cash
Airbus is ~, chief executive warns
blessing (sanction)
bleeding jobs with the city's blessing
US manufacturing have been ~ ~, cars pair up for duels (legal drag racing)

bleeding money given the vote its blessing

the school was ~ (troubled charter school) the election board has ~

leaking: blood / health & medicine / verb sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

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blessing (benefit) ~ (sign)

blessing blind drop

please scout ~s (kayaker Edward Lee Green)
the seasonal flooding of the Mekong is a ~, not a curse
blessing or a bane blind spot
deserts can produce ~s (radio signal strength)
oil can be a ~ for a country (corruption, etc.)
blessing and a burden face blind
some people are ~ (can't recognize familiar faces)
patients see choice as both a ~
♦ "Edward Lee Green / 1953-Dec. 27, 1998 / Outstanding musician,
blessing and a curse adventurer, loving father, beloved friend. His unique talents will be
forever missed by those who knew him. / Died as a result of pinning at
these gems have been a ~ (Sierra Leone diamonds) Crack-in-the-Rock Rapid Dec. 23, 1998 on the Raven Fork in Cherokee,
the annual rains are a ~ for the subcontinent (floods) NC. / Please Scout Blind Drops. / Jesus said, "I am the way…" John
14:6. (Monument at Dillsboro put-in on the Tuckasegee River.)
mixed blessing
progress has been a ~ sight: eye

cost & benefit: religion blind (disregarding evidence, logic)

worth & lack of worth: religion
blind faith
blight (verb) he had this ~ in me (defensive coach)

blighted (Aboriginal) communities blind hatred

alcohol and poverty have ~ (Northern Territory) terrorists are driven by ~

blights the present blind optimism

history ~ (Balkans) hope is not ~ (Barak Obama)
corruption: plant / verb commitment & determination: eye
blight (noun) blind (not controlled by intelligence)
urban blight blind draw
the group is devoted to fighting ~ (buildings) one judge becomes a substitute in a ~
corruption: plant fate, fortune & chance: eye
blighted blind (flying blind)
blighted economy flying blind
as Greece's ~ plunges further into the abyss the psychiatrist is ~ (treating soldiers with drugs)
the US economy is ~ (during government shutdown)
blighted neighborhoods
the city's ~ consciousness & awareness: plane

corruption: plant blind alley (noun)

blind (noticing, understanding, ran into blind alleys
judging) he ~ (a scientist)
lead him down blind alleys
blind to merit his dribbling skills would ~ (young soccer phenom)
the military personnel system is nearly ~
success & failure: infrastructure / journeys & trips
blind to race, religion and ethnicity progress & lack of progress: infrastructure / journeys &
the state is ~ (French ideal) trips
blind to (all) reason and decency blind date
terrorists are ~
blind date
blind, deaf and dumb I was on a ~ with this great guy
terrorists are ~ to all reason and decency
sight: eye
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye
consciousness & awareness: eye blinded
blind (hard to see, hidden) blinded by love
I was so ~ that I didn't see the problem in front of me
blind curve

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consciousness & awareness: eye blink (America will not blink, etc.)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye
blinder (noun) blink
America will not ~ in the fight against terrorists
narrow blinders there’s a conflict here and somebody has to ~ (politics)
it takes self-awareness to view the world without ~ blinked
blinders fell from her eyes Obama ~ and then backed down (Syria crosses red line)
she recalled how the ~ (she thought he loved only her) feeling, emotion & effect: eye
viewed through the blinders conflict / confronting, dealing with & ignoring things /
every issue is ~ of a particular interest (government) dominance & submission: eye / gesture / verb
♦ Blinders are the same as blinkers. blink (in the blink of an eye)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / horse in the blink of an eye
consciousness & awareness: eye / horse and ~ it let go (cougar attack)
blinding my family disappeared ~ (pandemic)
speed: eye
blinding sandstorm
another day of ~s and battlefield confusion (Iraq) blink (light)
a ~ in Baghdad forced the postponement of…
blinked its lights
blinding whiteout a Mercedes ~
a snowstorm caused a ~ (50-vehicle pileup)
resemblance: eye / verb
sight: eye
blinkered (adjective)
blindly
blinkered denial
blindly committed his ~ of what is obvious tells us all we need to know
the IMF is ~ to the policy of…
blinkered narrow-mindedness
commitment & determination: eye if only the Western media could shed its ~
blind side (from the blind side) ♦ Blinkers are the same as blinders.

blind side perception, perspective & point of view: horse / eye

fire team approaches the bunker from its ~ consciousness & awareness: horse / eye

sight: eye blip (noun)

blindsided blip
the drop may simply be a “~” (deaths from virus)
blindsided by his action
we were ~ blip of cases
we don’t want these ~ to become resurgences of cases
blindsided by Johnson’s announcement
the Lakers were clearly ~ (“Magic” Earvin resigns) blip of coverage
after a mere ~, it fell off the front pages (club fire)
blindside by (nude-photos) leak
Jennifer Lawrence ~ blip on the radar screen
Ecstasy is no longer a ~ (the club scene)
readiness & preparedness: eye
consciousness & awareness: eye blip on the (campaign) radar
foreign policy was barely a ~ (2019 electioneering)
blind spot
blip on the (historical) radar
blind spot the industry is such a small ~ right now
it’s a ~ so enormous we barely notice it (concern for future)
blip in the data
ethical blind spot is it a trend or just a ~
he has an ~ regarding the appearance of impropriety
blip in the history of the United States
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye in some ways, Prohibition seems like a ~
consciousness & awareness: eye
perception, perspective & point of view: eye blip or a trend
is his loss a ~ (electoral defeat)

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blip or a (lasting) trend waging a (full-scale media) blitz
is the record number of women candidates a ~ he has been ~ (ex-politician promotes his book)
blip or a hint of the future amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion /
are falling oil prices a ~ campaign: military / weapon
temporary blip blizzard (consciousness)
the figures suggest a recovery, not just a ~ (economy)
his success was still dismissed as a ~ (young politician) feeling their way in a blizzard
financial analysts are ~, squinting through the snow
slight blips
police report only ~ in security plans consciousness & awareness: snow & ice / weather &
climate
tiny little blip
the Wuhan virus will be “a ~ on the horizon” (prediction) blizzard (noun)
barely a blip blizzard
for the young, the nuclear test is ~ (not important) with the ~ in full fury, I sent out a tweet (a Twitter storm)
just a blip blizzard of (red, white and blue) confetti
the decrease in the daily death toll may be ~ (pandemic) a ~ (New Years in Time Square)
ignored the movement as a blip blizzard of fire
many ~ that would never break into the mainstream (gays) there was a ~ at the intersection (combat)
♦ Oscillographs and radar screens have blips.
blizzard of intruders
importance & significance: size / tools & technology we are constantly faced by a positive ~ (pathogens)
presence & absence: size / tools & technology
blizzard of punches
starting, going, continuing & ending: size / tools &
he has withstood a ~ (a boxer)
technology
blistering blizzard of (new) regulations
businesspeople have been affected by a ~
blistering comment
blizzard of speculation
a ~ came from….
there has been a ~ (honeymoon murder)
blistering speech
blizzard of facts and figures
Greta Thunberg gave a ~ at the climate summit
it is included in a ~ that obscures…
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
Scorsesian blizzard
blitz (campaign) there is a ~ of directors’ names (during an interview)
♦ "The blizzard was what we called a purga, during which the
blitz by the White House temperature can drop well below zero, with the gale so violent that it will
the news precipitated a public-relations ~ lift roofs off houses and uproot trees. Walking during a purga is out of the
question. As a rule every blizzard is accompanied by loss of life. / Around
blitz of (negative) advertising us the scene was unbelievable... / We shrank back in our tents and sat in
silent awe…" (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)
there has been a ~ (politics)
amount & effect: snow & ice / storm
blitz surrounding her (latest) album
the promotional ~ bloated (size)
blitz chess bloated budget
Carlsen beat Karpov in a game of ~ the US must resolve its ~
media blitz bloated bureaucracy
a local ~ keeps her picture on the front pages (missing) the ~ isn't keeping us safer (national security)
publicity blitz bloated and inefficient
a ~ arranged by advisers (for a politician) our intelligence agencies are ~
public-relations blitz refugee-bloated (m)
the news precipitated a ~ by the White House a ~ population
advertising blitz size: fatness & thinness / health & medicine
a lavish ~ (for Microsoft software)
block (out of the blocks)
promotional blitz
the ~ surrounding her latest album (singer) quick out of the blocks

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 Liverpool were ~ in the second half (soccer) identity & nature: blood
starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games blood (in cold blood)
blockbuster (noun) shoot her (3 times) in cold blood
how could he ~....
blockbuster
the modern age of ~s (films) feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature
blockbuster antidepressant blood (blood on one's hands, etc.)
Prozac, its ~ (drug company)
blood on his hands
blockbuster (IMAX) film he has ~ (terrorist financier)
the ~ Everest
blood on their hands
blockbuster (fraud) suit we say they have ~ (companies that used slaves)
the agency brought a ~ against the company
has blood on his hands
blockbuster writer he ~ (a politician)
such ~s as…
* Blockbusters were high-explosive bombs dropped on cities in World
drenched in blood
War II. his hands were ~ (a terrorist)
amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion / feeling, drenched Russia in blood
emotion & effect / success & failure: explosion / weapon he has ~ (Stalin)

blogosphere (in the blogosphere) guilt / involvement / responsibility: blood / hand

in the blogosphere blood (smell blood)

the videos appear to be firmly entrenched ~ smell blood
computer: earth & world / place they ~ (victory in tournament)

blogosphere (other) smells blood

the opposition Labor Party ~ (vote of no confidence)
blogosphere
the ~ is alight with conspiracy theories smell blood in the water
Republicans ~
percolating (for years) around the blogosphere
the argument has been ~ conflict / predation: animal / blood / verb

computer: earth & world / place blood (out for blood)

blood (in one's blood) out for blood
she is ~ (vindictive)
in my blood
predation: animal / blood
it wasn't ~ (working in family business)
this place is ~ (High Street resident / Newark) conflict / punishment & recrimination: animal / blood /
the city is ~ (Baghdad) predation
blood (draw blood)
in our blood
cricket is ~ (A Pakistani fan) drawn blood
the love of jade is ~ (a Han Chinese) nobody has ~ yet (chess match with 8 draws)
gets in your blood predation: animal / blood
it ~ (helping others at Arlington National Cemetery) conflict: animal / blood / predation
♦ "The city is in my blood, the ruins of its palaces, the mosques and the
river." (An Iraqi, speaking of Baghdad.) blood (blood boils)
♦ "He has aviation fuel running through his veins.” Said of an ex-RAF, ex-
BA pilot who flies airshows. blood boils
my ~ when I see violations (traffic)
feeling, emotion & effect: blood
identity & nature: blood feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature

blood (identity) blood (blood runs cold)

family blood made my blood run cold
our ~ says never give up, continue on (Nik Wallenda) and then he said something that ~ (violence)
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature

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blood (young blood, etc.) blood sport of politics
I would not be deterred by the ~ (Hillary R. Clinton)
fresh blood
the king might reshuffle his cabinet to inject ~ blood sport of (party) politics
the ~ drives the US media
young blood
the US must add ~ to its veteran roster (women's soccer) Washington blood sport
even by the lowly standards of ~, this was bare-knuckled
experience: blood politics
blood (bad blood) ♦ Blood sports include dog fighting, bullfighting, fox-hunting, cockfighting,
and bear-baiting.

bad blood between them conflict: animal / blood / predation / sports & games /
there is ~ violence
conflict: blood bloodthirsty (adjectivity)
blood (effort) bloodthirsty zeal
blood and treasure the ~ of revisionist history
we have wasted an enormous amount of ~ in Afghanistan behavior: animal / blood / predation
it’s a complete waste in terms of ~ (Afghanistan) character & personality: animal / blood / predation
President Johnson reflected on the cost in ~ (Vietnam War)
we need to pull out and save American ~ (Afghanistan) bloody (guilt)
blood, sweat and tears hands are bloody
he gave the franchise 20 years of his ~ (Kobe Bryant) his ~ (a politician)
sweat and blood guilt / responsibility: blood
a lot of ~ went into it (making a film)
bloody (conflict)
difficulty, easiness & effort: blood / sign, signal, symbol
sacrifice: blood / sign, signal, symbol bloody (intraparty) quarrel
it’s not what Republicans wanted, a ~ (politics)
blood (blood represents life)
conflict: blood
treasure and blood
how much more can we give in ~ (foreign wars) bloom (verb)
death & life: blood / sign, signal, symbol bloomed
sign, signal, symbol: blood their relationship ~
membership (in professional social networks) has ~
bloodbath his career has ~
romance ~
bloodbath
his paranoia ~
there's going to be a ~ (a football game)
bloomed in the role
bloodbath in tech stocks
she truly ~ (an actor)
there was a ~ (Dow)
bloomed into an international incident
partisan bloodbath
the case has ~
he turned the hearings into a ~ (politics)
conflict: blood / violence bloomed into a showroom
his small home shop has ~
violence: blood
blood brother (connection) bloomed during the last decade
interest has ~ (new literature theory)
blood brothers
bloomed as a teenager
soldiering and drinking have always been ~
she ~ (physically)
relationship: blood / family
bloomed intellectually
division & connection: blood / family
that year our daughter ~ (in a gifted class)
blood sport (noun)
bloomed late
blood sport their careers both ~ (successful athletes)
when law and politics were a noble pursuit, not a ~ (the past)
romance bloomed
in this emotional wasteland, ~ (divorce)

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growth & development: plant / verb losing him, it's a huge ~ (football)
blossom (verb) blow to the environment
loss of the reefs will be a major ~
blossomed into (real) depression
my uncertainty had ~ (the future) blow to the regime
loss of the airport was a huge psychological ~ (war)
blossomed into (full-blown) panic
the thought ~ blow to the city's reputation
the violence is a ~ (Rio / carnival)
blossomed into warfare
simmering resentments ~ (two politicians) dagger blow
we must deal sharp ~s to the terrorists
blossoming in the Middle East
a revolutionary spirit is ~ knockout blow
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
blossom out of control the ~ was delivered when… (indictments)
the consequences can ~ (problems on 767 jetliner)
embarrassing blow
blossomed all over the country the decision is an ~ to the city
now citizens' groups have ~
crippling blow
groups have blossomed his death dealt a ~ to his network (a terrorist)
now citizens' ~ all over the country (Siberia)
crushing blow
love (for yo-yos) blossomed a string of ~s to this community
his ~ again
devastating blow
growth & development: plant / verb loss of the coral reefs would be a ~
blot (noun) embarrassing blow
the decision is an ~ to the city
blot on his record
his racial ideas appear to modern eyes as a ~ (Churchill) stinging blow
the death of a donor dealt the hospital's reputation a ~
blot on our reputation
renditions and torture will long remain a ~ (US in Iraq) bitter blow
flaws & lack of flaws: mark the defeat was a ~ for Serbia and Montenegro (soccer)
reputation: mark final blow
blow (body blow, etc.) they saw the confrontation as the ~ (firing)

body blow to the home team huge blow

losing him, it's a ~ to our defense (football)
the goal was a ~ (soccer)
body blow for Assad's regime major blow
loss of the reefs will be a ~ to the environment
a ~ (title of article)
knock-out blow mortal blow
the law would strike a ~ to a system that... (athletics)
he was unable to land a ~ on Amy Klobuchar (politics)
knockout blow psychological blow
the takeover was a huge ~ to the regime (airport)
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
the ~ was delivered when… (investigation / indictments) sharp (dagger) blow
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / sensation we must deal ~s to the terrorists

blow (bitter blow, etc.) string of (crushing) blows

a ~ to this community
blow
this is not a ~ but a boost
soften the blow
he tried to ~ (economic news)
blow to the city Boeing will try to ~ for them (supply chain)
the decision is an embarrassing ~
dealt a (heavy) blow to Hamas
blows to this community the offensive has ~ (Israel attacks Gaza)
a string of crushing ~
deal a blow against the enemy
blow to our defense we will ~

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feeling, emotion & effect: fist / sensation blow up Wall Street
the guy who helped ~ (Michael Osinski)
blowback (noun)
blew up the Senate
blowback risk this is the guy who ~ in the Obama years (McConnell)
the ~ to Sanders is real (a political endorsement)
destruction / disruption: explosion / verb
legal blowback
the ~ forced the company into bankruptcy (opioids) blow up (attention / verb)
political blowback blowing up on TikTok
you can't attack Wall Street without ~ I want to talk about an artist who is ~ (Blanco Brown)
reversal: explosion / weapon blew up with congratulations
resistance, opposition & defeat: explosion / weapon coaches’ phones ~
blow-by-blow (a blow-by-blow account, blew up from other schools
etc.) my phone ~, “Are we in danger...” (superintendent shot)

blow-by-blow account blew up

the case ~ (attention paid to child abduction)
he gave me a ~ of what had happened
increase & decrease / initiation: explosion / verb
sequence / speech: boxing
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / verb
blown away blowup (attention / noun)
blown away
song’s massive blowup
I was ~
the ~ is partially thanks to TikTok
prepare to be blown away increase & decrease / initiation: explosion
~ (a TV ad for a new movie)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / weapon
blow up (blow up in one's face)
blow-in (noun)
blow up in his face
blow-in it could ~ (if he ignored the infraction)
he is not quite a native but he’s not a ~, an outsider
blown up in our face
migration: bird / wind this has ~ (supporting Somali warlords)
blow off (verb) reversal: explosion / verb / weapon

blew him off blow up (emotion)

at first, she said, she ~ (dismissed him)
blew up
dismissal, removal & resignation: breathing / verb I couldn’t take it anymore and I just ~
blowout (noun) blew up over the issue
a recent city council meeting ~ (immigration)
blowout
the fight was a ~ (easy victory) feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: explosion / pressure /
verb / weapon
difficulty, easiness & effort: explosion
blowup (conflict)
blow over (verb)
blowup
things blow over there's going to be a ~ (controversy)
we'll be gone until ~
initiation: explosion / pressure / weapon
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: storm / verb / wind conflict: explosion / pressure / weapon
starting, going, continuing & ending: storm / verb / wind
blue (out of the blue, etc.)
blow up (destroy / disrupt)
out of the blue
blow up the norms I was thinking of calling her when ~ she called me
he did more to ~ than any five majority leaders (McConnell) pulmonary edema can, ~, strike down the best climber
blow up the system absolutely out of the blue
we want to ~ (anti-Nancy Pelosi young democrats) her disappearance was ~

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totally out of the blue the ~ calls on states to adopt new standards
then something ~ happened... (a murder investigation)
education blueprint
bolt-from-the-blue the president will send his ~ to Congress
any US military action will look like a ~ act of aggression
draw up a blueprint
appear out of the blue leaders met to ~ for economic cooperation
a thunderstorm can ~
script: infrastructure
appears out of the blue blues (the blues)
an electrical problem ~ (HomeWire)
came (quite) out of the blue coronavirus blues
the "genius award ~ (John D. MacArthur Foundation) five glimmers of hope to beat the ~ (BBC)
feeling, emotion & effect: color / music
comes out of the blue
it ~ and you don’t know when it will hit you (pandemics) blue whale
♦ “Blue” stands for the sky. While it is rare, lightning can strike out of a
blue sky. Flash floods can also occur on cloudless days, when the last blue whale
thing you are thinking about is rain, although it might be raining miles it’s what a journalist might call a ~ (a story)
away.
♦ “So it’s this vital, forgotten buried event that’s what journalists might call
fate, fortune & chance: color / electricity / sky / storm a blue whale, it’s this event that sounded and sank in the past, dwelled
unspoken for years and decades, and then it resurfaced in our present
appearance & disappearance / occurrence / origin: air /
time, specifically in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting... And it
atmosphere / color / lightning / sky sings this really strange song of a very different past...” Robert W.
blue (politics) Fieseler, speaking about his book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up
Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.
♦ See also black swan.
blue state
is Iowa at this point a red state or a ~ appearance & disappearance / fate, fortune & chance /
♦ "Is Iowa at this point a red state or a blue state?" "Iowa is still a purple occurrence: animal / color / sea
state." (US politics, as talked about on NPR.)
♦ “Red, R, Reagan, that’s why we chose red.” (A network broadcaster bluff (verb)
during the 1984 presidential election, explaining why states that had
gone for Reagan were colored red on a national map. Democratic states bluffing
were colored blue.) is the party ~, will they really do it (politics)
identity & nature: color she thinks I’m ~ but I’m not

blue (feeling) bluffing on Brexit

the EU is not ~
broken and blue
and so if I seem ~, walk on by (Dionne Warwick) bluffing over the terms
we are not ~ (diplomacy)
feeling blue
I'm ~ bluff his way out of it
he managed to ~ (a sticky situation)
♦ “But when I’m down, and feeling blue, I close my eyes so I can be with
you.” (Irene Cara.) position, policy & negotiation / sincerity, lack of sincerity &
feeling, emotion & effect: color honesty / strategy / strength & weakness / subterfuge:
cards / gambling
blueprint
bluff (noun)
blueprint
they had to figure it out for themselves, there was no ~ call your bluff
FDR didn’t have a ~, he was an experimenter (New Deal) you're lucky she didn't ~ (negotiations)
blueprint about what position, policy & negotiation / sincerity, lack of sincerity &
there is no ~ to do next honesty / strategy / strength & weakness / subterfuge:
cards / gambling
blueprint for change
the plan is a ~, for action blunt (speech)
blueprint for a better future blunt
clean energy is a ~ he is ~ (speech)
blueprint for reforming sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech
his ~ education has some good points speech: blade / knife / force
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blush (embarrassment) ♦ He wasn’t there to rock the boat, he intended to sink it.

disruption / equilibrium & stability: boat

saved Welsh blushes unanimity & consensus: boat
his header ~ (soccer) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: boat
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / bodily reaction / gesture / body (body economic, etc.)
skin, muscle, nerves & bone
body economic
board (on board) his description of the ~ had appeal (Adam Smith)
on board with (Mursi's) changes body politic versus the body natural
if the military is ~… the ~ and how it related to sovereignty and Kings
on board with the plan society: body
she is not really ~
body count
bring people on board
they've gone out of their way to ~ (developer) professional body count
there has been quite a ~ (firings, replacements)
climbing on board
many voters are ~ (politics) dismissal, removal & resignation: military

get the managers on board body politic

we need to ~ (workplace flexibility) body politic
hopped on board Republicans kowtow to the ~
other companies have ~ (normcore fashion, music, etc.) diseases of our body politic
jumped on board more fundamental causes of the current ~
Harvard ~ last month (sex / romance policy) scar upon the body politic
keep them on board homelessness is a ~
it was hard to ~ sore in the body politic
unanimity & consensus: boat / train Bloody Sunday became a running ~ (Ireland)
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat / train plaguing the body politic
board (off the board) he presents a litany of ills that are ~

off the board injecting poison into the body politic

the two other members of the ISIS cell are already ~ (one they are ~ (Fox News, etc.)
killed, one in prison) society: body
dismissal, removal & resignation: chess / sports & games bogeyman (and boogeyman)
euphemism: chess / sports & games
presence & absence: chess / sports & games bogeyman of many
boat (boat of science, etc.) Venezuela has become the ~ on the right (politics)
Islamist bogeyman
boat of science the US is obsessed with the ~ (foreign policy)
he rocked the ~ (Pasteur)
bases: boat
creates a boogeyman
the myth ~ to stir up fear and repression (white anarchists)
boat (in the same boat) affliction: creature
in the same boat bogged down
all the teams are ~ (concerns about fuel)
empathy & lack of empathy / situation: boat
bogged down in (federal) bureaucracy
the plan got ~ (to restore the Everglades)
unanimity & consensus: boat
boat (rock the boat) bogged down in (scientific) squabbles
the test has been ~ and bureaucratic foot-dragging
rock the boat bogged down in the (UN) system
they can be expected to ~
the US is ~
rocked the boat bogged down by red tape
he ~ of science (Pasteur)

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 rescue efforts got ~ (Kobe earthquake) analysis, interpretation & explanation: heating water /
temperature / water / verb
overloaded, bogged down
hospitals are ~ (epidemic) bases: heating water / temperature / water / verb
boilerplate (noun)
got bogged down
the plan ~ in federal bureaucracy (environment) boilerplate
rescue efforts ~ by red tape (Kobe earthquake) some of the charges seemed routine, almost ~ (crime)
♦ “Making our way through the submerged forest was no easy job. The
mules sank up to their knees in the mud, fell into deep holes, and boilerplate about "common sense and compromise"
exhausted themselves. / It was not till dusk that we managed to reach there was nothing new, just ~
the hills on the right side of the valley. The mules were dead beat, but
the men were still more tired.” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.) boilerplate element
obstacle & impedance: ground, terrain & land / journeys & it contained the ~s of any rejection letter
trips boilerplate motion
boil (affliction) it's a ~ filed by many defendants
boiler-plate points
perpetual boil
he made all the ~ (a politician)
this ~ needs to be lanced (diplomacy)
affliction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone boilerplate sentimentality
the production is steeped in ~ (a play)
boil (initiation)
boilerplate statement
emotions are boiling the auditor's report was little more than a ~
~ (Tea Party advocates in US)
legal boilerplate
tension are boiling the warning was mere ~ (company’s filing)
~ (police shooting and verdict)
management boilerplate
makes my blood boil it was written in the idiom of upbeat ~
it ~ (removal of fairy doors from forest) script: manufacturing / tools & technology
initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water
boiling point
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb / water
activity: heating water / temperature / water reached a boiling point
boil (boil down to something) the crisis has ~

boil down to sent (racial) tensions to a boiling point

his death ~ (Amadou Diallo, shot by police)
but what does all this jargon ~
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water /
boils down to
temperature / water
eventually it all ~ do I want a car or....
boils down to this boil over (verb)
it all ~... boiling over
boil down to the following as the #MeToo movement was ~, he was cooked (a chef)
your options ~... anger boiled over
boils down to cost his ~ Monday when he… (student shoots professors)
the matter ~... crisis was boiling over
boiled down to the fact the energy ~
today it ~ we didn't get the bounces (loss / soccer) party boiled over
boils down to one (major) issue a ~ (violence)
the debate usually ~... resentment boiled over
boil down to a (chronic) lack her ~ and we had a big fight (husband / wife)
others say Metro's problems ~ of rail cars streets are boiling over
boiled down to choice and safety the ~ (Egyptian protests)
the issue ~ (midwifery) about to boil over
boiled down to two (simple) things the situation is ~
his allure ~: money and power (drugs)

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feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water / bomb (danger)
temperature / verb / water
ticking bomb
Bolshevik we must control it, it’s a ~ (online influence campaigns
he was a “~” planning to carry out attacks (a terrorist)
bolshevik against the science
Jules Bordet was a little ~ of his master, Metchnikoff ♦ See also time bomb.

disruption: allusion / history / violence danger: explosion / military / weapon

bolster (verb) bomb (roach bomb, etc.)

bolster our forces against the enemy roach bombs
we must ~ you can buy rat-resistant trash cans and ~ (at a store)

bolsters his analysis with an army resemblance: explosion

he ~ of statistics bomb (code bomb)
bolster their arguments "code bomb"
to ~ the Egyptians… (NTSB investigation) after he was demoted, he inserted a ~ (hacker)
bolstered its capabilities computer: explosion / weapon
the Coast Guard has ~ for port security
bomb (drop a bomb)
bolster their case
to ~, FBI officials have prepared a… (terrorism) dropped this bomb
Assange ~ without providing any evidence
bolster (babies') health
living with a dog or a cat may ~ (germs) amount & effect: explosion / weapon
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / sound /
bolster morale weapon
hot food and the Internet ~ (US military in Iraq)
bomb (fail)
bolster the myth
this has helped to ~ that children… (intersexed) bomb at a comedy club
so badly does he ~
bolstered the notion
archaeological expeditions ~ of… (archaeology) success & failure: explosion / weapon

bolster patrols bombard (verb)

the Highway Patrol has hired 150 new officers to ~
bolster his reputation
he was just shooting off his mouth to ~
bolster security
funds to ~ for nuclear weapons and waste (terrorism)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb
protection & lack of protection: infrastructure / verb
bolstered
bolstered by the courage
~ of their teammate, they won the game easily
bolstered by (a handful of) studies
his insights are ~
bolstered by the work
his conclusions were ~ of…
findings are bolstered
experts say the ~ by the fact that…
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure
protection & lack of protection: infrastructure
bombarded principals with messages
parents ~ (worried for kids)
bombard him with complaints
the young men he employed would ~
bombarded Friedel from all directions
Mexico ~ (soccer)
amount & effect: explosion / military / verb / weapon
bombarded
bombarded with notices about today’s deadline
her neighborhood has been ~ to file for compensation
bombarded with emails from opponents
lawmakers were ~
bombarded with faxes from around the world
the president's office was ~ from around the world
bombarded with complaints
the company was ~
bombarded by (job) offers from companies
he was ~
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 she is being ~ commercial bonanza
the drug has been a ~
bombarded by (visual and auditory) stimuli
we are constantly ~ financial bonanza
the ~ from Turkmenistan's gas fields
bombarded by (so many unspecific) warnings
citizens have been ~ (terror) activity / amount & effect / cost & benefit / worth & lack of
worth: mining / money
bombarded by new ideas
in 1999, China was being ~ (due to Internet) bone (close to the bone, etc.)
amount & effect: explosion / military / weapon close to the bone
bombardment (noun) his arrest hit ~
proximity: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
bombardment of (food) advertising
the constant ~ (health) bone (racist bone, etc.)
amount & effect: explosion / military / weapon racist bone
bombproof there’s not a ~ in my body
I don’t have a ~ in my body
bombproof
your pro should be ~ (climbing)
to the bone
Marcos Llorente, a Blanco ~ (Real Madrid player)
bombproof roll ♦ “When it comes to matters of morals, I’m Catholic right down to my little
you need a ~ (kayaking) toes.” (The abortion issue.)

flaws & lack of flaws: explosion identity & nature: skin, muscle, nerves & bone

bombshell (noun) boo (noun)

bombshell cheers and boos
dropping a real-life ~ from his past the judge’s decision drew ~

bombshell of a story judgment: sound

what a ~ (the horse Justified failed doping test) accusation & criticism: sound

bombshell claim booby trap

the ~ came on cross-examination (murder trial)
potential booby traps
economic bombshell new technologies in cars are ~s for first responders
the president dropped an ~ when he announced... ♦ “Booby traps: Man in Maine killed by own device.”

new bombshells danger: explosion / military / weapon

stayed tuned for ~ (entertainment TV)
booby-trapped
dropped his bombshell
he ~ (a lawyer) booby-trapped email
most ransomware attacks begin with a ~
fired (back) a bombshell
danger: explosion / military / weapon
she ~ (divorce back-and-forth)
amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion / feeling, book (close the book)
emotion & effect: explosion / military / sound / weapon closed the book on a NFL future
bonanza (noun) he has ~ (athlete)
close the book on this
bonanza of waves we need to ~ and move on
the storm has created a ~ for surfers (hurricane)
curtailment / development: books & reading / verb
bonanza for credit card companies reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going,
the move away from cash has been a ~ continuing & ending: books & reading / verb
propaganda bonanza book (books and covers)
the attack was a ~ for the insurgents
judge a book by its cover
marketing bonanza you can't ~
his success has been a ~ (Japanese ballplayer)

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appearance / appearance & reality / judgment: books & reversal: direction / verb / weapon
reading
boomerang (noun)
book (open book)
boomerang kids
open book millennial ~ may consume resources, finances and time
the rookie driver is a refreshingly ~ (interviews, etc.) (AARP)
character & personality: books & reading coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: weapon
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: books & reading booming (adjective)
book (by the book)
booming popularity
by-the-book the ~ of audiobooks coincides with the rise of podcasts
he was strictly ~ (a soldier)
increase & decrease: explosion
character & personality: books & reading
boost (verb)
constraint & lack of constraint: books & reading
book (throw the book at somebody) boost the economy
it will ~ (medical tourism)
“throw the book” at anyone
he vowed to ~ responsible
boost his image
this will ~ in the public eye (a fallen celebrity)
threw the book at him
the judge ~
boost (sagging) morale
they turned to sports to ~ (soldiers in war zone)
punishment & recrimination: books & reading / verb
boost scores
book (development) schools are under relentless pressure to ~

book of life boosted my spirits

a man's ~ should be considered, not just one chapter (trial) it ~
development: books & reading increase & decrease: direction / force / verb
bookworm boost (noun)
bookworm blow
I admit it, I'm a ~ this is not a ~ but a boost
enthusiasm: animal / books & reading / person increase & decrease: direction / force
person: books & reading boot (oppression)
boom (jade boom, etc.)
boot
jade boom as the ~ is removed from the neck of the people
the ~ has been fueled by the Chinese (Xinjiang)
boot of the Americans
boom and bust Latin America felt the heavy ~ (Guatemala / 1950s)
Argentina is used to ~ (the economy)
under the boot
activity / cost & benefit: explosion the people are ~ of barbaric power (Albania)
boom (increase) has its boot on the neck
the government ~ of the company
booming
business is ~ oppression: clothing & accessories

increase & decrease: explosion / verb boot (get the boot)

activity: explosion / sound / verb
got the boot
boomerang (verb) he ~ after making the final four (a dance contest)
boomeranged on him dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories
it ~ (controversy)
boot (soldier)
boomerang (back) on us
it could ~ boots on the ground
we needed ~ (soldiers abroad to fight terrorism)

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 we have increased our ~ (US-Mexico border) she is a ~ leader
there are no ~ salesmen
sign, signal, symbol: military
identity & nature: birth
bootleg (adjective)
born (creation)
bootleg copy
he bought a ~ of Microsoft Windows born
how to let peace be ~ despite the difficult labor pains
concealment & lack of concealment: alcohol
born in the 1970's
bootlegger the shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army, ~ (Pakistan)
digital bootlegger born in New Orleans, Louisiana
new tools to go after ~s (a bill) Satch(mo), both you and jazz were ~, right (Roy Plomley)
concealment & lack of concealment: alcohol born in (great) jubilation
boot out (verb) South Sudan, ~, is plunging into a vortex of violence

boot out the IMF born on platforms

Chavez helped Argentina ~ it was ~ associated with far right extremism (QAnon)

dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories / born on the kitchen table
verb the Chicago Defender was ~ of its publisher in 1905

border (proximity) born on the (New York) subway

the Guardian Angels were ~ about 40 years ago (crime)
border on the absurd
born from Wounded Knee
his arguments ~
he thinks of everything that’s been ~
bordered on miraculous
born out of frustration or ignorance
the last-minute goal ~ (sports)
his comments were ~
bordered on obsession
born digitally
his pursuit ~
the material wasn't ~ and must be hand-scanned
bordered on panic creation & transformation: birth
her response ~
born-again
border on racism
his comments ~ born-again Christian
his conversion from hell-raiser to ~
borders on rudeness
this ~ born-again conservative
proximity: boundary he is a ~
commitment & determination / creation & transformation /
borderland (noun)
identity & nature: religion
borderlands of science
a broad humanistic interest led him to pioneer on the ~
born-on (adjective)
proximity: boundary born on date
division & connection: boundary / line best consumed within 110 days of the ~ (Budweiser)
area: ground, terrain & land creation & transformation: birth
born (born teacher, etc.) bottleneck
born athlete bottleneck
the kid was a ~
Native Americans hunted the pronghorn at this ~
born teacher the Panama Canal has become a ~ (too narrow, etc.)
he was, it seemed, a ~
bottlenecks on highways
born worrier traffic ~
~s versus people who are carefree
bottlenecks in the (nation's) power grid
natural-born (m) ~ can cause outages
~ genius is often deliberate technique (teachers)
genetic bottleneck

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 blood samples reveal a ~ (too few Amur tigers left) we'd really like to ~ (mystery illness)
remove (refining) bottlenecks get to the bottom about what happened
industry must ~ (oil) we need to ~ (congressional investigation)
obstacle & impedance: bottle / neck / shape analysis, interpretation & explanation / bases /
shape: bottle / neck reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / searching &
bottle up (verb) discovery: direction

bottles things up
bottom (no bottom)
she ~ no bottom to his willingness
bottle it up and put it away there is ~ to abuse his power (politics)
you kind of ~ (male on male abuse) extent & scope: depth / water
feeling, emotion & effect: bottle / container / verb bottomless (adjective)
access & lack of access: bottle / container / verb
bottomless
bottom (at the bottom) the well of outrage is ~ (fundamentalists)
at the bottom of the barrel bottomless thirst
do their time ~ (worst job assignment) China has a ~ for oil and gas (Xinjiang Province)
at the bottom of the (economic) pyramid extent & scope: depth / direction
new jobs are coming ~ (poorly paid jobs) amount: container / depth / direction
at the bottom of the pecking order bottom line
we were ~ (biker club)
bottom line
hierarchy: direction / position what it is going to mean for the ~ (sanctions)
bottom (hit bottom) cost & benefit: money
hit bottom analysis, interpretation & explanation: money
we may have ~ (unemployment) bounce (verb)
hit rock bottom bounced from one idea to the next
the moment you ~ and admit to yourself… (addiction) I ~ (what to do this summer)
he was a person who had ~
things had ~ (bad relationship) bounced around Southwest Asia
before you can get better, you have to ~ (addiction) he ~ (a terrorist)
hitting rock bottom bouncing around
livestock prices are ~ he was ~ a lot back then (rootless)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction bounces in and out of bankruptcy
decline: direction everybody ~ (airlines)
bottom (get to the bottom of something) bounced between homes
his family ~ (rootless)
get to the bottom of where
he was never able to ~ the money had gone movement: ball / direction / verb

get to the bottom of the error bounce back (verb)

state officials said they would ~
bounce back
get to the bottom of this case the love and support of someone who helps them ~
we want to ~ she was always able to ~ (Whitney Houston)
get to the bottom of this mystery bounced back
no one wants to ~ quicker than... (crash) I matured and ~ (a boxer)
get to the bottom of things bounce back from (natural) disasters
we need to ~ (a murder investigation) modern economies ~ (Kobe earthquake, etc.)
get to the bottom of this bounce back from setbacks
we will ~ (investigation into fatal stampede); the UFC has been able to ~
I want to ~ (US sits by during genocide in Rwanda)
bounce back quickly

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 resilient people ~ from failure constraint & lack of constraint: rope
resiliency: ball / verb boundless (adjective)
bound (constrained) boundless energy
known for his ~ and tireless volunteerism
bound by a (strict) code
they are ~ of ethics (education consultants) boundless enthusiasm
he didn't share his ~
bound by the rules
he did not feel ~ that governed most men boundless optimism
a ~ in the power of technology (computing)
bound by the (military's) code of silence
he didn't feel ~ amount / extent & scope: boundary
desk-bound (m) boundary (division)
the Chairman oversaw only the 1,600 ~ officers
boundaries of the (doctor-patient) relationship
duty-bound a psychiatrist may relax the normally strict ~
nurses are ~ to report what they think is abuse
boundaries between plant species
fogbound (m) the ~ are far more porous than among animals
the plane crashed in ~ mountains
boundary expressions
fog-bound (m) lexicographers must deal with these ~
a pileup on a ~ stretch of freeway killed eight (France)
racial boundary
hidebound (m) Hispanic is an ethnicity crossing ~s
a ~ bureaucracy
strict boundaries
homebound (m) a psychiatrist may relax the ~ (doctor-patient)
the ~ elderly
he takes meals to a ~ invalid social, cultural and religious boundaries
his teachings transcend all ~
honor-bound
I am ~ to pay him back boundaries blur
when ~
house-bound
she is ~ relax the boundaries
a psychiatrist may ~ of the doctor-patient relationship
ice-bound (m)
Siberia's ~ expanse transcended (racial) boundaries
the climate of ~ coastal regions his work ~ (playwright August Wilson)

leather-bound (m) division & connection: boundary

~ books boundary (behavior)
muscle-bound (m)
boundary
a ~ frat boy
the usual ~s keep getting crossed (politicians)
snowbound
boundaries of their (famed) tolerance
we were ~
the Dutch are rethinking the ~ (drugs, sex, squatting)
Nigata Prefecture is ~ for months (Japan)
behavior: boundary
spellbound
I watched her, ~ bounded
tradition-bound bounded on the east
the Marines are the most ~ of the services the plateau is ~ by an escarpment of 100m
tradition-bound (m) bounded (on the east) by an escarpment
the Navy was run by ~ admirals the plateau is ~ of 100m
wheelchair-bound (m) plateau is bounded
the ~ author the ~ on the east by an escarpment of 100m
feel bound configuration: boundary
he didn't ~ by the military's code of silence

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bounds (no bounds, etc.) bowl (Vietnam’s rice bowl, etc.)
knows no bounds
rice bowl
the hypocrisy of the NCAA ~ the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's ~
behavior: boundary
salad bowl
extent & scope: boundary the Salinas Valley is nicknamed America's ~
bound up epithet: farming & agriculture
bound up in the myths bowl (salad bowl / agriculture)
Indians are ~ white Americans have created
constraint & lack of constraint: rope
“Salad Bowl of the World”
the city bills itself as the ~ (Salinas, California)
involvement: movement / rope
bouquet (collection) America’s salad bowl
the Salinas Valley is known as ~ (greens)
bouquet of memories the Salinas Valley is nicknamed ~
this record brings back a particular ~ (Melvyn Bragg) Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed ~

bouquet of tests place: farming & agriculture

Kerala is doing a ~: diagnostic, pooled... (pandemic) bowl (salad bowl / mixture)
group, set & collection: plant
melting pot, a (beautiful) tapestry, or a salad bowl
bow (verb) is the United States a ~

bow to convention mixture: food & drink

she’s an artist who won’t back down or ~ identity & nature: food & drink

bow to the inevitable bow out (verb)

we will have to ~ bow out
bowed to the inevitable he has refused pressure to ~ (a politician)
he has ~ (minister under attack resigns) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / dismissal,
bowed to pressure removal & resignation / starting, going, continuing &
he has ~ from industrialists (a politician) ending: theater / verb

bow (down) to (government) pressure box (box somebody into a corner)

he thought the Washington Post would ~
bowed to (public) pressure
he finally ~ to do something
bowing to the U.S.
the Turks are not ~ (arms dispute)
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
direction / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb
bowels (noun)
boxed himself into a corner
he has ~ on tax increases (a politician)
movement: corner
constraint & lack of constraint / situation: boxing / corner /
movement / sports & games / verb
box (in / out / outside the box)
out-of-the-box
how ~ can I go (actor takes strange roles)

bowels of the prison out-of-the-box idea

a tiny, dark room in the ~ (solitary confinement) she came up with an ~

bowels of Madison Square Gardens think out of the box

we’re now walking through the ~ (radio show) we have to think ~ (WHO and Ebola)

bowels of the ship think outside the box

he gathered his men in the engine room in the ~ she learned how to ~

deep in the bowels fit it (neatly) into a (single conceptual) box

scientists walk around ~ of the CDC (Atlanta, Georgia) data escapes attempts to ~ (cloud, stream, mine)

place: infrastructure constraint & lack of constraint / idea: container

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box (labeling) braced
put them in a box braced for a long siege
we don’t want to brand people, to ~ (legacy students) the demonstrators are ~
characterization: container braced for a (tropical) storm
Florida is ~
box (tick all the boxes, etc.)
readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability /
ticks all the boxes infrastructure
Tyson Fury ~ (the boxer)
♦ Satisfies all requirements for success. brain (noun)
judgement / cost & benefit: letters & characters brains behind the machinery
box (check the box, etc.) he is the ~ that makes the wave (Kelly Slater’s wave)
brains behind the project
check-the-box exercise he was the ~
it’s merely a one-week ~ exercise (mental health / policing)
mathematical brain
substance & lack of substance: letters & characters
he is the ~ behind the striking timepieces (sundials)
boxed in (verb) knowledge & intelligence: head
boxed in brain (on the brain)
she’s not about to be ~ (a singer and her style)
sex on the brain
constraint & lack of constraint: container
not that men need help getting ~
boy (blue-eyed boy) interest: head
blue-eyed boy of publishing brainchild
audio is the ~ at the moment (audio books)
brainchild of a Ladakhi engineer
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative / worth &
the ice stupa is the ~ (Sonam Wangchuk)
lack of worth: family / person
person: family brainchild of Ted Turner
24-hour news was the ~ (CNN)
boy (big boy, etc.)
brainchild of a (16-year-old high school) student
put on the big boy pants the stunt was the ~ (viral news story)
he needs to ~ and act as commander in chief
idea: head
growth & development: death & life creation & transformation: family / head
boy (bad boy) brain death (noun)
bad boy of Western philosophy brain death of Nato
Nietzsche is the ~ what we are currently experiencing is the ~ (Macron)
behavior / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person ♦ “You have to look at the background and see exactly which bits of Nato
Macron was criticizing.” (Sophie Pedder, Paris Bureau Chief of the
brace (verb) Economist, talking on NPR about Macron’s description of NATO as
“brain dead.” Angela Merkle labeled Macron’s description “drastic
words.”)
brace yourself
~ for bad news condition & status: health & medicine
brace for (yet another) election brain drain / gain
Israelis ~
brain drain
bracing for more fallout the agency has suffered a severe ~
Washington is ~ from the scandal
"brain gain"
braced for a typhoon out-of-state students lead to a ~ (at Chapel Hill, NC)
the Philippines ~ that could trigger flooding
reverse brain drain
readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability / the US is seeing a ~ as foreign students go home
infrastructure / verb
knowledge & intelligence / leaking: head

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brainstorm (verb) branch (taxonomy)
brainstorm ideas branches of Buddhism
~ for his current script the various ~ (Zen, Tibetan, etc.)
brainstorm solutions branches of Christianity
meet key people and ~ to the challenges you face the Armenian Church, one of the most ancient ~
brainstorm everything branch of Islam
if we tried to ~ that could possibly go wrong, we'd… the Hazara are members of the Shiite ~ (Afghanistan)
discrimination against adherents of the Shi'a ~
idea: head / storm / verb the Salafiya ~ regards Shiites as non-Muslims
brainstorm (noun) the Ismailis are a minority within the minority Shia ~

latest brainstorm branches of Islam

his ~ is to open a chain of "As Seen on TV" stores the centuries of enmity between the Sunni and Shiite ~

idea: head / storm branch of Shia Islam

Ismailism is a ~
brain trust
branches of biology
medical brain trust ecology is one of the hardest ~ (it's so complex)
he compared notes with the NFL's ~ (concussions, etc.)
branches of the (Hawiye) clan
knowledge & intelligence: head the many ~ (Mogadishu)
group, set & collection: money
branch of government
brainwash (verb) judges constitute a third ~
brainwashed him branch of knowledge
the cult had ~ theology was accepted as the supreme ~
violence: head / hygiene branches of the military
special operations forces from various ~
brainwashed
branch of physics
brainwashed by the media quantum mechanics is a ~
he says his co-worker has been ~ (politics)
branch of engineering
coerced, brainwashed or (even) drugged he felt the oil industry ~ suited his personality
she may have been ~ (terrorist)
branch of the Bani Hassan
violence: head / hygiene Al-khalayleh is a ~ (Jordan)
brake (control) branch bank
pump the brakes each of the four corners has a ~ (NYC)
some voters want them to ~ (impeachment) branch library
tap the brakes or any other ~
something is causing shoppers to ~ on spending ordnance branch
tapping the brakes he is in the ~, which provides ammunition
the Fed is ~ a bit on the economy service branch
put the brakes on (economic) growth veterans from all four ~s
industrialists fears the unions would ~ Salafiya branch
put the brakes on your feelings the ~ of Islam regards Shiites as non-Muslims
you ~ to avoid confrontation (Japanese “Gaman”) Shi'a branch
tap the brakes on spring break discrimination against adherents of the ~ of Islam
high gas prices may ~ Shia branch
control & lack of control / increase & decrease / speed: the Ismailis are a minority within the minority ~
mechanism / movement various branches
special operations forces from ~ of the military

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adherents of the (Shi'a) branch the ~ destroyed his university career
discrimination against ~ (in Saudi Arabia)
breach of (investigative) protocol
taxonomy & classification: tree it is the worst ~ (leak about case)
branching system: tree
breaches of respect
branch out (verb) ~ are sometimes met with vicious reprisal (surfing)

branched out into (food) wholesaling breaches of the rules

he ~ (a businessman) police were guilty of ~ on questioning suspects
growth & development: tree / verb breach of the (truce) treaty
branching system: tree we urge the North to apologize for the ~
brand (verb) breach of trust
Gordimer accused Roberts of ~ (over biography of her)
branded his accusers liars
he ~ (convicted sex abuser) breaches of Islamic law
they police the streets on the lookout for ~
brand them apostates
Sunni Arab extremists ~ (Iraq's Christians) breach in the public health system
the closure creates a serious ~
branded the extradition "unlawful"
the Russians ~ breach with President Yeltsin
how do you avoid a major ~ (diplomacy)
branded all Chechen rebels baby killers
he ~ (post-Beslan) data breach
the latest ~ (from the Dept. of Veterans Affair)
characterization: fire / mark / verb
safety breach
brave (verb) China closed the lab after a ~ (SARS)
braved the weather security breach
several hundred people ~ for a screening a series of ~s on the Internet
courage & lack of courage: verb the CIA's handling of the ~
a ~ of customer information (40 million credit-card holders)
brawl (noun) reports on ~s in airports

political brawl computer-security breaches

the government's ~s with the Muslim Brotherhood many companies have detected ~
this is turning into a ~ (funding)
substantial and significant breaches
scientific brawl police were guilty of ~ of the rules on questioning suspects
his appetite for ~s is increasing with age (scientist)
guilty of breaches
conflict: boxing / hitting, slamming & lashing the police were ~ of the rules on questioning suspects
brazen (adjective) detected (computer-security) breaches
many companies have ~
brazen
the company was ~ (bribes) jump into the breach
the company enlisted him to ~
brazen play
they orchestrated a ~ (political corruption) step into the breach
♦ The origin of this word relates to brass. the Germans and French have offered to ~ (intel)

restraint & lack of restraint: materials & substances stepped into the breach
behavior: materials & substances ordinary citizens have ~ (disaster relief)
♦ “The trenches having been opened and the works carried on in the
breach (noun) usual manner, the artillery at length began to make a breach, and after a
three days’ cannonade having made such an opening in the massive
breach of etiquette wall that it was reported practicable by Colonel Wellesley, orders were
the ~ was startling issued for storming the place... / Crossing the rocky bed of the Cavery,
under a terrible fire of cannon, jingalls, and musketry, the glacis and ditch
she was chastised for a ~ (teen golfer at tournament were soon crossed.../ Lieutenant-Colonel Dunlop was here wounded
when half way up by a sirdar of Mysore, who met him scimitar in hand.
breach of the peace Parrying a cut with his sabre, the colonel slashed open his antagonist’s
acts causing a ~ are prohibited (city park) breast, and mortally wounded him. The sirdar made another cut that
nearly hewed off the head of the colonel, and falling back into the breach
breach of (academic) politics was instantly bayoneted. Dunlop reached the summit, and then fell from

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loss of blood... / Within seven minutes from the time the assault began, subterfuge: allusion / verb
the British standard was waving on the outer bastion of the fortress...”
(“Seringapatam, 1799, from British Battles on Land and Sea by James breadcrumbed
Grant.)

protection & lack of protection: fortification / military breadcrumbed

how to know you’re being ~
bread and butter (livelihood)
subterfuge: allusion
earn its bread and butter breadcrumbing (leading someone on)
science has to ~ (practical applications)
breadcrumbing
bases: food & drink
~ is a modern term for intermittent reinforcement
bread-and-butter (adjective) ~ is leading someone on (at work or in a relationship)
♦ A boss might breadcrumb you by hinting at a reward that he never
bread-and-butter model intends to give you. Or a person you’re interested in might breadcrumb
the company's ~ you by texting you just enough to make you think she is interested in
you.
bases / importance & significance: food & drink
subterfuge: allusion
breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket, break (destroy / disrupt)
etc.)
break capitalism
breadbasket of India a super intelligent machine could ~ (AI)
the Punjab is the ~ (Sikhs)
broke the internet
Afghanistan's breadbasket what ~ (Facebook issues, etc.)
the broad Shomali Plain that was once ~
broke the Democratic Party
Brazil's (southern) breadbasket how Ted Kennedy ~
~ flourishes (vs. Amazon)
destruction: mechanism / verb
Pakistan's breadbasket disruption: mechanism / verb
Punjab is known as ~ for its agriculture breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.)
epithet / place: farming & agriculture
on the edge of a (nervous) breakdown
breadcrumb (evidence) I'm ~

breadcrumbs for the police feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / mental health
he would leave few ~ (serial murderer changes identity, etc.) break down (explain)
bread crumbs to the crime scene break it (all) down for us
her clothes were ~ (Central Park jogger) they will ~us (TV news analysis)
breadcrumb trail analysis, interpretation & explanation: mechanism / verb
an electronic ~ lets users backtrack (GPS)
clickstreams are the digital ~ which Amazon follows break down (functioning)
digital breadcrumbs authority broke down
police followed the ~ left behind by the victim and suspect political ~

“Q drops” or “breadcrumbs” discipline can break down

these messages became known as ~ QAnon conspiracy) in a crisis, ~ (first responders)
♦ A breadcrumb trail is an allusion to the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel.
fire ~ upon contact (military)
The children’s horrible mother wished to get rid of them in a time of
famine. She led them deep into the forest but the kids were able to return negotiations broke down
home by following a trail of small white stones they had dropped along ~ and resumed and broke down again
the way. The second time, they had no time to collect stones, so they
dropped crumbs of bread. But the birds ate the crumbs, and the kids communications system broke down
were lost. They eventually come to a gingerbread house where a the state-of-the-art ~
cannibal witch imprisoned them.

direction / evidence: allusion social order is breaking down

the ~ (in the wake of a great natural disaster)
breadcrumb (verb)
law and order has broken down
breadcrumbing you
functioning: mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
he’s just ~ by hinting at a new position for you

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failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / prep, adv, adj, the system is ~ (immigration)
particle / verb
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
break down (destroy) feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
condition & status: materials & substances
break down (trade) barriers
the European Union seeks to ~ breaking point (to the breaking point)
break down the resistance stretched to the breaking point
the operation seeks to ~ in Balad (military) we are ~ (police chief facing layoffs)
the Army and Marines are ~ (US in Iraq)
break down stereotypes fire crews are ~ (California wildfires)
we must ~ about Muslims
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
break down the stigma feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
we must ~ of adoption condition & status: materials & substances
breaks down blood clots breaking point (other)
the enzyme ~ (medicine)
breaking point
help break down every man has his ~ (Shawshank Redemption)
study abroad can ~ stereotypes and prejudice
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
destruction: mechanism / verb feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
break down (feeling) condition & status: materials & substances

break down
breakneck (adjective)
he would ~ and start sobbing about his dad breakneck rate
broke down Boeing has been churning out the popular model at a ~ (a
when police arrested her, she ~ plane)
speed: animal / horse
broke down in tears
she ~ as she told her sad story break off (verb)
broke down into tears broke off the attack
Walter Cronkite ~ on national television (Kennedy) the mountain lion finally ~ (on 70-year-old man / CA)
broke down in his tent broke off his engagement
he ~ and wept for 45 minutes (climber) he ~ to the former Playboy model
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / mental health / broke off (diplomatic) relations
verb Venezuela then ~ in response
break down (divide) broke off (business) ties
it ~ with... (two companies)
breaks down into (many small-unit) battles
combat in urban areas ~ (military) broke off (diplomatic) ties
Ecuador ~ with Colombia
breaks down into two (different) categories
the issue ~ break it off
until I got the nerve to ~ with my then-girlfriend
breaks down features into elements
faction-recognition devices ~ starting, going, continuing & ending: hand / verb
curtailment: hand / verb
broke down its data by age
the company ~ as well as income break out (verb)
break down ounces into gram fight broke out
midsize dealers ~ (illegal drugs) the ~ on Alexanderplatz square
taxonomy & classification: mechanism occurrence: pursuit, capture & escape / verb
breaking point (at the breaking point) breakout (breakout sessions, etc.)
at the breaking point breakout rooms
they are ~ (financially) Zoom ~ (online video conferencing)
at a breaking point breakout session

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 a ~ has been scheduled... (TESL convention) breath (hold one's breath)
♦ My dictionary gives two definitions. One that relates to escape from
enemy encirclement or from a prison. Two is a skin eruption. holding their breaths
division & connection: school & education people are ~ (waiting for a remedy)

breakthrough (noun) holding its breath

the world is collectively ~ (Japan nuclear disaster)
breakthrough
holding my breath
research failures are finally being outnumbered by the ~s
I was ~ walking to the mailbox to see... (medical bill)
breakthrough in the (murder) case
holding their breath
we are hoping for a ~
people are ~, waiting to see what happens next
breakthroughs in medicine fate, fortune & chance: breathing / verb
the new research might lead to ~
breath (take a breath, etc.)
breakthrough in (stalled) talks
a ~ on a bill that… (lawmakers) take a deep breath
this is a moment to ~ and think through things (crisis)
breakthroughs in (armor) technology
revolutionary ~ (military) take a deep breath and take the long view
it’s a good time to ~ (hope during pandemic)
breakthrough lead
even a $2.5 million reward has not produced a ~ ♦ Keep calm and carry on. (Great Britain, World War II.)
♦ Keep calm and chive on. (KCCO.)
breakthrough pain ♦ Keep calm and wear a mask. (The COVID-19 pandemic.)
a "rescue dose" for sudden, severe ~ (morphine)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / verb
breakthrough year
he is having a ~ (baseball player) breathe (caves breathe, etc.)
research breakthrough breathe
~s have reduced the cost all caves ~
~s have led to new treatments for stroke
resemblance: bodily reaction / breathing
diplomatic breakthrough
the U.N.-sponsored gathering is a ~
breathing space (and breathing room)
revolutionary breakthroughs breathing room
~ in armor technology (military) provide ~ to consider the options
the rate increase gives the Postal Service "~"
scientific breakthrough
it's a ~ a little breathing room
the Turks are giving the Saudis ~ (to reply)
technological breakthrough
the first ATMs were a ~ (1970s) amelioration & renewal: breathing
time: breathing / place
♦ In dictionaries, this word dates to 1918—World War I—when soldiers
struggled and died to break through enemy defenses. breathless (adjective)
importance & significance / progress & lack of progress: breathless coverage
direction / military / movement blaring headlines, fleshy photos and ~ (a tabloid)
breath (take one's breath away) feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing
took my breath away breathtaking (adjective)
she ~
it ~ (a huge inflated medical bill) breathtaking advance
this is a ~ (legislative act)
took your breath away
it ~ (an exciting boxing match) breathtaking performance
she gave a ~ (skater)
takes your breath away
the canyon always ~ (Grand Canyon / winter) breathtaking power
American prosecutors have ~
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / verb
breathtaking speed
the cars go at ~s (racing)

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breathtaking view primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal
a front porch with a ~ of the mountains breeder reactor (noun)
the skyway provides ~s of the southern Appalachians
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing breeder reactor for extremism
the Punjab has been called a ~ (Pakistan)
breed (create) creation & transformation: nuclear energy
breeds (political) bedlam breeding ground
the system ~ (government)
breeding ground for (religious) extremism
breeds corruption mosques are a ~ (Pakistan)
the ruling ~ (campaign finance)
breeding ground for (would-be) jihadists
breeds the desire Zarqa is a ~ (Jordan)
success ~ for more success (school)
breeding ground for (serial) killers
bred jealousy the Pacific Northwest is a ~
success has ~ elsewhere (sports)
breeding grounds for terrorism
Breeds Peril the refugee camps are prime ~
Yellowstone Bison Thrive, but Success ~ (article) the Sudan and Somalia, ~
bred (more) success breeding ground for viruses
success ~ (diplomacy) the Internet is a ~
creation & transformation: animal / verb creation & transformation: animal
relationship: animal / verb
breed (type) brew (mixture)
witches' brew
breed of enthusiast at one time, the US military was a ~ of racism
roller coasters inspire a peculiar ~
lethal brew
breed apart driving fatalities result from a ~ of… (India)
the war made them a ~ (W.W. II veterans)
toxic brew
breed of athlete their illnesses resulted from a ~ of contaminants
a pole vaulter is a very special ~ (danger) we fight this ~ of stupidity and… (US exceptionalism)
different breed mixture: food & drink
they are a ~ to those who... (big riders / surfing)
brew (activity)
peculiar breed
roller coasters inspire a ~ of enthusiast brewing
this issue has been ~, and they knew it would bubble up
rare breed again
he’s one of a ~ of technical divers
brewing in Nasiriya
special breed another humanitarian crisis may be ~ (Iraq War)
it's a dangerous job that takes a ~
a pole vaulter is a very ~ of athlete (danger) controversy is brewing
♦ “Some professors are jerks, and students should learn the identifying a~
marks of the latter breed early on.” (Taking sexual advantage of
students.) crisis (in Haiti) has been brewing
~ since…
taxonomy & classification: animal
identity & nature: animal problem is brewing
breed (dying breed, etc.) a new ~ (too little space at Metro stations)
revolution is brewing
dying breed a ~ (against bilingual education)
he is the last of a ~ (race car driver)
moderates are a ~ (politics) storm was brewing
outside, the ~ (protests against the government)
Old Breed
With the ~ (World War II soldiers) tensions are brewing
~ between supporters and opponents
decline / past & present: animal

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activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water
initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water
bride (Bride of the Red Sea, etc.)
Bride of the Red Sea
Jeddah, the ~ (Saudi Arabia)
epithet: love, courtship & marriage
bridge (noun)
mirror and a bridge
we are a ~ to culture at large (TikTok)
build bridges to the Taliban
he has sought to ~
burned some bridges
he's ~ in the tennis world (troubled athlete)
division & connection: bridge / river
bridge (verb)
bridge the divide
they want to ~ and find common ground (gun control)
bridging the divide
ballet and baseball are ~ (Cuba and the US)
~ won’t be easy (NFL players’ protests)
bridge the gap
~ between the life you lead and the life you want to live
bridge the rupture
US diplomats are trying to ~ (Middle East)
division & connection: bridge / river / verb
amelioration & renewal: bridge / river / verb
bridge (air bridge, etc.)
bridge between the Middle East and Anatolia
Turkey is a ~ (eastern Turkey / Van)
air bridge
the ~ is important (food drops to starving refugees)
Egypt poured men and materiel into Yemen over an ~
she will fly out of Sanaa as part of this medical ~
Arctic Bridge
Arctic warming could revitalize the so-called ~
trans-Atlantic bridge
they have been trying to reestablish that ~ (Mafia / heroin)
transportation: bridge / river
division & connection: bridge / river
route: bridge / infrastructure / river
bridge (water under the bridge)
water under the bridge
it's ~ now
past & present: bridge / movement / river / water
time: bridge / movement / river / water
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reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: bridge / movement
/ river / water
bridge (a bridge to sell)
sell that same bridge over and over again
they are happy to ~ (N. Korean promises)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: bridge
bridge (a bridge too far, etc.)
a bridge too far
the idea is ~ (a bad idea that goes too far)
I hope he wins, but my head says it will be ~ (Amir Khan)
a game too far
it was, in some respects, ~ for England (World Cup)
a step too far
this could just be ~ (Khan vs. Crawford)
this approach is ~ (media coverage)
♦ This refers to Operation Market Garden during World War II. Its
meaning is to overreach.
restraint & lack of restraint: military / history / allusion
allusion: military
bridge (we will cross that bridge when
we come to it)
bridge
that’s a ~ she can cross at a later date
cross that bridge
we will ~ when we come to it
we will ~ and that decision will be made
we’re going to ~ when we get to it on Friday
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / future / time /
timeliness & lack of timeliness: bridge / journeys & trips /
movement / river / verb
bridge (burn one’s bridges)
burn bridges
you never want to ~
burned some bridges
he's ~ in the tennis world (troubled athlete)
division & connection: bridge / river / water
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bridge / river
/ water
bridge-building (through bridge-
building)
resolve issues through bridge-building
they sought to ~
division & connection: bridge / river
amelioration & renewal: bridge / river
bridge-building
bridge-building visit
the admission came ahead of Medvedev's ~ to Warsaw
division & connection: bridge / river he is a ~ (computers)
amelioration & renewal: bridge / river
brilliant idea
bridgehead (noun) I had a ~

bridgehead brilliant job

Hong Kong is not a ~ to subvert the mainland (China) who did such a ~

establish a bridgehead brilliant (new) plan

hackers are keen to ~ on internal networks a ~ to…
presence & absence: bridge / military / river brilliant scientist
survival, persistence & endurance: bridge / military / river she's a ~ who…
bright (adjective) brilliant and abrasive (m)
a ~ engineer named…
bright
her future is ~ superlative: light & dark
character & personality: light & dark
brighter
the future for the company has never been ~ brim (verb)
bright idea brimming with patriotism
it's not easy to turn a ~ into a genuine business he staged a revival meeting ~
superlative: light & dark brims with irony
his account ~ (a book)
bright (bright side)
amount: container / verb
look on the bright side sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: container / verb
well, ~…. (consolation)
bring (verb)
flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark
resiliency: light & dark brings (political) pain
Trump knows economic meltdown ~ (coronavirus)
brighten (verb)
brought its own problems
brightened the mood the solution has ~
the glad tidings ~ of Lincoln (military victories
brought joy to the citizens
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / mental health / the musical ~ of an anxious nation at war (“Oklahoma!”)
verb
bring perpetrators to justice
brilliance (superlative) we need to ~ (sexual abuse)
flashes of brilliance giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
this was a performance of heart, quality and ~ (soccer) fictive transportation: verb
he produced occasional ~ when he returned (a soccer player) relationship: movement / verb
superlative: light & dark bring (bring it)
brilliant (technology) bring it
if you’re gonna sing it, you gotta ~ (gospel music)
"brilliant" bomb
~s are in the future (Low Cost Autonomous Attack Systems) bringing the brawl
~s are the smart bombs of the future Ryder though is ~ and has done all night (boxing)
~s strike some as the ultimate nightmare
brought it in Game 1
from dumb to smart to brilliant (m) Cassidy Hubbarth talks about who ~ (NBA finals)
~ bombs (military) ♦ “It’s all about that dog that he gonna bring to the fight.” (A boxer
speaking about what makes a winning boxer.)
knowledge & intelligence: mechanism
ability & lack of ability: mechanism commitment & determination: giving, receiving, bringing &
returning / verb
brilliant (superlative)
bring around (verb)
brilliant (medical and military) career
after a ~ bring Londoners around
what will ~ (to support the Olympics)
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allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / verb
bring back (restore)
bring the beaver back
efforts are underway to ~
bring him back
nothing we can do can ~ (executed for murder)
amelioration & renewal / primacy, currency, decline &
obsolescence / survival, persistence & endurance: giving,
receiving, bringing & returning / verb
bring down (verb)
he urged them not to ~ of confrontation
proximity: ground, terrain & land
fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
brink (back from the brink)
back from the brink
Wall Street is ~
step back from the brink
they must ~ (rioters battle soldiers)
bring them back from the brink
we must ~ of extinction (endangered animals)

bring down some racial barriers pull his friend back from the brink
it helped to ~ (basketball) he tried to ~ (drug intervention)
proximity: ground, terrain & land
brought down his own career
he ~ with drugs (a baseball player) fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
survival, persistence & endurance: ground, terrain & land
bring down the (whole) edifice brinksmanship (noun)
any crack in the system would ~ (dictatorship)
destruction: direction / ruins / verb brinksmanship
there’s a lot of ~ involved (negotiations)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / verb
brink (on the brink) fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
position, policy & negotiation: ground, terrain & land
on the brink of collapse bristle (emotional arousal)
the government is ~
on the brink of default bristled at questions
the country is teetering ~ (Greece / economy) the senator ~ about his patriotism

on the brink of disaster bristles at the suggestion

the country is ~ (economy) she ~ that she encouraged cheating (an educator)
♦ Piloerection is a sign of emotional arousal. In chimpanzees, it will
on the brink of a (polio) epidemic cause the hair on their shoulders to stick straight up. At the same time,
chimpanzees might hoot and throw pebbles.
West and Central Africa are ~
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / dog / hair / verb
on the brink of failure
the meeting was ~ (UN) bristle (with security, etc.)
on the brink of insolvency bristling with security
the factory is teetering ~ the courthouse is ~
on the brink of unconsciousness protection & lack of protection: animal / fortification /
he was ~ (trapped caver) military / verb
on the brink of stardom brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.)
he has been hovering ~ (a film actor)
emerged (emotionally) brittle
on the brink of (another) summit bid he ~ (from a turbulent childhood)
10 days later, ~ (climbing)
feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
hovering on the brink ability & lack of ability: materials & substances
he has been ~ of stardom (a film actor)
broadside (noun)
teetering on the brink
the factory is ~ of insolvency level broadsides at Romney's wealth
proximity: ground, terrain & land Democrats ~ (politics)
fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land accusation & criticism: boat / military / weapon
brink (to the brink) speech: military / weapon

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Brobdingnagian (adjective) feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
Brobdingnagian Embassy speech: health & medicine
the US is downsizing its ~ in Iraq
brother (brother in arms, etc.)
♦The allusion is to the satire Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift The
same book contributed Lilliputian to the language. brother of igneous volcanoes
♦ Elena Tapia in “Primary Metaphor and the Fantastic” brilliantly mud volcanoes are the poor ~ (research, etc.)
analyzes Gulliver’s Travels and other fantastical works of literature,
including Alice and Wonderland, through the lens of conceptual brothers to us
metaphor to explain what it is that makes them so fantastic! Even better,
her paper is available at ERIC, ED472663. the Syrians are ~ (Iraqi Christian refugee)

size: allusion / person brother in arms

allusion: books & reading the soldier's reflexive instinct to protect his ~
broken (failure) fraternity brothers
he died after chugging whiskey with ~ (initiation)
broken
our food-safety system in this country is ~ (salmonella) big brother
there is no question in my mind that the system is ~ he came from Instagram’s ~, Facebook (Mosseri)
the economy is ~, and Obama can't fix it
poor brother
what is ~ (teachers, parents, students / education)
mud volcanoes are the ~ of igneous volcanoes (research)
broken home band of brothers
he comes from a ~
they are more than a fun-loving, bike-riding ~ (gang)
broken life division & connection / person / relationship: family
put back the pieces of a ~ (schizophrenia)
brotherhood
condition & status / failure, accident & impairment / flaws
& lack of flaws / functioning: mechanism brotherhood of the sea
broken (English, etc.) we have seen what the ~ means (international rescue)
brotherhood of firefighters
broken Arabic the ~
reporters asked him in ~ if…
brotherhood of submariners
broken English the ~
the Peruvian liaison officer spoke ~
brotherhood, loyalty, courage, and self-sacrifice
flaws & lack of flaws: speech / mechanism
the virtues of ~
speech: functioning
broken (feeling) brotherhood, service, sacrifice
~ (Rangers)
broken man Sufi brotherhoods
he left high-spirited, but he returned a ~ (war) Chechnya's ~
left (absolutely) broken ♦ "We have seen in deeds, not words, what the brotherhood of the sea
means." (A Russian Navy official, on the successful rescue of sailors
his family had been ~ by his death
aboard a sunken mini-sub. The British, Japanese, and Americans had all
♦ “You must not think of him as a man who had been broken... He had rushed to help.)
been hurt, he was wounded, but he was still the same man in great
♦ "My hope is that this site contributes to making more people visit our
spirits. He thought the best spirit of resistance is joyfulness.” (An
museum and that the pilgrimage to the Island of Gorée provides an
acquaintance of Boris Pasternak in his last years.)
impetus to an enhanced brotherhood able to exorcise the demons of the
past." (Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, 2005,
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / mechanism speaking about the island opposite Dakar which was the largest slave-
broken-hearted trading center on the African coast, ruled in succession by the
Portuguese, Dutch, English and French.)

broken-hearted (m) group, set & collection: family

a ~ man division & connection / relationship: family
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart brought up
heart: functioning / mechanism
brought up to feel
bromide (noun) I was ~ proud of the Empire
bromide growth & development: death & life
this is sound advice as far as it goes, but it's a ~

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bruise (verb) conflict is ~
activity: bubble / heating water / temperature / verb /
bruised feelings
water
but the decision has ~ here (by church, to…)
initiation: bubble / heating water / temperature / verb /
bruised some egos water
he ruffled some feathers and ~ (a general)
bubble (activity)
feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark
/ sensation / verb stock bubble
but now that the ~ has burst (1990s)
bruised
dot-com bubble
left the Administration bruised the ~
the experience ~ (diplomacy)
housing bubble
feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark the ~ will eventually pop (housing market)
/ sensation
in an (influence) bubble
bruising (adjective) we are in ~ (the advertising industry)

bruising (political) attacks boom and bust of (Iceland’s tourism) bubble

after days of ~ on his tax returns and his record... the ~

bruising election bubble has burst

it was a ~ but now that the stock ~… (1990s)

feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark bubble has deflated
/ sensation Iceland’s tourism ~

brush aside (verb) bubble burst

then the ~, and investors lost fortunes (stocks)
brushed aside their hosts activity: bubble / water
the Titans ~ (NFL football)
substance & lack of substance: bubble / water
dismissal, removal & resignation: hand / verb
bubble (isolation)
brush off (verb)
their own bubble
brushed off concerns they can’t see outside of ~ (Facebook leaders)
he ~ about his security the people at Facebook live in ~

brushed off their concerns media bubble

he angrily ~ (a manager) the ~ caused blind spots and groupthink (politics)

brushed off his protest pierced the bubble

they ~ Trump ~ of this isolated leadership (North Korea)
dismissal, removal & resignation: hand / verb get out of the (Washington) bubble
NPR needs to ~
brush-off ♦ “Sixty-eight percent of tweets between journalists who work at The
Washington Post, NPR, [and the] New York Times... are to each other.”
gave me the brush off (“How Journalists Congregating Into ‘Microbubbles’ Affects Quality Of
she ~ News Reporting,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 12, 2020.)

dismissal, removal & resignation: hand isolation & remoteness: bubble / container / water
avoidance & separation: bubble / container / water
brush up against
bubble (quarantine)
brushed up against this story
I was amazed I had never ~ (author / camels in US) “Bubble Boy”
the ~ was described in a documentary in the mid ‘70s
fictive meeting & seeing: verb gene therapy to treat ~disease (SCID)
bubble (verb) bubble experiment
bubbling here for the NHL, the ~ paid off (sports goes on in pandemic)
there has been a long-term democracy moment ~ quarantine bubble
bubbling (just) under the surface some TV shows have continued to shoot in ~s

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social bubbles maybe this shouldn’t be in the ~ of things
the pros and cons of ~ or pods... (COVID-19)
essential and nonessential buckets
one-way ‘bubble’ it’s hard to put things in ~
~ opens between Australia and New Zealand (Covid-19)
put them in the same bucket
COVID-Free Bubbles but with Snowden & Assange, I do ~
sleep away camps offer ~ for remote learning
taxonomy & classification: container
in a bubble buckle (give way)
when you’re ~ for 100 days, it’s tough (COVID-19)
in the Bubble buckled
David Vetter became “the Boy in ~” (1984) instead of doubling down on the policy, he ~
destruction / failure, accident & impairment / resistance,
in the (NBA) bubble
what it’s like to be one of the chefs cooking for athletes ~ opposition & defeat: infrastructure / ruins / verb

created a bubble budding

the college has ~ to keep COVID-19 out budding adventurer
stay in their “bubble” the ~ claimed she was not afraid (Abby Sunderland, 16)
NBA playoffs are underway as players ~ budding career
isolation & remoteness: bubble / container / water her ~ came to a screeching halt (a Nike runner)
protection & lack of protection: bubble / container / water budding ("heritage language") movement
avoidance & separation: bubble / container / water the ~ in education
bubble up (verb) budding relationship
bubble up they managed to keep their ~ a secret (guy / girl)
the Troubles continue to ~ in unexpected places (Ireland) budding romance
this issue has been brewing, and they knew it would ~ again the innocence of a ~ (teens)
activity / appearance & disappearance / initiation: bubble / growth & development: plant
heating water / prep, adv, adj, particle / temperature / verb appearance & disappearance: plant
/ water
budge (verb)
bubbling (adjective)
budge
bubbling, unsolved mystery the negotiators won’t ~
his case remained a ~ for years (Kim Philby)
resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb
activity / initiation: bubble / heating water / temperature / position, policy & negotiation: movement / verb
water commitment & determination: movement / verb
buccaneer (person) budget (attention budget, etc.)
individualist, a buccaneer attention budget
Amundsen was an ~ (not a public servant) ads take a toll on the user’s ~ (internet)
buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates constraint & lack of constraint: money
they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers)
buffet (noun)
taking & removing: crime / person / sea
person: boat / crime / sea buffet of injustices
that place was a virtual ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
buck (verb)
alternatives & choices: food & drink
bucked his party amount: food & drink
he ~ (John McCain / politics) group, set & collection: food & drink
resistance, opposition & defeat: horse / animal / verb bug (enthusiasm)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: horse / animal /
verb travel bug
she said she got the ~ from her father...
bucket (category)
internet bug
police bucket have you got the ~

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acting bug ~ early in doctors' training
he took some drama classes and developed an ~
build (company) solidarity
skating bug he pays for Caribbean cruises to ~
he caught the ~ at age 8 (ice-skater Rudy Galindo)
build a team
bitten by the cycling bug trying to ~ is a hard juggling act (basketball)
as a youth he played soccer before he was ~
build (community) ties
enthusiasm: insect people don't stay long enough to ~
build (create) building a better tomorrow
we are ~
build an (international anti-terror) coalition
they seek to ~ build trust
you can ~ by… (dealing with kid's separation anxiety)
build confidence
rehearsals ~ and improve performance (military) build a (peaceful) world community
they seek to ~
build his confidence
he needs time to ~ built her reputation over two decades
she ~ (an educator)
build my confidence
rehearsals ~ and improve performance (military) building a case one block at a time
they are ~ (for conspiracy)
built a (drug-trafficking) empire
he ~ in the Caribbean build self-esteem
some argue that the best way to ~ is to…
built a (nationwide freight-hauling) empire
Johnnie B. Hunt, who ~ anger is building
the ~ here (oil spill)
build the future
the motto was Pro futuro aedificamus—we ~ (school) aims to build
a personable style of communication that ~ rapport
build a (secure) future
~ for their children trying to build
~ a team is a hard juggling act (basketball)
build interest
Leslie's dunk will ~ in the WNBA failure to build
his government's ~ a healthy economy
build a (16-point) lead
~ (basketball) time to build
he needs ~ his confidence
built a good life
we ~ together hard to build
the company's reputation, ~, easy to destroy
build muscles
some bodybuilders use GHB thinking it will ~ creation & transformation: infrastructure / verb

build opposition building block

he participated in clandestine meetings to ~
building block of society
build (a series of working) partnerships the tribe is the ~ (rural south Iraq)
~ (federal agencies)
use the experience as a building block
build rapport you can ~
a personable style of communication that aims to ~
bases: infrastructure
builds (close) relationships build up (verb)
the chaplain ~ with prisoners (prison)
built her reputation building up
she ~ as an educator over two decades (fired) a lot of anger is ~
increase & decrease: infrastructure / verb
build a reputation
you can't ~ on what you are going to do (Henry Ford); built
Cotto continues to ~ (the boxer)
built around the church
build (deductive) skills his life was ~

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configuration: infrastructure shape: bullet / weapon
built in bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.)
built in magic bullet
is there an assessment tool that is ~ nothing yet has proved a ~ (against oak-killing spore)
downtime built in silver bullet
their jobs have extended ~ (firefighters) the system was sold as a ~ but it never worked (E-Verify)
built-in incentive proved to be a silver bullet
stock options provide a ~ hydroxychloroquine has not ~ (COVID)
attachment: infrastructure amelioration & renewal: bullet / magic / weapon
identity & nature: infrastructure
configuration: infrastructure
bullet (dodge a bullet)
bulge (shape) dodged a bullet
we ~ here (car bomb ignites but fails to explode)
youth bulge
population trends will dramatically increase the Yemeni ~ dodged a (big) bullet
we ~ (hurricane misses refineries)
increase & decrease: shape
fate, fortune & chance: bullet / weapon / verb
bull (bull in a china shop)
bullet (take a bullet for somebody)
bull in a china shop
she's a ~ take a bullet for the president
he has said he would ~ (a lawyer)
bull-in-a-china-shop reputation
he showed a tactical skill which belied his ~ (politician) allegiance, support & betrayal: bullet / weapon / verb
commitment & determination: bullet / weapon / verb
force: animal / cows & cattle
bullet (bite the bullet)
bulldoze (verb)
bite the bullet
bulldozed him we’re going to have to ~ (pay the tariff)
Wilder then fell again as Fury ~ (boxing)
survival, persistence & endurance: bullet / verb / weapon
bulldoze me commitment & determination: bullet / verb / weapon
he tried to ~, but I resisted...
bulletproof (adjective)
bulldozing values
critics say he is ~ that Americans hold dear (politics) bulletproof
your logic is ~
destruction: tools & technology / verb our story was ~ (investigative reporter)
force: tools & technology / verb the case against him needed to be ~ (expensive lawyers)
bulldozer (noun) seemed bulletproof
he ~ just a few weeks ago (politician under fire)
expect a bulldozer
if you took on Joe McCarthy, you could ~ coming your way flaws & lack of flaws: bullet / weapon
destruction / force: tools & technology bullied
bullet (velocity) bullied by a liberal media
we won’t be ~ (politics)
bullets of sound
acoustic weapons can fire ~ bullied by the north
southerners complain of being ~ (Sudan)
bullet train
at the controls of a Japanese ~ coercion & motivation: school & education
oppression: school & education
speed: bullet / weapon
bull's-eye (shape)
bullet (shape)
"bull's-eye" rash
bullets, needles, prisms, columns the disease is characterized by a ~ (Lyme disease)
snowflakes come in shapes: ~, stars cups, and plates
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bull's-eye (target) hit a speedbump
his investigation ~ when he met with...
bull's-eye on his back
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
he has a ~ (a wanted terrorist)
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
put a bull's-eye on the city bump (bump in the road, etc.)
the hurricane has ~ (New Orleans 2012)
target: weapon bump in the road
this is just a ~ (personal setback)
bully (verb) it was just a ~ of their ideal lives
bully the (national) judiciary bumps in the road to toilet training
his comments are a shameless effort to ~ many families encounter ~

bully the president into backing down
the Republicans are trying to ~ on reform
coercion & motivation: school & education / verb
oppression: school & education / verb
bully (person)
bully in their region
Israel was the classic ~ (Egyptians / 1973 war)
encounter bumps in the road
many families ~ to toilet training
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
bump (increase)
bump in business
the films saw a ~ following their Tony wins

bullies on the block bump in earnings

the Patriots are no longer the ~ (NFL football) the company has seen a ~

internet bullies increase & decrease: shape

people who have been harassed by ~
bumpy (adjective)
regional bully
many see Saudi Arabia as a ~ (its neighbors) bumpy ride
consumers are in for a ~ this year (customer service)
stood up to the (schoolyard) bully
he ~ (student vs. record-industry lawyers) bumpy road
the economy is on the ~ to recovery
coercion & motivation: school & education / person
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
oppression: school & education / person
person: school & education buoy (verb)
bulwark buoy the movement
bulwark against (Republican) excesses Trump’s rhetoric continues to ~
he was a ~ (a politician) feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb / water
bulwark against (religious) extremism buoyant (feeling)
he had been a ~ (deposed leader)
buoyant
bulwark against (government) tyranny the Russian mood is definitely ~
the Second Amendment is a ~ (right to bear arms) the German fans are ~ and singing (soccer game)
bulwark against vice buoyant about ending
playgrounds provide a ~ (urbanization) they were ~ their opponents' unbeaten streak (sports)
bulwark of stability and democracy buoyant mood
India represents a ~ compared with Pakistan the members of the expedition were in a ~
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
buoyant music
bump (speed bump) she loved the musical's ~

speed bumps buoyant optimism

there have been a few ~ (negotiations) he expressed ~ that…

speed bump of the land buoyant, lively (m)

so as soon as it gets over the ~ (hurricane / Yucatan) it was a ~ performance (music)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / water

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buoyant (personality) the ~ is on the FDA to show…

buoyant 70 burden (of paperwork) on researchers

the ~ can be great
he is a ~ (years of age)
buoyant confidence debt burden
she couldn't get out from under her crushing ~
she projects a ~
~ keeps poor countries from healing their sick
buoyant personality
tax burden
she has a ~ given her circumstances (illegal immigrant)
the ~ still falls on the shoulders of regular Americans
buoyant temperament the local ~ on the mall store
she has a ~
financial burden
character & personality: direction / water we must reduce the ~s on patients (health care)
a wedding can be a huge ~ (Arab countries)
buoyant (strong)
heavy burden
buoyant he carries a ~ of responsibility (ruler)
voters supported him while the economy was ~ the ~ of this mammoth job (Man U manager)
Asian economies remain resilient, even ~
physical and emotional burdens
buoyant demand the ~ of child-rearing (on grandparents)
the offering has seen ~ from investors
blessing and a burden
buoyant (job) growth patients see choice as both a ~
we are seeing rapid, ~
burden falls
keeps prices buoyant the ~ on the shoulders of those least able to bear it
the rarity of such collectibles ~ the ~ primarily on women (health-care decisions)
increase & decrease: direction / water carry the burden
buoyed some kids ~ of extra responsibility (autistic sibling)
ease the burden
buoyed with hope
how can we ~ of the poor
he seemed ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / water get out from under her crushing (debt) burden
she couldn't ~
survival, persistence & endurance: direction / water
burden (verb) shoulder the burden
locals must ~ after regime change (Rumsfeld)
burden his wife with (toilsome and difficult) work affliction / oppression: burden / weight
a man should not ~, based on her abilities and custom
burgeoning (adjective)
burden our grandchildren with this debt
it is wrong to ~ burgeoning influence
affliction / oppression: burden / weight / verb they wish to allay fears about its ~
♦ This word relates to the growth of plants.
burden (noun)
growth & development: plant
burden increase & decrease: plant
some view stress as a challenge rather than a ~
buried (concealment)
burden of expectation
she suffers from the ~ buried
it’s the past, it’s ~, we don’t want to dig it up again
burden of guilt
they share a ~ buried in the archives
the information was ~
burdens of leadership
the ~ are heavy (politics) buried in the past
it is ~…
burden of the past
future generations won't suffer the ~ buried in the navigation bar
the link was ~ (poor Web site design)
burden of proof
buried facts

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 ~ about the (plutonium) contamination burning (slow-burning)
stay buried slow-burning rebellion
the past did not ~ (The Troubles and Brexit)
the nation is in the grip of a ~ against the regime
concealment & lack of concealment: ground, terrain & land
slow-burning war
buried (buried in debt, etc.) the Troubles, the ~ in Northern Ireland

buried in debt activity: fire

are you ~ burnish (verb)
buried in work burnished his credentials
homicide detectives were ~ (leads)
his work in Beijing ~ (a politician)
buried away burnished his reputation
she was ~ in the U.S. Department of Agriculture
his sermons have ~
involvement / oppression: burial / ground, terrain & land ♦ If you burnish something, you rub it until it shines.

burned (impressed) increase & decrease: light & dark / verb

burned into our (collective) consciousness burn off (verb)

fairy tales or folktales ~
burn off her (abundant) energy
impression: fire / mark / sensation your toddler needs to ~
burned (hurt) burn off stress
exercise is a great way to ~
burned by their (past) investments
they were ~ in failed projects (tech industry) amelioration & renewal: fire / verb

got burned burn out (verb)

many investors ~ (fraud)
burn out
♦ Once burned, twice shy!
he warns that troops will "~" and leave the service
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
burned out
burned-out (and burnt-out) what happens to adjuncts once they've ~

burnt out from years burn out from the environment

he felt ~ of working on... people who ~ (technology and computers)

feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation burn out or fade away
playboating didn't ~ (whitewater rodeos, etc.)
burner (front burner)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
put the environment on the front burner decline: fire / verb
they seek to ~ (election)
burnout (noun)
put having more fun on the front burner
maybe it's time to ~ (ad for a cruise ship) competitive burnout
he quit the tour, citing ~ (a surfer)
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position feeling, emotion & effect: fire

burning (burning desire, etc.) burn through (verb)

burning desire burning through cash
the ~ to be the best (basketball) Boeing has been ~ at a significant rate
he has a ~ to get the facts (human rights investigator) consumption: fire / verb
burning question burrow (burrow into)
she has one ~ (what did my son die for in Iraq war)
burrowing into the coal industry
burning righteousness Communists are ~, newspapers and shipyards
she pays a price for her ~ (a play)
concealment & lack of concealment: animal
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
subterfuge: animal

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burst (activity) destruction: burial / death & life / verb
curtailment: burial / death & life / verb
burst of negotiating bus (throw somebody under the bus)
the crisis signaled a fresh ~
threw us under the bus
burst of recognition
I felt like he ~ (a politician)
you’re getting a ~ (an old Blues singer)
♦ Geoff Nunberg talked about this idiom in “Primaries Toss Some ‘Under
activity: explosion the Bus,’ on Fresh Air, April 22, 2008. In 2019, NPR’s All Things
Considered gave the expression a “1-Minute Listen” with examples,
burst (burst into tears, etc.) dates of usage, and its use in a rap song. In that 1-minute listen, Ammon
Shea at Merriam-Webster points out that the expression is not usually, if
ever, used as a direct threat: “I will throw you under the bus!” certainly
burst into applause does sound odd! (“The Origins Of ‘Throw Him (Or Her) Under the Bus,’”
the staff ~ (teachers) NPR, All Things Considered, November 11, 2019.)

burst into laughter allegiance, support & betrayal: violence / verb

she ~
bus (allegiance)
burst into tears
I ~, assuming… on the bus
you’re either ~ or not on the bus, and I’m driving the bus
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb ♦ This is like the politician who said, “This is my truck, and in my truck we
burst (burst into violence, etc.) go by my rules.”

allegiance, support & betrayal / control & lack of control /

burst into violence unanimity & consensus: mechanism
lingering tensions ~
bust (oil bust, etc.)
initiation: explosion / verb
burst on / onto the scene, etc. oil bust
historic oil bust delivers a gut punch to Texas county
burst on the scene boom and bust
he ~ in 1991 (independent politician Ross Perot) Argentina is used to ~ (the economy)
burst onto the stage activity: explosion
he was one of several poets who ~ in the 60s (Russia)
cost & benefit: explosion
attention, scrutiny & promotion / coming, arriving, staying, butcher (verb)
leaving & returning: explosion / verb
butchered his presentation
bury (conceal) he ~
bury it failure, accident & impairment: meat / verb
catch and kill is buying the rights to a story to ~
butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)
bury the truth
the government is trying to ~ Butcher of Baghdad
ridding the world of the ~ (Saddam Hussein)
bury (radio) listings
newspapers ~ Butcher of Ethiopia
General Rodolfo Graziani, the ~ (Yekatit 12, 1937)
buried the report
Harvard found the same thing but ~ (race issue) Butcher of Fezzan
the Arabs called him “the ~” (Graziani, 1930-34, Libya)
concealment & lack of concealment: burial / light & dark /
ground, terrain & land / verb butcher of Mosul
the execution of Shukair Farid, "the ~" (Iraq)
bury (bury oneself in something, etc.)
criminals and butchers
buries herself in her phone the terrorists are ~ (Prince Abdullah)
whenever they’re together, she ~ (teen and father)
♦ “The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.” (The
absorption & immersion: burial / verb Italian General Rodolfo Graziani.)

violence: epithet / meat / person

bury (kill)
oppression: epithet / meat / person
bury any chance
annexation moves would ~ of peace (Middle East)

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butterfly (shape) it’s not time to ~ yet
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
butterfly ballot
the ~ confused many voters (2000 presidential election) button (hot button)
"butterfly" mines hot buttons
PFM-1 ~ scattered from the air (Afghanistan); he addresses love, expectation, and other ~ (writer)
children think ~ are toys he addresses jealousy, grief, and other ~ (writer)
shape: insect he addresses disappointment, fidelity and other ~

butterfly (social butterfly) hot-button issue

another ~ at the WTO was dumping
social butterfly let's talk about some of the ~s (politics)
she's a ~
hot-button subject
character & personality: insect it's a ~ (racism and bias)
society: insect / person feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / temperature
butterfly (butterflies in stomach) buttress (verb)
had butterflies in my stomach
I ~ (a nervous performer before a performance)
buttress Ethiopia against threats
a better approach is to ~ to its survival by…
feeling, emotion & effect: insect / stomach
buttress its argument
button (push a button / action) Eritrea produced Italian colonial-era maps to ~

push the button buttressed his case

officials must decide when to ~ (COVID circuit-breaker) he has ~ with science's latest discoveries about…
♦ “We pressed the big button with rescue helicopters, rescue dogs, the buttress European influence
Red Cross, the civil defense, fire, health and police.” (A Norwegian,
speaking in Norwegian, about eight homes that were swept into the sea the pipeline will ~ all the way to Azerbaijan
by a mudslide. His speech was translated by the BBC, which showed the
video of the astonishing event. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mining / verb
disaster.)
buttress (resemblance)
action, inaction & delay / initiation: mechanism / verb
buttresses of (dark, gabbro) rock
button (push a button / emotion) these peaks and ~ are called the Black Cuillin
buttons resemblance: infrastructure
he knows what ~ to push (to provoke reaction)
buttress (Castle Buttress, etc.)
pushes South Africa’s racial buttons
rugby ~ Buttress Point
~ is a point in New Zealand
pushed my button
that's what ~ too far (a suspension) Castle Buttress
~ is a peak in KwaZulu-Natal
push people's buttons
I like to ~ (George Carlin / comedian / taboos) Porcupine Buttress
he likes to ~ (get them upset) the ~ is a series of promontories (Western Cape)
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: mechanism / verb proper name: infrastructure

button (pause button) buy (time)

hit the pause button bought us time
we need to ~ (gene editing) the lockdown ~ (pandemic)
action, inaction & delay: mechanism time: money
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism buy (buy into something)
button (panic button)
bought into the bravado
panic button he initially ~ (claims of a corporation)
I was scared, I hit the ~
bought into the (e-wallet) concept
hit the panic button parents that have ~

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buy into the stereotype buzz about the (new) hotel
does this guy ~ that Asian women are generally weak there was a lot of ~ (a Japanese robot hotel)
acceptance & rejection: money buzz about the Nationals
allegiance, support & betrayal: money there has been a lot of ~ (sports team)
buy (accept) audience buzz
the TV show is getting critical acclaim and ~
buy their argument
do you ~ that… water-cooler buzz
the ~ is underway (a controversy)
buy the “bad apples” argument
I don’t ~ (combat, war, and atrocities) most buzz
which story is getting the ~
buying his excuses
his colleagues are not ~ (ethics violations) negative buzz
the group survived the initial ~
acceptance & rejection: money / verb
generated quite some buzz
buy-in (noun) this has ~ in the last 24 hours or so (politics)
buy-in from parents attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
we didn't have enough of a deep ~ (school)
buzz (sensation)
acceptance & rejection: money
allegiance, support & betrayal: money beer buzz
commitment & determination: money I like a good ~ in the morning
bypass (verb) euphoria or buzz or high
inhaling to get a sensation of ~ (toluene abuse)
bypass Congress
the President will try to ~ to get what he wants feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / sound
avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking, buzz saw (noun)
running & jumping
hit the buzz saw
buzz (sound) we were one of them that ~ (industry loses funding)

buzz with the sound ran into a buzz saw

forests ~ of chain saws Minnesota went to Iowa and ~ (football loss)
♦ “Up to about the time of the Civil War, trees were cut down by axes,
sound: insect which was slow, laborious work. The arrival of the crosscut saw speeded
buzz (activity) this process immeasurably, and the cant hook and peavey, perfected in
the pineries of Maine at about the same time, made it much easier to
handle the logs... In the same way the equipment at the sawmills was
buzzing with anticipation vastly improved... and the mill’s capacity for processing logs was almost
the students were ~ (school assembly) unimaginably increased... So over most of the state of Michigan the
forest was destroyed.” (Waiting for the Morning Train: An American
Boyhood by Bruce Catton.)
buzzing with excitement
the city is ~ ahead of next month's World Cup ♦ According to Merriam-Webster, a buzz saw is the same as a circular
saw, and its first known use was in 1847.
buzzing with questions destruction / force: tools & technology
my mind was ~
bygone (adjective)
buzzed with possibilities
my mind ~ bygone days
reliving ~ of going to drive-in movie theaters (pandemic)
buzzed with rumors
the school ~ bygone era
hallmarks of a ~
buzzing with shoppers
he dressed and sounded like he had stepped out of a ~
Rockefeller Center is ~
♦ Ago also means “gone by.”
activity: insect / sound
past & present / time: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
buzz (attention) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement /
prep, adv, adj, particle
buzz
the ~ this years is that…

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byproduct (noun) attainment / difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink

byproduct of (Mexico's) culture

calculus
domestic violence is an ugly ~ of machismo calculus of subsidizing
byproducts of the war for China, the ~ green industries is quite different
renditions and torture are ~ (US in Iraq) complicated calculus
ugly byproduct it is a ~ (universities try to reopen during pandemic)
domestic violence is an ~ of Mexico's culture of machismo cynical (political) calculus
product / relationship: manufacturing the racist language they used was part of a ~ (politicians)
creation & transformation: manufacturing economic calculus
byzantine the recent rise of shale drilling has changed the ~

byzantine (Third World) bureaucracy mental calculus

solutions have been impeded by a ~ he committed an instant ~ (a sports player)

byzantine formula new calculus

fees are calculated according to ~s for many Mexicans looking north, a ~ favors home

byzantine (asylum) process political calculus

he navigates a ~ to finally get a court hearing the recent ~ hasn't resulted in a winning calculus

byzantine regulations regional calculus

~ are difficult for the outsider to navigate (Egypt) the ~ has swiftly and dramatically altered (diplomacy)
the ~ are stifling strategic calculus
byzantine tax law we cannot change Pakistan's ~
he relied on Smith's knowledge of ~ part of our calculus
complexity: history that was ~, if we... (war strategy in Afghanistan)
altering the calculus
changes in Cairo are ~ of the entire region
C changed that calculus
Caesar (Chinese Caesar, etc.) her string of stumbles ~ (that she could win easily)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: number
Chinese Caesar
strategy: number
the “~,” the precocious King Cheng (c. 221 BC)
epithet: military
calibrate (adjust)
cage (a gilded cage) calibrate its use
it must ~ of force (a country)
in a (gilded) cage amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / verb
the 4 Russian princesses lived ~ (isolated in a palace)
measurement: tools & technology / verb
constraint & lack of constraint: animal
calibrated (adjusted)
cage (jail, prison)
calibrated to the moment
threw my boy in a cage his temperament was exquisitely ~ (soldier)
they ~ with those wild animals amelioration & renewal: tools & technology
oppression: animal / justice measurement: tools & technology
cakewalk (dance) Caligulan
cakewalk Caligulan dissoluteness
this election is not going to be a ~ for... Toghon Temur Khan, a man of ~ (last Mongol Emperor)
England are still well placed, but it has not been a ~ (cricket) behavior / character & personality: history
no Indy 500 is a ~, it’s a massive challenge (motorsports)
military intelligence suggested the campaign would be a ~ call (call to arms)
♦ For the history of this word, see “The Extraordinary Story Of Why A
‘Cakewalk’ Wasn’t Always Easy” by Lakshmi Gandhi, NPR, Code Switch, call to arms for everyone
Race and Identity, Remixed, December 23, 2013. The title says it all! this is a ~ who may have a hospitalized relative

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call to arms against the epidemic despite ~, trouble broke out
the report was a ~ (Koop / AIDS)
calls for resistance
troll call to arms ~ emanate from mosque loudspeakers (Iraq)
her followers saw it as a ~ (criticism)
calls for revenge
appeal / message: military / sound rival families would issue ~
call (close call) call for equal rights
the ~ was heard all over the country (civil rights)
close call
this was not a ~, there was no case (a judge) calls for democracy and human rights
universal ~
judgment: baseball / justice / sports & games
God's call
call (the right call) he has answered ~ to preach the Gospel (Billy Graham)
right call siren call
he remains convinced that he made the ~ (a judge) don't give in to the ~ of fads (tattoos you can live with)
judgment: baseball / justice / sports & games answered the call
call (close call / danger) she ~ of duty and lost her life (RCMP officer)

close call heed his call

I wish more gays would ~ (gays shouldn't assimilate)
I could have died, it was a ~
♦ This could be analogous to a close shave. rebuffed calls
Iraqi leaders have ~ for the abolishment of the death penalty
danger: blade / hair
fate, fortune & chance: blade / hair appeal: speech
call (appeal) call (cattle call)
calls (for the FBI) to share political cattle call
~ information all the Democrats will try to stand out at the ~ (Iowa)
call of duty assembling: animal / theater
his extraordinary heroism, above and beyond the ~
call for (appeal)
call of fads
don't give in to the siren ~ (tattoos you can live with) calls (out) for (decisive) action
the crisis ~ (terrorism)
call of the wild
it heard the ~ and disappeared (pet deer) called for a ban
he ~ of anti-personnel mines
call to action
boredom should be a ~ call for (immediate) intervention
these situations may ~ (medicine)
call to duty
men and women who feel the ~ calls for the removal
another option ~ of the population (Nauru)
calls for the abolishment
Iraqi leaders have rebuffed ~ of the death penalty called for a summit
Yeltsin ~ among the superpowers
calls for democracy
universal ~ and human rights appeal: speech / verb

calls for his head call for (a recipe can call for something)
there have been ~ (a government official) calls for flour
call for help when a gravy, sauce, soup, or stew recipe ~
that night they got a ~ (climbing) fictive communication: speech / verb
call for jihad call (wake-up call)
his out-and-out ~
wake-up call
call for a (mass) protest this death is a ~
a ~ against anti-Semitism and racism (France) the oil spill has been a ~
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wake-up call to world leaders creation & transformation: cows & cattle / glacier / snow &
Greta’s message is a ~ everywhere (Greta Thunberg) ice / verb
wake-up call to the Saudis calving
the bombings are a ~ (terrorists)
calving of icebergs
consciousness & awareness / warning: sleep the ~ by glaciers
calling card calving of an iceberg
the ~ can create a huge wave
calling card
the way he positions his victims is his ~ creation & transformation: cows & cattle / glacier / snow &
the way the body was left amounted to a ~ (murder) ice
bravado, cunning and carelessness are his ~s
her openheartedness has always been her ~ (a singer) camel (camel's nose in the tent, etc.)
calling card of many (neo-Nazi) groups camel's nose in the tent
the swastika is still the contemporary ~ he sees the decision as the ~ (a judicial case)
calling card of a monstrous storm access & lack of access: doors & thresholds
debris everywhere, tossed and scattered, the ~ (hurricane)
cameo (noun)
calling card for one's personality and lifestyle
weddings serve as a ~ celebrity cameos
the film featured a cavalcade of ~
grim calling card
characterization: clothing & accessories / picture
mesothelioma has become the substance’s ~ (asbestos)
microscopic call cards
camouflage (verb)
touch DNA, the ~ we leave behind (murder) camouflage
became his calling card “boring” is his ~ (criticism of a vice president)
the film ~ in Hollywood (an actor) ‘social camouflage’
♦ A calling card was a visiting card. Calling cards were once very ~ may lead to underdiagnosis of autism in girls
important in the days of "society." They would include a name, perhaps
an address, and a lady's "day at home." Cards were left at balls, concealment & lack of concealment: military / verb
receptions and teas. Those arriving in a new city might inform members
of society there by sending calling cards. subterfuge: military / verb

evidence: object camouflage (concealment)

call out (verb) camouflage
“boring” is his ~ (criticism of a vice president)
call his teammates out
he isn’t afraid to ~ publicly (NFL quarterback) ‘social camouflage’
~ may lead to underdiagnosis of autism in girls
accusation & criticism: speech / verb
judgment: speech / verb concealment & lack of concealment: military
subterfuge: military
callout (criticism)
camp (noun)
callout
not every ~ escalates into a full-scale dragging camps of advisers and loyalists
frictions between their ~ (politicians)
callouts, draggings, and pile-ons
some Y.A. books are targeted in intense social-media ~ two camps
there will be ~, just as there are now (a debate)
accusation & criticism: speech the fault lines break people into ~ (computers)
judgment: speech
split into (rival) camps
calve (verb) our fear that America is ~ (Red / Blue)
calve (immense serac) avalanches division: military
hanging glaciers ~ (Everest base camp)
can (kick the can down the road)
calve icebergs
tidewater glaciers ~ kicked the can down the road
they just ~ (negligent doctor not dealt with)
calve underwater
glaciers can ~, causing an iceberg to leap up

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action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: journeys & trips / movement / verb /
walking, running & jumping
canal (birth canal, etc.)
birth canal
push the baby through the ~
a woman can die if her baby becomes stuck in the ~
alimentary canal
the ~ extends from the mouth to the anus
anal canal
the sigmoidoscope is introduced into the ~
auditory canal
sound waves go through the external ear into the ~
transportation: canal / infrastructure
shape: canal / infrastructure
canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
canary in the coalmine
brook trout are the ~ (for water quality)
canaries in the coal mine
they are the ~, super-sensitive to warming (corals)
canary in the cave about rationing challenges
it's the ~ (changes to who gets a transplant kidney)
canary in the coal mine for disconnected societies
Japan’s lost generation could be the ~ (hikikomori)
evidence: animal / bird / mining
affliction: health & medicine
growth & development: health & medicine
cancerous (adjective)
cancerous growth
how can we stop the ~ of hate radio
affliction: health & medicine
growth & development: health & medicine
candle (candle of hope, etc.)
candle of hope
we need to light a ~ (victims of mass shootings)
♦ Florence Nightingale was known as “the Lady with the Lamp.” She was
not, in fact, a nurse. She was an administrator.
wants, needs, hopes & goals: light & dark
sign, signal, symbol: light & dark
cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.)
Cannibal
his nickname is “the ~” because he chews up his rivals
‘Corsa Cannibals’
~ can strip Vauxhall Corsas of their parts in just minutes
destruction: epithet / person
cannibal (other)
cannibal
his work was described as too graphic, ugly, even ~ (artist)
♦ The work of the sculptor Jacob Epstein has been described as “too
graphic,” “too hard-hitting,” “too ugly,” “too distorted” and even “cannibal.”

cancel (verb) person: food & drink

cannibalize (verb)
cancel
we don’t have to ~, to dismiss or silence... (books) cannibalizing other formats
dismissal, removal & resignation: books & reading / verb that fear that e-books were ~ in the book world

cancer (noun) cannibalizing the sale

library lending is ~ of e-books (borrowed for free)
cancer destruction: food & drink / person
this is a ~ that has been allowed to metastasize (issue)
government corruption is a ~ that destroys from within cannibalized
cancer of our time cannibalized
fake news is the ~ the buildings had been ~
cancer on our society destruction: food & drink
Wall Street is a ~
cannon (loose cannon)
cancer on the Internet
Facebook is a ~ (parent of teen) loose cannon
there are a lot of ~s out there (crazy people)
cancer has metastasized police are calling him a ~ (man on crime spree)
the ~ into a regional crisis (terrorism)
person: military / weapon
cut out this cancer behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
there is a need to ~ that we found (misconduct) control / restraint & lack of restraint: military / person /
considers hacking a cancer weapon
the Chinese government ~ to the whole society (Internet)

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cannon fodder (noun) at a ~, take us through the voyage... (radio show)
haste: horse
cannon fodder
West Ham has been ~ for years now (EPL) canter (verb)
written off as ~, they triumphed (World Series)
♦ Merriam-Webster dictionary gives 1847 for the first use. cantering to their first league title
Liverpool is ~ since 1990 (soccer)
consumption / worth & lack of worth: military
speed: animal / horse / movement / verb / walking,
canon (literature) running & jumping
movement: animal / horse / speed / verb / walking,
canon of (English) literature
running & jumping
certain authors occupy a central place in the ~
cap (tip one’s cap)
canon of "great books"
who decides what the ~ is (literature) tip their cap to Duke Ellington
younger musicians like Sonny and Max Roach always ~
standard canon
defenders of the ~ often agree to its expansion (lit) achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / hat
traditional canon capital (money)
the battle between defenders and detractors of the ~
human capital
parallel, oppositional canons we must invest in ~
establish ~ of work by women, gays…
political capital
concept of the canon he is willing to spend ~ on the issue
many would repudiate the ~ entirely (literature) when you’re president you have a limited amount of ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion capital evaporated
canon (other) in the last 2 weeks his political ~ (resigned)
cost & benefit: money
culinary canon
a native ~ embraces rice, persimmons, corn, bison (US) capital (capital of crime, etc.)
canon has been blasted apart capital of crime
but that ~ (doctors withhold prognosis) Detroit has a reputation as the ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion capital of the world
canonical (adjective) Katy, Texas, the waterfowl hunting ~
Gem Capital
canonical
Franklin, North Carolina, the “~ of the World”
his Cold War scholarship is ~ (John Lewis Gaddis)
murder capital
canonical example
Thunder Bay is the ~ of Canada
it was a ~ of what a computer couldn’t do
surf capital
canonical greats
Scheveningen is known as the ~
reissuing the work of ~ like Kurt Vonnegut (publishing)
shark attack capital
canonical songs
New Smyrna Beach is known as the ~ (Florida)
they cover some of Waits’ ~
Shark Bite Capital
canonical (theatrical) works
Volusia County, Florida, has been dubbed the ~ of the world
~ such as those of Shakespeare
superlative: epithet / place
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
canonize (verb) capital punishment
capital punishment
canonized him
this was the political equivalent of ~ (calls for resignation)
since his suicide, his fans have ~ (an author)
death & life: justice
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
canter (noun) capstone
capstone of his career
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 the banking overhaul was the ~ (politician) capture market share
he wants health-care legislation to be the ~ (politician) ~ while the market is small
capstone of the peace treaty capture ("impulse") moviegoers
the independence vote is the ~ (Sudan) advertising to ~
♦ "Now that we have captured your imagination, don't make us come
capstone to his agenda after the rest of you. (A clever TV advertisement from the Eastern Band
the ratification of the treaty was the ~ (president) of the Cherokee Nation promoting tourism on their reservation in
Cherokee, North Carolina.)
capstone to his career
his present job is the ~ (service to his homeland) pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb
capstone for the neighborhood
it will be the ~ (architectural project) captive (held captive, etc.)
capstone (warfighting) doctrine held captive
AirLand Operations is the Army's ~ an anxious nation suddenly ~ by crisis (a pandemic)

legal capstone control & lack of control: crime

the case puts a ~ on a historic election (court)
♦ Two pillars often support a capstone, which is the stone at the top.
importance & significance: infrastructure / height
capture (verb)
captured him on a phone in the airport
security cameras ~ (terrorist)
possession / taking & removing: crime
carapace (protection)
subjects’ protective carapaces
her job is to cut her ~ down to the bone (a journalist)
♦ A carapace is the exoskeleton of a creature like a turtle or crustacean
such as a lobster, crab, shrimp or prawn, or an arachnid (8-legged
creature vs. a 6-legged insect) like a spider or scorpion.

captured Oscars protection & lack of protection: animal

it ~ for best picture, director and actor (film) isolation & remoteness: animal

captured (the world's) attention carcass (noun)

airstrikes in Baghdad ~ carcass of a tank
capture headlines he stood by the burned-out ~
it goes on every day but doesn’t ~ destruction / resemblance: animal
captured my heart card (in the cards)
the first time I saw him, he ~ (an orphan)
captured my imagination in the cards
that's not ~
that speaks to me, that ~ (a quote)
if you’re a Congolese, you know a life of comfort is not ~
captured the imagination a permanent revival is just not ~ (the coal industry)
the job of fire watcher has long ~ fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games
he has ~ of fans (an athlete)
card (guilt card, etc.)
captured imaginations
theories about what happened have ~ for decades (Earhart) compassion card
Democrats are playing the ~ (unemployment benefits)
captured the (public's) imagination
what has most ~ is… evidence card
he is riding on a new artistic wave which has ~ (Doug Hyde) they had the race card, we were playing the ~ (O.J. trial)
capture the loyalty guilt card
it has managed to ~ of working women (WNBA) the ~ works—if they have any guilt (Internet suck sites)
captures our minds race card
the story incapsulates how outrage ~ (viral online clip) he played heavily on the ~ (Peru)
some accused the lawyer of playing the ~ to the jury
captures the plight
they had the ~, we had the evidence card (O.J. trial)
Scott Adams's Dilbert ~ of the cubicle slave (cartoon)
captures (satellite) signals political cards
he played his ~ right and got a plum job
the GPS receiver ~
captured the hearts and minds policy and philosophical cards
they will have to show their ~ (party in power)
he has ~ of Americans (Olympic athlete)

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strategy: cards / gambling / sports & games ~, I can’t say... (I won’t lie to you)
card (play one's cards) concealment & lack of concealment / sincerity, lack of
sincerity & honesty: cards / gambling / sports & games
play my cards right
if I ~, I could be head cheerleader career (noun)
played his (political) cards right career of the metaphor
he ~ and got a plum job (Secretary of State) a case study of the ~ (weaponization)
strategy: cards / gambling / sports & games / verb growth & development: death & life
card (hold one's cards close) caretaker (role)
holds his cards close to his vest caretaker government
he ~ and knows just when to play them (an official) the ~ is fragile and weak
Israel’s ~ can only make limited decision (2019)
character & personality: cards / gambling / sports & games
/ verb caretaker manager
a ~ will be appointed
card (dealt cards)
caretakers of the land
dealt some cards farmers are ~
they were ~ they can't play (under-privileged)
help & assistance: infrastructure / person
♦ "They were dealt some cards they can't play to this day. Fortunately, I
was dealt cards and somehow managed to play the right hand." (Olympic
champion speaking of his heroin-addict mother and step-father.)
Carnegie Hall (epithet)
♦ "It's not the cards you're dealt, it's how you play your hand." Carnegie Hall of Broadway
fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games onstage at the Shubert Theatre, the ~

card (strong card) superlative: epithet / theater

strong card carpet (verb)

we don't have ~s but… (negotiations) carpets the (rolling) highlands in emerald and gold
fear is a ~, if not a trump card (national security / politics) cheatgrass ~
his only ~ is that he…
it would be a ~ to play, but not perhaps a winning one carpeted the meadow
literature was never his ~ flowers ~
strong card in Afghanistan cover: carpets & rugs / verb
he is the Pakistan Army's ~ (network leader) configuration: carpets & rugs / verb
Administration's (last) strong card carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.)
the ~ is to maintain economic sanctions against…
carpet of ash
hold one strong card a ~ covered the city (eruption)
we ~
carpet of (low-rise) buildings
strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games a ~ cover the seven hills (Istanbul)
card (trump card) carpet of color
wildflowers create a ~ (Arctic summer)
trump card
this was her ~ (an endorsement for her) carpet of flowers
fear is a strong card, if not a ~ (national security / politics) a ~ has been left (a memorial for dead fans)
strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games carpet of frogs
card (hold all the cards) there was a ~ (on a road in Greece)
lush carpet
hold all the cards the bird nests in the ~ of moss and vines (in a crater)
when prosecutors ~, can any defendant get a fair trial
thick carpet
strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games
a crew laid down a ~ of insulation
card (cards on the table) carpet of wildflowers
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cover / resemblance: carpets & rugs control & lack of control: movement
configuration: carpets & rugs feeling, emotion & effect: movement
fictive transportation: movement
carpet (under the carpet, etc.)
carrot (reward)
brush it under the carpet
they will try to ~ carrot
offering ~s and wielding sticks to persuade people to…
brushing it under the carpet amid the ~s, there will be some sharp sticks
it’s a whitewash, they’re ~ (education / PS752)
carrot of membership
sweep it under the carpet the EU is dangling the ~ in front of the two countries
we can't any longer ~ (educational issue)
coercion & motivation: fruits & vegetables / plant
sweeping their mess under the rug
politicians are ~ (Greta Thunberg) carrot-and-stick
♦ “The problem with brushing things under the carpet is that they are still
there and one day someone is going to lift that carpet up and all you are
carrot-and-stick approach
going to feel is shame and embarrassment.” (A celebrity who committed it requires a ~ (a zoning alternative)
suicide, who had been trolled mercilessly on social media.) using a ~ to the millions moving into the fire zone;
♦ “They sweep their mess under the rug and ask children to clean up for commanders say a ~ is necessary (military occupation)
them.” (Greta Thunberg, climate-change activist.)
coercion & motivation: fruits & vegetables / plant
concealment & lack of concealment: carpets & rugs
carrousel (noun)
carpetbagger (person)
carrousel of helicopters
carpetbaggers this constant ~ flying over the reactor (Chernobyl)
Canada’s Olympic team has the most ~ (born elsewhere)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / movement:
carpetbagger politicians sports & games
~ adopt Florida as their native land
carry (carry me away, etc.)
East Coast carpetbagger
he is an ~ (Montana politics) carry me away
I let my emotions ~
gentrifying carpetbaggers
he accuses his neighbors of being ~ carry the pain
families still ~ 19 years later (9/11 memorial)
opportunistic carpetbagger
he accused her of being an ~ (politics) feeling, emotion & effect: movement / verb
fictive transportation: verb
social carpetbagger
he’s a ~, always code-switching to blend in carry (transport)
character & personality: history / person carry viruses
identity & nature: history / person smuggled pangolins have been found to ~
carpeted fictive transportation: verb

carpeted with flowers carry on (verb)

the meadow was ~
carry on
carpeted with wild blueberry plants I got injured, but you still got to ~
the tiny island is ~
survival, persistence & endurance: burden / verb
carpeted (at the base) with starfish and mussels starting, going, continuing & ending: burden / verb
we drifted into an inlet alongside cliffs ~ resiliency: burden / journeys & trips / verb

carpeted eastern Washington cart (cart off)

old-growth forests once ~
carted (31) Christians off to the station
cover / resemblance: carpets & rugs police ~ (Weihai, China)
configuration: carpets & rugs
carted him (off the field) on a stretcher
carried away they ~ (injured player)

get carried away transportation: animal / verb

it is no time to ~ (panic over virus)

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carved out the 22 natural avalanche chutes are ~ (pass and highway)

carved out of the Middle East set off a cascade

the decision has ~ of accusations and counter-accusations
Jordan was ~
carved out of the Maasai land trigger a cascade
these chemicals ~ of allergic symptoms (food allergies)
the Masai Mara was ~
amount & effect: water
carved out by the British
Jordan was ~ cascade (a cascade of hair, etc.)
carved out in the 1920's cascade of strawberry-blond hair
Jordan was ~ she has pale skin and a ~
creation & transformation: blade / knife resemblance: water
carve out (verb) cash in (verb)
carve out an Islamic state cashing in
they want to ~ in Mindanao the economy is growing, but not all are ~
carve a Muslim state out of the south cash in on the experience
the group is fighting to ~ (Mindanao) a failure is a man who blundered but is not able to ~
carve out (decent) lives cash in on those investments
homesteaders tried to ~ (North Dakota) early success could position her to ~ (candidate’s hard work)
carve out a future cost & benefit: money / verb
young Brazilians are trying to ~
Cassandra
carve out a living
wolves are forced to ~ on the steeper slopes Cassandra
for years he was a ~, his message ignored
carved out (new) markets ♦ Cassandra’s parents were King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and
some entrepreneurs have ~ by selling… she was Helen’s twin sister, so she must have been a good looker. She
promised Apollo sex for the gift of prophecy, but then she broke her
creation & transformation: blade / knife / verb promise. So Apollo cursed her by making it so nobody would believe her
prophecies. It is interesting to consider the thought that, if Paris had
Casanova fallen for her instead of Helen, there would have been no Homer, Iliad, or
Odyssey.
determined bovine Casanova
message: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
a feat impossible for even the most ~ (insemination)
Serbian Casanova
cast (cast of candidates, etc.)
Dusko Popov, a ~… (a double agent for MI6) cast of candidates
sex: allusion / epithet a whole new ~ will be onstage at their debate (politics)

cascade (verb) group, set & collection: theater

cascade through generations cast (cast doubt)

negative attitudes ~
cast doubt on the (confession's) accuracy
movement: water the defense ~
cascade (noun) cast doubts on such assumptions
the hearings ~ (politics of abortion)
cascade of decisions
the computer models triggered a ~ (transportation) cast doubts on plans
the difficulties could ~ to reopen New Orleans
cascade of disasters
we have seen a ~ lately cast (any) doubt on (Hamilton's) skills
she said she did not want to ~
cascade of (damaging) events
head injury can initiate a ~ casts (serious) doubt on another theory
the new finding ~ that had…
cascade of problems
the events combined to create a ~ casts (some) doubt on a (popular) theory
the report also ~ that…
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throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb a dystopian future where children are ~ (a song video)
cast (light) life’s castaways
she gives ~ the gift of merriment (film River of Grass)
cast a beam
reflectors ~ (lighthouse) society’s castaways
~—hookers, addict, the homeless...
cast a (dark) shadow ♦ A castaway usually becomes one by shipwreck and may simply be cast
the tragic accident ~ over US-Korean relations adrift or ashore. Or, he or she can achieve the status by voluntarily or
involuntarily being put ashore on a deserted island. If involuntarily, the
throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb person is marooned. Alexander Selkirk is a famous example of a
voluntary castaway. He spent 4 years 4 months on one of the Juan
cast (other) Fernandez Islands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile before
being rescued. He probably inspired Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
cast blame ♦ Classic castaway stories include Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss
officials can ~ only so much before the backlash starts Family Robinson. The TV show Gilligan’s Island ran for 3 seasons. The
film Cast Away with Tom Hanks was very popular. People remember his
cast a curse companion, Wilson, a soccer ball, and the scene where he removes a
rotten tooth with an ice skate.
somebody must have ~ on his camel
♦ Tromelin Island in the Indian Ocean got its name from the captain who
cast discredit rescued a group of castaways from that place. The whole story is quite
amazing!
the government alleges the paper ~ on the courts
person: island / society
cast a net isolation & remoteness / society: island / person / sea /
the authorities have ~ for the escapees
throwing, putting & planting
cast a pall caste
Chen's death ~ over the mountain (climbing)
caste society
cast a spell America as a ~
at times he seemed to ~ on the ball (Ronaldo)
caste system
throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
lodgings follow a kind of unwritten ~ (officials)
cast (characterize) the airlines use a ~ (paying more gets better treatment)

cast Grant as a "butcher" warrior caste

Southern historians ~ (revisionism) Marine pilots are an insular ~

cast the debate as a class struggle professional military caste

they have ~ the ~ will retain its grip (in time of war and conscription)
♦ "It's a caste system, and we are the untouchables of academia." (An
cast the problem as a health issue adjunct professor.)
she has ~ (TV violence, etc.)
division & connection / hierarchy: society
characterization: manufacturing / verb society: person
cast (characterized) castle (protection)
cast as a hero castle
a guard ~ was recast as a villain (Richard Jewell) a man's home is his ~
characterization: manufacturing protection & lack of protection: fortification / military /
cast aside (verb) royalty
castle (Castle Peaks, etc.)
cast your fears aside
and you ~ (song) Castle
the Smithsonian is popularly known as the ~ (D.C.)
cast security aside
at 48, he ~ to pursue his passion (left his profession) Castle Peaks
dismissal, removal & resignation: arm / verb the ~ are peaks in Queensland, Australia

castaway (person) Castle Valley

~, Utah, is east of Arches National Park
Hollywood castaways
Baboons Castle
mix with ranchers, fishermen and ~ (Livingston, Mont,)
the ~is a mountain in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
homeless castaways
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 they were arrested in ~, Indiana (a town) this is a bill that will jump start, jolt, be a ~ (business)
the ~ for the government shutdown was…
White Castle Auschwitz was the ~ that made him into the great writer he
~ is an oasis for late-night customers (hamburgers) was (Primo Levy)
♦ This word often appears in geographical place names, as well as
cities. For example, Castle Creek / Islet / Mountain, Pass / Peak / Point / catalyst of the team
Rock, etc. he's been the ~
proper name: fortification catalysts in this conflagration
castle (sand castle) Lincoln and his cronies were the ~ (US Civil War)
catalyst for change
sand-castle-building contest
disaster can be a ~
other events include a ~
art can be a ~
shape: fortification
catalyst for (economic) growth
casualty (noun) the software industry could be a ~ (India)

casualty of the (real-estate) boom catalyst for a (cultural) shift

the development was an early ~ snowboarding was a ~ in the world of skiing

casualty of his own faith catalyst for moving

he became a ~ (Columbus and geography) the Morton case is going to be a ~ reforms forward (law)

failure, accident & impairment: death & life / military economic catalyst
she said the museum would be an ~
cat (dead cat bounce)
served as a catalyst
dead-cat’s bounce the crash served as a ~ to mend relations (Poland-Russia)
when he came in, he benefited from a ~, no more (Man U
coach) initiation: chemistry

decline: cat catapult (verb)

cat (cat and mouse / noun) catapulted Western Europe to (global) dominance
the industrial revolution ~
game of cat and mouse
college officials find themselves in a new ~ (cheating) catapulted him to fame
informers engage in a constant ~ with the authorities his admission ~

pursuit, capture & escape: cat catapulted Obama into the White House
the type of voter who ~
cat (cat-and-mouse / adjective)
catapulted into the ranks
cat-and-mouse game the company has ~ of top tech companies
this ~ will continue forever (Microsoft vs. hackers)
the ~ Iraq played with U.N. inspectors catapulted over (more veteran) officials
the ~ with the virus writers (computers) she ~ (government promotion)
it's a classic ~ (terrorists trying to evade capture)
catapulted from an unknown to a superstar
♦ “When the tiny mouse outsmarts the wicked cat, the chairman smirks he ~
with pleasure.” (Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder by Janet Wallach and
John Wallach.) throwing, putting & planting: mechanism / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: cat catapulted
catalogue (list)
catapulted to the forefront
catalogue of failures he has been ~ of the death-penalty debate
the report describes a ~ (an air crash)
catapulted to stardom
catalogue of problems she was plucked from obscurity and ~ (talent show)
it’s one of a ~ caused by unplanned overdevelopment
catapulted out of obscurity
amount: money he was ~ (a politician who won an election)
catalyst (noun) catapulted into the limelight
after the broadcast, he was ~ (sports doping)
catalyst
he was the ~, not the cause of the problem catapulted from obscurity to (prime-time) fame

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 he was ~ (an actor) large elliptical cupolas have been found in ~ (Australia)
throwing, putting & planting: mechanism Cathedral Mountain
we visited ~ (Tasmania)
catch (catch the imagination, etc.)
Cathedral Room
catch the (national) imagination ~ is 204 feet high (Marvel Cave, Missouri)
his account of the aerial voyage would ~
proper name: religion
caught FitzRoy’s imagination
but it was the sea that had ~ cathedral (resemblance)
caught the (national) imagination calcite cathedrals
his account would be published in the Times, where it ~ these flooded caves are spectacular ~ of stalactites…
caught my interest resemblance: religion
it really ~ so I started researching (a mine disaster)
the team ~ after I watched the game against Celtic
cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb cathedral
fictive possession: hand / verb mountains are truly ~s ("Big" Jim Whittaker)
it's my church, it's my ~ (Yosemite on foot in winter)
catch up (his past caught up to him, etc.)
cathedral of stock-car racing
caught up to him Daytona track, the ~…
his past finally ~
the allegations have trailed him for decades, and today the cathedrals for fly fishermen
claims ~ the waters here are ~ (Montana)

pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb enthusiasm / reverence: place / religion
past & present / time: hunting / verb catnip (attraction)
catch up (catch up to something) catnip to screenwriters
catching up to men it has proved ~ (The Turn of the Screw)
women are ~ in their number of partners attraction & repulsion: cat / plant
catching up to science fiction caught (other)
reality is finally ~ (AI)
catching up in submarines caught in the middle
civilians are ~ (war)
China is ~ (to the US)
competition / progress & lack of progress: movement / caught in the open
3 people ~ suffocated in the dust storm (Kansas / 1935)
sports & games / verb / walking, running & jumping
catch up (catch up with something) caught in a (lightning) storm
they were ~ on a mountainside
catch up with the technologies caught in a (ferocious) storm
standards have begun to ~ (biometrics) they were ~ near the summit of Les Droites
catch up with the outside world caught in a rip current
Fanning Island is anxious to ~ (Kiribati) if you become ~, swim parallel to shore
♦ "Let's keep moving, guys. Keep the line tight and keep it moving.
United 8114, I need you to catch up with the group." (An air-traffic caught in the drift ice
controller, directing traffic.) we'd be ~, but it was all right (fishing)
progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running
caught in a crossfire
& jumping / verb three soldiers were ~
catchy (attention) caught on film
catchy headlines unsuspecting women ~... (Internet porn)
these are ~ become caught
attention, scrutiny & promotion: hunting if you ~ in a rip current, swim parallel to shore
the straps of his river sandals ~ on a rock
cathedral (Cathedral Cave, etc.)
involvement: hunting
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caught out revolutionary cauldron
many emerge from the ~ to become conservatives
caught out by public reaction
he seemed to be ~ (a leader) send its children into that cauldron
a humane society would not ~ (war)
♦ Many associate this with the game of cricket.
environment: container / fire / heating water / temperature
failure, accident & impairment: ball / sports & games
caught up (in or by something) caustic (adjective)
caustic characterization
caught up (again) in drugs
the leaked cables contained ~s of world leaders
they go back out on the streets and get ~
caustic comment
caught up in the film
she made a few ~s
I was ~ and didn't hear the door open
caustic observation
caught up in a web
she offered some ~s about their qualifications
~ of drug addiction and crime
caustic remark
caught up in red tape
they direct a lot of ~s and mockery
his expedition got ~
caustic welcome
caught up in the drinking
he got a ~ (politics)
I just got ~ and the drugs and fighting
blunt and (sometimes) caustic
don't get caught up in that
he defended his ~ style (governor)
~ (weight loss / low self-esteem)
feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials &
got caught up in red tape
substances / sensation
his expedition ~
involvement: hunting
caustically
pursuit, capture & escape / situation: hunting caustically critical
cauldron (noun) she is now ~ (about school reform)
once a supporter, she is now ~ (an educator)
cauldrons of contagion
wet markets are ~ (coronaviruses, etc.) caustically funny
she is ~ (comic)
cauldron of (internal) controversy
the Republican party is a ~ caustically intelligent
he is ~
cauldron of grievances
a ~ bubbles beneath the surface caustically witty
his song is ~
cauldron of socialization
the school bus used to be a ~ caustically described
she ~ him as a figurehead
cauldron of (sectarian) violence
the country has become a ~ caustically dismiss
some scientists ~ his claims
cauldron of war, violence and brutality
the US has hurled Afghanistan into the ~ said caustically
but he ~, "On a political level, …
witch's cauldron
speech: chemistry / materials & substances / sensation
the US is a ~ of unemployment and poor education
bubbling cauldron
cavalcade (noun)
the country has become a ~ since Ben Ali left (Tunisia) cavalcade of (Nashville) artists
simmering cauldron she is joined by a ~ (an album)
you’ve got this ~ of hatred and revolution (Paris) cavalcade of (celebrity) cameos
simmering (political and ethnic) cauldrons the film featured a ~
Tibet and Xinjiang are ~ cavalcade of arm gestures
red-hot cauldron his every sentence is punctuated by a ~ (a politician)
the Middle East is a ~ (protests, etc.) ♦ “We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was
always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a

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semblance of moon... and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of starting, going, continuing & ending: military
ragged clouds...” (“Bear Meat” by Primo Levy, translated by Alessandra
Bastagli.) ceiling (glass ceiling)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: horse glass ceiling
group, set & collection: horse the ~ is alive and well on Wall Street
cavalier (adjective) glass ceiling for women in politics
cavalier attitude there is a perceived ~ (Massachusetts)
he had a ~ towards going to war (a hawk) glass ceilings and other barriers
cavalier and disrespectful ~ barring women
Pelosi said Barr was ~ (at a Senate hearing) Japan's glass ceiling
♦ The root is from caballus, Latin for horse, with the meaning of she has helped to crack ~ (Toshiba team leader)
supercilious. The rider has always been dominant over the man who
walks. Oscars' glass ceiling
character & personality: height / horse Kathryn Bigelow broke the ~ (Best Director)
hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: height / horse age barrier, (no) gender gap, (no) glass ceiling
cavalry (noun) no ~

cavalry break the glass ceiling

the ~ has come, God bless you all (military help in disaster) success is the best way to ~

resistance, opposition & defeat: horse / military broke the (Oscars') glass ceiling
Kathryn Bigelow ~ (first woman Best Director)
cave in (verb)
raise the glass ceiling
caved quotas could ~ (employment)
instead of doubling down on his policy, he ~
shatter that glass ceiling
caved in women can ~ once and for all
I ~, just as Jean knew I would (and admitted truth) ♦ Related is the glass cliff. That refers to putting a woman or minority in a
position of power in a bad organization, in which they are bound to fail.
cave in to his fears ♦ Michel Martin: “There are studies that suggest that women are more
he refuses to ~ (a stock-market investor) likely to get jobs at a point at which a company is in crisis. And I wonder
if you think that might be an issue as well.” / Jill Abramson: “It definitely
cave in to (Serb) pressure was bad times, I mean it was very soon after I became executive editor
Europe will ~ (diplomacy) that we had one of the biggest waves of staff reduction which, you know,
creates pain and misery throughout a newsroom.” (Transcript: Former
caved in under the weight ‘New York Times’ Editor Jill Abramson Addresses Book Allegations,”
NPR, All Things Considered, February 7, 2019.)
the regime finally ~ of its impossible contradictions
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure
cave to threats or fear constraint & lack of constraint: infrastructure
he did not ~ (from MS-13 members) concealment & lack of concealment: infrastructure
failure, accident & impairment: mining / verb ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.)
resistance, opposition & defeat: mining / verb
cavernous (adjective) debt ceiling
politicians battle over budget deficits and the ~
cavernous headquarters biological ceiling
as we left the ~, only we were in the lobby (pandemic) 120 years old is the ~ for human longevity
resemblance / size: ground, terrain & land obstacles & impedance: infrastructure
ceasefire (noun) constraint & lack of constraint: infrastructure

Ceasefire on Immigration ceiling (high point)

Clergy urge ~ (politics) ceiling and the floor
ceasefire in the war his numbers have been durable, the ~ (president’s
there needs to be a ~ of words (dispute) popularity)

judicial ceasefire increase & decrease: direction / height / house

the DA's office has offered to declare a ~ (drop charges) cement (verb)
conflict: military
cemented his position
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: military

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 he has ~ as front-runner in the race (politics) corruption: smell
cemented his status cesspool (noun)
the show ~ as Britain’s best rapper (Glastonbury)
cesspool
cement her surge the neighborhood is a ~ that breeds crime
she is looking to ~ in opinion polls (politician)
cesspool of corruption
strength & weakness: materials & substances / verb college sports are a ~
survival, persistence & endurance: materials & substances
/ verb cesspools of fraud
the federal mortgage agencies are ~
center (society)
cesspool of hate
center the website is a ~
you drive people from the ~ towards the fringes (extremism)
cesspool of negativity
society: center & periphery the Internet can be a ~ (consumer reviews, comments)
center of gravity cesspool of character assassination
the Web site is a ~ (gossip site in rural towns)
center of gravity of Europe
Vienna had become the musical ~, drawing to it... reality-show cesspool
bases: astronomy it's hard to stand out in the ~ (TV)
attraction & repulsion: astronomy ethical cesspool
centerpiece he is disgusted by the ~ of Albany (New York politics)
moral cesspool
centerpiece
this is indicative of the ~ that is America (nudity on TV)
its ~ is the Inc. record label (a studio)
a ~ of their argument is… (scientific evidence) political cesspool
finally somebody was doing something to clean up the ~
centerpiece of the Circumpolar North
the Arctic Ocean is the ~ social cesspool
the tenements are ~s (1903)
centerpiece of his agenda
he has made it the ~ (crime bill) clean the cesspool
they are trying to ~ (Web)
centerpiece of our (domestic) agenda
health care is the ~ drain this (stinking) cesspool
he wants to ~ (New York politics)
centerpiece of her campaign
her support of Medicare was the ~ (politician) environment: hygiene
corruption: smell
centerpiece of their culture
the camel is the ~ (Arab Bedouins) Ceuta and Melilla
centerpiece of their lives linguistic Ceutas and Melillas
for many people, work is the ~ stranded like ~ (fuzzy semantics)
centerpiece of their plan division & connection: history
city officials see the pier as the ~ to unify various sites
chaff (separate the wheat from the chaff)
importance & significance: center & periphery / position
separating the wheat from the chaff
central (adjective) G-2 had great difficulty ~ (military intelligence)
central worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / wheat
the military is ~ (in Egyptian society)
chain (configuration)
importance & significance: center & periphery
chain of camps
cesspit (noun) the porters established a ~ up the mountain
cesspits of arguments, misinformation chain of islands
the comment threads are absolute ~ the southern end of the ~ known as Lofoten (Norway)
environment: hygiene chain of mountains
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human chain cold chain
policemen formed ~a (Hajj) the ~—keeping the vaccine refrigerated (for measles)
arriving police formed a ~ (rescue boys in river)
supply chain
island chain they have a very efficient ~ (Wal-Mart)
a nearby ~ was evacuated (typhoon) the army's ~ across the open desert is vulnerable to attack
an ~ that is part of the Antarctic peninsula there’s a whole ~ that feeds the production of the plane
mountain chain link in the (global) chain
the Rwenzori ~ includes Africa's third highest peak you're only as secure as the weakest ~ of information
750-mile chain break the chain
a ~ of rugged mountains (the Caucasus) we need to ~ of transmission (COVID-19)
divided into four chains sequence: chain
Tonga is composed of 140 islands ~
chain of command
configuration: chain
chain of command
chain (chain of events) contact your immediate ~ if your believe…(military)
requests go through the normal ~ (military)
chain of events he forwards the report through the ~ (military)
the ~ that caused the airliner to crash the information went up the ~ to President Bush
problems in this ~ (conception and infertility)
program's chain of command
chains of events the ~
describing hypothetical ~, he noted if…
launch-control chain of command
chain of critical events those in the ~ (NASA)
disasters are triggered by a ~ (engineering, crashes, etc.)
top-down chain of command
bizarre chain of events older workers are used to a ~ (business)
in a ~, a passenger was killed... (NJ Transit Train)
surprise and sadness at the ~ (astronaut arrested) military chain of command
federal military forces remain under the ~
fatal chain of events
the ~ began at 10:04 (car wreck) level in the chain of command
falling debris started the ~ (loss of shuttle Columbia) the highest appropriate ~ must address…
hypothetical chains of events chain of command (soon) broke down
describing ~, he noted if… the ~ (Gallipoli)
sequence: chain complained (for months) to the chain of command
he ~ about the poor gear
chain (oppression)
come down from the chain of command
people's chains a memo had ~ that said…
we must break the shackles of an oppressed ~
went outside of his chain of command
invisible chains he was removed after he ~ (Navy captain)
she was exploited by “~” (sex trafficking)
♦ “You can jump the chain of command if you want and take the
constraint & lack of constraint / oppression: chain consequences, you can disobey the chain of command and take the
consequences, but there is no, no situation where you go to the media...”
chain (other) (Acting SECNAV Thomas Modley on his decision to reassign Captain
Brett Crozier from command of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS
Theodore Roosevelt.)
chain of custody
drug screeners must follow the ~ hierarchy: chain / military

chain of evidence chain reaction

a ~ ties him to the crime
the ~ must be preserved (rape) chain reaction
the ~ can go on for centuries (cyanide pollution)
chain of (massive) explosions
Lagos struggled to recover from a ~ (ammo) chain-reaction accident
a ~ that involved 125 vehicles (fog in Georgia);
chain of trial and error low visibility caused a number of ~s (dust storm)
behind every discovery is a long ~ (astronomy)
chain-reaction crash

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 the ~ happened in a snowstorm (highway) his plan ~ (reform)
chain reaction wreck channeled her unhappiness into writing
16 cars had a ~ she ~
chain reaction of car hitting car directing: verb / water
a ~ (traffic pileup)
channel (through channels)
sequence: chain
through administrative channels
chainsaw (noun) submit requests ~ (military)
take a chainsaw to regulations through diplomatic channel
he wants to ~ (politics) India informed the US ~s that…
destruction: tools & technology through operational channels
force: tools & technology send NBC reports ~ (military)
chalice (poisoned chalice) through proper channels
a request has to go through ~
poisoned chalice
the United job is a ~ (English soccer) submit requests through administrative channels
poisoned chalice of naval command informed the US through diplomatic channels
Baltaoglu vanished, and the ~ passed back to Hamza Bey Spain ~ that…
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / food & drink go through proper channels
appearance & reality: allusion / food & drink a report has to ~
chameleon (change) route: water

style chameleons channel (back channel)

celebrities tend to be ~, changing their looks
back-channel operation
political chameleon he was alarmed by a ~ in Ukraine (diplomacy)
he was a ~ who charmed France (Jacques Chirac) supply chains, ~s, costs and cycle times
appearance & reality / creation & transformation: animal route: water
champion (noun) channel (distribution channel, etc.)
champion of social justice distribution channel
he was a ~ a new ~ has arisen (e-commerce)
supply chains, ~s, costs and cycle times
its champions
each one has ~ (translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy) route: water
superlative: Middle Ages / military channeled
change (sea change) channeled to paramilitaries
US dollars have been ~
sea change for Saudi Arabia
it’s a ~ (ending reliance on oil) channeled through the I.S.I.
Pakistan wants talks with the Taliban to be ~
political sea change
there has been a ~ in Virginia (election) channeled to militants
it is not clear how much money is ~
amount & effect / creation & transformation / reversal: sea
channeled and exploited
channel (direct) people's anger is being ~ by corporate interests (politics)
channeled (corporate) donation to Texas state races directing: water
he ~ (a convicted politician)
chaotic (adjective)
channeled his fears in music chaotic
he ~ (sickness therapy)
Fury’s life has been ~
channel his (mental) illness to stay
he learned how to ~ functional chaotic home
they were raised in a ~ with lots of siblings
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flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene as they venture into this ~ of their lives (retirement)
chaperone (role) painful chapter
it was a ~ in Indian history (white boarding schools)
worldly chaperone
he positioned himself as the grownup in the room, the ~ succession of chapters
the lives of athletes are a ~ (playground, NBA, China)
control & lack of control / experience: person
person: school & education begin the (next) chapter
he will ~ of his distinguished career
chapter
close that chapter
chapter we want to ~ in the department (remedy for racism)
I'm definitely glad that ~ is over (in a career) it was time to ~ of my life (quit job)
chapter of the (euthanasia) debate close this chapter
ending that ~ it is time to ~ in our history (discrimination)
chapter of history close a (tragic) chapter
we are spectators in a ~ (a significant labor dispute) the resolution will help ~ in Balkan history (apology)
chapter of their lives write more chapters
as they venture into this next ~ (retirement) it's been a storybook season, hopefully we can ~ (team)
chapter of your life write a (new) chapter
it's kind of sad to end a ~ (breakup of band) the protests could ~ in Arab politics
chapter of our (not-so-recent) past development: books & reading
that troubling ~
charade (noun)
chapter in a career
fans witnessed another bizarre ~ that… (Mike Tyson) Charade of Changing the World
Winners Take All: The Elite ~ (a book)
chapter in his life
he started a new ~ stop this charade
we need to ~ ("rubber rooms" for bad teachers)
chapter in the (still-unfolding) story
a~ performance / subterfuge: sports & games
substance & lack of substance: sports & games
concluding chapter
the play was the ~ in a spellbinding story (series of plays) charge (in, into, etc.)
troubling chapter charged ahead
that ~ of our not-so-distant past the president ~ with his plans to...

bizarre chapter charging into (one of the country’s) leading debates

fans witnessed another ~ in his career (a boxer) the leading philanthropy is ~ (Mellon / monuments)

dark chapter eagerness & reluctance: horse / military / movement / verb

we would rather close this ~ of our history and move on
darkest chapter
his capture was one of the country's ~s of the war
final chapter
the war against terrorism is not near its ~
last chapter
a bizarre ~ in a divorce battle (townhouse explodes)
latest chapter
the ~ in the long, checkered history of…
this ~ has only tightened the family bonds (injury)
this is the ~ in the tragedy that is Haiti (epidemic)
driving force: horse / military / movement / verb
commitment & determination: horse / military / movement
/ verb
charge (lead the charge)
leading the charge
Republicans are ~ (for fiscal responsibility)
the young people are ~ (new media)
led the charge
he disappeared when he should have ~ (a politician)
led the (political and rhetorical) charge
the NRA ~ (guns and 2nd Amendment)

new chapter led the charge to go

he is poised to write a triumphant ~ (Obama) Republicans ~ to war with Iraq

next chapter led the charge to overturn

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 he ~ the ban charm (noun)
led the charge for restricting charm bracelet
the three organizations have ~ immigration
her ~ spelled out "LOVE"
led the charge against the notion one of the year's hottest jewelry fads is the ~
he ~ of human-caused global warming
charm campaign
led the charge against charter schools Sudan's ~
school boards have ~
charm school
led the charge for (educational) reform beauty pageants and charm schools
he ~
charm and beauty
led the charge for (greater) regulation for centuries, visitors praised Basra's ~
Democrats have ~
charm, warmth and vivacity
driving force: military / verb stories of her ~ are innumerable
charged (highly charged, etc.) period charm
set in 1980, the show has a certain ~
highly charged
these are ~ issues (protests) attraction & repulsion: magic

feeling, emotion & effect: electricity charmed (charmed life, etc.)

charisma (attraction) charmed circle
teachers compete to enter the ~ of tenured academe
a lot of charism they spend their time in a ~ (acquaintances, etc.)
he has ~ (a politician)
charmed existence
attraction & repulsion: religion he enjoyed a ~, and then his family was poor
charm (verb) charmed life
she led a ~ (affluent)
charmed New Yorkers with his humor
the mayor ~ charmed run
their ~ finally ended (sports team)
charmed everyone with her culture, grace and beauty
she ~ charmed years
for a few ~, he was on top (success)
charmed her with his good humor
he ~ protection & lack of protection: magic
charmed his way into homes and shops charmed (charmed by something, etc.)
he ~ (the photographer Peter Sekaer)
charmed by the architecture
charm the pants off (just about) anyone he was ~ (buying a house)
he could ~ (politician Ronald Reagan)
charmed by the (rugged) beauty
charmed the audience we were ~ of New Mexico
he ~ (a dancer)
charmed by his speeches
charmed fans voters were ~ and inspired by his vision (Obama)
Baghdatis ~ at the 2006 Australian Open (tennis)
charmed by the terrain
charms people the young artist was ~ (the desert)
with his gentle manner, he ~ wherever he goes (a boxer)
charmed by her good-heartedness
charmed reporters we were ~
while he has ~, others find him abrasive
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
charmed and impressed attraction & repulsion: magic
she ~ colleagues with her low-key style and commitment
charming (people)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic / verb
attraction & repulsion: magic / verb charming
he was cute, he was ~, he was very athletic… (psycho)
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 she could be ~ (a narcissist) control & lack of control: chess / movement / sports &
games
character & personality: magic
attraction & repulsion: magic checkmate (noun)
chart (verb) checkmate
chart its own course your American critics say you have run out of moves, ~
Iraq is free to ~ resistance, opposition & defeat: chess / sports & games
chart a (fresh) course cheap shot
helping convicted felons ~
cheap shot
charted a (new) course he may have thought his ~ was funny, but it wasn't
President Obama has ~ for the next two years his comment was a ~, totally unwarranted (insult)
chart the future his insinuation is unsubstantiated and a ~
~s get cheap laughs
Iraqis will ~ of Iraq
chart a new path cheap shot against him
that was a real ~ (a comment in newspaper)
the leader is trying to ~
direction: boat / journeys & trips / verb cheap shot against the White House
she has taken a ~ (political commentary)
chase (verb)
cheap-shot artist
chase after their dreams he's a clever ~ (a political comedian)
artists and actors ~
cheap shot and dirty trick
chase (small) effects he has bashed him with every ~ in the book (politics)
studies ~ (unable to replicate)
takes a cheap shot
chase headlines she ~ at him when she says…
scientists who manipulate data and ~ ♦ In sports, a cheap shot refers to an unnecessary and vicious hit on a
defenseless player.
pursuit, capture & escape: walking, running & jumping /
verb accusation & criticism / behavior / speech: sports & games
/ violence / weapon
chase down (verb)
checkbook
chase it (all) down
but what is the implicit comedy of that song, if you ~ open their checkbooks
a few companies may ~ (reparations for slavery)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: walking, running &
jumping / verb money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol

chasm checkpoint (at a checkpoint)

chasm between Africans and African-Americans at progress checkpoints
the ~ (in Ghana) assign a grade or points ~ (projects / schools)

widen into a chasm progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement
the cracks could ~ (politics) cheer (noun)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
cheers and boos
chatter (signals intelligence) the judge’s decision drew ~

jump in (suspicious) chatter judgment: sound

there has been a ~ achievement, recognition & praise: sound

activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / cheerlead (verb)

surveillance: sound / speech cheerlead for big projects
check (in check) volunteers are less likely to ~ (Peace Corps)
enthusiasm: school & education / verb
in check
attention, scrutiny & promotion: school & education / verb
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cheerleader (person) team chemistry
his top priority is to improve ~ (sports)
cheerleader
Roger Ver is its most visible ~ (Bitcoin Cash) good chemistry
teams, actors, orchestras require ~
cheerleaders for the Pentagon are teams good because they have ~
some say they served as ~ (reporters) do teams have ~ because they are good
~ sometimes trumps outright talent (sports team)
cheerleader for the city
he is a ~ (mayor of Las Vegas) lack of chemistry
a ~ is blamed for failure
cheerleader for the superiority
she is a ~ of all things American wealth of chemistry
a ~ is credited for success
cheerleader for war
he was the exile ~ (an Iraqi) chemistry can trump talent
good ~ (sports teams)
cheerleaders for war
women have often been ~ (Spartan mothers) have chemistry
in sports, good teams ~
cheerleader role
he is in the ~, he wants the economy back up (pandemic) hurt the (team) chemistry
♦ “In Aristophanes’ comic play, Lysistrata, the women go on sex strike as he ~ (an athlete)
a way of ending the Peloponnese War. Do you think we would be as ♦ "Chemistry is when you hang around each other when you don't have
warlike if women were in charge?” [Delighted laughter and clapping from to. That's us." (Chris Weber, speaking of the Sacramento Kings, an NBA
the audience.] / “It’s such a good question. My brief answer is no. team.)
[Nervous laughter from audience.] You know, the Peloponnesian war, it
was the Spartan mothers who said, ‘Come back bearing your shield or functioning / mixture: chemistry
on it....’ I’m not sure that women are by nature kinder or gentler.”
(Margaret MacMillan, “War and Humanity,” the Reith Lectures, BBC.) Chernobyl
♦ "Wars are almost always begun with gaiety and lightness of spirit, with
cheers and songs. The day after the surrender of Fort Sumter the entire rainforest Chernobyl
land, both North and South, blazed with an ardent and confident
patriotism, although the patriotism of the South was precisely opposite to
Texaco created a ~ (toxic waste in Ecuador)
that of the North. The streets of the cities were colorful with flags and
smart uniforms. Ladies waved handkerchiefs and threw kisses. The
destruction: history / nuclear energy / place
barrooms did the largest day's business in the history of the nation, up to failure, accident & impairment: history / nuclear energy /
that time… The churches were kept open all day for the saying of place
bloodthirsty prayers. God, as usual, was on both side." (A New
American History by W.E. Woodward.) cherubic (adjective)
person: school & education cherubic preteen
attention, scrutiny & promotion / enthusiasm: person /
a ~ with a gentle smile
school & education
appearance: creature / religion
cheer on (verb)
chess (chess game)
cheered him on
everybody ~ (musician who abused underaged girls) chess game
it really is a ~ (trying to catch terrorist)
cheering her on for years
let’s look ahead, the way you have to in a ~ (Brexit)
her mother have father have been ~ (a tennis phenom)
it’s a ~, and we have to look several moves ahead (Brexit)
enthusiasm: sound / verb
political chess game
chemistry the politicians play ~s (at expense of laborers)
they use human beings as pawns in a ~ (hostages)
chemistry of the team
he insists the ~ is fine (troubled NFL team) psychological chess games
winning ~s (interrogations of terrorist suspects)
chemistry between client and therapist
~ is crucial (psychotherapist) strategy: chess / sports & games

chemistry between a boxer and a trainer chessboard (noun)

the ~ is crucial
off the board
screen chemistry the two other members of the ISIS cell are already ~ (one
the two actors have so much ~ (movie) killed, one in prison)
♦ “The Democrats wrote the rules, then set up the chessboard. We are
on-screen chemistry now playing in the chessboard with the rules they set up.” (Voter drop-
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boxes, which became controversial during the 2020 presidential he is ~ (afraid)
election.)
courage & lack of courage: animal / bird / heart
strategy: chess / sports & games
heart: bird
chest (beat one’s chest) chicken (chicken out)
stand up and beat their chests chickened out
terrorists want to take credit, they want to ~ he ~ and never gave her the letter
attention, scrutiny & promotion: animal / gesture courage & lack of courage: animal / bird / verb
conflict: animal / gesture
performance; standing, sitting & lying chieftain (noun)
chew (verb) corporate chieftain
~s who sell off shares of their companies (ethics)
chew barbed wire in Flanders
is there an alternative to having our armies ~ banking industry chieftain
♦ “Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew a former ~
barbed wire in Flanders?” (Winston Churchill, in a letter of advice to
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. The alternative turned out to be power: person / military
Gallipoli.)
child (spoiled child)
experience: food & drink / verb
consumption: food & drink / verb West's spoiled child
chew over (verb) Israel is the ~
behavior: family / person
chew it over with relish
the old women ~ (a bit of gossip) child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: food & drink / verb child of the Victorian era
chicken (chicken and egg) Churchill freely conceded that he was a ~
child of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
chicken and egg
he was a cynical ~
this is the classic ~ that has plagued rural America (housing)
♦ “Sure, so my name is Rob Hansen, I’m a parent. So we are...”
chicken and the egg
identity & nature: family / person
it's kind of the ~ (support for losing team)
chicken and egg problem
chill (feeling)
it's a ~ chill
chicken-and-egg problem I get ~s thinking about it (an exciting event)
it's a ~ (plants need oil, oil refineries need power) feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
relationship: bird chill (oppression)
chicken (come home to roost) sent a chill through the academic world
chickens coming home to roost the sentences ~ (China arrests)
this is a sort of ~ (political battle) oppression: temperature
this is a case of the ~ (Malcolm X on JFK)
chilling (adjective)
they came home to roost
these chickens took a very long flight before ~ (scandal) chilling
the accusations against him are ~ (a terrorist)
Justice of Roosting Chickens
On the ~ (notorious book blaming the West for 9/11) chilling account
♦ This makes one think of the Sicilian Bull that Perillus of Athens he has written a ~ of the murder (writer)
invented and built for Phalaris, Tyrant of Sicily. It’s first victim was its
inventor. Eventually, its owner would end up consumed within it. chilling development
it is the latest ~ in this chilling case (sniper murders)
judgment / responsibility / reversal: animal / bird / justice
/ verb chilling effect
this will have a ~ on the coal industry (project vetoed)
chicken-hearted these bills will have a ~ (Internet regulation)
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 there have been two ~s (religious attacks) chip (chips fall, etc.)
chilling message let the chips fall where they may
it was a ~
let’s have the hearing and ~ (investigation)
chilling street name chips may fall
the crimes have a ~, "Guat-bashing" (Guatemalans)
the ~ in ways that are uncomfortable for all sides
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
fate, fortune & chance: tree
chilly chip away (verb)
chilly toward women's soccer chip away at our information
England has been ~
these companies will never stop trying to ~ (Internet)
chilly reception chip away at an employee's confidence
she received a ~ (a politician)
he uses insults to ~ (bad boss)
chilly response chipping away (at the edifice) with hammer or chisel
he got a ~ from… (meeting / law-enforcement officers)
lawyers are ~ (of personal responsibility)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
taking & removing: blade / verb
chime in (verb) choir (preach to the choir)
chimed in that preaching to the choir
he ~ he does the same thing (conversation)
they are ~ (sympathetic audience)
chimed in on the controversy message: religion
readers ~
unanimity & consensus: religion
chimed in with his own statement choirboy (behavior)
he has ~
choirboy
chimed in from Haiti he was a ~ compared to some of Hernandez’s other friends
he ~ (a reporter)
behavior: person / religion
involvement: sound / verb
person: religion
speech: sound / verb
chink (noun) choke (verb)
choking on its own success
chink in her opponent's armor China is ~ (pollution)
she uncovered a critical chink in her ~
choke on those words
chink in his armor Sanders would ~ (perfect is the enemy of good)
she found a ~
the one ~ has been… (an athlete) acceptance & rejection / affliction / consumption /
he has not been able to find a ~ (tennis) obstacles & impedance: bodily reaction / breathing / food
chink in conditioning & drink / throat / verb
any ~ could mean defeat (Olympic swimming) choke (fail)
chink of vulnerability chokes during pressure
he hasn’t shown a ~ she ~ (an athlete)
flaws & lack of flaws: hole success & failure: breathing / verb
chip (bargaining chip) choked
bargaining chip choked with emotion
the proposals are on the table as a ~ …, he said, his voice ~
bargaining chip in (peace) negotiations choked with people
the fleet was a ~ (World War I) the prisons are ~ who stole to eat (Mexico)
used as a bargaining chip choked with traffic
he was kidnapped to be ~ with Washington crowded intersections ~ (Brooklyn)
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boulder-choked (m) saved from the chopping block
the ~ Cheoah River in Graham County, North Carolina 19 schools were ~
briar-choked (m) taken off the chopping block
as a boy, he explored the ~ woods behind his house some bus routes will be ~
cholesterol-choked (m) dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / neck
he needs an operation for his ~ arteries fate, fortune & chance: ax / blade / neck
smoke-choked (m) chops (expertise)
the firefighters ascended the ~ stairwell
chops to do the job
traffic-choked (m) she proved she had the ~ (Pelosi / politics)
it has been a average, ~ rush hour (Los Angeles)
foreign-relation chops
weed-choked (m) any candidate will have to show their ~ (election)
behind the house was a ~ garden
experience / knowledge & intelligence: music
the footbridge cross a ~ stream
ability & lack of ability: music
obstacle & impedance: breathing
chops (lick one’s chops)
chokepoint
licking their chops
choke points, bridges, tunnels energy companies are ~ at the prospect of new oil pipelines
identify ~ (military)
eagerness & reluctance: animal / bodily reaction / mouth
choke point or kill zone
as the enemy moves into the ~
chord (evidence)
chokepoints in the Northwest Passage chord of jealousy
include one off Barrow, Alaska, and in Canada some Russians detect a ~ (attitudes to immigrants)
evidence: sound
choke points on interstates
~ and state highways chord (strike a chord)
world's choke points struck a chord with her book
the ~—the Suez and Panama Canals, the Bab el Mandeb she clearly ~
the ~—the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Malacca Strait
struck a chord with the (American) public
strategically important chokepoint these cases have always ~ (capital cases)
it is one of the world's ~ (Strait of Hormuz)
striking a strong chord
oil choke point his message is ~ with voters (about corruption)
Hormuz is the most important ~ in the world
♦ This word seems to have arisen during World War II. Other words striking the wrong chord
derived from warfare include breakthrough, breakout, and basket case. I’m terrified of ~ (a writer and cultural appropriation)
obstacle & impedance: breathing feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb
chopping block (on the chopping block) effect: sound / verb
chorus (chorus of critics, etc.)
on the chopping block
their heads will be ~ the next election (politics) chorus of (outraged) denunciation from liberals
my neck is ~ (accountability) the term brought a ~ (Asianization)
many social services are ~
their collective-bargaining rights are ~ (teachers) chorus of critics
every four years a ~ call for an end to conventions
put the school on the chopping block
officials have ~ (underperforming) joined a chorus
she ~ of Democrats who have called on Mr. Barr to resign
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / head / neck
fate, fortune & chance: ax / blade / head / neck amount & effect: music / speech
destruction: ax / blade / head / neck unanimity & consensus: music / speech
chopping block (other) chorus (resemblance)
keep the program off the chopping block dawn chorus
supporters are trying to ~ birdlife, we had this incredibly vibrant ~ (extinction)

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resemblance: music allusion: books & reading
christen (verb) circle (predation)
christened it the "green hell" circling
travelers ~ (Mato Grosso) his rivals are ~ (politics)
the vultures are already ~ on the web (health of official)
christened the plane the A320neo
Airbus ~ predation: animal / shark / verb

characterization: religion / verb circle (a circle can close)

Christmas circle is closing
the ~ (around Saddam's regime / Iraqi Freedom)
Christmas a ~ (memories of Holocaust dim)
May is the ~ of the limousine business (proms) a ~ (Israeli Holocaust survivor returns to free Berlin)
superlative: epithet / day ♦ This expression seems to relate to the completion of a development, to
something being finished.
church (noun) development / fate, fortune & chance: shape
church reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: shape
it's my ~, it's my cathedral (Yosemite on foot in winter) circle (full circle)
enthusiasm / reverence: religion
comes full circle
churn (move) this week she ~ (ends career where it started)

churned up the coast development: shape

a winter storm ~ circle (run circles around somebody)
churn through the (criminal justice) system running circles around us
millions of people ~ China is ~ (in technology)
movement: force / verb superiority & inferiority: verb / walking, running & jumping
force: movement / verb
circle (go in circles)
churn out (verb)
going in circles
churn out books we're just ~
she continued to ~, among other pursuits (comic)
♦ “They’re moving forward. In Hell they just went round and round.”
churn out (unneeded advanced) degrees (“Purgatorio,” Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Episode 2 of 3, BBC
Radio 4.)
universities continue to ~
failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
churn out jobs progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
small firms also ~ (economy)
churns out (around six and a half gallons of) milk
circle back (return)
the cow ~ a day circle back to something
churns out misinformation let’s ~ you mentioned, Marcia... (talk show)
the rumor mill ~ circle back to the United States
churning out the (popular) model I want to ~... (changing the subject, talk radio)
Boeing has been ~ at a breakneck rate (a plane) circle you back to the question
churn out products so let me ~ I posed at the onset (talk radio)
factories ~ coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
creation & transformation: manufacturing / tools & journeys & trips / movement / verb
technology / verb past & present: direction / journeys & trips / movement /
verb
Cinderella circle back (judgment)
Cinderella story
T.M. Landry school has become a viral ~
circled back to you
this has all ~ (sex abuser gets long sentence)
♦ This story relates to unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
judgment / responsibility / reversal: justice / verb
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circled claim (stake a claim)
circled by a (jogging) trail staking his claim to be the moderate
the park is ~ he is ~ (a politician)
circled with (high) walls laid claim to the feminist mantle
the towns are ~ (Palestine) she has ~
configuration: shape possession: boundary / ground, terrain & land / surveying
circuit breaker (noun) claim (kill)
circuit breaker claimed (an estimated) 10,000 lives
a ~ is a short period of tightened restrictions (COVID) a killer heat wave ~ (France)
circuit breakers claimed (more than) 16,000 lives
can ~ stop rumors on Facebook or Twitter the virus has ~
control & lack of control: electricity / tools & technology euphemism: death & life
curtailment: electricity / tools & technology
claim (take)
circus (media circus, etc.)
claimed another big scalp
circus Palace ~ (victory against Tottenham Hotspur)
this case was a ~ (O. J. Simson trial)
the ~ that is now our political system (New Age candidate) claim a seat
the drive was on to ~ at the table (minority poets)
circus of the literary circuit
he found the ~ insufferable claimed victory
he ~ in a photo finish (Mathieu van der Poel)
circus act
he's a ~ and he's killing boxing (a troubled boxer) taking & removing: hand / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb
travelling circus
the heavyweight division is little more than a ~ (boxing)
clamor (verb)
walking circus clamoring for an investigation
he is seen as a ~ by some (a flamboyant boxer) they have been ~ of the investigators (politics)

media circus conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: sound

he became the attention of a ~ clampdown (noun)
publicity circus clampdown
he is a one-man ~ (Richard Branson) flights have been cancelled since the ~ began (eruption)
unbelievable circus clampdown by China on Tibet
most Americans won’t watch this ~ (congressional hearing) the speech was in reaction to a new ~
♦ “The heavyweight division used to be the pinnacle of the sport but now
it’s little more than a travelling circus where the ring masters behind the clampdown by the authorities on credit
scenes lift your wallets by putting on a clown show.” (Captain Y-Fronts, a new ~ could hurt domestic demand
on BBC’s HYS about the Fury-Schwarz fight.)

performance / resemblance: circus clampdown on opponents

the arrest are part of a broader ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: circus
citadel (noun) government clampdown
the ~ includes a strict curfew
citadel of segregation
whites detected a crumbling in the ~ (the South) major clampdown
security forces engaged in a ~
citadels of free inquiry
universities are supposed to be ~ but... (campus censorship) vicious clampdown
the ~ has estranged millions from the regime
attacks on citadels
this was only one of Valla’s ~ of orthodoxy promoted a clampdown on intellectuals
the government ~
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
pressure: tools & technology
coercion & motivation: pressure

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oppression: pressure come clean about the origins
clarity (adjective) they have refused to ~ of the coronavirus
come clean with the information
clarity on how
they should ~ they have (nuclear power plant)
we need full ~ such a tragedy happened (Flight 752)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb
clash (verb) sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: hygiene / verb

clashed with the network clean (a clean record, etc.)

but he ~ and resigned (a reporter clean
conflict: sound / verb my name is ~ (falsely convicted, then exonerated)

clash (noun) clean of corruption

he is widely viewed as ~ (government)
clash
the ~ showed how a small spark could ignite another war clean (final) draft
the writer finally produced a ~ (on a typewriter)
clash with Henry Kissinger
he left government after a ~ clean, evocative prose
he crafts imaginative narratives using ~
generational clash
this is a ~ between two progressives (politics) clean (driving) record
I have a ~
maritime clash
the ~ has hardened opinion against China flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene

wild clash clean (addiction)

a ~ erupted during a motorcycle rally clean
conflict: sound she has been ~ for two years (an addict)

claw (verb) get clean

he spent a decade struggling to ~
fought and clawed
once you’ve ~ your way up the tenure ladder (academia) condition & status: addiction / hygiene

scratch and claw cleanse (violence)

she is going to ~ for the maximum she can get (politics) cleanse the area of agents
conflict: animal / verb we must ~

clay (noun) cleanse the Foca area of Muslims

soft clay
he is ~, you can manipulate him (politics)
creation & transformation: materials & substances
character & personality: materials & substances
the purpose of the Serb campaign was “to ~”
cleansing their enemies
they are ~ (government loyalists against protestors)
violence: hygiene / verb

clean (verb) cleansing (ethnic cleansing)

clean the cesspool victims of ethnic cleansing
they are trying to ~ (of the Web) they claim they are the ~

clean our shame violence: hygiene

kill yourself and ~ or we will kill you first (honor killing) clean up (speech)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb
cleaned up the language
clean (come clean) they have ~ to make Mark Twain available to schools

came clean speech: hygiene / verb

he ~ and confirmed what many had suspected clean up (improve)
come clean clean up your act
if you're a sinner, ~ (a preacher)
you need to ~
instead of letting the questions fester, why not ~

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clean up your document clear (unambiguous)
review and ~ (text document)
clear
clean up its image it was not ~ how many would take the advice
in a drive to ~, the club holds charity events (bikers) it is not ~ if…
clean up the mess it's not ~ how long the warming cycle will last
he has had to ~ the previous administration created make it ~ that it was nobody's fault
we need to ~ in government (politician) as many writings of the frontier era make ~
the specific target of the threats was not ~ (terrorism)
cleaning up this mess dirty air is often blamed, but its role isn't ~ (asthma)
we're ~ (diplomacy) the cause of the blast was not immediately ~
clean up (Mexico's human rights) record clear to him
Fox has promised to ~, but… what was ~ was invisible to others (native tracker)
clean up her reputation clear how
if the book is seen as an attempt to ~… it's not ~ one would deter an attack like 9/11
clean up their resumes clear whether
even engineers have learned to ~ he did not make ~ he supported a timeline or a deadline
clean up the sport clear if
it may be impossible to ~ of cycling (Tour de France) it is not ~ they are using any sterile technique at all
clean up the (education) system clear directions
it will be difficult to ~ the nurse must give ~ (when delegating tasks)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb clear evidence
we see ~ that…
cleanup (military)
clear goal
cleanup operation the decisive use of force with a ~ (military)
she was a victim of a government ~ against the rebels
clear indication
violence: hygiene the results from this testing provided the first ~ of…
euphemism: military
clear link
clear (crystal clear) no ~ between thimerosal and autism has been found
crystal-clear clear objectives
it was ~ that… establish ~ (warfare)
crystal clear clear (but unstated) objective
the Second Amendment is ~ the ~ was to…
crystal-clear (m) clear proof
the trouble is the show doesn't have a ~ message the company had ~ the drug was dangerous
certainty & uncertainty: light & dark clear provenance
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark museums should refuse antiquities without a ~
clear (perception) clear sign
clear picture take it as a ~ he's not interested
confused parents have no ~ of their kids clear signal
clear seeing no ~s from the miners had been heard since… (cave-in)
the crystal was the symbol of the mind and of ~ (Navaho) clear strategy
perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark we need a ~ to achieve those goals (Iraq)
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark clear threat
clear (clear conscience) the town seemed under ~ of destruction (wildfire)

clear conscience clear warnings

you can sell them to widows and orphans with a ~ the pilot missed ~ and crashed (airport)

guilt: light & dark clear warnings

signs should give ~ of the end of the detour (military)

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clear directions and instructions cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.)
did the nurse give ~
fiscal cliff
clear guidelines the country is headed off a ~ of runaway spending
have ~ on what behavior is not acceptable
on the edge of the cliff
clear, concise (m) we’re ~, we don’t have much time to back away (diplomacy)
the commander issues ~ orders and guidance
dropped off a cliff
clear, concise, and complete I noticed that sales just ~ (online fake negative reviews)
make the text ~ (military message)
fell off a cliff
clear and consistent but then demand ~ (poor economy)
be ~ (disciplining a toddler)
fallen off a cliff
clear and convincing (m) venture capital investing ~ (low returns)
there is no ~ proof that…
fallen off an economic cliff
clear and present (m) we have just ~ (recession)
experts see a ~ danger (terrorism / Olympics)
going over a cliff
clear and thorough (m) the economy is ~
explains information in a ~ manner (nurse assistant)
push American off a (fiscal) cliff
clear, unambiguous (m) political paralysis may ~
provide ~ instructions (teachers)
♦ “He has put himself on a one-way road heading toward a cliff and there
make clear is no turning back.”

as many writings of the frontier era ~ decline / destruction / fate, fortune & chance: direction /
he did not ~ if he supported a timeline or a deadline ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills / verb
make it clear climate (work climate, etc.)
~ that it was nobody's fault
climate of cooperation
made his position clear a ~ between the media and police
he ~
certainty & uncertainty: light & dark
climate of fear
there is still a pervasive ~ (Basra under Baath control)
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
clear-eyed (adjective) climate of (growing) hostility
coming of age in a ~ to immigration
clear-eyed about the risks climate of intimidation
we are ~
an election marred by low turnout and a ~
consciousness & awareness: eye
climate of violence
clear up (verb) a ~ has always run through American politics

clear (all) this up climate of fear and anxiety

he could ~ by releasing the records (controversy) people are living in a ~

amelioration & renewal: light & dark / verb climate of fear and intimidation
people live in a ~ (Iraq / Baath party)
click (verb)
climate of backlash
clicking today in the ~ against bilingual education
the team is ~
command climate
functioning: sound / verb our ~ surveys measure toxic leadership (military)
cliff (glass cliff) you are accountable for true ~ (military officers)
investment climate
got pushed off a glass cliff the nanotechnology ~ is warming up
she ~ (set up to fail)
♦ This is a variation of the glass ceiling. It refers to putting a woman or work climate
minority in a position of power in a bad organization, in which they are a negative ~ is created
bound to fail.
classroom climate
destruction: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills

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 establish a ~ that supports learning climax of the pilgrimage
create a ~ that is accepting, comfortable, and noncompetitive the short trek to Mount Arafat, marking the ~
revenue-driven climate marks the climax
UCLA is in a ~ (coach fired for losing record) the ceremony ~ of the summer season (battlefield)
bitter (political) climate nearing a climax
the increasingly ~ ahead of elections next summer the drama is ~ (who to select as goalkeeper)
negative (work) climate reached its climax
a ~ is created partisan politics ~ with the impeachment
poisonous (political and rhetorical) climate development: theater
politics suffers from a ~
climb (progress)
political climate
the increasingly bitter ~ ahead of elections climbed a (well-worn) immigrant ladder
a reporter asked him if he was afraid, given the ~ Chaudri ~ (dishwasher, cab driver)

racial climate way to climb

the ~ in our country today the people of Africa have a long ~

social climate progress & lack of progress: movement / direction / verb

the ~ is bad there (a black / U-Michigan) climb (increase)
tense climate climbed to 612
the ~ following the terrorist attacks
as Los Angeles' murder count ~ for the year
toxic (command) climate climbed to 40 degrees
he fostered a ~ (military)
as the temperature ~
create a (classroom) climate climbed in velocity
~ that is accepting, comfortable, and noncompetitive
the wind suddenly switched in direction and ~ (ship)
fostered a (toxic command) climate climbed 21%
he ~ (military)
Nokia earnings ~
improve (class) climate climbed to $70
~ through incentives or rewards (teachers)
the price of a barrel of oil ~
maintain a climate
continued to climb
we struggle to ~ that meets our expectations (rape in
as gasoline prices ~ last week
military)
♦ In the Chicago Tribune, on August 2, 2012, the Pulitzer Prize-winning continues to climb
editorial cartoonist Dick Locher published a cartoon that relates the the online population ~
weather to the US climate of violence. It shows a TV weatherman,
pointing to a weather map of the US with highs and lows. The caption started climbing
reads, "LIGHT TO MODERATE GUNFIRE WITH OCCASIONAL
SHOWERS OF AUTOMATIC WEAPON FIRE COUPLED WITH in the 1980s the numbers of TV deaths in the US ~
INTERMITTENT GUN SALES ACTIVITY AND SCATTERED DRIVE-BY
SHOOTINGS." Sadly, he died in 2017. (AAEC Ref Num: 113472.) earnings climbed
Nokia ~ 21%
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather & increase & decrease: direction / verb
climate
climb (roads, etc.)
climax (noun)
climbs the (green) slopes
climax Highway 37 ~ of Haleakala (Hawaii)
antagonism reached a ~ in 1994 (illegal immigrants)
route: direction
climax of the Hajj fictive motion: verb
the Standing on Mount Arafat is the ~
climb down (verb)
climax of my career
covering Hajj is the ~ (a journalist) climbed down from his decision
he has ~ to expel US diplomats
climax of the (religious) festival
Shia pilgrims flocked to Karbala for the ~ (Ashura) climb down from all this
how do you ~ (diplomatic problem)

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reversal: direction / verb cloak (under a cloak)
climber (social climber, etc.) under a cloak of secrecy
determined climber she arrived in Yemen ~ (government official)
he was a ~ (a young drug lord) concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
society: person accessories

cling (verb) cloak (in a cloak)

cling on in the cloak of journalism
he tried to ~ by offering new elections gossip is dressed ~

cling to the belief in the cloak of reform and patriotism

some parents ~ that vaccines cause autism scoundrels shroud themselves ~

clings to her concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &

it’s a deeply embarrassing episode that still ~ today (singer) accessories

clung to his innocence cloak (other)

a large minority ~ (guilty verdict)
cloak of legality
cling to their own language judges twisted the law to give a ~ to crimes
in this region of China, where Tibetans ~ (Qinghai)
cloak of secrecy
clinging to life the White House has reaffirmed the ~ (Area 51)
he is in the hospital, ~ the air force hung a ~ over the mission (X-37B)
he is critical and ~ (shot)
cloak for (business-friendly) politicians
clung to the marriage reform can provide a ~ to appear respectable
she ~ for longer than she should have
cover themselves in the (righteous) cloak
cling to the past they ~ of religion (blasphemy laws)
it's foolish to ~ (an opinion)
reformer cloak
clinging to power he has donned the ~
how is he ~ (Maduro)
constitutional cloak
cling to their language and customs club members wrap themselves in a ~ (men only club)
the Berbers in the Kabylia region ~
hung a cloak (of secrecy) over the mission
clung to the traditions the air force ~ (X-37B)
Trinidad has ~ of carnival
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
clung to the (fading) values accessories
he ~ of honor and omerta (mobster)
cloaked (covered)
attachment / possession: hand / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb mist-cloaked
the dispute centers over the ~ region of Tawang (India)
clingy (adjective)
configuration / cover: clothing & accessories
possessive and (more) clingy
he got more ~ towards her (abusive relationship) cloaked (concealed)
feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand cloaked in the mantle
attachment / character & personality: hand blasphemy laws are ~ of religion
cloak (conceal) concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
accessories
cloaks itself in "Christian" values
the party cynically ~ cloak-and-dagger
cloak a bully's identity cloak-and-dagger precautions
the Internet can ~ they took elaborate ~
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing & subterfuge: clothing & accessories
accessories / verb

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clobbered (by rain, etc.) clock runs out
concerns about what happens when the ~ (diplomacy)
clobbered by (relentless) rain time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
San Diego has been ~
force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / violence
clock (clock is ticking, etc.)
clock (turn back the clock) clock in the back of your head
you have this ~ of how much time you can spend (Everest)
turn the clock back
ticking clock
how do you ~ at this point (Gibraltar and sovereignty)
he filed the notice to gain the advantage of a ~ (legal matter)
turn back the clock
clock is ticking
we don’t want to ~ (plunging vaccination rates)
and now, the ~ (to a royal wedding)
turn back the clock on aging the ~ (legal decision setting a deadline)
a wrinkle cream that promises to ~
clock is ticking on his benefits
turn back the clock on (racial) progress the ~ (unemployed)
they accuse him of helping to ~ (a judge) timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
turn back the clock some twenty years time: clock
one needs to ~ to understand how... (history) clock (reset the clock)
turn back the clock (about) a hundred years
clock has been reset
when we ~...
the ~ (deadline extended)
turn back the clock time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
you can't ~ (return to the past)
maybe we can ~ (relationship) clock (run the clock, etc.)
try to turn back the clock run out the clock
are we going to stay quiet as they ~ (a protest) the strategy is to punt to the courts and ~ (politics)
past & present / time: clock / direction / verb run the clock down
clock (types) all the Giants had to do now was ~ (NFL game)
♦ “Do they think they’re winning and they just have to not screw it up, and
body clock are they running the clock?” (Republican operative Dan Senor on Biden’s
debate strategy and election campaign.)
the best way to follow your natural ~
action, inaction & delay: clock / football / sports & games /
ticking (biological) clock
verb
her pursuit to satisfy the ~
biological clock
clockwork (noun)
jet lag and the ~ clockwork universe
her ~ is ticking (motherhood) the metaphor of a ~ (Bishop Nicole d’Oresme)
time: clock
understand the (entire) clockwork
clock (race with the clock, etc.) now we ~ better than ever before (Polarstern MOSAiC)
operation: mechanism
in a race with the clock
we are ~ clog (noun)
racing the clock clog
we are ~ trying to prevent another tragedy (serial bombs) such ~s affect users (distributed denial of service)
they were ~, tying up their oyster boat (hurricane)
clog disappeared
timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
highway officials added one lane and the ~ (traffic)
competition / time: clock
obstacles & impedance: water
clock (clock winds down, etc.)
clogged
clock is winding down
the ~ to the strike deadline clogged with people
Mexico's courts and jails are ~ like Hurtado
clock has run out
now the ~ (Brexit negotiations) clogged with rubbish

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 alleyways ~ mind: access & lack of access / container
clogged with traffic closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
the Central Artery is ~ day and night (Boston)
closet homosexual
clogged with (cheap Chinese) motorbikes some people speculate that Hitler was a ~
streets are ~
closet radical
clogged artery he is a ~ (accusation of one politician by another)
Boston's ~ (the Central Artery)
family closet
clogged roads ghosts and phantoms from the ~
he is perturbed by ~ (Seattle)
in the closet
Mercedes-clogged (m) living ~ brought her pain (a lesbian)
we snaked our way through the ~ streets
in O’Rourke’s closet
snow-clogged (m) newly revealed skeletons have joined old ones ~ (politician)
a ~ mountain pass
keeping commuters off ~ streets and highways (blizzard) skeletons in our closet
I knew we had ~ (newspaper's lack of coverage of…)
traffic-clogged (m)
at the intersection of a ~ street skeletons in its (Communist) closet
Poland exhumes ~
streets are clogged
~ with cheap Chinese motorbikes (Ho Chi Minh City) skeletons in the closet
all the ~ are spilling out (Turkey)
obstacles & impedance: water
amount & effect: water emerging from the closet
more and more gay celebrities are ~
cloistered
concealment & lack of concealment: house / skeleton
cloistered himself in his (hotel) room evidence: house / skeleton
he ~ (from reporters)
clothes (the emperor has no clothes)
cloistered atmosphere
she felt secure within the ~ (psychiatric ward) emperor has no clothes
look, the ~, you got nothing (a consulting firm)
remain cloistered
the Wakhis ~ in their world of wind and ice substance & lack of substance: allusion / clothing &
accessories
avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: religion / clotheslined
place
get clotheslined
close (future) you can ~ by a fence, cable, bar, swing, or a person
failure, accident & impairment: clothing & accessories
close
the deadline is ~ cloud (verb)
proximity: distance
clouded his judgment
future / time: distance drugs ~
close (feeling) consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud / verb
close cloud (cast a cloud)
we're very close (relationship)
cloud has been cast
close family a ~ over much of his work (fabricated data)
we’re such a ~ (ethnic Puerto Rican-American)
oppression: atmosphere / cloud / light & dark / shadow
division & connection / feeling, emotion & effect /
feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / cloud / light & dark
relationship / social interaction: distance / proximity / shadow
close-minded (adjective) cloud (under a cloud)
called his critics close-minded under a cloud
he ~ she has left the Olympics ~

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under a cloud of suspicion part the (black) clouds
he lived ~ antidepressants can help ~ of depression
under a cloud of uncertainty consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud
they continue to work ~
cloud (sign)
under a legal and ethics cloud
he is ~ because of the affair (politician) war clouds
as ~ gathered over the region (Iraqi Freedom)
lived under a cloud
he ~ of suspicion clouds gathered
but ~ quickly
get out from under the cloud
evidence: atmosphere / cloud
he couldn't ~ of suspicion
feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: atmosphere / cloud clouded
/ light & dark / shadow clouded by drugs
cloud (dark cloud, etc.) his thinking was ~

cloud clouded in mystery

his past is ~
I had a ~ over my head
there is a ~ over the White House consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud
coronavirus storm clouds cloudy (consciousness)
given that these ~ have gathered...
cloudy with drugs
dark cloud his mind was ~
there are still ~s on the horizon (economy)
consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud
economic cloud
he acknowledged ~s on the horizon cloudy (certainty)
ethical cloud become cloudy
he left under an ~ (government) news can ~ when information is controlled (rumors)

storm clouds certainty & uncertainty: cloud / light & dark

if there are some ~ on the horizon, they could come... clout (noun)
clouds have gathered
given that these coronavirus storm ~... clout of financial journalists
the ~ can affect the corporate bottom line
cloud has been lifted
the ~ over this presidency Washington's clout
~ is fading (diplomacy)
cloud (hanging over the President) has been removed
the ~ by this report economic clout
Boeing has tremendous ~ (economy, jobs, etc.)
♦ "I had a cloud over my head, and I knew that was a cloud that wasn't
going to go away." (Problems at work.) global clout
feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: atmosphere / cloud China's ~
/ light & dark / shadow immense clout
cloud (resemblance) the business network carried ~ with investors
power: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / violence
cloud street
~s can indicate thermals (hang gliding) cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.)
~s are rows of cumulous clouds
cut from different cloth
bat cloud scientists are not ~ (self-interest)
radar can estimate the number of bats in a ~
cut from a different cloth
resemblance: atmosphere / cloud entrepreneurs are ~
cloud (consciousness) cut from the same cloth
you and he don't seem to be ~ (husband and wife)
clouds of depression
he is ~ as Steve Jobs (entrepreneurship)
antidepressants can help part the black ~
Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Chavez, Kim, they're all ~

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 you and I, we are ~ attainment: movement / verb
character & personality / identity & nature: cloth coast (noun)
taxonomy & classification: cloth
third coast
clown (verb) Atlanta is the ~ of rap (vs. LA, NY)
clowning around center & periphery: ground, terrain & land / sea
stop ~
cobble together (verb)
behavior: circus / verb
cobbled together a living
clown (person) for a while she ~ acting and waitressing
clowns cobbled together a resume
plane was designed by ~ supervised by monkeys (Boeing) I ~ and was invited to interview
class clown cobbled together a video
he was the ~, always dancing, singing, and joking he ~ with claims of an ‘amazing cancer cure’
he survived bullies by acting as the ~ (Richard Pryor)
creation & transformation: clothing & accessories / verb
overrated, overhyped clown
he’s an ~ (said by a boxer of a boxer)
cocktail (noun)
character & personality: circus / person cocktail of (psychoactive) drugs
insult / person: circus he downs a daily ~ (mental illness)

coach (verb) cocktail of ash, acids, aerosols

the cloud, a toxic ~ (pollution / S. Asia)
coached her on how to answer
the sheriff ~ to the FBI cocktail of things
it’s a ~, it’s never one thing (what makes serial killers)
directing: sports & games
Disney’s cocktail
clumsy (adjective) ~ of morality, stereotypes and magic (animated films)
clumsy writer drug cocktail
at first she was a ~ new ~s make living with HIV a reality
ability & lack of ability: movement toxic cocktail
the cloud, a ~ of ash, acids, aerosols (S. Asia)
coal (rake somebody over the coals)
mixture: alcohol / bird
rake him over the coals
let's not ~s for a remark he made 30 years ago cocoon (verb)
punishment & recrimination: fire / verb “cocoon” in their homes
speech: fire / verb they were asked to ~ (elderly in Ireland during pandemic)
coarse (speech) avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: insect /
coarse word verb
it's a ~ (asshole)
cocoon (isolation)
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
speech: materials & substances cocoon of sorrow, rage and despair
coast (coast is clear) he began to emerge from the ~ that had enveloped him
cocoon of high expectations
coast is clear
it was a ~ and harsh discipline (black school)
let’s wait 2 weeks until we say the ~ (epidemic)
danger: boat / sea digital cocoon
she gets lost in her ~
coast (coast to victory, etc.)
ideological "cocoons"
coasted to victory the digital age makes it easy to spend your time in ~
the team ~
security cocoon
difficulty, easiness & effort: movement / verb he was wrapped in a tight ~ (president)

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spiritual cocoon factoryish.” (And yet, she made an important contribution to science.
From Men Against Death (1932) by Paul De Kruif.)
I was in a ~ (a nun in her pre-social justice period)
importance & significance: mechanism
emerge from the cocoon
he began to ~ of sorrow, rage and despair coin (verb)
peel away the (thick) cocoon coined the term
I started to ~ I had built around my life (gay comes out) he ~ ("virtual reality")
avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation creation & transformation: money / verb
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: insect
coin (side of a coin)
cocoon (resemblance)
two sides of the same coin
cocoon of air bags obesity and hunger are ~ (nutrition)
it bounced down in a ~ (Mars "Spirit") affluence and poverty should not be ~
resemblance: insect relationship: money
cocooned coin (double-sided coin)
cocooned in a (dignified) silence double-sided coin
the stadium is now ~ (memorial to dead fans) it’s a ~ (trust can help or hurt you)
isolation & remoteness: insect relationship: money
coffer (noun) coined
campaign coffers coined in the early 1980s
she’ll have to replenish her ~ quickly the term “serial killer” was only ~
money: container creation & transformation: money
coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.) cold (feeling)
nail in the coffin of the party cold feeling
the immigration issue will be the final ~ a ~ just came over me
final nail in the coffin cold and hard
that was the ~ administrators can seem ~ (high school)
nail in the coffin came cold and impersonal
the ~ when the army dropped him (a leader) the big city can be ~
nails went into the standards coffin cold and calculating
the ~ when the Senate condemned the report (education) she is ~
driven “a big nail in the Coffin emotionally cold
Grant thought his victory had ~ of rebellion” (Chattanooga) I'm pretty much ~ (a marine)
put the (final) nail in the coffin feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
he ~ when he… (sports victory) character & personality: temperature
♦ "I think that was the final nail in the coffin… that the church could no
longer offer to subsidize these schools. But that was just the final straw…
cold (in the cold)
(Decline of Catholic schools.)
left out in the cold
destruction / fate, fortune & chance: burial the West will be ~ (by Russian diplomacy)
cog (noun) inclusion & exclusion: society / temperature
isolation & remoteness: ground, terrain & land
cog
Evans was a ~ (one of thousands of government workers) cold (cold case, etc.)
cog in the (Norwegian pedagogical) machine cold case
he thinks of himself as a ~ ~s can rip open the wounds of the past
♦ Alice Evans was just a cog, a “mote among drab-seeming
thousands...only a cow bacteriologist buried away in the U.S.
gone cold
Department of Agriculture... nothing more than a pleasant-looking girl his trail had ~ (crime)
bacteriologist, anonymous among insignificant boy and girl microbe
hunters...destined to no famous end...plodding...her specialization...Ford- went cold

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 the case ~ for a decade (murder solved by DNA) collapse (noun)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: temperature
collapse
activity: temperature
the system will reform itself or face its own ~
cold feet
collapse of the (oil) boom
cold feet but with the ~
the Saudi leaders were getting ~
collapse of communism
she got ~ (bride-to-be who disappeared)
since the ~ in 1991
cold feet about testifying
collapse of the (cod) fishery
he was getting ~
the ~
getting cold feet
collapse of the (Iraqi) government
he was ~ about testifying
the situation could lead to the ~
eagerness & reluctance: foot / temperature
collapse of (stock) prices
coldhearted (adjective) with the ~ (Silicon Valley)

coldhearted person collapse of talks

she is a ~ the ~ between…(two companies)

coldhearted or cowardly collapse of Taliban rule

their decision was not ~ (climbers) since the ~ (Afghanistan)

heart: temperature collapse in their self-esteem

empathy & lack of empathy: heart / temperature men who experienced a near ~ (financial crisis)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / temperature
company's collapse
coldly an internal probe into the ~ shows…

coldly dismissed colony collapse (m)

she was ~ by the all-male institutions (explorer) a new bee problem, called ~ disorder (honeybees)

watched coldly price collapse

diplomats ~ as the family was dragged away because of the ~ of commodities (sub-Saharan Africa)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature catastrophic collapse
empathy & lack of empathy: temperature secrecy can make a system prone to ~
cold shoulder economic collapse
engulfed Russia (following fall of communism)
cold shoulder from members
I received the ~ prone to (catastrophic) collapse
secrecy can make a system ~
received the cold shoulder
I ~ from the members of the group on the brink of collapse
the government is ~ (Northern Ireland)
gave the cold shoulder to the Russians
Georgia let the US help and ~ on the edge of collapse
♦ Some say this refers to offering a visitor a cold shoulder of meat, as
the air travel network teeters ~ (Unfriendly Skies)
opposed to a more hospitable hot meal. This must have been before the
invention of the microwave. on the verge of collapse
the provincial government is ~ (Iraq)
acceptance & rejection: temperature
probe into the (company's) collapse
cold war an internal ~ shows…
tech cold war collapse engulfed Russia
this ~ matters (US vs. Huawei and 5G network) economic ~ (following fall of communism)
long-running cold war faced collapse
a ~ between news and opinion (at Fox News) the company asked for government intervention as it ~
conflict: allusion / history / temperature lead to the collapse
allusion: military the situation could ~ of the Iraqi government
failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / ruins

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destruction: infrastructure / ruins Broken and squally weather rendered the attempt to land impracticable
for a week; and in the meantime a French frigate, which, by capturing
collide (verb) some British ships, had become acquainted with our private signals, and
daringly accompanied the expedition as if she formed part of it, suddenly
shot ahead of the fleet, and, hoisting the tricolour, ran safely into the
collide with (ancient) traditions harbour of Alexandria, with a reinforcement for General Menou.”
modern mores often ~ (Africa) (“Alexandria, 1801” from British Battles on Land and Sea by James
Grant.)
generations collide
when ~ at work (boomers / Gen X) identity & nature: flags & banners

conflict: crashes & collisions / verb colossal (adjective)

collision (noun) colossal (national) disaster
the situation is a ~ (nuclear-power-plant failure)
collision between the human and animal word
the bear’s death highlights the ~ colossal failure
it was a ~
collision of cultures
the dispute was a result of a ~ (temple bell vs. condo) colossal misunderstanding
the message led to a ~
conflict: crashes & collisions
colossal problem
color (verb) we have ~s
color the residents (of the Gulf Coast) unimpressed size: allusion / statue
~ by the government reaction to the disaster
colossus (noun)
colors his perspective
he is a wealthy small businessman, and that ~ colossus
Weir was a ~, what an inspiration (Scottish Rugby)
colors his thoughts
his negativism ~ Antarctic colossus
the ~ is melting at a rapid rate (Thwaites Glacier)
colors his views
his vegetarianism ~ of certain countries business colossus
the rise and fall of a ~ (Carlos Ghosn)
perception, perspective & point of view: picture / verb
trading colossus
color (color outside the lines, etc.) the East India Company was a ~
color outside the lines ♦ A colossus was a gigantic statue. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of
the seven wonders of the ancient world.
back then, you could ~ (boxing marketing)
size: allusion / statue
constraint & lack of constraint: color / line / picture / verb
importance & significance: allusion / size / statue
colored Columbus (Chinese Columbus, etc.)
colored by their relationship Chinese Columbus
countries' views are ~ with Iran (on an issue) but Cheng Ho, the ~, had no successors (isolation)
perception, perspective & point of view: picture
found its Columbus
colorful (politician, etc.) in Dr. Schliemann the science of classical antiquity ~

colorful history searching & discovery: epithet

Eagles fans have a ~ (Philadelphia) comatose (adjective)
colorful language comatose
we learned and delighted in ~ (New York City)
"~," the term for servers using energy but doing no work
colorful (British) politician comatose demeanor
the ~ Boris Johnson
his ~ at a G-7 meeting generated criticism
character & personality: color
comatose state
colors (true colors) the system is in a ~ (healthcare in Zimbabwe)

show his true colors politically comatose

he didn't ~ until after the wedding (abusive) they pronounced him ~ (a politician who later revived)
♦ “Bearing on, the fleet came to anchor in the recent scene of Nelson’s
glory, the Bay of Aboukir...; the fleet consisted of 175 sail of all kinds. /

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activity / condition & status / consciousness & awareness / combustible (adjective)
functioning: health & medicine / mechanism / sleep
combustible (recent Carter) interview
comb (verb) perhaps the most ~ aired over the weekend
combed the area on hands and knees initiation: fire / temperature
police ~ speech: fire / temperature
combed the foothills in a (futile) search come (winter is coming, etc.)
they ~ for the girl
coming
comb (former) battlegrounds for artifacts the future is ~, whether we like it or not
hobbyists ~ (Civil War buffs)
coming up
combed the (city's famed) canals for bombs a big week is ~ (politics)
authorities ~ (Venice)
coming next
combing the roadsides for evidence what is ~ is using machine learning (medicine)
volunteers were ~ (murderers)
come and gone
combed the slope for signs 2001 has ~
Anker ~ of his missing friends (avalanche) a year has ~ since we heard the news about Billy Joe
♦ “Every year, we know it’s coming, the birds sing differently...” (Kay
comb (Arabian) Desert for suspects Oxendine, a member of the Haliwa Saponi Tribe in North Carolina, about
unmanned US planes ~ the spring powwow season.)

comb the seas for bluefin tuna future: direction / movement / verb
fishermen from New Zealand to Libya ~ time: direction / movement / verb
comb through (decades-old) cases come (a time comes along)
detectives are beginning to ~, hoping...
came along
comb through (international travel) records nobody saw a virus until the electron microscope ~
analysts began to ~ (terrorism)
comes along
combed (abandoned) buildings just when things are improving, this new crisis ~
police ~ (for missing woman)
psychoanalysis came along
combed the school until ~, the accepted antidote to hysteria was rest
the Jackson County Health Department ~ (rash)
Knott came along
combed the region before ~, fishermen caught lobsters the same way…
police ~
past & present: direction / movement / verb
combed the countryside time: direction / movement / verb
volunteers ~, on A.T.V.'s and on horseback (for girl)
come (development)
combed the foothills
they ~ in a futile search for the girl come
it should not have ~ as a complete surprise (oil bust)
searching & discovery: hair / verb
came with the airing of The Shop
combat (verb) the final straw ~
combat the disease came with a heavy price
he ordered a broad mobilization to ~ (SARS / China) fame ~
combat (street) homelessness come with its territory
it remains the principal tool to ~ (supportive housing) his book avoids the pitfalls that ~ (a biography)
combat boredom and tension come with the sudden wealth
they play Monopoly to ~ (soldiers / Iraq) leeches ~ (pro athletes)
tool to combat comes every year
it remains the principal ~ street homelessness (supportive influenza is an old enemy, one that ~
housing)
development: direction / movement / verb
conflict: military / verb appearance & disappearance: direction / movement / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb

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come (come a long way) come (for a time to come)
come a long way for years to come
we have ~ (a business) the problem will occupy botanists ~
we have ~, but we have much further to go
we have ~, but not far enough for decades to come
he may last ~ (a leader)
come a long way in race relations
we have ~, but we keep going backwards for centuries to come
shrinking coastlines will be the new normal ~
come a long way since the 1990s
Kosovo has ~ future: direction / movement

come a long way from its (humble) beginnings come (come out swinging)
the company has ~ came out swinging
come a long way in 4 decades the president ~
the sport has ~ she ~ against her critics

progress & lack of progress: movement / journeys & trips accusation & criticism / conflict / resistance, opposition &
defeat / speech: boxing
come (to come)
come along (verb)
yet to come
there are changes ~ (global warming) come along with that
it does make you wonder what is ~ (politics) there were questions that ~ (athlete’s drug-taking)
the best is ~ attachment / relationship: movement / verb
sure to come come back (to bite, haunt, etc.)
change is ~
come back
more (Inside Edition) to come
I never thought it would ~ again (convicted of cold case)
there is ~
come back to haunt
hearings are to come
what you do on the computer can ~ (queries)
more ~
come back to bite the president
future to come
a lot of that conduct and those words may ~
they are waiting for the ~, but it’s already here
come back to bite us
generations to come
this will ~ (no test to get driving license)
these issues will affect ~
what we do will echo through ~ (2020 election) come back to haunt the Ethiopians
such tactics may ~ (torture / rebels)
months to come
there will be ups and downs in the ~ come back to haunt you
gossip can ~
things to come
this is a sign of ~ ♦ “Be careful about sharing intimate gossip in a party situation—you may
find it comes back to haunt you...”
future / time: direction / movement
reversal: animal / teeth / verb
come (see something coming) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb
judgment: verb
saw it coming
I never ~
come back (resiliency)
they never ~ come back stronger
nobody ~ (boy arrested) I'm going to ~ than ever
we were caught flatfooted, we never ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / resiliency /
see it coming survival, persistence & endurance: direction / verb
he didn't ~ (heart attack)
♦ Shrek: My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me. I should have seen it comeback (noun)
coming.
♦ You don't play with snakes and not expect to get bitten. comeback kid
he’s not the ~, he’s Lazarus (a politician)
consciousness & awareness / development / future / time:
direction / eye / movement / verb comeback trail

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 they are on the ~ after serious injuries (skiers) come to (come to an answer, etc.)
the genre is on the ~ (hard rock music)
come to
spark for his comeback
what decision did they ~
the rivalry was the ~ (a rapper)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
made a comeback
movement / verb
he ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / resiliency /
come to (development)
survival, persistence & endurance: direction come to mean
come away with (verb) “gaslight” has ~ a type of psychological manipulation

came away with came to a head

the message I ~ is that... it all ~ in December (conflict)

analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving, development: movement / verb

bringing & returning / verb come up (appear)
come down on (verb) come up
that’s an option that has ~
came down (hard) on his critics
President Trump ~ appearance & disappearance: direction / prep, adv , adj,
accusation & criticism: direction / verb particle / verb
oppression: direction / verb come up with (discovery)
come forward (verb) come up with nothing
come forward they have dug through and ~ (investigation)
she decided to ~, despite the publicity (accusation) searching & discovery: direction / ground, terrain & land /
appearance & disappearance: direction / verb verb
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / verb come up on (a date, etc.)
come from (verb)
coming up on a new trial
came from he is ~
he never forgot where he ~ (Ike Eisenhower / Kansas) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
comes from dishonesty future / time: direction / movement / verb
nothing good ever ~ coming (in the coming months, etc.)
♦ You don’t harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.)
in the coming months
origin / product / relationship: verb a series of reports is expected ~
come from (emotion) in the coming years
coming from such events will become more frequent ~ (droughts)
he understood where their anger was ~ (an official) future / time: direction / movement
feeling, emotion & effect: place / verb coming out (party, etc.)
come out (verb) coming out party
coming out this was his ~ to set up big money (Brit boxer fights in US)
people ask why I’m ~ now (male on male historical abuse) experience: love, courtship & marriage / sex
now the truth is ~ (an expose that was quashed)
command (deserve and get)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / verb
commands (an annual) rent
come out (against something) the space ~ of $800 a square foot
come out against anti-Semitic tropes commands respect
we felt the need to ~ she ~ (a veteran teacher)
resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb commands the highest prices
sweet crude ~… (oil)

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giving, receiving, bringing & returning: speech / verb concoct (verb)
fictive communication: speech / verb
common denominator concocted an (escape) plan
she ~ (to get away from a cult)
common denominator ♦ Originally, this meant to cook together. As such, it is congruent with
music is a ~ (vs. class, race, ability) cook up.

division & connection: number creation & transformation: cooking / mixture / verb

commodity concrete
most precious commodity concrete
time was now Scott’s ~, and time was running out their thinking becomes less ~ and more abstract (kids)

questionable commodity concrete evidence

for all his talent, he is still a ~ (athlete) for now, there was no ~ linking... (terror attack)

scarcest commodities concrete examples

time is one of your ~ (owners of small businesses) some ~ will illustrate this point

limited and precious commodity concrete information

time is a ~ he didn't give any ~ about the crime

treat virginity as a commodity concrete offer

men should not ~ (China) I haven't gotten any ~s (job search)

worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture concrete question

product: farming & agriculture unable to answer ~s about…

companion concrete results

we need ~ from this conference (U.N.)
companion of time
substance & lack of substance: materials & substances
change is a constant ~ (said by a diplomat)
constant companion
conduit (noun)
exhaustion is a ~ (work at nursing homes) conduits for contributors
cruelty is their ~ (untouchables / India) Visa and PayPal refused to be ~ (to WikiLeaks)
constant companions conduit for refugees from Tibet
thirst and hunger were their ~ the passes into Sikkim became a ~ after 1950
turns a poem into a companion conduit between publishers and consumers
memorization ~ (Billy Collins) originally the company was to be a ~ (Amazon)
relationship: person
communications conduit
compass (within / outside the compass) he acted as a ~ (terrorist messenger)

within the compass of that subpoena media conduit

if there are papers that are ~ the group acts as a ~ for the ALF

extent & scope: tools & technology vital conduit

the Gulf of Aden is a ~ for Middle East oil
compass (moral compass)
route: water
moral compass
a friend with a stronger ~ (told police of crime)
confetti
so many are intelligent, with decent ~s (teens / dating) turned the insulation into confetti
~ can point you in the right direction the machine-gun fire ~ (an aircraft)
moral compass had shifted
the ~ 180 degrees (seduction is abuse) resemblance: waste

lacks a moral compass conflagration (noun)

he is a menacing creature who ~ (a dictator)
financial conflagration
lose their moral compass proprietary trading added tinder to the ~ (2008)
they are so mired in bad fortune they ~
avoid a conflagration
behavior / direction: tools & technology

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 the US and the UN are seeking to ~ (in Sudan) conscious and unconscious (m)
their ~ beliefs (stereotyping)
ignite a (larger) conflagration
Somalia could ~ across the Horn of Africa budget-conscious (m)
~ parents
provoked a conflagration
nationalists ~ celebrity-conscious (m)
Los Angeles is America's most ~ town
amount & effect: fire
confluence (noun) cost-conscious (m)
a ~ chef
confluence of agendas ecology-conscious (m)
a "~" between Algeria and the West (terrorism) an ~ audience
confluence of (natural and manmade) disasters fashion-conscious (m)
the ~ (war, drought, etc.) ~ customers
confluence of events party-conscious (m)
the odd ~ (volcanoes erupt on same day) his move could alienate ~ Democrats (politics)
the ~ occurring in Iran is very sad (Hillary Clinton)
a ~ brought the Web site down safety conscious
where is this ~ taking all of us (news-show host) kayakers are usually ~
confluence of (several) factors safety-conscious
a ~ is likely responsible (falling crime rates) NASCAR is extremely ~ (auto racing)
confluence of two problems security-conscious
many cities struggle with the ~ (coronavirus / homelessness) this year's Academy Awards will be the most ~ ever
odd confluence status-conscious (m)
the ~ of events (volcanoes erupt on same day) ~ people are stuck up
division & connection: river style conscious
conga line Gabriella was ~ and had expensive taste
technology-conscious (m)
conga line of storms in ~ San Francisco
a ~ is heading towards the US
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
weight-conscious (m)
data on nearly 500 ~ women
connect (verb)
earthquake-conscious (m)
connect Japanese are the most ~ people
two lonely teens meet and try to ~ environmentally conscious (m)
social interaction: tools & technology / verb an ~ business
division & connection: tools & technology / verb in an ~ world

conquer (verb) ethically conscious (m)

ethically conscious investors
conquered the world
he ~ of American entertainment (Marvin Hamlisch) consciousness & awareness: health & medicine

success & failure: military / verb constellation (noun)

conscious (aware) constellation of symptoms
the ~ at the end of life
conscious of the value he had another patient with the same bizarre ~ (AIDS)
people are more ~ of relationships (post-9/11)
configuration: astronomy
conscious of what group, set & collection: astronomy
I've always been very ~ I eat, how much I exercise
consume (emotions)
conscious (and unconscious) beliefs
their ~ (stereotyping) consumed him
guilt and shame ~ (financial infidelity)
conscious decision
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
some people make a ~ to go missing, start a new life

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consume (consumption) ~ is the primary factor in wrongful convictions
corruption: materials & substances
consuming the media
people are ~ differently nowadays contaminated
consumption: food & drink / verb contaminated
consume (destroy) confessions are ~ when interrogators supply details
corruption: materials & substances
consumed 4 Turkish divisions
Yemen ~ in the 19th century contest (noun)
destruction: fire / food & drink / predation / verb contest of measure and countermeasure
consumed (emotion) it's a grim ~ (IEDs / Iraq)

consumed by envy popularity contest

he was bound to lose the ~
I was not ~, but it was there (a boy)
consumed by an uncontrollable rage grim contest
it's a ~ of measure and countermeasure (IEDs / Iraq)
someone ~ (girl stabbed 40 times)
consumed by thoughts of revenge lose the (popularity) contest
he was bound to ~
he was ~
competition: sports & games
feeling, emotion & effect: fire
consumed (destroyed) contour (noun)

consumed in confidence contours of it

we know some basic ~ now (from the Muller Report)
your wisdom is ~
consumed by a fight basic contours
we already knew the ~ of both sides’ arguments (politics)
today will be ~ over the rules of the trial
analysis, interpretation & explanation / area / environment:
destruction: fire / food & drink / predation
ground, terrain & land
contagion (noun) shape: ground, terrain & land
contagion control (in control)
if the ~ spreads widely… (failing economies of states)
in control of his emotions
contagion of stupidity he is not ~
he described what happened as a ~ (mass beach brawl)
more in control
corruption: health & medicine I always enjoy leading and it helped me feel ~ (kayaking)
contagious (adjective) felt (very much) in control
she ~ (a positive job interview)
contagious
the girl's lack of ambition was ~ (to high-school boy) feeling, emotion & effect: control & lack of control
feelings are ~
she had a laugh that was ~
control (out of control)
overconfidence can be ~ (teams) out of control
transmission: health & medicine the $100 billion timber industry is ~
the perception that juvenile violence is ~
contaminate (verb) he's ~ (behavior)
our wireless bills are ~
contaminated the inquiry
the media ~ (Amanda Knox) out-of-control drivers
laws against ~
contaminate the interrogation
interrogators can ~ by providing details out-of-control person
an ~
corruption: materials & substances
out-of-control quality
contamination a wild, nervy ~ to his writing
contamination out-of-control rebel

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 the angry, ~ conversation (national conversation,
out-of-control shopper etc.)
an ~
conversation about what
out-of-control (urban) sprawl a new chapter in the American ~ racial justice / inequity...
~ (Austin)
conversation about race”
blossom out of control it’s time to retire the “serious ~” (SCAR)
the consequences can ~ (problems on 767 jetliner)
intentional conversations
feel out of control ~ between partisans could be a catalyst for national healing
badly designed intelligent technology makes us ~
public conversation
getting out of control make this a public shaming and ~ (online petition site)
things were ~
the situation seems to be ~ conversation has to translate
when ~ (policing)
got out of control
they were away and the kids ~ retire the (“serious) conversation
it’s time to ~ about race” (SCAR)
spinning out of control
digital downloading and copying is ~ start these conversations
his personal life seemed to be ~ workers can ~, move these conversations, ignite that fire
Nairobi is ~ (crime) ♦ “Why It’s Time To Retire The ‘Serious Conversation About Race’”, with
Damon Young (1A, WAMU, NPR, July 16, 2020.)
spinning (faster) out of control
Hernandez was ~ conflict / euphemism: speech

spun out of control convert (person)

the argument ~
out for converts
spiraled out of control he is a culinary evangelist ~ (chef)
Rye's junior prom ~ (drunk teens)
won many converts
spiraling out of control he ~ to his ideas
in danger of ~
message: person / religion
spiral out of control person: religion
medical expenses can often ~ convulse (verb)
his life seemed to ~ (drug addict)
restraint & lack of restraint: control & lack of control convulsed in a spasm
for 3 minutes the casino ~ of violence (biker riot)
control (under control)
convulsing with change
under control Ethiopia has been ~
everything is ~
I've got everything ~
convulsed India
globalism and capitalism has ~
restraint & lack of restraint: control & lack of control
convulsed the country
control (behavior) waves of anti-foreign sentiment ~ (China)

under control affliction: health & medicine / movement / verb

he can get his erratic behavior ~ activity: health & medicine / movement / verb

get his (erratic) behavior under control convulsed

he can ~
convulsed by nationwide protests
behavior: control & lack of control the US has been ~
control (out of one's control) convulsed by (ethnic) strife
the area is ~
out of your control
some things are ~ affliction: health & medicine / movement
activity: health & medicine / movement
fate, fortune & chance: control & lack of control

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convulsion (noun) cooped up
financial convulsion cooped up in the White House
a breakup of the EU would cause a ~ an active man, he felt ~ (President Grant)
affliction: health & medicine / movement isolation & remoteness: bird
activity: health & medicine / movement
copybook (noun)
cooked up
copybook case
cooked up at Eglin Air Force Base it was a ~ of child abuse (born with cleft palate)
the planes were armed by a new bomb ~
script: school & education
creation & transformation: cooking
copycat (noun)
cook up (verb)
copycat acts
cooked up a plan officials feared publicity would trigger ~
he and Tomaz ~ to climb Nuptse by a new route ♦ Merriam-Webster identifies the first known use as 1896. Others identify
first use as 1887. The idea of a copycat crime seems to come from the
cooked up the story 1960s and seems to have achieved acceptance by the 1980s. So this
they ~ to get the reward (murder case) meaning is very recent.

creation & transformation: cooking / prep, adv, adj, particle repetition: cat
/ verb core (basis)
cool (cool off / activity) at its core
cool off ~, this issue all boils down to money
his career began to ~ (a singer) bases: center & periphery
activity: temperature / verb corkscrew (verb)
cool (feeling) corkscrewed above the airport
maintain their cool he took off and ~ until we reached 8,000 feet (plane)
they need to ~ (a team) direction / movement: shape / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature corkscrew (shape)
cool down (verb) corkscrew ascents and descents
cool down ~ to evade fire (Iraqi Airways)
I got a postponement, it will give things a chance to ~ direction: shape
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb corner (spring is just around the
coolheaded (adjective) corner)
coolheaded killer Halloween is around the corner
he is a ~ ~ and guess what that means
feeling, emotion & effect: head / temperature
victory is around the corner
character & personality: head / temperature officials insist ~ (war)
coolly (adverb) spring is just around the corner
coolly ~ and I can’t wait
she looked at me ~ just around the corner
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature planting season is ~
Christmas is ~
cool off (verb)
proximity: corner / distance
cooled off future / time: corner / distance
he regrets what he did now that he has ~
corner (in remote corners, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb
from all corners of the (political) spectrum
he received criticism ~

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in the corners of the internet corner (in one's corner)
the theories began ~ and made it into mainstream news
in my corner
in the dark corners of cyberspace she supports me, she's ~
~ (child pornography)
allegiance, support & betrayal: boxing / corner
in some corners of the humanities
there is resistance to such analysis ~ corner (cut corners)
in the (more) paranoid corners of the Internet cut corners
he posted messages ~ oil companies ~ to maximize profits
in many corners of the West cut any corners
uranium mining boomed ~ in this business we don’t ~ (helicopter tours)
in some corners of the book world difficulty, easiness & effort: corner / distance / journeys &
there is opposition ~ trips
area: center & periphery / corner corner (corner cases, etc.)
corner (other) edge and corner
it doesn’t take long to find ~ cases (grammar rules)
shines light into some of the darkest corners
the book ~ of M15 division & connection: boundary
ventured into remote corners cornerstone (noun)
he ~ (a photographer)
cornerstone of the collection
area: center & periphery / corner the painting will be the ~ (a new museum)
corner (turn the corner) cornerstones of the economy
blue-chip companies, once considered ~… (recession)
turned the corner
we have ~ (economic upturn after downturn) cornerstone of identity
this month he ~, and made a profit (businessman) Egyptians increasingly emphasize Islam as the ~
so has America finally ~ (economic downturn)
cornerstone of (US) policy
turned a corner Egypt is the ~ in the Middle East
United fans hoped their club had ~ (loss after 3 wins)
cornerstones of terrorism
turn the corner on unemployment unemployment creates one of the ~ (Prince Talal)
we are beginning to ~
cornerstone of (addiction) treatment
beginning to turn the corner Alcoholics Anonymous remains the ~ in the US
we are ~ on unemployment
cornerstone of Roma life
progress & lack of progress: corner / verb child marriage is a ~ (tradition)
development: corner / verb
cornerstone of academic culture
corner (in a tight corner, etc.) peer review is a ~ (publishing)
tightest corner cornerstone of the scientific method
United somehow got out of the ~ in Paris (soccer win) replication is a ~
backed ourselves into a corner emphasize Islam as the cornerstone
we've sort of ~ (war strategy) Egyptians increasingly ~ of identity
boxed himself into a corner bases: infrastructure
he has ~ on tax increases (a politician)
cornucopia (variety)
painted himself into a corner
he has ~ (world leader) cornucopia of (political) books
this fall’s ~ features two kinds...
movement: corner
constraint & lack of constraint / situation: boxing / cornucopia of candidates
container / corner / movement the debates have featured a ~ (Democratic politics / 2020)
cornucopia of goods
a ~ flooded the American marketplace (post-WWII)

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cornucopia of (educational) opportunities area: shape
colleges have traditionally offered a ~ (in good times)
corridor (Siliguri Corridor, etc.)
♦ From cornu, Latin for horn, and copia, plenty: the horn of plenty. Based
on a Greek myth involving the goat Althea who nursed the infant Zeus.
Siliguri Corridor
alternatives & choices / amount: allusion / food & drink the ~ is also known as the Chickens Neck
group, set & collection: allusion / food & drink National Heritage Corridor
coronation (noun) the Blackstone River Valley ~

veritable coronation Wakhan Corridor

the Chicago convention was a ~ of Grant (Republicans) the ~ (Afghanistan)

achievement, recognition & praise: royalty proper name: infrastructure

corral (verb) corridor (corridors of power)

corral their models corridors of power
scientists need real-world data to ~ (for realistic outcomes) ordinary Americans are kept out of the ~ (politics)

corral the far left in the corridors of power

can she ~ in her party (politics) the religious right is flexing its muscles ~

control & lack of control: horse / verb access to the corridors of power
the reporter has unrivalled ~ (Bob Woodward)
corridor (route) he loved his ~ (a media person)
commuter corridors gain admittance to the corridors of power
the ~ have become the “covid corridor” (East Coast) once women ~
“covid corridor” power: infrastructure
the commuter corridors have become the ~ (East Coast) sign, signal symbol: infrastructure
drug corridor corrosive (adjective)
Interstate 44 is a ~ (Missouri)
corrosive for democracy
migration corridor rich contributors are ~ (money)
the Bering land bridge served as a ~ for people
corrosive effect
travel corridor corruption was perhaps the most ~ of communism
the region is a ~ for illegal immigrants
corrosive role
I-95 corridor the ~ of money in politics (rich special-interest groups)
heroin travels down the ~ to secondary markets (from NYC)
feeling, emotion & effect: chemistry / materials &
route: infrastructure substances / sensation
transmission: infrastructure / route
corrupting
corridor (area)
corrupting force
wildlife corridor the tabloids portrayed her as a ~
nature preserves provide a ~ for birds and animals
corruption: health & medicine
high-technology corridor
the metro services Northern Virginia's ~ corruption (noun)
commercial corridor moral corruption
the Metro revitalized the sagging ~ between… TV and radio promote ~

green corridor corruption: health & medicine

in places the ~ is only 50 feet wide (along river) coruscating (adjective)
strategic corridor
Georgia is a ~ for Western oil companies
coruscating observations
he had room to make his ~ (TV)
31-mile corridor superlative: light & dark
deforestation occurs in a ~ on either side of roads
tiny corridor
oil exports are squeezed through this ~ (Strait of Hormuz)

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cost (verb) hold Stalingrad at any cost
we are to ~, Comrade Stalin knows best
cost them
commitment & determination / cost / resistance,
the editor knew all along it would ~ (controversy)
opposition & defeat: & benefit: money
cost me my hand
cost (cost time, etc.)
one tiny wound ~ (a firefighter)
cost him his job cost drivers 15 minutes
construction delays on I-15 ~
the revelation ~ (child porn on computer)
his failure to deliver on his promise ~ (a coach) time: money
costs you nothing cost (other)
it ~ but your time (a free Internet program)
costs of Vietnam
costing teachers their jobs the ~ remain with us (troubled vets, sons, etc.)
budget cuts are now ~
cost of his life
cost him his life absorbing the grenade blast at the ~
his drug habit very nearly ~ (a musician)
his diligence ~ (a police officer) cost of war
let us not forget the terrible ~
cost the climbers a shot
helping the other group ~ at the summit costs of war
the ~ and the price of peace (soldiers)
cost him his (boxing) title
his refusal to serve ~ (Muhammad Ali) costs of gambling
the hidden ~ (divorce, etc.)
cost Unsoeld his toes
that night ~ (high-altitude bivouac) cost to having
there is a ~ an overload of choice
cost the state thousands of jobs
his economic policies have ~ hidden costs
the ~ of gambling (divorce, etc.)
cost you an arm and a leg
this vacation getaway won't ~ environmental cost
war has not only a human cost, but a tragic ~ as well
cost the team big time gold is wrung from the earth at enormous ~
the mistake ~
human cost
cost the lives war has not only a ~, but a tragic environmental cost
the civil war ~ of 100,000 Maya Indians (Guatemala)
political cost
cost her votes both leaders are paying a ~ at home for… (foreign policy)
the proposal could ~ in a general election (politics)
tragic (environmental) cost
cost & benefit: money / verb war's ~
cost (at a cost) financial and human cost
at the cost of his life the ~ was enormous (the Ugandan Railway)
Sfc. Ashley's bravery ~ was in the highest traditions of... cost & benefit: money
at enormous cost costly (adjective)
gold is wrung from the earth ~
costly
even at the cost you have laid so ~ a sacrifice… (Lincoln)
they are desperate to flee their country ~ of their lives
politically costly
cost & benefit money it's ~ to criticize Jews (US elections)
cost (at all costs, etc.) cost & benefit: money
at all costs couch (casting couch)
Czech hedgehogs symbolized “defense ~” in the USSR
casting couch
protect (passengers) at all costs Hollywood’s seedy underbelly, the ~
air marshals must ~
spoke out against the casting couch

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 she ~ (Maureen O’Hara) counterweight (noun)
euphemism: sex
counterweight
cough up (verb) the international media is biased, there must be a ~

cough up more money counterweight against Britain and France

the US wants its allies to ~ (for world defense) he needed a ~ (Bismarck at the Berlin Conference)

giving, receiving, bringing & returning: bodily reaction amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale
equilibrium & stability: scale
countdown (noun)
coup (power)
countdown
the ~ starts now (ad for big game in future) coup
I was fired, it was basically a ~ by... (political job)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: number the impeachment process is a ~ (President Trump)
counterattack (verb) boardroom coup
the son deposed his father in a ~ (Budweiser beer)
cold counterattacked
then the ~... (Antarctica temperatures fall) parliamentary coup
the opposition leaders are calling this a ~ (Venezuela)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation / power: military
counterattack (noun)
coup (achievement)
counterattack
the Embassy began a ~ publicity coup
the besieged politicians have started a ~ (politics) Kipchoge’s achievement is a ~ for Ineos (marathon)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military diplomatic coup
counterbalance (verb) the conference was a ~ for Iran
great coup
counterbalance his dependence workers hailed the decision as a ~ (unionization)
he is trying to ~ on the US by dealing with China
pulled off a (massive) coup
counterbalance Western media the Clippers ~, by signing... (the best free agent / NBA)
Al Jazeera was founded to ~
achievement, recognition & praise / success & failure:
equilibrium & stability: scale / verb
military / violence
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale /
verb coup de grace (deathblow)
counterbalance (noun) coup de grace
counterbalance to industry facing down Biden was the ~ on her evening (politics)
the FDA is the ~ courtroom coup de grace
counterbalance to the presidency his political adversaries were hoping for a ~ (report)
the Supreme Court is a ~ destruction: death & life / violence / weapon
counterbalance to the US press coupled
Al Jazeera is an excellent ~
coupled with love
counterbalance to the liberal Western order high expectations ~ is a gift (child-rearing)
he wants to establish Russia as a ~ (Putin)
division & connection: tools & technology
counterbalance to corporate power relationship: tools & technology
unions are a ~
course (over the course / time)
generational counterbalance
the mothers of nominees provided ~ (Academy Awards) over the course of the next month
Alabama will experience a steep increase in cases ~
liberal counterbalance
she will serve as a ~ to the conservative wing over the course of a month
anxiety following a trauma that fades ~ isn’t depression
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale
equilibrium & stability: scale time: journeys & trips / movement

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course (on course) course (reverse course)
on course for victory change course
they looked ~ when... (sports) he was forced to ~ (government policy)
direction: journeys & trips reversed course
Iran ~ and reopened its nuclear labs
course (on a collision course) the President ~ and grounded the plane (Boeing problem)
on a collision course reversal: direction / boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
the two countries are ~ direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
on a collision course starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
people and the natural world are ~ / map / verb
course (development)
on a collision course with his boss
he was ~ (Navy top brass) course of the conflict
on a collision course with the clerics we cannot predict the length or the ~ (military)
the royal family is ~ (Saudi) course of the disease
on a collision course for the finals we can sometimes slow the ~
they are ~ (two teams) the challenge is to identify patients earlier in the ~

conflict: crashes & collisions course of HIV infection

the ~ is characterized primarily by latency
course (change course, etc.)
course of the war
course correction during the ~ (Gulf War)
the country is heading in the wrong direction, we need a ~
we can't move forward without a ~ (bribery scandal)
disease course
we are here to help them through the ~
fresh course
helping convicted felons chart a ~
relentless course
as the epidemic follows its ~ (AIDS)
changed the course
their testimony has ~ of the investigation (police)
length or the course
we cannot predict the ~ of the conflict (military)
chart a (fresh) course
helping convicted felons ~ follow its (relentless) course
if we sit back and let the epidemic ~…
charted a new course
he has ~ and tacked to the center (politician) run its course
the common cold will ~ within seven days
corrected course
the agency has ~ on asylum detentions slow the course
we can sometimes ~ of the disease
change course
development: journeys & trips / route
he didn't hesitate to ~ (a politician)
we are skeptical that Iran will ~ (diplomacy) course (course of action, etc.)
direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb course of action
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips we thought the best ~ was to…
/ map / verb I could think of no other ~
course (stay the course) is this the right ~ (government policy)

stay the course similar course

he vowed to ~ (general leading war)
it is unacceptable to ~ (pandemic response)
stays the course
once he makes up his mind, he ~ (businessman)
direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
/ map / verb
see if other schools should follow a ~ (sex ed)
safest and wisest course
the ~ to follow (alcohol and pregnancy)
follow a (similar) course
see if other schools should ~ (same-sex classes)
took the (politically risky) course
he ~ of prosecuting a member of government
direction: journeys & trips

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course (course of justice, etc.) they have been convicted ~ of public opinion (doping)

course of justice in the (world) court of public opinion

they have been convicted ~ athletes / doping)
he was charged with perverting the ~
take its course tried in the court
he has been ~ of public opinion
the law must ~
judgment: justice
operation: journeys & trips
court (verb) court (other)
courting Hispanics with (Spanish) advertising court of public opinion
the ~ condemned him
the company is ~
judgment: justice
courting danger with his rhetoric
he is ~ (racist stereotypes) courthouse (Devil's Courthouse, etc.)
courting rebellion by pushing ahead Devil's Courthouse
he is ~ with his plan (political party) the first person to climb ~ (a rock outcropping)
courted adventure Majlis al Jinn
when she was young she ~ (hitchhiking, etc.) the ~ (the assembly of the devils, a cave in Oman)
court (resource-rich) countries proper name: infrastructure
China, India ~ like Nigeria and Kazakhstan
courtship (noun)
courted death
he ~ with his use of drugs and wild lifestyle courtship of Africa
both India and China have stepped up their ~
courting (economic) disaster
we are ~ stepped up their courtship
both India and China have ~ of Africa
courting its favor
both Democrats and Republicans are ~ (N.R.A.) pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage
courting veterans
for-profit colleges are ~ cousin (person)
courting (younger) voters cousin
the party is ~ (politics) open-wheel racing and its stock-car ~, NASCAR

courted and won cousin of estrogen

he ~ popular acceptance (a musician) BPA is a chemical ~

actively courted cousin to smallpox

they ~ publicity (two feuding pop stars) Vaccinia, a ~ which can cause illness

aggressively courting dictionary's cousin

he has been ~ endorsements (running for office) it's like the ~ (the thesaurus)

assiduously courted potato cousins

he has ~ mainstream support (a politician) incredible ~ still survive in the Andes (wild potatoes)

feverishly courting chemical cousin

she has been ~ black voters BPA is a ~ of estrogen

publicly courting closest cousin

the president has been ~ him (a politician) denial is associated with its ~, addiction

quietly courting ugly cousin

he has been ~ contributors (for a political run) sarcasm is anger's ~
attraction & repulsion / pursuit, capture & escape: love, relationship: family / person
courtship & marriage / verb person: family

court (in the court) cover (under cover)

in the world court under cover of darkness

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 the attacks began ~ investigations marred by ~ and corruption (Mexico)
the convoys move both in daylight and ~ (Iraq)
allegations of a cover-up
living under cover officials will investigate the ~ (China / storm)
Al-Khilewi, who was granted asylum, is now ~
charges of a (government) coverup
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth they have been ~
covered up mystery and cover-up
dealing with the UFO ~
covered up
his pedophilia had been known for years but ~ (priest) denied a cover-up
local officials have ~ (China / no typhoon warning)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
subterfuge: cloth concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
subterfuge: cloth
cover up (verb)
cow (cash cow)
cover up his crime
he smashed his own head and face to ~ cash cow for universities
online education is a ~
covers up violations
Saudi Arabia ~ of human rights abuses cash cow for publishers
textbooks are the last ~
covered up (security) shortcomings
the FAA ~ for years (airports) cash cow of (American) ballet
the Nutcracker is the ~
covered up (widespread) doping
officials ~ by... (sports) Boeing’s (long term) cash cow
~ is the 737
cover up the killing
their attempts to ~ were unsuccessful (Saudi police) company's cash cow
the drug is the ~
covered up for the (cheerleader) coach
cops allege the school's principal ~ Microsoft's cash cow
Windows is ~
covered up for him
when they finally did land in court, she ~ (abuse) as a cash cow
he needed Clay ~ and recruitment vehicle (boxer)
cover up for "honor killings"
♦ Asa W. Morris in California owned the legendary Tilly Alcartra, known
deaths are ascribed to suicide in order to ~ as “the Queen of Holsteins” for her milk production. It is possible that she
was a victim of an anthrax outbreak, destroyed and buried in a trench to
covered it up prevent the spread of that disease.
the Army ~ (contamination from weapons depot)
worth & lack of worth: animal / cows & cattle
tried to cover up
they ~ what they had done... (tribal vengeance) cowboy (person)
he also ~ the crime... (tribal vengeance)
Cocaine Cowboys
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / verb the cartels’ ~ turned the market (1970s Florida)
subterfuge: cloth / verb character & personality: history / person
coverup (noun) behavior: history / person
control & lack of control: history / person
cover-up
a ~ to conceal the affair cower (verb)
cover-ups and corruption cower in the face
investigations marred by official ~ (Mexico) universities ~ of NCAA abuses (sports)

government coverup dominance & submission: standing, sitting & lying / verb
charges of a ~ courage & lack of courage: bodily reaction / verb

failed cover-up coy (adjective)

prison terms for colluding in the ~ (mine disaster / China)
coy about the idea
politically motivated cover-up China has been ~ (of an East Asia Community)
a~
coy about the year
official coverups she is ~ of her birth

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coy on the subject the Arab League statement is a worrying ~ (Libya)
he has been ~ (about retiring)
cracks in (military) solidarity
a bit coy there have been few ~ (Venezuela political unrest)
he's a ~ about how much he can raise (a politician)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
surprisingly coy crack (flaw)
politicians can be ~ about asking direct questions
being coy cracks
she is not ~ about wanting to win (a politician) the ~ were beginning to show (troubled corporation)
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
playing coy
many possible candidates are ~ about running crack (fall through the cracks, etc.)
remaining coy dropped through the cracks
most potential candidates are ~ for now (presidency) Cho had ~ of the university bureaucracy
eagerness & reluctance: love, courtship & marriage dropped through the cracks
coyote (predation) Cho had ~ of the university bureaucracy

gangs of "coyotes" fell through the cracks

~ smuggle people in from Mexico she ~ (foster system)

predation: animal slipped through the cracks

he has ~ (terrorist)
cozy (adjective) many sex sites have ~ (Internet)

cozy with Boeing failure, accident & impairment: ground, terrain & land /
the FAA was too ~ verb

cozy relationship crackdown (noun)

he has a ~ with the prince
crackdown on corruption
too cozy the government has launched a ~
the agency was ~ with the company
crackdown against (unlicensed) Internet Cafes
feeling, emotion & effect: proximity / temperature authorities kicked off a nationwide ~ (China)
relationship: proximity / temperature
social interaction: proximity / temperature draconian crackdown
he has presided over the most ~ on leaks in US history
crack (attempt)
coercion & motivation: violence / whip
crack at it punishment & recrimination: violence / whip
we'll take another ~ oppression: violence / whip
attempt: sound crack down (verb)
crack (verb) cracked down on the opposition
the government has ~
cracked
their relationship ~ under the pressure cracking down on immigration
they are ~
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances /
verb cracking down on both men
judges are ~ (investigation)
crack (verb / emotion)
violence: verb / whip
cracked coercion & motivation / oppression / punishment &
I ~ under the pressure recrimination: verb / violence / whip
feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances / verb cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
crack (division) kill any (climate-change) bill in its cradle
he will ~ if he has a chance (legislator)
crack
the ~s could widen into a chasm (politics) strangled in its cradle
Bolshevism must be ~ (Winston Churchill on Russia)
crack in the coalition

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strangle the experiment in its cradle destruction: crashes & collisions
if nobody watches, it will ~ (TV show) failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions
curtailment / destruction: baby crash (crash down)
cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.) came crashing down
she was the youngest female billionaire before it all ~
coronavirus cradle his empire ~ (a company)
Wuhan, the ~, has partially reopened
destruction: direction / infrastructure / ruins / verb
“Cradle of (U.S. Navy) Aviation”
Pensacola is known as the ~ crash (crash course, etc.)
cradle of Islam crash course
Saudi Arabia is the ~ an eight-day ~
he took a ~ in genetics
cradle of civilization
the Caucasus was a ~ crash diet
~s can be dangerous
cradle of (ancient) civilizations
the plateau is a ~ haste: crashes & collisions

cradle of (Chinese) civilization crash (population crash, etc.)

Hubei and Henan provinces, the ~
the Yellow River is known as the ~ crash and bleed-out
what they call the ~ (Ebola virus)
cradle of (Serbian) civilization
Serbs claim Kosovo as the ~ computer crash
the data disappeared after 2 ~s (voting records)
cradle of independence
Dolores Hidalgo is known as the ~ (Mexico) population crash
a ~, part of the natural cycle
origin: baby / birth / epithet likely to cause an unprecedented ~
cradle (symbol) stock-market crash
the ~
cradle-to-grave work force
the ~ ecological crash
you're going to see an ~ (marmots / Mongolia)
from the cradle to the grave
she gave advice on problems people face ~ failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions
functioning: crashes & collisions
death & life: sign, signal, symbol
sign, signal, symbol: baby / birth crash-land (verb)
crank up (verb) crash-landed on (hard) facts
his theory ~ and common sense
cranked up the pressure on the manager
a defeat would have ~ (soccer) failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions / plane
/ verb
increase & decrease: mechanism / verb
crater (verb)
crash (crash and burn)
cratered
crash and burn state power ~ for the democrats
so what role did he play in making it all ~ (politics) demand and prices have ~ (oil)
crashed and burned cratered oil prices
you know the Democratic Party has ~ when... massive supply with almost no demand ~ (pandemic)
destruction: crashes & collisions / fire / flying & falling / decline: direction / flying & falling / plane / verb
plane / verb
crave (fans crave the bout, etc.)
crash (car crash)
craved it
car crash of an interview the media wanted it, fans ~ (a boxing matchup)
this was a ~ (sexual abuse)
enthusiasm: addiction / food & drink / health & medicine /
walked away from more car crashes verb
he has ~ than any other sitting president

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crave (verb) speed: walking, running & jumping

so craves
craze (noun)
the legacy he ~ will suffer (sports doping) craze of the 80's
craved fame the cocaine ~
he ~ craze in the 1920s
enthusiasm / wants, needs, hopes & goals: addiction / tree sitting was a national ~, like phone-booth stuffing
food & drink / health & medicine / verb craze in Japan
crawl (activity) platform shoes are the ~
craze in clothes, music, illegal drugs
crawling with reporters
the latest teen ~
our hotel was ~
activity: animal / insect / verb craze for (sudoku) puzzles
the worldwide ~
crawl (time can crawl, etc.)
cocaine craze
crawl the ~ of the 80's
boredom makes time ~, interest makes it race
fitness craze
minutes crawled by cash in on the ~
the ~
teen craze
♦ “She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She the latest ~ in clothes, music, illegal drugs
writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They
stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like
years / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of
cowboy craze
midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!” the '80s ~ (urban cowboys)
(From the dramatic poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes.)
snake meat craze
speed: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping snakes are disappearing due to the nationwide ~ (China)
movement: speed / verb / walking, running & jumping
time: movement / speed / verb / walking, running & tail-fin craze
jumping the designer behind the ~ (cars)
crawl (skin can crawl, etc.) extreme sports craze
encouraged by the ~
crawling
my skin is ~ (disgust) Internet craze
the ~ is causing distortions
feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone /
verb worldwide craze
the ~ for sudoku puzzles
crawl (noun)
skateboarding craze
crawl to (Aug.12) peak a few years later the ~ was over
Perseid meteor shower begins slow ~
current craze
crawl phase the ~ is tread and shred (exercising)
having accomplished the ~ (military training)
international craze
crawl, walk, run (m) its triumph as a full-blown ~ in the 60's (folk music)
instruction should follow a ~ sequence (military)
latest craze
news crawl the ~ is… (sports)
run a ~ across the bottom of the screen (TV)
national craze
slow crawl tree sitting was a ~ in the 1920s, like phone booth stuffing
Perseid meteor shower begins ~ to Aug. 12 peak
new craze
slowed to a crawl platform shoes are the ~ in Japan
the market for initial public offerings has ~
the storm’s movement has ~ behavior / enthusiasm: mental health

slow to a crawl crazed

the ambush was set where the convoy had to ~ crazed fan

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 ~s scoured the Web ("Blair Witch Project") behavior: mental health
control & lack of control: mental health
cricket-crazed (m)
the ~ countries of the former British Empire crazy (enthusiasm)
media-crazed (m) crazy about that dog
the ~ public… she's ~ (a woman and a pit bull)
sex-crazed crazy about her
college students are often portrayed as ~ I'm ~ (man of his female friend)
soccer-crazed (m) Internet-crazy (m)
the World Cup is a huge even in ~ countries ~ Americans
seafood-crazed (m) boy crazy
in this ~ country, tuna is king (Japan) girls may become "~" (preadolescence)
behavior / enthusiasm: mental health goes crazy
crazy (behavior) while the rest of the world ~ over the World Cup
behavior / enthusiasm: mental health
crazy
you must be ~… cream (superlative)
are you ~ or what…
cream of (Irish country music) artists
crazy to do Daniel O’Donnell introduces the ~
you have to be a little ~ it (ice canoeing / Quebec City)
France’s intellectual crème de la crème
crazy boss ~ have attended the elite Ecole Nationale d’Adminstration
coping with a ~
superlative: food & drink
crazy and hostile
Boston Celtic fans are ~ (NBA) creature (creature of habit, etc.)
crazy and wild creature of his era
it was ~ (wedding in non-traditional location) he was a ~ (Frank Kameny)

a little crazy creature of habit

you have to be ~ to do it (ice canoeing / Quebec City) he is a ~

too crazy creature of the theater

his ideas were rejected as ~ by the grant process (a scientist) he was a ~ (George M. Cohan)

stupid, crazy or not cool creatures of their own time

"gay" as an adjective to describe anybody ~ like Luther, they were ~ (slavery and Southern Baptists)

wild and crazy former creature

he was ~, young and dumb a ~ of Fleet Street… (a new TV interviewer)

wild and crazy (m) rare creature

the NFL has its ~ side she’s a Beethoven figure, a genius, a ~ (precocious student)

act crazy character & personality / identity & nature / taxonomy &
scream and run or ~ (date-rape-prevention strategies) classification: animal / creature

acting crazy creature comfort

you got so many kids out here ~ (South LA gangs)
creature comforts
drive me crazy our campsite and all its ~ (Mt. Everest guided trip)
I need a lover who won't ~
wants, needs, hopes & goals: creature
drive you crazy creep (mission creep, etc.)
I like to tease you and ~
driving me crazy mission creep
the itch is ~ there’s a real ~ in what tech companies are doing

rejected as (too) crazy "torture creep"

his ideas were ~ by the grant process (a scientist) interrogators get sneaky, thus ~

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increase & decrease: movement crippling poverty
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement the ~ among mountain people (United Nations)
creep (verb) crippling, paralyzing (m)
I do not favor ~ sanctions (Russian President)
crept up
gradually the thermometer ~ towards -20 degrees C. feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine

creep westward crisis (mid-life crisis)

the storm continues to ~ at 1 mph (hurricane)
unpredictable mid-life crisis
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping democracy isn’t dying, but it’s having an ~
speed: verb / walking, running & jumping
growth & development: death & life
crescendo (noun)
crooked (adjective)
crescendo of anti-abortion legislation
the Alabama law tops a ~ crooked
the election was ~
amount & effect: music / sound
crooked books
cricket crooked auditors certified the ~
clackers or "crickets" crooked business
whistles, bells, sirens, ~, and horns (military signals) insurance is a ~
sound: insect crooked cops
crime (judgment) the force must root out ~
crooked dealer
no crime ~s take advantage of young soldiers (autos)
it's ~ to be selfish sometimes
it’s ~ for those who were right to feel a little superior crooked employers
~ pay less, and make workers work more
fashion crime
wearing socks with sandals is considered a ~ crooked governors
two ~ in a row have been sent to prison (Illinois)
judgment: justice
crooked politician
cripple (verb) ~s steal our money
crippled the city straight and crooked (m)
23 inches of snow ~ he knew the difference between ~ work (a farmer)
crippling our society character & personality: direction
unemployment is ~ sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: direction
functioning: health & medicine / movement / verb crop (noun)
crippled
crop of (American) offspring
crippled by (economic and political) troubles the first postwar ~
Zimbabwe remains ~ product: farming & agriculture
crippled reactor crop up (verb)
the damage at the ~ is worse than thought
cropped up in its Proton rockets
remains crippled the Russians must fix problems that have ~
Zimbabwe ~ by economic and political troubles
functioning: health & medicine / movement
problem cropped up
the ~ just hours before liftoff (space shuttle)
crippling
questions crop up
crippling blow legal ~, too
his death dealt a ~ to his network (a terrorist)
continually crop up
crippling fear look for keywords that ~ in ads
~s of loss and disaster (children of divorce) appearance & disappearance: farming & agriculture / plant
/ prep, adv, adj, particle / verb

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cross (a bridge can cross) at a political crossroads
he finds himself ~ (president)
bridge crosses the river
a ~ there at a crossroads of his presidency
he is ~
fictive motion: verb
stands at a crossroads
crossfire (noun) the US ~ (support or non-support for dictators)
rhetorical crossfire alternatives & choices: journeys & trips
the purpose of the bill has been lost in the ~ direction: journeys & trips
development: journeys & trips
conflict: weapon
crossroad (other)
cross hair (in the cross hairs)
crossroads in his life
in the cross hairs he'd reached a gloomy ~
another Arab dictator is ~ (Bashar al-Assad of Syria)
he is ~ (a wanted terrorist) crossroads moment
the government is at a ~ (crisis)
in regulators' crosshairs
the firm is ~ (for fraud) gloomy crossroads
he'd reached a ~ in his life
in the (trade war) crosshairs
the company is ~ reached a (gloomy) crossroads
he'd ~ in his life
in our crosshairs
he's ~ (a pedophile) alternatives & choices / development / direction: journeys
& trips
found himself in the crosshairs
he has ~ between the left and the right over… (economy) crow (verb)
end up in the crosshairs crowed that
I don’t want to ~ of somebody who’s on a mission to clean he ~ he had forced the president to decide (politics)
house
♦ In 2011 in the US, the figurative versus literal meaning of this word
crowing about its (online holiday) sales
caused a political controversy when the politician Gabby Giffords was the company was ~
shot. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is named after her, and her husband is
Mark Kelly, astronaut. The opposition had indicated her district on a map speech: bird / verb
with a cross-hairs icon. In 2019, Roger Stone apologized to Judge Amy
Berman Jackson for posting an Instagram photo of her next to a rifle crown (noun)
scope’s crosshair. She said, “Roger Stone fully understands the power of
words and the power of symbols. In this age of social media there’s jewels in the crown
really no such thing as a takeback... There’s nothing ambiguous about a
crosshairs.” Stone was on trial for witness tampering, obstruction of
they are the ~ of public education (elite NYC high schools)
justice, and making false statements to Congress.
superlative: royalty
target: weapon
crowned (verb)
cross-pollination
crowned at the (party) convention
cross-pollination of languages the eventual Democratic nominee will be ~ in July
the natural ~ where they intersect
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity royalty
growth & development: insect / plant
crown jewel
crossroad (epithet)
crown jewel of their empire
Crossroads of the World the building is the ~ (a business)
the ~ was packed with tourists and revelers (Times Square)
crown jewel of the system
epithet: journeys & trips Banff is the ~ (Canadian National Park)
crossroad (at a crossroad) superlative / worth & lack of worth: royalty

at a crossroads crucible (noun)

his career is ~
the South was ~ (Civil War)
crucible of anxiety
how to handle the ~ (college admissions)
South Sudan is ~ (elections for secession)
America is ~ (midterm elections) crucible of power

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 Kandahar has been the main ~ in Afghanistan since… crunch (crunch time)
crucible of suffering crunch time
in this ~ (Arctic exploration)
in terms of the school year, it's ~ (tests)
crucible of (free-market) thought as we head into November, ~ (college football)
he got his degree from the University of Chicago, the ~ it was ~, end of the month (military recruitment)
this is ~, we’re in the home stretch (election campaigning)
crucible of (Nobel Prize) Winners
the Institut Curie became a ~, producing 4 more crunch time in the fields
it’s ~ (harvesting Christmas trees)
crucible for young actors
it was a noted ~ (the Pasadena Playhouse / Hoffman, etc.) crunch time in college football
it’s ~
war's (hottest) crucible
the British were sent into the ~ (Sangin, Afghanistan) comes down to crunch time
I think when it ~ he will choose... (athlete must pick college)
environment: container / fire / manufacturing /
temperature situation: pressure
timeliness & lack of timeliness: pressure
crucified
crunch (cash crunch, etc.)
crucified by the media
she has been ~ budget crunch
most states are in the middle of a horrific ~
accusation & criticism: religion / violence
punishment & recrimination: religion / violence cash crunch
the agency found itself in a ~
crucify (verb)
stave off a cash crunch
crucify me options to ~ include bankruptcy protection
they are going to ~ this season (on a reality show)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: pressure
accusation & criticism: religion / verb / violence timeliness & lack of timeliness: pressure
punishment & recrimination: religion / verb / violence
crusade (on a crusade)
crude (speech)
on a crusade to document
crude language he is ~ underage model sites (porn)
he used ~ to deride the investigation (politics)
campaign: Middle Ages / religion
he used unusually ~ for a public appearance (politician)
message: Middle Ages / religion
flaws & lack of flaws / speech: materials & substances
crusade (in a crusade)
crumb (amount)
act in (his anti-government) crusade
crumb of comfort it was the final ~ (Oklahoma City bombing)
if the team were looking for a ~... (loss)
engaged in an (undercover) crusade
amount: food & drink / stomach she has ~ to document teen porn sites
crumble (verb) campaign: Middle Ages / religion
message: Middle Ages / religion
crumbled
their relationship has ~ (enmity) crusade (noun)
in 1968, the Democratic Party ~ (Nixon elected) crusade to improve
her ~ the city parks she loved (M.M. Graff / NYC)
crumbling
the regime is ~ (protests) crusade of violence
a ~, intimidation and harassment (animal rights)
life crumbled
my ~ crusade for a bargeway
the ~ on the Red River
began to crumble
in the off-season, his world ~ (troubled pro athlete) crusade for Ms. Katz
his world ~ last October, when... finding terrorists has become a ~ (on Internet)
decline / destruction / failure, accident & impairment: mothers' crusade
erosion / ruins / verb the ~ (to find serial killer of their daughters)

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anti-government crusade I had the biggest ~
it was the final act in his ~ (Oklahoma City bombing)
feeling, emotion & effect: force / love, courtship & marriage
anti-bullying crusade crush (destroy)
an ~ (schools)
anti-cockfighting crusade crushed Brazil 3-0
successful ~s in Missouri and Arizona France ~ in the final (soccer)

moral crusade crush (Chechnya's) bid

a harsh and intolerant ~ the latest campaign to ~ for independence

personal crusade crush (Uighur) dissent

he used his seniority to further his ~s (politician) justify the tactics it uses to ~ (China)

political crusade crushed (political) protest

a grieving mother's ~ (son killed in Iraq) he has ~ (King Mswati)

signature crusade crush the rebels

he made health-care reform the ~ of his career Ethiopian officials vowed to ~ (Ogadenis)

successful (anti-cockfighting) crusade crush the rebellion

~s in Missouri and Arizona the government vows to ~ (in Darfur)

undercover crusade crushed the revolt

she has engaged in an ~ to document… (teen porn) Hussein's loyal military units ~ (Iraq / Shiites)

unlawful crusade crush the uprising

stop an ~ of violence, intimidation, harassment a swift military response would ~

harsh and intolerant (moral) crusade vowed to crush

a~ Ethiopian officials ~ the rebels
destruction: hand / verb
crusade has sparked a backlash
his ~ (make school lunches more healthful) crush (confidence, spirit, etc.)
engaged in an (undercover) crusade crushes (a child's) confidence
she has ~ to document… (teen porn) nothing ~ faster than unkind words
campaign: Middle Ages / religion crush the human spirit
message: Middle Ages / religion realities in life that almost ~
crusader (role) feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / hand / verb
crusaders for change crush (verb / accomplishment)
articulate ~ (victims of child abuse by clergy)
crushing it
crusader for peace we are ~ in the five-star-review game (a hair product)
she is a ~ (against war in Iraq)
success & failure: death & life / fist / force / hand / verb
crusader for human rights and harmony
he was a ~ among creeds and races (Tutu) crushed (feeling)
crusader for miners' rights crushed
Mother Jones, a ~ when she heard the restaurant had closed, she was ~
I was ~ (gay coach loses support)
environmental crusader
Erin Brockovich, the ~ who… feeling, emotion & effect: force

anti-drug crusader crushed (destroyed)

Angela Dawson was an ~ (East Baltimore)
had been crushed
campaign: Middle Ages / person / religion how I felt like all of my dreams ~
message: Middle Ages / person / religion
person: religion must be crushed
stubbornness ~, and crushed it shall be (kids)
crush (love)
crush on him destruction: force

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crutch (noun) cry out (verb)
crutch cries out for attention
sleep is a ~ (military-training bravado) it ~ (immigration policy)
crutch of metaphor cried out for a (legal) remedy
people lean on the ~ (technology) the injustice ~
permanent crutch cried out for sound
a crutch can become a ~ (controlled economies) there was something about that story that ~ (“The Killers”)
lean on the crutch crying out for positive stories and new stars
people ~ of metaphor (technology) athletics is ~ (running)
use genetics as a crutch appeal: speech / verb
alcoholics ~ to explain their behavior fictive communication: speech / verb
turned assistance into a crutch crystal ball
the welfare state has ~
crystal ball
amelioration & renewal / dependency / help & assistance: I don't have a ~ (speaking about what might happen)
standing, sitting & lying stock analysts are fortunetellers looking into ~s

cry (verb) fate, fortune & chance / future: magic

time: magic
cried the Chicago Herald and Examiner
“Radio Fake Scares Nation,” ~
cub (noun)
♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared the cub reporter
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald
and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the
I was a ~ at the time (mid-70s England)
San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.)
experience: animal / wolf

fictive communication: speech / verb cudgel (noun)

cry (cry foul, etc.) cudgel against people of color
when civility is used as a ~
crying foul
Democrats are ~ rhetorical cudgel
the word socialism has often been used as a kind of ~ (US)
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb
turned into this kind of a cudgel
cry (cry for help) eventually the term was ~ and mockery (politically correct)
heartbreaking cry for help coercion & motivation: speech / violence / weapon
a~ oppression: speech / violence / weapon
appeal: speech cue (noun)
cry (rallying cry) taken cues from Trump
his campaign has ~
rallying cry
"economic empowerment" has become the ~ repetition / unanimity & consensus: theater
its "best in the world" ~ (U.S. Olympic skiing team)
cul-de-sac
rallying cry in education
the ~ has been… gone down cul-de-sacs
they’ve got it wrong, taken wrong turns, ~ (a company)
appeal: military
success & failure: journeys & trips
crybaby (person) failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips
crybaby cull (noun)
don't be a ~
cull
behavior / person: baby the ~ includes plans to... (news job cuts)
growth & development: baby / death & life
BBC’s (brutal) cull
~ (headline / 450 job cuts)

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dismissal, removal & resignation: animal curdled into queasiness
my initial excitement ~
cull (verb)
cull the (primary) field curdle into resentment
Iowa will ~ (2020 election caucus) their joy will ~ (sports fans)

dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / verb corruption: food & drink / verb

cult (noun) cure (verb)

cult of the outlaw cures
its air of Western romance and ~ (Wyoming) spanking causes more problems than it ~

group, set & collection: religion cure the men of their loneliness
the bar scene fails to ~
cultivate (verb)
"cure" homosexuality
cultivates allies you can't ~
he assiduously ~ (a promoter and businessman)
cures problems
cultivated a (laissez-faire) approach aid often causes rather than ~ (in Africa)
the unit ~ (psychiatric ward)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
cultivate the habit
~ of proper hand washing cure (noun)
cultivated informants cure
he ~ on the streets (military intelligence) the ~ would be worse than the disease (solution)

cultivating a relationship cure for boredom

the Russian agent was ~ with a prominent Democrat (US) poor, uneducated youths use heroin as a ~ (Butuo)

cultivate (long-term) relationships cure for (the world's) problems

~ with preferred customers a~

cultivated a role magic cure

she ~ of her own (versus her husband's role) there is no ~ (for kid fire-setting behavior)

cultivate a (less conformist) taste miracle cure

give her the courage to ~ (teens) there's no ~ on the horizon (brain tumors)

cultivate trust disagree on the cure

the killings are a blow to the alliance's efforts to ~ experts and leaders ~ (world economy)

cultivated a circle of (devoted) friends use heroin as a cure

she ~ poor uneducated youths ~ for boredom (Butuo)

growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / verb amelioration & renewal: health & medicine

cultivated cure-all
carefully cultivated technological cure-all
their ~ image was exposed (royals) all too often planners seek ~s (computer security)

growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant amelioration & renewal: health & medicine

curate (verb) curiouser and curiouser

curate lists curiouser and curiouser
sites like MTV ~ (of songs) it was all about to get ~
♦ This is an allusion to Alice in Wonderland.
curated NPR’s home page
♦ “Although the weather was growing rapidly colder, no winter clothing
he wrote and edited feature news coverage and ~ had been received from London. Many units were now at half strength or
less, the remaining soldiers reduced to skin and bone. The guns were
taxonomy & classification: verb rationed to two shells a day. Munro’s first sight of Suvla Bay confirmed
his worst fears. ‘Like Alice in wonderland,’ he was heard to murmur,
curdle (corruption) ‘curiouser and curiouser.’ The following day he sent Kitchener his
recommendation.” (Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Monro had been sent to advise
curdled on whether the Gallipoli Peninsula should be evacuated or not. From The
Middle Sea by the wonderful historian John Julius Norwich.)
on her second day, however, the atmosphere ~

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fantasy & reality: allusion gift and a curse
allusion: books & reading having a good platoon, it's both a ~ (combat medic)
currency (worth) break the (so-called) resource curse
~ (mineral wealth siphoned off by corruption)
currency in its negotiations
China can use its relationship with Korea as ~ with the US comes with a curse
many believe the position ~ (Grateful Dead keyboardist)
gaining currency
terms like “systemic racism” are finally ~, thank goodness cost & benefit: magic / religion
worth & lack of worth: magic / religion
worth & lack of worth: money
cursed
current (swim with the current, etc.)
cursed with allergies
swimming with the scientific currents I am ~
Newton was ~ of his time (vs. Galileo)
cursed with droughts
difficulty, easiness & effort: river
the area is ~
current (noun) cursed by weak leadership
current of racism the country is ~
the underlying ~ is still very real poker gods
deep current he felt cursed by the ~
a ~ of fear is running through Iraq’s Christian minority cursed team
force: river it seemed that Brazil was a ~ (soccer)

curse (Curse of Caricola, etc.) seemingly cursed (m)

she belongs to a ~ family
Curse of the Bambino
affliction: magic / religion
the ~ finally ended in 2004 (Boston)
fate, fortune & chance: magic / religion
Curse of the Billy Goat curtain (pull back the curtain and pull
the ~ mortified Cubs fans for decades (Chicago)
the curtain back)
Curse of Caricola
the club has since been haunted by the ~ (own goal) pull back the curtain
he is expected to ~ on the president’s business dealings
epithet: magic / sports & games
curse (noun) pulled back the curtain on his secret life
the video has ~
curse pulled back the curtain on dozens
the bureaucracy, already a ~, is getting worse (Russia) he ~ of failed analyses (scientist)
curse of Somalia pulled back the curtain on spycraft
clan rivalries have been the ~ he wrote novels that ~ to reveal how things really got done
curse of capitalism pulled the curtain back on who
materialism is the ~ this database ~ was responsible (corporate opioid pushing)
curse of the taigá concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / theater
the ~, flies (gnus / Ussuria)
curtain (The Wizard of Oz)
oil's (historic) curse
~ (a hollow economic boom, followed by bust) con man behind the curtain
Americans have now seen the ~ (politics)
salmon's curse ♦ This is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
it is the ~ to be so nutritious (bears, eagles, etc.)
subterfuge: allusion / cloth / film
resource curse
Venezuela suffers from the ~ (has energy, blackouts) curtain (lower the curtain)
break the so-called ~ (wealth siphoned off by corruption)
lower the curtain on his (half-century) career
blessing and a curse it’s just about time to ~ in American politics (election)
these gems have been a ~ (Sierra Leone diamonds)
the annual rains are a ~ for the subcontinent (monsoon) dismissal, removal & resignation: theater

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curtain (curtain wall, etc.)
curtain walls
old castles and modern buildings may utilize ~
protection & lack of protection: cloth
curtain call
made a curtain call
he ~ and tipped his hat (baseball)
brought winter back for a curtain call
the spring snowstorm ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: theater
appearance & disappearance: theater
on the cusp of (finally) getting
Golding was ~ a book deal (Lord of the Flies)
proximity: astronomy / star
division & connection: astronomy / star
custodian (role)
custodian of this democracy
we should expect the president to be the ~
help & assistance: infrastructure / person
cut ( a person from a team, etc.)
cut Hernandez
the Patriots ~ (NFL team and player)

curtain raiser (noun) dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / knife

last night’s curtain raiser

cut (budget cuts, etc.)
after ~, VAR took center-stage (start of soccer season) deep cuts
season curtain-raiser he wants to make ~ in programs for the poor
Iowa is the primary season ~ (US elections) curtailment: ax / blade / knife
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater cut (cut the budget, etc.)
curve (behind / ahead of the curve) cut taxes
ahead of the curve he wants to ~ (a politician)
we have been ~ curtailment: ax / blade / knife / verb
stay ahead of the curve cut (cut both ways)
we need to ~ (deep-fake videos / fake news)
cuts both ways
timeliness & lack of timeliness shape
the Western concept ~ (human rights)
readiness & preparedness: shape
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / knife
curveball (noun)
cut (a thousand cuts)
throws a curveball
nature always ~ (Covid vaccine) death by a thousand cuts
he's suffering ~ (a prosecutor with weak case)
failure, accident & impairment: ball / baseball / sports &
a ~ is the future (restricting right to abortion)
games
suicide by a thousand cuts
cushion (verb) the company is committing ~ (failing)
cushion the blow ♦ This references an actual form of torture.
the official tried to ~ (son grievously wounded in war) affliction: blade / knife
amelioration & renewal / attenuation: hardness & softness cut off (verb)
cushion (noun) cut off (diplomatic) relations
cash cushion Venezuela ~ Colombia
corporations are sitting on ~s curtailment: blade / knife / verb
economic cushion dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / knife / verb
his savings provided him with an ~ cut off (speech)
amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness
cut me off
cusp (on the cusp) I tried to tell her but she ~
speech: blade / knife / verb
on the cusp of adulthood
her child died ~ cut short (verb)
she plays high schoolers ~ (an actor)
cut short

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 his life was tragically ~ dagger blows
we must deal sharp ~ to the terrorists
curtailment: blade / farming & agriculture / knife
cutthroat (competition) 3-point dagger
he sealed the deal with a ~ with 5 seconds left (basketball)
cutthroat business inserted the dagger
back then in Russia, it was a ~ (oil) he ~ with a 15-foot-jumper (basketball)
cutthroat game put the dagger in
he wasn't there to play the ~ (Survivor) you get a chance to shoot the three, ~ (basketball)
cutthroat world ♦ "Out here, people had a smile on their face and a dagger behind their
in the ~ of college admission applications back." (Bigotry and discrimination.)
♦ "Antwerp was often described as a ‘dagger pointed at the heart of
allegiance, support & betrayal: blade / knife / violence England.’" (The Napoleonic wars.)
behavior: blade / knife / violence ♦ A rich, stupid man insulted a Bedouin. Twenty years later, the Bedouin
competition: blade / knife / violence wiped the man’s blood from this dagger, thinking regretfully, “Why was I
in such a hurry to kill him?”
cutting edge (on the cutting edge)
destruction / feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life
on the cutting edge / knife / violence / weapon
Californians are ~ (exercises)
dam (psychological dam, etc.)
on the cutting edge of outbreak surveillance
the Medical Center is ~ air dam
shave one inch off their front ~ (NASCAR)
driving force: blade
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: blade deflection dams
avalanche fences and ~
cutting edge (other)
dental dams
cutting-edge drug male condoms, ~, and female condoms (public health)
a ~ like Zofran
psychological dam
cutting-edge field a flood of memories burst through the ~ he had built
the ~s of computer engineering ♦ “I could feel the unity of tens of millions of brothers and sisters, rising to
join the fight, creating a living dam to block the invaders’ path...” (Vasily
cutting-edge research Grossman, author of Life and Fate.)
the chase to produce ~
obstacles & impedance: dam / river / water
cutting edge can grow dull constraint & lack of constraint: dam / river / water
his life reminds us that the ~ (Hugh Hefner)
damage (collateral damage)
driving force: blade
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: blade collateral damage in trade wars
farmers are tired of being ~
cyclone (noun)
cultural collateral damage
cyclone of chaos the ~ was felt at the orchestra (tour cancelled)
disinformation experts are bracing for a fresh ~ ♦ “When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”
amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind destruction: military / ruins
activity: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
damage (noun)
czar (noun)
damage to Amanda
cybersecurity czar the TV show is causing real ~ (a murder case)
Dick Clarke, a former ~
ongoing damage
power: history / person / government
there is an ~ (a TV show about murder case)
threat of damage
D there is a ~ (to a murder case, by a TV show)
destruction: ruins
dagger (insert the dagger, etc.)
damage control
dagger to this Cameroon side
that is a ~ (third English goal in World Cup) damage control

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 he is not a seasoned politician who knows how to do ~ character & personality / resiliency / strength & weakness:
person / plant
do damage control
the CEO went on CNBC to ~ (about product safety) dangle (verb)
amelioration & renewal: boat / military dangled this inducement
he ~ (diplomacy)
dampen (verb)
dangled military aid as a way to press
dampen a man's (sexual) arousal he ~ Ukraine to...
the smell of a woman's tears will ~ (a study)
dangled a White House visit as leverage to get
dampen the enthusiasm officials ~ Ukraine to...
heavy security didn't ~ of fans (Olympics)
the weather did not ~ at the fair attraction & repulsion: hunting / verb
coercion & motivation: arm / verb
dampened (people's) spirit
the wet weather has ~ (France) Dantesque (adjective)
feeling, emotion & effect: water / verb Dantesque horror
attenuation: water / verb it was a scene of ~ (surgery during genocide)
damper (noun) ♦ “It is another path that you must take / if you would leave this savage
wilderness.”

damper on our sex life environment / situation: allusion / religion

taking care of a baby put a real ~ allusion: books & reading
attenuation / obstacles & impedance: mechanism dark (in the dark)
dance (resemblance) in the dark on that
we were ~ (Iran nuclear purchases)
dance across the flats
whirling dust devils ~ (Nevada) in the dark about how
the US was ~ events would unfold (diplomacy)
heat waves danced
down in the valley the ~ completely in the dark
resemblance: verb / walking, running & jumping our communications are down, we're ~
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping groping in the dark
dance (dance around something) doctors were really ~ (cures for infection in the 1800s)
keep the opposition in the dark
dancing around partisan gerrymandering
it's a way to ~
the Supreme Court has been ~ for years
kept the public in the dark
danced around the issue
he denied he ~ about… (official)
he ~
avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with & kept in the dark
lawmakers complained they were ~ (politics)
ignoring things: verb / walking, running & jumping
many officials were ~ about the journey (secret visit)
dance (last dance) he thought that the Pope was being ~ regarding key events

last dance left in the dark

Phil Jackson called that season the ~ (Jordan’s Bulls) transparency was never there, the community was ~

starting, going, continuing & ending: music consciousness & awareness: light & dark

dandelion (character) dark (dark mood, etc.)

dandelions darkest chapter
most kids tend to be like ~, fairly resilient and able to cope his capture was one of the country's ~s of the war

orchid or a dandelion darkest hour

is your child an ~ we are now in the ~ of our political existence
♦ Compare with teacup and snowflake. In the old days, such people were dark mood
compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy; a wallflower. The modern
update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion).
she returned in a ~

person: plant dark name

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 Antwerp was to be a ~ among British military failures decline / growth & development: history
knowledge & intelligence: history
dark obsession
his hatred for him had become a ~ Dark Continent
dark predictions dark continent of the atom
there are ~ that Boeing will lay off even more workers man had opened the ~ (Hiroshima)
dark secret searching & discovery: map
I realized that people are carrying around ~s (pastor)
darken (verb)
dark times
you keep on going even through the ~ (musician) darkened
his outlook ~
dark tradition
the Pacific Northwest's ~ of serial killers darken his mood
the stressful process seemed to ~ (troubled soldier)
dark truth
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb
there is ~ in what you are saying (a harsh conclusion)
oppression: light & dark / verb
dark and honest darkness (depression)
Vasily Grossman’s ~ account of the battle of Stalingrad
looks (very) dark climb out of this deep darkness
his future ~ indeed that was the moment I started to ~ (Mark Whetu)

feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / mental health
oppression: light & dark darknet (computers)
Dark Ages (in the Dark ages) darknet
in the dark ages the "~," a private swath of the Internet
in those days, medical knowledge was ~ the ~ is beyond the reach of law enforcement
~, when you and I were growing up (rotary phones) building the "darknet"
in the dark ages of (personal) computing Freenet is one of several technologies that are ~
~, if you wanted to… join a darknet
in the predigital dark ages to ~, a potential user must be trusted (file sharing)
~, before computers… computer: light & dark

keep (medical) science in the dark ages darling (noun)

the fundamentalists would ~
darling of the (Obama) Administration
take us back to the dark ages the solar company Solyndra was a ~ (failed)
the fundamentalists would ~
darling of the judges
past & present / time: history Alvarez brushed off the notion that he is the ~ (boxing)
decline / growth & development: history
knowledge & intelligence: history darling of Wall Street
rapid growth made the company the ~ (addictive pain meds)
Dark Ages (other)
tech darling
Dark Ages of ignorance Theranos was on the cusp of becoming a ~
the Republican's stem-cell policy represents the ~
progressive darlings
ideological dark ages he won the endorsements of ~ Sanders, Warren and...
this is a step forward from the ~ (education issue)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / person
return to the dark ages pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage /
this is a ~ person
sinking into the dark ages dart (dart about)
the country is ~ (immigration)
darts about
brought our country out of the dark ages the staff ~
he ~ (Sultan Qaboos bin Said)
activity / movement / speed: verb / weapon
past & present / time: history

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Darwinian comprehension & incomprehension / consciousness &
awareness: day / light & dark / verb
Darwinian
the process is ~ (casting boys for a popular play) dawn (from / since the dawn)
Darwinian competition from the dawn of Japanese TV
women live in ~ with one another for rich men ~, every sumo tournament has been broadcast live

Darwinian situation since the dawn of the Petroleum Age

street hailing can create ~s (cabs) ~ more than a century ago…

Darwinian (insurance) system starting, going, continuing & ending: day

sick people are further stricken by a ~ (US) dawn (noun)
Darwinian view dawn of a new (pandemic) age
this ~ of the workplace is widespread (China)
it's the ~
Darwinian world dawn of a new era
the ~ of the bond market
today marks the ~ (political speech)
competition / predation: allusion this is the ~ in human spaceflight (SpaceX Crew Dragon)
allusion: books & reading false dawn
dashboard (noun) there have been many ~s leading to frustration (unity)

national test dashboard starting, going, continuing & ending: day

the CDC launched its ~ two weeks ago (pandemic) day (have one's day)
see the dashboard
go to the state’s website to ~ (coronavirus info) had its day
the German shepherd has ~ (the dog breed)
measurement: tools & technology
had their day
daughter (noun) cats have ~ (on the Internet)

daughter of Hope and Fear primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
Religion is a ~ (Ambrose Bierce) day (in the old days, etc.)
product / relationship: family
in the better days
David and Goliath, etc. we were in Beirut, Beirut ~, and we were playing cards
(O’Toole and Sharif)
David
we can be a ~ in a situation where there’s a Goliath (politics) in the old days
I’m essentially the ~ taking on the Goliath (whistleblower) the reverence accorded ~ to Joe Hill (Kentucky)
~ it was known as Happy Top (area of town)
David overcame Goliath ~ racial hatred was common
despite long odds, ~ (American independence) ~, before people could buy salt blocks for their sheep
(Navaho)
David coming up against Goliath
it’s brilliant when you get a ~ (Leicester City football) in the old old days
strength & weakness: allusion / Bible / religion back ~ of TV, before streaming or cable
size: allusion / Bible / religion in the old days of coal
dawn (verb) this couldn't have happened ~ (mountaintop removal)

dawning on him in the "bad old days"

~ of Times Square (porn sleaze)
it was ~ that…
dawn on me life in the old days
~ was perhaps not so good
it didn’t ~ at the time that…
past & present / time: day
dawned on her
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
it eventually ~ that…
day (old days)
dawning on us
it was slowly ~ the Germans had killed them all (Holocaust) old days
many are speaking fondly of the ~

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 just think back to the ~ when people didn't have… astronauts of their day
whalers were the true ~
bad old days
memories of the ~ of Suharto (Indonesia) spaceships of their day
this is a step backwards to the ~ of the 1980s (policy) whaling ships were the ~
good old days past & present / time: day
I heard quite a bit of talk of the so-called ~, when… primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
return to the "old days" day (the light of day)
what he really wants is a ~ (Pakistani Christian)
saw the light of day
faces from the old days the report never ~ (government)
seeing the familiar ~ (a windsurfer)
seen the light of day
spoke (fondly) of the old days the story might not have ~ if...
he ~ (reminiscing)
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark
past & present / time: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day day (these days)
day (back in the day) these days
~, when Chevron signs a contract…
back in the day Africans ~ are quicker to express their anger
~, a teacher could keep a bottle of whiskey in her desk but few people are buying baskets ~ (famine)
the first time I heard it was ~, with my Mum (Billy Jean) ~, we eat once or twice a day (Zimbabwe)
many marginally qualified climbers flock to Everest ~
listened to back in the day
that's the music I ~ past & present / time: day
past & present / time: day day (those days)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
those days
day (days of yore) ~ are obviously long gone (dumb workers)
~ are over (no running water)
days of yore that was the way we operated in ~ (journalism)
the parents yearned for those ~ (when the family was rich)
past & present / time: day
past & present / time: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
day (day after tomorrow) day (dark day)
dark day in the history
today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow it's a ~ of the church (pedophilia scandals)
we are well prepared ~ (German response to pandemic)
future / time: day / distance
darkest day in the club’s history
it was the ~ (Munich air disaster / Manchester United)
day (at the end of the day) feeling, emotion & effect: day / light & dark
at the end of the day
but ~ the true beauty of the stone remains day (a new day)
but ~ they support our lives (sheep / herders)
bright new day
analysis, interpretation & explanation: day Hubert Humphrey promised America a ~
day (early / late in the day) new day has come
a~
early in the day
it's still ~ (the progress of a war) starting, going, continuing & ending: day
future / time: day
late in the day
it's rather ~ to be suggesting a change to the plan day (save the day)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day saving the day
we’re not ~ but we add capacity (field hospitals)
day (of one's day / of the day)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
government of the day
we occupy the towns to show that the ~ is unfair (IS)

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day (glory days, etc.) daze (in a daze)
“Those were the days” in a daze
I don’t look back and think, ~ he was ~ (news of murder)
glory days are back feeling, emotion & effect: force
the ~ at this hotel (restored 1891 hotel) consciousness & awareness: sensation
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day dazzle (verb)
day (early days) dazzled the delegates
he ~ (a politician)
early days of YouTube
it was a viral sensation, 2010, the ~ (Usman Ahmed) dazzled him
the kid ~ (Zion Williamson, basketball player)
early days for the organization
it’s still ~ feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb

early days for making dead (status)

it’s still ~ a direct comparison (a new virus)
dead
growth & development: day reform is ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: day
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day dead and buried
the peace process is ~
day (day has arrived, etc.) Spurs looked ~ when Ziyech scored against them, but...
day has arrived condition & status: death & life
the big ~ (heavy-weight boxing match)
dead (brain dead)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: day /
direction / movement / verb brain dead
Macron described NATO as “~”
past & present / future / time: day / direction / movement
he labeled complaining residents as “~” and “morons”
/ verb
day (modern day) consciousness & awareness: health & medicine

modern-day Noah’s Ark

dead (functioning)
Norway’s Global Seed Vault is a ~ for plant seeds went dead
modern-day P. T. Barnum the line ~ before a reporter could get more details
he is sort of a ~ (an arena builder and promoter) functioning: death & life
modern-day hermits dead (activity)
in Japan half a million people live as ~ (hikikomori)
dead
modern-day lepers we got downtown, but it was ~
we treat them like ~ (fat people)
activity: death & life
past & present: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day dead (dead on arrival)
day (call it a day) dead on arrival
a month ago the initiative looked ~
call it a day
it’s time to ~ (a boxer retires) condition & status: death & life / health & medicine
starting, going, continuing & ending: day dead (dead in the water)
daylight (division) dead in the water
the initiative is now ~
daylight between the two men on the issue
there is not much ~ condition & status: animal / death & life / fish

leave little daylight dead (rise from the dead)

his campaign has worked to ~ for primary challengers
rose from the dead
division & connection: light & dark / proximity / shadow they ~ (a winning football team)
amelioration & renewal: religion / verb

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dead end certainty & uncertainty: money

dead ends
dean (person)
most of the tips turned out to be ~ (investigation) dean of Middle Eastern correspondents
dead-end job she has been described as the ~ (Liz Sly)
characters with ~s epithet / person: school & education
whiling away productive years at a ~ achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / person /
disappointing dead ends school & education
there were many ~ (hunt for missing girl) death (to death)
wrong turns and dead ends bored to death
the series had some ~ (a TV show) I'm ~, let's do something
led to dead ends scared me to death
attempts to find his birth mother ~ it ~
led to a dead end hyperbole: death & life
every lead ~ (missing hunters)
death (cheat death)
success & failure: journeys & trips
failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips cheated death
deadening (effect) by recovering from such severe wounds, she ~
fate, fortune & chance: death & life
mind-deadening (m)
~ checks death (decline)
sound-deadening (m) death by a thousand cuts
install ~ windows he's suffering ~ (a prosecutor with weak case)
a ~ is the future (restricting right to abortion)
feeling, emotion & effect: death & life
dead heat death spiral
American newspapers are in a ~ (declining circulations)
dead heat death and rebirth
the presidential run-off is a ~, too close to call the primordial pageant of ~ of light (solar eclipse)
statistical dead heat dying a slow death
he is in a ~ with Bernie Sanders (election) VHS is ~ (film fans prefer DVDs)
competition: horse decline: death & life
deadly death (death sentence)
politically deadly melting “death sentence”
if the accusations are true, this would be ~ for him Greenland’s ice faces ~ (global warming)
destruction: death & life
automatic death sentence
deadwood H.I.V. is no longer an ~

deadwood death & life / destruction: justice

as the lowest-ranking official, I felt like ~ deathblow (noun)
worth & lack of worth: tree
deathblow to our hopes
deaf (adjective) we were dealt a ~

blind, deaf and dumb campaign’s death blow

terrorists are ~ to all reason and decency the ~ came weeks earlier, in Michigan (elections)

consciousness & awareness: ear deliver a deathblow

the army is trying to ~ to the militants
deal (done deal)
dealt a deathblow to both ideas
done deal the financial meltdown ~ (foreign policy)
just three weeks ago, his nomination looked like a ~
dealt the hospital a deathblow

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 Hurricane Katrina ~ obligation: money
destruction: death & life / violence / weapon debutant (noun)
death warrant debutant Burrow
it was heartbreak for ~ (loss in first NFL game)
wrote his own death warrant
and so he ~ tournament debutants
the US team showed no mercy against the ~
destruction: death & life / justice
fate, fortune & chance: death & life / justice experience: person / love, courtship & marriage / sex
death & life / judgment: justice
decapitate (verb)
debris
decapitated a terrorist organization
debris of a failed season we ~ by killing him (targeted killing)
fans have been left to sift through the ~
destruction / dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade /
sorting through the debris head / neck / verb
Democrats are ~ left by Republican wave (election)
decompression (noun)
destruction: ruins
decompression
debt (in somebody's debt) after a day at work, all I'm thinking about is ~
in his debt decompression time
America is deeply ~ (a US politician) it's real important to have ~ (rescued POWs)
in your dept for visiting us amelioration & renewal: pressure
we are ~ (Russian President) feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
deeply in his debt deck (deck is stacked)
America is ~ (a US politician)
deck is stacked against them
obligation: money the ~
debt (obligation) deck is stacked on every hand
debt of gratitude what if the ~ (justice for the poor)
we can never repay the ~ owed to our nation's veterans; fate, fortune & chance: cards / sports & games
I owe a ~ to… (writer / acknowledgments)
deck (re-shuffle the deck)
debt to society
he has paid his ~ (released from prison) re-shuffle the deck
it’s totally going to ~ (effects of political controversy)
debt to soldiers
the nation's ~ who fight abroad disruption: cards

debt to the (Hollywood) musical declare (verb)

the choreography owes a clear ~ (filmmaker John Woo)
nation's debt
the ~ to soldiers who fight abroad
sleep debt
racking up a large ~ during the week
one of the first signs of ~ is irritability
paid his debt
he has ~ many times over (44 years in prison)
owes a (clear) debt
the choreography ~ to the Hollywood musical (film)
repay the debt
we can never ~ of gratitude owed to our nation's veterans
♦ “Pork Chop Hill was held, bought and paid for at the same price we
commemorate in monuments at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg... Those who
fought there knew what they did, and the meaning of it.” (Pork Chop Hill,
the stirring 1959 film with Gregory Peck and George Shibata.)
declared the New York Times
“Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” ~
♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared the
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald
and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the
San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.)
fictive communication: speech / verb
deconstruct (verb)
deconstructed the (show's) finale
the creators and producers ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure / verb
deconstruction (noun)
pop deconstruction
her podcast is an intensive project of ~ (diet culture)

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analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure deflates them
having pumped the rookies up, he now ~ (NFL)
deep (extent and scope)
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / verb
deep roots
they have ~ in the community (Croatians / Louisiana) deflate (pressure)
deep sense deflated some criticism
they have a ~ of sadness by admitting his mistakes, he has ~ (politician)
run (especially) deep deflate (unrealistic) expectations
fears of Moscow ~ in Poland (2009) he would try to ~
runs deep deflate a stereotype
Wright's admiration for the marines ~ (correspondent) people can ~ by embracing it (Hillbilly Days Festival)
the sense of allegiance to the Catholic Church ~ (city)
resentment of the US ~ (Arabs) attenuation: air / pressure / verb
support for the insurgency ~ (Kandahar) deflated
runs deepest deflated
in places where anti-American sentiment ~ (Iraq, etc.) does your job or land of one have you feeling ~
extent & scope: depth / water
bored and deflated
substance & lack of substance: depth / water he sounds ~ despite the Zoloft
deep (in deep) feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
in deep defuse (verb)
he is ~ and I can't get him out (financial problems)
defuse her anxiety
getting in deeper try to ~ (separation anxiety / toddler)
you’re ~ every moment you’re gone (Thelma and Louise)
defuse crises
involvement: depth / water
promote regional stability and peace and ~ (military)
situation: depth / water
deepen (verb) defuse (volatile) crises
he was sent in to ~ (FBI hostage negotiator)
deepened the mystery defuse the disagreement
the new information ~ he is trying to ~ among his allies (coalition)
extent & scope: depth / water / verb
defuse the issue
deep-rooted (adjective) the first thing to do is ~ by backing off… (toddlers)

deep-rooted problems defused the situation

the company must overcome its ~ tribal elders ~

bases: depth / plant defuse tensions

the US has urged the Russians and Georgians to ~;
defang (verb) a move to ~ between the traditional rivals (China / Japan)
defang the consumer watchdog amelioration & renewal: explosion / verb
the administration wants to ~
delirious (adjective)
strength & weakness: animal / snake / verb
attenuation: animal / snake / verb delirious (Korean) fans
millions of ~, aptly known as the Red Devils (soccer)
define (verb)
delirious celebration
define me scenes of ~ at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium (World Cup)
I refuse to let it ~ (sex abuse)
behavior: health & medicine
identity & nature: verb / writing & spelling enthusiasm: health & medicine
deflate (emotion) delirium (noun)
deflated a nation delirium of his fans
the loss ~ where… (Mexico / soccer) he raised an arm aloft to acknowledge the ~ (a boxer)

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behavior: health & medicine delusion (under a delusion)
enthusiasm: health & medicine
deliver (verb) under no delusion
I'm ~ this will stop everyone from cheating, but…
deliver a deathblow fantasy & reality: mental health
the army is trying to ~ to the militants
delusion (other)
deliver despair
they promise hope and ~ (a Mexican gang) mass delusion
a ~ renders drivers blind to their faults (a study)
deliver on his promise the “better-than-average effect” points to a ~
his failure to ~ cost him his job (a coach)
delusion, denial and fantasy
deliver a knockout blow they seek refuge in ~ (the Middle East)
the air campaign failed to ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
fantasy & reality: mental health
delivered a (passionate) response
she ~ demand (verb)
fictive transportation: verb demands your attention
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb Mr. Whitfield, there is a matter that ~
Delphic (adjective) fictive communication: speech
Delphic pronouncements demented
he hands out index cards inscribed with ~ (self-help guru)
demented policy
comprehension & incomprehension: allusion / religion the Republicans are committed to a ~ of failure
deluge (noun) fantasy & reality: health & medicine / mental health
behavior: health & medicine / mental health
deluge
the trickle became a ~ (customer orders) demise (death)
deluge of (electronic) data demise
how to organize and search through a ~ he discharged one round, causing his ~
deluge of (holiday) orders demise of a subject
companies couldn't handle the ~ this officer-involved shooting resulted in the ~
deluge of refugees euphemism: death & life
Tunisia is struggling to cope with a ~
demon (affliction)
deluge of tips
the public has responded with a ~ (hunting terrorists) demons of the past
we must exorcise the ~ (Island of Gorée and slavery)
amount & effect: flood / water
movement: flood / water demons of (political) disorder, extremism, and cruelty
WWI unleased the ~
deluged
inner demons
deluged with advice due to ~, it didn’t work out (talented football player)
you'll be ~ (about how to potty train your toddler)
personal demons
deluged with complaints her life has been plagued by drugs and other ~
they are being ~ from residents and merchants
drugs and other (personal) demons
deluged with questions her life has been plagued by ~
Hale has been ~ about Islam (9/11)
exorcise the demons
deluged with (thousands of) requests ~ of the past… (history)
the office was ~ (for a pamphlet)
fight those demons
drug-deluged I had hoped he’d be able to ~ (dead of overdose)
a ~ neighborhood
unleashed the demons
amount & effect: flood / water WWI ~ of political disorder, extremism, and cruelty
get rid of the demons

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 he has to get a rematch and ~ (boxer who lost in upset) depth (substance)
had (similar) demons depth and experience
we both ~ (a boxer, a trainer, and drugs)
the soccer team has ~ at virtually all positions
shake her demons ♦ “From breadth through depth to perspective.” (Motto of State University
she couldn't ~ (singer dies of drug overdose) of New York at Binghamton.)

stared down his (personal) demons substance & lack of substance: depth
he ~ depth (out of one's depth)
haunted by demons out of our depth
he was a deeply troubled man, ~ (Timothy Treadwell) we were way ~ (ignorance)
affliction: creature
out of my depth in this matter
demonic (adjective) I'm ~ (lacks expertise)

demonic explosion out of his depth during engineering discussions

there was a ~ (ethnic conflict) he was ~

feeling, emotion & effect: creature ability & lack of ability: depth / water
experience: depth / water
demonization (noun)
depth (depths of winter, etc.)
demonization of a black Muslim woman
over-the-top ~ (Omar Ilhan) in the depths of (the arctic) winter
they had to find a way to survive ~
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature
time: depth / water
demonize (verb)
depth (extent)
“demonize” the rich
he promised not to ~ (politics) depths of their bitterness
grasp the ~ (Turks on death fast)
demonize all Southerners
she did not ~, or beatify all Northerners (Stowe) depth of its (fiscal) distress
accounting obscured the ~ (hospital)
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature / verb
depth of his knowledge
demonized they came away impressed with the ~
idolized and demonized depth of your sorrow
he has been alternately ~ by the press (a boxer) we cannot imagine the ~ (daughters murdered by MS-13)
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature extent & scope: depth / water
dent (noun) descend (verb)
dent in spending descended into mob rule
they want to make a big ~ and the deficit the confirmation hearing ~ (protests)

making a dent in that (appalling) statistic descended into violence

they are ~ (death in childbirth) a peaceful mass rally ~

put a dent in the deficit behavior / direction: direction / verb

he wants to ~ (a politician) derail (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: mark
derailed his career
depression laziness ~ (athlete)

fell into a depression derail a professor’s career

she ~ it’s just as likely that a student can ~ these days (sex)

fell into a (deep) depression derail (health-care) reform

he ~, popping pain pills and swilling tequila the Republicans tried to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height derail her story
he is trying to ~ (a celebrity)

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derail our strategy desert (food desert, etc.)
the insurgents will not ~
child-care deserts
derail this (vulnerable economic) upturn about half of Americans live in ~
a conflict with Iran could yet ~ (in US)
food desert
avalanche of (prejudicial) comment ~s have little access to fresh food (urban areas)
the murder trial was nearly derailed by an ~ on social media ~s are poor areas bereft of fresh-food grocers
failure, accident & impairment: train / verb
food-desert (m)
derailed the ideal store for ~ residents is a chain supermarket

derailed “fresh food deserts”

the hype train was ~ (a Y.A. book, by sensitivity readers) nutritious food is hard to find and expensive in ~ (Bronx)

derailed by an avalanche internet deserts

the murder trial was nearly ~ of prejudicial comment on ~ in rural America make it hard for people...
social media news desert
failure, accident & impairment: train Youngstown is a ~ (Daily Vindicator ceases)
she tracks ~s (no local news)
descend (descend on)
cultural desert
descend on Iowa the third- and fourth-tier cities are no longer ~s
candidates ~ ahead of crucial caucus (election)
digital deserts
descend on London rural communities are stuck in ~ (broadband)
a million tourists will ~ (Olympics)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: desert
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: insect / verb sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: ground, terrain & land
behavior: insect / verb
desert (environment)
descent (decline)
turning huge swathes of rainforest into desert
descent into alcoholism the illegal gold mining is ~ (Peru)
she herself began a gradual ~ ♦ “Who in the desert had never tasted drought? Who had not been driven
into exile by famine? Such things were the inescapable fate of the
descent into (pugilistic) dementia desert—and all the songs of the desert were an expression of this grief,
his slow and steady ~ (Mike Quarry) drought, and homelessness... / The living glow of the desert dawn
wrapped a blue turban around the mountain’s lofty peak... / Even the
descent into despair barren desert knew how to hide surprise to reward those who are patient
(grass for a camel, desert truffles, springs, etc.).” (From Gold Dust by
her public ~ (suicide at MIT) Ibrahim al-Koni.)

descent into intolerance ♦ "Two days later an old man came into our camp. He was limping, and
even by Bedu standards he looked poor… The Rashid pressed forward
this is a sad milestone on our ~ (murder) to greet him… I wondered at the warmth of their greetings… Bin Kabina
said to me: 'Once he was one of the richest men of the tribe, now he has
descent into (Webcam) pornography nothing except a few goats… His generosity ruined him. No one ever
he described his ~ came to his tents but he killed a camel to feed them. By God, he is
generous!'" (Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger.)
public descent
environment / resemblance: desert / ground, terrain & land
her ~ into despair (suicide at MIT)
slow and steady descent
destabilizing (adjective)
his ~ into pugilistic dementia (Mike Quarry) destabilizing standoff
decline: direction US officials scrambled to defuse the ~ (in Iraq)

desert (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability

disruption: equilibrium & stability
deserted the village for the (big) towns
his own grown children have ~ (Indonesian Borneo)
destroy (emotion)
deserted him destroyed him
his smooth putting stroke ~ ("the yips" / golfing) it just ~, he would melt down in my office (death of father)

allegiance, support & betrayal: military / verb feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / ruins

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detective (person) devastating rape
the ~ of Indonesia’s forests
detectives
editors are gatekeepers, not ~ (fraudulent studies) devastating turn
and then the case took a ~ (missing woman found murdered)
armchair detective
an ~ is a fictional character who solves crimes beyond devastating
this is ~ (hospitals ban visitors during pandemic)
searching & discovery: person
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / force / ruins
dethrone (verb)
devil (Devil's Falls, etc.)
dethrone New Zealand
they produced a fine performance to ~ (rugby) Devil's Falls
~ (Wales)
dethrone the champs
this is the start of their quest to ~ (NBA) Devils Hole
the ~ (both a cave and a North Sea undersea feature)
dethrone (cultural) gatekeepers
the digerati effort to ~ (Web) Devil's Home
the ~ (a stony hill / Udehé)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: royalty / verb Devil's Nose
the ~ (a section of the Mokelumne River
detonate (verb)
Devil's Path
detonated (national) outrage the ~ (bleak desert terrain in the Southwest of the US)
the manner of his killing ~ (hate crime)
Devil's Pulpit
primed to detonate the ~ (an outcrop in a gorge)
the film was ~ this weekend (open)
Devil’s Throat
ready to detonate ~ is a must (Iguazu Falls)
a blast is ~ (the Kyoto Protocol)
Devils Tower
initiation: explosion / verb ~ in Wyoming
detour (noun) Devil's Courthouse
the ~ (a rock outcropping)
inexplicable detour
to me, it’s an ~ that your life took (musician works as Devil's Highway
currency trader) the ~ (a 5-turn section on bobsled track)
the ~ runs between Yuma and Ajo, Arizona
course / direction: journeys & trips
Espinazo del Diablo
Detroit (India’s Detroit, etc.) El ~ (the Devil's Backbone, a road in Durango, Mexico)
India’s Detroit Majlis al Jinn
Chennai is ~, an auto-industry hub the ~ (the assembly of the devils, a cave in Oman)
epithet: manufacturing Red Devils
devastated (emotion) delirious Korean fans, aptly known as the ~s (soccer)
proper name: creature / religion
devastated
everyone was ~ devil (behavior)
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / force / ruins devil
devastating (feeling) he can be a real ~ at times (a toddler)

devastating blow comma-shaped devils

loss of the coral reefs would be a ~
devastating course
the cholera epidemic is now waning, having run its ~
devastating incident
this ~ that happened (police shooting)
a man-killing dose of those ~ (cholera microbes)
behavior / character & personality: creature / religion
devil (deal with the devil)
make a deal with the devil
you want something so badly you’re willing to ~

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fate, fortune & chance: allusion / religion don’t drink every day, ~ (alcohol)
devotee (person) dial down the rancor
we need to ~
devotee of (a particular) theory
he's no ~ (a coach) increase & decrease: direction / mechanism / verb

orchid devotees dice (noun)

as other ~ will attest…
roll of the dice
trout fishing devotees publishing is a constant ~, a gamble
~ worship Snowbird Creek it's a ~, I suppose (correctly controlling development)
enthusiasm: person / religion throw of the dice
person: religion the substitution was a late ~ (soccer)
devour (devour the classics, etc.) roll the dice
the Air Force is going to ~ (new plane)
devoured the classics okay, if you want to ~, go ahead (take the chance)
I~ we're going to ~ and see what happens
you know I like to ~, but this is going too far
devoured Dracula
I don’t think we should ~ and take that risk
he had ~ by the age of five
fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
devoured these films
this generation of adults ~ as children (Disney) Dickensian (adjective)
devoured (HG Wells’) War of the Worlds Dickensian character
as a child, Brunner ~ (the writer) he was a ~, a poor immigrant adopted, then rejected
devour Christie’s work Dickensian childhood
readers continue to ~ (Agatha Christie) his ~ may have fueled his ambition (poverty)
she survived a ~
devoured them
he stumbled onto books and completely ~ (Herman Dickensian poverty
Melville) she lived in ~
consumption: food & drink / verb Dickensian tenements
devour (destroy) he rose out of the city's ~ (India)

devoured hundreds of acres Dickensian world

a ~ of haves and have-nots
the fire ~
destruction: animal / food & drink / predation / verb Dickensian warehouses
its orphanages became famous as ~ (Romania)
devoured
environment: allusion
devoured by anxiety allusion: books & reading
she is ~ when she’s not working (magazine editor) die (hyperbole)
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / food & drink / predation
destruction: animal / food & drink / predation dying to meet him
I'm just ~
diagnosis (noun)
die from boredom
diagnosis we were just about ready to ~
the ~ is wrong, and the prescription is malpractice
dying back here
diagnosis for America’s ills can we turn up the AC, I'm ~ (car)
it has made equality a ~ (the Democratic Party)
innovate or die
analysis, interpretation & explanation: health & medicine "~" has long been the mantra in the computer world
dial (dial down / back) hyperbole: death

dial back arrests, incarcerations die (non-human)

we need to ~ (reform)
die
dial it back the fire would not ~ (civil rights)

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 where do statues go when they ~ (cancel culture) faded or died out
knowledge of the language has ~ (Cherokee)
died
the rumors never ~ (of marital infidelity) starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / fire /
verb
dies
no good thing ever ~ (Shawshank Redemption) diet (noun)
die hard diet of him
dreams ~ none of us wanted a steady ~ (a dominant golfer)
old habits ~
race-based voting traditions ~ here diet of left hooks and right hands
he fed Mayorga a steady ~ (De La Hoya)
dreams die
~ hard steady diet
none of us wanted a ~ of him (a dominant golfer)
habits die
old ~ hard fed on a (steady) diet
we are ~ of gruesome news (terrorism, etc.)
project died
the ~ before it got off the ground fed Mayorga a (steady) diet
he ~ of left hooks and right hands (De La Hoya)
traditions die
race-based voting ~ hard here served up a steady diet
♦ "You know, the cowboy in me just ain't gonna die." (92-year-old black evangelists ~ of jargon stew (the Ethereal Summit)
ex-rodeo rider.) ♦ "If it means swallowing some humble pie, and it means eating some of
♦ "Soldiers who die are taken to a holding area, where they are made to your words, I can't think of a more excellent diet." (Prime Minister David
do manual labor to underscore the point that dying is never fun." (Military Cameron, on his coalition government formed with the Liberal
training.) Democrats.)

♦ "When I eat, I live. When I drink, I die. What am I?" (A fire, of course!) consumption / experience: food & drink
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb dig (dig deep, etc.)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
dig deeper
die (the die is cast, etc.) ~ (command to a detective)
die is cast dig (a little) deeper
there is nothing more, the ~ (eve of battle) as we ~, we discover…
♦ In Word Origins and their Romantic Stories, Wilfred Funk, Litt. D.,
devotes a couple of paragraphs to “the die is cast.” He mentions that dig deep into the story
“even today hundreds of loaded dice, be they clay, wood, or bone, are in this series we ~ of his senseless murder (podcast)
still being dug out of Roman ruins.”

fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games digging for (more) information
we are ~ (TV news story)
die down (verb)
dig beneath the surface
hype dies down documentaries are the ideal way to ~ of sports
once the media ~ (elections) analysis, interpretation & explanation / searching &
opposition has not died down discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining / verb
~ (Chechnya)
dig (dig in / into)
wind had died down
the ~ dug into actions
investigators ~ and uncovered crimes
gunfire died down
after the ~… digs (deep) into their lives
he ~ until they… (TV therapist Phil McGraw)
eventually died down
the uproar ~ (dismissal of coach) dig into a word's history
it's fun to ~ (etymology)
decline: death & life / fire / verb
dug into the community's past
die out (end) residents ~ (local history)
fire is dying out dig into this
we've used up all our wood, and the ~ now to ~ more... (talk show)

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analysis, interpretation & explanation / searching & appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of
discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining / verb concealment / searching & discovery: ground, terrain &
land / mining / verb
dig (dig out)
diluted (weakened)
dig our way out of this problem
we must think how we will ~ heavily diluted
calls for his power to be ~ (Zuckerberg of Facebook)
situation: hole / verb
resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: ground, attenuation: water
terrain & land / mining / verb
dim (decline)
dig (dig through)
memories dim
digs through (bargain) bins ~ over time (criminal cases)
he ~ for rare music tapes
star (of Lucy Lunsford) dimmed
dig through my crates how the ~
I'm gonna ~ for your old funky tapes
decline: light & dark / verb
dug through the (old case) files
he ~ (police) dim (the dim past, etc.)
dug through a pile of (shiny) rocks dim and distant
they ~ at a gem stand the ~ past
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining / time: eye
verb dim (overshadow)
digest (verb) dim the event
digest the facts every year some crisis threatens to ~ (awards show)
it was hard to ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion / primacy, currency, decline
consumption: food & drink / verb & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority: light & dark /
comprehension & incomprehension: food & drink / verb shadow / verb
digestible (adjective) dim (feeling)
digestible form hope dimmed
he did a good job distilling the big issue into a ~ (debate) ~ for two lost, injured whales (swam upriver)
consumption: food & drink optimism dimmed
comprehension & incomprehension: food & drink their ~ fairly quickly (government watchdogs)
dig in (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb

digging in din (attention)

he is ~ (embattled leader)
he is firing back and his legal team is ~ add their voice to the din
students are eager to ~ (campus sex policies)
resistance, opposition & defeat: ground, terrain & land /
verb heard above the din
she is doing her best to be ~ (running for president)
dig up (verb) ♦ “[Life] is a tale / told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / signifying
nothing.” (Macbeth by Shakespeare.)
digs up documents from Web sites ♦ “Was this that? Where is that conversation right now? I mean in this
she ~ particular moment... Okay! How come?... Shore...”

dug up (a lot of) information at the library attention, scrutiny & promotion / conflict / feeling, emotion
I~ & effect / obstacles & impedance / resistance, opposition
& defeat: sound
dug up this citation from an old magazine
he has ~ dinosaur (noun)
dig it up dinosaur
it’s the past, it’s buried, we don’t want to ~ again pull those old ~s from the shed (retro rodeo / kayaking)
the mayor has called the downtown landmarks ~s
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 the network news anchormen are ~s in a new direction
we're ~s (rely on old technology) a study that takes stress research ~
it’s a ~, a concrete monster (an old sports stadium)
course: direction
dinosaur feminist
I'm sounding like a ~, but… direction (the right / wrong direction,
etc.)
walking dinosaur
it’s like I’m a really cute ~ (older actor Lucy Lawless) in the right direction
viewed the (conventional) machines as dinosaurs they are going ~
they ~ that would soon be rendered extinct they are heading ~ (a company)
the talks are moving ~ (negotiations)
♦ “It’s clear that there are still a few crusty old misogynists clinging on. St
Barnabas Church would surely be a much better place if it had a woman
the trends are moving ~
priest. Some of the local people who have left might return, but we now we’re moving ~ (research on brain tumors)
see that the dinosaurs have won yet again.” (“Male only vicar job advert I trust you will get the team pointed ~
‘misogynistic,’” BBC, 27 September 2018.) from what I hear, it’s a step ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal the decision is a small step ~
past & present / time: animal in the wrong direction
dip (verb) Washington is headed ~ (politics)
70 percent of the public believes the country is heading ~
dip
they are going ~ (a losing sports team)
temperatures should start to ~ by the end of the week Washington is headed ~ (politics)
decline / increase & decrease: direction he was a high-priced 1st-round draft pick heading ~ (athlete)
the numbers are heading ~
dip (noun)
course / decline / failure, accident & impairment /
dip in (American) deaths progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips
after a ~ last spring, fatalities are rising
direction (course / on a course)
decline / increase & decrease: direction
direction of (scientific) research
diplomacy (noun) who determines the ~
model of diplomacy direction of his life
a woman who had been a ~ began to cry he wanted to change the ~
politeness and diplomacy direction in their lives
~ are often the enemies of action (vs. being rude) those who lack purpose and ~
behavior / role: government future direction
diplomat (noun) China's ~
in a direction of hope, unity, conviction
best diplomat
he said he would take Britain ~, and common purpose
sport is the ~ we have (Qatar hosts event)
person / representation: government change the direction
he wanted to ~ of his life
diplomatic (adjective)
determines the direction
more diplomatic who ~ of scientific research
you should have been ~
follow the direction
behavior / role: government the investigation will ~ the evidence leads…
direction (in every direction) led you in that direction
and what ~ to start writing (an actor)
lurks in every direction
danger ~ take Britain in a direction
he would ~ of hope, unity, conviction, and…
extent & scope: direction
take Britain in a historic new direction
direction (a new direction, etc.) we will ~ (elections)
in another direction course: direction / journeys & trips
I'm going ~

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direction (purpose) concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
/ hygiene
purpose and direction
those who lack ~ in their lives dirty (dirty word)
course: direction / journeys & trips dirty word
Obama has made profit seem like a ~
dirt (worthless)
speech: hygiene
dirt
his name is ~ in the journalism world (disgraced)
discard (verb)
worth & lack of worth: ground, terrain & land discard the possibility
don't ~ of appendicitis (diagnosis)
dirt (political dirt, etc.)
dismissal, removal & resignation: cards / verb
political dirt
this is top-grade ~
disciple (person)
dig up dirt Disciples
he hired a firm to ~ on his accusers and reporter New Nordic Cuisine Draws ~
enthusiasm: person / religion
reveal some dirt
critics hoped the report would ~ on the President (politics) person: religion

sought political dirt

disconnect (noun)
he ~ from a foreign source (politics) generational disconnect
accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land there is a ~ (society)
content: ground, terrain & land division & connection: tools & technology
dirty (dirty people, etc.) disease (affliction)
dirty people disease of grade inflation
the Harif are a ~ (disparaging remark about a tribe) the ~ has infected the educational system
insult: hygiene
disease of intolerance
dirty (dirty energy, etc.) the attack was a part of a greater ~ (terrorism)
affliction: health & medicine
dirty coal
we need clean energy, not ~ disease (enthusiasm)
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene disease
dirty (behavior) it's a bit of a ~ (Jay Leno on collecting cars)
enthusiasm: health & medicine
dirty war
in the 1970s, Argentina fought a "~" against subversion diseased
get dirty fundamentally diseased
we're all in the mud and have to ~ (intelligence) the tax code is ~
playing dirty condition & status: health & medicine
he is ~ (a politician)
some online retailers are ~ (fake negative reviews) disequilibrium (noun)
behavior: hygiene fallen into disequilibrium
dirty (sex) academic publishing has ~ and needs a new approach
equilibrium & stability: scale
dirty flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability
what she did was ~ (sex)
dish (revenge is a dish best served cold)
sex: hygiene
dish
dirty laundry revenge is a ~ best served cold
dirty laundry ♦ A rich city man insulted a poor Bedouin. Years later, the Bedouin saw
the man by chance in a far-away place and stabbed him to death. As the
the divorce is over with no ~ being aired…

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Bedouin wiped the blood from his dagger, he thought regretfully, “Why dismantle the (terrorist) threat
was I in such a hurry?”
a campaign to identify, disrupt and ~
♦ “It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given
Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to dismantle the old order
smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the
thought of his immolation.” (“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen he hopes to use EU membership to ~
Poe.)
dismantled the (social) safety net
♦ “If you dig a hole for your brother, you will fall down in it.” (A Saudi
Arabian proverb.)
he ~ (Pinochet / Chile)

revenge: food & drink identify, disrupt and dismantle

a campaign to ~ the terrorist threat
dish out (verb)
dismissal, removal & resignation: infrastructure / verb
dished out abuse to the children curtailment: infrastructure / verb
nuns ~
dismember (verb)
dishes out advice to millions
she ~ of people dismember Turkey
a nation taught of how the West tried to ~
dished out a beating to Margarito
Pacquiao ~ (boxing) destruction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves &
bone / verb
dished out (ice-cold) revenge on his enemies
he ~ (a media magnate) dismembered
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb dismembered into a scattered collection
the Byzantine empire was ~ of Frankish states and Italian
disinfect (verb) colonies
disinfect the computers destruction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves &
French police were able to ~ (a global pirate botnet) bone
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / health & medicine / verb dispirited (adjective)
computer: health & medicine / verb
dispirited voters
disinfectant (noun) many ~ stayed home
disinfectant of public scrutiny feeling, emotion & effect: religion
gangs operate where the ~ struggles to reach (poor
neighborhoods) dissect (verb)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / health & medicine dissected the case
disintegrate (verb) she ~ in a book (a murder)
dissected his sound
families have disintegrated I really ~ (a singer)
~ (as jobs have moved out of area)
dissect every rumor
marriage had disintegrated blogs are always ready to ~
evidence indicated that their ~
dissecting, analyzing
began to disintegrate we are ~ the blood-testing company Theranos
as Enron's house of cards ~ (bankrupt company)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health
failure, accident & impairment: erosion / verb
& medicine / verb
destruction: erosion / verb
disintegration dissolve (verb)
disintegration of authority dissolve into anarchy
the ~, courtesy and the English language (email, etc.) celebration could ~ (Gaza)

failure, accident & impairment: erosion dissolves into predictability

the movie's unpolished charm ~
destruction: erosion
dismantle (verb) appearance & disappearance: water / verb
dissolve (break up)
dismantle (legal and de facto) discrimination
the government should ~ dissolved in a wave of dissension

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 the team ~ (World Cup soccer) feeling, emotion & effect: proximity
appearance & disappearance: water / verb distant (past)
dissolve (fade away) distant America
rare film is a glimpse of a ~ (Daughter of Dawn 1920)
culture dissolved
the hunting ~ and many Sami became settlers distant dream
retiring at 60 has become a ~
appearance & disappearance: water / verb
dissolve (emotions) not-so-distant history
the ~ of radio jingles
dissolved into tears past & present / time: distance
when his Mom tried to leave, he ~ (toddler)
distant (future)
feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water
dissolve (terminate) not-so-distant future
they imagine a ~
dissolve her marriage not too distant future
a judge may ~ (Islam) we hope to improve this feature in the ~
dissolve Parliament seems distant
he is considering giving himself the power to ~ a deal ~ (politics)
dissolved the system future / time: distance
in 1993 Yeltsin ~ of village councils
distant (separation)
curtailment: water / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: water / verb distant from our everyday experience
dissolved (ended) climate change seems ~
division & connection: distance
have her marriage dissolved
she has the right to ~ (Muslim ruling) distant (relationship)
curtailment: water distant cousin
distance (verb) she is a ~
relationship: distance / proximity
distanced themselves from him
colleges have ~ (college admissions fraud) distant (a distant second, etc.)
avoidance & separation: proximity distant second
distance (noun) Biden was a ~ in Nevada (electoral election)
extent & scope: distance
distance between the two sides
the ~ is so great that… (politics) distaste (noun)
no distance distaste for such associations
there is ~ between us (in our opinions) he has a ~
division & connection: distance / proximity enthusiasm: taste
distance (feeling) distill (verb)
emotional distance distill the big issue into a digestible form
his ~ has caused problems he was able to ~ (a politician at a debate)
feeling, emotion & effect: proximity analysis, interpretation & explanation: chemistry
distant (feeling) ditch (noun)
distant father stuck in a ditch
she didn’t get support, love or acceptances from her ~ while our students are ~, the world is moving ahead
grown distant get out of the ditch
she hand her son had ~ we're just spinning our wheels, hoping to ~ (war)

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pull the government out of the ditch bridge the divide
he seeks to ~ (a politician) they want to ~ and find common ground (gun control)
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land divide to cross
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land that may be an impossible ~
diva (person) division & connection: ground, terrain & land

talented but troubled diva dividend (pay dividends)

the ~ wore out his welcome (football player)
paying dividends in good-will
character & personality: person / theater the new policy is ~
dive (noun) paid huge dividends
the concept has ~ (military uses drones to kill)
stock market's dive
the ~ proved temporary pay political dividends
his wooing of Jews will ~
decline: direction
already paying dividends
dive (deep dive) the new policy is ~
do a deep dive pressure paid dividends
let’s ~ right into this (news show) England's ~ when Owen scored (soccer)
did a (really) deep dive cost & benefit: money
these researchers ~ to analyze alcohol consumption
divorce (noun)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: water
Web divorce
dive in (verb) NBC and Microsoft agreed to an amicable ~
dive (right) in diplomatic divorce
too many friends just ~ giving advice before... a trade war could lead to a ~ (US and Canada)
dove into politics ugly divorce
he ~ the UK and the EU are having an ~
dove into peacekeeping division & connection: love, courtship & marriage
Clinton ~ and failed (diplomacy) relationship: love, courtship & marriage
absorption & immersion / commitment & determination / divorce (verb)
involvement: verb / water
divorced themselves from nature
divide (noun) cities have ~ (environmentalists)
divide between him and his coaches division & connection: love, courtship & marriage
the ~ grew (an athlete) relationship: love, courtship & marriage
left-right divide dizzying (adjective)
another election isn’t going to change the ~ (politics)
dizzying (new) evidence
great divide ~ in human evolution provokes debates
they stood on two sides of a ~ (Old and New Hollywood)
dizzying changes
impossible divide ~ to our understanding (evolution)
that may be an ~ to cross
dizzying developments
cultural, gender and political divides the ~ in Puerto Rican politics
the battle rubbed raw the country’s ~ (politics) ♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping,
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill
generational and ideological divide Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
this exposes a ~ (in the Democratic party) time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
divide (between him and his coaches) grew April 13, 2020.)
the ~ (an athlete) feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / sensation
bridging the divide
ballet and baseball are ~ (between Cuba and the US)

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DNA (in the DNA) dog (afflict)
in her DNA dog him
maybe tribalism is just ~ (politics) his health problems continued to ~
in its DNA dogged him
the FBI had politics ~ back to its creation in 1908 asthma has ~all his life (the great boxer Shannon Briggs)
in my DNA dogged her
he insisted, “stopping isn’t ~” (boxer Anthony Joshua) her criminal record ~
in their DNA affliction: animal / dog / verb
winning is ~ (Brazilian soccer team)
challenging death is ~ (Wallenda family)
dog (attack dog)
inscribed in our DNA attack dog
some places are ~ (Lake Ohrid, the Balkans) normally the vice-presidential nominee would be the ~

identity & nature: biology attack dog for the president

he has been an ~
DNA (other)
attack dog for the Republicans
nation’s DNA he is the ~ on the committee (impeachment trial)
confrontation and conflict are hardwired into the ~ (US)
coercion & motivation: animal / dog
musical DNA
the depth and complexity of their own ~ (Egypt)
dog (insult)
part of your DNA "Dogs!"
as a football player, ~ is hard work and effort ~ they yelled at the riot police (protestors)

identity & nature: biology called him a dog

Chavez had ~ in the week of the fight (boxing)
doctored
insult: animal / dog
doctored
the photo has been ~
dog (dog won’t hunt)
creation & transformation: health & medicine dog will hunt
I don’t think that ~ (Democrats’ legal attempt to challenge
dodge (verb) president)
dodged a (big) bullet success & failure: animal / dog / hunting
we ~ (hurricane misses refineries)
dog (black dog / mental health)
dodged a question
he also ~ about whether… black dog starts howling
I gotta get out before my ~ (madness, not melancholia)
dodged questions
both candidates ~, reverting to talking points (debate) fend off the black dog
I am trying to hold on to my senses, to ~ (madness)
dodges questions ♦ Winston Churchill used this term to describe his depression. “Where
he ~ about where he gets his ideas the black dog metaphor for depression comes from” by Marc Wilson is
an interesting read.
dodged a long prison term
she ~ (Anita Vestal) feeling, emotion & effect: color / mental health
euphemism: mental health
avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking,
running & jumping
dog-and-pony show (noun)
dodo (noun) did a dog-and-pony show
other legislators ~
gone the way of the Dodo performance: animal / theater
pay phones have ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal
dog-eat-dog
past & present / time: animal dog-eat-dog world
in a ~

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♦ “The majority of the country doesn’t want to see a dog-eat-dog world the plan contains every ~ about political economy
where everybody is angry all the time.” (Barack Obama, urging
Democrats to preach hope and unity.) trapped by dogma
competition / predation: animal / dog don't be ~ (Steve Jobs / Apple Computer)

dogfight (noun) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

dogfight doldrums (noun)

fighter-bombers execute mock ~s
stuck in the doldrums
it's a ~ (competition for market share)
the economy is ~
Sergio Aguero scored 64 minutes into the ~ (soccer)
lead us out of the doldrums
dogfight among experts over the cause
it's Obama's job to ~ (poor economy)
there has been a ~ of the crash
conflict: animal / dog mired in the doldrums
we remain ~ (poor economy)
dogged (hounded)
went back into the doldrums
dogged by controversy it would break my heart if Wales ~ (2019 Rugby)
the company has been ~ (KBR) progress & lack of progress: boat / sea / wind
dogged by questions dollar sign (noun)
he is being ~ about whether he... (politics)
dollar signs in their eyes
dogged by rumors
companies with ~
he has been ~ of drug and alcohol abuse (NASCAR)
he has been ~ of excessive drinking (a politician) money: letters & characters / sign, signal, symbol
dogged with poor health domino (domino effect, etc.)
he had been ~ his entire life
damaging domino effect
affliction: animal / dog a series of minor setbacks created a ~ (suicide)
dogged (determined) set off a domino effect
this ~ (economic collapse)
dogged determination
our ~ sent an important message to our enemies toppled a lot of racist dominoes
it ~ (boycott)
dogged persistence
justice arrives through ~ (social justice) feeling, emotion & effect / relationship / sequence: sports
& games
dogged (Iraqi) resistance
a day of fierce fighting and ~ (Iraqi Freedom) done (over)
commitment & determination: animal / dog done
doghouse (in the doghouse) after the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans were ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle
in the doghouse
he’s ~ (in trouble with his wife) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: prep, adv, adj,
particle
in the coach's doghouse done and dusted
he started out ~ because of weight problems
punishment & recrimination: animal / dog done and dusted
situation: animal / dog I thought the Troubles were ~ (Northern Ireland and Brexit)
another episode ~ and in the can (a podcast)
dogleg (shape)
starting, going, continuing & ending: cloth
dogleg turn reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth
an icy, rutted ~ (downhill skiing) donkey (insult)
♦ A dogleg is an abrupt angle or sharp bend. Dogleg is also an
intransitive verb. Golf courses often have doglegs. donkey
shape: animal / dog he’s as stubborn as a ~

dogma (noun) “led by donkeys”

~ is a British expression for incompetent leadership
Republican dogma

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character & personality / insult: animal doors (in life) open
many ~ automatically for you (when you're rich)
doomed
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds
doomed
is longhand ~ (handwriting) door (portal)
doomed to fall behind opened the door
they are ~ (certain categories of students) he ~ to the rave world for us
decline: death & life portal: doors & thresholds
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life
fate, fortune & chance: death & life
door (access)
door (Durdle Door, etc.) open-door
I have an ~ policy (boss)
Durdle Door
~, the natural arch on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast opened its doors
Saudi Arabia has ~ to foreign tourists
proper name / shape: door
banging on the door
door (behind closed doors) they are ~ of city government (Yimbies)
behind closed doors keep the door open
they are conducting business ~ (politics) I wanted to ~ with him (an interviewer)
~, without any sunlight whatsoever (hearings)
breaking down doors
♦ “The only way that I have been able to get anything done is behind
closed doors, by hoarding favors, by bribing, by wheedling...” (The great she was ~ herself (a precocious college student)
film Citizen X.)
broke down doors
concealment & lack of concealment: doors & thresholds she ~ in comedy (Phyllis Diller)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: doors & thresholds
found the doors barred
door (closure) those trying to escape to the US ~ (to them (Jews)
shut its doors had (many) doors slammed in his face
he notified the charter school that it must ~... he ~ (a black American)
curtailment: doors & thresholds access & lack of access: doors & thresholds
door (opportunity) door (knock at / on the door)
doors of opportunity knocking on the door
many died opening the ~ (civil rights) death was ~
opening the ~ to all God's children (Martin Luther King)
knocked at my door
doors in life the opportunity has ~ and I took it (boxer takes fight)
many ~ open automatically for you when you're rich
knocking at the door
open door we're ~ (a team a game away from the playoffs)
baseball offers a very good ~ for a better life (Latinos) they are ~ (a pressing soccer team)
opportunity is ~
open doors
going to school will ~ for you proximity: doors & thresholds / verb
money tends to ~
door (at someone’s door, etc.)
opened doors
it ~ I had never imagined (employment with Ford) leadership’s door
she placed much of the blame at the ~ (Labor defeat)
open all doors
good clothes ~ (a proverb) manager’s door
he is injured and that has to come to the ~ (soccer)
opened the door
it ~ to a decent education for blacks (court decision) responsibility: doors & thresholds / proximity
it ~ to what could be done (penicillin and transplants. etc.) door (get one’s foot in the door)
closes one door get his foot in the door
if God ~, he opens a thousand others (Turkish proverb) he lied on his resume to ~

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opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds / verb doorstep (on / at the doorstep)
door (open the door, etc.) at the doorstep of an (NFL) title
open door they are ~
the 1st virus weakens, the 2nd then has an ~ to sicken on Baghdad's doorstep
open a door coalition forces are poised ~
appeasement may ~ to peaceful co-existence, or… on death's doorstep
door opens he's ~ (very sick)
once that ~, who knows what will happen the economy is ~

opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds on its doorstep

Saudi Arabia discourages liberalization ~ (Qatar)
door (hold the door open, etc.) Turkey seeks to contain the crisis unfolding ~ (Syria)
hold the door open poised on (Baghdad's) doorstep
he seemed to ~ for a change in Germany's policy coalition forces are ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds proximity: doors & thresholds / house
door (leave the door open) dose (amount)
left open the door dose
the US has ~ for storing nuclear waste in the US it's the ~ that makes the poison (emailing, etc.)
leave the door open dose of inspiration
he seemed to ~ to the possibility of a change he provided the team a ~
left the door open dose of criticism
it ~ for an insanity defense the president received a fair ~ for his speech
leave the door open for the possibility dose of humility
he appears to ~ of a pardon we all need a good ~ (debate and opinions)
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds dose of reality
he needs a ~ (selfish teen)
door (close a door, etc.)
dose of sanity
close the door we could use a ~
it's wrong to ~ on promising research (human cloning)
dose of wisdom
door has closed they got a ~ from the coach
the ~ on reform… he brings a ~ to the government
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds dose of goodwill
door (shown the door, etc.) the project has earned the US a ~ (foreign aid)

shown the door dose of good news

official after official in the Department of Homeland we could all use a ~
Security was ~ double dose
dismissal, removal & resignation: doors & thresholds with a ~ of fantastic news from Vicksburg and Gettysburg
(Lincoln / Civil War)
doormat (person)
healthy dose
muse and doormat he uses research and a ~ of imagination (writer)
the muddy line between collaboration and codependence, ~
heavy dose
become a doormat in Copenhagen he ingested a ~ of Aristotle (Tycho Brahe)
she allowed herself to ~ (woman-woman relationship)
small doses
made herself into a doormat I could only read it in ~ (a book)
she ~, she has nobody to blame but herself
provide a dose
admiration & contempt: person / doors & thresholds recent advances ~ of hope for sufferers
person: doors & thresholds
amount: health & medicine

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dot (connect the dots) doubled down (at the White House) and tripled down
the president ~ on Twitter (political dispute)
connect the dots commitment & determination: cards / gambling / verb
I must ~
we couldn't ~ (terrorism) double-edged (sword)
why didn't we ~
it's impossible to ~ looking forward double-edged sword
people are starting to ~ (climate change) opium and its derivatives are a ~
this report helps us ~ (climate change) science is a ~ and can be used for good or evil
for Pakistan, success of this kind is a ~ (terrorists)
fill in the blanks, connect the dots
they want to ~, and figure out what’s going on (probe) double-edged sword of biotechnology
♦ Steve Inskeep: I don’t want to connect these dots too firmly yet, Carrie, the ~ (germ warfare)
but I want to note what some of the dots are... What would it mean if
these dots were more firmly connected? / Carrie Johnson: I think we’re feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword
going to need to wait and see... rather than speculate... There’s been a relationship: blade / sword
lot of bad reporting in this case, we’ve got to be careful. / Steve Inskeep:
But what we do know is those dots are there, and that the Muller dove (noun)
investigation continues. / Carrie Johnson: Yes, that’s right.” (Vague and
ominous dots. From “News Brief: Paul Manafort, Parkland Shooting, dove
Spying Charges,” National Public Radio (NPR), Morning Edition, 14
February 2019.) he is not a ~, but he opposes attacking Iran

analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture / verb violence: animal / bird

dot (verb) dovetail (verb)

dot the lake dovetails with contemporary anxieties
floating restaurants ~ (Tonle Sap) the film ~ (a zombie movie)

configuration: mark / verb dovetailed with (energy) plans

construction plans have not ~ (China)
dotted (arrangement)
dovetailed with US policy
dotted with surveillance) cameras reports by US cyber-security companies appear to have ~
Times Square is ~
dovetail with his (warped) view
dotted with (observatory) domes he denigrates ideas that don’t ~ of what America should be
the mountain is ~ (telescopes)
configuration: animal / bird / verb
dotted with (small mangrove) islands
a shallow lagoon ~ (Khor al-Beidah) down (feeling)
dotted with (thousands of) kites get me down
the sky is ~ of different colors and styles it doesn’t ~ (criticism)

dotted with monuments feeling, emotion & effect: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
the area is ~ to him (Lorca) down (go down)
dotted with the ruins gone down by two-thirds
a valley ~ of 16th-century fortresses (Georgia)
my income has ~
dotted with smokestacks decline / increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj,
he looked out on hills ~ (Zarqa)
particle / verb
ice-dotted (m) down (decline)
~ rivers
monastery-dotted (m) down
a beautiful, ~ land (Montenegro) it’s a long way ~

configuration: mark down market

a ~ is as much an opportunity as an up one
double down (verb)
decline: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
doubling down on its decision down (functioning)
the government is ~
double-downed our efforts down
we ~ to not have it happen again the system is ~

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condition & status / failure, accident & impairment / amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
functioning: direction / mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle force: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
down (down for something) downfall (noun)
down for this downfall
are you ~ their greed will be their ~

down for that contributed to his downfall

if you’re ~, then...
♦ You can be down for something or up for something with the same
meaning! English is crazy.
allegiance, support & betrayal / commitment &
determination: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
down (down through the centuries, etc.)
down through the centuries
the voice of Herodotus can be heard speaking ~ (writings)
down through the generations
dancers pass their knowledge ~ (ballet)
down hundreds of years
the saint’s feast day had been kept ~ of worship
on down
the legend lives on from the Chippewa ~ (Gordon Lightfoot)
come down (to me) through time
it’s like hearing a voice that has ~ (bard recites Gesar)
handed down by your ancestors
an heirloom ~ for generations
handed down by generations
a story ~ of Blackfeet
♦ Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser have a wonderful discussion of
up-down metaphors for time in Figurative Language, and give “high / low
Middle Ages” as a French example. They mention that the metaphor
might relate to “reverence for the past” in French and Chinese. But the
basis for the metaphor might also relate to topography. Sound travels
farther in all directions from a high point like a mountain peak, as people
of mountain cultures know, from Tibet through Afghanistan and
Switzerland to the Southern Appalachians.
past & present / time: direction / height / history /
mountains & hills / prep, adv, adj, particle
downdraft (noun)
downdraft of debt
the hopelessness of families caught in a ~
downdraft in the markets
concern about Europe helped to lead the big ~
economic downdraft
the powerful ~ started with the failure of Lehman
his protectiveness may have ~
decline / destruction: direction
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
downhearted
downhearted
it made you ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / heart
heart: direction
downhill (go downhill, etc.)
downhill direction
they are going in a ~ (sports team)
going downhill
education has been ~
goes downhill
the health of children with the disease ~
gone downhill
things have ~ in the last few years (polarized society)
went downhill
their relationship ~
things ~ from there
spiraled downhill
at home, he ~ (troubled soldier back from Iraq)
♦ How can downhill mean something easily accomplished and also mean
decline and failure? J.P. Postgate, Litt.D., Prof. of Comparative
Philology, addressed this question in an Inaugural Address delivered at
the opening of the Session 1896-7, at University College, London. He
said its relationship to the meaning of easiness was an obvious
metaphor. As for decline, he explained that at the time of Plautus, who
used the word in both senses, “Roman waggons and carriages had no
efficient brakes.” In addition, Postgate mentioned that when Plautus used
the word for decline or failure, it was always in contrast with a flatter
level. And this makes sense. When Napoleon’s army left Moscow in
winter, their horses had not been provided with nailed horseshoes
suitable for snow and ice. As a result, thousands of horses lost their
footing on downhill slopes and were crushed by their loads behind them.
Of course, the soldiers could eat the horseflesh. But this contributed to
the logistical nightmare the soldiers endured.
decline: direction / mountains & hills
failure, accident & impairment: direction / mountains &
hills

severe downdraft
downhill (easy)
the fund could be damaged again by a ~ (money) all downhill
bucking the downdraft the hard part was over, and it was ~
some candidates are ~ (elections) difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / mountains & hills
caught in the downdraft
media companies have been ~ of advertising revenue

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downplay (verb) down to earth (adjective)
downplay his own gifts proud and down to earth
he does not ~, but… (a politician) her ~ mom
downplayed the need straightforward, down to earth
he has ~ for widespread testing (pandemic) he demonstrates ~ cooking
downplays the (important) role character & personality: earth & world
this comment ~ that dogs play as sentries
downturn (noun)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / verb
downturn in business
downshift (verb) hotels have experienced a 90 percent ~ (war)
downshifting economic downturn
the economy is ~ to stall speed the company foundered during the ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb decline: direction
speed: engine / verb
draconian (adjective)
downside (noun)
draconian charges
downside she faces ~, including sedition (Nuttaa Mahattana)
modern agriculture has a ~
draconian (budget) cuts
downside of the electoral college he will not give in to ~ (president)
another ~ is...
draconian crackdown
downsides to 5G he has presided over the most ~ on leaks in US history
are there any ~ (geo locating, facial recognition, etc.)
draconian measures
big downside if hospital cases spiral, more ~ may be needed (pandemic)
outsourcing has a ~
draconian justice and rule
flaws & lack of flaws: direction / orientation many Afghans prefer the ~ meted out by the Taliban
downstream judgment / oppression: allusion

downstream draft (verb)

Nasa sets the goals, it no longer designs everything ~
drafted into a trade war
downstream business they have been ~ that was not of their making (farmers)
Chevron's ~ posted profits (refining, marketing)
assembling: military / verb
downstream consequences
depression and PTSD have a number of ~, including suicide
drag (drag on the economy, etc.)
downstream impact drag on the economy
the technology can have a ~ (GM autos) Brexit uncertainty has been a ~
higher taxes are not necessarily a ~
downstream industries
are squealing ~ (steel tariffs) obstacles & impedance: burden / movement / physics

downstream operations drag (verb)

Chevron will merge its chemical arm with ~ drag her knees through the playoffs
downstream processing Staley is set to ~ (WNBA)
a lot of ~ will be done by China (rare earths) dragged her butt out of bed
♦ In the oil business, oil and gas fields are upstream assets, pipelines are she ~ (teen waking up)
midstream, and refineries and retail outlets are downstream.
♦ In the area of health, upstream interventions are things like wireless difficulty, easiness & effort: burden / movement / verb
scales for weighing people, and free rides to medical appointments.
These measures are largely preventative in nature and save money in drag (drag somebody into something)
the long run. Downstream outcomes are things like hospitalizations and
surgeries. dragged you into this
orientation: river I shouldn't have ~ (dangerous situation)
drag some along kicking and screaming

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 he may have to ~ (a reform police chief) quarantine drags on
frustration and exhaustion as the ~ (COVID-19 lockdown)
involvement: burden / verb
eagerness & reluctance: burden / verb war drags on
drag down (verb) as the ~ (casualties)
time: burden / movement
drag Lara down with you starting, going, continuing & ending: burden
don’t ~
timeliness & lack of timeliness: burden
obstacle & impedance: arm / direction / verb / weight / drain (remove)
water
drain spiritual energy from the land
dragnet (noun) they worry that the drilling will ~ (Medicine Lake area)
dragnet drain the Kingdom of $16 billion
the largest ~ in American history (Eric Rudolph) expatriates ~ each year (Saudi Arabia)
dragnet for the murderer drained out of him
authorities cast a ~ eventually, the fight ~ (abuser)
DNA dragnet drained his finances
authorities have conducted a ~ (Louisiana serial killer) what really ~ was the roll-call bribe (Mexico prison)
international dragnet drained him
authorities cast an ~ for… (accused rapist) his anger seemed to have ~, and he slumped
conducted a (DNA) dragnet strength drained away
authorities have ~ (Louisiana serial killer) as their blood thickened and their ~ (climbers)
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish leaking: verb / water
dragnet (cast a dragnet) drain (an emotion, etc.)
cast a dragnet for the murderer drained out of him
authorities ~ eventually, the fight ~ (abuser)
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish / verb drained him
dragon (Dragon's Jaw, etc.) his anger seemed to have ~, and he slumped

Dragon's Back strength drained away

the ~ is a ridge in KwaZulu-Natal as their blood thickened and their ~ (climbers)
feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water
Dragon's Jaw
the North Vietnamese called it the ~ (US bridge target) drain (noun)
Dragon Shoal drain of experience and manpower
~ is a reef off Rakhine, Myanmar the departures meant a great ~
♦ The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa. Its
name means, "the Dragon Mountains." drain on the kingdom's economy
banning women from driving causes a tremendous ~
proper name / shape: creature
drain on resources
drag on (verb) responding to a terrorist event causes a tremendous ~
drag on for a while economic drain
this is going to ~ (a controversy) it's going to be a huge ~ (spending on weapons)
dragged on for months time drain
the crisis has ~ now (pandemic) place limits on TV watching, as it is a great ~
drag through Christmas swirling down the drain
US shutdown looks set to ~ the country is ~ (Somalia)
case dragged on leaking: water
the ~ without any arrests
drain (go down the drain, etc.)
negotiations drag on
~ (Brexit) swirling down the drain

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 the country is ~ (Somalia) sense of drama
such a high-flung ~
failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / verb
destruction: infrastructure / verb character & personality / performance: theater
drained (attenuation) dramatic (the dramatic)
drained of color flair for the dramatic
under an overcast sky the prairie looked ~ he displayed a ~ (traffic commissioner)
attenuation: water feeling, emotion & effect: theater
drained (feeling) dramatic (dramatic child, etc.)
drained and shaken dramatic child
I left feeling ~ (tour of Auschwitz) I was a very ~ (threats, etc.)
physically drained character & personality / behavior / performance: theater
he was out of oxygen, ~, and alone (climber on Everest)
dramatic (effect)
physically and mentally drained
you're ~ and then, boom… dramatic action
this sort of ~ (invasion of Kuwait)
end up (emotionally) drained
you ~ (search for missing child) dramatic event
this ~ (the eruption of a volcano)
feeling, emotion & effect: container / water during that season's ~s (on Mt. Everest)
drama (tense drama, etc.) dramatic (new) evidence
even in the face of ~
drama
bring the ~ to an end (mine rescue) dramatic example
the dying Aral Sea is the most ~ (ecological damage)
drama of (athletic) competition
choking and the ~ dramatic feature
Karchner's most ~ (a cave)
hijack drama
the ~ saw its final act played out (Medina) dramatic photograph
French TV showed a ~ of the plane in flames
hostage drama
one ~ may be over, but… dramatic return
the ~ of this national symbol (the bald eagle)
wildlife drama
a compelling ~ (mountain pond) dramatic turn
the case took another ~ when… (murder)
life-and-death drama
they watched their own ~ unfold on satellite TV sets dramatic cityscape
the ~ of steel and lights (Hong Kong)
tense drama
a joyous end to a ~ (mine rescue) dramatic turnaround
in another ~ (football coach's fortunes)
end to a (tense) drama
a joyous ~ (mine rescue) feeling, emotion & effect: theater

bring the drama to an end dramatic (extent)

~ (mine rescue)
dramatic changes
drama (that) is unfolding he can be counted on to make few ~s
the US should stay out of the ~ in Egypt (protests)
dramatic decline
watched their own drama unfold the ~ in fatality rates (boating)
passengers ~ on satellite TV sets (JetBlue Flight)
dramatic improvements
feeling, emotion & effect: theater in the absence of ~ in the fortunes of Nigerians
drama (drama queen, etc.) dramatic increases
manufacturing has seen ~ in productivity
drama queen
Nikki is fussy, she's a ~ (sister) dramatic results
the controversial cancer drug didn't produce ~

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dramatic (dust) signatures drawing board (on the drawing board)
rapid movement causes ~ (military)
on the drawing board
extent & scope: theater
also ~ is…
dramatically creation & transformation: infrastructure
changed dramatically drawing board (other)
the racial makeup of Canarsie ~
going back to the drawing board
declined dramatically we’re ending the council and ~ (Google ATEAC)
Lake Chad's area has ~ since the 1960s
creation & transformation: infrastructure
extent & scope: theater
draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.)
draw (attract)
night draws near
drawing both praise and scorn the ~
their efforts are ~
time is drawing near
drawn criticism the ~
the company has ~ from whistle-blowers
future / time: direction / distance / moment / verb
drawn an outpouring
her film has ~ of both praise and outrage drawn in
drawn swarms of protestors drawn in
the meetings of the World Bank have ~ just as Daniel was leaving Larry’s orbit, other were ~

drawn rave reviews situation: container / movement

his new pitch has ~ (a pitcher) involvement / attraction & repulsion: astronomy /
movement
drew cheers and boos
the judge’s decision ~ drawn into
attraction & repulsion: movement / verb get drawn into
relationship: movement / verb we want people to ~ the tent of conservation
draw (luck of the draw) involvement: movement
situation: container / movement
luck of the draw attraction & repulsion: astronomy / movement
there is a ~, we are on a wheel (how judges get cases)
drawn to
fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games
drawn to a Web site
draw (late / early on the draw) “eyeballs,” or the number of people ~
late on the draw drawn to (conspiracy) theories
you were very ~ (to take action) I’ve always been ~ like this
action, inaction & delay / initiation: weapon drawn to Ralph Waldo Emerson
drawbridge (protection) as a teen, Nietzsche was ~’s “Promethean individualism”
attraction & repulsion: movement
their own drawbridges
countries pulling up ~ (Internet sovereignty) dream (verb)
division & connection: military / fortification dream about
protection & lack of protection: military / fortification this is what guys like myself ~ (NFL rookie)
draw in (verb) dream of finding
scientists and capitalists ~ a drug that could…
drew so many people in
the conspiracy theory ~ dreams of returning
attraction & repulsion: verb my father ~ to his birthplace in Xinjiang
involvement: movement / verb dreamed big
she has always ~ (Lizzo)
wants, needs, hopes & goals: sleep / verb

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dream (fever dream) new dating services guarantee a ~

fever dreams about Russian collusion dream home

completing his ~
they fill their airtime with ~ (MSNBC, CNN, etc.)
fever-dream projections dream house
he talked of a ~ and a dream car
“~” regarding pedophilia (conspiracy theories)
on Wednesday, their ~ was destroyed (wildfire)
fantasy & reality: health & medicine
dream job
dream (noun) his ~ secured, he is now…
Notre Dame was his ~ (coach)
dream your man tanked the interview for his ~
my ~ had been to play in the final… (World Cup)
our ~ is to save enough to buy a one-family home dream lover
its banking system is still more a ~ than fact (Russia) at a restaurant with my ~
~, come rescue me, take me anyway you want me
dream that
it was a ~ I never thought would come true (immigrant) "dream sheets"
first the ~, then the doubts, then the commitment we were handed ~ (requests for military schools)

it was his dream to drive dream ship

~ a bus since he was 9 a fantastic ~

it was (always) his dream to end up dream store

~ in the United States invited her to help him open his ~

it had been a dream (of hers) to canoe dream trip

~ in Algonquin Park this is a ~ (extended canoe trip)

dream of El Dorado dream vacation

what local newspapers call "the ~" (jobs in Europe) ~s and weekend getaways

dreams of (artistic) greatness dream wedding

he had all these ~ the fairy-tale star of her ~

dream of hers dream world

it had been a ~ to canoe in Algonquin Park it was her ~

dreams of marriage dream, fantasy, or vision

their ~ were delayed yet again (Pakistani man, cousin) the only way to keep a ~ intact or rosy

dreams of a better tomorrow dream and nightmare

~ for our children every surfer's ~ (Condition Black / huge surf)

dreams of holy war designer's dream

~ vanished in the flames (Afghanistan) her (fashion) show is a ~

dream of attending everyone's dreams

he sacrificed his ~ college to finance his brother's studies ~ are different—like the former pilot who swam…

dream of becoming immigrant's dream

it was a jolting blow to his lifelong ~ a fighter pilot he had realized the classic ~

dream of developing kid's dream

his ~ a practical turbine-powered car it is most any ~ of the perfect place to eat dinner

dreams for the future laboratory dreams

they talked about their own ~ (Wilma Mankiller) these ideas are still ~ (nanotechnology / foods)

dream car skateboarder's dream

they got their ~ for thousands less 20 competitors on a course that's every ~ (street)
the Suby is a young athlete's ~ (Subaru Outback Limited)
Everest dreams
dream (surfing) destination Walter Mittys with ~ need to keep in mind… (climbing)
Indonesia or other ~s
rock dream
dream guy he realized he wouldn't be living the ~

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secret dream I ~ as preposterous (climbing Mt. Everest)
the ~ of any woman…
achieve your dreams
boyhood dream we will help you ~ (teen modeling Web site)
he fulfilled his ~ of sailing…
for some, ~s come true (an astronaut)
achieved my (goal and) my dream
I ~ (Vitali Klitschko / boxer)
childhood dream
she has realized her ~
chase their dreams
tonight will inspire people to ~ (Olympic successes)
lifelong dream we are boys who, with great sacrifice, ~ (FI driver)
it's an opportunity for him to fulfill a ~
it was a jolting blow to his ~ of becoming a fighter pilot
chase his dreams
he is a hero for taking the risk he did to ~ (Anthoine Hubert)
Pakistani dream
the ~ of a weak Afghanistan under Islamabad's sway
dream a new dream
you are never too old to set another goal or to ~
complete dream
it's a ~ (reaching the semifinals of World Cup)
exceeded their (wildest) dreams
what they actually saw ~ (astronomers)
sweet dreams
you hug her and kiss her and wish her ~
find your dream
follow every rainbow, 'till you ~ (song)
age-old (Pakistani) dream
the ~ of a weak Afghanistan under Islamabad's sway
fulfill his dream
he wants his young friend to ~ (to become world champ)
car of my dreams
a tiny red Miata, the ~
fulfill (some of) his dreams
so, either way, I did ~ (son, speaking of father)
man of (your) dreams
find the ~
have a dream
ask the ~ out on a date I ~ (Martin Luther King Jr.)

man of her dreams lived her dream

she had a star-crossed affair with the ~ she ~, then died in a lonely hotel room (Anna Nicole)
and then she met the ~ living his dream
blow to his (lifelong) dream he is now truly ~ (professional windsurfer)
it was a jolting ~ of becoming a fighter pilot living the dream
hopes and dreams we thought we were ~, but… (blacks in north / US)
do you have ~ beyond tomorrow morning pursue her dream
his ~ have to do with… she quit her job to ~ of becoming…
the TV show represented my ~ (Mary Tyler Moore)
pursue a dream
plans, hopes, dreams, and ambitions people who switched courses late in life to ~
adults often resent death because it affects ~ (nursing)
realize your dream
potential and dreams how does it feel to ~ (award show)
a chance to fulfill their ~ (SuAnn Big Crow Center)
sacrificed his dream
dreams die he ~ of attending college to help his brother
~ hard
go after your dreams
dream had consumed them it's important to ~ because life is short (skateboarding)
the ~ (climbing K2 together)
give up the dream
dreams come true no one expects them to ~, either (for independence)
I guess ~ (player on tournament victory)
can their ~… given up his dream
he had almost ~ of being an opera singer (Paul Potts)
dreams (of holy war) vanished
~ in the flames (Afghanistan) give up those dreams
maybe it's best to ~ (a musician)
dream (vacation) turned into a nightmare
their ~ give up on my dream
I'm not one to ~ (disappointed "American Idol")
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give up on her dream dress up (verb)
she doesn't want to ~ of being a "real" professor (adjunct)
dress that up
allow the dream to die however you ~, that is the fear
he wouldn't ~ (an athlete)
dress up incompetence as heroism
take your dreams away it was less disturbing to ~ (Scott and the South Pole)
don't let anyone ~
substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories
turned the dream into a nightmare appearance & reality: clothing & accessories
the loans have ~ (home ownership) concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
make your dreams come true drift (consciousness)
it will ~ (how-to-kiss book for teens)
drifted in and out of (bizarre) hallucinations
make their dreams come true he ~ (K2 climber in distress)
they feel that they can ~ with hard work and…
drifted in and out of (fitful) sleep
make that dream a reality I ~ (high-altitude bivouac)
she can now afford to ~ (an Indian able to buy an AC)
drifted off
abandoned the dream as preposterous I was exhausted and ~ in short order (went to sleep)
I ~ (climbing Mt. Everest)
♦ "Each day as I go through the hospitals with younger colleagues, they consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / movement /
give me of their dreams and I give them of my experience, and I get the verb
better of the exchange." (William J. Mayo, M.D.)

wants, needs, hopes & goals: sleep

drift (sound)
dredge up (verb) drifted in
funeral music ~ through our windows
dredging up old allegations
they are ~
drifts outside
music from the choir ~
dredge up wild beliefs
they ~ from online fever swamps (a podcast)
drifted (in) through our windows
funeral music ~
dredged up (painful) memories
the fires have ~ of how black churches were razed (arson)
drift across the cuts and trails
they can hear the sound of hammers ~
appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of
movement: sound
concealment / searching & discovery: boat / prep, adv, adj,
particle / verb drift (move)
drenched drifted back
but some laborers have since ~ (to Sichuan)
blood-drenched allegory
the film is a ~ drift into oblivion
he admitted he would likely ~ (boxer)
drama-drenched
~ retellings of scorn and mockery (epic sports failures) drifted into construction work
he ~
neon-drenched
the seedy, ~ combat zone of massage parlors drifted (apart) from his parents and siblings
he had ~
sun-drenched
in the ~ deserts of California drifted from job to job
for the next several years he ~ (famous actor)
amount & effect: water
drifted through a series of jobs
dressed (dressed up, etc.) he then ~
dressed up as control drifted about the country
it is curiosity ~ (Netflix and interactive shows) disdaining regular employment, he ~
subterfuge: clothing & accessories drifting (closer) to towns and cities
appearance & reality: clothing & accessories most Nukak clans are ~ (Colombia)
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drift (control) drip drip of propaganda
the effect of this slow ~ was that... (ethnic cleansing)
drift in the (US) approach
drip-drip effect
evidence of a ~ in Afghanistan
it’s a ~ (online anti-Semitism)
control & lack of control: atmosphere / boat / wind
‘drip drip’ effect
direction: atmosphere / boat / wind
the ~ of gender-stereotyping (children)
drift (drift apart)
drip-drip way
drifted apart virginity had a corrosive effect on my self-esteem, in a ~
we ~ (a relationship) (adult)

drifted apart from his parents and siblings constant drip-drip-drip

he had ~ the ~ of stuff (leading to criminal conviction)
division & connection: atmosphere / boat / verb / wind daily drip
there has been a ~ of new disclosures (impeachment)
drill (drill down, etc.)
steady drip
drill deeper this ~ as life is draining from England (Extinction Rebellion)
we need to ~ into their claims (government claims)
steady drip-drip
drill down an increasingly ~ of irritations
they can ~ and address the problem (regulators)
steady drip, drip
drill down into the rankings the ~ of casualties (Iraq)
it doesn't really make sense, until you ~
amount & effect / feeling, emotion & effect / leaking /
drills down (very) deep movement: sound / water
she ~ on these issues (a political analyst)
drip-fed (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: direction / ground,
terrain & land / mining / verb drip-fed to the media
every day leaks are ~
drink in (verb)
directing: verb / water
drank in every (tiny) detail
I ~ of her office drive (verb)
drank in knowledge drives the FAA
he ~ from every person and place he met data, science, and risk analysis ~

drank in the scene driving force: engine / verb

I ~ (a town) directing: animal / verb

drank in the (stunning) sights drive (drive somebody to do something)

I ~ (a trip abroad)
drove him to do
drank in the vistas necessity and poverty ~ this (mercenary / revolutionary)
we ~ and toured the pastures relationship: force / verb
absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb
drive-by (conflict)
consumption: food & drink / verb
drip (and drip-drip, etc.) drive-by media
when social media becomes source material in ~
drip-drip ♦ Rush Limbaugh used this phrase, which compares mainstream media
this isn’t ~, it’s a flood (sexual harassment) accounts to drive-by shootings, when talking about an event that
happened on the Washington Mall in early 2019. Synonyms would be
drip of negative press coverage hatchet job or hit job.
the president was not pleased with the continuing ~ accusation & criticism / conflict: crime
drip of these transcripts driven (adjective)
we had a ~ being released all week long (politics)
incredibly driven
drip drip drip of (leaked) emails she was ~ and never gave up
the ~ (that hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances)
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drive on (resiliency) year of the drop
2017 was the ~ (limited release / time limit to buy)
drive on
drive on, soldier, drive on lined up for the drop
a thousand people ~ (pop-up fashion display)
resiliency: journeys & trips
inauguration: flying & falling / mechanism
drool (verb)
drop (a product, etc.)
drooling over the possibility
networks have been ~ of landing an interview with… dropped
we were promoting the show before it had aired, or ~
makes venture capitalists drool
his pitch ~ dropping emails
Wikileaks was ~ (Hillary Clinton)
eagerness & reluctance: bodily reaction / food & drink /
verb dropped this week
the trailer for one of the most anticipated films of the year ~
drop (prices dropped, etc.)
set to drop
dropped by (up to) 70% the evening before her album is ~
tourist arrivals ~ ♦ “When we were promoting the show before it had aired, or dropped, or
whatever they say at Netflix.” (Christina Applegate, showing a wonderful
increase & decrease: direction / verb awareness of and perhaps a little exasperation with the language.)

drop (drop a case, etc.) inauguration: mechanism / verb

dropped (international) coverage drop (drop in the bucket)

newspapers have ~
drop in the bucket
drop the idea in relationship to its annual revenue, it was a ~ (a fine)
we must ~ the US is Johnny Appleseed spreading the numbers are a ~ compared to the southern border
democracy the league’s own contribution was a ~ compared to...

charges have been dropped amount: water

the ~ drop out (verb)
let the matter drop
dropped out of the race
maybe we should ~
he ~ (a politician)
♦ "I think it's wrong to pursue this, maybe we should let it drop." (A
criminal investigation.) dropped out of the labor force
dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb discouraged job-seekers have ~

drop (drop in sales, etc.) starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb
drop in sales
the company is suffering from a ~
drought (in a drought)
increase & decrease: direction in a sexual drought
I've been ~ for a while
drop (product launch)
in the middle of a drought
drop the team is ~ (losing)
the “~” is the release of a highly exclusive line
the ~ resulted in pandemonium outside stores (fashion) growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
/ weather & climate
drop culture
social media is central to ~ drove (herd or flock)
product drop out in droves
the ~ is a sales tactic tourists are ~ (summer)

monthly drops leaving in droves

Burberry announced a series of ~ (24 hours to buy) Italy’s youth are ~

sudden (product) drops showed up in droves

~ generate more social media buzz people ~ to donate blood (mass shooting)
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 people have ~ during the pandemic drumbeat of war
the ~ has grown louder in the past few days
turn out in droves
Democrats predicted minority voters would ~ drumbeats of war
the ~ are filling our nation
turned out in droves
voters have ~ drumbeat of (terror) warnings
♦ In the past, men on foot or on horseback often drove livestock over the recent ~…
long distances along what were known as drovers’ roads. One such road
in western North Carolina was the Buncombe Turnpike along the French drumbeat of "venture capital is dead"
Broad River, connecting Tennessee and Western North Carolina to the there has been a ~, and it's getting louder
markets in South Carolina. The drovers drove mainly hogs. Up to
175,000 hogs passed through Asheville, western North Carolina, each
fall on their way south. Drovers also drove great herds of turkeys, ducks,
drumbeat (of calls) for his resignation
mules, horses, cows, flocks of sheep, etc. along the road. Inns and there has been a deafening ~ (a politician)
stands grew up along the route to accommodate both men and animals
at night. Local people grew corn to feed the animals and established extremist drumbeat
ferries and bridges. And towns grew up as people prospered. The very militants were encouraged by the ~ in Cairo
good film The Journey of August King based on the book by the great
writer John Ehle gives a flavor of life in those times. deafening drumbeat
amount / behavior: animal there has been a ~ of calls for his resignation (politician)

drown (verb) drumbeats (of war) are filling our nation

the ~
drown
I feel like I'm treading water and will soon ~ (teacher) drumbeat of war has grown louder
the ~ in the past few days
drowning in a sea
I'm ~ of acronyms (nuclear weapons) Internet drumbeat
the explanation is sometimes drowned out by the ~
drowning in crime
Detroit is ~ drumbeat is intensifying
the ~ to toughen up laws regarding sexual predators
survival, persistence & endurance: verb / water
message: military / sound
drown out (verb) attention, scrutiny & promotion: military / sound
drowned out his (in-ring) interview drummed out
boos ~ (a boxer who won a split decision)
drummed out of the party
sound: verb / water he has been ~ (politics)
superiority & inferiority: verb / water
dismissal, removal & resignation: military
drowned out
drummer (different drummer)
drowned out by the Internet drumbeat
the explanation is sometimes ~ different-drummer commitment
he offers a ~ to civility (versus political bickering)
drowned out by the thunder
informed voices were ~ of the partisan lynch mob out-of-step, against-the-grain, different-drummer
~ types
sound: water
superiority & inferiority: water march to a different drummer
his willingness to ~ is his biggest liability (politics)
drum (beat / bang the drum)
marching to a different drummer
beating the drum against big government they are often ~ (kids with ADHD)
she is ~ (a politician) they are ~ and choosing colleges with different profiles
message: military / sound / verb unanimity & consensus: military / sound
attention, scrutiny & promotion: military / sound / verb sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / sound
drumbeat (noun) drum up (verb)
drumbeat of accusations drum up (public) demand
there is a ~ (against the Catholic Church / pedophilia) he is trying to ~ for his invention
drumbeat of news drum up support
there has been a steady ~ about the dangerous chemical we are trying to ~ for the project
they are trying to ~ for the law

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 candidates are actively campaigning there to ~ (election) avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: animal / bird / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion / creation & transformation:
military / prep, adv, adj, particle / sound / verb duck (verb)
drunk (adjective) ducked into the office
she ~ right away to see what was up
drunk on power
he is ~ duck into a bathroom
the young women ~ to change out of their jeans
restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol
control & lack of control: alcohol movement: animal / bird / verb
behavior / feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
dud (noun)
dry (come up dry)
dud
come up dry on leads the product was a ~ (marketing)
we have ~ (thefts of goats)
dud of a book
♦ This refers to a well that fails to produce water or oil.
this disappointing ~ starts with a good premise
success & failure: mining / water
success & failure: weapon / explosion
dry run failure, accident & impairment: weapon / explosion

dry run for the All-Star Game duel (noun)

the stadium manager says the game will be a ~
dry run of the course
participants registered for a ~ (race with obstacles)
made a dry run
he ~ in a wind tunnel (parachutist)
arranged for a dry run
he ~ to make sure everything worked (technology)
♦ There are quite a few theories for the origin of this relatively recently
coined phrase. One idea is that it relates to drills by fire departments
without water being pumped. It came to prominence in the military during
World War II.
tense duel
the two were locked in a ~ for days (Tour de France)
pair up for duels
with the city's blessing, cars ~ (legal drag racing)
♦ “Smollett states that the admiral [Knowles] himself did not escape
without censure. Two of his captains were reprimanded; but Captain
Holmes, who had displayed uncommon courage, was honourably
acquitted. The admiral fought a bloodless duel with Captain Paulett, of
the Tilbury; but Captain Innes and Clarke met by appointment in Hyde
Park, with a case of pistols each. The former was mortally wounded, and
died next morning; the latter was tried and condemned for murder, but
received His Majesty’s pardon.” (“Tortuga, 1748” from British Battles on
Land and Sea by James Grant.)

readiness & preparedness: military competition / conflict: weapon

dry up (verb) dueling (adjective)
money dried up dueling ad
the ~ ~s, each side accusing the other (politics)
overtime has dried up dueling protests
~ (for immigrant workers) we are expecting ~ today (pro- and anti-government)
work dried up competition / conflict: weapon
other ~, and old friends stopped calling (disgraced)
dug in
appearance & disappearance: water / verb
dug in
duck (avoid) we will weed out the rebels, but they are ~
both sides are ~ and neither side will move (politics)
ducked out of the (post-race) interview
he ~ (auto racing) protection & lack of protection: ground, terrain & land

duck the (tough) issues dull (adjective)

we won't ~ (a politician)
grow dull
ducked the question his life reminds us that the cutting edge can ~ (Hefner)
he ~ (State Department "official")
flaws & lack of flaws: blade / knife
duck (the more challenging) questions
he hoped the court would not ~
dumb (technology)
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 ~ versus smart mines (self-destruct / self-deactivate) failure, accident & impairment: film
from dumb to smart to brilliant (m) dust (leave somebody in the dust)
~ bombs (military)
left Microsoft in the dust
knowledge & intelligence: mechanism the iPhone and Android ~ (phones)
ability & lack of ability: mechanism
superiority & inferiority: direction / sports & games
dump (verb) competition: direction / sports & games
dumped the editor dust (fairy dust, etc.)
she ~ and replaced him with… (magazine)
fairy dust
dump her (3,928) shares ~ from the “Mom wand” makes life easy for them (kids)
he told her to ~ (of stock) that something special, that star quality, that little bit of ~
you can find ~ in every situation, no matter how difficult
dumped her stock
just before she ~ in December… (insider trading) tech company fairy dust
it’s a property company trying to sprinkle ~ over itself
dump you
she's going to ~ (get out of the relationship) touched with fairy dust
everything he does is ~ (a musician)
dismissal, removal & resignation: pile / verb
♦ “You can never tell when the bad fairy might pay you a visit and
dumped sprinkle the f***-you-up dust.” (A saying enjoyed by special-forces types.)
♦ “It’s not like you sprinkle blockchain dust over it and it’s O.K.”
dumped (Problems with cryptocurrencies.)
she worries about being ~ and getting a bad reputation amelioration & renewal: magic
dumped Gottlieb for Brown dustbin (noun)
five year later, he ~ (editor / editors in chief)
dustbin of history
dumped by him the Afghans will send the Americans to the ~ (Taliban)
you may get ~ later (relationship)
the P-word should be consigned to the ~ (Britain)
dumped by his girlfriend consigned to history’s dustbin
he was ~ of nine years…
his political theories have been ~
get dumped sweep conversion therapy into the dustbin
you may ~ by him later… (relationships)
we are happy to ~ of history
most men who ~ think their girlfriends…
worth & lack of worth: waste
dismissal, removal & resignation: pile
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: waste
dust (dust settles) dwarf (size)
let the dust settle dwarf chameleon
we will ~ and then make our decisions
Madagascar has produced a group of ~s
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: ground, terrain &
dwarf pine
land
at high elevation, one finds many ~s
dust (collect dust) size: person
collect dust dwarf (verb)
the case was left to ~
dwarfed all others
action, inaction & delay: ground, terrain & land / verb
the Yankees' payroll ~ (baseball)
dust (bite the dust) dwarfs any other (economic) relationship
bit the dust the US / EU partnership ~
many of these mom-and-pop stores ~ (failed) dwarfs spending
destined to bite the dust the ad expenditure ~ on other efforts (public health)
the project seems ~ (military project) dwarfs (all other) threats
♦ This refers to old Western films in which cowboys, Indians and soldiers an Iranian bomb ~ to Israel
are shot off their horses and fall into the dust.
dwarf his other work
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 the study is likely to ~ in statistics ear (have somebody's ear)
dwarfs previous ones has the ear of the president
the current oil spill ~ (Gulf of Mexico)
he ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: height / verb
have the ear of (many) political leaders
superiority & inferiority: height / verb
they ~ (lesbian activists)
dyed-in-the-wool
has the president’s ear
dyed-in-the-wool optimist he ~
she's a ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear
identity & nature: cloth
ear (attention)
dying (dying industry, etc.)
sympathetic ear
dying breed he offers a ~ to kids (juvenile offenders)
he is the last of a ~ (race car driver)
lent an ear
moderates are a ~ (politics)
Michael unselfishly ~ to friends in need
dying industry
offers a (sympathetic) ear
nuclear energy may be a ~
he ~ to kids (juvenile offenders)
decline / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence /
attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life
ear (surveillance)
dynamite (noun)
ears and eyes
dynamite for the (party’s) base the NSA, Uncle Sam’s ~ in the sky
what he said is ~ (a gaffe / faux-pas)
♦ The walls have ears!
political dynamite surveillance: ear
he was convinced he had ~ (a conspiracy theorist)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / military / sound
ear (ear of corn, etc.)
/ weapon ears of corn
dynasty (sports dynasty, etc.) women roasted ~ (Kisumu)
sun's ears
dynasty polar explorers call the circles of prismatic colors the ~
it’s history, we like ~s, to cheer for and against them (sports)
resemblance: ear
fallen dynasty
he rescued a ~ (Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics) ear (fall on deaf ears)
built a dynasty fall on deaf ears
they had ~ that had won three Super Bowl championships calls to end the fighting that seem to ~ (Middle East)
sometimes the warnings ~
power / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
fell on deaf ears
his warnings ~ (Gerhart Riegner / Holocaust)
E his call for lifting sanctions ~ (a politician)
complaint after complaint ~
eagle eye police appeals for information ~ (murders of prostitutes)
his desperate appeal ~ (Haile Selassie / Italian invasion)
eagle eyes of (U.S. spy) satellites
the ~
falling on deaf ears
the appeals are ~ (Russia)
surveillance: animal / bird / eye
consciousness & awareness: ear
ear (Ear of the Wind, etc.) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ear

Ear of the Wind ear (turn a deaf ear)

the ~ is a natural arch in Monument Valley, Arizona
turned a deaf ear to that argument
proper name / shape: ear Congress has ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ear

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ear (music to one’s ears) ♦ People speak of social ferment in countries with a huge base of young
people as "youthquakes."
♦ “A sense of insecurity, as during an earthquake, pervaded the minds of
music to Moscow’s ears men.” (Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.)
this was ~ (Macron says NATO is brain dead)
♦ “The sensation produced by an earthquake is never to be forgotten.
feeling, emotion & effect: ear / music We feel ourselves in the grasp of a power to which the wildest fury of the
winds and waves are as nothing; yet the effect is more a thrill of awe
earful (amount) than the terror which the mere boisterous war of the elements produces.
There is a mystery and an uncertainty as to the amount of danger we
incur, which gives greater play to the imagination, and to the influences
getting an earful of hope and fear. These remarks apply only to a moderate earth-quake.
he has been ~ A severe one is the most destructive and the most horrible catastrophe
to which human beings can be exposed.” (The Malay Archipelago by
amount: ear / speech Alfred Russel Wallace.)

early (timeliness) equilibrium & stability: earthquake / ground, terrain & land
amount & effect / disruption / effect / feeling, emotion &
early in the (democratic presidential primary) process effect: earthquake / equilibrium & stability / ground, terrain
it’s still very ~ & land
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day earthshaking (adjective)
earn (verb) earthshaking experiment
the ~ has rocked the scientific community
earned a variety of nicknames
the jail ~ over the years (Rikers Island) earth-shaking transformation
China economy has experienced ~s in recent decades
achievement, recognition & praise: money / verb
amount & effect / equilibrium & stability / extent & scope:
earth (to the ends of the earth, etc.) earthquake / ground, terrain & land
ends of the earth Easter egg
he took the faith of his nation to the ~ (Livingstone)
Easter eggs from previous episodes
scoured the Earth the series has included allusions and ~ (TV)
Bill Whitman ~ for rare fruit (collector, popularizer)
Easter eggs in music video
extent & scope / searching & discovery: earth & world
Taylor Swift reveals secret ~
earthiness (character) ♦ “In Detroit you have wonder and Motown, above St. Louis there are
waypoints for Annie and Lennox.” (Steve Trimble of Aviation Week,
earthiness talking about the names of aviation waypoints, all of which have 5 letters,
meaning that they generally have their vowels removed.)
her public persona belies her ~ (she swears, etc.)
♦ In Metaphors We Live By Lakoff and Johnson mention a fascinating searching & discovery: hunting
metaphor: mundane reality is down. The example they give is “down to concealment & lack of concealment: hunting
earth.” Language that might illustrate this metaphor, besides earthiness,
could include grassroots, a worm’s eye view, “she has stars in her eyes” easygoing (adjective)
versus the mature girl who has both feet on the ground, journalists on the
ground, the teacher who spent 34 years in the trenches, actually
teaching, the leader with a willingness to dive into the weeds to explore
easy-going attitude
detailed elements, people from all walks of life, etc. “I dreamed a Atlanta's ~ toward skin and vice
thousand new paths...I woke and walked my one.” “Men trip not on
mountains but on molehills.” Certainly mundane reality has its effect on easygoing personality
our most aspirational goals: “Before dinner, let us explore the southern he has one of those ~s
plains and climb the northern mountains. After dinner, there are snakes
in the southern plains and tigers in the northern mountains.” (Chinese.) easygoing country boy
character & personality: earth & world an ~ from Kentucky

earthquake (effect) good-natured and easygoing

elephants are ~ (according to keeper at zoo)
earthquake ♦ “No camel route is long with good company.” (A Turkish proverb.)
his death was an ~ that shook the world (Osama)
character & personality: journeys & trips
cultural earthquake
a massive ~ split the country wide open (US / 1960s) eat (destroy)
political earthquake eat their own
I think it's going to be a ~ (elections) “SWOs ~” is a common Navy refrain (jealousy)

‘political earthquake’ eating away the banks

~ in Ireland as nationalists win (results are a seismic change) the current is ~ of the river

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ate away at me plants essentially ~ (photosynthesis)
it ~ (an unpleasant truth)
eat those words
eat away at you I'll make you ~ (competition)
secrets ~
ate it up
eats away at me the crowd ~ (a campaign speech well received)
that I will never face him in court ~ (sex abuse)
eating and sleeping
eaten away at me he has been ~ boxing, work, work, work (training)
it would have ~ (not confronting his brother) ♦ "If it means swallowing some humble pie, and it means eating some of
your words, I can't think of a more excellent diet." (Prime Minister David
eat away at America's sense of security Cameron, on his coalition government formed with the Liberal
the sniper attacks ~ (D.C. area) Democrats.)

eat through the (plastic) sheeting consumption: food & drink / verb
the chlorine will ~ eat (eat and breathe, etc.)
eat into the flesh eat and breathe
necrotic ulcers are deep, open wounds that ~ these guys ~ cycling (Giro d’Italia)
eat up your mind absorption & immersion / commitment & determination /
meth will ~ (methamphetamine addiction) consumption / enthusiasm: breathing / food & drink / verb
ate up entire neighborhoods eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
rivers ~ (floods)
eating and sleeping
eat you up
he has been ~ boxing, work, work, work (training)
playing such a demanding role could ~ (Tina Turner)
absorption & immersion / commitment & determination /
eat him up
consumption / enthusiasm: food & drink / sleep / verb
this will ~ bad (boxing champ loses in shock defeat)
eating him up
eaten alive, etc.
he kept quiet, but it was ~ (sexually assaulted) eaten up inside
eat me up whenever I thought about it, I found myself in a rage, ~
I knew the shame would ~ otherwise (without confessing) eaten alive by debt
eat you alive I was ~
that darkness will ~ (journalist investigates sex crimes) get eaten alive
eaten your soul don't ~ by debt (an advertisement)
and then you are lost, he has ~ (accommodating a boss) feeling, emotion & effect: animal / food & drink / predation
affliction / destruction / feeling, emotion & effect: animal / destruction: animal / food & drink / predation
food & drink / predation / verb Eaton (Eaton of Africa, etc.)
eat (consume) “Eaton of Africa”
the so-called ~ (Kamuzu Academy in Malawi)
eating up (so much) bandwidth
the number of attacks is ~ that… epithet: school & education
ate up comic books ebb (decline)
I ~ as a kid
ebb and flow
ate up every line gang killings ~ but never stop (Los Angeles)
the crowd ~ (election rally)
ebbs and flows
eating up the mist the number of cases ~ (West Nile virus in US)
the sun was ~ (Lord Jim)
fighting ebbed
ate up $5 billion the ~ Tuesday (Ubaydi)
the program ~
decline: sea / tide / verb
eat only sorrow and misery
I ~ (a Kurdish expression) ebb (at a low ebb)
eat the sun at a low ebb

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 the militant's fortunes in Iraq are ~ echo chamber
decline: sea / tide
echo chamber
ebb (on the ebb) it’s an ~where lost souls talk up and amp up one another

on the ebb echo chamber of social media

his racing career is ~ in the fact-challenged ~, beliefs and biases are confirmed

decline: sea / tide media echo chamber

their views are amplified by the ~ (stock analysts, etc.)
ebb (movement)
online political echo chambers
ebb and flow of passengers ~ have exacerbated America’s divisions
the ~ through the car doors and turnstiles (D.C. metro)
social media echo chamber
movement: sea / tide another example of the ~ that amplifies all offence
ebb (development) pushes people (deeper) into their own echo chambers
the amount of outrage on social media ~
ebb and flow of the war
the ~ (Angola) leapt from echo chambers (of social media) to headlines
the movement ~ in the news (a conspiracy theory)
development: sea / tide
repetition / transmission: sound
echo (verb / effect)
echoed
echo and echo and echo
war and trauma can just ~ (lack of closure) echoed by NASA
Boeing's conclusion was ~ in its mission reports
echoes (now) through every talk show
the bitter debate that ~ and coffee shop echoed by (many) Central Asians
her view is ~
repetition: sound / verb
echoed by (many) Americans
echo (noun / effect) that sense of patriotic pride is ~
echo of this vote echoed by others
the ~ will be loud and long (anti-Hispanic vote) such criticisms have been ~ who...
misled by the echoes echoed by (numerous) others
we’re ~ (of history) comments ~... (protestors)
effect: sound echoed in academic circles
echo (repeat) you raise a good point that has been ~

echo what view is echoed

first, let me ~ the President said (speeches) his ~ by many Central Asians
repetition / transmission: sound
echoed Templeton
the State's Attorney Joe Hettel ~... (opinion) eclipse (verb)
echoes allegations eclipsed fishing as (the state's major) revenue source
the report ~ that the company… mining long ago ~ (Nauru)
echoed the (the teacher's) statement eclipses (all) others
many school employees ~ that... in Havana, one feature ~ of the city (the Malecon)
echoes the style eclipsing the feudal landowners
the painting closely ~ of his friend Henri Matisse the middle class is finally ~
repetition: sound / verb eclipsed that of 1962
transmission: sound / verb the 1970 quake ~ (Peru)
echo (in an echo) eclipse electric tanning beds
in an echo of (the president's) position some predict sunless tanning booths could ~
~, Michael Chukwu told BBC that....
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attention, scrutiny & promotion / decline / primacy, the garment district is a ~
currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority:
financial ecosystem
astronomy / light & dark / moon / shadow / sun / verb he benefited from the burgeoning ~ (NYC)
eclipse (noun) fragile and interconnected ecosystem
eclipse of Cantonese this ~ (garment district)
older people affected by the ~ in China and the world global social-media ecosystem
beginning of his eclipse the alt-right has turbocharged this ~ of hatred
it was the ~ (Napoleon) fit into the ecosystem
driven the German shepherd into eclipse help me understand how he ~ of protestors in Portland
overbreeding has ~ (the dog breed) area / biodiversity / environment: ground, terrain & land
gone into total eclipse edge (over the edge)
for decades before his death he had ~ (Herman Melville)
over the edge
attention, scrutiny & promotion / decline / primacy, in my opinion, this is ~ (a controversial song)
currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority:
astronomy / light & dark / moon / shadow / sun behavior: boundary / ground, terrain & land / line /
mountains & hills
ecosystem (noun)
edge (push something over the edge)
ecosystem of corruption
he exposed an ~ at the bank pushed some farmers over the edge
drought has ~
ecosystem of hate
far-right parties fan an ~ (Australia) push them over the edge
just a tiny temperature rise can ~ (coral bleaching)
ecosystem of people
there is an ~ who serve professional athletes pushed the system over the edge
the hiring freeze has ~ (corrections)
ecosystem of support
designers rely on a complex ~ (garment district) destruction: ground, boundary / line / mountains & hills /
terrain & land
ecosystem of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors
the ~ and other players is growing (NYC tech scene) edge (on edge)
business ecosystem on edge
smart executives cannot control but can influence the ~ the city is ~ (a series of murders)
everybody was ~ (serial bomber on the loose)
disinformation ecosystem
Facebook banned a significant chunk of the ~ (in the already on edge
Philippines) the news terrified women ~ (murders of lesbians)
Internet ecosystem feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability
this regulation will do damage to the ~
edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.)
innovation ecosystem
many factors created the ~ to nurture the Internet on the edge of (electoral) abyss
his campaign teetered ~, but it is scrambling back
locker-room ecosystem
how a player fits into a delicate ~ (NFL / personal conflicts) on the edge of the cliff
we’re ~, we don’t have much time to back away (diplomacy)
media ecosystem
a conservative ~ helps amplify those ideas (alt-right) on the edge of collapse
the air travel network teeters ~ (Unfriendly Skies)
Y.A. ecosystem
some readers don’t care about the politics of the ~ (books) on the edge of extinction
they're ~ (orangutans)
closed ecosystem
can the iPhone thrive in Apple's ~ on the edge of a (nervous) breakdown
I'm ~
self-correcting ecosystem
the Internet is a ~ (controversy) lived on the edge
he ~ (Timothy Treadwell)
commercial ecosystem
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 the air travel network ~ of collapse edifice could collapse
♦ On the edge for you is the middle of the road for me." (Bumper sticker and so the whole ~ (economy)
on snowboarder's car.)
edifice would crumble
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain the ~ if…
& land / mountains & hills
bring down the (whole) edifice
edge (at the edge) any crack in the system would ~ (dictatorship)
at the (extreme) edge of complexity tear down the edifice
this is ~ (a brain operation) the right has used religion to ~ and secular morality
at the edge of starvation chipping away at the edifice
meager harvests leave millions ~ (Africa) lawyers are ~ of person responsibility (neuroscience)
proximity: blade / knife bases: house
edge (lose one’s edge) Edison (Thomas Alva)
losing his edge Edison of the Internet
some observers think he may be ~ (chess grandmaster) Bill Joy is sometimes called the ~
ability & lack of ability / flaws & lack of flaws: blade / knife creation & transformation: epithet
edge (rough edges, etc.) edit (verb)
smooth (capitalism’s) rough edges edit DNA
her policies aim to ~ (a progressive) they developed the tools to ~
flaws & lack of flaws: hardness & softness / manufacturing edit any genome
edge (edge cases, etc.) we can ~ (Crispr-Cas9)
creation & transformation: verb / writing & spelling /
edge cases
~ in grammar and syntax edited (genes, etc.)
edge habitats gene-edited
~ hover between domesticated and wild (zoonotic diseases) he created the world’s first ~ human babies
edge and corner creation & transformation: writing & spelling
it doesn’t take long to find ~ cases (grammar rules)
editing (noun)
division & connection: boundary / line
genome editing
edifice (noun) the technology of ~ (Crispr-Cas9)
edifice of (city and state) finance creation & transformation: writing & spelling
much of the ~ is jury-rigged
egg (put all one’s eggs in a basket, etc.)
edifice of the state
the ~ is in danger of crumbling put a lot of eggs in this basket
the president has ~ (support of a country)
"climate science" edifice
the whole ~ is exposed and will collapse (opinion) allegiance, support & betrayal: food & drink
commitment & determination: food & drink
narrative’s edifice
the intelligent building of the ~ (book review)
eggshell (noun)
imperial edifice eggshell of trust
the bureaucracy is an ~ built on feudal foundations it shatters the ~ (Pilots Union vs. Boeing)

once-impregnable edifice strength & weakness: animal / bird / materials &

the ~ of the regime's authority is starting to crumble substances

meticulously built edifice eggshell (walking on eggshells)

science is a ~
walking on eggshells
cracks in the edifice for over 10 years, I spent every day ~ (domestic abuse)
early ~ appeared in the 1990s (economy) I was ~ (interviewing Malala Yousafzai)

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feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird / materials & new El Dorados
substances the traffickers that service them flock to the ~ (oil and gas
workers)
Einstein (intelligence)
African El Dorado
footballing Einstein Timbuktu became this idea of an ~ (age of exploration)
he has never been considered a ~ (a player-coach)
dream of El Dorado
knowledge & intelligence: allusion what local newspapers call "the ~" (jobs in Europe)
elastic (adjective) ♦ “I suppose it is not very charitable of me, but I must say that to this day
I feel a malicious pleasure at the many disappointments of those
pertinacious searchers for El Dorado who climbed mountains, pushed
elastic definition through forests, swam rivers, floundered in bogs, without giving a single
this ~ (of harassment) thought to the science of geography. / Not for them the serene joys of
scientific research, but infinite toil, in hunger, thirst, sickness, battle; with
elastic term broken heads, unseemly squabbles, and empty pockets in the end. I
the word is an ~ (for nomads and pastoralists) cannot help thinking it served them right. It is an ugly tale...”
(“Geography and Some Explorers” by Joseph Conrad.)
constraint & lack of constraint: materials & substances ♦ “Gaily bedight, / A gallant knight, / In sunshine and in shadow, / Had
journeyed long, / Singing a song, / In search of Eldorado.” (“Eldorado” by
elbow (force) Edgar Allan Poe.)

elbowed him out fantasy & reality: allusion / history

the company ~ wants, needs, hopes & goals: allusion / history
searching & discovery: allusion / history
elbowed him aside
she ~ (politics)
electric (feeling)
elbowed aside its competitors electric
the company has ~ at the opening of the trial, the atmosphere was ~

elbowed her way into the (heavily male) club electric performance
she ~ (a profession) despite another ~ from Mia Hamm... (soccer)

elbowed into the lineup feeling, emotion & effect: electricity

women have ~ on the North Shore (surfing) electrified
force: arm / verb
electrified by the rise
elbow (sharp elbows, etc.) they were ~ of Trump

sharp elbows for President Trump feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
she had some ~ (political speech) electrify (verb)
accusation & criticism: arm / gesture
electrified (many) people
elbow (Elbow Lake, etc.) she ~ (a politician at a convention)

Elbow Lake electrified the region

we visited ~ (Becker County) Tunisia's uprising ~ (2011)

Elbow Cay electrified the movie world

we sailed to ~ (Bahamas) he ~ with the Sixth Sense (movie director)

Elbow Point feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / verb

~ is a point in Quezon, Philippines electrifying
proper name: arm
electrifying
elbow (shape) flamenco is ~

elbows electrifying in victory

~ can change the direction of piping he was ~ (sports)

shape: arm electrifying best

he was at his ~ (an athlete)
El Dorado
electrifying and polarizing
skier’s eldorado he has been both ~ (a union leader)
the sastrugi ceased, it was a smooth sea of snow, a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity

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elephant (elephant in the room, etc.) achievement, recognition & praise: epithet

elephant in the pew

embark (embark on something)
pornography is the ~ (Christians addicted to porn) embark on another
elephant in the room it is better to finish one thing before you ~
one ~ no one wants to discuss is… embarked on a (bold) course
this is the ~ that nobody is talking about he ~ intended to lead Pakistan… (Musharraf)
the condition of these banks has been the ~ (future of EU)
that really is the ~ here... (context to political story) embarks on a (120-mile) journey
there is always that ~, when you are different it is obvious in the winter the pronghorn antelope herd ~
see the elephant embarked on a path
nobody wants to ~ China ~ of reform (economy)
♦ “I’m just seeing a small piece of this elephant.” (A reporter reporting on
extensive wildfires on the west coast.) embarked on a (hacking) spree
he ~
presence & absence / size: animal
embarked on a big night out
elevate (verb) they ~ (social)
elevate rap from a fad to an art form embarked on his (morning) run
he helped ~ (Tupac Shakur) he ~
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height / verb ♦ “We traveled very pleasantly all day; in fact nothing can be more
beautiful than the views of this immense river; sometimes as smooth as
elevated (level) a mirror, at other times ruffled with a gentle breeze, but at all times
sweeping us along at the rate of six or seven miles per hour." (Mungo
Park on the Niger River.)
elevated level
♦ “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.” (A Japanese saying.)
~s of testosterone (sports)
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
elevated blood pressure
/ verb
a pregnant patient with abnormally ~
severe, high, elevated, guarded, low >
embattled
(terror alert system) embattled CEO
increase & decrease: direction / height the company has replaced its ~

elevation (noun) embattled (accounting) industry

the ~ (fraud)
his elevation
a press release announced ~ (publishing company) embattled singer
the ~ was hounded by reporters (sex abuse)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height
conflict: military
elf (Elves Chamber, etc.) embedded
Elves Chamber embedded in football
the ~ contains calcite formations (Marvel Cave)
violence is ~
proper name: creature
embedded into (Colombian) culture
Ellis Island (epithet) bullfights are ~

Ellis Island of the black migration embedded reporter

the Illinois Central station, the ~ to Chicago he served as an ~ in Afghanistan

Ellis Island of the Southwest attachment: ground, terrain & land

El Paso is often referred to as the ~ identity & nature / relationship: ground, terrain & land

migration: epithet / island / place embrace (verb)

epithet: island embraced the cause
Elvis (Afghanistan’s Elvis, etc.) he ~ (reparations for US slavery)

Afghanistan’s Elvis embrace democracy

they called him ~, he sang from the heart (Ahmed Zahir) if Palestinians ~, confront corruption and reject terror
embrace the future

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 a split over whether to preserve the past or ~ (Swazis) embraced by physicians
we must ~ (trade and business issue) until the 1960s, that approach was ~
embraced globalization embraced by (some) teenagers
two nations that have ~ (Chile, Mexico) surveillance is not only accepted but also ~
embraced its image embraced by thrill seekers and martial-arts adepts
the company has ~ (Starbucks) parkour has been ~
embrace Soviet imports acceptance & rejection / allegiance, support & betrayal /
the young began to ~, including vodka (Inuit) attachment / attraction & repulsion / division &
embraced Islam connection: arm
I recently ~ and this is my first Hajj embroider (verb)
embraced it embroiders the truth
every supervisor has ~ or paid lip service to it (change) he sometimes ~ (a politician)
embraced (for itself) the legacy creation & transformation: cloth / verb
Gazprom has ~ of Peter the Great (skyscraper)
embryonic
embrace reform
he urged Wall Street to ~ (Obama) embryonic European Common Market
he refused to join the ~ (Churchill)
embracing the role
Alabama is ~ of the favorite (football) embryonic stage
he ~ of provocateur (a writer) I’m still a novice, in the ~ of my career (a boxer)
embracing (palliative care) specialists growth & development: biology / birth
more doctors are ~ as partners
emerge (verb)
embraced his (Internet) strategy
still, investors have not ~ emerging
a new world is ~ (nationalism)
embrace (new) technology
schools are among the first to ~ (surveillance) emerged
a four-way race has ~ (election)
embrace (an uncomfortable) truth
we must ~ (US corrections) emerged that
it ~ she had…
embraces change and innovation
he ~ (a high-school principal) emerged from the ashes
the League ~ of World War I
embraced the blog world
some restaurants have ~ (instant marketing) emerge from the (revolutionary) cauldron
many ~ to become conservatives
embrace the gift of science
we ~, which is a gift from God (Jews / reproduction) emerged from a turbulent childhood
he ~ emotionally brittle
embrace nor reject
he will neither ~ another quest for the presidency (Gore) emerge from the cocoon
he began to ~ of sorrow, rage and despair that had enveloped
reluctance to embrace him
America's ~ the metric system
emerge from his brother’s shadow
came to embrace he was desperate to ~ (Mike Quarry)
I ~ multiple identities (a man from Lebanon)
emerged as a (top talent) incubator
acceptance & rejection / allegiance, support & betrayal / the art gallery has ~ (Damascus)
attachment / attraction & repulsion / division & connection
/ welcome: arm / gesture / verb emerged as a pathology
Nazism ~ of an inflation-wracked country
embraced
emerge in 2017
embraced by Hollywood allegations against Weinstein began to ~
he has been ~ (a writer)
emerges early
embraced by the masses empathy, the key emotion, ~
that kind of message isn't going to be ~

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patterns emerge Johnnie B. Hunt, who built a nationwide ~
~ (VICAP cold-cases investigations)
criminal empire
picture emerged he runs a ~ from his Italian restaurant in Queens
a different ~ of the risks...
vast (publishing) empire
portrait emerges its ~
a Jekyll and Hyde ~ of SEAL accused of murder
$1 billion (cocaine) empire
appearance & disappearance: plant / verb / water he helped run a ~ (Colombia)
emerging (adjective) place in the (family's business) empire
his ~
emerging artists
he had been in Singapore, to meet ~ (a curator) built a (nationwide empire
Johnnie B. Hunt, who ~ (freight-hauling / trucks)
Emerging Journalist
he was named “~ of the Year” (by a national association) built a (drug-trafficking) empire
he ~ in the Caribbean
emerging technology
she is an expert in human behavior and ~ dismantled an empire
changes since Ferguson effectively ~ (Man U failures)
appearance & disappearance: plant / water
power: history
emperor (Exmoor Emperor, etc.)
emptiness (depression)
Exmoor Emperor
the giant red stag known as the ~ emptiness
something in me broke and I felt nothing except ~
proper name: royalty
feeling, emotion & effect: container / mental health
empire (enterprise)
empty (depression)
empire in the Caribbean
he built a drug-trafficking ~ empty inside
catching her killer won’t change anything, I’m just ~
empire of Facebook and Twitter and the social networks
the only empire of America is the ~ feeling, emotion & effect: container / mental health

family's (business) empire empty (empty words, etc.)

his place in the ~
empty promise
banana empire for laid-off workers, ~s of new jobs (US)
the fourth biggest ~ in the world (Noboa / Ecuador) she got so many powerful people to believe in an ~

business empire empty threat

his place in the family's ~ such talk no longer passes as an ~ (school massacres)

cocaine empire empty words

he helped run a $1 billion ~ (Colombia) another meeting is over, and all that is left are ~ (U.N.)

construction empire vague or empty (m)

his late father's ~ ~ threats are worse than useless (school discipline)

department store empire speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
Marshall Field's ~ empty-handed
nationwide (freight-hauling) empire
Johnnie B. Hunt, who built a ~
empty-handed
she departed ~
gambling empire people leave the video store ~
police uncovered a ~ (video poker) Liverpool will finish this season ~ (overtaken by Man City)

publishing empire attainment / possession: hand

its vast ~ encore
drug-trafficking empire
he built a ~ in the Caribbean
encore
what would she do as an ~ (fashion designer)
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encore career involvement: depth / water
older workers embark on ~s
many ~s build on work and life experiences
end (no end in sight, etc.)
enjoying an encore end is in sight
the U-2 spy plane is ~ luckily, the ~ (end to pandemic quarantine)

bring them back for an encore no end in sight

we don't want to ~ (politicians) there is ~
♦ Nowadays, concertgoers may be offered a chance to choose the no end in sight for the (government) shutdown
encore by text message, using their cellphones. Not everyone thinks this
is a good idea.
there is ~

coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: theater future / time: distance / eye / journeys & trips
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going,
encounter (difficulties, etc.) continuing & ending: distance / eye / journeys & trips
encounter bumps end (the end)
many families ~ in the road to toilet training
the end of it
encounter the “honeymoon shocker” but that was not ~ (a religious affair)
couples who ~ (a snoring spouse)
starting, going, continuing & ending: orientation
fictive meeting & seeing: verb
endemic (adjective)
encouraging (adjective)
endemic (drug) violence and corruption
certainly encouraging he condemned the country's ~
the data are ~
presence & absence: biology / ground, terrain & land
fictive communication: speech
endgame (noun)
encyclopedia (noun)
end game
encyclopedia of (cheating) tips what's the ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
he is an ~
endgame
knowledge & intelligence: books & reading could he get to the Sudan in time to see the ~ (Mahdi)
encyclopedic (adjective) endgame to our involvement
an ~ in Afghanistan
encyclopedic in breadth
the book is ~ endgame (to our involvement) in Afghanistan
an ~
encyclopedic knowledge
he had an ~ of theater songs (composer) uncertain endgame
she has an ~ of criminal law Iran is a factor in the ~ in Afghanistan (diplomacy)
encyclopedic museum starting, going, continuing & ending / strategy: chess
~s have huge, permanent collections
end run (noun)
knowledge & intelligence: books & reading
end round around the Vacancies Act
end (go off the deep end) this seems to be an ~ (politics)
go off the deep end end run around the union
she might ~ (sex) union leaders have denounced the plan as an ~
went off the deep end end run around the public’s wishes
she ~ liberals are pursuing ~ (politics)
absorption & immersion / involvement: verb / water avoidance & separation: football / movement / sports &
restraint & lack of restraint: verb / water games / walking, running & jumping
behavior: verb / water
enemy (conflict)
end (deep end)
enemy
deep end time is always the most formidable ~ in an epidemic
she was thrown in the ~ I felt like time was my ~ (child stranger abduction)
the Fitzgerald was now at war, the ~ the sea (sinking)

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 Democrats welcome change, not as an ~ but as an ally engineered
we must stand like in wartime, except now the ~ is a virus
engineered by the ETA
enemies of action
the explosion was ~ (terrorism)
politeness and diplomacy are often the ~
creation & transformation: infrastructure
enemy of business
instability and uncertainty are the ~ engineering (noun)
enemy of the good social engineering
don’t let the perfect be the ~ Radio 2 became committed to ~ (BBC)
enemy number one creation & transformation: infrastructure
~ is the sun (skin cancer)
engraved (impression)
hidden enemy
landmines, the ~ engraved in my heart
your faces are ~
mortal enemy
unlawful command influence is the ~ of military justice impression: mark / tools & technology

old enemy enmeshed

influenza is an ~, one that comes every year
enmeshed in corruption
invisible, horrible enemy he is ~
defending our nation from this ~ (COVID-19) involvement: movement / rope
invisible sneaky enemy situation: rope
it’s microscopic, fast and mysterious, an ~ (virus) enshrine (verb)
♦ "The enemy stands 602 feet tall and weighs 15 million tons." (Shasta
Dam versus the Winnemen Wintu group, which is opposed to making the enshrines (beach) access for all
dam higher.)
the act ~ (California)
♦ “Its microscopic, fast and mysterious, an invisible sneaky enemy.
(Saudi journalist Maha Akeel, writing about COVID-19.) enshrine (very particular) ideologies
♦ “One hundred friends are too few; one enemy is too many.” rankings ~ (of colleges, etc.)
conflict: military / person enshrines free speech
person: military the US ~ in its constitution
engine (driving force) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
reverence: religion / verb
engine room of growth for the industry
streaming is the ~ (Spotify, etc. / music) enshrined
engine rooms of a government enshrined in the Constitution
he takes us into the ~ under attack by its own leaders a common misperception is that this principle is ~
engine of growth enshrined in the first amendment
Punjab is the ~ for Pakistan the right to freedom of speech is ~ of the US constitution
engine of prosperity enshrined in law
Harlem could be an ~ the right to maternity leave is now ~ (Switzerland)
engine of (upward) mobility enshrined in textbooks
education was the most reliable ~ (blacks) false claims have been ~ (medicine)
engine for prosperity sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
the US economy is a fantastic ~ reverence: religion
economic engine ensnare (verb)
biotechnology could be the state's new ~
ensnared dozens of executives
economic and industrial engine the scandal has ~
Lombardy is Italy’s ~
♦ “He was quick, he’s got a great engine, he could run all day.” (The
ensnared scores of investors
young footballer Jamie Vardy.) his scam lasted for years and ~
driving force: engine ensnared them
their own greed ~

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involvement / situation: hunting / rope / verb entranced
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / rope / verb
ensnared entranced by one player
lots of people are ~ in particular (Zion Williamson)
ensnared in the downturn feeling, emotion & effect: magic
Seattle has been ~ (economy)
entrenched
ensnared in the inquiry
he has been ~ (politics) entrenched in Atlanta
Mexican drug traffickers are firmly ~
ensnared in a (public-relations) nightmare
he wound up ~ entrenched in Uganda
anti-gay feeling is ~
ensnared in legal proceedings
he spent a huge amount of time ~ entrenched on opposite sides
Democrats and Republicans are ~ of the issue (abortion)
ensnared in the scandal
he was ~ (a lobbyist) entrenched attitudes
~ still make it difficult to report rape (Mexico)
ensnared in a love triangle
she was ~ entrenched bureaucracy
the VA is an ~
ensnared by blood feuds
thousands of innocents have been ~ (Albania) entrenched insider
he is a Washington outsider facing down ~s
ensnared by a traffic jam
I was ~ on my way to work entrenched interests
powerful ~ will thwart him
ensnared by the investigation
he is the most prominent executive to be ~ entrenched leader
the protests have toppled ~s in Egypt and Tunisia
ensnared by a (bizarre online extortion) plot
he was ~ (catfished) entrenched practice
she is seeking asylum from Guinea's ~ of FGM
became ensnared
he ~ in a tax inquiry entrenched problems
the next police superintendent will have to take on ~
found himself ensnared
he has ~ in allegation of corruption culturally entrenched
child-rearing traditions are ~ (diapers, etc.)
involvement / situation: hunting / rope
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / rope deeply entrenched (m)
ensnarled (involvement) lighting fireworks to celebrate is a ~ custom (Peru)
firmly entrenched
ensnarled in the (developing racial) unrest Mexican drug traffickers are ~ in Atlanta
Lutheran authorities worried Graetz might become ~ the videos appear to be ~ in the blogosphere
involvement / situation: rope
well entrenched
entangled (involvement) Wal-Mart's reputation is ~

entangled in history even more entrenched

to live in Moscow is to be ~ denial is becoming ~ (in politics)

entangled in the probe protection & lack of protection / survival, persistence &
another associate of the President has become ~ endurance: fortification / ground, terrain & land / military

involvement / situation: movement / rope entwined

enthralling (adjective) became entwined
the moment when the lives of two strangers ~ (photo)
enthralling bout
the ~ ended in a draw (boxing) involvement: cloth / rope
attachment / division & connection: cloth / rope
feeling, emotion & effect: magic relationship: cloth / rope

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envelope (push the envelope) remembering swells and ~s (surfing milieu)

push the envelope epic rivalry

Muhammad Ali's ~ with Joe Frazier (boxers)
trendsetters ~ (eco-friendly motels)
entertainment continues to ~ (sex and kids) epic scale
the ~, and epic inefficiency, of China's coal economy
pushed the envelope
the company has always ~ (oil drilling) epic (playoff) series
O'Neal wouldn't allow this ~ to end early (NBA)
pushing the envelope
he was always ~, looking for a good time epic terms
Mendes saw the material in larger, ~ (comic books)
pushing the envelope
he was always ~, looking for a good time epic (surf) wave
an ~ had formed over Brookmont Dam (kayaking)
pushes the envelope on safety
the race often ~ (Giro d'Italia death in 2011) epic breakout
Jimmy Fastenrath was there at the Marines' ~ from Chosin
push the envelope on what
(Korean War)
they are trying to ~ is possible… (Google)
♦ This expression originated with test pilots and flying Everest epic
accounts of the 1963 ~ resonated loud and long
restraint & lack of restraint: allusion / plane / verb
constraint & lack of constraint: allusion / plane / verb gangster epic
envision (envision the future, etc.) this grandly stylized ~ (John Woo / A better Tomorrow)
superlative: Iliad & Odyssey
envisioned the end
it was not how he ~ of his character (TV show) epicenter (noun)
consciousness & awareness: eye / verb epicenter of that battle
Birmingham became the ~ (for civil rights)
future / time: eye / verb
epic (noun) epicenter of the disease
in Nigeria, the ~ in Africa (polio)
epic epicenter of the (new) disease
to a climber, "~" means "near total disaster" New York City, the ~ (AIDS)
epic battle epicenter of the epidemic
their ~s for championship crowns (sports) Gorakhpur, the ~ (Japanese encephalitis)
hooked makos diving into boats during ~s with anglers
their ~ Saturday night (Micky Ward vs. Arturo Gatti) epicenter of youth culture
the ~ (Shimokitazawa in Tokyo)
epic bout
wondering if an ~ was in store (boxing) riot's epicenter
South-Central, the ~ (LA)
epic chronicle
Robert Caro's ~ of the life and times of Lyndon Johnson global epicenter
Vegas is boxing’s ~
epic confrontation
the expedition was not supposed to be an ~ with death location / place: earthquake
center & periphery: earthquake
Epic Conquest
"East of the Sun, the ~ and Tragic History of Siberia" epidemic
epic day epidemic
this was an ~ (satisfied motorcyclist) amid that ~, one single infection was fateful (NotPetya)
tales of an ~ at Waimea Bay (surfing)
epidemic of crack
epic failure the neighborhood is recovering from an ~
he stands at the precipice of ~ (politician)
epidemic of fear
epic game an ~ has spread over about 130 villages (black magic)
its ~ against the Soviets (hockey)
Syracuse won an ~ (6 overtimes) epidemic of piracy
there has been an ~ off the coast of Somalia
epic party
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 an ~ which is rapidly spreading equilibrium & stability: scale
there's an ~ that is sickening the soul of this nation
erase (verb)
epidemic proportions
underage drinking has reached ~ erase his past
he would like to ~ (a gang member)
crack epidemic
the nineteen-eighties issued in the ~ erase the event from his life
he tried to ~ (sexually assaulted)
cheating epidemic
some blame schools for the ~ concealment & lack of concealment / dismissal, removal &
this ~ and the ‘essay mills’ who profit from it resignation: verb / writing & spelling

hidden epidemic erased

sex trafficking is a ~ (US)
erased from public discourse
silent epidemic this moment in history has been all but ~
the ~ of America’s problem with guns (suicide)
concealment & lack of concealment / dismissal, removal &
stem the epidemic resignation: verb / writing & spelling
we have done nothing to ~ of violence
erode (verb)
verge on an epidemic
mental health problems that ~ (colleges) eroded
America’s military superiority has ~ to a dangerous degree
affliction / amount & effect / extent & scope: health &
medicine erode ("traditional") beliefs
modernization need not ~ in the supernatural (sangomas)
epitaph (noun)
erodes (social) cohesiveness
epitaph for his campaign an epidemic ~
the ~ may be that... (losing politician)
erode confidence
destruction: burial / death & life corrections and retractions ~ in science (journals)
equation (noun) eroded (public) confidence
the accident has ~ in aviation safety
changed the equation
the added sanctions don’t seem to have ~ (diplomacy) eroded their (political, spiritual and cultural) power
British policies further ~ (Maasai)
strategy: number
analysis, interpretation & explanation: number erodes the (moral) underpinnings
capitalism ~ of society
equilibrium (noun)
erode (indigenous) Tibetan culture
equilibrium between mankind and nature critics fear the railroad will ~
how to restore ~
confidence (in him) has eroded
emotional equilibrium public ~ markedly (leader of country)
trolls try to disrupt your ~ (Internet)
grip (on this country) may be eroding
mental equilibrium the king's ~
she works hard to maintain her ~ (video celebrity)
threaten to erode
equilibrium returns divisions ~ France's tradition of equality (Muslims)
when you peel off from the herd, your ~ (a politician)
decline: erosion / verb
achieve equilibrium failure, accident & impairment: erosion / verb
the goal is to ~ (diplomacy)
eroding
maintain some equilibrium
the dramas teach you to think and ~ (gentle parenting) eroding (ring) skills
questions about his ~ (Mike Tyson, the boxer)
reached an equilibrium
eventually they ~ (dose and side effects) decline: failure, accident & impairment / erosion

regain emotional equilibrium erosion (noun)

songs about trying to ~
erosion of (intelligence) assets
citing the ~

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erosion of confidence fighting ~ (Congo)
the recrimination betrayed an ~ (Israeli raid)
erupted in Lagos
erosion of (Aboriginal) culture violence ~
the historic ~
erupted in Tibet
erosion of privacy in 2008 protests ~
each new ~ (Internet)
erupted on message boards
erosion of profits squabbles ~ (online investments)
with the ~ (US sheep industry)
erupted during a (motorcycle) rally
erosion of support a wild clash that ~
he faces an ~ (a politician)
erupted in protest
erosion of (sexual) values Lebanon ~ when Hariri was murdered
it's wrong to blame popular culture for the ~
erupt in violence
erosion of viewership political races in the Niger Delta frequently ~
broadcasters alarmed at the ~
erupted in civil war
erosion of (NASA's) technical skills Libya has ~
experts point to an ~
erupted into violence
ratings erosion Haiti, which ~ three weeks ago
the two TV game shows are facing serious ~ long-simmering ethnic tensions have ~

physical and cultural erosion erupt (quickly) into (violent) free-for-alls

American Indians try to reverse decades of ~ (diet, etc.) rallies can ~ (Kenya)

blame popular culture for the erosion Egypt is erupting

it's wrong to ~ of sexual values ~ (protests.)
decline / failure, accident & impairment: erosion chaos erupted
~ in the diner (Seacrest Diner attack)
error (unforced error) the ~ at a security checkpoint (at an airport)
unforced error and a self-inflicted wound conflicts erupt
he described it as an ~ (politics) when ~, MSF sends teams of surgeons…
failure, accident & impairment: baseball / sports & games controversy erupted
erupt (feeling) ~ when a white fraternity performed a skit…
crisis erupts
erupts in anger
the US will need to strike preemptively before a ~
just then he ~ and… (drunk)
erupted in celebration fire erupted
more enemy ~ and he dove for cover behind a rock
the Fire Hall ~ (rescue of miners)
erupted in cheers hotspots erupt
coronavirus ~ across country
when he came across the finish line, we all ~
erupts into cheers lawlessness erupts
when disasters occur, ~
the crowd of soldiers ~ (Bagram)
erupted with joy protests erupted
~ (Korea)
the Yankees' dugout ~ (sports)
cheers erupted riots erupted
the ~ after Japan scored (in Moscow / World Cup)
more ~ (rescue of coal miners)
panic erupted squabbles erupted
~ on online-investor message boards
the victims were trampled to death when ~ (Hajj)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb trouble erupted
some minor ~
erupt (verb)
trouble will erupt
erupted in Kinshasa bikers have been wondering if ~ in Sturgis (rally)

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violence erupted impression: mark / tools & technology / verb
last year ~ in France's small towns (Beurs / Rebeus)
etched
gunfire erupts
~, and bodies sprawl everywhere etched in their faces
I could see despair and suffering ~
warfare erupted
gang ~ in Compton as the Bloods sought revenge… etched in the (tribe's permanent) memory
the crime will remain ~ (murder of tribal cop)
fighting erupted
the ~ July 20 between… (rival political gangs) etched in the (country's) memory
~ in Kinshasa (Congo) the murders are ~

caused (racial) tensions to erupt etched in stone

the altercation ~ reform is not yet ~
none of the rules are ~ (about health)
♦ Sounds from the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in the Sunda Strait
between Java and Sumatra in 1883 were heard up to 3,000 miles away, nothing is ever ~ (planning)
but not by everyone, due to peculiarities of sound waves and the
atmosphere. etched into the landscape
some journeys are ~ of our lives (Lake Ohrid)
initiation / occurrence: verb / volcano
amount & effect: verb / volcano etched on his face
he stood over him with concern ~ (boxing)
eruption
etched by the weather
eruption of violence her face is ~
the ~ has dashed hopes (Middle East)
impression: mark / tools & technology
eruption of gunfire
he heard the ~ (combat) ether (into the ether)
initiation: volcano disappeared into the ether
amount & effect: volcano any trace on social media has ~ (a company)
escalate (verb) appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky

violence escalated eulogy (noun)

the ~ on Saturday (protests)
eulogy for social studies
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / verb it is time to write the ~
increase & decrease: movement / verb
destruction: burial / death & life
essence
eureka (moment, etc.)
essence
his ~ rather than his show-biz surface... eureka moment
but the ~ came when…
essence of the (scientific) method this was a ~, he realized what he needed to do...
the ~ lies in the repeatable result
Eureka moment
essence of motherhood the Aha! instant in cognitive science, the ~
the ~ is to nurture, protect, love ♦ This word is Greek and translates as, “I found it!” Its utterance is
associated with the scholar Archimedes and hydrostatics. The word is
essence of childhood the state motto of California and refers to the discovery of gold and the
the ~, of course, is play (Childhood by Bill Cosby) Californian Gold Rush.
♦ “And then came this crucial moment...a eureka moment, and the light
bases: chemistry went off in Semmelweis’ head... This was the final bit of evidence that he
analysis, interpretation & explanation: chemistry needed... and it was at this point that everything came together...and all
of the sudden it made perfect sense and he knew that he had the
etch (verb) answer.” (The great Ignaz Semmelweis autopsied his good friend Jacob
Kolletschka and connected lack of hand hygiene with puerperal
(childbed) fever. While today he is known as “the saviour of mothers,” at
etched their mark the time his ideas were dismissed by the medical establishment. As John
his companies ~ on city skylines (developer) Snow’s ideas had been dismissed, and Thomas Aitchison Latta’s. From
BBC, Sounds, Great Lives, “Ignaz Semmelweis.”)
etched itself into my memory ♦ “We were returning to the bungalow for tea and suddenly he shouted,
the photo ~ ‘That’s it! It must be a sphere...large enough to hold two people... It will
be made of steel lined with thick glass. It will contain a proper store of
etched him in my mind solidified air, concentrated food, water... One might go to the moon!”
that experience has forever ~ (The First Men on the Moon by H.G. Wells.)

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comprehension & incomprehension: allusion / exclamation evening (decline)
evangelical (adjective) in the evening of life
evangelical about camels what am I called, ~ (an 81-year-old man)
Lauren Brisbane is ~ and their milk (in Australia) decline: day
evangelical certainty growth & development: day
she speaks in staccato bursts of ~ (death penalty) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day

message: religion evil (non-human)

evangelist (person) evil disease
we will once and for all beat Covid 19, this ~ (politics)
evangelist for veterans' care
character & personality: religion
he is the President's ~
evangelist for energy efficiency
evil eye
he has been an ~ (Nobel Prize winner) parting evil eye
evangelist for the idea she gave me a ~
I really became an ~ (E.O. Wilson / inclusive fitness) power of the evil eye
developer evangelist witches were said to destroy their victims by the ~
she is a ~ who teaches programming to girls black magic and the evil eye
open-source evangelist ~ take effect with the help of the jinn
Bruce Perens, an ~ (computing) ward off the evil eye
Web evangelist an inverted hand by the door to ~
I come from print, I'm not much of a ~ (newspapers) Middle Eastern amulets meant to ~ (Hand of Fatima)

culinary evangelist protect against the evil eye

he is a ~ out for converts (chef) he wore a paper amulet around his neck to ~ (Liberia)

enthusiasm / message: person / religion attributed to the evil eye

person: religion disease and death were often ~

evaporate (verb) terrified of the evil eye

the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ~
forces evaporated
danger: eye
despite their vows to fight to the death, their ~ (rebels)
revenue has ~ eviscerate (verb)
~ in the digital-music industry eviscerated the book
good will has evaporated Latino writers have ~ (cultural appropriation)
the ~ (government) eviscerated the prosecution’s case
appearance & disappearance: water / verb she ~, point by point (a judge)

eve (on the eve) eviscerated world leaders

she ~ in a passionate speech (Greta Thunberg)
on the eve of destruction
we are ~ accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health &
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
on the eve of 1914
periods that precede great upheavals such as Europe ~ eviscerated
♦ "Eve" relates to "evening." eviscerated by liberal judges and politicians
proximity / timeliness & lack of timeliness: day the justice system has been ~

even-handed (adjective) accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health &

medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
even-handed policy
he's striven to maintain an ~ excite (verb)
judgment: hand excited curiosity, speculation and fear
it ~ (the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

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feeling, emotion & effect: verb living in exile
creation & transformation: verb they have been ~ (falsely accused by DA)
exclamation point society: ground, terrain & land
dismissal, removal & resignation: society
put an exclamation point on that round
acceptance & rejection: society
he ~ (strong finish to MMA match)
exile (noun)
put a (major) exclamation mark on her career
she has ~ (Sawa Homare / football) period of exile
attention, scrutiny & promotion: exclamation / letters & the political party can look forward to a long ~
characters self-imposed footballing exile
his ~ (Zinedin Zidane)
excommunicated
society: ground, terrain & land
excommunicated from the movement acceptance & rejection / dismissal, removal & resignation:
he has been ~ society
excommunicated from the priesthood exiled
he was ~ of economists
exiled from wealth and social standing
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion in his eyes, the family had been ~ (poor)
exhale (verb) acceptance & rejection / society: ground, terrain & land
exhale dismissal, removal & resignation: society
that does not mean Florida can fully ~ (hurricane track) exit (noun)
exhaling exit
today everybody is sorta ~ (crisis averted) I'm not surprised by his ~ (resignation)
danger: breathing / verb no possible clean exit
feeling, emotion & effect: breathing / verb there was ~ (combat)
exhausted (adjective) rush for the exits
exhausted US troops will not "~" (in Afghanistan)
our armed forces are ~ urging an exit
exhausted with its wars his generals and the prime minister were ~ (a leader)
the US is ~ in Iraq and Afghanistan pursuit, capture & escape / situation: container
exhausted and broken coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: doors &
an ~ post-war Britain in 1948 thresholds / theater

condition & status: health & medicine

exodus (noun)
exhaustion (noun) exodus of civilians
he expects a further ~ (war)
moral exhaustion
beneath the pep talks is a rueful sense of ~
exodus of staff members
the magazine has been bled by an ~
condition & status: health & medicine
exodus of doctors, engineers, scientists
exhume (verb) Venezuela suffers from an ~ and other professionals

exhumes skeletons exodus (of women) from the (science) fields

Poland ~ in its Communist closet her paper examines the ~
appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of immigrant exodus
concealment / searching & discovery: burial / death & life / Italy fears an ~ on a biblical scale (from Libya)
verb
management exodus
exile (in exile) the company has seen a ~
in exile vacation exodus
you're in the inner circle, or you're ~ (politics) the ~ brought Beijing to a standstill (Autumn Festival)
he's no longer ~, but… (access to President)
annual exodus

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 "mudik" is an ~ in Indonesia (visiting the countryside) cost & benefit: money
prompted a (small) exodus experiment (noun)
the score ~ towards the exits (sports)
experiment
led to a (huge) exodus the US is often referred to as an ~
Germanization of Metz ~ of the French
thought experiment
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: Bible / my book is a ~ (Break it up, about political succession)
religion
“Jurassic Park experiment”
exorcise (verb) they condemned the plan as a public ~ (GM mosquitos)
* “A fool, you know, is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”
exorcise (Erasmus Darwin to Richard Lovell Edgeworth.)
Baathism remains a ghost that Iraq can't ~
experimentation: chemistry
exorcise the demons
we must ~ of the past… (history) explode (destroy)
exorcised that ghost exploded
European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi) it’s been a year since the economy ~
amelioration & renewal / dismissal, removal & resignation destruction: explosion
/ reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: creature / religion explode (emotion)
/ verb
explodes
expedition (fishing expedition) she ~ (becomes angry)
fishing expedition made my mind (kind of) explode
the government claimed the investigation was a ~ (politics) so what ~ when I first heard about this was... (surprise)
traffic stops that became ~s (police and Latinos)
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: explosion / pressure /
fishing expedition for information verb / weapon
it appears to be a ~, casting a very broad net
explode (initiation)
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish / hunting
searching & discovery: animal / fish / hunting explode into violence
expense (at the expense) he let his anger ~
exploded in violence
at the expense of Arabs
months of protests that ~ late Thursday
Turkey's growing regional role will not be ~
exploded with support
at the expense of the animals
the Internet ~ for Hanson
owners cut costs and corners ~ (ranches)
intifada exploded
at the expense of (naive) consumers
in 1987, when the first ~ through Gaza and…
sophisticated consumers can profit ~
situation exploded
at the expense of the family
the whole ~ (divorce / violence)
but all this success was ~... (working women)
violence could explode
at the expense of the poor
~ after the traditional mourning period (Caucasus)
privatization further enriches the rich ~
starting to explode
at the expense of his life
the whole punk-rock scene was just ~
his actions ~... (Medal of Honor)
initiation: explosion / verb
at the expense of troop levels
shifting troops to Baghdad will come~ elsewhere explode (increase)
at Owner's Expense exploded
Violators will be Towed Away ~ (airport) for some reason it took off, it ~ (Plague of Justinian)
at your expense exploded in popularity
it will be ~ rafting and camping ~ (below a dam)
profit at the expense of naive consumers exploded in the past decade
sophisticated consumers can ~ wakeboarding has ~

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exploded in the United States explore (discover)
the sport has ~ (soccer)
explored (several) fantasies
exploded in the ‘90s we ~ with each other (Internet)
Pokémon ~
explore my (secret) fantasies
exploded in the last few years my website allows me to ~
the black market has ~ (for Venus flytraps)
explores matters of love, sex, and commitment
enrollment has exploded the film ~
UMUC's ~, from 21,100 to 30,700 this year
explore the Bard’s life and work
interest (in cookie decorating) has exploded we will ~ (BBC program)
~ in recent years
searching & discovery: journeys & trips / verb
popularity exploded
his ~ explorer (person)
population has exploded explorer of the past
the town's ~ in the last decade (increased) he was a pioneer ~ (Francesco Petrarch)
population (of Niger) has exploded searching & discovery: journeys & trips / person
the ~ (increased dramatically)
explosion (violence, etc.)
use (of Ecstasy) is exploding
the ~ explosion of violence
both sides shared the blame for the ~
Internet modeling has exploded
~ in all forms (teen modeling) initiation: explosion

caused the (mouse) population to explode explosion (sound)

the hunting of snakes has ~ explosion of gunfire
growth & development / increase & decrease / initiation: he heard the ~ (combat)
explosion / verb sound: explosion
explode (onto the scene, etc.) explosion (increase)
exploded onto the scene explosion of (arctic) flowers
she ~ last year (a singer) May and June bring an ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / verb explosion of studies
exploding (adjective) we have seen an ~ examining violent video games

exploding population explosion in (graphics) technology

the world's ~ the ~
ensuring flood control for South Florida's ~ explosion in (cellphone) use
increase & decrease: explosion the ~ has had an impact on 911 operations

explore (analyze) explosion of (international) trade and travel

the ~ that's occurred
explore this
let’s ~... (the topic of tariffs) AIDS explosion
the potential for an ~ in the country (India)
explores the lives
his book ~ of Native Americans crime explosion
the ~ (in Venezuela)
explores the (counterintuitive) notion
he ~ that... (decision-making) information explosion
there is a tremendous ~ today
explore the possibility
~ of a negotiated settlement (Middle East) potential for an (AIDS) explosion
the ~ in the country (India)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
increase & decrease: explosion
verb

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explosive (power) eye (verb)
explosive burst eyed me suspiciously
you load the dart in the mouthpiece and exhale in an ~ he ~
power: explosion sight: eye / verb
explosive (increase) eye (appearance and reality)
explosive growth meets the eye
the ~ of the textile industry there is more to him than ~
the ~ in technology over the past few decades a closer look at the numbers finds less there than ~
keeping up with the ~ of scientific data (storage)
appearance & reality: eye
explosive rate
condo conversion sales have been increasing at an ~
eye (comprehension)
increase & decrease: explosion believe my eyes
I couldn’t ~
explosive (violence, etc.) ♦ “A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.” (African.)

explosive situation comprehension & incomprehension: eye

they discussed the ~ in the Palestinian territories
eye (roll one’s eyes)
initiation: explosion
shaking my head and rolling my eyes
express (Biden express, etc.) I’m just ~ (Boeing debacle of 2019-2020)
♦ “I completely respect him... I know he can be bit of a character... I’ve
Biden express rolled me eyes a couple of times at things he done and said.” (Ben
not that everyone has come on board the ~ (election) Davison talking about the great boxer Dillian Whyte.)

attention, scrutiny & promotion: train ♦ In academia, eye-rolling can be considered a sign of patriarchy and a
micro-aggression.
express (Pineapple Express, etc.) comprehension & incomprehension: eye / gesture / verb
Pineapple Express eye (met our eyes, etc.)
the ~ is the source of moisture into southern California
the ~ is an atmospheric river (into southern California) met our eyes
an unusual sight ~ (on a wilderness trip)
Tokyo Express
JFK lost PT-109 in an attack against the ~ (WW II) fictive meeting & seeing / sight: eye
the ~ brought Japanese troops and supplies to Guadalcanal
eye (the Eye of Kuruman, etc.)
epithet: train
Eye of Kuruman
expressway (expressway to death, etc.) the ~ is a natural spring (Die Oog / S. Africa)
expressway to death Eye of the Sun
National highway 8 is known as the ~ (India) the ~ is a natural arch in Monument Valley, Arizona
♦ The Eye (Die Oog) in Kuruman is the largest known natural spring in
epithet: infrastructure the southern hemisphere. The unofficial emblem of the town of Zastron,
extinguish (verb) also in South Africa, is Die Oog (the Eye). In Zastron's case, the Eye
consists of two rock pillars, connected side by side. Near the top, a hole
goes completely through the rock. That hole looks like an eye.
extinguish (negative) behaviors
a discipline plan to ~ (school) proper name / shape: eye

destruction: fire / verb eye (public eye)

extracurricular in the public eye
this will boost his image ~ (a fallen celebrity)
extracurricular activities
prying into employees' harmless ~ out of the public eye
he has created a new life ~…
extracurricular uses
~ of the office computer came to the public eye
it never ~ (campus espionage)
extent & scope: school & education
remained in the public eye
Wilma Mankiller has ~ (Cherokee leader)

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brought windsurfing into the public eye keeps an (eagle) eye out for infractions
he ~ he ~
fell out of the public eye keep an eye out for you
she ~ for a year but returned... (an influencer) I'll ~ (watch for your arrival)
vanished from the public eye keep my eyes open
he ~ for nearly six weeks before reappearing (Korea leader) I ~ (for opportunity)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye keep your eyes open
~ (warning)
eye (attention)
opened my eyes to the opportunities
Eye on America the experience ~
features like ~ (network news)
open your eyes to the reality
eyes and ears ~ that there is big-town crime here (Taos)
they were all ~ (Germans at a Oglala Sioux powwow)
big eyes
all eyes a stranger has ~ but sees nothing (proverb / traveling)
~ were on Kate (performance)
once again ~ are on the Dallas district attorney (crime) roving eye
my husband has a ~
wary eyes
her ~ took me in at a glance consciousness & awareness: eye

prying eyes eye (closed eyes, etc.)

she retreated there from ~
eyes closed
wandering eye people didn’t go into this with their ~ (Brexiteers)
he was a lecher with a ~
consciousness & awareness: eye
wandering eyes
~ and other suspicious test activity (cheating)
eye (for the eyes)
caught my eye feast for the eyes
she ~ (attraction) it was a ~

caught his eye sight for sore eyes

a large display of toothpaste ~ (in a store) he was a ~
deviations from Islamic social norms also ~ appearance: eye
caught Jean's eye eye (eye candy)
when I ~ again, I nodded towards…
eye candy
keep an eye on many go to auto shows looking for ~
is there anything else to ~ (elections)
eye-candy for philistines
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye
the work is ~ (Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips in Paris)
eye (stars in one’s eyes) blond eye candy
stars in her eyes there's lots of ~ Down Under (Oz)
she has ~ (not practical) appearance: eye
she had ~ and a sense of her own destiny (Elizabeth Holmes
of Theranos) eye (goal)
character & personality: earth & world / eye eye
eye (open eyes, etc.) he had his ~ on the nomination (Ted Kennedy)
dollar signs in their eyes
eye opening companies with ~
it was very ~ for me (kids’ comments)
♦ “I think they had dollar signs in their eyes.” (The great climber Tommy
with eyes (wide) open Caldwell talking about being taken hostage by members of the Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan while he and his group were climbing in
the decision was made ~ (foreign policy) Kyrgyzstan.)

go into this with our eyes open wants, needs, hopes & goals: eye
it is critical that we ~ (elections)

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eye (turn a blind eye) a student may see home ~ (after studying abroad)

cast a blind eye on his conduct with a suspicious eye

those who come to Jerusalem are watched ~
the university ~ (sexual misconduct)
turned a blind eye with suspicious eyes
sportswomen are looked at ~ (homophobia)
as China hacked, U.S. businesses ~
turn a blind eye to his (intense) abuse to the (outside) eye
the system appears medieval ~ (Afghanistan)
the university could no longer ~ of one of its students
turned a blind eye to the concerns to a (trained) eye
the data reveals a disturbing pattern ~
UKA whitewashed its review and ~ (sports doping)
turn a blind eye to the consequences to the (untrained) eye
it may look complicated ~ but…
loggers learn to ~ of clear-cutting
clues not apparent ~ (police)
turn a blind eye to polygamy
to (Mexican) eyes
local officials ~ (southeastern Turkey)
~ the US has more than its share of everything…
turn a blind eye to the problem
to modern eyes
we cannot ~
his racial ideas appear ~ as a blot on his record (Churchill)
turned a blind eye to terrorism
eyes of an expert
they have ~
what is most important is the experience of the ~
turn a blind eye to cruelty and crime
leaders' eyes
the state should never ~ (honor killings, etc.)
countries whose ~ are fixed on domestic voters (summit)
bribed to turn a blind eye
painter's eye
officials were ~
the workings of a ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye / verb
keen eye
eye (bat an eye / eyelash) a ~ is the result of training and practice (landmines)
recognizing traps demands intuition and a ~
bat an eye
the students don’t ~ at the sight of fast-food-delivery robots watches with a practiced eye
(a university) he ~ (an anthropologist)

bat an eyelash see home with new eyes

he didn't ~ a student may ~ (after studying abroad)
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture / verb looking at this issue with fresh eyes
people are ~ (foreign aid)
eye (perception)
looked at with a suspicious eye
in the eyes of the US sportswomen are ~ (homophobia)
it has done a bit to improve its standing ~ (a country)
watched with a suspicious eye
in the eyes of his competitors those who come to Jerusalem are ~
~, he is the best (mixed-martial arts)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye
in the eyes of the public
Muhammed Ali is still the champion ~ eye (resemblance)
in the eye of the beholder eye
beauty is ~ I was here when the ~ came right over the island

with his geologist's eye eye of the storm

~, he found a field nearby and found… the ~ passed over Portsmith (hurricane)

with a practiced eye hurricane's eye

he watches ~ (an anthropologist) police rescued 5 families when the ~ passed over

with fresh eyes storm's eye

people are looking at his issue ~ (foreign aid) Gulf Shores, where the ~ blew ashore (hurricane)

with new eyes defined eye

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 a minimal hurricane with 75 mph winds and a ~ "eyes and ears" of the commander
the Air Cavalry Team is the ~ (military)
eyes of the coconut
pierce two ~ with a sharp object eyes and ears of the (battalion) commander
we serve as the ~ (scout/snipers)
resemblance: eye
eye (an eye for an eye) eyes and ears of the community
"Amber" alerts mobilized the ~ (child kidnappings)
eye for an eye-style (m) eyes and ears of the outside world
a crowd gathered to demand ~ justice (Pakistan) African Union monitors serve as the sole ~ (Darfur)
stick a finger in Trump’s eye ears and eyes in the sky
she welcomed the opportunity to ~ (her vote for governor) the NSA, Uncle Sam’s ~
revenge: eye
eyes and ears on the ground
eye (subterfuge) he worked under cover as Al Jazeera's ~

throw smoke and dust in the eyes show for the eyes and ears
they are trying to ~ of the investigators (lawyers) it's a ~ (gambling at casino)

subterfuge: eye keeping our eyes and ears open

we're definitely ~
eye (surveillance) ♦ Positive controls provide a means to put "eyes" on a target. (Military.)

eye in the sky surveillance: eye

you can put an ~ (drone / UAVs)
eye (see eye to eye, etc.)
under the (watchful) eyes of their mothers
the cubs hunt ~ see eye to eye with my (new) boss
I don't ~
under the (watchful) eyes of (security) officers
he was constantly ~ see eye to eye
we will never ~
got out from under the father's (controlling) eye they don't always ~ (European leaders)
when she ~ they might ~ (two leaders)
keep a (close) eye on her unanimity & consensus: eye
we have to ~
eye (naked eye)
keep a (close) eye on them
we ~ (detainees) naked-eye observer
an inexperienced ~ (sky phenomena)
keep a (good) eye on her
I have to ~ naked-eye light phenomena
~ in the sky
keep a (watchful) eye on players
coaches must ~ (heat stroke in summer) naked eye, binoculars or telescope
don't look at the sun with the ~
eyes of (U.S. spy) satellites
the eagle ~ invisible to the naked eye
trace evidence looks at microscopic evidence ~
Dragon Eye
the portable ~ (an unmanned aerial vehicle) (military) visible to the naked eye
the comet should be ~
robot eye
a ~ attached to the Internet, which visitors could control help & assistance: clothing & accessories

robotic "eye" eyeball (up to one's eyeballs)

a free-flying ~ that can circle the space station
sets of eyes
the robots could serve as extra ~ (PSA)
eyes of Boston Harbor
we're asked to be the ~ (a Yacht club, terrorism)
eyes and ears
the public is our ~ (police manhunt)
up to their eyeballs in (dangerous) chemicals
these fish are ~ (tomcods in New York and New Jersey)
involvement: eye
eyeball (attention)
eyeball
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brought a ton of eyeballs to her sport it is an ~ in several ways ("Lan Yu," filmed in Beijing)
her sex appeal has ~ (Danica Patrick)
consciousness & awareness: eye
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / sign, signal, symbol
eye-opening
eyeball (eyeball-popping)
eye-opening
eyeball-popping conference the new information was ~ (a murder investigation)
an ~ (politics)
consciousness & awareness: eye
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping,
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill eye-popping
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
eye-popping (stock) performance
April 13, 2020.) years of ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / gesture eye-popping $46 million
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture he pulled in an ~ (campaign contributions)
eyeball (sight) feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / eye

map, eyeball, and stars eye-roll (dismissal)

troops were still navigating by ~ (pre-GPS) biggest eye-roll
sight: eye that is the ~ I’ve ever seen you do (BBC’s The Hurricane
Tapes)
eyebrow (raise eyebrows) become an eye-roll
the term has ~ (woke)
raised eyebrows
it ~ last month when… (officer criticizes another officer) feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / eye / gesture
the report ~…
his comments on the prospect of a female Dali Lama ~ eyesore (noun)
his decision ~
eyesore
raises an eyebrow the tower is an ~ (on a mountain)
the timing ~ the cell tower near Yellowstone's Old Faithful is an ~
the armory is an ~ right now and needs a facelift
raised no eyebrows
the marriage ~ (professor / student) armory is an eyesore
the ~ right now and needs a facelift
raised (so many) eyebrows
he ~ with his announcement tower is an eyesore
the ~ (on a mountain)
instantly raised eyebrows
the timing of the murder ~ criticized as an eyesore
the cell tower has been ~ (in Yellowstone)
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture
appearance: eye / health & medicine
eye-catching flaws & lack of flaws: eye
eye-catching glow
she projected a happy, ~
F
eye-catching moves
he's got ~ (a very good lacrosse player) fabric (fabric of society, etc.)
eye-catching (white) suit fabric of (accepted) conduct
a curvy Southern belle in an ~ cheating is woven into the ~
eye-catching painted squares fabric of democracy
people living and working together is the ~
eye-catching win
she had an ~ at Indian Wells (a tennis player) fabric of our nation
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye their legacy is woven through the ~ today (gen WW I)

eye-opener fabric of our society

this division tears at the very ~ (elite vs. underclass)
eye-opener
city's fabric
the visit was an ~
violence has become a part of the ~ (Baltimore / drugs)

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social fabric facade (noun)
the stress of collapsing economies can tear the ~ apart
we have to consider the ~ of Lebanon (politics) facade of respectability
he lifted the ~ to reveal the hypocrisy
part of the fabric
I don't remember it being ~ (a sports tradition) maintained a façade of negotiation
the government began planning military action while it ~
part of the (city's) fabric
violence has become a ~ (Baltimore / drugs) peered behind the facade
the center’s reputation had taken some hits from reporters
fraying the fabric who’d ~
logging and roads are ~ of nature
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
eat away at the fabric / subterfuge / substance & lack of stubstance:
these are things that ~ of our city (hate crime on gays)
infrastructure
tearing at the fabric face (look something in the face)
this is ~ of people's lives (oil spill)
threaded itself into the fabric looked their tragic history in the face
the gang has ~ of the village the Americans had never ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb
woven into the fabric
cheating is ~ of accepted conduct face (in one’s face)
Arab Americans are deeply ~ of America
in your face
bases / environment: cloth some of these feminists can be really ~ (a Swiss woman)
fabricate (verb) in each other's face
fabricated his account the coaches wants the players ~ (call out mistakes)
there was no reason to believe that he ~ (crime) in-your-face president
fabricate data he is an ~
the fear that doctors who own company stock will ~ (drugs) get in people’s faces
fabricated evidence she was not afraid to ~ (a politician)
he ~ that he had cloned human cells (scientist) conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: face
fabricated the figures confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face
many questioned whether the medical examiner had ~ face (conflict)
fabricated and falsified get out of my face
MIT said he ~ data in a scientific paper; now ~ (leave / rude)
he ~ research findings (breast-cancer researcher)
conflict: face
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
face (face facts, etc.)
fabricated
face your problems
fabricated data you have to ~ head on
a large study was based on ~ (published cancer study)
face facts
inaccurate, incomplete or fabricated (m) it's time to ~
~ evidence
face the facts
creation & transformation: manufacturing she urged her youngest daughter to ~
fabrication (lying) faced the reality
fabrication he finally ~ that the agency was bumbling (C.I.A.)
the quote was a ~ confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb
fabrication and plagiarism face (brave face, etc.)
he committed widespread ~ in news articles
putting on a brave face
creation & transformation: manufacturing his allies are ~ (politics)
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 sometimes you just have to ~ the Rangers ~ (mortars / Takur Ghar)
appearance & reality: face face forced marriages
five girls ~ (Pakistan / result of vani tradition)
face (face anger, etc.)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb
face anger fictive meeting & seeing: face / verb
leaders ~ across Nigeria
face (in the face of)
faces the ax
the show still ~ (TV) in the face of adversity
motivate soldiers to fight on ~
face (tight) budgets the belief that men must be strong ~ (emotions)
schools ~
in the face of authority
face the challenge the defiant gesture ~
soldiers must ~ of combat with leadership, initiative, and
skill in the face of change
this marriage tradition is disappearing ~ (Yupiks)
faces a charge
he ~ of theft by deception in the face of danger
we will not blink ~ (military)
facing charges
they are ~ of murder and aggravated assault in the face of (harrowing) danger
his heroic actions ~ (military)
faced collapse
the company asked for government intervention as it ~ in the face of death
all fear of embarrassment or failure fall way ~
face danger
once you ~ over and over you lose your fear in the face of failure
the team has demonstrated resilience ~
face death why do some persist ~ while others give up
they still ~ by beheading (Saudi Arabia)
in the face of their fury
face my death the ceasefire meant little ~
a nursing staff that will help me ~ (dying)
in the face of a (major) threat
face discrimination what would they do ~ (military)
their children ~ in Somali schools (Somali Bantus)
many Israeli Arabs say they ~ in the face of (faculty) unrest
~ (at a college)
face (widespread) discrimination
laborers from rural China ~ (in China) blink in the face of danger
we will not ~ (military)
faces a (potential rabies) epidemic
the city ~ wilt in the face of threats
we will not ~
faces eviction
the business ~ when its lease expires (nightclub) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face
resistance, opposition & defeat: face
faces a (terrible economic) inheritance appearance & disappearance: face
the government ~ (Britain)
face (fly in the face)
face (tough) penalties
some young abusers do ~ (animal abuse) fly in the face of notions
the 2000 census findings ~ of…
face (strong family) pressure
they ~ to be dutiful sons flies in the face of (social) convention
his work ~ (an artist)
faces a (rough) road
President Obama ~ (politics) fly in the face of the facts
his findings ~
faces (potential) sanctions
Missouri ~ (sports) fly in the face of power
artistic works that ~ (an award)
faces (big) test
US ~ in ambitious troop rotation fly in the face of conventional wisdom
his findings ~ (scientist)
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♦ Have you ever been "dive-bombed" by a bird protecting its nest or international face
territory? That may be the basis for this expression.
he was the ~ of Iraq (Tariq Aziz)
resistance, opposition & defeat: bird
public face
face (blow up in one's face) he is the ~ of the proposed community center
he has become the ~ of the hospital (chief of trauma)
blow up in his face the Defense Secretary really is the ~ of the Pentagon to the
it could ~ (if he ignored the infraction) world
blown up in our face changing face
this has ~ (supporting Somali warlords) the ~ of a rural Colorado community (immigration)
reversal: explosion / verb representation: face
face (slap in the face) face (appearance)
slap in the face baby face
the offer was a ~ (to relatives of dead miners) the lean build, ~, and curly brown hair
a full beard to hide his ~
slap in the face of (U.S.) politicians
a ~ (Saddam's view of nine-eleven) game face
insult: face suit up and put on his ~ (NASCAR driver)
she had on her ~ (a law-enforcement officer)
face (concept) appearance: face
loss of face
easing him out of power without a ~ face (smiley face)
save face smiley-face (m)
dictators always need to ~ (China / repression) ~ stickers

private face putting a happy face on everything

he had a public face and a ~ he was still ~ (politics and the pandemic)

public face sign, signal, symbol: face / picture

I have taken a lot of trouble with my ~ (Noel Coward) faceless
true face
Iranians hide their ~ (speech)
faceless bureaucracy
try as he may, he cannot penetrate a ~
hide their (true) face
identity & nature: face
Iranians ~ (speech)
♦ "The mind thinks something, the heart feels something else, the tongue facelift
says something else, and manners do something else. It doesn't mean
people are lying. They are just dealing with you with a different undergo a (major) facelift
character." (Muhammad Atrianfar, an Iranian newspaper publisher, on
the complexities of communicating with his fellow Iranians.)
the museum will ~ (Guggenheim)
♦ "Honne or tatmae?" (A Japanese expression for the difference between amelioration & renewal: face
one's public facade and one's real feelings.)
face-saving (concept)
society: face
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: face British face-saving
face (international face, etc.) this is just an exercise in ~
face-saving compromise
face of boxing he has quietly argued for a ~ that would…
he changed the ~ (Muhammad Ali)
exercise in (British) face-saving
face of climate denial this is just an ~
President Trump has become the ~ (Al Gore)
social interaction: face
face of fashion
model diversity and the ever-changing ~ face up (face up to something)
face of (sideline) protests face up to the need
he became the ~ (NFL’s Kaepernick) the government was forced to ~ for urban planning
face of resistance face up to this problem
the Dali Lama is the ~ to Chinese rule (Tibet) soccer must ~ and tackle it (fan racism)

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confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / face impression (soon) fades
/ verb but our initial ~ as… (of a film character)
factory (creation) memories fade
~… (time)
factory of extreme weather
the supercell can be a ~ memories (of Katrina) have faded
but ~... (New Orleans)
disease-factory
packing our kids into a ~ (schools / pandemic) memory (of the Hayman fire) fades
as ~ (wildfire)
creation & transformation: manufacturing
stigma is fading
factory (glue factory) the TV appearance of teen victims suggests the rape ~
sent to the glue factory old ways have been fading
it’s time for Maguire to be ~ (disgruntled football fan) the ~ (Inuit)
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse / begins to fade
manufacturing if we offer hope, then the stigma ~ (HIV and retrovirals)
fade (verb) starting to fade
old ways of life are ~ as the Arctic thaws
faded into irrelevance
the group has ~ appearance & disappearance / decline / primacy, currency,
decline & obsolescence: light & dark / verb
fades into obscurity
he may not mind if his name ~… fade away (verb)
faded into the past fade away quickly
episodes of violence which have long ~ Native Americans) their recent memories ~ (the elderly)
fade into the background memories fade away
many prefer to ~ (teen-model sites on Internet) their recent ~ quickly (the elderly)
faded into (grim) determination support fades away
my earlier feeling of achievement ~ as we struggled… as his ~… (leader of a country)
fades out of boxing burn out or fade away
my hope is that Tyson just ~ (the boxer) playboating didn't ~ (whitewater rodeos, etc.)
faded after a few weeks appearance & disappearance / coming, arriving, staying,
her latest book got lousy reviews and ~ leaving & returning: light & dark / verb
fades over the course of a month fail (a stunning fail, etc.)
anxiety following a trauma that ~ or so isn't depression
Amazon fail
faded from the scene an ~ is a learning experience (restaurant delivery)
the anti-crime campaign ~ in most urban areas
debate fail
faded from sight after his ~ last week... (a politician)
the Rebel Flag ~ when the South was defeated…
stunning fail
fading fast it was a ~ (Boeing’s software problems with Max plane)
America's reputation is ~ (Iraq)
♦ In the dictionary I use, the only use of fail as a noun is in the
expression, “without fail.”
faded steadily
anxiety following a trauma that ~ over the course of a month failure, accident & impairment: verb to noun
applause faded faint-hearted (the faint-hearted)
as the ~ and he approached the lectern…
faint hearted
fame faded academia, like war, is not for the ~
the ~ (a writer) this is a tough business model, it’s not for the ~ (a pub)
hopes faded filmmaking is not a world for the ~ (Scorsese)
~ for 102 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine (China) eagerness & reluctance: heart
his ~ (Montagnard in Cambodian refugee camp) courage & lack of courage: heart

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fairy (Fairy Bridge, etc.) Indonesia's economy has taken a ~

Fairy Bridge imminent fall

diplomats predicted Taylor's ~ (Liberia)
we floated under the ~ (a natural arch on Buliu River)
Fairy Castle took a fall
religious coexistence ~ under Gen. Zia ul-Huq
~ is a pillar in Bryce Canyon, Utah
decline: direction
Fairy Dell
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
~ is a valley in Nevada
fall (fall from power, etc.)
Fairy Ladder Falls
we visited ~ near Dix Mountain fallen from favor
she has ~ (a replaced Broadway director)
Fairyland Canyon
~ is a valley in Bryce Canyon fell from power
he ~
Palace of the Fairy Queen
the ~ is a pillar in Bryce Canyon stand or fall
proper name: creature the theory will ~ on the strength of that argument

fairy tale (happy) stood or fell

the government ~ by its alliance with…
fairytale ending primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
this was not the ~ his glittering career deserved (soccer)
fall (defeat)
fairy-tale romance
they had a ~ fell to the Incas
the Chimu Kingdom ~ (Peru)
modern day football fairy tale
it’s a ~ (the Jamie Vardy story) fall to the opposition
resemblance: books & reading eastern Libya was first to ~

fairy tale (fantasy) fell in the first round

4 giants ~ (World Cup soccer)
just a fairy tale
fell without a shot
at first the coronavirus was ~, a rumor in the camp...
the rebel forces evaporated, and the city ~
fantasy & reality: books & reading
city fell
faith (noun) the rebels fled and the ~ without a shot

blind faith resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / verb

he had this ~ in me (defensive coach) fall (fall ill, etc.)
lose faith
fall ill
I began to ~ in him
their duty status at the time they ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: religion those who do ~ become infectious days earlier (dengue)
they began to ~ with mysterious symptoms
fall (noun)
decline: direction / verb
fall of the (police) state
with the ~
fall (fall into a coma, etc.)
fall of the Soviet Union fell into a (fatal) coma
in the chaotic period following the ~ (nuclear arms) he ~ after drinking bourbon (fraternity member)

fall from grace fell into a (deep) depression

it was a stunning ~ (Elizabeth Holmes) he ~, popping pain pills and swilling tequila

stunning fall fall into a funk

now to the ~ of a CEO it's easy to ~ about Russia's future
the jobless aren't the only people who can ~ over work
dramatic fall
it was a ~from grace (Hollywood mogul) fell into a (deep) sleep
he ~
hard fall

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fall into a dream state weight fell
its victims ~ (tokoloshe) his ~ to 165 pounds from 198 (bedridden injured skier)
consciousness & awareness: direction / verb ridership fell
~ as tourism slumped (cabs)
fall (on Friday, etc.)
viewership has been falling
fell on a school night ~ (the Olympics)
Halloween ~
blood pressure falls
occurrence: direction
~, the pulse is rapid and weak (shock)
fall (night fell, etc.) death rates (per vehicle mile) have fallen
dark had fallen decline: direction / verb
full ~ by now
fall (money)
night had fallen
~ by the time we set up camp fell 6 percent
revenues ~ (a company)
occurrence: direction
fell by 0.6%
fall (silence fell, etc.) construction spending ~ in November (US)
silence fell income fell
a~ its ~ because of… (a company)
occurrence: direction prices have been falling
disk ~ (computers / storage)
fall (numbers)
prices (subsequently) fell
fell 50% oil ~ as low as $10 a barrel
attendance ~
revenues fell
fall to (abnormally low) levels ~ 6 percent (a company)
causes the blood sugar to ~
shares fall
fell to 165 pounds from 198 profits rise, but ~ at G.E.
his weight ~ (injured bedridden skier)
stock fell
fell to 16 below zero the ~ even though the company…
temperatures ~
spending fell
fell to single digits construction ~ by 0.6% in November (US)
his popularity ratings ~
continue falling
fell to 190 million kilograms commission prices are likely to ~
the country's tea exports ~ (India)
decline: direction / verb
fell steadily
AIDS cases ~ as new, more effective drugs took hold
fall (fall into place)
attendance fell falling into place
~ more than 50 percent (at a museum) all the pieces to this investigation are ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle
cases fell
AIDS ~ as new, more effective drugs took hold fall (fall short)
exports fell fall (far) short of acceptance
the country's tea ~ to 190 million kilograms (India) we'll see improvement, but it will ~
population has fallen fall short of demand
Malaysia's wild-tiger ~ from 3,000 to 500 (2008) the teacher supply will continue to ~
ratings fell fell (7,000) short of its (recruiting) goal
his popularity ~ to single digits the Navy ~
temperatures fell fell (far) short of the (UN) goals
~ to 16 below zero the plan ~ for combating…

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falls short of its hype ♦ “To meet a walrus is to fall in love with a walrus.” (A walrus
researcher.)
the city ~ (Seattle)
♦ “I love maps, and when you get hooked, you get hooked.” (W. Graham
falls short of requirements Arader III, a preeminent map dealer of old American maps.)
improvise where the logistics system ~ (war) feeling, emotion & effect: direction
falls short of (professional) standards enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage
a doctor can be admonished if he ~ fall (weight)
fell short of its (enlistment) target weight (of the tragedy) fell
the Navy ~ the full ~ over the neighborhood (AIDS)
fall short of torture burden falls
methods that ~, such as sleep deprivation the ~ primarily on women (decisions)
fell (far) short of meeting oppression: direction / weight
it ~ the Congressional intent (government plan)
fall (fall into a category, etc.)
fell 7,000 short
the Navy ~ of its recruiting goal fall into (3) categories
pattern injuries ~ (ED)
success & failure: direction / target
failure, accident & impairment: target falls into the (choking-agent) class
fall (fall on / upon) chlorine is a chemical that ~ (ED)
fall into (two) groups
fell upon hard times field services ~—essential and nonessential (war)
she ~
fell into (two) groups
fallen on hard times he believed people ~: prey and predator
the team has ~ (losing record)
falls into the (latter) group
decline: direction
don't worry if your child ~
fall (an emotion can fall) taxonomy & classification: direction
rose and fell fall (fall into the hands, etc.)
hope ~ as the hours passed (mine-rescue attempt)
fallen into the hands
feeling, emotion & effect: direction
regions that have ~ of the insurgents
fall (fall into a rage, etc.) fall into (enemy) hands
fell into panic the material could ~ (military)
I ~ (a student) fell into (rebel) hands
fell into rages the stronghold of Korhogo ~
he ~ (after traumatic brain injury) falls into the (company's) lap
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb consumer data ~

fall (fall in love) fall into the hands

weapons that may ~ of terrorists (NBC, etc.)
fell in love with America
I ~ (exchange student) fall into the (wrong) hands
it could ~
fall in love with the (area's) seascapes
artists ~ (northern Jutland) fall into enemy hands
he feared the machine gun could ~
fell in love with (tribal) carvings
Andre Breton ~ from Oceania (artist) fell into the wrong hands
if the information ~
fell in love with the sport
like a lot of boys, he ~ straightaway (Ben Raemers) possession: direction / hand / verb

fallen in love with climbing fall (fall into chaos, etc.)

he had ~ after taking a NOLS course fell into (bloody, lawless) chaos
♦ “What can I say, I’m in love with birds.” (A birder.) Afghanistan ~

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fall into an abyss feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / verb
women with eating disorders ~ and can't get out
fall apart (verb)
fall into a (relentless) cycle
sufferers ~ of compulsive scratching fell apart
my life ~ after I discovered…
fallen into disrepair their relationship ~ (married couple)
the property had ~ the case ~ (criminal trail)
fallen into disuse fallen apart
many fire lookout towers have ~ the case against him has ~
fall into the habit argument falls apart
it is easy to ~ of using stereotypes to prejudge people but then his ~
fell into the life arrangement fell apart
their children ~ of American teenagers (Somalis) less than 2 years later, the ~
fell into a pattern life fell apart
he ~ and was caught (criminal) my ~ after I discovered…
fall into prostitution marriage fell apart
homeless kids often ~ as a form of "survival sex" she described how her perfect ~
fell into the trap plans can fall apart
the Marines ~ (ambush in Anbar Province) even the best of ~…
fallen into a trap things fell apart
the Bush administration has ~ (by invading Iraq) that's what happened in Africa, ~ (aid projects)
fell into drug abuse failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb
she ~ , self-mutilation and promiscuity (teenager)
fall behind (progress)
fell into a state of disrepair
the terminal ~ (Grand Central Terminal) fall behind
we want to keep up and not ~ (government official)
easy to fall into the US could ~ China (digital currency)
it is ~ the habit of using stereotypes to prejudge people
fallen behind at Fremont
decline: direction / verb he had ~ at Fremont, not just in history but... (school)
fall (devolve) fell behind by 3 years
our program ~ (space)
falls to the sheriffs
the ultimate responsibility for safety ~ (of jailed inmates) doomed to fall behind
they are ~ (certain categories of students)
responsibility (for safety) falls
the ultimate ~ to the sheriffs (of jailed inmates) keep up and not fall behind
we want to ~ (government official)
responsibility: direction
competition / growth & development / progress & lack of
fall (fall off the radar screen, etc.) progress: journeys & trips / movement / sports & games /
fell off the charts verb / walking, running & jumping
the song rose to number 3, then ~ fall down (verb)
fell off the radar screen
both men ~ (terrorists)
fell down
he ~ and now he's getting back up (redemption)
appearance & disappearance: direction / verb
behavior / success & failure: direction / verb
fall apart (emotionally) failure, accident & impairment: verb / walking, running &
jumping
falls apart
he ~ at the merest hint of frustration (toddler) fallen (dead)
fell apart fallen detective
he ~ and turned to heroin (after being molested) the NYPD payed tribute to its ~ (killed in line of duty)
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fallen (the fallen) fallow time
it was a ~, a frustrating time for him
living and the fallen
may God bless them, the ~ (speech to military) lay fallow
his analysis ~ for half a century (economics)
death & life: direction
euphemism: death & life lying fallow
the pier has been ~ for a long time (development)
fall off (verb)
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
rates fall off
~ rapidly after the peak (meteor shower)
fall through (verb)
decline / increase & decrease: direction / verb adoption fell through
if the ~ and they often do...
falloff (noun)
deal fell through
falloff in travel but the ~ because…
there has been a ~ to and from Bali (terrorism)
plans had fallen through
decline / increase & decrease: direction ~ (for a shared meal)
fallout (effect) sale fell through
the ~ (protests)
fallout of an (Iraqi) war
they are worried about the ~ (Egyptians) talks fall through
should the trade ~
fallout from the allegations
the firm faces continued ~ (fraud) success & failure: direction / verb
failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
fallout from the incident
the ~ was unexpected and severe falter (verb)
fallout from the resignation negotiations faltered
the newspaper is still coping with the ~ of… he threatened China with new tariffs as ~
political fallout plans have faltered
he faces the potential for ~ (politics) their ~
psychological fallout failure, accident & impairment / starting, going, continuing
the ~ to those who served in Vietnam & ending: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
mental-health fallout family (group)
the ~ has yet to peak (Gulf of Mexico)
family
contain the fallout policing is a ~ (Sgt Matt Ratana)
the US seeks to ~ from the murders of civilians
rugby family
bracing for (more) fallout our thoughts and those of the entire ~ are with the family
Washington is ~ from the scandal
member of the (European) family
affliction / effect / feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / do we want to remain a ~ or wander lost (EU)
nuclear energy
drive Greece out of the family
fallow (adjective) the EU is a heartless stepmother trying to ~
fallow relationship: family
the economy is still ~ (lack of growth)
family (gang / group)
fallow period
she was enduring a ~ and fighting irrelevance (comic) Mafia family
she endured ~s in her personal life (relationships) New York's biggest ~

fallow stretch group, set & collection: family

Disney has seen a ~ at the box office (films) family (plants)
fallow territory onion family
FIFA sees the US as ~ for soccer's growth
the ramp, a member of the ~

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orchid family famine (feast to famine)
the ~ has more than 40,000 species
feast to famine
plant family it was ~ in a couple of weeks (laid-off tech worker)
120 ~s and 300 species (Botanical Gardens)
♦ In "Gold Dust," the great writer Ibrahim al-Koni writes eloquently about
taxonomy & classification: family drought, famine, grief, exile, and homelessness associated with the
Sahara Desert.
family (animals) ♦ Upwards of 3 million people died of hunger during the Great Bengal
Famine of 1943.
families of Arabian horses
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink
there are five great ~
dolphin family
fan (verb)
killer whales, or orcas, are the largest members of the ~ fan the flames
pinniped family this senator sought to further ~ of division
monk seals are the oldest in the ~ high winds helped ~

equine family fanned the flames

the donkey, mule, and zebra are all members of the ~ he has ~ of the controversy

taxonomy & classification: family fanning the flames

he is ~ of hostility towards Muslims (a politician)
family (viruses)
fanning civil war
family of coronaviruses Iran and Syria have been ~ in Iraq
a new strain from the ~ is to blame (SARS)
increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb
family of viruses
it is a ~ that… (coronaviruses)
fan (shape)
dengue is from the same ~ that causes yellow fever alluvial fan
viral family a vast ~ extends out into the Bay of Bengal
monkeypox is a member of the same ~ as smallpox ♦ “As the sky breaks open / Its fans around him and shimmers / And into
its northern gates he rises / Snarling complete in the joy of a weasel /
taxonomy & classification: family With an elk’s horned heart in his stomach...” (“For the Last Wolverine” by
James Dickey. The aurora resembles a fan both in shape and
family (products) movement.)

resemblance / shape: fan

family of engines
the JT8D-200 is from the same ~ used on midsize jets fanatic (person)
notebook family fitness fanatic
the ~ that's won over 800 awards (computers) he is a ~
combat vehicle family health fanatic
each member of the future ~ he is a fitness trainer and a ~
member of the (future vehicle) family jade fanatic
each ~ (military) Hu Xianli, a self-professed ~ from Zhejiang Province
taxonomy & classification: family sports fanatic
family (languages) she describes herself as a ~ (Miss USA)

linguistic family camel racing fanatic

40 ethnic groups belonging to 3 ~s (Africa)
taxonomy & classification: family
family tree
family tree
the roots of his ~ lie in Ireland
branching system: family / tree
a ~ bought a racing camel for $2.7 million (UAE)
self-professed (jade) fanatic
Hu Xianli, a ~ from Zhejiang Province
describes herself as a sports fanatic
she ~ (Miss USA)
♦ "My motto is, 'Be fit, not fanatic.'" (Exercise in moderation.)
♦ Fan is short for fanatic, which comes from the Latin fanaticus, “in or of
the temple,” from fanum, or temple, and took on the meaning “inspired by
divinity.” It began to be used in the US around 1900 by sportswriters
writing about baseball enthusiasts, and the Hollywood movie industry
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enthusiasm: person / religion he conceded that he had ~ (behavior)
counterterrorism measures have ~
fanfare (attention)
went too far
with much fanfare he claims the officer ~
her appointment was announced ~ (air force) she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble)
with little fanfare pushed the limits too far
the question was added to the forms ~ in 2008 she has ~ (nudity)
with little (advanced) fanfare pushed religion too far
he visited smaller towns, ~ (a presidential candidate) the Islamists ~ (a Somali)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: music erred too far
fan out (verb) we have ~ on the side of caution

fanning out over the country swung too far

the pendulum has ~ and they want to push it back
census workers are ~ (India)
behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: distance
movement: fan / shape
failure, accident & impairment: distance
extent & scope: fan
fantasy (fairy tale, etc.) farce (noun)

fantasy land farce

it’s ~, brother, enjoy it (Logan Paul vs. Floy Mayweather)
fantasy & reality / resemblance: books & reading
fantasy (delusion)
delusion, denial and fantasy
they seek refuge in ~ (the Middle East)
fantasy & reality: mental health
far (progress)
get this far
I never thought I would ~ (immigrant success)
gone too far
we've ~ to turn back now (politics)
not go far enough
she said the law did ~ (Greta Thunberg)
progress & lack of progress: distance / journeys & trips
this was a ~, window dressing (Savoy plebiscite)
courtroom farce
the trial was less a drama than a ~
political farce
meanwhile, a ~ took place at Stormont
farce and tragedy
man walks a narrow line in nature between ~ (Antarctic)
become a farce
the law has ~ (anonymity destroyed by social media)
descended into a farce
the organizational plans have ~ (Olympic security)
follow tragedy with farce
this will undermine them, you will ~ (politics)
♦ When Marx wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy,
the second time as farce,” he was specifically comparing Napoleon
Bonaparte to his nephew, Napoleon III, the ruler Victor Hugo referred to
as Napoleon the Little.

far (too far) feeling, emotion & effect: theater

a bridge too far farewell (noun)

the idea is ~ (a bad idea that goes too far)
my head says it will be ~ (Amir Khan vs. Crawford) farewell to comedy
it is her ~
a game too far
starting, going, continuing & ending: exclamation
it was, in some respects, ~ for England (World Cup)
a step too far
farm (enterprise)
this could just be ~ (Khan vs. Crawford) body farm
this approach is ~ (media coverage) the ~ has revolutionized forensic anthropology
a bit too far cadaver dogs will train at the ~ (North Carolina)
he takes his theory ~ content farm
way too far Demand Media is a ~
this ideology has gone ~ ~s employ freelance writers
~s supply articles based on search-engine queries
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tank farm fat (adjective)
one of the facility's two ~s was destroyed (chemicals)
getting fat
wave farm the regime is ~ while the poor suffer
the world's first ~ off Portugal (generating electricity)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: fatness & thinness
wind farm
a 20-megawatt ~ with 13-16 windmills fatal (adjective)
the ~ contains some 4,000 individual windmills (CA)
fatal mistake
Wind Farm he called it a “pretty ~” (election prospects)
the Gray County ~ in Kansas
destruction: death & life / health & medicine
computer server farm
his Websites were connected to the same ~ in Russia
fatally (fatally wounded, etc.)
wave energy farm fatally wounded
the US has awarded a permit to conduct testing for a ~ the campaign is ~ (politics / election)

product: farming & agriculture destruction: death & life / health & medicine

far-off (time) fat cat

far-off days fat cat
the ~ of the quill pen and the ink well plutocrats, ~s… (rich politicians)

past & present / time: distance money: cat / fatness & thinness

far-reaching father (father of India, etc.)

far-reaching father of landscape architecture
his predictions are ~ and broad America's ~, Frederick Law Olmsted

far-reaching changes father of (modern) hot-air ballooning

Congress is expected to make ~ in the law that… he was the ~ (Ed Yost / propane)

far-reaching consequences Father of Bibliography

the finding could have ~ for how patients... he earned his title as the ~ (Konrad Gesner)

far-reaching importance father of bluegrass

something of ~ the legendary ~, Bill Monroe

far-reaching and broad father of American musical comedy

his predictions are ~ he is considered the ~ (George M. Cohan)

extent & scope: arm / distance father of the atomic bomb

the man known as the ~ (Oppenheimer)
farsighted
heroic and farsighted Father of the (Pakistani) bomb
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the ~ (nuclear)
his dedication to space flight was ~ (Von Braun)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye
father of containerization
Malcolm P. McLean, the ~
fashion (out of fashion)
Father of Country Music
fallen out of fashion Jimmie Rodgers is known as “the ~”
empathy has ~
father of CPR
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: clothing & Peter Safar, the “~”
accessories
fathers of flight
fashion (noun) the Wright brothers are considered the ~
political and intellectual fashions father of modern gynecology
they have picked up the latest ~ (overseas Indians) James Marion Sims was known as the “~” (fistula)
appearance & reality: clothing & accessories father of Impressionism
substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories he is often called the ~ (Manet)
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 Mohandas K. Gandhi, the ~ (from Gujarat) Red, and Yazoo. // Down the Missouri, three thousand miles from the
Rockies; / Down the Ohio, a thousand miles from the Alleghenies; /
father of the Internet Down the Arkansas, fifteen hundred miles from the Great Divide; / Down
the Red, a thousand miles from Texas; / Down the great Valley, twenty-
Vint Cerf is often called “The ~” five hundred miles from Minnesota, / Carrying every rivulet and brook,
creek and rill, / Carrying all the rivers that run down two-thirds the
fathers of (Angola's) independence continent-- / The Mississippi runs to the Gulf.” (Narration from The River
Holden Roberto, one of the ~ by Pare Lorentz, 1938, a New Deal government-financed documentary.)

father of tropical medicine epithet: river

Patrick Manson, the ~ fathom (verb)
father of the (Bengali) nation
fathom the magnitude
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is often called the ~
she didn’t ~ of the problem (immigration)
father of neurosurgery
difficult to fathom
he was hailed as the ~ (Harvey Cushing, brain surgeon)
his demeanor made the attack even more ~ (murderer)
father of Pakistan comprehension & incomprehension: depth / sea
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the ~
fatigue (noun)
father of progress
necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the ~ compassion fatigue
we are all vulnerable to ~
father of modern protozoology
I’ve seen him referred to as “the ~” (Fritz Schaudinn) feedback fatigue
I am suffering from such a serious case of ~
father of science fiction
Jules Verne, conventionally considered the ~ politics fatigue
~ is when you’re sick of talking about politics
father of modern surgery
John Hunter, the ~ ♦ “I find it really annoying when they send me those emails, I never
review anything... You just buy the smallest thing and you’re asked to
review it. You know, you buy a metre of string and you’re asked to review
father of Russian field surgery it. I mean, it’s ridiculous.” (BBC, Sounds, Business Daily, “Feedback
N.I. Pirogov, known as the ~... Fatigue,” 25 Oct 2017.)

Internet ‘father” condition & status: health & medicine

~ Vint Cerf on challenges ahead
fault (fault line)
♦ Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime. (A Chinese
proverb.)
fault line
♦ Gandhi is often referred to as the Father of India. Gandhi himself the ~s break people into two camps (computers)
referred to his mentor Dadabhai Naoroji as the Father of the Nation.
Every father has a father. race is the ~

creation & transformation: epithet / family society’s fault lines

epithet / person: family invasion and occupation expose a ~
Father Time Sunni-Shiite fault line
the ~ originated in the deserts of Iraq in the 7th century
Father Time
there is no stopping ~ sectarian fault line
Jurf as-Sakhr sits right on a ~ (Sunni / Shiite)
father time
~ catches up with everyone (a boxer) exposed (deep) fault lines
the referendum has ~ in Latvia (with ethnic Russians)
outrun Father Time
it’s impossible to ~ (boxing and age) exposed a (stark) fault line
the Smollett case has ~ between Chicago, county and state
time: epithet / family
lays bare the fault lines
Father of Waters (epithet) the report ~ that divide this group (Amish)
Father of Waters division & connection: earthquake / ground, terrain & land
the ~ again goes unvexed to the sea (Mississippi River)
“Down the Yellowstone, the Milk, the White and Cheyenne; / The
Faustian (adjective)
Cannonball, the Musselshell, the James and the Sioux; / Down the
Judith, the Grand, the Osage and the Platte, / The Skunk, the Salt, the Faustian
Black and Minnesota; / Down the Rock, the Illinois, and the Kankakee, / we have this bargain, you can call it ~ if you want (tech)
The Allegheny, the Monongahela, Kanawha, and Muskingum; / Down the
Miami, the Wabash, the Licking and the Green, / The Cumberland, the Faustian bargain
Kentucky, and the Tennessee; / Down the Ouachita, the Witchita, the

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 Obama made a ~ with the Republicans to…
he accused them of striking a ~ to regulate…
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / person / religion
favorite son
febrile (adjective)
febrile atmosphere
the judge postponed the trial so it could take place in a less ~
the ~ of the city was... (siege of Constantinople)

favorite son febrile energy

he was welcomed to Ireland like a ~ (Obama) the play has the ~ of the wilder parties of your youth

person: family febrile (political) environment

achievement, recognition & praise / superlative / worth & in that ~ (Arab Spring)
lack of worth: family / person
febrile nationalism
fealty (noun) Modi seeks to hold power in a climate of ~ (India)

fealty to the Constitution activity: health & medicine / temperature

Republicans took control of the House with a show of ~ feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / temperature

fealty to Israel fed up

she has criticized those who demand that she show ~ fed up
allegiance, support & betrayal: history / Middle Ages / he got ~ and quit the team
royalty ~, his wife challenged him to…
people really felt ~ (government corruption)
feast (feast for the eyes, etc.)
fed up with being stereotyped
feast for the ears pensioners are ~ on TV as grumpy or sweet
our ringside commentary team is a ~
fed up with (growing) hordes
feast for the eyes people are ~ of homeless people begging on their streets
it was a ~
fed up with incumbents
feast of great music and chat the electorate is ~ (elections)
they present a ~ (a radio show)
fed up with the police
feast of arts and culture people are ~ (slow response times)
he dives into the ~ on offer in North Yorkshire (BBC)
fed up with their (justice) system
visual and musical feast polls show that Mexicans are ~
it is a fast-paced ~ from start to finish (a stage show)
fed up with the (preferential) treatment
appearance: eye / food & drink inmates are ~ she's been getting (a jailed celebrity)
superlative: food & drink
fed up with the lack of progress
feast (feast to famine, etc.) the commission, ~, gave both parties a year to accept

feast to famine fed up with what’s going on

it was ~ in a couple of weeks (laid-off tech worker) people are ~ (protests)

feast or famine amount / consumption / feeling, emotion & effect /

freelancing is ~ (lost job to pandemic) sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / stomach
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink feed (fuel)
feather (ruffle feathers) feeds a climate
reject language that ~ (politics)
ruffled some feathers
he ~ and bruised egos (a general) feeds the insurgency
government corruption ~
ruffle feathers in history departments
she is the latest revisionist to ~ feed extremism
how poverty may ~ (Morocco)
ruffled feathers in Washington
he ~ with his warnings (a diplomat) feeds lawlessness and instability
Afghanistan's immense opium harvest ~
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird
feeds fears, prejudices, and hate
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increase & decrease: food & drink / verb feed into and off of
consumption: food & drink / verb they ~ of the anger of people (preachers)
relationship / supplying: food & drink / verb
consumption / increase & decrease / supplying: food &
feed (direct) drink
feed intelligence to airlines feed (feed into)
the US will now ~ (terrorist watch lists)
feed into the Owyhee
directing / supplying: food & drink / verb these streams ~ (Idaho river)
feed (supply) branching system: river / verb
fed Mayorga a (steady) diet feed (drip feed)
he ~ of left hooks and right hands (De La Hoya)
drip feed of outrage
fed the Germans (fake) gossip there’s a constant ~ (social media)
Elvira Chaudoir ~ (World War II)
supplying: water
feeds the (fast farm) empire
the canal ~ of the Imperial Valley feed (video, etc.)
feeds the production feeds off the Web
there’s a whole supply chain that ~ of the plane TVs can receive video ~
supplying: food & drink / verb video feed
consumption: food & drink / verb tap into the ~ between…(two cities);
TVs can receive ~s off the Web
feed (satisfy)
live feed
feed the (public) appetite monitored a ~ from their console video screens
the Y has increased the number of debates to ~ reporters in another room reported on the ~ (Oscars)
tap, feed and nurture transmission: tools & technology
he wants to ~ this anger (politician appeals to base)
feed (auto feed, etc.)
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
consumption: food & drink feed automatically
remaining towels ~ for next use (from canister)
feed (feed on / off / into something)
auto feed (m)
fed on his antics ~ function (paper shredder)
the tabloid media have ~ for years (a celebrity)
supplying: mechanism
feed on fear
they ~ of immigrants (extremists) feedback (noun)
feeds on itself feedback
fear ~ the company takes ~ from them
your ~ will help us
feed on one another ~ makes clear the connection between…
these cycles of outrage ~ (social media) give your team members ~ they can act on
feeds off such (public) anger feedback on their strengths and weaknesses
the group ~ (collateral damage) tests give them ~ (students)
feeds off ignorance feedback about their performance
he's the type who ~ (a radio commentator) give corrective ~ (teachers)
feed off the misery feedback loops
there are predators who ~ of the refugees complex ~ (AI / computers)
feed into a (broader public) discontent consumer feedback
concerns about unions ~ with powerful institution user-opinion sites offer ~
feeds into (the deepest) fears customer feedback
his speech ~ text mining software to analyze ~
feeds into stereotypes corrective feedback
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 give ~ about their performance (teachers) amelioration & renewal: direction / foot / standing, sitting
& lying
immediate feedback
achievement is higher when kids receive ~ (school) feet (drag one's feet)
regular feedback dragging its feet
~ is more desirable than sporadic feedback (schools) the Pentagon has been ~ (on legalizing gays in military)
sporadic feedback dragging its feet on steroids
regular feedback is more desirable than ~ (schools) the players union must stop ~ (MLB)
give (corrective) feedback dragged its feet on carrying out
~ about their performance (teachers) Japan's Parliament has ~ laws…
provides feedback action, inaction, & delay: foot / movement / verb
the teacher ~ (during seatwork assignments)
feet (hold somebody's feet to the fire)
judgment: mechanism
hold their feet to the fire
feeler (put out feelers, etc.) you've got to ~ (to get them to act)
put out feelers hold the airline's feet to the fire
several clubs have ~ about him (an NFL player) he vowed to ~ (a regulator)
searching & discovery: animal / arm / insect / verb coercion & motivation: fire / verb / violence
feeling (sinking feeling) feet (knock somebody off their feet)
sinking feeling knocked me off my feet
I had a ~ (on a date) her response ~
sinking feeling in the pit feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability
I had a ~ of my stomach (about to lose)
feet (stand on one’s own two feet)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction
stand on their own two feet
feet (think on one’s feet) nobody knows when they will be able to ~ (Iraqi army)

think on their feet growth & development: standing, sitting & lying
they must be able to ~ (Green Beret trainees)
feet (get one's feet wet)
haste / readiness & preparedness: foot
get her feet wet
feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.) it's a chance for her to ~

back on its feet experience: water

I wanted to see it ~, get it up and running (a town)
feet (feet first)
landed on his feet
he ~ (fired, but found a better job) feet first
the soldiers came out of the hospital, ~ (yellow fever)
land on my feet
death & life: foot
my family calls me Kat because I always ~ (survivor)
euphemism: death & life
get back on its feet feet (at the feet of someone, etc.)
the department is beginning to ~ (university)
get back on their feet at the feet of the president
people need help to ~ Democrats have been laying the blame ~ (politics)

get back on your feet falls at the feet of the president

this will help you ~ (medicine) this ~ (responsibility)

get back on our feet lay every problem at the president’s feet
after we ~, after the economy gets going again (pandemic) she tries to ~
responsibility: foot / proximity
got (back) on his feet
he finally ~ financially feisty (adjective)
resiliency: direction / foot / standing, sitting & lying feisty (TV) debate

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 the candidates’ divisions were laid bare in the ~ activity: alcohol / chemistry
♦ This word can have good and bad connotations. A feist is a small ferocious (adjective)
hunting dog, used in the Southern Appalachians to hunt bear. They can
range through the laurel and rhododendron more easily than larger dogs,
and the adult feist trains the puppies. ferocious battle
a ~ is being waged in California (same-sex marriage)
character & personality: animal / dog
ferocious fires
fell (verb) ~ burned through the Sana Monica Mountains
fells Navy skipper ferocious (American) response
video scandal ~ there is going to be a ~ (diplomacy)
destruction: direction / verb ferocious storm
fence (division) they were caught in a ~ near the summit of Les Droites
countries in the Caribbean that have to deal with ~s
good fences ferocious wildfire
~ make good neighbors ~ destroys 8,000 acres (California)
division & connection: fence
ferocious winds
fence (mend fences) ~ have fueled the fire (California)

mending fences more ferocious

he is ~ (trying to re-establish broken trust) the media attacks were ~ than ever (on Labor Party)

mend fences with the Arab countries destruction / predation: animal / wolf
he started to ~ (Abdullah of Jordan) ferret (ferret out)
mend fences with Great Britain ferreted out the (hidden) information
the State Department is trying to ~ they ~
amelioration & renewal: fence / verb searching & discovery: animal / verb
fence (on the fence, etc.) fester (verb)
on the fence
fester
he is trying hard to stay ~ (between Russia, US)
better to correct now than to let the situation ~ (relationship)
allegiance, support & betrayal: fence
fester on the internet
position, policy & negotiation: fence
hate and violence ~
fence (straddle the fence)
festering for years
straddling the (diplomatic) fence these problems have been ~
the Yemeni leader is ~ (US vs. Iraq)
fester online
came off his fence hateful sites ~
on 7 July, Bernadotte finally ~ and began marching
hatred festers
allegiance, support & betrayal: fence / verb ~ in the Middle East
position, policy & negotiation: fence / verb affliction / corruption / starting, going, continuing & ending:
fence (fence-straddling) health & medicine / verb

fence-straddling politician fetish (noun)

he's just another ~
fetish for manufacturing
♦ The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!
they both share a ~ (politicians)
allegiance, support & betrayal: fence
turned him into a fetish
position, policy & negotiation: fence
the Republicans have ~ (Ronald Reagan)
ferment (noun)
importance & significance: religion
ferment and activity fetishize (verb)
there is a great deal of ~ in Iran
cultural ferment fetishize (military) funerals
we ~ so we can continue to allow our kids to be killed
it was a time of ~ (Russian poetry)

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fetishize the work war fever
we ~ of great artists as somehow mythical (music) every few decades, the US catches a case of foreign "~"
importance & significance: religion / verb "go fever"
we do not want to get ~ (shuttle launches)
feud (noun)
patriotic fever
feuds crowds energized with ~ (the Olympics)
the music industry thrives on ~
yellow fever
family feud some men have ~ (lust for Oriental women)
a long and bitter ~ over the estate of Jimi Hendrix
this exposes a real ~, a generational divide (Democrats) behavior: health & medicine

academic feud fever (enthusiasm)

this ~ began to poison the project (undersea mapping)
football fever
bitter and long-running feud get ready for ~ (English Premier League start)
the bloody culmination of a ~ (cop / citizen)
soccer fever
feud between (next-door) neighbors Germany has Fussballfieber—~ (2006 World Cup)
a ~ led to a confrontation
Super Bowl fever
flare-up of their long-running feud not everyone is caught up in ~
the latest ~ (2 NASCAR drivers)
enthusiasm: health & medicine
♦ The Howards and the Turners; the Hatfield and the McCoys; the
Frenches and Eversoles; the Martins and Tollivers; the Bakers and
Howards... (Famous Appalachian family feuds.)
fevered (adjective)
♦ “Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against the Campbells, but I would fevered speculation
not stay a night in the company of one.” (Said by a MacDonald recently,
referring to a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells after the
details derived from rumor and ~ (mass murder)
Campbells had accepted the MacDonalds’ hospitality. The murders took
place in 1692.)
activity: health & medicine / temperature
♦ Dante put Mosca dei Lamberti in hell as a sower of discord for the role feverish (adjective)
he played in igniting the feud between the Amidei and Buondelmonti in
Florence.
feverish activity
conflict: violence it is now the scene of ~ (a disaster)

fever (fever tree, etc.) feverish labor

the end result of years of ~ (the A-bomb)
fever tree
yellow-tinged trunks of the ~ glow (Kruger Park) feverish talk
the ~ of an imminent attack has ebbed (military)
proper name: health & medicine / tree
activity: health & medicine / movement / temperature
fever (behavior)
feverishly
fever pitch
all of these issues have reached a ~ (politics) feverishly courting
she has been ~ black voters
cabin fever
~ plagues Vermont all winter working feverishly
people are getting ~ we are ~ (disaster relief)
the US is ~ behind the scenes (diplomacy)
launch fever
one thing we have to guard against is ~ worked feverishly
doctors ~ to save him
lottery fever
~ draws people from surrounding states (to buy tickets) activity: health & medicine / movement / temperature

partisan fever fever pitch (noun)

Washington’s well-known ~ (vs. decorum and discretion) reached a fever pitch
spring fever speculation ~… (possible military action)
September is the evil twin of ~ activity: health & medicine / temperature
summit fever
they call it "~" (failure to summit not an option)

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few and far between so fierce
the frenzied rumors have become ~ that...
few and far between she feels a stab of love ~ (mother for husband, kids)
we are ~ (a Parsi) ♦ “We’re standing up for fierce women who raised me to never back
down from a tough fight.” (Politics.)
amount: distance
♦ “In the mellowing afterglow of victory, they don’t seem so fierce.”
fiddle (second fiddle) (Elected women.)

behavior: animal
plays second fiddle
when you worry about your family, the other stuff ~ fiery (character)
play second fiddle to UFC fiery (clubhouse) leader
boxing had to ~ he is their ~ (an athlete)
importance & significance / priority / superiority & fiery preacher
inferiority: music / number / position the ~ has died at 91
fiefdom (control) fiery temperament
the son inherited his father's ~
fiefdom of his ship
a captain was a monarch of the floating ~ (1777) fiery and brash
she is ~
personal fiefdom
the Rainbow Coalition is his ~ (Jesse Jackson) character & personality: fire / temperature
initiation: fire / temperature
rival fiefdoms
the two groups were ~ (criminal investigation) fiery (speech)
theoretical fiefdom fiery debate
everybody wants to create their own little ~ (research) heated words were exchanged during the ~
one-man fiefdom fiery denunciation
his department was a ~ that he defended from the outside the charges resulted in ~s of labor unions
he ran a ~, he called all the shots (Curtis Institute of Music)
speech: fire / temperature
runs his or her own fiefdom initiation: fire / temperature
the cabinet secretary generally ~ (without interference)
fight (verb)
control & lack of control: Middle Ages
area: ground, terrain & land / Middle Ages fighting urban blight
the group is devoted to ~ (buildings)
field (verb)
fighting to beat back
fielding calls Yahoo and AOL are ~ spammers
he had been ~ about the accident most of the night ♦ “It’s an uphill battle... We’re gonna fight him in congress, we’re gonna
fight in the courts, and I believe that a large segment of the American
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sports & games public will fight the president on this.” (Democratic representative
/ verb Joaquin Castro of Texas, channeling his inner Winston Churchill.)

fierce (adjective) conflict: military / verb

resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
fierce battles
waging ~ with unions and regulators
fight (food fight)
fierce (custody) battle food fights
he was the object of a ~ you can’t be proud when you have ~ breaking out in the
White House (politics)
fierce criticism
the coach backpedaled after ~ from Chinese fans... procedural food fight
the trial will kick off with a ~ (impeachment trial)
fierce (price) wars
~ have reduced profits equivalent of a food fight
it was the political ~ (presidential debate)
fierce women
behavior / conflict: school & education
we’re standing up for ~ (politics)
fierce and noisy
fighter (street fighter)
Tunisians are locked in a ~ debate about Islam in politics street fighter

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 can hope, change and unity beat Trump, or do you have to filthy (bad)
be a ~
some wonder if he is the ~ they want or need (candidate) filthy habit
conflict: person / violence smoking is a ~
strength & weakness: person / violence worth & lack of worth: hygiene
fig leaf filthy (filthy rich)
fig leaf to cover filthy lucre
democracy is only a ~ the powers of capital I am not immune to the lure of ~ (a writer)
fig leaf for its (geopolitical) ambitions filthy rich
the US uses the UN as a ~ there's rich and then there's ~
fig leaf for imperialism sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: hygiene
democracy is a ~
filthy (corruption)
fig leaf for (US) occupation
the Afghan elections are a ~ filthy business
greed has turned our health-care system into a ~
fig leaf for politicians
the reform bill is a ~ opposed to any serious action filthy mess
we must clean up this ~ (Wall Street)
fig leaf for (US) withdrawal
"Vietnamization" was a ~ filthy politics
we have seen eight years of ~
fig leaf for profiteering
philanthropy is often a ~ corruption: hygiene

very small fig leaf indeed filthy (sex)

“communist influence” was now a ~ in the surveillance
filthy joke
under the fig leaf of comedy he cracked ~s
he hides his conservatism ~
filthy mind
♦ Clement XIII (1693-1769) covered the genitalia of the Vatican's nudes
people who see sex in this have ~s
with fig leaves.
old people have ~s, too
concealment & lack of concealment / substance & lack of
substance: clothing & accessories
filthy piece of trash
the book is a ~ ("Lolita" by VN)
figurehead (noun)
called the play filthy
figureheads Comstock ~ ("Mrs. Warren's Profession by GBS)
the old play-writing establishment and its ~ sex: hygiene
figurehead of the Somali community finale (noun)
she became a ~ in Canada
representation: boat
finale
you've just seen the first act, the ~ is yet to come (trial)
filling (content) development: theater
filling starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
the ~ is always a surprise (Twilight Zone episodes) find (a date can find us, etc.)
♦ “There was a signature tone to the stories, the same dark chocolate
coating—but the filling was always a surprise.” (Charlie Brooker, creator found the travelers in Rome
of Black Mirror, about the older Twilight Zone series.)
August 12 ~
content: food & drink fictive meeting & seeing: verb
filter (verb) find (discover)
filter the news found that
the Chinese ~ we ~ the language became more hostile (a study)
dismissal, removal & resignation: air / hygiene / water analysis, interpretation & explanation: hunting
searching & discovery: hunting

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find (hope, etc.) finger (lift a finger)
found Jesus in prison lift a finger for him
John Ellis Sparks ~ (Alabama murderer) I wouldn't ~
searching & discovery: hunting help & assistance: finger / hand / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: finger / hand / verb
fine-tune (verb)
finger (fingers crossed)
fine-tune a search
you can ~ by using wildcards (computers) fingers crossed
~, we go to Sunday full of energy (Liverpool FC)
fine-tune scripts it’s ~ that it continues... (noisy neighbors quiet down)
she can ~
keeping my fingers crossed
fine-tuned the work in progress I was ~ (mass shooting survivor)
together they ~
fate, fortune & chance: finger / gesture / verb
amelioration & renewal: music / verb
finger-pointing
finger (accusation)
finger pointing
finger of blame there was much ~
he points the ~ at his business partner (trial) there is plenty of ~ going on (blame)
finger of guilt finger-pointing
circumstantial evidence also pointed the ~ in this man’s ~ began even before the fighting ended
direction
finger-pointing among Democrats
accusing finger her loss led to a round of ~ (election)
it's easy to point an ~
the ~ has been pointed in every direction finger-pointing and accusations
a lot of ~ (NASA failure)
accusation & criticism: finger / gesture
finger-pointing and (political) posturing
finger (slip through one's fingers) we must put behind us ~ and solve this problem
slipped through their fingers years of (squabbling and) finger-pointing
he ~ (a criminal) after ~ (UN conference)
attainment: finger / hand / verb squabbling and finger-pointing
possession: finger / hand / verb after years of ~ (UN conference)
finger (in the snap of a finger) accusation & criticism: finger / gesture
went from 0 to 60 in the snap of a finger fingerprint
he ~ (car driver)
computer fingerprint
speed: finger / gesture / sound every visit leaves a ~
finger (snap one’s fingers) digital fingerprint
snap their fingers the program leaves none of the traditional ~s (malware)
can they just ~ and make this happen (policy) genetic fingerprint
creation & transformation: finger / gesture / magic a person's nearly unique ~

finger (point a finger) Saudi fingerprints

~ are everywhere (politics)
pointing fingers at the company
people are ~ unique (genetic) fingerprint
a person's nearly ~
point fingers and criticize
evidence: finger / mark
a lot of people want to ~ (disaster relief)
right to point fingers
fingertip (at one's fingertips)
the US has no ~ at his fingertips
accusation & criticism: finger / gesture / verb he has helicopters and jets ~ (Vice President)
proximity: finger / hand

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finger-wagging he has come ~ (visas)

finger-wagging under fire from (human rights) groups

Egypt recently came ~
this ~ sparked a reaction (mask-wearing)
accusation & criticism: finger / gesture come under fire
Chinese mink farms have ~ for skinning minks alive
fire (a question, etc.) his judgment has repeatedly ~ (a prosecutor)

fire the same questions accusation & criticism: military / weapon

they would ~ over and over again (police interrogation) speech: weapon

conflict: verb / weapon fire (draw fire, etc.)

fire (conflict) drawing fire
the plan is ~
racial fires
he is stoking the ~ (politician) face fire
he is going to ~ from his fellow candidates (debate)
on fire
the Middle East is ~ (protests, regime change) accusation & criticism: military / weapon
speech: military / weapon
extinguish a fire
he was trying to ~ that would not die (civil rights)
fire (fire back)
lit the (prairie) fire firing back
this became the spark that ~ (a political issue) Smollett is ~ and his legal team is digging in

stoking the (racial) fires fired back at her attackers

he is ~ (politician) she ~
accusation & criticism: military / weapon
conflict: fire speech: weapon / verb
fire (through the fire, etc.) fire (flash fire)
Harris has been ~ and knows what it feels like
flash fire of hope
character & personality / experience: fire he ignited a ~ (Obama)
fire (substance) amount & effect: fire
fire fire (hold somebody's feet to the fire)
where there’s smoke, there’s ~
hold their feet to the fire
evidence / substance & lack of substance: fire you've got to ~ (to get them to act)
fire (criticism) hold the airline's feet to the fire
he vowed to ~ (a regulator)
heavy fire
he has been taking ~ from his rivals (Democratic politics) coercion & motivation: fire / verb / violence
incoming fire fire (on fire / feeling)
he's going to take all this ~ (a politician)
on fire
took (incoming) fire the team came out ~ (playing well
I ~ on social media for that...
feeling, emotion & effect: fire
accusation & criticism: military / weapon
speech: weapon
fire (fire and desire, etc.)
fire (under fire) fire in my belly
I didn’t have that ~ (to become president)
under fire
his judgment has repeatedly come ~ fire and desire
he is ~ after an unconfirmed report surfaced... they have some young players with ~ (soccer)
she displayed coolness ~ (political debate performance) competitive fires
under fire for not arresting he admitted his ~ had been banked (pro athlete)
the FBI is coming ~ feeling, emotion & effect: fire
under fire for his policy commitment & determination: fire

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fire (light a fire under somebody) firebrand (person)
light a fire under him liberal firebrand
we need to ~ (motivation) ~ Elizabeth Warren took center stage at the heated forum
he is not known as a ~ (a Democratic politician)
lit a fire under that boy’s ass
whatever it was, something ~ (Shawshank Redemption) character & personality: fire / person
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / person
coercion & motivation: fire / verb / violence person: fire / temperature
fire (fuel on the fire, etc.) fired up
fire of (toxic) political warfare fired up
this will pour fuel on the ~ I'm ~ and ready to go to the finals (victor)
pour fuel on the fire feeling, emotion & effect: fire
this will ~ of toxic political warfare
fire up (verb)
poured gas on the fire
the president ~ with a provocative tweet (sports issue) fire up the Democratic foot soldiers
a tweet ~ when... (sports dispute) she wants to ~ (politics)
throws gas on the fire fire up the Democratic base
Palin ~ in Iowa (politics) he wants to ~
threw kerosene on an already blazing situation feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
his cheap shots ~ coercion & motivation: fire / verb
drain the fuel away firestorm (noun)
the military alone will not ~ from the jihadists
firestorm of criticism
increase & decrease: fire the government is trying to respond to a ~
he was fired after a ~ (a comic from SNL)
fire (play with fire)
firestorm of envy
playing with fire it would create a ~ (a transfer)
you better be careful, you're ~
I hope they appreciate the degree to which they are ~ firestorm over his allegations
(diplomacy) the ~ shows no sign of abating
fate, fortune & chance: fire / verb media firestorm
his threat to burn the holy book caused a ~
fire (catch fire)
political and public relations firestorm
caught fire his firing ignited a ~ (free-speech issue)
none of these websites have taken off and ~
the youth movement ~ (US / counterculture) at the center of a (political) firestorm
his campaign ~ in the spring (politics) the oil leak has put BP ~ (oil spill)
his senate race ~ in 2018 (politics)
her campaign never ~ or even showed signs of a spark created a firestorm
the book has ~
catches fire
around 2015, suddenly the movement ~ (flat earthers) ignited a (national) firestorm
he ~ with his blog post
interest (in Dante) caught fire
Harvard was where his ~ set off a firestorm
he ~ of opposition when he…
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: fire
found himself in a firestorm
firebomb (noun) he ~ after key investor withdrawals (hedge fund)
♦ "For the first time in my life I beheld a raging forest fire at close
rhetorical firebomb quarters, a fearful spectacle! Enormous cedars, gripped by the flame,
this was a ~ that he deliberately detonated (“lynching”) were blazing like colossal torches. Beneath them, on the ground, was a
sea of fire. Everything was burning, grass, fallen leaves, trunks, logs,
amount & effect: explosion / weapon stumps. We could hear living trees groan and burst from the heat. The
attention, scrutiny & promotions: explosion / weapon yellow smoke rolled upwards in enormous billows. Waves of fire raced
over the ground. Tongues of flame wound round the stumps and licked
the red-hot rocks… I saw a wild boar make his way across the river, a
big snake swim sinuously over, and a woodpecker flew from tree to tree

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like a mad thing, while a nutcracker never ceased its raucous chatter… rising star in the (Lincoln) firmament
(Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
General Grant was a ~
amount & effect: fire
part of the (political) firmament
firing squad he has just been ~ for so long (Joe Biden)

literary firing squads environment: astronomy

and then come the ~ (Amos Oz on criticism) fish (verb)
accusation & criticism / judgment: justice / military
fishing for information
firewall (computers) she was ~

firewall fishing for referrals

upgraded the ~ that was supposed to keep hackers out he is always ~ (a businessman)

firewall program pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / verb

you can download a good ~ (computer) fish (big fish)
firewall software
Windows XP includes basic ~ (Internet security)
big fish
the arrest is big progress because he is a ~ (LRA leader)
firewall, network and browser (m) the first ~ to testify was Vincent “Fat Vinnie” Teresa
flaws in its ~ settings (Windows)
big fish in a small pond
Great Firewall back home, I was a ~ (a model now in Miami)
the ~ of China can censor the Internet
get the big fish
high-security firewall the only way you can ~ is through the little fish (crime)
~s that protect secret data (computers) ♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a
minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)
computer / protection & lack of protection: fire
importance & significance: animal / fish / size
firewall (other) power / strength & weakness: animal / fish / size
firewall size: animal / fish
black voters are his “~” (they will vote for him) fish (small fish)
firewall against Nancy Pelosi’s agenda small fish
we are the ~ (Trump Republicans) he was a ~ (an elderly Nazi)
firewall hopes importance & significance: animal / fish / size
his ~ aren’t unfounded (politician needs black vote) power / strength & weakness: animal / fish / size
size: animal / fish
firewall state
his campaign needs a good result in his ~ fish (fish out of water)
protection & lack of protection: fire fish out of water
fireworks (conflict) I was a ~ out there (rookie NASCAR driver)
environment: fish
fireworks
this congressional hearing was notable for its ~ (antagonism) fish (different kettle of fish)
conflict: explosion / sound / speech different kettle of fish
firmament (noun) we’re a ~ (southeastern vs west Michiganders)
taxonomy & classification: animal / fish / food & drink
public-health firmament
nobody in the ~ was doing anything (early days of AIDS) fishbowl (in a fishbowl)
place in the (current Democratic) firmament works in a fishbowl
he doesn’t occupy the ~ that Schiff does everyone in media today ~ (criticism, etc.)
star in the (neoconservative) firmament environment: fish / water
Bloom had become a ~
fishbowl (other)
stars of the (democratic foreign-policy) firmament
they are the ~ fishbowl
his office was a ~

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 she hated living in a ~ (a celebrity) force / oppression: fist
environment: fish / water fit (adjective)
fisheye (fisheye view, etc.) fit to stand trial
a psychiatrist determined that she was ~
fisheye view
a ~ from Spirit's navigation camera shows… (Mars) ability & lack of ability / condition & status / flaws & lack of
flaws: health & medicine
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / fish / position
fishtail (verb) fit in (verb)
fishtails fit in
he ~ well (a teammate)
the vehicle ~ under hard steering (rollover accidents)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mechanism
movement: animal / fish / verb
society: center & periphery
fishy (something smells fishy, etc.) fitness (ability)
something fishy
cops were pretty sure that ~ was going on
fitness to practice
aging doctors' ~ has come under question
smells fishy
something ~
fitness for office
some question his ~
smelled (very) fishy
the timing ~ (article causes stock to plunge)
fitness of Thomas
the association split on the ~ for the Supreme Court
something fishy
he noticed ~ (a scam)
reproductive fitness
~ is a factor in evolution
noticed something fishy
he ~ (a scam)
spiritual fitness
the Army now assesses the ~ of troops (US)
"There’s something dead up the branch." (A Southern Appalachians
expression.) spiritual-fitness (m)
evidence / suspicion: animal / fish soldiers are suing to eliminate the ~ assessment (US)

fissure ability & lack of ability: health & medicine

flaws & lack of flaws: health & medicine
deep fissure fix (verb)
the resignations revealed a ~ among Afghan leaders
division & connection: ground, terrain & land fix it
the economy is broken, and Obama can't ~
fist (armored fist, etc.)
fix relations
armored fist the US is trying to ~ (with Pakistan)
the ~ of the tank-heavy 1991 Persian Gulf War amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
driving force / force: fist fix (noun)
fist (with an iron fist)
daily fix
rules with an iron fist news junkies can get a ~ (Web site)
he ~ enthusiasm: addiction
ran the company with an iron fist fizzle (fizzle out)
he ~
fizzled out in the playoffs
treated with an iron fist the team ~
some patients are ~ (mentally ill, etc.)
force / oppression: fist
fizzle fast
most memes ~ (but not Florida Man)
fist (iron fist / other) failure, accident & impairment: explosion / verb
iron fist of a brutal dictator starting, going, continuing & ending: explosion / verb
my grandparents fled the ~

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flabby (adjective) Mercedes-Benz USA is building a ~ (330,000 sq/ft)

flabby reasoning flagship fund

investors are withdrawing from his ~
but this is ~
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness: fatness & flagship imprint
he will control the company's ~, Simon & Schuster
thinness / health & medicine
flag (false flag) flagship (public) institution
the university is a ~
false flag for the election flagship product
is it a Likud ~ (a provocation) the car competes with similar ~s
♦ “Broken and squally weather rendered the attempt to land
impracticable for a week; and in the meantime a French frigate, which, flagship restaurant
by capturing some British ships, had become acquainted with our private he is moving his ~ to the Left Bank (Guy Savoy)
signals, and daringly accompanied the expedition as if she formed part of
it, suddenly shot ahead of the fleet, and, hoisting the tricolour, ran safely
into the harbour of Alexandria, with a reinforcement for General Menou.”
flagship shows
(“Alexandria, 1801” from British Battles on Land and Sea.) CBS has announced major changes to its ~ (news, anchors,
etc.)
subterfuge: flags & banners
flagship (E-commerce) site
flag (raise a flag, etc.) the company's ~
raised the Beaujolais flag flagship store
he ~ all over the world (Georges Duboeuf) Ralph Lauren's new ~ on Madison Avenue
representation: flags & banners / verb Macy's ~ in Herald Square
attention, scrutiny & promotion: flags & banners / verb flagship universities
flag (plant one’s flag) the drive for diversity at ~ (US)

plant my flag flagship venture

this is what should happen, this is where I ~, we must do this the probe is a ~ of the European Space Agency
♦ HMS Victory was Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.
planted his flag in that stretch of cyberspace J.M.W. Turner’s great painting “The Fighting Temeraire” (1839) is an
he ~, declaring that... (defending his company) elegy for the great ships of the line. But they live on in the language.

superlative: boat
planting their flag about what
this is them ~ they’re going to do now (celebrity couple) flak (criticism)
commitment & determination / possession / resistance, taken (heavy) flak for suggesting
opposition & defeat: flags & banners / ground, terrain & she had taken ~ … (an academic)
land / military
catch flak for the photo shoot
flag-bearer yeah, I do ~, and I totally don't care
party's flag-bearer accusation & criticism: military / weapon
the decision shortened his run as his ~ (politics) speech: military / weapon
representation: flags & banners flame (attraction)
flagpole (run something up the flagpole) flame to (a good many) moths
he was certainly a candle ~ (Lord Byron and women)
run it up the flagpole
when you ~ for review attraction & repulsion: fire / light & dark

running up the flag pole flame (in flames)

the administration is ~ the idea of a tax that... (just an idea)
up in flames
experimentation: atmosphere / flags & banners with yet another relationship ~, all bets are off (marriage)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: atmosphere / flags &
banners shot down in flames
its strategy has been ~ (a political party)
flagship (superlative)
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: fire
flagship campus
the university of Illinois’ ~ (at Urbana-Champaign) flame (conflict)
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 this senator sought to further fan the ~ fighting flared
~ on Russia's border with Georgia today…
flames of intolerance
extremists are stoking the ~ issue has flared
the ~ in the wake of 2 incidents (fans invade field)
flames of revolt
Libya is going up in the ~ tempers flare
the appropriate response when ~ in business meetings
fanned the flames
he has ~ of white supremacy in this nation (politics) tempers flared
at airports, ~ (weather delays)
fanning the flames ~ as the team wilted (sports)
his policies are ~ (of Arab rage)
he is ~ of hostility towards Muslims (a politician) tempers are flaring
~ over the oil spill
fuel the flames
don't ~ (a controversy) tensions (with Georgia) flared
the latest ~ on July 27 when…
stoking the flames
extremists are ~ of intolerance uprising flared
an ~ after the cancellation of a general election (Algeria)
conflict: fire
flameout caused tempers to flares
police said the hot weather ~
complete flameout initiation: fire / verb
he had a ~
flare up (verb)
failure, accident & impairment: engine / plane
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / plane flare up
flame out (verb) a few years ago his asthma started to ~
battles have been flaring up
flame out biker ~ around California and the West…
it’s a trend that’s unlikely to ~ (vaping)
failure, accident & impairment: engine / plane / verb
controversy flared up
since the ~ over the issue (eating dog meat)
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / plane / verb
flare (noun) unrest flared up
serious ~ following the killing of protestors
send up a flare initiation: fire
if engineers spot a problem, they can more easily ~
flare-up (noun)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: fire / light & dark
message / warning: fire / light & dark flare-up
flare (verb) drawing lessons from the ~
Muslim prayers at the shrine passed without a ~
flares in the Delta flare-up of their (long-running) feud
political violence regularly ~ (Nigeria / oil, etc.)
the latest ~ (2 NASCAR drivers)
flared on (Russia's) border border flareup
fighting ~ with Georgia today…
a war, a skirmish, a ~
flared for a third day current flareup
Christian-Muslim violence ~ in Kaduna
the ~
flared into violence latest flare-up
pent-up frustrations have ~ (Nigeria)
the ~ of their long-running feud (2 NASCAR drivers)
flared with a new ugliness war, skirmish, or a (border) flareup
racial hatred has ~
a~
flared sporadically increase & decrease / initiation: fire
sectarian violence has ~ across the country (Nigeria)
flashpoint
conflicts will flare
generational ~ (baby boomers vs. Gen X, etc.) flashpoint of the (civil-rights) era

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 Philadelphia, Mississippi was a ~ (murders) local flavor
crowds prefer musical theater with a ~ (Singapore)
flashpoint of resistance
Fallujah has been a ~ to occupation (Iraq) regional flavor
the race has a ~ now (running)
flash point of (two) wars
Kashmir has been the ~ American flavor
audiences are enjoying the festival's ~ (ballet in Cuba)
flashpoint in this debate
the ~ was… Southern flavor
the one-man show is rich with ~
flashpoint for (racial) antagonism
the book was a ~ 1970s flavor
all the running added to the game’s ~ (football)
flashpoint for violence
character & personality / identity & nature: taste
political flashpoint
her murder has become a ~ (by illegal immigrant) flawed (adjective)
become a flash point flawed
his suicide has ~ (teacher and education) the studies turned out to be ~
he was not a mean man but he was ~
initiation: fire
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
flatfooted (caught flatfooted)
flawless (adjective)
caught the army flatfooted
the insurgency ~ (Iraq) flawless
his performance was ~ (sports)
caught flatfooted
the Defense department can't be ~ (contingency plans) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
we were ~, we never saw it coming (Uber’s success)
fledgling
readiness & preparedness: foot / standing, sitting & lying
fledgling democracy
flatline (verb) support for Nigeria's ~
Iraq's ~ seems to be coming of age
caused her relationships to flatline
fame ~ fledgling firm
♦ “Arsenal: Freddie Ljungberg has flatlined and lifeless Gunners are most of these ~s will fail (dot-coms)
heading south,” by Phil McNulty, Chief football writer, 15 December
2019.) fledgling government
foreign aid to help the ~ (Afghanistan)
condition & status: death & life / verb
flatten (verb) fledgling (electronic publishing) market
the ~
flatten you fledgling sport
the fever, aches and chills can ~ fast (ad for flu medicine) if the ~ can take off (snowkiting)
destruction: ruins / verb
fledgling space station
flattened (emotion) the three batteries were ferried to the ~
Man: That's pretty good for a fledgling charity. Woman: 'Fledgling'? I'm
flattened impressed. (Silly dialog from an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims
you will be ~ by the end of the movie, you’ll be floored Unit.)

feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability growth & development: animal / bird

flavor (flavor of the month) flee (verb)

flavor-of-the-month (m) flee the heat and humidity
the requirements have a ~ feeling (demands on nurses) they ~ (Egyptians go to the coast)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: taste avoidance & separation: walking, running & jumping / verb

flavor (regional flavor, etc.) fleeced

flavor of youth getting fleeced
no other book better catches the ~ in wartime we are ~ (universities, by academic publishers)

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taking & removing: animal / sheep flexible approach
a ~ allows mission crews to modify plans (military)
flesh (inside)
flexible (retirement) plan
fruit’s flesh a more ~…
the mango skin ripping away from the ~...
flexible (work) schedule
white flesh everyone would like a ~, but...
foods with ~ include apples and pears
♦ Foods with white flesh include apples, pears, bananas, cauliflowers, flexible and convenient (m)
and cucumbers. Eating them may reduce the risk of a stroke. a ~ way to get your college degree
orientation: skin, muscle, nerves & bone more flexible
resemblance: skin, muscle nerves & bone people's moral codes are ~ than generally understood
flesh and blood fast and flexible
the air Volcano is ~ (military)
flesh and blood
when he discusses a film, it becomes ~ rigid versus a flexible (m)
commanders must weigh the benefits of a ~ plan
substance & lack of substance: death & life / skin, muscle,
nerves & bone ability & lack of ability / constraint & lack of constraint:
materials & substances / movement
flesh out (verb)
flexible (character)
flesh it out
this is a skeleton, you need to ~ (an essay) flexible
being ~ is an important survival skill (new economy)
substance & lack of substance: skin, muscle, nerves &
bone / verb flexible in their ability
some elderly are less ~ to change their attitudes
fleshed out
flexible leader
fleshed out by his experience agility requires quick-minded, ~s (military)
his approach is ~ of being in the White House
quick-minded, flexible (m)
fleshed out in the House investigation agility requires ~ leaders (military)
adding more detail to a narrative that has been ~ (politics)
ability & lack of ability / character & personality / resiliency:
fleshed out quickly materials & substances / movement
the program contains little of substance and must be ~
flimsy (adjective)
substance & lack of substance: skin, muscle, nerves &
bone flimsy charges
prominent political leaders were jailed on ~
flex (muscle, etc.)
flimsy at best
flexes a lot of (political) influence the evidence is ~
Boeing ~ in Washington, D.C.
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness / substance &
flex its muscles lack of substance: materials & substances
North Korea might ~
flinch (verb)
flexing its muscles
the religious right is ~ in the corridors of power flinch in our coverage
it was important not to ~ (AIDS)
flexing its (geopolitical) muscles
Iran is increasingly ~ confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / courage & lack
of courage: bodily reaction / verb
flexed its (political) muscle
the Eastern Band has visibly ~ (Cherokee) flip (verb)
power: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb flip the blame
force: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb they try to ~ (sex abuse)
flexible (adjective) flipped seats
flexible she is one of those Democrats who ~ in 2018
natural gas is not as ~ a commodity as oil reversal: direction / verb

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flip off (verb) behavior: animal / bird / sheep / verb
movement: animal / bird / sheep / verb
flipped off the camera with both hands flog (criticize)
she ~ (a spoiled young internet influencer)
insult: gesture / verb flog CNN
Trump has used it as a reason to ~ (leaked interview
flip-flopping (reversal) questions)
♦ The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes
reputation for flip-flopping details the horrible practice of flogging. Men would be flogged to death,
he has a ~ (a politician) survivors might have the white bones of their shoulder blades in the back
permanently exposed, and the flogger would work spattered with blood
reversal: direction and bits of flesh. Two hundred strokes were common.

flirt (verb) punishment & recrimination: speech / verb / violence /

whip
flirting with bankruptcy
we're ~ flood (amount)
flirted with disaster flooded the state with ads
he ~ the union ~ (elections)
flirt with the freezing point flood the market with (boring) options
Chicago and Detroit will ~ (weather report) businesses that ~
fate, fortune & chance: love, courtship & marriage / verb flood all forms of the media with depictions
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / verb they ~ of sex (ads)
float (a plan, etc.) flood the country with (good) governance
the strategy is to ~ (USAID / Afghanistan)
float (immigration reform) plan
Democrats ~ flooded highways with (coal) trucks
China's policy has ~ (electricity)
experimentation: atmosphere / balloon / verb
flooded the Nation Mall
floated crowds ~ (rally)
floated flooding south
one of the ideas that is being ~ is… guns are ~ (to Mexico, from the US)
the idea was first ~ in 1898 (Indian cricket team)
the idea has been ~ for 20 years (a US space force) flood the area
as undocumented workers ~ (a town in Arkansas)
floated as a possible presidential contender
she was ~ in 2016 (politics) flooded (neighboring) states
2 million Iraqis have ~ (Jordan, Egypt, etc.)
experimentation: atmosphere / balloon
applications (for asylum) flooded in
flock (verb) 19,000 ~ (Zimbabweans in S. Africa)
flocked to Karbala amount & effect: flood / river / verb / water
Shia pilgrims ~ for the climax of Ashura
flood (move)
flock to Bahrain and Dubai
Saudis ~ to celebrate the New Year flooded onto the island
as thousands of new workers ~ (Sakhalin)
flocked to Parker
black teenagers from all over ~ (a Birmingham school) flooded into (booming) Shenzhen
millions of jobseekers ~ (China)
flock to their summer homes
out-of-towners ~ (New Hampshire) flooded into Uzbekistan
70,000 ethnic Uzbeks have ~ (from Kyrgyzstan)
flocked to the polls
Southern Sudanese ~ (vote on succession) movement: flood / river / verb / water

flocked to cooling centers flood (flood of refugees, etc.)

New Yorkers ~ (heat wave)
flood of beggars
1.5 million people flocked at the end of each Hajj, Jeddah is invaded by a ~
~ to watch the procession (Wellington’s funeral / 1852) a ~ around mosques and markets asking for money

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flood of calls flooded
I've had a ~ from people who say…
flooded with (e-mail) messages
flood of (passenger) complaints the company was ~
a ~ (plane flights)
flooded with ads, calls and pamphlets
flood of (genetic) data voters were ~ (elections
aided by a ~
amount & effect: flood / river / water
flood of emotions
when I read the letter, a ~ came back to me floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice
flood of (cheap) heroin gates)
Uzbek volunteers fight a ~
opened the floodgates
flood of (newly unleashed) hormones the court's ruling ~, raising questions about whether…
caught up in a ~ (middle schoolers)
opened the sluice gates
flood of leads these events suddenly opened the ~, and the thing moved
the media attention generated a ~ (criminals on loose) with a rush (government policy)

flood of (Chinese) immigrants opened the floodgates to (million-dollar) contracts

Tibetan exiles fear the rail line will unleash a ~ in the 1970's, Steinbrenner ~ (baseball)

flood of (conflicting) information open the floodgates to people

the public was being inundated by a ~ (epidemic in US) this will ~ who want to beat the system

flood of (new) inmates opened the floodgates to more upheaval

new prisons for the ~ (US) the miners' action has ~

flood of memories amount & effect: dam / flood / river / water

the trial has brought back a ~ (murder) constraint & lack of constraint: dam / flood / river / water
a ~ burst through the psychological dam he had built floodgate (other)
flood of (uniformed) officers
floodgates of memory
a ~ washed over the thicket (body)
as he began to write, the ~ opened (Leigh Fermor)
floods of refugees
floodgates of the past
fighting has sent new ~ across the border
his dark moods open up the ~ (a boxer)
flood of (new accommodation) requests
floodgates for misuse
if there's a ~ (SAT)
the ~ are wide open (euthanasia law)
flood of tourists
emotional floodgates
controlling the ~ visiting Kartchner Caverns
once he starts telling his story, the ~ open
flood of waste
floodgates opened
short-term projects to stem the ~ (Kabul)
I told him to use street language and the ~ (writing class)
became a flood in his 60s the ~ with an outpouring of new poems (Geoffrey
the trickle of surrendering soldiers ~ Hill)

become a flood floodgates were flung (wide) open

it's a constant trickle that threatens to ~ (email inbox)
stem the flood
projects to ~ of waste (Kabul slums)
unleash a flood
Tibetan exiles fear the rail line will ~ of Chinese
inundated by a flood
the public is being ~ of conflicting information
♦ In 2009, over one hundred people died in flash floods in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, one of the driest countries on earth. "Rivers know their way," is
an old Jeddawi saying. Jeddah is home to five wadis or valleys that carry
rainwater from the mountains to the Red Sea.
amount & effect: flood / river / water
in 1985, the ~ when… (guided climbs up Mount Everest)
♦ Floodgates control the level and flow of water, particularly in dams. If
the water level gets too high behind a dam, engineers will open the
floodgates to lower the level of the reservoir. Floodgates can also keep
tidal surges out.
amount & effect: dam / flood / river / water
constraint & lack of constraint: dam / flood / river / water
floodtide (noun)
floodtide of (school-age) children
sub-Saharan Africa's 45 countries face a ~
floodtide of filth
a ~ has engulfed the newsstands (pornography)

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♦ At floodtide, the water is coming in towards the beach or coast.
flourish (verb)
amount & effect: sea / tide / water
force: sea / tide / water flourish in the netherworld
these falsehoods ~ of internet pranksters and trolls
floodwaters
flourished from his first day
stop the floodwaters he ~ (in his new job)
we are trying to ~ (immigration)
black market flourished
amount & effect: flood / river / water wages plummeted, and the ~
floor (pelvic floor, etc.) growth & development: plant / verb

pelvic floor flow (move)

her ~ was so weak that she peed all over the set (actor)
flow across the (southwest) border
orientation: direction / house drugs ~ (from Mexico into US)
floor (low point) flow into theater
as corps forces ~ (military)
ceiling and the floor
his numbers have been durable, the ~ (president’s flow through Dubai
popularity) drugs from Afghanistan and Iran ~
increase & decrease: direction / height / house flow from the RAS to the …
floor (dance floor) supplies ~ (military)
flow around the obstruction
literary dance floor legitimate traffic could ~ (Internet)
there’s room on this ~ for everyone (website)
flow south
inclusion & exclusion: party
the wealth from our land continues to ~ (Canadian Innuit)
floored (emotion) flowing normally
floored traffic is ~
you’ll be flattened by the end of the movie, you’ll be ~ flow smoothly
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability the right aperitif will make your picnic ~…

Florence (Florence on the Elbe, etc.) money is flowing

military ~ to Boeing, Lockheed Martin and…
Florence on the Elbe
nearby Dresden, then known as ~ supplies flow
~ from the RAS to the… (military)
Greek Florence
here for a fragile moment, Constantinople rebuilt itself in kept flowing
miniature as a ~ (Mystras, in the Peloponnese) with only a few exceptions, traffic ~ (protest)

knowledge & intelligence: epithet started flowing

after the merge lane was lengthened, traffic ~ normally
flotilla (flotilla of icebergs, etc.)
keeps the (combat) information flowing
flotilla of icebergs this ~ rapidly to… (military)
Spalte Glacier has become a ~ (breaks into pieces)
movement: river / verb / water
amount / resemblance: boat
flow (increase)
flounder (verb)
ebb and flow
floundering gang killings ~ but never stop (Los Angeles)
his campaign has been ~ (election)
increase & decrease: tide / verb / water
♦ Flounder may come from founder. The literal use of flounder means to
struggle to move or to thrash about. flow (noun)
failure, accident & impairment: movement / verb / walking,
flow of arms
running & jumping stop the ~ into Macedonia
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 the ~ flow of goods, services
the ~ and investment capital (globalization)
flow of the crowd
the ~ pushed him down the stairs (nightclub crush) flow of patients and visitors
control the ~ so that… (ED post terror event)
flow of diamonds
efforts to cut off the ~ through Taylor's network flow (of traffic) on MSRs
regulate the ~ (MPs / military)
flow of (illegal) drugs
the ~ into the US (from Mexico) flow (of arms) into Macedonia
stop the ~
flow of goods
improve the ~ to its stores (a retail chain) flow (of alcohol) into Saudi Arabia
the authorities want to stem the ~
flow of information
control of the ~ (politics); flow of drugs into Saudi Arabia
supports the free ~ (computers) the authorities want to stem the ~
managing the ~ is another critical task (military)
flow (of money) around the globe
flow of insurgents the ~
shut down the ~ into Kashmir
flow through Boston
flow of intelligence the project will improve traffic ~
try to improve how they manage the huge ~ (F.B.I.)
flow (of information) between ACTs and troops
flow of the lesson the ~ (military)
disciplinary actions should not interrupt the ~ (ed)
Flow Control
flow of materiel nicknamed, in typical FAA-speak, "~" (planes aloft)
intercept the ~ along Vietcong supply routes
cash flow
flow of migrants concern about the company's ~
slowing the ~ (from Mexico to U.S.);
step up naval patrols to reduce the ~ (Italy and Libya) cash-flow (m)
the ~ situation; he may have ~ problems
flow of money
the ~ around the globe information flow
our economy is one that is increasingly based on ~
flow of (government) money
the dwindling ~ (to hospitals) logistics flow
Figure 5-4 shows the ARSOA ~ (military)
flow of pilgrims
security forces tried to ensure a smooth ~ (Hajj) traffic flow
solutions include rerouting ~
flow of supplies
it is prudent to start the ~ now (military) high-volume flow
today's ~ of E-mail
flow of traffic
police directed the ~ around the accident scene; dwindling flow
regulate the ~ on MSRs (MPs / military) the ~ of government money (to hospitals)

flow of (pedestrian) traffic accelerated flow

the ~ can be regulated the ~ of information in combat (laptops, com, etc.)

flow of (illegal Chinese) workers endless flow

a more recent ~ (into France) an ~ of paperwork

flow of E-mail even flow

today's high-volume ~ establish an ~ of aircraft into maintenance… (military)

flow of natural gas free flow

Russia failed to restore the ~ (to Georgia); supports the ~ of information (computers)
the disruption in the ~ from fields in Siberia
paper flow
flow of paperwork the ~ between headquarters and the field
an endless ~
smooth flow
flow of drugs and alcohol security forces tried to ensure a ~ of pilgrims (Hajj)
stemming the ~ into Saudi Arabia

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tempo and flow enthusiasm: health & medicine
the ~ of the game probably will come down to… (soccer)
fluent (ability)
trickle, flow, gush
we had a theory called, "~" (to rescue hostages) fluent in the subject
she seemed not really very ~ (foreign policy)
facilitate the flow
ability & lack of ability: speech
ways to ~ of passengers through security (airports)
interrupt the flow fluid (adjective)
disciplinary actions should not ~ of the lesson (ed) fluid situation
manage the (huge) flow this is a ~ and bears very close watch (politics)
try to improve how they ~ of intelligence (F.B.I.) fluid and confusing
reduce the flow the situation on the ground is ~ (rebellion)
step up naval patrols to ~ of migrants gender fluid
regulate the flow some think the Pharaoh might have been ~
~ on MSRs (MPs / military) control & lack of control / movement: water
slow the flow flurry (activity)
the objective is to ~ of forces into the area of operations
flurry of (diplomatic) activity
slowed the flow we’ve seen a ~
controllers ~ of planes into O'Hare (labor dispute)
flurry of trial balloons
stanch the flow his office floated a ~
he asked the elders to help ~ (of Somalis to Lewiston)
flurries of requests
shut down the flow officials sent him ~ (a filmmaker)
~ of insurgents into Kashmir
flurry of social media posts and retweets
go with the flow Trump responded with a ~
just ~ (don't get upset, anxious, worried, etc.)
♦ This word is often used to describe snow and leaves in the wind.
flow has slowed activity: flying & falling / rain
the ~ to a trickle (migrants)
amount & effect: flying & falling / rain
movement: river / water
flush (remove)
flower (verb)
flush them out
flowered intellectually security services launched an operation to ~ (criminals)
Islam ~ (early centuries)
flushed (some of the organization’s staff) from the city
growth & development: plant / verb the violence ~ (UN in Yemen)
flowering dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene / verb / water

flowering of creativity fly (on the fly)

this apparently abrupt ~ (European cave drawings)
adjust on the fly
growth & development: plant they are used to having to ~ (wildfire fighters)
flowing do it on the fly
I wasn’t going to ~ with all that consequence (climbing)
flowing (black) abaya
she remained shrouded in a ~ (Doha) crafted untried solutions on the fly
the FED, having to act with unimaginable speed, ~
flowing (white) beard
a farmer in a ~ trotted by on a tiny donkey make (good) decisions on the fly
he can ~ (a football player)
resemblance: water
get science on the fly
flu (enthusiasm) we are having to ~
♦ Haven’t you ever see a bird fly into or through a forest or within a bush
Oxford flu and wondered how it can do so without hitting a branch? Truly, birds
interest in quantum computing has been called the ~ bring music, beauty and wonder to the world!

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haste / readiness & preparedness: bird fly-on-the-wall reporter
fly (fly into a rage, etc.) he was a ~
presence & absence / surveillance: animal / insect
flew into a (jealous) rage
he ~ (murderer) focus (verb)
flew into a (jealous) rage after finding focusing on target genes
he ~ a text message… he is ~ for schizophrenia
flew into a rage over her refusal attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb
he ~ to cooperate
focus (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / verb
focus of the day
fly (activity) the ~ differs within the strands of Christianity (Epiphany)
flying off the rack political and policy focus
fur is ~ worldwide (fashion industry) Republicans should keep the ~ on promoting job creation
fly off the shelves ongoing focus
skin-whitening products ~ (Philippines) there is an ~ on these economic issues (White House)
flying off the shelves attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye
her tell-all book is ~
toilet paper and milk were ~ (coronavirus panic) fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
flying off (store) shelves fodder for comedy
the new product is ~ his ridiculous ideas are ~

flying all over campus fodder for debate

rumors were ~ (students charged with rape) his legal woes are more than ~ (politics)

flying around fodder for some (lively) discussions

there are plenty of gruesome rumours ~ over what happened she was perfect ~ in the newspapers (a celebrity)

flew between them campaign fodder

letters ~ (writer / publisher) his gaffe has given Democrats ~

rumors flew meme fodder

~ (campus gossip about surveillance cameras) her dress was easy ~ that the Internet ate up

rumors fly tabloid fodder

~ in small communities (Red Lake Reservation) his five marriages provided endless ~

rumors were flying used as fodder

~ all over campus (students charged with rape) the academic paper was ~ for conspiracy theorists
activity: animal / bird / flying & falling / verb consumption: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
speed: animal / bird / flying & falling / verb content: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
gossip: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
fly (constraint)
fog (fog of war, etc.)
let his imagination fly
he let his ~ (a poet) fog of battle
in the ~ initial reports are often confusing
constraint & lack of constraint: bird / flying & falling / verb
fog (and friction) of war
fly (time flies) in the midst of the ~
time flies fog and friction
~ when you’re having fun soldiers must show initiative in the ~ of battle
time: movement / flying & falling fog and a friction
fly (fly on the wall) there is a ~ to war (civilian deaths)
casualties of the fog of war
flies on the wall innocents are sometimes the ~
thank you for letting us be ~ (a documentary maker)
attributed the tragedy to the fog of war

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 an official ~ (lost convoy) sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep,
♦ The term, "fog of war," was coined in the era of black-powder rifles. adv, adj, particle / verb
consciousness & awareness: fog / weather & climate follow (the facts, etc.)
fog (mental fog, etc.) follow the facts
we will ~ and go where they take us
fog of pain
he listened, in a ~ searching & discovery: hunting / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation: hunting / verb
fog lifts
as soon as you make the mental shift, the ~ (probability) follow (afflict)
put me in a fog follow me for life
the medications ~ (US) the Internet was full of trash that threatened to ~
consciousness & awareness: fog / weather & climate pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
affliction: hunting / verb
foggy (adjective)
follow (follow a feeling or emotion)
recollection is foggy
my ~ (testimony at trial) follow my instincts
I can't do anything if I don't ~ (Saudi intellectual)
consciousness & awareness: fog / weather & climate
followed a (gut) instinct
fold (verb) I ~ and chose to run the rapid (kayaker)
fold its case followed his passion
the House is not going to ~ (against Trump) he ~ (a windsurfer)
administration has folded follow your passion
the ~ that's part of the spirit of mountaineering, to ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: cards / verb
followed my curiosity and intuition
starting, going, continuing & ending: cards / verb I ~ (the young Steve Jobs / Apple)
curtailment / dismissal, removal & resignation: cards / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: journeys & trips / movement /
fold (to / into the fold) verb
brought him back into the fold follow (a path, route, road, etc.)
Damenech ~ (soccer player on national team)
brought Egypt back to the (Arab) fold follow in Qeis's path
he vowed he will ~ (suicide bomber)
he ~ (Mubarak)
drew many into the (gang's) fold follow its (relentless) course
if we sit back and let the epidemic ~…
money and power ~ (prison)
acceptance & rejection / inclusion & exclusion / society: follow the direction
the investigation will ~ the evidence leads…
sheep
follow (it follows that, etc.) follow his lead
in a note, he urged his supporters to ~ (suicide bomber)
follows that growth must be a good sign followed his (father's) path
and so it ~ (economics) he eventually ~ (seminarian)
follows that the sight of it frightens many follow their (mothers') paths
and so it ~ (blood) often, young prostitutes ~ into the sex trade
follows that we have to bear them follow in his (murderous) footsteps
if school shootings continue, it ~ (no solutions) he is determined his son will not ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation / development /
follow in the footsteps
relationship: direction / movement / verb Aborigines must ~ of their ancestors
follow (at a later time) direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb
followed the horse follow (argument)
the car ~
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 I don't ~ worth & lack of worth: allusion
analysis, interpretation & explanation / comprehension & fool's gold
incomprehension: journeys & trips / movement / verb
fool's gold
follow (a road can follow, etc.) a degree nowadays is ~ (no job, debt)
follows the shore mining for a fool's goal
a road ~ of the lake let's not revert to ~ (a poor solution to a problem)
fictive motion: verb paying (high) prices for fool's gold
we are ~ (involvement in overseas war)
following (sequence)
chasing fool's gold
following items the state is ~ legalizing (gambling vs. social costs)
click on the ~ on the View menu (computers)
worth & lack of worth: ground, terrain & land / mining
following reasons appearance & reality: ground, terrain & land / mining
he has been compared to Obama for the ~ (Sagbo)
foot (on the right / wrong foot)
sequence: movement
on the right foot
following (at a later time) start the new year ~
following days on the wrong foot
in the ~ the soldiers rested from battle their relationship began ~
sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep, we started the season ~ (sports)
adv, adj, particle got off on the wrong foot
follow-through (investigation, etc.) I think he ~, but… (politics)
yes, Romney "~" in Britain (Wall Street Journal)
follow-through starting, going, continuing & ending: foot
now we’re seeing some ~ (investigation)
foot (on the back / front foot)
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / sports &
games on the front foot
food (food for thought) many people were ~ ready to criticize
on the back foot militarily
food for thought the Mau Mau were now ~
what you said is ~
caught on the back foot
content / substance & lack of substance: food & drink police admit they have been ~ by the protests
consumption: food & drink
readiness & preparedness: foot
food chain
foot (back / front foot)
food chain
he is working his way up the ~ starting with small fry get off the back foot
(prosecutor) we have to ~, we have to lead on this issue (Beto O’Rourke)

higher up the food chain readiness & preparedness: foot

you need to ask somebody ~ (Hollywood) foot (one foot / the other foot)
at the (very) top of the food chain
women ~ at the studios (executives) one foot (firmly) planted in the commercial world
their strategy is to have ~ and the other in the defense
hierarchy / predation: animal business (Boeing)
fool’s errand presence & absence: foot / standing, sitting & lying

fool’s errand foot (put a foot forward)

it’s really been a ~ to try and predict when, if, or how...
put America's best foot forward
♦ Hazing inexperienced sailors is common. “The old salt sent the
apprentice off to find Charlie Noble.” Here, the Charlie Noble actually
an opportunity for us to ~ forward (Olympics)
refers to the galley chimney. But in this case the unwitting apprentice
would assume he had been sent to find a person, and would end up put her best foot forward
asking the entire ship’s crew, all of them in on the joke. This is referred to she was determined to ~
as a fool’s errand.

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representation: foot the eight countries with ~s
foot (put one’s foot down) last foothold
eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from their ~
put his food down
he ~ about another interview (said “No”) gains a foothold
stop coronavirus before it ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: foot / verb
give socialism a foothold
foot (foot in the door) ~, and nothing can arrest the slide to perdition
get his foot in the door presence & absence: foot / mountains & hills
he lied on his resume to ~ survival, persistence & endurance: foot / mountains & hills
access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / foot footing (position)
foot (foot in both worlds, etc.) emergency footing
all parts of the UK are on ~ (pandemic)
foot in both worlds
people with a ~ (Chinese students in US) war footing
division & connection: leg / line / standing, sitting & lying land forces could shift to a ~ on short notice

foot (orientation) put the nation on a war footing

President Kennedy ~ (Cuban Crisis)
foot of the Glacier position, policy & negotiation: foot / standing, sitting & lying
the dogs were supposed to turn back at the ~
orientation: direction / foot
footing (solid footing, etc.)
football (conflict) on solid (financial) footing
he has never been able to put the review ~
political football bases: foot / ground, terrain & land / walking, running &
the Anthem protests became a ~ (NFL)
jumping
cultural, political footballs
this has become one of those ~ (culture war kerfuffle)
footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
playing (political) football find their footing
they are ~ with women’s health (politics) politicians struggled to ~ in the new political landscape

competition: football / sports & games found its footing

conflict: football / sports & games her campaign stumbled out of the gate but has since ~

football (spike the football) find her footing

she struggled to ~ as a newly separated woman
spike the football
we don’t want to ~ too early (public health emergency) regain our footing
we are struggling to ~ (a political party)
success & failure: football / sports & games
regained his footing
foot-dragging since then, Biden has ~ (elections)
foot-dragging by (school) officials bases / equilibrium & stability: foot / ground, terrain & land
so why the ~ (reform) / walking, running & jumping
bureaucratic foot-dragging footnote (noun)
the test has been bogged down by squabbles and ~
fleeting, feel-good footnotes
action, inaction & delay: foot they could turn out to be ~ to the pandemic (“freedges”)
eagerness & reluctance: foot
made a footnote
foothold (noun) they have largely been ~ (hip hop group the Sequence)
foothold separate the footnotes from the milestones
US forces established a ~ in… it can be hard to ~ (journalism)
foothold in the Caribbean attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters
eliminate lymphatic filariasis from its last ~
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footprint (noun) shrink its footprint
as the US military begins to ~ in Afghanistan
footprint
presence & absence: foot / ground, terrain & land
Hezbollah has its ~ everywhere here (Tyre)
our ~, the influence of the US in the world, will diminish foot soldier (duty)
"footprint" of a credit card movement’s foot soldiers
the camera has the ~, weighing just 5.6 ounces the ~ are less inhibited (alt-right)
"footprint" of oil infrastructure Democratic foot soldiers
limiting the ~ (Arctic oil) fire up the ~ (for a coming election)
footprint on the environment work & duty: military / person
we might lighten our collective ~ hierarchy / person: military
footprint overseas footstep (in the footsteps)
he wants to shrink the military and reduce its ~
in the footsteps of their ancestors
footprint or signature Aborigines must follow ~
they don't have a ~ (terrorists)
in his father's footsteps
city footprint he was going to follow in his ~
this will affect the entire ~ (urban-renewal project)
in their parents' footsteps
consumption footprint too young to be thinking about following in their ~
the enormous ~ of someone living in the state right now
in his murderous footsteps
noise "footprint" he is determined his son will not follow ~
they should have a smaller ~ than… (airplanes)
follow in the footsteps
terrain footprint Aborigines must ~ of their ancestors
the Stinger missile has a small ~
follow in his (murderous) footsteps
online footprint he is determined his son will not ~
his other ~ includes a site… (Web sites)
direction: foot / journeys & trips / movement
combat service support (CSS) footprint
the Stinger has a small ~ footstep (retrace one's footsteps)
digital footprint retraced my footsteps in Haiti
investigators are examining the case’s “~” one year after the earthquake, I ~ (journalist)
the ~ led cops to the suspect’s house (cell-phone towers)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: foot /
industrial footprint movement / verb
concerns about the ~ (drilling in Arctic)
footstep (conceal one’s footsteps, etc.)
large footprint
the ~ created when the minefield is fired (war) digital footsteps
due to the ~ when the minefield is fired... TOR drags branches behind your ~

larger "footprint" pursuit, capture & escape: hunting

a tire with a ~ on the road has more rolling resistance concealment & lack of concealment: hunting

light footprint footwork (noun)

the coalition has limited its ambitions and kept a ~
clever footwork
military footprint some companies are getting by with some ~ (pandemic)
we must reduce our ~ in Iraq (a politician) ability & lack of ability: movement
small footprint
the Stinger missile has a ~
for (support)
expanding its footprint for you
it is ~ in several parts of Africa (a terror group) I am ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle
reduce our (military) footprint
we must ~ in Iraq (a politician)

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force (show of force) forge (verb)
political show of force forge an agreement
a campaign kick-off is a ~ we will do our very best to ~ (politics)
conflict / power: military forged checks
she graduated to cocaine and ~ to support her habit
fore (come to the fore)
forge compromise
come to the fore how hard it will be for him to ~ (a diplomat)
issues of race have ~ (2020 presidential election)
forged (new American) heroes
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
each test has ~ (natural disasters, mass shootings, etc.)
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
forefront (center)
forged
to the forefront of the (death-penalty) debate
he has been catapulted ~ forged from (nearly) a decade
doctrines ~ of fighting in both wars
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position forged in her own adversity
she was ~ (overcame a rare medical condition)
foreground (noun)
forged document
move to the foreground the terrorist groups have coordinated in acquiring ~s
as the midterm elections ~ (news cycle)
forged notes
moved into the foreground ~ and other bogus documents
money has ~ (doctor-patient relationship)
forged (immunization) records
pull nuclear energy into the foreground many legal visitors carry ~ (Hajj / Saudi)
we need to ~
forged (immigration) stamp
pushed the instrument into the foreground falsified passports and ~s (Singapore)
he has ~ (African musician)
forged passports
center & periphery: direction / picture / position foreign nationals entering the US with ~
appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny &
promotion / importance & significance / perception, forged transcripts and (recommendation) letters
perspective & point of view: center & periphery / picture / ~ (college)
position creation & transformation: manufacturing
foreground (verb) fork (a fork in the road, etc.)
foregrounded his virtues
at a fork in his career
he has lied about his crimes and ~ (a flawed individual)
he's ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: picture
alternatives & choices / direction: journeys & trips
appearance & disappearance: picture
perception, perspective & point of view: picture fork over (verb)
forest (a forest of cranes, etc.) forked over three hundred million dollars
the Saudis reluctantly ~
forest of cranes
I saw a ~ and, beyond them, skyscrapers possession: food & drink / verb
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb
forest of stalactites
a hanging ~ (Kartchner Caverns) formula
kelp forests formula to satisfy
the ~ off of California officials are seeking a ~ both sides (diplomacy)
the Great Southern Reef and its ~ (Australia)
the underwater ~ off the southwest tip of Cape Town formula for creating
he has to learn the American ~ (politics)
stalagmite forest
she threads her way through a ~ (underwater cave) formula for maintaining
there is no neat ~ this balance (secrecy / press)
amount / resemblance: forest

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magic formula happen, we perceive / nothing of them...” (From the great translation of
The Inferno by John Ciardi.)
there is no ~, but try… (predicting NCAA winner);
we don't have a ~ for predicting wildfires future / time: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
standard formula forward (move forward, etc.)
the ~ of a romantic comedy
go forward
seeking a formula drilling projects continue to ~
negotiators were ~ to keep the talks going (diplomacy)
moved us forward
script: number inventions that ~
fort (noun) move forward
we just want to ~, and hopefully change will come
hold down the fort
~ until reinforcements can be hired, trained (a company) moving forward
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military we are ~ in a cautious way (diplomacy)
things aren't ~, we're stuck (refugees)
fortress (noun) things are ~ and they're moving quickly (many projects)
we are ~ with solutions on many issues (politics)
fortress
terror concerns have turned public buildings into ~s move forward with her life
she wants to ~ (abuse victim)
fortress mentality
a ~ that protects the home folks while… (public health) progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips /
movement / verb
neighborhood fortress
it is a ~ (a high school in South-Central LA) forward-looking
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military forward-looking approach
a ~ to marketing
fortuneteller (person)
perception, perspective & point of view: direction / eye
fortuneteller future / time: direction / eye
are these things probable, I don’t know, I’m not a ~
stock analysts are modern-day ~s looking into crystal balls fossil (noun)
fortune tellers fossil
the latest pronouncement from the ~ (stock analysts) my computer is a ~ (very old)

modern-day fortune tellers primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal

they are ~ promising riches (stock analysts, etc.) past & present / time: animal
♦ In Canto XX of The Inferno, the fortune tellers and diviners have their foundation (noun)
heads screwed on backwards, so that as they walk forward they can only
see backwards, and their tears run down their buttocks. About
Amphiareus, Virgil tells Dante: “In life he wished to see too far before
foundation of identity
him, / and now he must crab backwards round this track.” (From the in Egypt, nationalism and Arabism once were the ~
great translation of The Inferno by John Ciardi.)
foundation in (native-language) literacy
message: person / magic a solid ~
person: magic
future / time: person / magic foundation of (modern) research
being able to replicate results is the ~ (medicine)
forward (the future is forward)
foundation for success
forward brand loyalty is the ~ (business)
we will probably see this every year ~ education is the ~ (life)
going ~, who can predict what will happen (boxing)
foundation narrative
go forward the ~s of particular Native Nations (US)
this will not help us as we ~
solid foundation
look forward a ~ in native-language literacy
New Year's day is a time to ~ and backward
♦ In Canto X of The Inferno, Dante is curious as to why the heretics can foundation (of the lithium-ion battery) was laid
foresee the future, but know nothing of the present, for example, if the ~ during the oil crisis of the 1970s
somebody is currently dead or alive. Farinata Degli Uberti, the great
Tuscan war chief, explains: “We see asquint, like those whose twisted foundations (of the postwar order) are cracking
sight / can make out only the far-off... / When things draw near, or the ~ in Europe (economies)

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build a foundation ♦ There is no real proof that Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of Youth
in America.
we help people ~ for the rest of their lives (ad for school)
amelioration & renewal: death & life / fountain / water
built a foundation
we've ~ of distrust (Iran / US) fox (subterfuge)
lay a foundation fox
you ~ for a sense of community the ~ is in the henhouse, and we invited it in
laid a foundation put the fox in charge of the henhouse
we ~ to talk about those issues ( diplomacy) the FAA ~ (safety of Boeing planes)
♦ "They're going to burn the forest to kill the fox." (An Iraqi, speaking of
rests upon a foundation US invasion to rid Iraq of Saddam.)
our global role ~ of unmatched military power (US)
subterfuge: animal / fox
bases: house
foxhole (noun)
founder (verb)
in a foxhole
foundered we’re all Keynesians ~ (gov’t intervention in crises)
the TV channel quickly ~
♦ "There are no atheists in foxholes." (Father Cummings, Bataan.)
two previous tried have ~ in the courts
the plan ~ with depressed stock prices ♦ "I always wondered who invented the absurd lie that proclaimed there
were 'no atheists in foxholes.' Where else could atheism better thrive
the company ~ during the economic downturn than in the killing fields where homicide was honored? In the Third
Spain's economy has ~ General Hospital at Aix, the poker game was as religious as things got."
(The wonderful Tony Hillerman, from Seldom Disappointed.)
♦ Flounder may come from this word. The literal use of founder was often
used for horses and is still used for boats.
protection & lack of protection: military
failure, accident & impairment: boat / horse / sea / verb
fracture (failure)
destruction: boat / horse / sea / verb
fountain (resemblance) fracture in politics between elites and nationalists
there is a ~ (European Union)
fountains of (bright red) lava failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
~ and towering clouds of ash
resemblance: fountain / water
fractured (separated)
fountain (source) fractured
the cartels are ~ and fighting over territory (Mexico)
fountain of Islam division & connection: materials & substances
they come and drink from the ~ (mosque)
source: fountain / water
fragile (weak)
fountainhead fragile economy
Bosnia's ~ was hit hard by the global financial crisis
fountainhead of freedom
England was a ~ (Enlightenment)
fragile and weak
the caretaker government is ~
fountainhead of (chamber) music strength & weakness: materials & substances
the festival was a ~ in America
fragile (feelings)
fountainhead of ideas and discovery
the university has historically been a ~ emotionally fragile
fountainhead of ideals and law he was an ~ young man (suicide)
Lincoln saw the Declaration of Independence as the ~ feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
poetic fountainhead frame (characterize)
Shakespeare was a ~
frame the story as a religious issue
source: fountain / river / water they ~ between locals and outsiders
Fountain of Youth analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure
looking for the fountain of youth characterization: infrastructure
women and men are ~ (cosmetics, surgery, etc.)

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frame (in the frame / involvement) badly frayed
the incident ~ inter-Korean relations
in the frame already
he was born in Innsbruck, so he was ~ (why Buhl became bond frayed
climber) their ~ almost to the breaking break

involvement: picture coalition frayed

the ~
franchise (noun)
consensus is fraying
regional franchises the political ~
Al-Qaeda still has its ~
fibers (within the tendons) fray
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: government the ~ (tendinopathies)
Frankenstein (Frankenstein Cliff, etc.) nerves are fraying
~ as the lockdown continues (coronavirus)
Frankenstein
~ was tough (named rapid / kayaking) relationship frayed
the ~ over the past year (diplomacy)
Frankenstein Cliff
excellent views along ~ (near a waterfall) began to fray
relations between the countries ~ in November
Son of Frankenstein
we got to ~ (named rapid / kayaking) beginning to fray
tolerance is ~
proper name: allusion / creature
failure, accident & impairment: cloth / verb
Frankenstein (product) flaws & lack of flaws: cloth / verb
"Frankenstein" foods fray (above the fray)
concerns about the safety of the so-called ~
above the fray
“Frankenstein” vehicles he is trying to stay ~ (a politician)
the limo crash raises safety questions about ~
conflict: military
higher education's Frankenstein behavior: direction
the NCAA has become ~, terrifying its overseers
fray (conflict)
create a Frankenstein
it gets out of hand, they ~ (extrajudicial killings) 2020 fray
♦ “Michael McAlpine has been Frankensteining alternatives.” (“It’s Alive! he is joining the ~ (running for president)
3D-Printing Body Parts” by Rebecca Heilweil, Wired, December 2018.)
conflict: military
affliction / product: allusion / creature
allusion: books & reading
frayed
fraternity (noun) frayed by his rejection
their longtime alliance has been ~ of the bill
fraternity of test pilots
death wasn’t unusual within our ~ frayed by scandals
taxpayer confidence has been ~
small fraternity
the Las Vegas boxing community is a ~ frayed nerves
he experienced ~ and growing exhaustion
member of the fraternity he tried to smooth the ~
I'm proud to be a ~ (a retired boxer)
frayed relations
society: school & education Obama has worked hard to repair his ~ with…
group, set & collection: school & education he wants to rebuild ~ with neighbor Argentina
fray (verb) frayed (political) system
the two leaders promised to reform the country's ~
fray the fabric
logging and roads ~ of nature frayed ties
Obama is trying to smooth ~ with business leaders
frayed (US-China) ties
many issues have ~ badly frayed (m)
he sought to mend ~ relations between the two countries

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seriously frayed freeze (computers, etc.)
the social safety net is ~
computer freezes
become frayed if your ~…
nerves can ~ in the blasting Antarctic winds
functioning: snow & ice
grow (yet more) frayed
an already strained social compact will ~ freeze (position of body)
failure, accident & impairment: cloth hold the freeze
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth patrol members ~ until signaled to do something else
freak show (noun) movement: snow & ice
leave behind the freak show freeze (activity)
the party must return to its center and ~ (politics)
freeze on (U.S.) aid
performance: circus if that's the case, should there be a ~ (politics)
free-fall (in free-fall) freeze on (high-level) contacts
the European Union recently ended its ~ with Iran
in free fall
his life was ~ freeze on (all state) hiring
house prices continue to be ~ nationwide it would put a ~
the economy is ~, economic meltdown (Zimbabwe)
price freeze
decline: direction / flying & falling a ~ until 2002 (public utilities)
free-fall (noun) hiring freeze
a ~ is often a last-ditch effort to reduce staff…
free fall in (air) travel
the ~ post-9/11 (due to fears of terrorism) 60-day freeze
he asked for a ~ (on aid to Russia / politician)
company's (financial) free fall
the ~ (into bankruptcy) put a freeze on (all state) hiring
it would ~
stock-market free fall
the ~ was harrowing to watch freeze began to thaw when…
the ~
financial free fall
the company's ~ (into bankruptcy) activity: snow & ice
mental freefall freeze out (verb)
he went into a ~ (murderer)
frozen Tomaz out of funding
decline: direction / flying & falling the Alpine Association had ~ (climber)
free-for-all (control) acceptance & rejection: snow & ice / society / temperature
/ verb
free-for-all
inclusion & exclusion: snow & ice / society / temperature /
space is a ~ right now (space pollution)
verb
free-for-all of people freighted
it is a ~ suggesting that...
freighted with (historical and cultural) baggage
free-for-all on what
the N-word is ~ (racial epithets)
it’s a bit of a ~ the government can do (facial recognition)
history: burden / journeys & trips / weight
control & lack of control: sports & games
oppression: burden / journeys & trips / weight
behavior: sports & games
freeze (verb) freight train (force)
unstoppable freight trains
freeze assets
hurricanes ae the ~ of weather (wind and water)
~ of terrorists
force: train
frozen its (nuclear) tests
North Korea has ~ frenzied (adjective)
activity: snow & ice / verb frenzied rumors

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 the ~ have become so fierce that... the ~ of 37,000 US troops (anti-Americanism in Korea)
in one step to reduce ~… (US forces)
activity / behavior: health & medicine / mental health
friction between cyclists and motorists
frenzy (feeding frenzy) ~ who have to share the road
media feeding frenzy friction between the LAPD and the residents
it was a ~ decades of ~ (LA)
activity / behavior: animal / predation friction between pedestrians and motorists
frenzy (other) the road network has created ~

media frenzy frictions between their camps

such was the ~ around the trial (national attention) ~ of advisors and loyalists (politicians)

center of a (media) frenzy friction between you

he is now the ~ (accusations of sex abuse) there was obviously a lot of ~ (antagonism)

whipped the snow into a frenzy avoid friction

the winds ~ (ground blizzard) get along enough to ~ in the office
conflict: physics
working themselves into a frenzy
the fans are ~ (World Cup) friction (impedance)
activity / behavior: health & medicine / mental health friction
fresh (fresh evidence, etc.) government rules are only one kind of ~ to free markets
does e-commerce reduce ~, add convenience and…
fresh approach
we need a ~ to this problem trade friction
~ is channeled into the WTO's dispute settlement process
fresh attempt
the time seemed ripe for a ~ (scientific ballooning) points of friction
troops would pull back from ~
fresh blood
the king might reshuffle his cabinet to inject ~ fog and a friction
there is a ~ to war (civilian deaths)
fresh burst ♦ Friction, it turns out, is the parent of the profit margin. The more you
the crisis signaled a ~ of negotiating move toward a perfect market mechanism the fewer opportunities there
are for anyone to make money." (E-commerce.)
fresh concerns
obstacles & impedance: physics
the floods have sparked ~ over… (N. Korea)
fresh evidence
frictionless
they said there was ~ available (politics) frictionless travel
fresh search warrants the airlines' attempts to create ~
armed with ~ police arrived... obstacles & impedance: physics
amelioration & renewal: food & drink friend (noun)
time: food & drink
freshman (adjective) friends and allies
Kosovo needs more ~
freshman Democrat becomes a friend
the 29-year-old ~
ultimately, in cold case murders, time ~ (new technology)
experience: school & education ♦ “Friends are thieves of time.”

Freud (epithet) ♦ “When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.”

♦ “A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.”
Freud of the botanical world ♦ “We have no friends but the mountains.” (Kurdish.)
Linnaeus was the ~ (all about sex)
help & assistance: person
sex: epithet
friendly (adjective)
friction (conflict)
friendly to life
friction salt in very high concentrations is not very ~ (Mars)
get along enough to avoid ~ in the office

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friendly atmosphere icy rocks found on the ~ of the solar system
the ~ that originally drew foreigners to Wisconsin
center & periphery: cloth
friendly face fringe (on the fringe)
fraud often hides behind a ~
friendly fire on the political fringe
they were killed by ~ (soldiers) both groups arose ~ (Occupiers, Tea Party)

friendly ground operate on the fringes

don’t assume Ireland will be ~ for the pope (sex abuse) the Chinese gangs ~ (versus established gangs)
center & periphery: cloth / direction / society
friendly microbes
there are things called ~ (digestion, etc.) society: center & periphery / cloth / direction
fringe (versus mainstream)
friendly neighbors
Azerbaijan and Armenia are not ~ fringe Berlin
“friendly skies” the restaurant is ~ at its best
the ~ have become unfriendly (air travel) fringe books
friendly and enemy we are seeing fewer ~ and new authors (publishing)
~ thermal and optical signatures (military) fringe cult
dog-friendly he joined a ~
track down ~ cafes and hotels (a Web site) fringe dwellers
eco-friendly every society has its ~
trendsetters are visiting ~ resorts fringe idea
help & assistance: person animal liberation is no longer the ~ it once was

frigid (adjective) criminal fringe

the "one percenters" are the ~ of the biker world
frigid reception
the idea had met a ~ from France and Britain
lunatic fringe
the group is part of the ~
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
militant fringe
fringe (configuration) Turkey has been at war with the ~ of the Kurds

fringe of islets radical fringes

the lagoon, with its distant ~ he is a figure on the most ~ of the movement

broad fringe violent fringe

a ~ of sea ice builds each austral winter they are members of a nationalist, sometimes ~
configuration: cloth from the fringes into the mainstream
social media can push conspiracies ~
fringe (edge)
society: center & periphery / cloth / direction
fringe of the storm center & periphery: cloth / direction / society
wind and rain from the ~ lashed the state
fringed
fringes of the solar system
unmanned vehicles are zipping to the ~ fringed by (mountain) peaks
the Salar de Uyuni is ~ (salt flat in Bolivia)
desert's (southern) fringe
the ~ fringed with coral reefs
Kenya's southeast coastline is ~
southern fringe
the desert's ~ palm-fringed (m)
a beautiful, ~ beach…
eastern fringes
this country on the ~ of Europe (Ukraine) configuration: cloth

southern and eastern fringe frog (frog in boiling water)

the arc of deforestation along the ~ of the Amazon
frog in the boiling water
outer fringes ignoring the need to fix entitlement programs is the ~

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* This fable illustrates the danger of changes that occur slowly.
frontier (noun)
♦ “Are we frogs? Are we being boiled and don’t know it yet?” (A
Californian, discouraged by fires, drought, and record temperatures.)
final frontier
consciousness & awareness / environment / situation: direct flights represented the ~ (Australia to London)
allusion / animal / frog / temperature / water
next frontier
front (in front / competition) deep fake videos are the ~ in fake news

get in front of it push the frontiers

the nationwide quarantine is an effort to ~ (coronavirus) the US has always wanted to ~ (physics, etc.)
competition: direction / position / sports & games / verb / searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land
walking, running & jumping front line (on the front line)
front (the future is in front of us)
on the front lines
in front of her state and local law enforcement ~
she had her whole life ~ (committed a murder) the dedicated people ~ (social services)
she tells what it’s really like ~ (nurse in pandemic)
future: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle on the front lines of this battle
he is ~ (agency fighting spam phone calls)
front (in front / proximity)
on the front lines of this disease
in front of me health care workers ~ (COVID-19)
I was so blinded by love that I didn’t see the problem ~
on the front line of (interpersonal) violence
in front of us doctors are ~ (EM)
the answer is ~
we have these issues ~ on the front lines of the drug crisis
they have been working on the ~
proximity: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
place: military
front (conflict)
front line (other)
front in the (overall) struggle
his indictment could be a new ~ to get at what happened front line
in battles of identity, language often becomes the ~
new front
a ~ in the president’s battle with congress is emerging frontline
fake 1-star reviews are the ~ of review manipulation the CDC is the ~ in any public health emergency

two-front front lines of COVID-19

he’s fighting a ~ campaign (Bernie Sanders) medical students are rushed to ~

on all fronts frontline in the fight

the oil spill is being attacked ~ this is the ~ against a deadly global trade (poaching)

on several fronts front-line caregivers

our efforts are advancing ~ (oil-spill cleanup) nurses are the ~

on that front become the front line

how are you doing ~ (protective supplies / COVID) in the battle to contain the contagion, these labs have ~

conflict: military place: military

front (front and center) front-runner (noun)

front and center front-runner
the wave of sex-abuse scandals will be ~ conference) he is the ~
the ~ Barak Obama (politics)
front and center on his mind
clearly this topic is ~ front-runner in the race
he has cemented his position as ~ (politics)
center & periphery: position
attention, scrutiny & promotion / importance & significance front-runners for the job
/ priority / superiority & inferiority: center & periphery / there are two ~
direction / position
front-runner for a (future Supreme Court) nomination

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 he is a ~ she carefully examined the ~ (a woodcarver)
front-runners and underdogs fruits of that work
~ loved him (a race-car driver) you are now seeing the ~ (war planning)
competition: person / sports & games / walking, running & bore fruit
jumping their protests ~ only after…

frosty (adjective) product: farming & agriculture / fruits & vegetables / plant

frosty relationship fruit (low-hanging fruit)

he has a ~ with Netanyahu (diplomacy) low-hanging fruit
feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature for people who want to consume less plastic, straws are ~
we need to look at some of the ~ and pluck them (help kids)
frothy (substance) vacant lot greening is a piece of ~ (simple, low cost)
the expulsion of intelligence officers is ~ (symbolic only)
frothy page-turner pick some ~ that can be accomplished (in tax reform)
the ~, the one book everybody is reading... he explores deeper cuts and textures, rather than ~ (music)
substance & lack of substance: water
low-hanging fruit of international health
frown (verb) cataract surgery is the ~ (just $75 per patient for leading
cause of blindness)
frown on those things
we ~ pick that low-hanging fruit clean
they ~ (film about old women reentering the dating scene)
frowned upon homosexuality
he came from a religious background that ~ go-to, reflexive, low-hanging-fruit
~ complaints (about American Vandal season two)
sign, signal, symbol: face / gesture / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: fruits & vegetables / tree
judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: face /
gesture / sign, signal, symbol / verb fruitful (adjective)
frozen (movement) fruitful approach
frozen to the spot I decided that wasn't a ~ for me
we were all ~ fruitful avenue
movement: snow & ice this might be a ~ for further research

frozen (development) fruitful discourse

there hasn't been much ~ lately (politics)
frozen in time
Vietnam's Ha Giang Province remains ~ fruitful place
the Framers did not expect the Constitution to be ~ this is a ~ to do business (a city)

growth & development: snow & ice fruitful relationship

they had a long and ~ (two companies)
frozen (activity)
artistically fruitful
frozen funds their relationship was ~
is it time to release the ~ (sanctions)
less fruitful
activity: snow & ice / temperature subsequent efforts were ~
frozen out (excluded) more fruitful
I think it would be ~ if we…
frozen out of discussions
they have been ~ about how the law will work (veterans) long, fruitful (m)
in the course of a ~ career, he… (a poet)
inclusion & exclusion: snow & ice / society / temperature
acceptance & rejection: snow & ice / society / temperature prove fruitful
negotiations could ~ if…
fruit (product)
♦ The Smucker’s Company has a very cute full-page ad on the back of
fruits of the field the January 21, 2019 Christian Science Monitor Weekly. It shows 12
bottles of their iconic jams and jellies in three rows with the dates of their
the first ~ have been mundane (nanotechnology) introduction below them, and the title reads, “Fruitful Since 1897.” The
pun incorporates the figurative and the literal. A classic and classy ad
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worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / fruits & fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.)
vegetables / plant
adds fuel to every fire
fruition (noun) he ~ (politics)
came to fruition adds (fresh) fuel to a (longstanding) controversy
the plan never ~ his role in the new ad ~
growth & development: farming & agriculture / fruits & pour fuel on the fire
vegetables / plant this will ~ of toxic political warfare
fruitless (adjective) pour fuel on the flames
the documents are likely to ~ of a strained relationship
largely fruitless exercise
comparing these rates is a ~ increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb
worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / fruits & fuel (noun)
vegetables / plant
fuel
fry (small fry) the taunts were the ~, underlying resentment the ~
small fry any more fuel
he is working his way up the food chain, starting with ~ she would not give the issue ~ (“no comment”)
(prosecutor)
increase & decrease / initiation: fire
size: animal / fish
importance & significance / power / strength & weakness:
fueled
animal / fish / size fueled by the Chinese
frying pan the jade boom has been ~ (Xinjiang)

jumps from the frying pan into the fire fueled by local issues
like one who ~ the conflict is ~ (IS in Mozambique)

fate, fortune & chance: cooking / fire fueled by a movie

the fury is ~ (anti-US protests by Muslims)
fuel (verb)
fueled by the occupation
fuel (Internet) abuse anti-American sentiment ~ of Iraq
depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders can ~
fueled by (Internet) pornography
fueled (much of the ) corruption soldiers who come home with sexual addictions ~
his bribes ~ in the state
alcohol-fueled (m)
fuel the (ongoing) debate an epic, ~ party…
the results are likely to ~ over how… (cancer) he died at an ~ party (fraternity)
fueled the debate rum-fueled (m)
those differences in point of view ~ (Confederate flag) the ~ party culminates Fat Tuesday (Trinidad)
fuels the diaspora whiskey-fueled (m)
poverty ~ of Malians a ~ high
fuel the flames ignited and fueled
don't ~ (a controversy) opposition was ~ by the church (innovation)
fueled (public) interest stoked, fueled, and manipulated
journalism ~ (an Arctic rescue) hatred can be ~ (Bosnia)
fueled a (growing) panic increase & decrease / initiation: fire
Tuesday's developments ~ in Japan (nuclear catastrophe)
fulcrum (noun)
fueling his (inner) rage
a cause that is ~ (environment) fulcrum moment
the Capture of Istanbul was a ~ in the Middle Ages
fueled in him a sense of self-importance
the militia ~ development: direction / mechanism
importance & significance: mechanism
increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb

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full (adjective) full-on migraine
what we’ve got coming this weekend is a ~ (winter storm)
full of choppers
extent & scope / functioning: mechanism
a sky ~ and a jungle full of danger (Vietnam War)
commitment & determination: mechanism
full life full stop
she led a ~
amount: container / prep, adv, adj, particle full stop
this is right-wing terrorism, ~
full-court press
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters
full-court press in Washington fumble (verb)
there was a ~ (foreign lobbying campaign)
full-court press from our department fumbled this moment
there is a ~ (search for missing child) Boeing has ~ (failed to ground its plane after crashes)

full-court press to capture him fumbled the disaster response

there was a ~, once they knew his identity (a bomber) the government ~
failure, accident & impairment: ball / football / sports &
full-court press (by the administration) to contain
it has been a ~ the company (tariff dispute with China) games / hand / verb

difficulty, easiness & effort: basketball / sports & games fumble (noun)
commitment & determination: basketball / sports & games diplomatic fumble
full-fledged (adjective) it was his latest ~

full-fledged atrocity failure, accident & impairment: ball / football / sports &
a ~ would be difficult to ignore games / hand

full-fledged (academic) discipline fumbled

it is not yet a ~ with departments of its own (services
science) fumbled attempt
a ~ to reform small business taxes
full-fledged explosion
failure, accident & impairment: ball / football / sports &
the ~
games / hand
full-fledged gangsters
ties to ~
fume (verb)
full-fledged member fuming about the (split-decision) verdict
China will become a ~ (WTO) he is still ~ that went against Pacquiao (boxing)
the first steps in becoming a ~ of the Hells Angels feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
full-fledged stroke funeral (one's funeral)
people who have had ~s
funeral
full-fledged bantamweight go ahead and do it, it's your ~
moving up to ~
destruction: burial / death & life
full-fledged drug dealer fate, fortune & chance: burial / death & life
a~
funereal (adjective)
full-fledged comeback
a~ funereal
the mood was ~
growth & development: bird
extent & scope: bird funereal black
full-on (adjective) they are clad in stark ~ (a music video)
funereal gloom
full-on engagement an atmosphere of ~
it was just ~ (a blind rock climber)
mournful, funereal, keening
full-on (international espionage) operation the music is ~ (for a film)
he mounted a ~ against the reporter
feeling, emotion & effect: burial / death & life

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funnel (direct) accusation & criticism: military / weapon
speech: weapon
funnel (tax) dollars to the poor future (the future can bring something)
he wants to ~ (a president)
funneled money to charities bring
he ~ with terrorist ties nobody knows what the future will ~

directing: verb / water brings

you don’t know what tomorrow ~
funnel (shape)
future: giving, receiving, bringing & returning / verb
funnel cloud time: giving, receiving, bringing & returning / verb
heavy rains, hail, reports of ~s
the tornado’s distinguishing feature is a ~
future (in the future)
tornado funnel in the future
~s in Oklahoma I might go there ~

shape: water future / time: container

furnace (Furnace Creek, etc.) future (in the distant future)

Furnace Creek in the distant future
a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in ~ Death Valley the movie is set ~

proper name: fire / temperature in the not-too-distant future

the series is coming to Netflix ~
furnace (noun)
in the not too distant future
furnace of an atmosphere we hope to improve this feature ~
who can survive in this ~ (important soccer game)
set in a not-too-distant future
thrown into a furnace it’s a show ~ (space tourism)
I was ~
future / time: distance
environment: fire / temperature
fuzzy (adjective)
furnish (give)
fuzzy
furnished them with all the information the boundary lines on the continuum can often be ~
the report ~
division & connection: boundary / sensation
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
fury (creature)
G
keep his furies at bay
he works hard to ~ (troubled ex-boxer) gadfly (person)
♦ The furies are part of Greek mythology.
diplomatic gadfly
affliction: allusion / creature / religion he is a kind of ~ (a Lebanese businessman and advisor)
fuse (noun) political gadfly
he is a ~ and host of his own internet radio show
short fuse she was a ~ who took on the powerful politicians (Ivins)
our society has a ~, just waiting for a spark (China)
that ~ got him in trouble (troubled Iraq veteran) hippie and gadfly
he was the resident ~
lit the fuse ♦ Gadflies might be any one of several large flies, including horseflies.
that was the match that ~ (precipitating cause)
that really ~, and the collapse began (tainted election) person: animal / insect
affliction: animal / horse / insect / person
initiation: explosion / weapon character & personality: animal / horse / insect / person
fusillade (noun) gag (noun)
fusillade against an “Obama judge” gag order
Trump’s latest ~ the judge has issued a ~

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 the judge put him under a ~ affliction: health & medicine / sensation / verb
constraint & lack of constraint: speech gallery (play to the gallery)
gaggle (press gaggle, etc.) plays to the gallery
the representation of emotion ~ (humiliation, anguish,
gaggle of protesters distress, etc.)
a ~ have gathered outside the court (Vancouver)
performance: theater
did a gaggle
the president ~ from the North Lawn gallery (cheering gallery)
♦ This refers to a press conference by the president or press secretary
that is impromptu, informal, unscripted and unfettered. An actual gaggle cheering gallery
refers to a flock, especially of geese, and especially on the ground. Obama still has his ~
activity / behavior: animal / bird achievement, recognition & praise: theater
resemblance / group, set & collection: animal / bird
Gallipoli
Galapagos (epithet)
Gallipoli of an interview
“Galapagos of the Indian Ocean” I knew this would be a ~
its biodiversity has earned it the nickname ~ (Socotra) ♦ “I knew that this would be a Gallipoli of an interview, and that Mattis
would be playing the role of the Ottoman gunners. But I had to try.” (“The
Galapagos of the North Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore” by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
the Pribilofs are known as the ~ Monthly, October 2019.)
♦ “It is one of the many ironies of Gallipoli that, after the chaos and
Galápagos of Russia confusion that had blighted the whole operation from the beginning, the
Unesco's citation refers to Lake Baikal as the "~" final evacuations were models of superb organisation and planning...
[Gallipoli] was a brilliant concept which should—and could—have
Galapagos of North America succeeded... With Constantinople occupied, it is doubtful whether the
Russians would ever have signed a separate peace—and the Russian
the Channel Islands are sometimes referred to as the ~ (CA) Revolution might never had occurred... Had the campaign succeeded—
as it so very nearly did—the Great War would probably have ended three
Galapagos of the Poles years earlier, and a million lives would have been saved.” (The Middle
South Georgia Island is often referred to as “The ~” Sea: A History Of The Mediterranean by the wonderful historian John
Julius Norwich.)
American Galápagos ♦ No battle is free of mistakes.
the ~ (Hawaiian Islands Marine National Park)
epithet: history / military
Canadian Galápagos allusion: military
islands referred to as the "~" (Haida Gwaii) difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / epithet / history
biodiversity: epithet / place gallop (verb)
galaxy (noun) gallop together
fiddle and banjo ~ at a break-neck pace (T-Mart Rounders)
galaxy of actors
his films drew performances from a ~ (director) speed: animal / horse / movement / verb / walking,
running & jumping
galaxy of (Western) media figures
movement: animal / horse / speed / verb / walking,
he introduced her to a ~ (Charlie Rose, etc.)
running & jumping
group, set & collection: astronomy gallop (movement)
Galen (Galen of Islam, etc.)
statistical gallop
“Galen of Islam” the census shows the ~ of Christianity across Nepal
Muslim physicians bestowed the title ~ on Avicenna speed: animal / horse / movement / walking, running &
epithet: health & medicine jumping
gall (verb) movement: animal / horse / speed / walking, running &
jumping
galls his critics gallop (sound)
what ~ is…
truly galls murmurs, rubs, and gallops
note the presence of ~ (lung sounds)
what ~ them is…
♦ Both trees and humans can develop galls. A gall in a human is a raised sound: animal / horse
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galloping (speed) they ~ (skip out on court dates)

galloping or surging (m) gaming the system

parents are ~ to advantage their children (school admissions)
so-called ~ glaciers can travel 250 feet per day
subterfuge: sports & games
speed: animal / horse / walking, running & jumping
galvanize (verb) game (in / into the game)
galvanized people to take up in the game
we will continue to be ~ (US surveillance)
the movies ~ the cause (wrongful convictions)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / verb back in the game
we are ~
initiation: electricity / verb
gambit (noun) get (back) into the (dating) game
ways to ~ (self-help)
gambit involvement: sports & games
asylum has become a ~, they all have a script
game (late in the game)
unwise and diversionary gambit
this is an ~ (diplomatic move) late in the game
it's pretty ~ to be…
series of gambits
its kind of ~ to be talking about this
an escalating ~ by rival powers in the Gulf
timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports & games
strategy: chess / sports & games
gamble (verb) game (get one's head into the game)
gambled everything on getting get your head into the game
hey, ~... (coach to player)
he ~ his dictionary published
fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games / verb get my head (back) into the game
he reminded me to ~ (Afghan combat)
strategy: gambling / sports & games / verb
gamble (noun) consciousness & awareness: sports & games
game (at the top of one’s game)
gamble
we were in Tonga on a ~... (windsurfers) at the top of his game
gamble on agriculture he is ~
he was ~ when he was shot and killed (a comic)
Saudi Arabia's ~ has sucked precious aquifers dry
functioning: sports & games
Saudi Arabia's gamble
~ on agriculture has sucked precious aquifers dry game (game-changer)
political gamble game-changer
he represents a ~ (choice of vice president) a free Iraq is going to be a ~, an agent of change
daring gamble game changer
he called the initiative "a ~" to make... (space flight) it could be a ~ (a drug treatment)
technological gamble game changer for our profession
the plan relies on four highly speculative ~ (restore this is a ~
Everglades)
geopolitical game-changer
gamble paid off nuclear weapons are a ~
the ~
development / disruption / importance & significance:
took the gamble sports & games
he ~ (migrant / Senegal to Canary Islands)
game (chess game)
fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
strategy: gambling / sports & games chess game
game (game the system, etc.) it really is a ~ (trying to catch terrorist)
let’s look ahead, the way you have to in a ~ (Brexit)
game the (asylum) process it’s a ~, and we have to look several moves ahead (Brexit)

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political chess game game (project, scheme, plan)
the politicians play ~s (at expense of laborers)
they use human beings as pawns in a ~ (hostages) game of 'gotcha'
they were playing a ~ rather than trying to help
psychological chess games
winning ~s (interrogations of terrorist suspects) games of dominance and submission
~ (relationships)
strategy: chess / sports & games
game of wink and nod
game (game of hide and seek, etc.) he is playing a risky ~
game of hide-and-seek childish game
a very serious ~ (Palestinian student-terrorist) he was playing a ~
pursuit, capture & escape: sports & games
head games
game (game of cat and mouse, etc.) victimized by others' or your own ~

game of cat and mouse cutthroat game

colleges find themselves in a new ~ (cheating with he wasn't there to play the ~ (Survivor)
technology) dangerous game
cat-and-mouse game speaking truth to power is a ~
the ~ with the virus writers she is playing a very ~ when she suggests... (politics)
the ~ Iraq played with U.N. inspectors long game
it's a ~ (campaigning for an election) their ~ is to be the last candidate standing
competition / pursuit, capture & escape: animal / cat /
silly game
hunting / sports & games stop playing your ~s
game (guessing game) just a game
guessing game they know I won't shoot them, now it's ~ (Israeli sniper)
how the weather will affect operations comes down to a ~ playing a game
comes down to a guessing game she's ~ that could blow up in her face
how the weather will affect operations ~ play games
certainty & uncertainty: sports & games we don't ~, we don't bullshit (windsurfer Poles)
fate, fortune & chance: sports & games subterfuge: sports & games
game (game face) performance / strategy: sports & games
game (game of life, etc.)
game face
she had on her ~ (a law-enforcement officer) game
appearance: face / sports & games I had no clue what the rules were, what the ~ even was
commitment & determination: face / sports & games game of life
game (numbers game) the ~
♦ “I had no clue what the rules were, what the game even was—or that
numbers game there was even a game.” (The computer scientist Richard Wallace, who
suffers from bipolar disease.)
CIA case officers admit to a ~
dating is entirely a ~ ♦ "They were dealt some cards they can't play to this day. Fortunately, I
was dealt cards and somehow managed to play the right hand." (Olympic
the business plan was just a ~ champion speaking of his heroin-addict mother and step-father.)
job hunting is a ~ (developing contacts, etc.)
♦ "It's not the cards you're dealt, it's how you play your hand."
the ~ continued (changing numbers, recalculating)
survival, persistence & endurance: sports & games
play the numbers game
smugglers ~, the law of averages game (stock market game, etc.)
strategy: number / sports & games game of (high-altitude) climbing
game (blame game, etc.) the high-stakes ~
Great Game
blame game
Azerbaijan was a pawn in the ~ for territory and power
what he did is what matters, not the ~ (trial)
accusation & criticism: sports & games lethal game
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five-star-review game conflict: allusion / epithet
we’re crushing it in the ~ (a hair product)
Gandhian
rules in this game
there are no set ~ (starting an Internet business) Gandhian engineering
India is promoting ~ (low cost)
rules of the game ~ challenges convention (cars)
our understanding of the ~ (diplomacy)
this time we will change the ~ (Israel bombs Hezbollah) Gandhian tactics
he advocates the use of ~ against Israel
play the game
conflict: allusion
mistakes are the price you pay to ~ (NYC publishing)
stay on top of my game gap (noun)
I have to ~…
budget gap
keep the game interesting we need to close the ~
to ~, the plays will be performed in repertory
falls into a gap
♦ "Craig Kelly was a hero to all of us, but his death seems to be just a he ~ between disciplines
part of the game." (Reaction of a snowboarder to Craig Kelly's death in
an avalanche.) division & connection: ground, terrain & land
work & duty: sports & games garbage (data)
game (social interaction)
garbage in, garbage out
game of wink and nod ~ (GIGO)
he is playing a risky ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: waste
dating game garbage (waste)
the ~ isn't as fun as it used to be (famous actor)
garbage compromise
mating games this is a ~ (politics)
social skills that underlie more serious ~ in years to come
garbage fire
competitive game the daily ~ of our social-media accounts (Twitter, etc.)
for young women in Beirut, dressing fashionably is a ~
anti-Semitic garbage
part of the game they need to get the ~ out of their textbooks
it's all just ~ (job interviewing)
bunch of garbage
stages of the (dating) game everybody thinks we're enemies, that's a ~
in the early ~
worth & lack of worth: waste
rules of the (dating) game
trying to figure out the ~ garden (resemblance)
social interaction: sports & games coral garden
game (situation) fragile ~s were discovered at depths of about 1,000 feet
rock garden
game changed technical paddling through ~s (kayaking)
then, suddenly, the whole ~ (riot that turns deadly)
resemblance: plant
situation: sports & games
game plan garden (Cactus Garden, etc.)
Cactus Garden
game plan cavers called the new find the ~ (stalagmites)
Clinton's ~ is taking shape
she reminded them of the ~ proper name: plant
we had a pretty good ~ but the problem was... (police)
Garden of Eden
script: sports & games
Garden of Eden
Gandhi (Gandhi of the Balkans, etc.) when I first visited Borneo in the 60s, it was a ~
Gandhi of the Balkans ♦ The Mormon Bible locates the Garden of Eden near Independence,
Missouri.
he was known as the ~ (Ibrahim Rugova)

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environment / superlative: Bible / religion speech: allusion / film / verb
flaws & lack of flaws: Bible / religion subterfuge: allusion / film / verb
gargantuan (size) gaslighting (noun)
gargantuan characters gaslighting, lying, and manipulation
they were both ~ (in the Scottish climbing community) she described his ~ in the workplace as cruel
♦ Gargantua, a kindly giant in French folklore, was the giant prince with a
huge appetite and loud voice in Rabelais’s 16-century satiric novel. I
speech: allusion / film
have not read it, but a description of it makes me think of Paul Bunyan, subterfuge: allusion / film
particularly the appetite part.
gasp (very “gasp,” etc.)
size: allusion
allusion: books & reading very ‘Gasp!
the coverage has been ~ Censorship’
gas (run out of gas)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing
ran out of gas
he ~ (a losing boxer) gasp (last gasp)
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb last gasp
failure, accident & impairment: engine / verb that fuss he made at the Capitol was a ~
gas (take one’s foot off the gas) resistance, opposition & defeat: bodily reaction / breathing

take our foot off the gas gate (society)

now is not the time to ~ (social distancing / pandemic)
outside the gates
took his foot off the gas Turkey is still ~ (admittance to European Union)
today he ~ (president decides to delay plan)
society / access & lack of access: gate
took its foot off the gas obstacles & impedance / division & connection: gate
with a 30-point lead, the team ~ inclusion & exclusion: gate
haste / speed: engine gate (portal)
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine
gates of death
gas (substance) the ~ are without number (versus the gate of birth)
♦ “There is but one way to enter life, but the gates of death are without
gas machine number.”
he's known as a ~ (a politician)
portal: gate
substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
gate (Iron Gate, etc.)
gas (pour gas on something, etc.)
Bab al-Mandab
pouring gasoline on the flames the ~, the “Gate of Tears” (Red Sea)
he didn’t start the fire, but he is guilty of ~ (anti-vaxxer)
Gates of Samburu
initiation: fire / verb the ~ is a pass in the Rift Valley of Kenya
increase & decrease: fire / verb
Hell's Gate
gaslight (verb) ~, the second big rapid (Lower Meadow River)
the Nahanni bends through a constriction called the ~
gaslighted her
her husband ~ for years Dzungarian Gate
the ~ is a pass between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan
gaslight society
Harvey Weinstein is trying to ~ again (sex predation) Moravian Gate
the ~ linked southern Europe and the Baltic Sea (a pass)
gaslight you
when confronted, his standard reflex is to try and ~ Golden Gate (m)
the ~ Bridge crosses the harbor
gaslight us into thinking
she did ~ she was a woman of color (Jessica Krug) Iron Gate
♦ Gas Light was a 1938 English play by Patrick Hamilton. It is about an the ~is a gorge on the Danube River
abusive and criminal husband who tries to convince his wife that she is
♦ The Golden Gate is the strait that connects San Francisco Bay to the
crazy. The word has come to mean a certain sort of psychological
Pacific Ocean. Hence the name of the famous and iconic bridge. The
manipulation. It can appear in a series like, “gaslighting, lying, and
Bridge is not a gate. The strait is the gate!
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proper name: gate cultural and political gatekeepers
the digerati effort to dethrone ~ (Web)
gate (out of the gate)
monopoly gatekeeper
out-of-the-gate smash Google is the ~ to the Internet
the song was an ~
assistant and gatekeeper
first out of the gate she serves as his ~ (his wife)
CNN was ~with its story about...
hit makers, gatekeepers and fact checkers
right out of the gate career prospects for ~ may be in doubt (Internet)
he encountered problems ~
dethrone (cultural) gatekeepers
slow out of the gate the digerati effort to ~ (Web)
he was ~, taking a month to get a campaign ad on TV
dethrone (political) gatekeepers
straight out of the gate the digerati effort to ~ (Web)
he attacked Mr Trudeau ~ (election debate)
challenges gatekeepers
charged out of the gate anything that ~ is a good thing (e-publishing)
they ~ with their hit song... (musicians perform)
seen themselves as the gatekeepers
stumbled out of the gate book publishers have long ~ of literary culture
her campaign ~ (a politician)
♦ “Senator Klobuchar is out of the gate at 1pm.” (Senate hearings.) serves as a gatekeeper
he ~ for those how want to meet her (a diplomat)
starting, going, continuing & ending: gate / horse / sports &
games access & lack of access / control & lack of control: doors &
thresholds / gate / person / society
gatecrasher (person) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gate / person
person: doors & thresholds / gate / society
gatecrasher
the ~ was arrested (party) gateway (portal)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gate gateway to the East
person: gate the ~
gatekeeper (person) gateway to Europe
the Iberian Peninsula was an ideal ~ (drugs / Portugal)
gatekeeper
editors say they are ~s, not detectives (academic fraud) gateway to the Sahara
in Tamanrasset, ~ (Algeria / Tuaregs)
gatekeepers of the Tony Awards
just 30 theater professionals are the ~ (nominators) gateways to prehistory
trash heaps might be ~ (archaeology)
gatekeepers of (TV) comedy
the ~ make up a small clique (bookers like Eddie Brill) gateway into dream life
a direct ~
gatekeepers of (literary) culture
book publishers have long seen themselves as the ~ gateway between Pakistan and Afghanistan
the Khyber Pass, the ancient ~
gatekeepers of the (global) Internet
the ~ should treat all users equally (congestion) gateway for drugs
in 1977, Florida was the ~ into the United States
gatekeeper to (the nation's) colleges
the SAT as a major ~ and universities... (scoring errors) gateway for drug smugglers
Baluchistan has been a major ~ from…
gatekeeper for information
we do not want to act as a ~ (Swisscom official / congestion) gateway for drug traffickers
southeastern Iran is a major ~ from…
gatekeeper role
they can play a ~ (building landlords vs. cable providers) gateway drug
some believe marijuana is a ~
objective gatekeeper
clinical researchers should function as ~s, but… (conflicts of "gateway theory"
interest) the ~ that pot can lead to harder drugs
political gatekeeper ancient gateway
Facebook refuses to be a ~ (untrue stories) the Khyber Pass, the ~

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major gateway Trump appointees are ~ (hobble, dismantle, cripple)
SE Iran is a ~ for drug traffickers from…
disruption / failure, accident & impairment / obstacles &
guard the gateway impedance / starting, going, continuing & ending:
teacher certification programs ~ to public-school teaching mechanism / verb
portal: gate gear (switch gears)
gauge (noun) switch gears
how hard it is to ~ for many adjuncts
gauge of malnutrition
I'm going to ~ here… (change the subject)
the percent of kids under 5 who are underweight is a ~
reversal: mechanism / verb
critical gauge
it is a ~ of malnutrition (underweight kids under 5) gear up (verb)
measurement: tools & technology gears up for 2012
gauntlet (lay down a gauntlet, etc.) as the White House ~ (election)
gearing up for a battle
laid down the gauntlet to Republicans
Republicans are ~ (politics)
Obama has ~ by asking Congress to…
gearing up for the future
thrown the gauntlet down to City
we're ~ (companies exploiting the Arctic)
Jurgen Klopp’s side have ~ (soccer)
♦ A gauntlet was a glove worn with Medieval armor to protect the hand. increase & decrease: mechanism / verb
In its figurative meaning, it means to issue a challenge. difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism / verb
conflict: Middle Ages / verb gem (noun)
gear (in full gear) gem
in full gear Oman is a ~ in the Middle East
the community will move to get the relief effort ~ gem of a book
get the (relief) effort in full gear he has written a ~
the community will move to ~ gems inside British boxing
activity / functioning: mechanism we’ve got some ~ (Costello & Bunce)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism whitewater gem
condition & status: mechanism this spectacular ~ (Tallulah Gorge / kayaking)
gear (kick into gear, etc.) hidden gem
kick into gear the road reveals many ~s (N7 in France)
that’s when you see him ~ (boxer gets ready for bout) superlative: mining
the investigation was about to ~ (of a serial rapist)
gene (in one's genes)
kicked into gear
the worm only ~ when… (cyberwarfare) in his genes
laziness is not ~
moved into (high) gear
American-led efforts to save the talks ~ (Mideast) identity & nature: biology

shifted into high gear gene (other)

conservative talk-show hosts ~
“acting gene”
activity / initiation: mechanism his father told the BBC that his son had inherited the ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
identity & nature: biology
gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.)
generation (products, etc.)
wrench in the gears
antiviral drugs are a ~ of the genetic machinery fourth generation
the Max was to be the of the 737 family (Boeing)
throw sand in the gears
this bill will ~ of commerce taxonomy & classification: family
they can ~ (Iraqi spies)
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Geneva Convention it was something that ~ into this thread I explored in my
novel
digital Geneva Convention creation & transformation: birth / verb
some are calling for a ~ (cyberwarfare)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: birth / verb
constraint & lack of constraint: crime / history / justice growth & development: birth / verb
allusion: military gestation (film, etc.)
genie (initiation)
seven-year gestation
genie the film had a ~
the ~ is out of the bottle (cloning) creation & transformation / growth & development /
can the ~ every be put back in the bottle (flat-earth belief)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: birth
once that ~ is out of the bottle, it gets very hard to put it
back (opioids) get (understand)
genie (of racial hatred) has been unleashed get it
the ~ (Ivory Coast) I~
micro-entertainment genie I don’t ~
you can never put the ~ back in the bottle (TikTok) I didn’t ~

stuff the genie back into the bottle gets it

it's too late to ~ this guy ~ (understands)
here’s a guy who ~ (cleric who fights sex abuse)
put the genie back in the bottle
you can’t ~ get the skepticism
I totally ~
affliction / initiation: creature comprehension & incomprehension: giving, receiving,
bringing & returning / verb
genie (knowledge)
get (get into something)
lighting-design genie
again he has shown himself to be a ~ got into movies
little by little, I ~ (an actor)
person: creature / magic
ability & lack of ability / knowledge & intelligence: creature get into the specifics
/ magic / person I’m not going to ~ on the investigation
general (General Winter, etc.) get into that
a lot of no comments, a lot of we’re not going to ~
“The General” the police chief said he did not want to ~ (an argument)
Coach Bobby Knight, or ~ as he is fondly remembered
got into trouble
“General Winter” he ~ at university
he found himself up against ~ (Napoleon)
involvement: container / direction / verb
epithet: military / weather & climate
get (get on with something)
germinate (verb)
get on with it
gestated and (finally) germinated okay, let’s ~ (sports during pandemic)
it was something that ~ into this thread I explored in my
novel reconciliation, resolution, & conclusion / resiliency /
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb
creation & transformation: birth / plant / verb
growth & development: birth / plant / verb get (get over something)
Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.) get over the sense of failure
I know I will ~
Gestapo of Patterson
the police were the ~ (BBC’s The Hurricane Tapes) resiliency / reconciliation, resolution & conclusion /
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb
oppression: allusion / epithet / history / violence
gestate (verb) get (get somewhere)
gestated and (finally) germinated get there
how did Apple ~ (a trillion dollars)
we’re never going to ~ if... (politics)

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get here a ~ as a Valentine's Day present
how did we ~ (explain how we arrived at such a situation)
vacation getaway
analysis, interpretation & explanation / attainment / this ~ won't cost you an arm and leg
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: journeys &
pursuit, capture & escape: place
trips / verb
get away (get away with something)
get (get through something)
would have gotten away with it
get through (almost) anything if he had done it elsewhere, he ~ (a murder)
with the right outlook, you can ~ (life)
guilt / responsibility: justice
get through the episode pursuit, capture & escape: justice
I somehow managed to ~
get by (verb)
got through the interview
I somehow ~ (for a job) get by
people are just trying to ~
get through it
I think she'll ~, she's a very strong personality (athlete) survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb

get through that (transition) period get out (escape)

help the economy ~ (Russia)
get out
get through the (degree) program I wanted to ~ but I didn’t know how (gang)
working while they try to ~
pursuit, capture & escape / situation: container
get through this
the Lord will give us the strength to ~
get out (get out from under)
get through this somehow get out from under her (crushing debt) burden
we'll ~ she couldn’t ~

get you through rough times get out from under the cloud
develop better coping skills to ~ he couldn’t ~ of suspicion

time to get through (all) this got out from under the father's (controlling) eye
it takes ~, just be patient… when she ~...

strength to get through this get out from under its debt
the Lord will give us the ~ the city is trying to ~ (Detroit)

way to get through it get out from under (US) sanctions

if you want to find a ~ all, maybe… Iran wants to ~

reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / resiliency / oppression: burden / verb / weight

survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb amelioration & renewal: burden / verb / weight

get along (verb) ghost (verb)

get along ghosting you
to ~, you’ve got to go along (it’s the way of the world) he’s ~ (her boyfriend disappears without contact)
you want to ~ to go along in D.C. (lobbyists / regulators) ghosts boyfriends
allegiance, support & betrayal / social interaction / she ~ because she doesn’t want to offend
unanimity & consensus: direction / journeys & trips / ghosted me
movement / society / verb she ~ and I was left in the dark (as to why)
getaway (noun) ghosted him
American had ~ (victim of #MeToo movement)
weekend getaway
♦ In terms of dating, this refers to a boyfriend or girlfriend cutting off a
dream vacations and ~s relationship with no explanation, not face to face or even on social
a romantic ~ as a Valentine's Day present media. Further contact might only be related to “orbiting” on social
media.
romantic getaway
last summer, for a ~, we…; appearance & disappearance: creature / verb

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ghost (memory) ghost villages
~ proliferated up in the hills (North Greece, abandoned)
ghost families have moved away, leaving “~” (Setomaa area)
the ~s were brought to life (bones of slave laborers)
appearance & disappearance: creature
they want to keep his ~ alive (Osama bin Laden)
“ghosts” of Ms Clinton’s campaign
ghost (ghost signs, etc.)
the article questioned whether the ~ would haunt Ms Warren ghost face
ghosts of Vietnam the child noticed a ~ on the floor (Bélmez Faces)
an attempt to bury the ~ (embedded reporters / Iraq) "ghost signs"
ghosts of history the city does not preserve ~ (on old brick walls)
a debate about how to confront the ~ (Germany / 70s) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: creature
confront the ghosts ghost (fantasy and delusion)
a debate about how to ~ of history (Germany, 70s)
ghost airplanes
exorcised that ghost stray missiles, ~ (Egyptian scenarios for Flight 990)
European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi)
fantasy & reality: creature
affliction: creature
ghost town
ghost (bury the ghost)
ghost town
bury the ghosts two years later, the city is a ~ (after earthquake)
an attempt to ~ of Vietnam one year on, L'Aquila is still a ~ (after earthquake)
exorcised that ghost virtual ghost town
European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi) the bombardments have left Aleppo a ~
amelioration & renewal / reconciliation, resolution & turn into ghost towns
conclusion: burial / creature / verb communities will ~
ghost (ghost children, etc.) activity / presence & absence: creature
ghost children ghostwriter (noun)
North Korean ~ in China can't go to school (illegal)
ghostwriter
“ghost gun” he has worked as an unofficial ~
an unregistered, untraceable ~ (assembled from parts)
concealment & lack of concealment: creature
ghost guns subterfuge: creature
one-third of all firearms seized are ~ (California)
giant (Giants Causeway, etc.)
"ghost" ship
~s have been previously hijacked (piracy) Giants Causeway
~s are a real threat to the security (world's waterways) the ~ is a cape in Northern Ireland
the two pirate vessels returned to a large ~ (Somalia)
Giant's Chair
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: creature the ~ (Gygrestolen), is a mountain in Svalbard
society: creature ♦ The Giants Causeway is a Unesco World Heritage site.

ghost (ghost ship, etc.) proper name: creature

ghost gear giant (sleeping giant)

marine life is killed by “~” (lost and abandoned nets)
ghost homes
akiya, or ~, dot the landscape (vacant homes in Japan)
ghost nets
when these nets get lost at sea, they become ~ (trawlers)
ghost planes
airliners are flying empty ~ to keep their flight slots
“ghost” cargo ship
a ~ has washed up off the coast of Ireland (abandoned)
sleeping giant
the Latino vote has always been seen as a ~ (politics)
this is a ~ (projected water shortage in US)
they have awakened a ~ (sports team)
sleeping giant of the (Texas) Hispanic vote
the so-called ~ is about to wake up
consciousness & awareness: creature / size / sleep
power: creature / size / sleep

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giant (size) Pumori and McKinley, among other ~s

giant catch (complacent) giant unawares

aggressive upstarts ~ (Japan vs. Detroit)
some venerable ~s grew as high as 120 feet (trees)
"giant of Africa" grow into a giant
a hailstone can ~ (size of a grapefruit)
instability in the ~ is cause for concern (Nigeria)
size: creature
Giants of Asia
these two ~ (China and India) giant (achievement)
giant in the field giant of his field
the late Amos Tversky, a ~ of coincidence theory he was considered the ~ (literary critic)
beverage giant giant of foreign policy
the Atlanta-based ~ (Coca-Cola) he was a true ~
game giant giant figure
the established ~s Sony and Nintendo he was a ~ in American theater (August Wilson)
Wall Street giant romantic giants
~ Lehman Brothers in an age of ~ he was certainly a titan (Johann von Goethe)
telecom giant shoulder of giants
the ~ WorldCom I've always felt I'm standing on the ~ here (windsurfer)
comic-book giant achievement, recognition & praise: creature / size
a ~ (character from a comic) importance & significance: creature / size
San Francisco Giants gift (gift for languages, etc.)
the ~ beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 (MLB)
gift
Duiwelskloof Giant they either have that ~ or they don't (acting)
the ~ has a pub inside it (a South African baobab tree)
gift for knowing
Sagole giant he has a ~ what people want (games developer)
the ~ sprawls over a half-an-acre (a South African baobab)
gift for friendship
fast-food giant Wharton had a great ~
aggressive trademark protection by the ~ (McDonald's)
gift for languages
long-distance giant having an unusual ~ (explorer Sven Hedin)
~ AT&T
gift for metaphor
mobile-phone giant a poet's ~
~ Vodafone
gift for theater
natural gas giant his ~ and his populist policies (a politician)
Gazprom, the ~ (Russia)
poet's gift
software giant a ~ for metaphor
the ~ Microsoft
athletic gifts
online auction giant the ~, but behind them was an angry teenager
the ~, eBay
ability & lack of ability: gift
banking giant
the ~ Wachovia gift (benefit)
retailing giant gift
such ~s as Old Navy, Staples, Barnes & Noble thank you GOD for blessing us with this ~ (John Singleton)

complacent giant gift to the (Iraqi) people

aggressive upstarts catch ~ unawares (Japan) the suicide bombing was a ~

4 giants Gift of Life

~ fell in the first round (World Cup soccer) the ~ brings children to the US for surgery

20,000-foot giant gift of life

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 organ donors make the ~ possible
gift of literacy
give the ~ and change a life forever (literacy)
gift of science
we embrace the ~, which is a gift from God (Jews)
gift from God
she is a ~ (woman who helps the poor)
the gift of science, which is a ~ (Jews / reproduction)
gift from the 20th century to the 21st
a ~ (eradication of polio)
gift and a curse
having a good platoon, it's both a ~ (combat medic)
♦ Salisbury: Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, / To guard a
title that was rich before, / To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw
a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto
the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to
garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. (Shakespeare’s The Life and
Death of King John, Act, Scene 2.)
♦ The title of Twain and Warner’s book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of
Today, which gave the US historical period its name, refers to the age’s
excess, but also focuses on the problems most people faced in a time
after the Civil War that was supposed to be a Golden Age.
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
growth & development / money: history
gilded (other)
gilded with heroic gesture
tragedy had to be ~ (Oates in Antarctica)

God's gift Gilded Age

camels, known by some as Ata Allah, or ~ the ~ was characterized by great income inequality

Australia's gift gilded cage

~ to the world (fresh, fun and enthusiastic girls)
precious gift
she was a ~ (mother talking about murdered daughter)
accept our lot as a gift
but should we ~ (vs. genetic and self-engineering)
the 4 Russian princesses lived in a ~ (isolated in a palace)
♦ “They were spackling a turd with gold paint.” (An upset Greg Gutfeld on
Fox News, speaking about the Democrat impeachment engrossment
ceremony.)
♦ The verb gild can mean to make something appear bright and
attractive, and it can also mean to make something seem more valuable
or attractive than it really is.

cost & benefit: gift substance & lack of substance: materials & substances
worth & lack of worth: gift appearance & reality: materials & substances
subterfuge: materials & substances
gift (verb)
girl (big girl, etc.)
gifted Cameroon a goal
her sloppy pass back almost ~ (World Cup soccer) big-girl major
I need to have a ~, I’ll become a scientist
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: gift / verb
put your big-girl pants on
gifted you need to ~ and deal with it
♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
gifted children and get out there and show them what you got...”
the parents of ~
a program that serves ~ growth & development: death & life
gifted (young) violinist give (give a wink, etc.)
a~
gave me a wave
gifted, high-functioning (m) he ~
~ individuals
transmission: gesture / verb
most gifted (m) giving, receiving, bringing & returning: gesture / verb
only the ~ math wizards understand it (Poincare)
give (give a start, etc.)
naturally gifted (m)
naturally gifted athletes gives people hope
she ~ (Lizzo)
technically gifted (m)
he is a ~ boxer gave me a start
it ~
wonderfully gifted
he is a ~ footballer (Ronaldo) gave me the creeps
she ~
ability & lack of ability: gift
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
gilded (Gilded Age) transmission: verb
feeling, emotion & effect: giving, receiving, bringing &
Gilded Age of rock journalism returning / verb
the sixties were the ~ (excess)

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give (give an impression, etc.) conflict: history / person / violence
person: history / violence
gave a good account glare (attention)
he ~ (contest)
gave a good impression glare of publicity
he ~ he now wishes to be away from the ~ (scandal)

transmission: verb attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark

give-and-take glass jaw

give and take glass jaw
such ~ is uncommon they are trying to protect his ~ (a politician)
there has been a lot of ~ (coach / player) strength & weakness: boxing
give and take of ideas glean (verb)
the ~ in class discussion (vs. Internet)
glean clues from mammoth hair
give-and-take relationship scientists ~
our ~s
glean information from him
marital give-and-take authorities hoped to ~ (spy)
in this parable of ~, the last word is hers to give
♦ The Wikipedia entry for gleaning is very interesting, and it shows a very
position, policy & negotiation: direction affecting photo, “Impoverished Germans gleaning in 1956.”

social interaction: direction / giving, receiving, bringing & searching & discovery: farming & agriculture / verb
returning
gleaned
give in (verb)
gleaned from the records
give in there’s a lot to be ~ (church sex abuse)
I will never ~
searching & discovery: farming & agriculture
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.)
give up (stop trying)
glimmer of hope
gave up there might be a small ~ for the family (missing son)
she ~ (started drinking, etc.)
glimmers of hope
give up or waver five ~ to beat the coronavirus blues (BBC)
are we going to ~ when things get tough (a protest)
glimmer of progress
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb it looked like there was a ~ but that did not last long
glacial (adjective) evidence: atmosphere / light & dark
glacial pace amount: atmosphere / light & dark
benefits and appeals are decided at a ~ (Veterans Affairs) glittering (adjective)
pace (of medical research) is glacial glittering career
the ~ he celebrated another landmark in his ~
♦ In the July / August issue of Sierra, in his article “Hope is Not a he has won everything in a ~ (Nadal)
Strategy,” the executive director of the Sierra Club Michael Brune wrote:
“You could say that progress on an international climate change superlative: light & dark
agreement has been glacial, except that glaciers have been melting
faster.” In a warming future, the movement of glaciers may no longer be gloom (noun)
glacial. Some glaciers have been referred to as galloping or surging and
can travel 250 feet per day.
tension and gloom
speed: glacier people resumed their lives in an atmosphere of ~
gladiator (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
oppression: light & dark
gladiators
football players are ~, baseball players are gentlemen gloomy (adjective)
gladiator personalities gloomy assessment
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gloomy picture glowing (adjective)
he presented quite a ~ of the region
glowing recommendation
gloomy crossroads he earned an internship because of a ~
he'd reached a ~ in his life
glowing reputation
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
Vada has earned a ~ in the sport (anti-doping)
oppression: light & dark
gloss (appearance) glowing things
he did not say ~ about her (an out-of-favor ambassador)
gloss of contemporary self-consciousness superlative: light & dark
it’s a Victorian novel with a ~
glue (noun)
gentlemanly gloss
many male Nashville stars have taken a more ~ glue
♦ This kind of gloss may be deceptively attractive or superficial. she is the ~ binding the family together (daughter)
their affection is the ~ that holds them together
appearance / appearance & reality / concealment & lack of he is the ~ that holds the company together (an executive)
concealment / subterfuge: light & dark / materials & oil could be the ~ that keeps the two sides civil (Sudan)
substances fear is the ~ that holds together their regime (repression)
almond butter is the ~ that holds the ingredients together
gloss (add gloss, etc.) he is the ~ that holds it together (a soccer player)
added the gloss glue of civilization
Kiltie, Kabamba and Johnson ~ (each scored a goal) queues are the ~ (society, egalitarianism, fairness, etc.)
added gloss to a (hard-fought) success glue of politics
an extra-time goal ~ (soccer) fear was now the ~ (repressive regimes)
added gloss to the win binding glue
their goals ~ (rugby) nationalism was the ~ that replaced religion and dynasty
added the gloss with a fine, chipped finish ideological glue
Long ~ (soccer) the Brotherhood has a common ~ other parties lack
superlative: light & dark social glue
gloss over (verb) her coach called her the ~ that held the players together
religion provides ~ to bond groups
gloss over how difficult attachment: materials & substances
he doesn’t want to ~ it was (leaving a hate group)
glued
gloss over any (difficult) issues
Mom wants to ~ glued to his ear
gloss over the killings he had a cellphone ~ (art-auction bidder)
school history books ~ (Indonesia in 1965) glued to the floor
gloss over addiction and overdose she sat silently, her eyes ~
she refused to ~ in her daughter’s obituary glued to their phones
concealment & lack of concealment / confronting, dealing parents, some sobbing, others ~... (school shooting)
with & ignoring things / subterfuge: light & dark / verb glued to their radios
glove (the gloves are off) soap operas keep millions of Ethiopians ~
glued to the road
gloves are off all-wheel drive keeps you ~ (cars)
the ~ (jungle justice / no Nigerian election meddling)
glue to their screens
gloves are (well and truly) off young people are ~ all day (computers)
the ~ (tough G-20 negotiations)
glued to the television
the gloves are (coming) off during the World Cup she was ~
~ and the new US policy...
restraint & lack of restraint: boxing
glued to the TV
on Sundays, my husband is ~ (sports)
behavior / conflict / violence: boxing
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glut (noun) go wrong
where did I ~
supply glut
a ~ of lobsters went wrong
what ~
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink they blame Democrats for everything that ~
glutton (person) went (so) wrong
a routine call that ~ so quickly (two cops murdered)
glutton for punishment
I should have quit my job years ago, but I guess I'm a ~ gone from bad to worse
things have ~ (surprising news)
glutton for food, sex and praise
he is a ~ failure, accident & impairment: movement
development: movement
video glutton
I am a ~ (stop me before I rent again) go (development)
consumption / enthusiasm: food & drink / person go from here
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / person but where does he ~ (boxer after unexpected loss)
person: food & drink where things ~ is quite honestly up in the air
gnaw (verb) going great
things are ~ (a relationship)
gnawed at him
it ~ (what to do about a problem) gone smoothly
a secret worry ~ (a researcher and his results) but the hangings have not always ~... (Iraq)
the letter ~ (a journalist gets a tip)
went smoothly
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / sensation / teeth / verb elections ~ and without violence (Ghana)
affliction: animal / sensation / teeth / verb
going well
gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.) when things are ~ at home
gnawing anxiety go a little better
the ~ that he could win again (a politician) things began to ~ after that
gnawing doubt going to go
I had a ~ about my choice of a profession we know how the vote is ~
gnawing hunger how it goes
they had a ~ for a better life (Ellis Island immigrants) they want the same thing, but ~ is not the same (plot)
♦ Managers are only responsible when things go well, not when things
gnawing fear and uncertainty go wrong!
a ~ (living in era of terrorism)
development: direction / movement / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / teeth
affliction: animal / sensation / teeth go (a road can go, etc.)
go (go after somebody / attack) goes from Canada to Mexico
the mountain range ~
going after the senator
the President is ~ with references to Native Americans fictive motion: verb / walking, running & jumping

went after his critics go (have a go at something)

he ~ (Turkish President)
had a go at it
accusation & criticism: hunting / verb practically everyone ~ (writing mystery novels)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb attempt: movement
speech: hunting / verb
go (go wrong, etc.) go (a distance to go, etc.)
go bad far to go
the field has come a long way but still has ~ (AI)
when things ~, they go really bad
going badly further to go
we have come a long way, but we have much ~
the project is ~
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 we still have a ~ (restoring electricity after hurricane) go from here
where do we ~ (troubled relationship)
a long way to go where does the program ~ (sports)
we've got ~, but we've had some success
Afghanistan has ~ in its pursuit of peace going forward
this is a step in the right direction, but there is still ~ turning back was not an option, ~ was a minefield
we still have ~ (putting out a wildfire in California)
went round and round
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement we ~ (in an argument)
go (progress) gone either way
it could have ~ (the decision in a close boxing match)
go far
together we will ~ go this route
I'm surprised more people don't ~ (reject fame)
gone (quite) a distance
we have ~ in creating a better Afghanistan direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb
going nowhere go (where are we going, etc.)
the project is ~ (a pipeline)
where are we going
condition & status / progress & lack of progress: journeys & what’s next for the Brexit process, ~
trips / movement / verb
where things are going
go (let something go) it’s hard to know ~ (in the future)
let it go where do we go now
he rolled his eyes and told me to ~ (book idea) ~ (Guns N’ Roses)
let go of that future / time: journeys & trips / movement
I want to ~ (a boxer speaking of a defeat)
go (not go there)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: hand / verb
possession / resiliency: hand / verb go there
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb let's not ~ (topic of conversation)
I just can’t ~ (think about it)
go (behavior) they don’t want to discuss that, they don’t want to ~
going berserk eagerness & reluctance: journeys & trips / movement
this crowd is ~ (an exciting boxing match) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: journeys & trips
/ movement
went too far
she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble) go (the time has gone, etc.)
went overboard been and gone
she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble) irrelevant club whose time has ~ (Manchester United)
go over the line come and gone
anything goes as long as you don't ~ (Las Vegas) 2001 has ~
went off the deep end time has gone
she ~ we worry about where the ~, how much of it we have left
anything goes time: direction / movement / verb
~ as long as you don't go over the line (Las Vegas) past & present: direction / movement / verb
willing to go go (a month to go, etc.)
how far are you ~ to get these people (cops)
months to go
behavior: direction / distance / movement / verb there’s still a couple of ~ (in the season)
go (direction) future / time: distance / movement

go go (come and go)

Obama is taking this country where it should never ~
come and go
goes to a difficult issue trendy eateries ~
your question ~ fashion trends ~ (normcore)
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 technological fads have ~ in schools allegiance, support & betrayal / social interaction /
unanimity & consensus: direction / journeys & trips /
came and went
other American intelligence warnings ~ movement / verb

coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / primacy, goalpost (target)

currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / movement / goalpost
verb that ~ seemed to fade out of sight (a deadline)
goad (verb) constantly changing goalposts
the ~ will be a challenge (government requirements)
goad him into launching
Trump appeared to ~ a presidential bid (liberal independent) move the goalposts
they shouldn’t ~ and change things in the middle of game
coercion & motivation / directing / oppression: animal /
speech / verb / violence moved the goalposts
every time Obama met their demands, they ~ (Republicans)
go-ahead
moving the goalposts
go-ahead from Turkey the government keeps ~ (reporting requirements)
uncertainty over a ~ (military operation)
♦ (A) “Did I do that right?” (B) “Correct. Yes.” (C) “Yes.” (A) “All right.
Through the uprights. Thank you very much. Okay, so then the question
go-ahead for the flight is why...” (A radio science show with three people.)
the ~ came through
success & failure: football / sports & games / target
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: movement / verb
target: football / sports & games
to noun
go around (verb)
goal (own goal)
go around congress
embarrassing own goal the president will try to ~ to get what he wants
this is an ~ for the president’s allies
avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking,
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games running & jumping
goal line (across the goal line) go away (verb)
get this across the goal line go away
she needs her party’s support to ~ (Brexit) there were some problems that didn’t ~ (physics)
success & failure: football / sports & games go away (anytime) soon
go along (verb) the controversy over VAR is not going to ~ (sports)
appearance & disappearance: coming, arriving, staying,
go along
to get along, you’ve got to ~ (it’s the way of the world) leaving & returning: movement / verb
you want to get along to ~ in D.C. (lobbyists / regulators) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: movement / verb
I didn’t make the custom, I just ~ (segregation) gobble up (verb)
go along with Israel gobble up (as much) raw data
he will probably ~ (foreign policy) the NSA wanted to ~ as it could (Edward Snowden)
went along with their leader gobbled up land
they ~ (politics) developers ~ (housing and golf courses)
go along with what’s fair and what’s just gobbled up the market
we’re asking you to ~ rivals have ~
♦ In a discussion about politics, the following words and phrases were
used: stand up to; challenge; take him on; bring him down; go along; and consumption: food & drink / verb
wait it out.
“‘What do you boys want!’ he asked us. And we said, ‘We simply want to go big (verb)
be served.’ ‘Well, I can’t serve you here, I can’t!’ We said, ‘Can’t or
won’t? What is the problem?’ ‘Well, we just don’t serve black people at go big
this counter.’ ‘Well, why not! Do you condone this custom, of keep the case local, or ~ (murder of child)
discrimination?’ ‘Well, I didn’t make the custom. You know, I just abide
by it. I just go along.’ ‘Well, we’re asking you to go along with what’s fair
they decided to ~ (police / murder of child)
and what’s just...’” (BBC, Sounds, Witness History, “The Greensboro
lunch counter sit-in.) go big on a national response
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go big, or go home he invented the ~ genre in 1987 with Populous
~ (a championship soccer game)
God gamers
go big or go home ~ escape the real world (computer games)
~ (defend yourself against criticism)
“hacking god”
♦ “We pressed the big button with rescue helicopters, rescue dogs, the
Red Cross, the civil defense, fire, health and police.” (A Norwegian,
he described himself as a ~ (imprisoned swatter)
speaking in Norwegian, about eight homes that were swept into the sea
by a mudslide. His speech was translated by the BBC, which showed the play god
video of the astonishing event. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the she tried to ~, and now she is in trouble
disaster.)
♦ “Look on the Tarot card. It says, ‘Call me God.’ Do not release to the
press.” (A phone call to police by the D.C. sniper.)
extent & scope: size / verb
commitment & determination: size / verb control & lack of control: religion
go for it, etc. god (mountain gods, etc.)
go for broke football gods
expect the athletes to ~ (Olympics) the ~ weren't going to let Auburn lose last night
go-for-broke (m) mountain gods
doing ~ art sometimes the ~ say, "Not today" (climbing)
a skier with a ~ style Concordia is the throne room of the ~ (Pakistan / Rowell)
a ~ cancer treatment
poker gods
go for it he felt cursed by the ~
let's ~ (win versus tie / sports)
Pulev will ~, he will have a go (box aggressively) river gods
the ~ are hungry (a rafter)
go-for-it (m)
you need a ~ attitude (ski competition) sea-gods
he had a ~ mentality (skateboarder) the ~ had ordained that he should soon become my
shipmate... (Moby-Dick)
go for the victory
he decided to ~ (versus tie / coach) soccer gods
the ~ at times are fair (two judging errors cancel out)
go hard and go early
the New Zealand response to the pandemic was “~” weather gods
♦ "He had a go-for-it mentality—'Make it, or take me to the hospital.'" (A the ~ had shown an uncanny sense of occasion
skateboarder.)
cursed by the (poker) gods
♦ "I just did it, and just kind of went as big as I could, and threw it all at
the wall knowing the only mistake we could make was not going far
he felt ~
enough. And so we both just went for it... I had turned it up to eleven and ♦ “On the top, on the right-hand side of the trail, stood a small joss-
then realized I had to go even higher...” (Elisabeth Moss on performing in house, built of logs. Within was a crude carving illustrating Chinese gods,
Her Smell.) and in front of it two wooden boxes with the stamps of paper candles. On
the other side were a few leaves of tobacco and a couple of pieces of
attempt: direction / movement / verb sugar, sacrifices to the God of Forests.” (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
commitment & determination: direction / movement / verb
fate, fortune & chance: religion
go by (an hour can go by, etc.)
god (importance)
gone by
which events will still matter after months or years ~ “Guitar God”
he is remembered as a ~ (Eddie Van Halen)
went by
an hour ~ guitar god
by then his reputation as a ~ was firmly enshrined
time: movement / verb
gun god
god (play god, etc.) human sacrifices on this altar of the ~ (2nd amendment)
god complex importance & significance: religion
the sniper had a ~ (DC sniper)
goddess
god game
a ~ called Black and White (computers) goddess
~s, like the SimCity series and Dungeon Keeper she is a ~
superlative: religion
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godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.) acceptance & rejection: food & drink / verb

Godfather of Clouds
some call him, with good reason, the ~ (Luke Howard)
godfather of Marvel Comics
Lee is considered the ~ (Stan Lee, died age 95)
Godfather of ecstasy
he became known as the ~ (Alexander Shulgin)
Godfather of Freeskiing
the ~, Mike Douglas (New Canadian Air Force)
gold (black gold, etc.)
white gold
~, they sometimes called it (guano in the 19th century)
whalers boil the ~ in giant containers (whale blubber)
these hair extensions are often referred to as “~” (Ukraine)
black gold
~, or petroleum (oil)
Arabia’s other ~, Khawlani coffee beans (dried black)
the “~” epithet has been given to both coal and coffee

“godfather of grime” blue gold

the rapper Wiley, known as the ~ (“Boasty,” etc.) bulk water shipments could be ~ (to arid countries)
investors have called the metal “~” (cobalt)
Godfather of snowboarding
Jake Burton Carpenter, known as the ~, has died... gray gold
lead was called ~ (1820s / northwestern Illinois)
Godfather of Soul
the governor proclaimed him the ~ (the great James Brown) epithet: materials & substances / mining
worth & lack of worth: epithet / materials & substances /
Godfather of the New Right mining
they call him the ~ (Richard Viguerie)
gold (worth)
godfather of kayak surfing
Randy Phillips, the ~ gold
speech is silver, silence is ~
godfather of global warming
he is sometimes called "~" (James Hansen of NASA) worth its weight in gold
it's ~
Godfather of electronic voice phenomenon
the ~ Konstantin Raudive gone from gold to tarnished brass
it’s reputation has ~ (the CDC)
epithet / person / relationship: family
♦ “They arrive with gold and depart with pepper.” (An amazed Tamil
help & assistance: family trader. From At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.)
godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.) ♦ Gold makes the belagaana crazy. (A Navajo in a Tony Hillerman
novel.)
Godmother of Title IX ♦ "It is a well-known fact that gold blinds all and corrupts even the best of
Bernice Sandler, ‘~’ people." (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
♦ “With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.”
epithet / person / relationship: family
♦ “With gold I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.” (A
help & assistance: family Turkish proverb.)

godforsaken ♦ “The shroud has no pockets.” (Turkish.)

♦ “A miser does not own money; money owns the miser.” (Saudi Arabia.)
godforsaken battlefields ♦ “Better poor with honor than rich with shame!”
months or even years on ~ (Korea)
♦ “Friends are better than money.” “Why do you say that?” “Because if
you need money, you can always borrow it from your friends!”
godforsaken hellhole
a~ worth & lack of worth: mining
feeling, emotion & effect: religion gold (strike gold)
go down (happen) struck gold
he finally ~ (won an award)
went down
what more can you tell us about what ~ struck (comic) gold
occurrence: direction / verb they knew they had ~ (idea for film)
success & failure: mining
go down (digestion)
searching & discovery: mining
gone down well gold digger (person)
his comments haven’t ~ with many in India
consumption: food & drink / verb gold digger
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 she was a small-town girl, a Playboy pinup, and ~
character & personality: mining / person
person: mining / money
gold-digging
gold-digging (m)
prenuptial agreements protect wealthy from ~ spouses
behavior: mining
golden (golden girl, boy)
golden boy
he was a ~ from the get-go (Justice John Roberts)
golden boy of this (island) nation
he was once the ~ (Malta’s prime minister resigns)
golden girl of Silicon Valley
she was the ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
golden boy quarterback
~ faces uncertain future (in NFL draft)
PSG’s (attacking) golden boys
~ Mbappe and Neymar
Hollywood golden boy
at the time, he was riding high as a ~
liberal golden boy
he became a ~ during his Senate bid (Beto O’Rourke)
brings down (Rhode Island) ‘golden boy’
college cheating scandal ~ (tennis coach took bribes)
achievement, recognition & praise: person
attraction & repulsion: person
golden (golden opportunity, etc.)
golden opportunity
that was a ~ for him (overthrown pass by QB / football)
did we miss a ~
his media posts destroyed a ~ (admission to Harvard)
superlative: materials & substances / mining
golden age / era
"golden age" of peace
they look on his reign as a ~ (Afghanistan)
golden age of quiz shows
the ~ of the 1950s
golden age of the detective story
the period has been called the ~ (between world wars)
golden era
the ~ of whaling, from about 1820 to 1860
sport’s Golden Era
the 1970s, the ~ (US boxing)
growth & development / superlative: history
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
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golden rule
golden rule
the ~ in meatpacking plants is "the line never stops"
message: religion
golden hour
golden hour
a clock starts ticking on what is called the ~
the "~", when life can hang in the balance
"Golden Hour" of injury
if treatment is available within the first ~
timeliness & lack of timeliness: hour
Goldilocks (Goldilocks zone, etc.)
Goldilocks approach
many people believe in a ~ to stress (not too much)
Goldilocks candidate
Klobuchar is “the ~” (Democrat contestant)
Goldilocks civilization
it’s a good example of what I call a ~ (Harappans / climate)
Goldilocks economy
we are in the middle of a ~ (just right)
Goldilocks place
trying to find the sweet spot, the ~ is important (medicine)
Goldilocks principle
finding the middle way forward is called the “~”
Goldilocks zone
planets in the “~” (not too hot or cold for liquid water)
* In the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, Goldilocks was a
horrid willful privileged naughty little girl who could not control herself,
and the bears were Mama, Papa, and Baby Bear. Goldilocks broke into
the bears’ house. She ate the porridge that was just right, sat on the
chair that was just right, and slept on the bed that was just right. When
the bears returned, she fled.
* In Krakatoa, Simon Winchester points out that volcanic eruptions are
often associated with death and disaster and yet in fact they are one of a
number of reasons why the Earth is “just right” for life. The earth is just
the right distance from the sun, allowing for water in liquid form. Its size
is just right, too, with just the right gravitational pull to maintain an
atmosphere. It has just the right number of volcanoes of the right size to
create and recycle elements essential “to the making and maintenance
of organic life.” Finally, the volcanic eruptions are often the result of the
movement of great plates, which can’t exist on planets that are too hot or
too cold.
flaws & lack of flaws: allusion
allusion: books & reading
gold mine
gold mine of data
a ~ about enemy plans
gold mine of (genealogical) data
a ~ for family researchers (census)
gold mine of documentation
the prison is a possible ~ (Iraq / US POW)
gold mine of information Goliath (Bible)
he is a ~
the Web is a ~ a billion-dollar goliath
he has conquered ~ (the tech industry)
gold mine of research
it was a ~ (Lyme disease hotspot) David-and-Goliath
waging a ~ battle against Time Warner
gold mine (of data) for researchers
the census is a ~ (genealogy) strength & weakness: allusion / Bible / religion
size: allusion / Bible / religion
goldmine for (Chinese wood) traders
the vast forests of Eastern Siberia are a ~ gone (absent)
fossil goldmine gone
the limestone caves contain a "~" of species you have a house, and then it is ~

potential gold mine presence & absence: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
college graduates are ~s for retailers possession: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
♦"What happens when the mine closes?" (Question relating to the gone (those days are gone, etc.)
degradation of the environment by gold mining, and the way gold
companies walk away from the cleanup.)
gone
source / worth & lack of worth: mining those days are ~
the Ceausescus and Idi Amins and Saddams are ~
gold rush
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
dot-com gold rush movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
Wall Street's ~ past & present / time: direction / movement / prep, adv,
Internet gold rush adj, particle
start-ups and the ~ gone (dead)
natural-gas gold rush gone
the country is at the heart of Colorado's ~ if she gets sick she’s gonna be ~ (an old woman)
latter-day gold rush death & life: movement
a ~ is on (Arctic oil and gas) euphemism: death & life
new gold rush goodbye (say goodbye, etc.)
we are experiencing a ~ (renewable energy / California)
say goodbye to Oakland Arena
gold rush has attracted Golden State Warriors ~ (basketball)
the ~ a cartoonish array (cryptocurrencies)
♦ “In 1849 the harbor of San Francisco was speckled with idle ships from says goodbye to lectures
which the crews had deserted in a body to go to the gold fields… The Vermont medical school ~
price for washing clothes was so high that the more well-to-do among the
miners, gamblers and merchants sent bundles of laundry work to the Kissed Dating Goodbye
Hawaiian Islands, which meant that they had to wait three months before I ~ (evangelical purity movement book)
they got back their shirts and socks… With great flourishes the
newspapers announced the arrival of each fresh batch of prostitutes,
describing their charms...” (From A New American History by W. E.
bidding goodbye to polio
Woodward.) Nigeria is on the verge of ~ (2015)
activity / amount & effect / cost & benefit / worth & lack of starting, going, continuing & ending: speech
worth: history / mining / money good-hearted
gold standard (noun)
good-hearted
“gold standard” of safety a nice kid, polite and ~
approved by the FDA, which he called the ~ (vaccines) character & personality: heart
gold standard in doing voter research go off (verb)
the cellphone number is the ~
goes off
gold standard for pot when the president ~ on one of these tweet storms
it was soon the worldwide ~ (Colombian in the 1980s)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb
superlative: mining / money
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go on (explain) gorilla (800-pound gorilla)
going on with Boeing 800-pound gorilla
what’s ~ (explain situation / news radio) China is the ~ yet it is not in the negotiations
race has always been the ~ in this case
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
♦ In the New Yorker Magazine of 2 / 14, 2011, there is a cartoon by Mick
verb Stevens. It shows the back of an 800-pound gorilla, who is being

go on (verb) interviewed by a petite human personnel officer. She is saying to him,

"We already have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla."

go on presence & absence: animal

when you feel you can't ~, I'll come and hold you
life and the economy must ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
gospel (preach the gospel, etc.)
goes on preached the gospel of (environmental) activism
and so it’s over, and yet it ~ (congressional hearing) he ~

heart does go on preaching a gospel (of rebirth) to everyone

near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the ~ (Titanic) he is ~ (Detroit mayor)

life goes on preached the gospel that free trade

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, ~ (the Beatles) they ~ was a rising tide that would lift all boats

resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, message: Bible / religion
persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / movement / go through, etc. (endure)
verb
been through anything like that
goosebumps we’ve never ~ in our family (murder)
gives you goosebumps been through hell
it’s the kind of video that ~ (housefire) I’ve ~
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction been through this before
Gordian knot this is not our first rodeo, we’ve ~ (hurricanes)
gotten through a rocky season
Gordian knot of international affairs UConn has ~ for them (women’s basketball)
trying to unravel that ~
go through
diplomacy’s Gordian knot separation is a developmental stage that nearly all kids ~
how to untie ~ (Israeli-Palestinian issue) I don’t want them to ~ what I went through (breast cancer)
untie this Gordian knot went through a (tough) breakup
let the British people choose how to ~ in a referendum he ~ with his girlfriend
(Brexit)
♦ An oracle prophesized that whoever untied the intricate knot on the going through a divorce
chariot of King Gordius would rule Asia. Alexander the Great simply she was ~
slashed it apart with his sword. Cutting the Gordian knot means settling a
complex problem with bold, decisive action. went through much (diplomatic) haggling
complexity: allusion / rope the resolution ~ (U.N.)
action, inaction & delay: allusion / rope going through some trials
gored please keep praying for me, as I am ~

getting gored go through this whole thing

the unicorns are ~ as investors rebel you ~ called life (a person feeling his mortality)

destruction: animal go through this again

I'm sorry you have to ~
gorge (gorge on)
going through withdrawal
gorge themselves on the tabloids sports fans are ~ (sports stop during pandemic)
the British ~ (scandals, etc.)
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips /
consumption: food & drink / verb movement / verb
experience: journeys & trips / movement / verb

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grab (verb) grade (failing grade)
grabbed headlines failing grade
the Titanic ~ as the most glamorous luxury liner the media deserves a big fat ~ (President Trump)

grab you deserves a failing grade

boxing will ~ and hold you tight (Deontay Wilder) strategy in Afghanistan ~

grabbed it with both hands gave the nation’s infrastructure a failing grade
we gave him the opportunity and he ~ (Jamie Vardy) a civil-engineering group ~
possession / taking & removing: hand / verb judgment: school & education
fictive possession: hand / verb success & failure: school & education
grab (land grab, etc.) graduate (verb)
land grab graduated to crack cocaine
countries are involved in an Arctic ~ she ~ and forged checks to support her habit

power grab graduated from alcohol to drugs

many lawmakers called it a ~ (president’s action) he ~
possession: hand / verb to noun growth & development: school & education / verb

grab (up for grabs) grail (holy grail)

up for grabs Holy Grail
five belts were ~ (an important boxing match) for collectors, this map is the ~ (1734 Murillo Velarde)
my word this is ~ suddenly (exciting boxing match) a vaccine is often seen as the ~ that will end the pandemic
certainty & uncertainty / possession: hand Holy Grail of investors
the ~ (stock-picking system that beats market)
grabbing (attention-grabbing)
holy grails of (tropical) medicine
attention-grabbing advertisement a malaria vaccine is one of the ~
~s aimed at the superstitious (muti)
“holy grail” of shipwrecks
attention-grabbing antics the famed galleon is often called the ~ (San Jose)
his ~ are grist for the tabloid mill
holy grail for collectors
attention-grabbing flourish the edition is considered the ~ (a book)
he finished with an ~
holy grail for any professor
attention-grabbing royal tenure is the ~
she is an ~
holy grail for (flu) researchers
attention-grabbing blaze orange a universal flu vaccine is the ~
marking high-voltage parts with ~
industry's "holy grail"
attention, scrutiny & promotion: hand oral insulin is the pharmaceutical ~
fictive possession: hand
retailer's holy grail
grace (grace period) new parents are a ~ (new shopping habits)
grace period I found the holy grail
they were given a ~ to… (new ordinance) ~ (Garrett McNamara and wave off Nazare, Portugal)
elimination of the grace period ♦ This refers to a cup or plate used by Christ at the Last Supper.
the ~ (student loans) epithet: religion
time: religion searching & discovery / wants, needs, hopes & goals:
allusion / Bible / epithet / Middle Ages / religion
timeliness & lack of timeliness: religion
graced grain (grain of truth)

graced with the talents grain of truth to reports

there is a ~ of what happened
the NFL had been ~ of many undrafted players
cost & benefit: religion grain of truth in a lie
there is often a ~

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amount: size through the (college) grapevine
word got back to him ~
grain (against the grain)
heard through the grapevine
against the grain I ~ that…
she has always won by going ~ (country music)
♦ Hawaii has the "coconut wireless" or the Coconut Wire. The Philippines
have the Bamboo Telegraph. Ghanaians can hear things via "the talking
against-the-grain affinity drum." From time immemorial, as Ibrahim al-Koni tells us, the desert
her ~ for formal wear (fashion) winds have brought rumors and reports to the Sahrawis: “I heard it on
the wind.” Americans can "hear it through the grapevine," or hear a
“Against The Grain” column report or account through the rumor mill. Italians say "per sentito dire"
his “~” is sarcastic and comic which basically means, "heard it said," and they hear gossip "voci di
corridoio" which means "hall voice" or "voices in the hall." These systems
against the grain of its time operate by word-of-mouth, and, nowadays, the Internet.
it’s an album that goes sharply ~ ♦ “From time immemorial, it has been said that desert winds carry with
them all kinds of rumor and report—especially stories of scandal and
against the grain of what outrage.” (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
music that went ~ rock was becoming (music) ♦ “They’ve got a gallows-bad reputation, but, you know what a place the
beach is for talking.” / “The beach, if you don’t know is the name of the
cut against the grain gossip mill of white derelicts and rough customers that hang around your
South Sea island ports. You’ll find captains and traders too fond of their
it ~ of the typical 80s high-school fare (a film) grog and properly down on their luck. I’ll admit, I was fond of the gin
myself back then...” (The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson.)
went against the grain
her book has two case studies that ~ gossip: plant
so I really consciously ~ with this record (k.d. lang)
grapple (verb)
unanimity & consensus: tree
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: tree grappling with their aftermath
the US is still ~ (9/11 attacks)
granddaddy
grapples with (deepening) recession
granddaddy of (American) caves the city ~
this is the ~ (Mammoth Cave)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sports & games
‘granddaddy” of the cumulus family / verb / wrestling
cumulonimbus is the ~ (massive cloud formation)
grasp (comprehend)
granddaddy of (adventure) races
Raid Gauloises, the ~ grasped (that)
Dallaire quickly ~… (Rwanda genocide)
granddaddy of all motorcycle clubs
the Hells Angels: the ~ grasp the concept
it is so easy to ~, but… (a puzzle)
superlative: family
grasped the fact
grand slam within a few months he had ~ that… (a toddler)
grand slam grasp the idea
I think it's been a ~ (successful heart treatment) they can't yet ~ that… (toddlers)
success & failure: baseball / sports & games grasp the importance
grandstanding (noun) most toddlers don't yet ~ of…
grasp the news
grandstanding
his brother said the family was still trying to ~
his request is just ~ (for an exhumation)
this is nothing to do with protecting rights but ~ grasped the significance
performance: theater minutes later, he ~ of that moment…

grapevine (through / over the grasp the potential and risks

they have been among the first to ~…
grapevine)
grasped early
through the grapevine he and other technophiles ~ how important…
I heard ~ that…
difficult (for people) to grasp
over the (international surfer's) grapevine it's ~ (a physics concept)
word traveled quickly ~ (big waves!)
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 it is very ~ our situation… grave (end point)
quickly grasped passed into the grave
I ~ what he was trying to do and…
what was born from Wounded Knee, and what ~
comprehension & incomprehension: hand / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: burial / death & life
grasp (in one's grasp) grave (place)
in our grasp grave
what was once ~ is now beyond our reach
wreckage proved the Indian Ocean was its ~ (MH370)
in their grasp watery grave
Wolves looked to have victory ~ but...
when the sub is raised from its ~
attainment / possession: hand
place: burial / death & life
grasp (out of one’s grasp) grave (dig one's grave)
out of his grasp dug their own grave
but success was ~ they ~ (a basketball team that failed)
attainment / possession: hand destruction: burial / death & life / verb
grasp (attainment) fate, fortune & chance: burial / death & life / verb

grasp of (spoken) English

graveyard (graveyard of the Turks, etc.)
he had a limited ~ (foreign teaching assistant) graveyard of the Pacific
attainment: hand the region is known as the ~ for its winter storms

grasp (possession) known as the graveyard of the Turks

Yemen is ~ (maqbarat al-Atrak)
grasp of reality
destruction: epithet
my husband's tenuous ~ slipped away (brain injury)
epithet: death & life
firm grasp
infantry leaders must have a ~ of how to motivate…
graveyard (place)
snatched from their grasp graveyard of ships
victory was ~ (athletes) the reef is a veritable ~

possession: hand graveyard of the Turks

Yemen is known as the ~ (19th century)
grassroots
mariners' graveyard
grassroots army Cape Horn is a ~
his war chest and ~ make him an unstoppable juggernaut
ship graveyard
grass-roots democracy this ~ is the final destination for luxury liners (Turkey)
the kind of ~ the Founding Fathers envisioned
veritable graveyard
grassroots efforts the reef is a ~ of ships
~ by citizens' groups
watery graveyard
grass roots level Truk Lagoon is a ~ for hundreds of ships
go back home to the ~
place: burial / death & life
grassroots organizations
astroturfers present themselves as ~
graveyard (destruction)
bases: ground, terrain & land graveyard of bilingual education
perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain & if sense prevails, Massachusetts will be seen as the ~
land / height / position graveyard of (international) diplomacy
grate (verb) Iran has been the ~

grates on people graveyard for the Americans

it's something that just ~ (government helps banks) Falluja will be a ~ (Iraq)

feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb graveyard spiral

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 pilots call this the ~ (flying) experience: animal / color / horn / person
person: animal / color
destruction: burial / death & life
green light (noun)
gravity (noun)
green light
gravity of the situation a judge has given the ~ to…
realizing the ~, he jumped on the grenade
green light to proceed
enormous gravity I was given a ~
a crisis of ~ has arisen
cultural green light
understood the gravity we give a ~ to drinking (alcohol / US)
if clients truly ~ of the risks (climbing Everest)
gave me the green light
substance & lack of substance: atmosphere / weight
she ~ to do the project
gravy (noun) sign, signal, symbol: color
mop up the last bit of the gravy sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
they tried to ~ (profiteers) symbol

cost & benefit: food & drink green light (verb)

gravy train green-lighted the deal
he heads one of the agencies that ~ (government)
gravy train
more people want to get on the ~ than stop it (doctors) green-light a film
the one person who can ~
cost & benefit: food & drink / train
green-lit the story
gray (gray area) the New Yorker stood up to the threats and ~
gray area around Canelo Alverez sign, signal, symbol: color / verb
so it’s a very ~ (doping with clenbuterol) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
symbol / verb
legal and ethical gray area
a ~ (using drugs for interrogations) green-lighted (and green-lit)
in a gray area green-lit and budgeted
the Web site operates ~ of Russian law (spam) the security revamp was ~, but... (Maersk IT failure)
certainty & uncertainty: color got green-lighted
his show ~ as a two-hour pilot (TV)
Great Gatsby
sign, signal, symbol: color
Korea’s Great Gatsby sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
he is known as ~ for his lavish lifestyle (Big Bang’s symbol
Seungri)
greet (verb)
money: allusion / epithet
epithet: money greeted the death with relief and elation
allusion: books & reading Iraqis ~
green (green with envy) greeted the announcement
applause ~
green with envy
I was ~ greets customers
♦ Green With Envy: Why Keeping Up With the Joneses is Keeping Us in
the dazzlingly lit shop ~ with gunmetal gray shelves
Debt. (The title of a book.)
greet me
feeling, emotion & effect: color first to ~ was the smell of hamburgers frying...
greenhorn (person) greeted them
the squalid labor camps that ~ (Black Okies in California)
greenhorn
the conditions turn veterans into ~s (flying in Alaska) perception, perspective & point of view: speech / verb
♦ William Safire examined this word, and dictionary entries for words, in fictive meeting & seeing: speech / verb
“On Language; Greenhorn” in the New York Times, June 23, 1991.

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greeted coercion & motivation / speech: fire / verb
accusation & criticism: cooking / verb
greeted by an alarming sight grilled
as I prepared to rappel over the lip, I was ~
perception, perspective & point of view: speech grilled by both sides
fictive meeting & seeing: speech witnesses were ~ (sports doping)

gremlin (noun) coercion & motivation / speech: fire

accusation & criticism: cooking / fire
gremlin grind (grind away, etc.)
~s love to destroy machinery
a ~ lives inside and makes the camera go all kooky grind away
a ~ is an elusive and mischievous flaw (computing) just put your head down and ~
gremlin in the (track) computers starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb
a ~ crippled on-track betting difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism / verb
gremlin in the software grind (grind down)
there appears to be a ~
grinds down opponents with ground strokes
gremlin in the system he ~ (tennis)
there appears to be a ~
grinding him down
common gremlin the amount of homework was ~ (high school)
radio-wave interference is a ~ (cellphone buzz)
decline: mechanism / verb
affliction: creature difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism / verb
grenade (noun) failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb

hand grenade grind (daily grind, etc.)

he is a ~ with a loose pin
he’s a ~ who is going to blow everyone up (a lawyer)
grind of the workplace
a week's break from the ~
character & personality: explosion
daily grind
grenade (disruption) I'm sick of the ~
stealing time away from the ~ (to go climbing)
hand grenade of a story
a woman with a ~ came forward (murder investigation) work & duty: mechanism
difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism
political grenade
nominating Biden will be a ~ that explodes grinding (grinding poverty, etc.)
thrown a grenade into the heavyweight landscape grinding deflation
Andy Ruiz Jr has just ~ (beat Anthony Joshua) Spain faces years of ~
disruption: explosion grinding poverty
the region suffers from ~
gridlocked
grinding (Big East) season
gridlocked it's hard to stay fresh during a ~ (sports)
climate policy is ~, with no chance of a breakthrough
♦ This term relates to vehicles caught in a traffic jam.
grinding (82-game) season
it’s a ~ (NBA)
obstacle & impedance: journeys & trips
grinding ugliness
grill (verb) he experienced the ~ of racism at his high school
grill him on arrangements long, grinding (m)
she began to ~ for the party we need to end this ~ war
grilled (oil industry) executives feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
members of a House subcommittee ~ (oil spill) difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism
grills passengers grind on (verb)
Israel uses in-flight guards and ~ (terrorism)
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 as the revolt ~ (Syria) the king's ~
investigations grind on grip (on the area) waxed and waned
~ (politics) their ~ (Chinese / Xinjiang)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb loosened their grip
tradition, ideology, and religion have ~ in the West
grind out (verb)
retain its grip
grind out the classics the professional military caste will ~ (conscription)
some musicians are content to ~ (versus new work)
tightened their grip
creation & transformation: manufacturing / tools &
US forces ~ on Nasiriyah (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
technology / verb
control & lack of control: hand
grip (in the grip) oppression / possession: hand
in the storm's grip gripped
all Eastern Province cities were ~ (rain, wind, dust)
gripped by uncertainty
in the grip of a (slow-burning) rebellion she was ~
the nation is ~ against the regime
totally gripped
control & lack of control: hand I was not merely interested, but ~ (Lord of the Flies)
fictive possession / possession: hand ♦ “As I read on, I found that, reluctantly, I was becoming not merely
grip (come to grips) interested, but totally gripped... (Charles Monteith, reading a manuscript
from the “slush pile,” already rejected as rubbish, dull and pointless by
“Polly Perkins,” which would be published by Faber and Faber as Lord of
come to grips with the new reality the Flies.)
unions are trying to ~
feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb fictive possession: hand
grip (control) gripping (adjective)
grip of terror gripping account
Saddam Hussein's ~ is being loosened (war in Iraq) his book is a ~ of high-stakes investigative reporting
grip on Iraq feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand
Hussein's three-decade-long ~ fictive possession: hand
grip on Nasiriyah grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
US forces tightened their ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
grist for their mill
grip on this country he has given Democrats a whole lot of ~ (hearings)
the king's ~ may be eroding
grist for their (propaganda) mill
grip on power the leaks will be more ~
his ~ is still firm
his ~ is slipping grist for historians’ mills
this trip would provide the ~ for centuries to come (Galileo)
government's grip
a sign that the ~ was loosening grist for the tabloid mill
his attention-grabbing antics are ~
king's grip
the ~ on this country may be eroding grist to the mill
this is ~ of those who dislike the pope (sex abuse)
rebels' grip
the ~ is being loosened (Iraq) sensational grist
the news was ~ for conspiracy theorists and the far right
viselike grip
she has a ~ on power provided the grist
the report ~ for a lot of conspiracy theories
three-decade-long grip ♦ Grist is grain that is ground to make flour.
Hussein's ~ on Iraq
content: farming & agriculture / plant / wheat
iron grip gossip: farming & agriculture / plant / wheat
the coup leaders are keeping an ~ on the country
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grit (political grit, etc.) the project died before it ~
the task force never ~
political grit growth & development: flying & falling / ground, terrain &
candidates will need ~ to defeat the incumbent president
land / plane / verb
“Grit of Women” by Jack London is one of the greatest love stories ever
written. ground (give ground)
survival, persistence & endurance: materials & substances
give-no-ground (m)
commitment & determination: materials & substances the ~ defensiveness... (academia)
groan (amount) gave no ground
groaned with more food he showed no fear and ~ (Pfc. Jesse Buryj / Iraq)
the table ~ than we could possibly eat gave (significant) ground
groaning with stuff Trump ~ (a treaty)
all these shelves that are ~ (runaway consumerism) ♦ "Albert Sabin... turned to me and said, 'Now Dr. Salk, you should know
better than to ask a question like that.' It was like being kicked in the
groaned with scrolls, archives, records and registers teeth. I could feel the resistance and the hostility and the disapproval. I
never attended a single one of those meetings afterward without that
the shelves ~ (East India House in London) same feeling." (Dr. Jonas Salk on being put in his place by Albert Sabin
at a meeting.)
groaning under a mountain
Europe is ~ of debt resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / ground, terrain &
land / verb
fictive communication: speech / verb
amount: weight ground (gain ground)
ground (area) gained ground
a number of states ~ in math (educational testing)
fertile ground for spammers
Russia is a ~ and hackers gaining ground
the sport is ~ (public in-door ax-throwing)
area: ground, terrain & land
the campaign to free them was ~ (Cardiff Three)
ground (fertile ground)
gained ground against government forces
fertile ground for spammers the rebels ~
Russia is a ~ and hackers gaining ground across France
growth & development: farming & agriculture / ground, the coronavirus is ~
terrain & land / plant gaining ground over death and fear
ground (high ground) life is cautiously ~ (Algeria)
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land /
moral high ground
if the US is to keep the ~, we need to… journeys & trips / movement / verb
there is no longer any ~ left to stand on (diplomacy) ground (lose ground, etc.)
the ~ can be lonely terrain
♦ “We look for songs that mean something. Higher ground. You know, losing ground
everybody know where the higher ground is. It sure ain’t here on earth. climate science is ~ with the public
It’s above us. So we all want to go to the higher ground.” (Clarence
Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama.) lost ground
behavior: direction a hope that a secular Algeria is gaining ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: direction / ground,
reclaimed ground
terrain & land
he ~ for the theater most thought had been abandoned
ground (break ground) progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land /
break new ground journeys & trips / movement / verb
we are trying to ~ in this area (public diplomacy)
ground (hold / stand one's ground)
importance & significance / starting, going, continuing &
ending: farming & agriculture / ground, terrain & land / hold his ground
he elected to ~ to protect his fallen comrade
infrastructure
ground (get off the ground) holding her ground
she is ~ and not giving in
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stand our ground safer ground
we must ~ on education and health care (budget cuts) then they'd be on ~ (by following procedure)
stood her ground firm ground
she ~ and didn’t let the defense undercut her (trial) the show is still struggling to find ~
stood their ground flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
the mayor and the police chief both ~ (criticism) equilibrium & stability: ground, terrain & land
the enemy fighters ~
ground (on the ground)
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
animal / ground, terrain & land / verb on the ground
he is ~ covering the protests (a foreign correspondent)
ground (cover ground) the Red Cross and other organizations are ~ (disaster)

covered a lot of ground from the ground

his speech ~ journalists report the truth ~

covers a lot of (historical) ground presence & absence: ground, terrain & land
the movie ~, from… perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain &
land / height
extent & scope: ground, terrain & land / journeys & trips /
verb ground (go to ground)
ground (prepare the ground) gone to ground
Bolton has ~, refusing interviews (politics)
prepare the ground for a (crucial) referendum
the elections will ~ (Sudan) went to ground for a few months
he ~ but then resurfaced (wanted by Hague)
preparing the ground for it
he’s ~ (emergency declaration) appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of
concealment / protection & lack of protection / pursuit,
bases: ground, terrain & land / verb capture & escape: animal / fox / ground, terrain & land /
readiness & preparedness: ground, terrain & land / verb hole / hunting / verb
ground (hit the ground running) ground (common ground)
hit the ground running common ground (people share) is shrinking
we ~ and within 36 hours we... (police) the ~ (journalism and the media)
readiness & preparedness: verb / walking, running &
find common ground
jumping they want to bridge the divide and ~ (gun control / suicide)
ground (both feet on the ground) seek common ground
have both feet on the ground I call upon all of us to ~
she does appear to ~ (a mature girl) reach common ground with Iran
character & personality: ground, terrain & land the US has been unable to ~

ground (shaky ground, etc.) concede common ground to his adversaries

he will not ~
shaky ground
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
their relationship is on ~
the franchise is on ~ (troubled NBA team) ground (middle ground)
unplowed ground middle ground
when we got onto ~ (interview) there's no ~ with him
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land people either support or condemn, there's no ~
equilibrium & stability: ground, terrain & land finding ~ is still elusive (compromise)

ground (firm ground, etc.) division & connection: ground, terrain & land

comfortable ground
groundbreaking
steer the conversation to more ~ groundbreaking leader
friendly ground Wilma Mankiller was a ~ (Cherokee)
don’t assume Ireland will be ~ for the pope (sex abuse) groundbreaking research

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 she has done ~ ground zero
groundbreaking story ground zero in the New Economy
the results of this ~
Austin is ~
groundbreaking (gene-therapy) studies ground zero of the (anti-vaccine) movement
the magazine has published many ~
California is ~
importance & significance: farming & agriculture / ground,
ground zero for climate change
terrain & land
Miami is ~
Groundhog Day (film) ground zero for (race-based) street gangs
groundhog day cycle California is ~
they hope to end the ~ (EMTS take care of mentally ill) ground zero for sea-level rise
judicial Groundhog Day Miami is ~
it was a ~ (a third retrial) snowboarding's ground zero
turned into Groundhog Day Lake Tahoe is ~
Brexit Day has ~ (yet another delay) ♦ Related phrases are “patient zero” and also “year zero,” as in the
following: “Fourteen eighty-five is taken by historians to be one of the
fantasy & reality: allusion / day / film great ‘year zeros’ of history.” (Along with such dates as 1066 and 1789.)
repetition: allusion / day / film location / place: nuclear energy
ground rule effect: explosion / nuclear energy

ground rules grow (increase)

the new post-Cold War ~ grew (more than) 700 percent
new ~ might help the number of women in prisons and jails ~
♦ A ground rule modifies a rule to a particular place, pitch or field.
increase & decrease: plant / verb
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sports & games
grow (develop)
groundswell (noun)
grow in their careers
groundswell of cases medical professionals like him, who are looking to ~
a ~ like hers rippled through Hollywood (MeToo)
grew very fast
groundswell of hostility the company ~ (fashion)
there has been a ~ toward outsiders (migrants)
growth & development: death & life / farming & agriculture
groundswell of support / plant
there is not yet a ~ for sweeping change
grow (grow the economy, etc.)
groundswell moment
we're at that ~ (rising demand for antibiotic-free meat) grow our economy
♦ A groundswell refers to a swell at sea. we need to ~
amount & effect: sea / wave growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / verb

groundwork growing (increasing)

groundwork growing criticism
laying the ~ for a ceasefire in the Middle East his policy is the subject of ~

groundwork for a ceasefire increase & decrease: plant

laying the ~ in the Middle East growl (verb)
groundwork for his own undoing
growling at each other
he had laid the ~
ten minutes later, you're both ~
decades of groundwork conflict / speech: animal / sound / verb
~ typically precede any real advances (psychiatry)
speech: animal / sound / verb
laid the groundwork sound: animal / verb
he had ~ for his own undoing grownup (person)
bases: ground, terrain & land
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 he positioned himself as the ~, the worldly chaperon guard (on guard)
experience: baby / person
on guard for any signs
growth & development: death & life
we are ~ of infection (doctor)
person: baby
readiness & preparedness: military
growth (cancerous, etc.)
protection & lack of protection: military
cancerous growth guard (changing of the guard)
he refers to the other country as a ~
affliction: health & medicine changing of the guard
I'm glad to see a ~ (liberal attitudes in sports)
growth & development: health & medicine
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: military
grow up (grow up together, etc.)
dismissal, removal & resignation: military
grew up together guard (lower one's guard)
census-taking and a science of statistics ~
growth & development: death & life / verb lowered their guard
they thought they were in private and ~ (naked photos)
relationship: death & life / verb
protection & lack of protection: military / verb
grub (character)
readiness & preparedness: military / verb
cowardly grubs guard (keep one’s guard up)
he referred to the online trolls as ~
character & personality / insult: animal / insect keeps her guard up
she ~
grumble (noun) protection & lack of protection: boxing / military / verb
draw grumbles readiness & preparedness: boxing / military / verb
Spain’s Civil Servants ~, And Envy guardian (protection)
elicited grumblings guardian of his reputation
the statement ~ and cross-talk in the chamber (England)
she became the ~ after his death (writer)
♦ “I think you might start seeing some grumblings on Capitol Hill that this
is not the way it’s supposed to be done.” (An ABC reporter, speaking on protection & lack of protection: military / person
camera. It is impossible to know why the verb was not “hear.”)
guardrail (behavior)
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound
speech: sound guard rails
guard (off guard) what are the ~ to make sure that technology does no harm
Facebook can have harms without adequate ~ in place
caught the US off guard moderating individuals provide some equilibrium, some ~
Iran's response ~ this has been done, so the ~ are there (25th amendment)

caught off guard guard rails of our democracy

he is ~ (a diplomat / surprising information) they have been ignoring the ~ (ethics in government)
residents said they were ~ (by a tornado)
guardrail against the (US-Russia nuclear) rivalry
caught off guard by the ferocity the treaty is a ~ (INF nuclear treaty)
scientists were ~ of the eruption
guardrails within that media ecosystem
caught off-guard (last year) by a (flu vaccine) shortage there are no more ~ (conspiracy theories, misinformation)
many in the US were ~
guardrail has come down
caught me off guard the ~ (end of INF nuclear treaty between Russia and US)
he ~ guardrails are gone
caught (even) meteorologists off guard he is in hot water because the ~, he was relying on...
the storm ~ have some guardrails up
totally caught off guard presidents would ~ to avoid the appearance of impropriety
Jeanette was ~ put in a bunch of guardrails
readiness & preparedness: military we ~ to make it less likely (another financial collapse)
protection & lack of protection: military ♦ “A backstop; a guardrail; trying to keep the President from going
outside the bounds; minimize the damage...” (“John Bolton’s Place in

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Ukraine Policy” by Mara Liasson, NPR, Morning Edition, October 25, the ~
2019.)
gulf between leaders and people
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / protection & antiwar marches reveal ~
lack of protection: boundary / infrastructure
gulf between rich and poor
guinea pig the widening ~
guinea pig gulf between the two
I can understand why I was used as a ~ (hospital) there's a huge ~ (kinds of companies)
I convinced my sister to be the ~ (Brazilian bikini wax)
be my ~, and I'll give you a free tattoo gulf between the two departments
we are being used as ~s (new rules in soccer) the ~ (police helicopters, firefighters)
he used his own sons as “~s” (sports doping)
gulf in class
treated as guinea pigs the game exposed the ~ between these two clubs (soccer)
Africans should not be ~ (vaccinations)
gulf in their worldviews
♦ “Be my guinea pig, and I’ll give you a free tattoo.” Is that a good idea? the ~ appears unbridgeable (two academics)
experimentation: animal widening gulf
guide (verb) the ~ between rich and poor
bridge the (cultural, linguistic and political) gulfs
guided him into the gang
telemedicine can ~
he ~
symbolizes a (wider, more basic) gulf
guides him
the Moei River ~ between Burma and Thailand
Islam ~
division & connection: sea
directing / direction: journeys & trips / verb
guide (person) gum up (verb)
gum up the system
guide
his purpose was to ~ (politics)
our ~ knows China very well indeed (Reith lecture)
functioning: mechanism / verb
spiritual guide
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb
the cult became her ~
disruption: mechanism / verb
♦ “And I, sick with alarm at his new pallor, / cried out, “How can I go this
way when you / who are my strength in doubt turn pale with terror?” / gumbo (mixture)
And he: “The pain of these below us here, / drains the color from my face
for pity, / and leaves this pallor you mistake for fear. / Now let us go, for a gumbo of traditions
long road awaits us.” (The Inferno, translated by John Ciardi.)
the music of New Orleans is a ~
♦ Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, confronts us with an important
question: “What do you do when your guide dies?” ♦ “You know, you put ‘em all together, and it’s like a gumbo, you put
everything in the pot, and, in the moment, you just fly, ya know, after you
direction: journeys & trips / person make your 100th vat of gumbo, you get a feel fur [for] where to place
these things, and it’s not really contrived, it’s just is a spirit in a moment
person: direction / journeys & trips that you follow...” (“‘Fresh Air’ Favorites: Bandleader Jon Batiste,”
relationship: direction / journeys & trips January 1, 2020. He grew up in Louisiana, near Kenner, internalizing the
Bambara rhythm.)
guide (nonperson)
identity & nature / mixture: food & drink
used the stars as guides
they ~ gun (verb)
direction: journeys & trips gunning for an (immediate) attack
they are ~ (Israel versus Iran)
gulf (division)
gunning for me
gulf of difference why are you ~ (dispute)
human groups often regard each other across the ~
gunning for a mistrial
gulf of mistrust the defense is ~
there was a ~ (newspaper and government)
target: verb / weapon
gulf of misunderstanding
the ~ is only growing (Saudi-US post-9/11) gun (jump the gun)
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 don't ~ ~ Phil McGraw
so he sits on his ideas, he doesn’t want to ~ (Darwin)
message: person / religion
eagerness & reluctance: sports & games / verb knowledge & intelligence: person / religion
action, inaction & delay: sports & games / verb person: religion
timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports & games / verb
gush (verb)
gun (hold a gun to one’s head, etc.)
gushed about her (Sophia Loren) looks
with a gun to their head People magazine ~
the Iranians would never negotiate ~
gush about how
holding a gun to the head we’re going to ~ much we appreciate you (podcast)
the US is ~ of Canada (tariff negotiations)
gushed about parenthood
hold a gun to her head he ~
I didn’t ~, it was consensual (sex abuse)
gushed about him
put a gun to your head she ~ (praise)
they ~ (drug treatment for doctors)
speech: verb / water
coercion & motivation: weapon / verb amount & effect: verb / water
gun (under the gun) gush (noun)
under the gun trickle, flow, gush
the deadline puts us ~ we had a theory called, "~" (rescuing hostages)
oppression: weapon amount & effect / movement: water
fate, fortune & chance: weapon
gut (destroy)
gun (criticism)
gut the presidency
turn their guns on Bill Barr the generals tried to ~ (Egypt)
I think it laughable to see Democrats ~ (politics)
gut the program
accusation & criticism: weapon the Republicans are trying to ~
gun (with guns blazing) gutted a (historic) building
the huge fire that ~
with (all) guns blazing
the White House will go into that process ~ (impeachment) gutted the kitchen
a fire has ~ of a wooden clubhouse at a holiday park
accusation & criticism: weapon
gut that protection
gun-shy (adjective) the proposed rule would ~
a little gun-shy destruction: blade / hunting / knife / stomach / verb
he may have felt ~ about getting married again
gut (feeling)
eagerness & reluctance: weapon
gut feel
guru (person) he has a ~ for what the voter thinks (politics)
adventure guru gut feeling
the magnum opus of ~ Ray Jardine I went with my ~
computer guru he was seized by a ~ of lurking danger
the N.S.A.'s alienation from the ~s range estimation by "~" is subject to error
you may have some ~s that could be terribly wrong
motivational guru
he is not a traditional lacquer-haired ~ gut instinct
I would never again go against my ~s (climber)
style guru her ~ told her that he was lying
Cosmo's ~ Elaine Farley trust your ~s
I followed a ~ and chose to run the rapid (kayaker)
software guru
a popular ~ named Tim O'Reilly gut feelings and emotions
neural systems tap into ~
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gut feelings and intuitions gutted (feeling)
people are often influenced by ~
gutted for you
"cop's gut" I am so ~ and your family (terminal diagnosis)
when a ~ tells him to stop someone
gutted for the players
gut told me I’m ~ (coach on tough soccer loss)
my ~ that she was lying
gutted with the way
knew in her gut we’re ~ things have gone (tough soccer loss)
she ~ that her son was dead too
gutted when
feeling, emotion & effect / judgment: stomach
she said she was ~ she heard the news
analysis, interpretation & explanation: stomach
knowledge & intelligence: stomach gutted and heartbroken
Gutenberg I’m ~ (missed penalty)
drained, run down, (mentally) low, gutted
Gutenberg of the blind I felt ~ (promoter after an upset boxing loss)
Braille was the ~ (Louis Braille)
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / hunting / knife / stomach
epithet: books & reading
creation & transformation: epithet gutter (in the gutter / decline)
gut out (verb) in the gutter
morale is ~
gutted it out
he ~ (Tyson Fury beats Wallin in ring) employment gutter
they are left in an “~” due to linguistic impoverishment
courage & lack of courage: stomach / verb
commitment & determination: stomach / verb decline: direction / infrastructure
survival, persistence & endurance: stomach / verb
gutter (in the gutter / behavior)
guts (insides)
get (down) in the gutter
guts I refuse to ~ with him
someone had tended to its ~, if not its skin (an old rifle)
behavior: direction / height / infrastructure
bases: stomach
gutter (out of the gutter)
guts (courage)
get your mind out of the gutter
guts you need to ~ (preoccupation with sex)
such bravery, such ~ (boxer Luke Campbell)
behavior: direction / infrastructure
have the guts
do you ~ to rescind the law (politics) gutter (end up in the gutter)
showed (lots of) guts end up in the gutter
he ~ and plenty of skill too (a boxer) if you don't do well in school, you'll ~

took (a lot of) guts decline: direction / infrastructure

it ~ to do what he did gutter (gutter politics, etc.)
♦ No guts, no glory!
employment gutter
courage & lack of courage: stomach
they are left in an “~” due to linguistic impoverishment
commitment & determination: stomach
gutter politics
gutted (destroyed) this is ~ of the lowest sort
gutted by fire this is the dirtiest ~ that I’ve ever seen (a politician)
body discovered in house ~ behavior / decline: direction / infrastructure
gutted by the fire gut-wrenching (adjective)
the landmark building was ~ within a matter of hours
gut-wrenching memoirs
gutted (by legislators) and abandoned incredible personal testimony, ~ (the Blitz)
the proposal was ~
gut-wrenching testimony
destruction: blade / knife / hunting / stomach

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 he heard ~ of bullying and heartbreaking stories amelioration & renewal: blade / verb
computer: blade / verb
gut-wrenching visit
Kerry made a ~ to Hiroshima hack (a fix)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / stomach life hacks
gymnastics (effort) your web site for ~
tiny hack
gymnastic voice one ~ for better hips
her rich, ~ is center stage (Sabina Sciubba)
♦ Lifehacker offers “tips and tricks for getting more done in less time.” (A
linguistic gymnastics Website.)
he performed ~ on the issue in testimony (Bill Clinton) amelioration & renewal: blade
logistical gymnastics help & assistance: blade
getting surgery patients to the ship required some ~ computer: blade

mathematical gymnastics
hacking (fixing)
her plan is ~ (politics / paying for healthcare) body hacking
mental gymnastics his ~ did him in (pills, powders, liquids)
Democrats do this ~ nearly every election cycle amelioration & renewal: blade
verbal gymnastics help & assistance: blade
local media use ~ to avoid placing responsibility (police) hackles (raise hackles)
vocal gymnastics raise some hackles
I would try to imitate her ~ (Celia Cruz) this will ~
her guitar playing and ~ are an unstoppable force
raised hackles in Switzerland
difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games the proposals have ~ (EU restrictions on firearms)
♦ Piloerection is a sign of emotional arousal. In chimpanzees, it will

H cause the hair on their shoulders to stick straight up. At the same time,
chimpanzees might hoot and throw pebbles.

feeling, emotion & effect: animal / dog / hair / verb

habit (enthusiasm) conflict: animal / dog / hair / verb
kayaking habit haggle (verb)
he works mainly to support his ~
haggle over forming
support his (kayaking) habit political factions continue to ~ the new government
he works mainly to ~
position, policy & negotiation: money / verb
enthusiasm: addiction
haggling
hack (hack something / endurance)
diplomatic haggling
hack the pace the resolution went through much ~ (U.N.)
Isaac wasn’t sure he could ~ (child actor)
position, policy & negotiation: money
survival, persistence & endurance: verb
hail (in a hail)
hack (break into)
in a hail of (police) bullets
hack the NSA they died ~
he managed to ~
in the (initial) hail of fire
protection & lack of protection: blade / verb ~, 2 soldiers were wounded
computer: blade / verb
amount & effect: snow & ice / storm
hack (fix)
hail (noun)
hack
tech can optimize, or “~”, any aspect of our lives hail of criticism
the ruling drew a ~ from the legal community
hacks for coping
~ with extreme heat (heat waves, warming climate) hail of gunfire
the Humvee desperately tried to escape the ~

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hails of (machine-gun) fire a~
the Allied troops who braved ~ on Normandy’s beaches
feeling, emotion & effect: hair
♦ “Throughout the Soviet occupation the only [mine clearing] equipment
the guerrillas ever had was the winter hail, dubbed ‘Allah’s mine hair-trigger
sweeper” because the crashing pellets of ice sometimes triggered the
mines.” (Soldiers of God, With the Mujahidin In Afghanistan by Robert D.
Kaplan.)
hair-trigger temper
he had a ~
♦ “On April 23, 2013, Mullah Omar passed away. That day, Jabbar Omari
told me, the hot, dry lands of southern Afghanistan experienced he developed a ~ (steroid abuser)
something he’d never seen before: a hail storm.” (“The Secret Life of
Mullah Omar” by Bette Dam, the Zomia Center, 2019. A reference to a initiation: weapon
hailstorm around that time occurs in “3rd CAB weathers hailstorm” by C.
Ashe, The Falcon Flyer, July 2013.) hair’s breadth (come within a hair’s
♦ “Wholesale devastation of many cereal and fruit crops; apples were breadth, etc.)
split in two with ‘one half left hanging on the tree’; long pieces of bark
were stripped off fruit trees; trees were ‘absolutely barked’; hedges were
‘completely peeled’; trees left leafless and stripped of bark; fields of
within a hair’s-breadth
cereal crops were completely threshed...” (The Great Hailstorm of 9 she was ~ of losing her place in the tournament (sports)
August, 1843, in Great Britain. Information from “Severe Hailstorms in
the United Kingdom and Ireland: A Climatological Survey with Recent came within a hair’s breadth of dying
and Historical Case Studies” by Jonathan D.C. Webb and Derek M. she ~ at his hands (grievous bodily harm)
Elsom.)
proximity: hair
amount & effect: snow & ice / storm
hailed half-baked (adjective)
half-baked idea
hailed as a liberal hero this ~ will pose a threat to Democrats (politics)
Humphrey was ~ (politics)
flaws & lack of flaws: cooking
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
Hail Mary half-hearted
halfhearted (m)
Hail Mary pass I made a ~ effort to learn French
legal cliffhangers include a ~ in 2009 (Death Row)
commitment & determination: heart
Hail Mary (legal) strategy
the legal team went for a sort of ~ hall (halls of academe, etc.)
fate, fortune & chance: football / religion / sports & games halls of academe
hair (resemblance) plagiarism can result in banishment from the ~
power: infrastructure
leaf hair
~s can help identify different kinds of oaks hallmark
root hairs hallmarks of al-Qaida
~ (oak tree) officials said the attacks bore the ~
resemblance: hair hallmark of the administration
hair (hair on fire) arrogance has been the ~ (Bush)
hallmarks of a bygone era
have their hair on fire quaint ~
centrist Democrats ~ over Sanders (too radical)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / hair / sensation
hallmarks of a contract killing
his murder had none of the ~
hairpin (shape)
hallmarks of eating disorders
hairpin turns one of the ~ is denial (lying about eating habits)
fans lined the ~ (Tour de France)
bore the hallmarks
shape: hair officials said the attacks ~ of al-Qaida

hair-raising bore (all) the (al Qaeda) hallmarks

the operation ~ of careful planning
hair-raising glimpse
a~ carried all the hallmarks
it ~ of the other rapes, the same warning... (a new rape)
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♦ Hallmarks were marks on precious metals like silver and gold used to ~ is an unusual rock formation in Bryce Canyon
indicate purity.
proper name: hammer / religion
evidence: mark
hallowed (adjective) hammer (blizzards hammered the
Karakoram, etc.)
hallowed (boxing) venue
Madison Square Garden is a ~ hammered the Karakoram
severe blizzards ~ (Gasherbrum IV)
importance & significance / reverence: religion
force: hammer / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb
halo (noun)
hammer (hammer of the law, etc.)
bestow a halo
the US news media was eager to ~ (Amanda Knox) hammer of the law
the ~ has to come down on misconduct (social media)
taken off his halo
a little of the shine had now been ~ (a politician) combined arms hammer
the ~ that is about to strike him (Saddam)
behavior / reverence / superlative: religion
force: hammer / tools & technology
halt (grind to a halt, etc.)
hammered out
came to a screeching halt
his wild success ~ hammered out in negotiations
the sports world ~ (coronavirus epidemic) important deals are ~ (W.T.O.)

grind to a halt hammered out between opponents and supporters

England's workplaces were set to ~ (football fever) in a compromise ~
innovation could gradually ~ (low returns on capital)
creation & transformation: hammer / manufacturing
without the parts, factories would soon ~
grinds to a halt
hammer out (verb)
a surface transportation system that ~ hammered out a compromise
ground to a halt opponents and supporters ~ (state song)
traffic on the expressway ~ hammered out the trick
France ~ (May 1968) after some trial and error they ~ (kayakers)
his career ~ soon after (architect)
creation & transformation: hammer / manufacturing / verb
screeched to a halt
his career ~ hamstrung
shuddering to a halt hamstrung
wide swaths of the economy are ~ (virus pandemic) the administration is ~
♦ “Every horror that could make war hideous attended this retreat;
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / distress, conflagration, death in all modes... And the spirit of cruelty
movement / verb smote even the brute creation, for the French general, to lessen
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / movement / incumbrances, ordered beasts of burden to be destroyed, and the
inhuman fellow charged with the execution hamstrung 500 asses, and
verb left them to starve. They were found so by the British; and the mute, sad,
hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.) deep expression of grief and pain visible in the poor creatures’ looks
excited a strange fury in the soldiers—no quarter would have been given
at that time...” (Napier on combat against the French in 1811 on the
Hamburger Hill Iberian Peninsula. Quoted in British Battles on Land and Sea.)
Hill 937 got its nickname, ~ (Vietnam War)
constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal /
violence: meat health & medicine / leg / movement / walking, running &
consumption: meat / military jumping
ham-handed hand (at hand)
vague and ham-handed at hand
the legislation is ~ success is ~
oppression: hand perhaps a cure is ~

hammer (Thor's Hammer, etc.) close at hand

they believe the end of the world is ~
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proximity: hand his plan was to ~ (suicide by cop)
hand (in hand) die at the hands of the IRA
innocent people will ~
well in hand
she has her diabetes ~ died at the hands of an (Illinois) mob
he ~ (Joseph Smith)
control & lack of control: hand
suffer at the hands of other students
hand (on hand) many ~ (transgenders)
on hand suffer at the hands of (unscrupulous) employers
thousands of police and security forces are ~ (festival) these immigrants ~
on hand for the ceremony involvement / responsibility: hand
bishops, archbishops and the papal nuncio were ~
hand (dealt a hand)
on hand to help
she was ~ with translations for the doctor dealt a difficult hand
they have been ~
presence & absence: hand
fate, fortune & chance: cards
hand (at the hands)
hand (control)
at his hands
many people suffered ~ (a deposed ruler) in the hands of the Justice Department
the case is already ~
at the hands of a mob
it was the eighth killing ~ this year (Peru) in the hands of (a few large) companies
the industry is now consolidated
at the hands of an intimate
victims of violence ~ in the hands of the people
the power was not ~
at the hands of an (Illinois) mob
he died ~ (Joseph Smith) in the hands of one person
the power was ~
at the hands of police officers
he sought death ~ (suicide by cop) in small-town hands
a small-town paper ~
at the hands of police officers
his plan was to die in a fire or ~ in (very) capable hands
the department is ~ (police)
at the hands of slave owners
the abuse his ancestors suffered ~ in good hands
the health of publishing is ~ (readers)
at the hands of a spouse, lover or elative
a woman's risk of death ~ in great hands
I knew she was ~ (assisted climber on Mt. Everest)
death at the hands of the Americans
a martyr's ~ in private hands
the restaurants are ~
harm at the hands of other students
protect students from ~ (gays) in the right hands
~, that stage has enormous possibilities (a theater)
violence at the hands of his father
protect a four-year-old boy from ~ steady hand
he is supposed to be a ~, he’s a veteran (attorney general)
violence at the hands of an intimate
victims of ~ rests in the hands
power and wealth ~ of a small elite
violence at the hands of a partner
patients who are victims of ~ leave it in the judges' hands
he didn't ~ (boxer knocks out opponent)
death at the hands of a spouse, lover or relative
a woman's risk of ~ control & lack of control: hand

death at the hands of police officers hand (possession)

he sought ~ in the hands of the enemy
she didn't want to be left ~ (POW)
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 how to escape if you are ~ hand (bite the hand that feeds one)
in the hands of US forces and their allies bit the hand that feeds him
in 2 months Afghanistan was ~
he ~ (boxer withdraws without a good reason)
in enemy hands ♦ I place a date in your lips, and you spit the pit in my face! (Arabic.)
the ridgetop was still ~ (Afghanistan) ♦ “Invite a beggar into your house and he will put his feet up on your
table!”
in Palestinian hands
that would leave the hilltop ~ help & assistance: hand

in Kurdish hands hand (hands are tied, etc.)

Kirkuk, home of ethnic Turks known as Turkomen, is ~
tie our hands
in loving hands this will ~ (a trade union)
she left the restaurant ~ (died)
ties judges’ hands
changed hands the bill ~ (vis-à-vis non-dangerous mentally ill)
the town has ~ in the past month (rebels vs. government)
their hands were tied
leave the hilltop in Palestinian hands there was no loss of expertise but their ~ (security)
that would ~
the company's hands would be tied
left in the hands the ~ if… (a court ruling)
she didn't want to be ~ of the enemy (POW)
free hand
fall into the hands gave him a ~ to go after terrorists
weapons that may ~ of terrorists (NBC, etc.)
constraint & lack of constraint: hand / rope / verb
fallen into the hands hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
regions that have ~ of the insurgents
fall into enemy hands hand
our ~s are clean (allegations of abuse)
he feared the machine gun could ~
my ~s are clean (I'm not guilty)
we don't want the information to ~
fell into rebel hands dirty hands
only ~ can get the job done (counterterrorism)
the stronghold of Korhogo ~
guilt / involvement / responsibility: hand / hygiene
fall into the (wrong) hands
it could ~ hand (bloody hands, etc.)
fell into the wrong hands blood on (his) hands
if the information ~ he has ~ (terrorist financier)
if Pakistan's nuclear weapons ~ he has ~ (a politician)
get the (lost) items into the right hands blood on (their) hands
Y staffers try to ~ we say they have ~ (companies that used slaves)
get their hands on booze bloody hands
minors using online ordering to ~ once again the ~ of terror have struck
get their hands on (classified) information has bloody hands
lawyers can't ~ he ~ (a politician)
leave Saudi hands guilt / involvement / responsibility: blood / hand
nor did the whole $55 billion ~
hand (upper hand)
get weapons out of the hands
trying to ~ of local warlords (Afghanistan) upper hand
crews are finally getting the ~ on the wildfire
make their way into the hands protestors are starting to gain the ~ (France)
treated, the beaver skins ~ of fashion designers Republicans have the ~ inside the legislative arena
it was Peru who had the ~ after the break (soccer)
push (Pakistani) society into the hands
~ of the militants dominance & submission: direction / hand
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hand (iron hand, etc.) she often lends a ~

iron hand Helping Hand (m)

~ Program (to pay electric bills)
the country needs an ~ to lead it
with an iron hand pair of hands
Mom asked if they could use an extra ~ (volunteer)
I will deal with terrorism ~ (a leader)
with an authoritarian hand lend a hand
can I ~ (help)
President Lansana Conté has ruled Guinea ~
with a firm hand join hands
people are willing to work together and ~ to solve the
the police will act ~ to avoid any violence (protests)
problem
with a strong hand
use a hand
he ruled Chile ~ (a dictator)
I could ~ (I need help)
ruled (Guinea) with an authoritarian hand help & assistance: hand
President Lansana Conté has ~ since 1984
oppression: hand / materials & substances
hand (get out of hand)
hand (strengthen one’s hand) get out of hand
in the event that hostilities ~
strengthen our hand
got out of hand
this will ~ (politics)
it ~ (a fight)
power: cards / verb
gotten out of hand
hand (fate) British worry that drinking has ~ (lager louts)

in the hands of God getting out of hand

whatever happens, we are ~ (Muslim) this is ~ (proliferation of blogs, etc.)

in the hands of their deity let her problems get out of hand
the Samburu believe their fate lies ~, Nkai she ~ (at school)

in the hands of the jury argument got out of hand

the case is ~ an ~, and soon Vicente lay dead...
his fate is ~
celebrations got out of hand
in God's hands fan ~ after several college football games...
I've put the whole thing ~ (woman with brain tumor)
it is all ~ now (fate of a very sick person)
hostilities get out of hand
in the event that ~...
out of our hands
matters got out of hand
it's all ~ now (fate)
then ~, a knife appeared, and Igor wound up...
put the whole thing in God's hands
drinking has gotten out of hand
I've ~ (woman with brain tumor)
British worry that ~ (lager louts)
fate, fortune & chance: hand
restraint & lack of restraint: hand / verb
hand (have one's hands full) control & lack of control: hand / verb

have their hands full hand (take matters into one's hands)
they are going to ~ (sports team facing game)
taken matters into their own hand
difficulty, easiness & effort: hand citizens have ~ (New Orleans recovery)
hand (help) taking matters into their own hands
people are ~ (oil spill)
hand
his ~ is extended to all factions (a politician) took matters into our own hands
and so we ~
hand of welcome
extending the ~ to… (a biker convention) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb

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hand (on the one / other hand) work & duty: hand / person

on one hand
hand (all hands on deck)
~, he wanted to help Kevin… all hands on deck
on the other hand it was ~ (response to measles epidemic)
~, anthropological writings have suggested… it was ~ (law enforcement responds to Austin serial bomber)
~, the reverse is true for… all hands (are needed) on deck
~, there are just as many people who… ~ to protect the public from coronavirus
the bathrooms, ~, have made no progress (Russian trains)
work & duty: boat / hand / person
comparison & contrast: hand
difficulty, easiness & effort: boat / hand / person
alternatives & choices: hand survival, persistence & endurance: boat / hand / person
hand (hot hand) hand (force someone’s hand)
with the hot hand force his hand
finding the teammate ~ (basketball) they will try to ~ by holding that over his head
success & failure: cards / temperature coercion & motivation: hand / verb
hand (sit on one’s hands) strategy: hand / verb

sat on their hands

hand (overplay one’s hand)
they ~ on the sidelines (politicians) overplayed that hand
sit on their hands he knew he had ~
they’re going to ~ and not show up and vote overplayed their hand
action, inaction & delay: hand / movement / verb they ~ (Google versus the EU)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / restraint & lack of restraint: cards / verb
movement / verb failure, accident & impairment: cards / verb
hand (try one's hand) hand (one hand washes the other)
tried his hand at bricklaying one hand washes the other
he ~ a favor, a quid pro quo, ~
attempt: hand / verb social interaction: hand / verb
hand (throw up one's hands) hand (wash one’s hands)
throw up their hands washing my hands of this
faced with a crisis, leaders simply ~ (fail to act) I’m ~, I did all I could...
threw up his hands at the subpoenas starting, going, continuing & ending: hand / hygiene / verb
he ~ (an overreaching request for information)
hand (hands off)
action, inaction & delay: gesture / hand / verb
Hands Off Mueller
hand (the right hand vs. the left hand) a crowd gathered for a “~” protest (politics)
right hand protection & lack of protection: hand
the ~ didn't know what the left hand was doing
♦ "The right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing." (Janet handcuff (verb)
Reno, on FBI counterterrorism prior to 9/11.)
handcuffed themselves with turnovers
consciousness & awareness: hand the Irish ~ (football)
hand (work) constraint & lack of constraint: crime / hand / verb
head, heart, hands and health handcuffed
youngsters pledge their ~—hence, 4-H
handcuffed by government
work & duty: hand business should not be ~
hand (worker) handcuffed by his history
he seems ~ of not…
short of hands
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handcuffed by (Isner's) big serve possession: hand / verb
he was ~ (tennis)
handful (amount)
handcuffed to my desk
I'm ~ most of the day (work) handful of areas
only a ~ remain outside of the U.N. control
feel handcuffed
they ~ by the rules (military) handful of cities
a ~ have outlawed the sport (cockfighting)
constraint & lack of constraint: crime / hand
handful of items
hand down / out (punishment, etc.) they could only salvage a ~ (eruption)
handed down a (5-year) prison term to a man handful of olives
a judge ~ convicted of… trees hold little more than a ~ (drought and freeze)
punishment & recrimination: hand / justice / verb handful of (American) soldiers
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / justice / verb a ~ jumped off the planes (Ivory Coast)
handed (given) handful of studies
bolstered by a ~
handed to you
respect is not something ~ (leadership role) handful of (no-frills) airlines
one of a ~
handed a (one-year) suspension
he was ~ for his third violation (NFL) amount: hand

handed a victory handicapped

the extremists will have been ~ (failure of peace talks)
handed (its first major) setback
the terrorist group was ~ when…
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand
handed down / out (punishment, etc.)
handicapped by glare, mirages, and haze
the defenders are ~ (desert warfare)
ability & lack of ability / condition & status / constraint &
lack of constraint / functioning: health & medicine /
movement

handed down for murder

hand in hand (go hand in hand, etc.)
beheading is routinely ~ (Saudi Arabia) go hand in hand with fortitude
handed out in Asia hardship and suffering ~ and courage
the harsh penalties ~ for trafficking don't deter goes hand in hand with (military) might
punishment & recrimination: justice / hand information warfare ~
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: justice / hand go hand in hand
handed down (transmission) in Africa, where oil and corruption often ~
energy conservation and saving money ~
handed down through the organization ethics and booze rarely ~ (selling alcohol)
the money, ~, comes from… reform and repression ~
rioting and looting often ~
handed down by your ancestors
an heirloom ~ for generations gone hand in hand
for centuries, the words “Vatican” and “intrigue” have ~
handed down by generations
a story ~ of Blackfeet went hand in hand
paperwork and legwork ~ (a job)
transmission: hand / verb fear and filth ~ (E.B. Sledge in combat on Okinawa)
handed over (possession) worked hand in hand
corrupt doctors and rogue pharmacists ~ (to push opioids)
handed over to the authorities
she was captured and ~ division & connection / relationship: hand
handed over to the Native Americans handle (get a handle on something)
the bones should be ~
get a handle on the problem
immediately handed over they tried to ~, but...
Russia demanded that the fighters be ~
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 how can we ~ (crime) Navy's handling
the ~ of the investigation
control & lack of control: hand / verb
handle (deal with) police handling (m)
critical of ~ of complaints
handle it on a case-by-case basis questions about the handling
airlines ~, without a blanket policy ~ of the epidemic
handle whatever confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand
she can ~ the future brings
control & lack of control: hand
handle (such) cases handmaiden (help)
it had specialists to ~ (a hospital)
handmaiden of the sailor
handle the deluge it is no wonder that astronomy became the ~ (navigation)
companies couldn't ~ of holiday orders
handmaiden of Saudi victory
handle disaster Israel was the unlikely ~ (Yemen in 1967)
flaws in the nation's plans to ~ (New Orleans hurricane)
help & assistance: hand / person / royalty
handle it person: hand / royalty
let the cops ~...
hand-me-down
handle the load
the system can barely ~ (airline travel) hand-me-downs
they got ~ from the previous year
handled (most of) the negotiations
hand-me-down Chevy Blazer
he ~ with the Americans (an Iraqi)
a~
handle pain
possession / transmission: hand
a person may ~ well one time and poorly the next time
handle stage fright
handout (noun)
performers have various ways to ~ handout
control & lack of control: hand / verb it's a hand up, not a ~ (charitable group)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb handouts from friends and family
action, inaction & delay: hand / verb he survives on ~
handle (shape) government handout
Big Dipper's handle ~s promote discontent and a sense of helplessness
the ~ small handout
curved handle surviving on ~s
the Big Dipper’s ~ looking for handouts
shape: hand old friends came ~ (pro athlete)

handled help & assistance: hand

handled with (great) care hand over (verb)

it is a delicate matter that must be ~ hand over the task (of patrolling) to the Marines
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand the Army will ~
control & lack of control: hand handed over control (of the plane) to Zurich
action, inaction & delay: hand Munich controllers ~
handling handed over control to the mayor
handling of complaints the State Legislature has ~ (school system)
they are critical of police ~ handed the documents over to the Justice Department
handling of the epidemic we voluntarily ~
questions about the ~ handed over the documents
handling of the investigation we ~ (government official)
the Navy's ~ possession: hand / verb

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giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / verb hands-on
handover (noun)
hands-on approach
handover of power a~
standing in the way of a peaceful ~
hands-on individual
hand-over ceremony he is a ~ (controlling micromanager)
Macao's ~
hands-on organizer
minefield handover she is a ~
~ is an extremely important task control & lack of control: hand
peaceful handover avoidance & separation: hand
standing in the way of a ~ of power handwringer (person)
possession: hand
handwringer
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand
the ~s who said, "It's not going to work!" (war)
hands down (certainty)
hand wringers, worriers and whiners
hands down ~ (foreign policy)
it is one of the best restaurants in the world ~ character & personality: hand / person
hands-down favorite handwringing (noun)
the ~
♦ This relates to horse racing, jockeys and reins. It means, "without handwringing from Democrats
question." there has been a lot of ~ (but no action)
certainty & uncertainty: horse criticism and handwringing
hands down (easily) the ~ is far from over (foreign-policy issue)
feeling, emotion & effect: hand
hands down
Green Destiny wins ~ (a computer) action, inaction & delay: hand
eagerness & reluctance: hand
hands-down handwriting (on the wall)
the Europeans would have won ~
won hands-down handwriting
the ~ is on the wall
he ~
♦ This relates to horse racing, jockeys and reins. It means, "without much handwriting on this Congressional Wall
effort." social studies advocates can hardly miss the ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: horse fate, fortune & chance: Bible / religion / writing & spelling
handshake (noun) future / time: religion / writing & spelling
hang (hang somebody out to dry)
electronic “handshake”
MH 370’s final ~ along an arc (southern Indian Ocean) hanging him out to dry
division & connection: hand Boeing is ~ to deflect blame from others in the company
♦ The meaning is abandonment, and the salient point is that laundry on a
hands-off clotheslines is outside and exposed. Of course, nobody actually
abandons their laundry!
hands off
allegiance, support & betrayal: atmosphere / clothing &
though loving, their parenting was ~
accessories / verb
hands-off approach
continued to take a ~ hanging (hanging offense)
those with a more ~
government should maintain a ~ to the economy
hanging offense
his mistakes did not constitute a ~
a ~ towards the tribal areas (Pervez Musharraf)
judgment: justice / violence
hands-off policy
at times a ~ can be justified (diplomacy) punishment & recrimination: justice / violence

control & lack of control: hand

hang on (verb)
avoidance & separation: hand hang on in office

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 Churchill continued to ~ he lives up to the ~ image
♦ It looks like we’re in for a wild ride, so hang on. (A Wall Street bear
market.)
character & personality: hardness & softness / materials &
substances
resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb
hardball (noun)
hang on to (verb)
corporate hardball
hang on to their senate seat they are playing ~
democrats are trying to ~
position, policy & negotiation: baseball / sports & games
possession: hand / verb
hard-charging (adjective)
hangover
hard-charging maverick
historical hangover he was a ~ who shook up football (a coach)
the Dow is a ~ from a period we can’t sober up from yet
character & personality: horse
$1 billion hangover
Vancouver faces a ~ from its Olympic party harden (increase)
long economic hangover hardened opinion against China
along with the ~... (2008 financial crisis) the maritime clash has ~ (Japan)

feeling the hangover hardened its policy against the Roma

the bubble has burst, and now we're ~ (economy) the government has ~ (France)

left us with a hangover hardened his grip

the real estate binge has ~ he has ~ on power (leader)
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol hardened its position
Iran has ~
Hannibal (American Hannibal, etc.)
hardened its rhetoric
“American Hannibal” the government has ~ about the danger
the sheer audacity won Arnold the title of the ~ (Quebec)
increase & decrease: hardness & softness / verb
♦ Hannibal is associated with leading an army that included elephants
over the Alps to attack the Romans. The historian John Julius Norwich
says there were 37 elephants and usefully mentions that the
harden (feelings)
Carthaginians must have had some secret way with elephants, as they
are generally considered to be untamable, unlike the Indian elephant. harden them
David’s painting, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps,” shows a rock with some parents bully their kids to ~
Hannibal’s name inscribed on it. Of course, Hannibal is also associated
with his great military victory over the Romans at the Battle of Cannae, a feeling, emotion & effect: hardness & softness / verb
double envelopment that is still taught at military schools. Less well
known is that he failed to follow up on his victory, which has become at
least one definition of a “Hannibalic victory.” Or that he only learned of
harden (protect)
the defeat of his brother’s relief force when the Romans delivered his
brother’s head to his camp. Carthage, of course, would end up being harden schools
razed to the ground.) ways to ~ (school shootings)
epithet: military protection & lack of protection: fortification / hardness &
softness / verb
harbor (verb)
hardened (battle-hardened, etc.)
harbors (Colombian) rebels
Venezuela ~ hardened criminal
protection & lack of protection: boat / sea / verb an official report described him as a ~

harbor (safe harbor) jail-hardened (m)

he was a ~ felon (teen rapist)
safe harbor for those
well trained and battle-hardened
her workshops and retreats offer a ~ who are…
the fighters are ~
protection & lack of protection: boat / sea
strength & weakness: materials & substances
hard (character) experience: hardness & softness

hard man hardened (other)

he is a ~
hardened to the plight
the legendary “~” (Scotland)

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 he has become ~ of the poor harrowing scenes
some of the ~ are hard to watch (film about earthquake)
feeling, emotion & effect: hardness & softness
hard-hearted (adjective) harrowing tales
survivors told ~ (plane crash)
hard-hearted (m) ♦ A harrow is an agricultural device used to chop up clods of dirt. In the
hard-edged, hard-headed, ~ educational methodologists 1949 film Border Incident starring Ricardo Montalban and George
Murphy, the character played by George Murphy, Jack Bearnes, meets
character & personality: heart his fate under a harrow. His end is, literally and figuratively, harrowing.

heart: hardness & softness ♦ Dante, in the Inferno, refers to the harrowing of hell by Christ. This
usage of the word is based on the Old English word for “to harry or
hard-nosed (adjective) despoil.”

feeling, emotion & effect: farming & agriculture

hard-nosed attorney
he was a very ~ Harvard (epithet)
hard-nosed defender Harvard of American evangelism
he's a ~ (soccer) Graham graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois, the ~
character & personality: hardness & softness / nose epithet: school & education
harness (verb) harvest (data, etc.)
harness social media to stoke harvested the data
they ~ their base (young female politicians) the company ~ of 90 million unsuspecting Facebook users
harness technology to enhance computer: farming & agriculture / verb
~ productivity
harvest (verb)
harness his ability
the club should be able to ~ (a young soccer player) harvesting useful data
land networks were ~ (weather)
control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb
harvest grapes
harness (in harness) you don't ~ from planting thorns
in harness at army headquarters ♦ You don't harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.)
he remained hard at work, ~ (General U.S. Grant) product: farming & agriculture / verb
work & duty: animal / horse harvest (noun)
harmony (in harmony)
war's (chief) harvest
in harmony misery is ~
all the factions are ~ product: farming & agriculture
in harmony with nature harvested
we need to live ~
harvested in a decent and humane manner
in harmony with the ocean it's important that whales are ~
for centuries the islanders lived ~
harvested tendon
live in harmony the ~ looks like a piece of dental floss (from hamstring)
Muslims, Christians and Jews ~
ice was harvested
worked in harmony ~ from lakes and rivers and stored (in the old days)
we ~ for four months
unanimity & consensus: music
organs were harvested
his ~ for donation (high-school athlete)
harrowing (adjective) product: farming & agriculture
harrowing to watch hash out (verb)
it was ~ (stock-market free fall)
hash out a compromise
harrowing danger diplomats are trying to ~
his heroic actions in the face of ~ (military)
♦ “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one
harrowing plunge being made.”
a day after a ~ in the stock market

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creation & transformation: food & drink / verb she ~ with two men she'd been sleeping with
hat (role) hatched a (clever) scheme
he ~
grammar hat
with my strict ~ on, I have to say that’s called the irrealis initiation: bird / verb

NPR hat hatch (escape hatch)

I'll speak personally now as opposed to wearing my ~
tried-and-tested escape hatch
institutional hats he has his ~ (just asking a question, not accusing)
he has acquired so many ~ he is now irreplaceable
pursuit, capture & escape: mechanism
three hats hatched
you really have ~ right now (jobs and positions)
plan was hatched
in-charge hat versus the submissive-woman hat a ~…
the ~
initiation: bird
wears three very important hats
he ~ (cabinet secretary, etc.) hatchet (bury the hatchet)
bury the hatchet
take off your editor hat let's ~
can I ask you to ~ for a moment and talk as a student they were unable to ~ and move forward (two teammates)
♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
♦ “Hatchets that have been buried can be dug up.” (The Balkans in the
and get out there and show them what you got...”
1990s.)
role: clothing & accessories / sign, signal, symbol reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: blade / military /
sign, signal, symbol: clothing & accessories verb / weapon
hat (old hat) hatchet job (noun)
old hat
sundials are ~
hatchet job on him
battles over party nominees are ~ the New York Times did a complete ~
GMOs are ~, synthetically modified food the new frontier accusation & criticism: blade / crime / violence / weapon
old masters are ~ (art reproductions no longer popular)
hatchet man (person)
old hat for you
is winning the Kentucky Derby ~ hatchet man
he dispatched him as his ~
‘old hat’ Glastonbury festival your ~ has done a real number on me
he is not keen to play the ~ (Charlie Watts)
coercion & motivation: blade / history / person / violence /
experience: clothing & accessories weapon
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: clothing &
accessories haul (long haul)
hat (take off one's hat to somebody, etc.) long haul
it’s a ~, son, it’s a 15-rounder... (timeline for pandemic)
hats off to the governments
~ that acted responsibly (Maha Akeel) for the long haul
I think we're in it ~ (an intractable bear problem)
take my hat off to you guys
I ~ (admiration and respect) time: burden / distance / movement / weight
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / hat / verb haul (verb)
hat (hold on to your hat) hauled him (off) to jail
a sheriff's deputy ~
hold on to your hat
~, for the first time ever... hauled him to the station
♦ This means a big surprise and may relate to a rollercoaster. the police ~ (Mexico)
feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / hat / verb / wind haul tourists
bus-sized Tundra buggies ~ (Churchill / polar bears)
hatch (verb)
transportation: animal / verb
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hauled in (verb) case (still) haunts him
the unsolved ~ (a detective)
hauled in for questioning
he was ~ by the Mabaheth (Saudi Arabia) images haunt me
those ~ to this day (soldier back from Iraq)
transportation: animal
continues to haunt
hauled off (verb) the mystery of what really happened ~ New York
hauled off (again) to prison still haunts
he was ~ the unsolved case ~ him (a detective)
hauled off from her reception to jail come back to haunt
the "Bridezilla" was ~ gossip can ~ you
what you do on the computer can ~ (queries)
hauled off in handcuffs
♦ “Be careful about sharing intimate gossip in a party situation—you may
she was ~ (a "Bridezilla," from her wedding reception) find it comes back to haunt you...”
transportation: animal affliction: creature / verb
haunt (verb) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: creature / verb
haunted
haunt me to this day
those images ~… (soldier back from Iraq) haunted by that day
she has spent her life ~
haunted this city for (four) decades
closing the door on a crime that has ~ haunted by a death
he is ~ he was unable to prevent
haunt a community for generations
some murder cases ~ haunted by demons
he was a deeply troubled man, ~ (Timothy Treadwell)
haunted me for a decade
the things I saw have ~ (Rwanda genocide) haunted by (perceived) failures
he was ~ (a suicide)
haunt us forever
the horror of the final days will ~ (family of hostage) haunted by nightmares
she is ~ (veteran of war in Iraq)
haunt me the rest of my life
it will ~ (comment by murderer) haunted by evil spirits
the Udehé say places like that are ~ (forest)
haunt the Ethiopians
such tactics may come back to ~ (torture / rebels) became haunted
Father Desbois ~ by the history of the Nazis in Ukraine
haunt New York
the mystery of what really happened continues to ~ remain haunted
city residents ~ by the murders
haunts the country
El Salvador's bitter civil war still ~ affliction: creature
haunted detectives haunting (adjective)
Ms. Beal's murder had long ~ on the case (finally solved)
haunting images
haunt him the ~ of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
the day will ~ (Tour de France crash) ~ of starvation (Africa)
haunted him haunting memory
during these years, Annapurna always ~ (3 attempts) the Irish have ~s of the famine
the ~s returned (of a murder)
haunts every (kayak) instructor
this is the type of accident that ~ haunting premonition
she awoke with a ~ (mother of soldier who died)
haunted his life
he recounted the racism that ~ haunting story
the most ~ in the annals of exploration
haunted me
these simple words ~ most haunting (m)
it is one of the ~ stories in the annals of exploration
haunting scientists
these problems had been ~ for years (vaccine) familiar and haunting (m)

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 those ~ notes (24 notes of Taps at funeral) head (orientation)
painful and haunting (m) head of the bed
the most ~ story involves SuAnne Big Crow
the ~ (versus the foot of the bed)
feeling, emotion & effect: creature
orientation: direction / head
haven (safety) head (development)
germ haven heading
airplane toilets have a reputation for being a ~
no one knows where the region is ~
safe haven headed
at the nadir of the financial crisis, gold was a ~
we don’t know where this fight is ~ (politics)
my bedroom is my ~
direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb
safe haven for priests
development: direction / movement / verb
the archdiocese provided ~ accused of sex abuse
♦ A haven was a harbor. head (reason)
protection & lack of protection: boat / place head
people reason mostly from their hearts, not their ~s
hawk (noun)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: head
Israeli hawks
many ~ were against the attack (1981) head (butt heads)
predation / violence: animal / bird butted heads
we ~
hawkish (adjective) the mayor and the union have ~ ever since he took office
hawkish stance conflict: animal / head / horn / verb
his ~ on Iran (an Israeli)
head (scratch one's head)
predation / violence: animal / bird
scratching its head
hay (make hay, etc.) Congress is ~ (over confusing remarks by President)
political hay scratching our heads
politicians make ~ out of it (pandemic) a lot of us are ~, with so many of these questions (a crime)
made (political) hay out of it scratching their heads
everybody ~, used it for their own purposes (terror event) scientists are ~ as to how…
content: farming & agriculture / plant scientists are ~ to understand why...
♦ Who actually does this?
haze (perception)
comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head / verb
alcoholic haze
he spent much of the next four decades in an ~ head (shake one's head)
perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark shake our heads at the folly
consciousness & awareness: light & dark we like to ~ of those who…

head (head into the future, etc.) shaking my head and rolling my eyes
I’m just ~ (Boeing debacle of 2019-2020)
head into November
as we ~, crunch time (college football) leave you shaking your head
the details of this scandal just ~ (college admissions scandal)
head into summer
comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head / verb
as we ~, don’t forget... (pandemic)
head into this labor-day weekend
head (clear head)
as we ~ clear head
heading into the winter ~s are needed (vs. sleep deprivation)
now we are ~ (pandemic) consciousness & awareness: head
future / time: direction / movement / verb

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head (keep / lose one’s head) ♦ “A protruding nail will be hammered down.” (Japan.)

protection & lack of protection: gesture / head / military /

keep your head
~ and don’t go crazy
lose his head
in the closing laps he seemed to ~ (F1 racecar driver)
control & lack of control: head / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: head / verb
head (head and shoulders above)
head and shoulders
~, he is above everybody else (a skier)
head and shoulders above anyone else
he is ~ in his ability to lead (a politician)
head and shoulders above most of his colleagues
he is ~ (a politician)
head and shoulders above most of his peers
for that, he is ~ (a musician)
stand head and shoulders
the two ~ above the rest (baseball players)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: height
superiority & inferiority: height
head (heads will roll, etc.)
head
his ~ is under the guillotine every season (a coach)
calls for his head
there have been ~ (a government official)
verb
head (come down on one’s head, etc.)
come down on his head
a lot of opprobrium has ~ (whistle-blower)
brought down on his head an avalanche
the book has ~ of publicity
brought her family's condemnation down on her head
her marriage ~
brought the establishment down on her head
her early success ~ (a poet)
brought disaster down on her head
her meddling appears to have ~
♦ Such things as light poles or glass can fall or rain down on one's head,
if one is unlucky!
failure, accident & impairment: head
head (go over one's head /
comprehension)
went over my head
what he said just ~ (not understood)
comprehension & incomprehension: head / verb
head (go over one's head / hierarchy)
go over their heads
he tried to ~ (to their supervisor)

heads will roll hierarchy: direction / head / position / verb

~ if… head (get in over one's head, etc.)
destruction / dismissal, removal & resignation / fate,
fortune & chance / punishment & recrimination: ax / blade
got in over their heads
they ~ (crime)
/ head / neck / violence
involvement: head / verb / water
head (have one’s head handed to oneself,
etc.) head (turn heads)
turned heads
handing them their head
her good looks and confidence ~
I’m boxing these guys, and I’m ~ (young Bobby Czyz)
turned heads in the ballroom and the bar
got my head handed to me
personalities at the hotel who ~ (Raffles in Singapore)
I ~ at that meeting (politician and angry constituents)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: gesture / head
punishment & recrimination: ax / blade / head / neck /
feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / head
violence
head (hold something over one’s head)
head (keep one's head down)
hold over his head
keep their heads down we needed to have something to ~ (child murder case)
it might be better for them to ~
holding that over his head
kept their heads down they will try to force his hand by ~
they see themselves as stoics who’ve ~ (politics)
coercion & motivation: head / verb
kept her head down fate, fortune & chance: head / verb
for her first two terms, she ~, forgoing media appearances

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head (rear its head, etc.) resiliency: direction / gesture / head / height / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head /
reared its head height / verb
the Ebola virus has ~ again
head (hang one’s head)
♦ Only something negative raises its head: anti-Semitism, the Ebola
virus, tyranny, etc. hang his head in shame
appearance & disappearance: head / verb the video umpire should ~ (a hockey game)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: head / verb feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head /
head (turn something on its head, etc.) height / verb

flip the investigation on its head head (pat on the head)

a tragic turn of events would ~ (DC sniper)
pat on the head
turn the paradigm on its head I looked at that as a ~
the plan will ~ (homelessness) achievement, recognition & praise: dog / gesture / head
disruption: direction / equilibrium & stability / head / verb
headache (noun)
head (get one’s head around something,
headache
etc.) the decision is one in a series of ~s for… (a company)
get their heads around headache for the administration
that’s very difficult for people to ~ (murder trial) this will be a ~ (oil spill)
get my head around it headaches (continued to mount) for the (German) Pope
I still can’t ~ the ~ (Pope Benedict)
get your head around transportation headache
there are a lot of twists and turns to ~ (Jesse Smollett case) the daily ~s faced by many
get my head around what biggest headache
I can’t seem to ~ she just said one of our ~s is simply counting the fish (scientist)
wrap our minds around what diplomatic headache
it was hard to ~ had happened she poses a ~ for Britain (a UAE princess)
comprehension & incomprehension: head / verb new headaches
head (come to a head) the new system created ~ (Iowa caucus)
caused headaches
came to a head his mercurial personality ~ (an employee)
it all ~ in December of 1989 (ACT UP vs. Catholic Church)
the animosity that surfaced had now ~ affliction: health & medicine
♦ This might relate to a pimple or boil and basically means crisis.
headed
development: health & medicine
headed
head (keep one's head up) futurists are asking questions about where we’re ~ (tech)

keep your head up headed for a train wreck

things are tough, but you've got to ~ we are ~ (a politician about budget proposal)

keep your heads up headed in the wrong direction

I spoke to some players and said ~ (after huge loss) Washington is ~ (politics)
resiliency: direction / gesture / head / height / verb direction: journeys & trips
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head / future: direction / movement
height / verb headhunter
head (hold one’s head high)
headhunter
hold his head high he was recruited by a management ~
he can ~ (a losing boxer who did well)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
head held high
I leave with my ~ (cricket player retires)

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headlong went head to head over the issue
they ~ of…
headlong retreat
the Americans are in ~ take on Romney head-to-head
Santorum will ~ (nomination process)
haste: horse
conflict: animal / head / horn
head-on
headway (noun)
confront these things head-on
we must ~ making any headway
we're not ~ at all (poor economy)
♦ “Should we avoid the controversy or should we dive right into it? I say
of course we dive right into it, we confront this thing head on.” (Adrian progress & lack of progress: boat / journeys & trips /
Lamo and “Informants: villains or heroes?”)
movement
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: head /
orientation
headwind (noun)
conflict: animal / head / horn headwind on the economy
head-scratching this is the biggest ~ (poor housing market / Obama)

head-scratching comments headwind to rebuilding

he has made some ~ communication missteps have created a massive ~ trust

comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head social and economic headwinds

shielding the town from the larger ~ buffeting small towns
head-spinning
obstacles & impedance: atmosphere / boat / wind
head-spinning progress & lack of progress: plane / wind
the explanations have been ~ force: plane / wind
head spinning week heal (verb)
it’s been a ~ in Australian politics
heal itself
♦ “Once again, a tweet sends the head spinning.”
remove dams and let nature ~
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping,
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill heal all those problems
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
Prince Salman is the doctor to ~ in Saudi Arabia
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
April 13, 2020.) healed the rift
the years have not ~ between Shipa and her family
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability
heal (old racial) wounds
head start help ~
head start on the assignment heal (old) wounds
I want to get a ~ the project will ~ (slavery)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: head / journeys & trips / heal the wounds
movement a ceremony of reconciliation meant to ~ left by the War
heads-up (warning) heal the housing market
we need to write down mortgages to ~
heads-up
you should have given us a ~ (warning) heal and renew
the water has power to ~ (Medicine Lake)
warning: direction / head
never healed
head-to-head the rift between his mother and father ~ (divorced)
head-to-head confrontation time to heal
~ versus guerrilla war (US in Iraq) it's going to take ~ (emotionally)
head-to-head match ♦ "A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not." (A Turkish
proverb.)
China beats Russia in ~ (chess)
Nadal leads their ~s by 14-7 (tennis) amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
went head to head with the conservatives
the liberals ~ over the issue

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health (in good / bad health) the hate group ~ they saw (at the National Mall)

in good health heaped praise on him and his work

officials have ~ (police commander)
everybody is hoping the lander is ~ (India space mission)
amount & effect: pile / verb
condition & status: health & medicine
throwing, putting & planting: pile / verb
health (condition) heaped
health of the (global) economy
heaped on him
what his trade policies could do to the ~ (G7)
honors and diplomatic missions were ~ (Wellington)
health of the planet amount & effect: pile
what his stance on climate change could mean to the ~
throwing, putting & planting: pile
health of publishing
the ~ is in good hands (readers)
heart (allegiance)
health of a (free) society way to (anyone's) heart
good journalism is essential to the ~ the quickest ~ is with an MCL gift card (ad)

industry's health after my own heart

absorption, an indicator of the ~ (apartment market) he’s a man ~

economic and cultural health captured the hearts

problems that threaten the ~ (reindeer people) he has ~ and minds of Americans (Olympic athlete)

intellectual health captured my heart

the ~ of publishing is in good hands (readers) the first time I saw him, he ~ (an orphan)

threaten the environmental health give my heart

problems that ~ (reindeer people) I'm going to be very cautious who I ~ to

get back to (fiscal) health invest my heart in someone

we need to ~ I can't ~ who might not stick around

condition & status: health & medicine win the hearts

we can ~ and minds of people (AID official)
healthy (condition)
pledge their head, heart, hands and health
healthy youngsters ~—hence, 4-H— to such goals as… (4-H)
10 percent thought conditions were ~ (economy)
allegiance, support & betrayal: heart
corporate profits are ~
the spacecraft is ~ and we’re excited (New Horizons) heart (hearts and minds)
healthy economy people’s hearts and minds
his government's failure to build a ~ politics is about persuasion, about winning ~ (Ted Cruz)
condition & status: health & medicine battle for hearts and minds
healthy (strength) he is losing the ~ at Stamford Bridge (a soccer coach)

healthy fear captured the hearts and minds

a ~ is the best defense (of scorpions / desert warfare) he has ~ of Americans (Olympic athlete)

healthy skepticism win the hearts and minds

in science, a ~ is a professional necessity
strength & weakness: health & medicine
heap (verb)
we can ~of people (AID official)
♦ “Get them by their balls and their hearts and minds will follow.” (A
saying popular among combat soldiers during the Vietnam War who
were cynical about US government campaigns to “win the hearts and
minds” of the Vietnamese people.)

heap abuse (even) on the home team allegiance, support & betrayal: heart
Philly fans ~ heart (basis)
heaped contempt on her (hated) rival heart of cycling
she ~ (a politician) France, the ~ (Tour de France, etc.)
heaped invective upon whites heart of courtesy

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 the ~ is respect for persons heart of a champion
she has the ~ (coach speaking of child gymnast)
heart of the (US) economy
small businesses have become the beating ~ heart of a (true) champion
he showed the ~ (boxer / title bout)
heart of the fair
the ~ is the 4-H livestock show (US) heart of a (true) warrior
battered and bloodied, but showing the ~ (boxing)
heart of jazz
improvisation is the ~ heart and intuition
have the courage to follow your ~ (Steve Jobs)
heart and soul
racing has lost its ~ (death of popular driver) hearts and souls
he was the ~ of our team (mountaineering) their ~ are in it (NASA scientists)
he poured his ~ into the game (Larry Bird / basketball)
heart and stomach
envy at its heart his ~ for boxing are no longer there
much anti-Americanism has ~
fighting heart
at the heart of the argument the American soldier still has the ~ and will to win
~ is the claim that…
fighter’s heart
at the heart of the debate he showed a true ~ (boxing)
~ lies the question…
lion's heart
at the heart of the matter I have a ~ (winning boxer after hard match)
Kandahar is again ~ (war)
a lot of heart
lies at the heart anybody else would have quit, he's got ~ ( a boxer)
a failure of political will ~ of the problem (polio)
no heart
get to the heart he had ~ (fighter who quit)
we need to ~ of the matter
so much heart
goes to the heart the cut was serious but he warriored on, ~ (Tyson Fury)
this argument ~ of the issue
close to people's hearts
bases: heart issues that are ~
heart (young at heart, etc.) heart is set on revenge
her ~
at heart
~ he's an optimist heart had gone out of the game
I think me ~ (a Yorkshire boxer)
Bedouin at heart
Sheikh Zayed remained a ~ (Abu Dhabi / UAE) follow your heart
~ and dare to take risks
young at heart
she remains ~ lost heart
many people have ~ (problems, obstacles)
wild at heart
the play is a hymn to the ~ showed (real) heart
he ~ (a boxer)
character & personality: heart
identity & nature: heart fought his heart out
heart (identity) he ~ every fight (the great Arturo Gatti)
sang her heart out
in your heart she ~
if you're born here it's ~ (a festival in Ivrea, Italy)
♦ Home is where the heart is! fight with their hearts
they ~ more than their heads… (two boxers)
identity & nature: heart
fights with his heart on his sleeve
heart (commitment) he always ~ (boxer Johnnie Tapia)
heart leave your heart on the floor
she said her ~ was now set on revenge (a Palestinian) ~ (a basketball player, exhorting his teammates)

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left his heart in the ring hole in my heart
he ~ every time he fought (the great "Thunder" Gatti) it left a huge ~ (loss of a baby)
put her heart into it joy in their hearts
she really ~ (an art project) they watched with ~ (Manger Square / Bethlehem)
poured our hearts into the movement lies in the heart
for over 20 years we've ~ (social justice) who really know what ~ of another
played with (unquestioned) heart hold her in our hearts
he ~ and leadership (dead quarterback) we're going to ~ (Lori Piestewa)
fights with (a lot of) heart fills my heart with joy and laughter
he ~ and determination she ~
took the (hate) message to heart instill fear into people's hearts
they ~ (Hispanic gang vs. blacks) the main purpose is to ~ (China versus Tibetans)
commitment & determination: heart put fear in your heart
my granddaddy said don't ever let no one ~ (authority)
heart (beating heart)
find room in my heart
beating heart of this book I tried to ~ for him, but I couldn't
the three protagonists are the ~ (Boer War)
♦ "The Hopi believe that when they die, they bring snow and moisture
back to the people. So the snow is fitting." (Vanessa Charles,
beating heart of her work commenting on the death of Lori Piestewa, killed in action in Iraq, and a
nature as a springboard to the sacred is the ~ (a poet) rare April snowfall.)

death & life: heart / sound heart: container

heart (eagerness and reluctance) heart (empathy)
for the faint of heart kind heart
it's not ~ (a horror film) she has a ~
combat is not ~
open heart
eagerness & reluctance: heart she has the most ~ (open to all)
heart (half-hearted, etc.) heart of flint
she was an elderly female with a ~
with all her heart
she loved him ~ hearts of stone
those State Department bureaucrats have ~
halfhearted (m)
I made a ~ effort to learn French heart goes out to him
your ~ (drowned child)
half-hearted performances
boxers content to turn in uninspiring, ~ hearts go out to the families
our ~ (mass shooting)
amount: heart
heart (container) hearts go out to him
our ~ and all the other healthcare workers (pandemic)
hearts are filled with joy bless your heart
our ~ that she is safe (missing woman found)
well, ~
hearts are opening up have a heart
~ through volunteering, donating, and sharing
please, ~
in your heart show some heart
if you're born here it's ~ (a festival in Ivrea, Italy)
why can’t you ~
in the heart of another touch (American) hearts
who really knows what lies ~
suffering Afghan children ~
goodness in their hearts ♦ “They wouldn’t give a crippled crab a crutch if they owned a lumber
the justness of their cause, the ~ (military) yard.” (John Artis on the Patterson, New Jersey police and justice
system in the 1960s and 70s.)
hatred in the hearts empathy & lack of empathy: heart
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heart (a broken heart, etc.) follow his heart
he decided to ~ (accept a job in different city)
broken heart
wants, needs, hopes & goals: heart
you can overcome a ~
broke my heart
heart (heart of stone, etc.)
it ~ to see... heart of flint
breaks my heart she was an elderly female with a ~
it ~ to see these kids (politician / injured soldiers) heart of gold
unbreak my heart he had a ~ (tribute for soldier killed in combat)
~, say you love me again (song) Hearts of Oak
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart / mechanism the British have ~
heart: functioning / mechanism hearts of stone
heart (center) those State Department bureaucrats have ~
heart: materials & substances
in the heart of North-West Frontier Province
Buner (boo-NAIR) lies ~ (Pakistan) heart (heart sank)
in the heart of peanut country heart sank
Albany lies ~ (Georgia) my ~… (news of murder of boy)
in the heart of the (fall foliage) season heart (just) sank
we are ~ when I heard those words, my ~ (loss of brother)
heart of the city feeling, emotion & effect: direction / heart
just north of the ~ heart: direction
the Pul-i-Imam Bukhri bridge leading into the ~
heart (heavy heart)
heart of (California's wine) country
the ~ (earthquake) heavy heart
we definitely have some ~s here (athlete injured)
heart of the desert
invaders were never able to penetrate the ~ (Saudi) with a heavy heart
~, he headed down the mountain
heart of the forest it is ~ that I…
the Cuiabá-Santarém road, which slices through the ~
with heavy hearts
heart of Tanzania we left ~ and broken spirits
the Wagogo Plains, the wild ~
with the heaviest of hearts
commercial heart it is ~ that I have to tell you of the passing of our friend...
Casablanca, a port city and the ~ of Morocco
left with heavy hearts
industrial heart we ~ and broken spirits
Manchester, the ~ of the British Empire
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / weight
lies in the heart heart: weight
Buner (boo-NAIR) ~ of North-West Frontier Province
heart (change of heart)
sits in the heart
Albany ~ of peanut country (Georgia) change of heart
industry must undergo a ~ (exploitation vs. conservation)
penetrate the heart he went public with his ~ in an opinion piece (politics)
invaders were never able to ~ of the desert (Saudi) a ~ is a good legal strategy (terrorist cooperates)
center & periphery: heart change of government, ~ (diplomacy)

heart (goal) belated change of heart

well, why the ~
heart was (now) set on revenge
she said her ~ (Middle East) undergo a change of heart
industry must ~ (exploitation vs. conservation)
set his heart on St. Joseph's Academy
reversal: heart
he ~ (desired to attend it)
allegiance, support & betrayal: heart

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heart (shape) the new study will just ~ (coronavirus deaths)
destruction: blade / death & life / knife / heart
heart, round or oval (m)
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life / heart /
whether you have a ~ face
knife
shape of a heart heart (stake through the heart, etc.)
it was cut into the ~ (a yearbook)
put a stake through the heart of Row
drawing of a heart
there is a majority on the court willing to ~ (SCOTUS)
a red-ink ~ in the palm of her left hand
♦ He was wearing a T-shirt that read, "I heart Kosova." put a stake through the heart of these theories
♦ The heart symbol only vaguely resembles the actual shape of a heart. you might think that would ~, but no (conspiracy theory)
shape: heart put a stake through their hearts
we definitely ~ (Operation Anaconda, Shah-i-Kot)
heart (sincerity)
driving a wooden stake into the heart
with all her heart he thought he was ~ of the civil-rights movement (Bull
she believed in his innocence ~ (wife of serial killer) Connor in Birmingham, Alabama)
with all my heart destruction: allusion / creature / death & life / heart
I honestly believe ~ that…
heart (miscellaneous)
believe in you with all my heart
I~ heart
if it's wrong, then my ~ won't let me be right (love)
speaking from my heart
I am ~ when I say... (sincerity) makes my heart sing
this kind of football ~ (Sawa Homare and team)
from the bottom of my heart
I'd like to tell you ~ how sorry I am… feeling, emotion & effect: heart
thank you ~ heartache (noun)
his heart was in the right place
he made mistakes, but ~
heartaches and misery
all the ~ it causes (alcoholism)
his heart is (always) in the right place
~ (Sean Penn)
deaths and resentments and heartaches
all the ~
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart
sorrows and heartaches
heart (by heart) all the ~ of this life
~ versus joy and fulfillment (religion)
play by heart
it is a fixed rule that instrumentalists shall ~ (concerts) feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation

know symphonies by heart heartbeat (in a heartbeat)

conductors ~
in a heartbeat
know them by heart if he could undo his actions he would ~
we've heard those slogans for so many years that we ~
change in a heartbeat
learned it by heart the weather can ~ (Kauai)
he ~ (a long poem)
leave in a heartbeat
recite the Qur'an by heart the US is unreliable, it could up and ~ (diplomacy)
he can ~ speed: heart
heart: memorization
heartbeat (noun)
heart (knife in the heart, etc.)
heartbeat of the cave
knife in the heart the ~ (dripping water)
the date Feb. 6, 1958, is still a ~ (Man. U fan) death & life: heart / sound
knife to the heart heartbreak (noun)
it’s a shocking ~ (idea of loss of Tangier Island to Atlantic)
rip your heart out heartbreak of (constant medical) crises

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 the ~ and setbacks center & periphery: heart
identity & nature: heart
Heartbreak Hotel
the Hanoi Hilton included ~ and New Guy Village heartless
died of heartbreak heartless so-and-so
I think he ~... he's a cool, ~ who…
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart empathy & lack of empathy: heart
heart: functioning / mechanism
heartsick
heartbreaking (adjective)
heartsick about it
heartbreaking cry for help we're ~ (brother of soldier facing tough tour in Iraq)
his suicide attempt was a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / heart
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart heart: health & medicine
heart: functioning / mechanism
heart-stopping
heartbroken (adjective)
heart-stopping beauty
heartbroken her ~ (a ballerina)
he was ~
heart-stopping moment
heartbroken city it was a ~ (near-accident)
Liverpool is a ~ (Hillsborough tragedy)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart starting, going, continuing & ending: heart
heart: functioning / mechanism
heartthrob
heartfelt (adjective)
heartthrob
heartfelt commitment the ~ Leonardo DiCaprio
a ~ to democratic values
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation
heartfelt prayers
with ~, the families of the trapped miners waited… heart-to-heart
heartfelt sorrow heart-to-heart with her
we want to express our ~ (murder of young woman) it's been a while since I have had a ~ (dad / daughter)

heartfelt views heart-to-heart conversation

her ~ got her in trouble with the authorities we had an open, ~ about sex

feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart / sensation heartwarming (adjective)
heartland (noun)
heartwarming
in the heartland what's ~ about them is…
two American kids growing up ~ (Jack and Diane) feeling, emotion & effect: heart / temperature
heartland of China heart: temperature
Xi'an, in the antique ~, watered by the Yellow River heartwood
Amhara-speaking heartland heartwood
Gondar, in the ~ (Ethiopia)
the outer, lighter sap wood vs. central, darker ~
Christian heartland bark, sap wood and ~ (trees)
the ~ north of Beirut (Lebanon) center & periphery: heart
Yoruba heartland heart-wrenching
Nigeria with its ~, Ibo strongholds and Hausa north
heart-wrenching
industrial heartland
it's ~ (comment on murder of family)
in China’s ~
heart-wrenching picture
spiritual heartland
the ~s (Haiti earthquake)
the province is the Taliban's ~ (Helmand)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation

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heat (in the heat of passion, etc.) engaged in a ~
heated debate
in the heat of the moment the ~ revealed deep political divisions (politics)
he said some things he wished he hadn't ~
I made my decision ~ (regret) heated disagreements
there have been ~ over troop levels (war)
in the heat of passion
threats are often thrown out ~ heated discussion
manslaughter is the killing of another ~ propelled scientists into a ~
~, man loses his better judgment a ~ about the study results
acted in the heat of passion heated dispute
her lawyer contended that she ~ ~s over strategy and tactics are inevitable (officer corps)
kills in the heat of passion heated exchange
the defendant is held less responsible if he ~ they got into a ~ (a protester and a local)
committed in the heat of passion heated response
prosecutors believe the crime was ~ their story drew a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature heated rhetoric
heat (pressure) ~ is unlikely to disappear from politics
heated (business) rivalry
catching (so much) heat in a ~, you must still consider ethics
we were ~ (cops on a stalled serial-rapist case)
heated falling out
feeling the heat a ~ between the mayor, police chief
they are ~ (competition)
heated and emotional (m)
keep the heat on Venezuela after years of ~ debate, the university banned…
the administration is trying to ~
pressure: temperature
get heated
when it comes to gun laws, things can sometimes ~
heat (turn up the heat, etc.) got heated
turned up the heat he went to confront her, and things ~
then he really ~ by starting a Web site accusing… grow heated
turning up the heat on BP arguments ~ (local government)
the president is ~ grew (more) heated
turning the heat up on its (long-time NATO) ally the detective ~ as he spoke
the U.S. is ~ remains heated
turned up the heat to scalding the debate ~ (educational issue)
President Trump ~ this week... (on immigration debate) feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
coercion & motivation: temperature heatedly
heat (criticism) debated heatedly
a lot of heat Rwanda policy was ~ by US officials
Biden has gotten ~ recently about his record on race feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
take heat heat up (verb)
he’ll ~ for this
heating up
accusation & criticism: temperature
competition is ~
punishment & recrimination: temperature
activity: temperature / verb
heated (emotion)
increase & decrease: temperature / verb
heated argument heaven (move heaven and earth)
the ~s in their bar
I got into a ~ with him move heaven and earth to make
I instructed my team to ~ (coronavirus response)
heated (phone) conversation

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moved heaven and earth to provide heavy burden
we have ~ security (Olympics) he carries a ~ of responsibility (ruler)
the ~ of this mammoth job (Man U manager)
difficulty, easiness & effort: religion
commitment & determination: religion heavy charges
heaven (environment) these are ~
heavy price
cat heaven fame came with a ~
in ~ it rains cream, and all the dogs are in zoos
♦ "After the turmoil [of W.W.II], it looked like heaven." (Military doctor who heavy responsibility
saw Andrews, North Carolina, and decided to settle there. He spent the I feel a ~ for these police failures (official)
rest of his life there living among and aiding the mountain people.)
oppression: burden / weight
environment / superlative: religion affliction: burden / weight
flaws & lack of flaws: religion
heavy-handed
heavy (amount)
heavy-handed
heavy blow I think the punishment was ~
the offensive has dealt a ~ to Hamas (in Gaza)
heavy-handed response
heavy fire the ~ of the government has invited criticism (to protests)
he has been taking ~ from his rivals (politics)
heavy-handed and unnecessary
heavy rains the decision was ~ (a sports kerfuffle)
~, hail, reports of funnel clouds
oppression: hand / weight
heavy security
~ didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of fans (Olympics) heavy-hearted (adjective)
heavy toll heavy-hearted
rebel resistance was taking a ~ she seemed ~
the US raid, while brief, inflicted a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: heart weight
heavy (Internet) user heart: weight
she had been a ~ (murdered)
heavyweight (noun)
amount: weight
heavyweights of the industry
heavy (emotion) the meeting was attended by global ~ (mining)
heavy EU heavyweights
things are getting a little ~, let's lighten things up Switzerland is next to ~ France and Germany
heavy hearts substance & lack of substance: boxing / weight
we left with ~ and broken spirits power: boxing / weight
feeling, emotion & effect: weight hector (verb)
heavy (heavy heart, etc.) hectors her children not to divulge
she ~ personal information online
heavy hearts
♦ From the Trojan hero, transformed to mean braggart or bully. As
we left with ~ and broken spirits Wilfred Funk, Litt.D., says in his fine book, Word Origins and Their
Romantic Stories, “It is unexplainable why this distinguished name
feeling, emotion & effect: weight should have contributed such an unpleasant word to our language.”
heart: weight
coercion & motivation: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey / verb
heavy (substance)
hedgehog (protection)
heavy ideas
to get a young audience to engage with such ~... hedgehog defense
they cannot be reinforced, so they must mount a ~
importance & significance: weight
substance & lack of substance: weight Czech hedgehogs
~ symbolized “defense at all costs” in the Soviet Union
heavy (oppression) the beaches of Normandy were spiked with ~
heavy ♦ “The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog, one good one.”
(Archilochus.)
the burdens of leadership are ~

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♦ A hedgehog defense involves an isolated stronghold or strongpoint
which can be surrounded yet still survive, in modern times, by aerial
resupply. The strongpoints are capable of all-around (perimeter)
defense. The Battle of Khe Sanh (1968) was such a defense.
Hedgehogs or strongpoints can be bypassed but will slow an attacker
down and expose the enemy’s rear to attack. Problems include the fact
that strongpoints can simply be bypassed (as happened to the French at
the start of World War II) or that the enemy can prevent aerial resupply,
as happened to the 6th Army under Paulus at Stalingrad in 1943 and the
French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
protection & lack of protection: animal / military
heel (under the heel)
♦ The Heffalump was a creature in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and
The House at Pooh Corner. It occurs only in the imagination of Piglet and
Pooh.
fantasy & reality: allusion / creature
heft (noun)
emotional heft
he depicted the struggles of black emotions with ~
record industry heft
she has used her ~ to secure royalties... (Taylor Swift)

under the heel of (Saddam's brutal) regime substance & lack of substance: weight
after decades ~ (Basra)
hegira (and hejira)
oppression: foot / heel
hejira across the Himalayas to Tibet
heel (on the heels) he made that amazing ~ (the wonderful Heinrich Harrer)

on the heels of (another) security breach development: journeys & trips / religion
the report came ~
height (at the height)
on the heels of the (debt-ceiling) debate
his came ~ at the height of his glory
the waters of the Nieman River reflected Napoleon ~
on the heels of discovery
mapmaking follows ~ at the height of its popularity
he stopped drawing the strip ~ (a cartoonist)
came on the heels
achievement, recognition & praise: ground, terrain & land /
the report ~ of another security breech
height
come on the heels primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
the protests ~ of the events elsewhere in the region height
sequence: heel heighten (verb)
heel (on one's heels) heightened fears
the report ~ of a second recession
on its heels
the government is ~ (versus the rebels) increase & decrease: direction / height / verb

put the defense on its heels heights (to new heights, etc.)
they ~ (football)
heights of performance
resistance, opposition & defeat: heel it isn't likely to motivate employees to new ~
heel (dig in one's heels) heights of stardom
she has ascended to the ~ (film actor)
dug in their heels
they have ~ and refuse to bend (negotiations) new heights
it isn't likely to motivate employees to ~ of performance
resistance, opposition & defeat: foot / heel / verb
eagerness & reluctance: foot / heel / verb ascended to the heights
heel (nip at somebody’s heels) she has ~ of stardom (film actor)
take their rivalry to new heights
nipping at his heels they ~ (promotion for wrestling match)
24 rivals are ~ from every direction (politics)
he is leading the pack but ~ is Pete Buttigieg (election) taking flying to new heights
the new Boeing Dreamliner is ~
affliction: animal / dog / predation / verb / wolf
predation: animal / dog / verb / wolf motivate employees to new heights
heffalump (creature) it isn't likely to ~ of performance
achievement, recognition & praise: ground, terrain & land /
EU heffalump height
the ~ has been taken behind the barn by the vet (Brexit)

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heights (other) ~, the second big rapid (kayaking)
the Nahanni bends through a constriction called the ~
reclaim the heights
Hell Night
they have managed to ~ (tennis sisters)
~ at the Citadel (Military School)
achievement, recognition & praise: ground, terrain & land
Hell’s Backbone
heir (noun) she drove down a road called ~ (southern Utah)

heirs to a great (and ancient) civilization proper name: religion

the Egyptian people are ~ hell (situation)
political heirs
hell
they are the ~ of the segregationist South
I've been through ~
product and an heir
hell of war
Napoleon was both a ~ to the French Revolution
in the ~, how does a chaplain hold on to faith
transmission: family / history / money
hell of a forced marriage
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: family / history /
his bid to rescue his love from the ~ (Pakistani)
money
helicopter (helicopter mom, etc.) hell on earth
the Chinese Communist Party has transformed Tibet into a ~
helicopter mom
~, people called her (connection to adult daughter) hell on heels
she was ~ (a troubled young socialite)
helicopter parent
she was accused of being a ~ (with 21-year-old daughter) sheer hell
this autumn is going to be ~ for him
surveillance: plane
divorce from hell
helicopter (verb) Alec Baldwin is living through the ~
tendency to helicopter
she had a ~ (with her adult daughter) scene from hell
he saw a number of bodies in a "~" (friendly fire)
surveillance: plane / verb
slicks and (rhododendron) hells
hell (living hell, etc.) laurel ~ (Appalachia)
"hell highway" scare the hell out of you
killed returning to the reservation on the ~ (Arizona) it will ~
living hell put you through hell
working there was a ~ win, lose or draw, Holyfield will ~ (the great boxer)
living hell for pedophiles transformed Tibet into a hell
prison can be a ~ the Chinese Communist Party has ~ on earth
Green Hell ♦ I know I'm going to heaven 'cause I've spent my time in hell. (A
veteran.)
travelers christened it the "~" (Mato Grosso)
♦ War is hell. (General William Sherman.)
escaped from a living hell environment / situation: religion
he ~ (POW)
survival, persistence & endurance: religion
make their wife's life a living hell hell (raise hell)
men who ~ (dowry scam)
environment / situation: religion raising hell
she was ~ there, too (TV star fights with cast mates)
hell (hell to pay)
behavior: religion / verb
hell to pay
later, they have ~ (people who cheat on their spouses) hell (go to hell)
punishment & recrimination: religion go to hell
the politicians should all ~
hell (Hell's Gate, etc.)
insult: religion
Hell's Gate

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hellbent control & lack of control: direction / boat

hellbent on rushing
help (keep from, avoid)
he is ~ the trial through (impeachment) couldn't help myself
commitment & determination: religion I ate the whole thing, I ~

hellhole restraint & lack of restraint: verb

hell-hole
helping (amount)
the state prison is a ~ helping of praise
world's hellholes there are two reasons to give the show another ~ (TV)
humanitarian personnel in the ~ amount: food & drink
godforsaken hellhole hemorrhage (noun)
a~
hemorrhage of personnel
environment: hole / religion
the Pentagon is trying to stop the ~ (soldiers)
hellish (adjective) ♦ "President Obama is sending an additional 17,000 American troops to
Afghanistan, as part of his effort to try to put a tourniquet on the
hellish days hemorrhaging war effort there."
those ~ of stock car racing's infancy ♦ “Another spectacularly bad idea, and another cut to the already
bleeding-out cinema experience.” (A Brad Bird tweet about Nexflix’s new
hellish dust devils variable playback feature.)
they had to contend with heat and ~ leaking: blood / health & medicine
feeling, emotion & effect: religion condition & status: blood / health & medicine

hell-raiser (person) herald (verb)

hell-raiser heralded the end
he admits he was a ~ as a young man the uprising ~ of the regime

Hellraiser Ball herald a new era

violence erupted at the motorcycle and tattoo expo, the ~ Republicans hope to ~ of limited government

Hellraisers Ball coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: royalty / verb
the melee at the ~ resulted in one death attention, scrutiny & promotion: royalty / verb

from hell-raiser to born-again Christian

herald (noun)
his conversion ~ heralds of winter
behavior: person / religion snowflakes are ~

hell-raising coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: royalty

attention, scrutiny & promotion: royalty / verb
hell-raising drinkers
~ and womanizers
herculean (adjective)
behavior: religion herculean effort
we are involved in a ~
helm (at the helm) the ~ behind the 1969 moon landing

at the helm “Herculean effort”

they have won with him ~ (a coach)
we need a tough person ~ (Turkey)
the church needed someone else ~ to stop the rot (a Pope)
the sport grew with Carpenter ~ (snowboarding)
at the helm of an organization
she is leaving after a 2-year tenure ~ beset by controversy
control & lack of control: direction / boat
helm (other)
the UK had made a ~ to deliver PPE (pandemic)
herculean task
squeezing the evidence into a 90-page document was a ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion
herd (verb)
herded five victims into one cooler
they ~ and killed them (Brown's Chicken & Pasta)

took the helm herded them into (army) buses

soldiers ~ (Palestinian suspects)
he ~ of the war this week

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directing: animal / verb heresy (noun)
control & lack of control: animal / verb
herd (ride herd) committing heresy
a law professor who lectures is ~ (vs. Socratic method)
ride herd on them sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
we need to ~
heretic (person)
directing: animal / verb
control & lack of control: animal / verb attacks of the heretics
coercion & motivation: animal / verb he defended Establishment wisdom against the ~
herd (herd immunity, etc.) treats him as a heretic
the party now ~ (politics)
herd immunity
high vaccination rates can ensure ~ sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion
acceptance & rejection: person / religion
group, set & collection: animal
person: religion
herd (herd mentality, etc.) hermit (person)
herd madness hermit
it’s a story of greed, deceit and ~ (OneCoin) is chronic bad breath turning you into a ~
herd mentality modern-day hermits
~ leads to panic buying (COVID-19 panic) in Japan half a million people live as ~ (hikikomori)
it is a clear example of ~ (panic buying of toilet paper)
isolation & remoteness / society: person
behavior: animal
social interaction: person
uniformity & consensus: animal avoidance & separation: person
herded person: acceptance & rejection / society

herded into a bus

hermit (epithet)
he was handcuffed to other prisoners and ~ hermit kingdom
coercion & motivation / directing: animal Bhutan, once known as the ~ of the Himalayas

here (we have been here before) isolation & remoteness: epithet

been here before

hew (hew to the line, etc.)
when we look at the past, we see we’ve ~ (pandemic) hew to her beliefs
every oil-addicted town has ~ (bust after boom) a young person trying to ~ and save the world
past & present / time: place
hew to your intention
time: journeys & trips / place you try to make language ~
here (go from here, etc.) hews to his (conservative) roots
from here on out he ~ (a judge)
what should we do now ~ hew to the rules
go from here she helped schools ~ (Title IX)
where things ~ is quite honestly up in the air hews (close) to tradition
but where does he ~ (boxer after unexpected loss) the band ~ (bluegrass)
where to we ~ (troubled relationship)
where does the program ~ (sports) hew closely
♦ The fuzzy boundary between time and place (or space) seems to occur he promises to ~ to the course set by Raul Castro
in the irreversible binomial, “the here and now.”
hews too closely
development: movement / place the author ~ to events
past & present / time: movement / place
unanimity & consensus: line / tree / verb
here (the present) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: line / tree / verb
already here heyday (noun)
tomorrow is ~
heyday of Brazilian rock
past & present / time: place the 1970’s was probably the ~

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heyday of hotels hidden gems
life after the Catskills’ ~ the road reveals many ~ (N7 in France)
Kameny’s heyday hidden logic
in ~, and my youth... (gay history) the ~ behind military training
Shanghai’s heyday kept the story hidden
the colonial architecture that dates back to ~ she ~ for 20 years, never sharing it with anyone
‘70’s heyday concealment & lack of concealment: eye
his ~ (a singer)
hide (hide behind something)
since the heyday of LaFace Records
the strongest R&B vibes to emerge ~ (Atlanta) hide behind anonymity
it's easy to be forthright when you ~
achievement, recognition & praise: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day hides behind a facade
he ~ of jokes
hibernation (in hibernation)
hides behind the nom de plume
in hibernation the woman who ~ of…
the industry has been ~ for 20 years (the nuclear industry)
hides behind a (tough-guy) posture
activity: animal / death & life / sleep he ~
hibernation (other) hides behind a locked door
the bureaucrat or politician who ~
hibernation environments
hospitable ~ for apples (controlled atmosphere storage) hides behind a friendly face
fraud often ~
awoken from hibernation
the comet lander, Philae, has ~ hides behind a fictitious name
he ~
emerged from his hibernation
Betts ~ to hit a home run (baseball) hides behind innocuous phrase
she ~ (an administrator)
put in hibernation
the spacecraft was ~ for 31 months (Rosetta) concealment & lack of concealment: direction / verb

reopen the US economy from its hibernation hide-and-seek

how and when to ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
game of hide and seek
activity: animal / death & life / sleep a very serious ~ (with Palestinian terrorist)
hiccup (noun) pursuit, capture & escape: sports & games

hiccup hidebound
the datacenter is having some ~s (down Websites)
we've had some ~s along the way hidebound bureaucracy
a~
hiccups in this matter
constraint & lack of constraint: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
there’s been a lot of ~ which has taken a lot of time (trial)
♦ “There are always land mines and hiccups that come along.” (Doctor high (high art, etc.)
Anthony Fauci on vaccine production during the 2019-2020 pandemic.)
high art and low art
flaws & lack of flaws: bodily reaction
I walked past ~ (New York City)
failure, accident & impairment: bodily reaction
♦ “I walked past high art and low art, past the theaters where famous
hidden people played to packed houses, past theaters where anonymous
people played with themselves.” (“In the Temple,” a chapter from All
Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg.)
hidden costs
the ~ of gambling (divorce, etc.) admiration & contempt: height
hidden enemy high (on high)
landmines, the ~
from on high
hidden epidemic there’s a clear directive ~ to investigate thoroughly
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sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: direction mind: direction
high (on a high) high-powered (adjective)
on a high high-powered law firm
he's ~ right now and will use it for motivation (victor) he has retained a ~ and says he is innocent
feeling, emotion & effect: direction power: tools & technology

high (high regard) high priest

held in high regard high priest of imperialism
he is ~ Winston Churchill, the ~ (opinion)
reputation: direction / height theory's high priest
General Petraeus, counterinsurgency ~…
high (emotion)
message / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
high
emotions are ~ high-spirited
highs and lows high-spirited
so you suffer fewer energy ~ (diet) if your child is ~, give her unstructured time
her eyes gleamed as she recalled the ~ (of her life)
it's a game of ~ (baseball)
high-spirited man
a~
emotional high feeling, emotion & effect: direction
it was an incredible ~
high tide
incredible (emotional) high
it was an ~ high tide of American greatness
the ~ has passed
get our hopes (too) high
we should not ~ extent & scope: sea / tide
feeling, emotion & effect: direction primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: sea / tide

high (enthusiasm) high-water (high-water mark)

high-water mark of student activism
real high
this was the ~ (school shootings)
it's a ~, you just get hooked (genealogy)
enthusiasm: addiction high water mark of the (Sanders) campaign
Nevada was the ~ (politics)
higher-up (person)
high-water mark of his career
pressure from higher-ups it was the ~ (sports)
the recruiters are under ~ (military)
high-water mark of partisanship
hierarchy: direction / height / person the vote was a ~ (Republicans versus Democrats)
highlight (verb) high-water mark for religious participation
1962 as the ~ in the US (Life Magazine)
highlights a tension
the dilemma ~ within the ruling elite (China) extent & scope: flood
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: flood
highlighted (major) weaknesses
the report ~ in the economy highway (iceberg highway, etc.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / verb highway
the Rhine is a ~ as much as a moat (Roman history)
high-minded (adjective) oceans are ~s rather than protective moats (geopolitics)
high-minded politician “iceberg highways”
it's hard to find a ~ one of the four major ~ that lead beyond Antarctica
high-minded project route: infrastructure
he tried to raise money for his ~ (library)
highway (my way or the highway)
character & personality: direction
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 he was a ~ guy proper name: infrastructure
allegiance, support & betrayal / control & lack of control / Himalayan (miscalculation, etc.)
unanimity & consensus: walking, running & jumping
Himalayan proportions
hijack (verb) it was a mistake of ~
hijacked the agenda size: mountains & hills
anti-Western countries have ~ (UN)
hindsight (with hindsight)
hijacked the debate
she ~ to announce her candidacy (politics) with hindsight
he said ~ he wouldn't have done it (forced to resign)
hijacked the (electoral) process
perception, perspective & point of view: direction
organized labor has ~ in Canadian provinces
past & present / time: direction / eye
hijacked the revolution
his opponents fear that he has ~ (politics)
hint (verb)
hijacking our culture and our minds hints that
how outrage is ~ (Shankar Vedantam) the study ~ the father’s age really might matter (birth)

control & lack of control: crime / verb evidence: speech / verb

taking & removing: crime / verb fictive communication: speech / verb
possession: crime / verb hint (noun)
hijacked hint of foul play
hijacked around the world there was no ~
meetings have been ~ (video-conferencing app) evidence / fictive communication: speech
hijacked by the (economic) elite hint at (verb)
government has been ~
hints at an accident
hijacked by her emotions the radioactive cloud ~ further east (radiation leak)
she let herself be ~
hints at a growing American military role
hijacked by this group the remote airstrip in Syria ~
the Republican Party has been ~ (the Tea Party)
hints at ways
control & lack of control: crime
the research ~ to stop Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
possession / taking & removing: crime
hint at where
hill (over the hill) Australian fossils ~ to search for life on Mars
over-the-hill evidence: speech / verb
♦ "He's still talented, but he's on the other side of the hill now." (An older fictive communication: speech / verb
boxer.)
hip (joined at the hip)
decline: mountains & hills
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: mountains & politically joined at the hip
hills the gay-and-lesbian and trans movements became ~
hill (difficulty) division & connection: health & medicine
psychological hill relationship: family / health & medicine
he has a ~ to climb hit (arrive)
difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / mountains & hills
hit the big time
Hilton (Fontana Hilton, etc.) he ~

Fontana Hilton hit some (real) low points

the ~, a famous shelter on the Appalachian Trail I've ~ in my life

Hanoi Hilton hit pay dirt

the ~ included Heartbreak Hotel and New Guy Village he finally ~ (a researcher)
on the fourth day, Fitch seemed to ~ (experiment)
♦ Names like these are often ironic. The Fontana Hilton is a trail hut, but
it is near the parking lot at Fontana Dam, where there are hot showers.
Those showers are much appreciated by trail walkers.
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 he managed to roll up and ~ (kayaker) the cruise industry was ~ by the pandemic
hit a plateau effect: fist / force / hitting, slamming & lashing / sensation
if you slip up or ~, don't beat yourself up (weight loss) feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / hitting, slamming &
lashing / sensation
hit the weight room
he ~ (basketball) hit (computer)
hit middle age hits on the (erotic) Web site
now that we've ~ 5 million viewer ~
adolescence hits hits a day
childrearing can be difficult, especially when ~ his Web site was getting nearly 2 million ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb viewer hits
5 million ~ on the erotic Web site
hit (hit the market, etc.)
8,000 hits
hitting the bookstores the child-pornography site recorded ~ in 24 hours
new books on women and sex are ~
5 million (viewer) hits
hit the market ~ on the erotic Web site
COVID-19 blood tests ~
computer: force
hit (long-track) speedskating
clap skates ~ in 1997-98 hit (comprehension)
inauguration: verb hit me
and then it ~, Joe was sick
hit (hit $30, etc.)
comprehension & incomprehension: force / fist / verb
hit the mid-20s
during a hard freeze, temperatures ~ for 6-8 hours hit (success)
hit the speed of sound hit
at 22,200 feet, the airplane ~ (jetliner in dive) a ~ is better than a flop (Broadway)
hit (an estimated) 140 mph hit on (Top 40) radio
winds ~ in Tennessee (tornadoes) she has a fast-rising ~
hit $30 hit play
the stock ~ before settling down to $23 (share price) his ~, "The Sunshine Boys"
attainment: number / verb hit song
recorded a ~, toured England
hit (take a hit, etc.)
hits and flops
taken a hit seeing ~ at the local movie theater;
tourism along the Gulf has ~ (oil spill) he has had ~ (film actor)
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing monster hit
/ verb the studio hasn't had a ~ since… (films)
hit (affect) TV hit
it was a smash ~ from 1959 to 1963
hit (real) hard
it ~ (a murder) Broadway hit
effect: fist / force / hitting, slamming & lashing / sensation he chalked up about a dozen ~s
/ verb fast-rising hit
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / hitting, slamming & she has a ~ on Top 40 radio
lashing / sensation / verb
success & failure: target / weapon
hit (affected)
hit (mob hit, etc.)
hit by Covid-19 and the shutdowns
when these industries were ~... (pandemic) hit job
the Bloomberg article was a ~ (against a company)
hit hard
Bosnia's fragile economy was ~ by the financial crisis political hit

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 the hearings were a ~ (politics) he was ~ (George VI)
partisan hit job hobbled for a generation
this is a ~ (political kerfuffle) the real-estate market is going to be ~
political hit job constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal /
how a ~ backfired health & medicine / leg / movement / walking, running &
conflict: crime / death & life jumping
accusation & criticism: crime / death & life Hobson's choice
hit back (verb) presented him with a Hobson's choice
hit back the crisis ~ (response to caving fatality)
prosecutors ~ in court documents (politics) ♦ Thomas Hobson was an English liveryman who required every
customer to take the horse nearest the door. It means an apparently free
resistance, opposition & defeat: fist choice when there is really no alternative.

hit it off (verb) alternatives & choices: allusion

hit it off well

hog (verb)
we ~, I didn’t really know him or his work (film actor) hog photo spots
attraction & repulsion: crashes & collisions / verb they ~ so no-one else can enjoy them (Instagram tourists)

hitter (heavy hitter) behavior: animal / verb

two heavy-hitters
hold (the future can hold something)
you have ~ meeting (Rapinoe on France vs. US soccer) holds
conflict: boxing / fist / sports & games nobody knows what the future ~
I am optimistic about what the future ~
hive (noun) getting people to prepare for what a warmer climate ~
hive hold
if the outside was dark and lonesome, the inside was a ~ so what does the future ~ for the Supreme Court
hive of activity future / time: container / verb
the marketplace is a ~
hold (long-held)
activity: insect
long-held assumptions
hives (noun) challenge ~ about…
gives people (like Kennan) hives long-held fears
his opinions ~
long-held practice
affliction: health & medicine it dropped its ~ of… (way a company orders goods)
hobble (verb) long-held principles
hobbled past (Labour) governments long-held resentments
the matter of military intervention has ~
long-held tradition
hobble the organization abandoning such a ~ is heresy
the FBI were finally able to ~ (KKK)
possession: hand
constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal /
health & medicine / leg / movement / verb / walking,
hold (verb / possession)
running, & jumping held him in its grip
hobbled the current ~
possession: hand / verb
hobbled by a (deadly) pandemic fictive possession: hand / verb
the US economy has been ~
hold (noun / possession)
hobbled by (international) sanctions
Iran has been ~ hold on power
he is trying to maintain his ~
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losing their hold feeling, emotion & effect: arm / verb
residents are ~ on the middle class (recession) hold back (obstacle)
possession: hand
held them back
fictive possession: hand
another policy that women believe ~
hold (close held, etc.)
holding you back
close held do you think I'm ~
it’s ~, only a small number of people have read this (report)
hold her back
concealment & lack of concealment: cards / gambling / the fact that she is shy needn't ~ (toddler)
sports & games / hand obstacles & impedance: arm / verb
hold (take hold) constraint & lack of constraint: arm / verb

take hold hold on (possession)

the trend could ~ in other states (declaring bankruptcy) hold on to faith
taking hold in the hell of war, how does a chaplain ~
competitive instincts are ~ (classroom) holds on to grievances
take hold in Spain he ~
when liberal ideas began to ~ held on to its role
take hold in the community the department has ~ as… (State Department)
we don't want extremist elements to ~ held on to his people's ancient religion
began to take hold Nicholas Black Elk, who ~ when it was actively suppressed
the idea ~ (Oglala)

beginning to take hold hold on to that

democracy is ~ if I ~, I’ll ever be able to move on (a boxer and a defeat)

failed to take hold possession: hand / verb

democracy has ~ hold on (survival)
growth & development: hand / verb
hold on
fictive possession: hand / verb controller said to ~ (soldiers waiting to be exfiltrated)
hold (hold something in) the Maasai won't be able to ~ much longer
~ (911 operator to 9/11 caller)
hold it in just ~, there will be tomorrow (Maria Carey)
don't ~ (emotions)
held on to win
feeling, emotion & effect: container / verb AC Milan ~ the title… (soccer)
hold (on hold) strength to hold on
I ask God to give me ~ (mother of missing kid)
on hold
negotiations are ~ survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb
his life in the sky has been ~ (crash with fatalities) resiliency: hand / verb
recovery efforts are on hold holdup (noun)
~ because of dangerous conditions (avalanches)
holdup
put our relationship on hold come on, what's the ~
we had to ~
obstacles & impedance: hand
action, inaction & delay / situation: hand action, inaction & delay: hand
hold back (restraint) hole (feeling)
hold back hole in my heart
Spike Lee did not ~ during the press conference it left a huge ~ (loss of a baby)
hold back at the United Nations hole in my life
she didn’t ~ (Greta Thunberg’s “How Dare You” speech) it left a ~ that won't ever be filled (loss of her mother)
restraint & lack of restraint: arm / verb feeling, emotion & effect: hole

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hole (flaw) and that’s where we ~ (musicians record in bedroom)
protection & lack of protection: animal / fox / ground,
security hole terrain & land / hole / verb
the break-ins exploited ~ on these systems (computers)
the ~s have now been plugged (computers) hollow (hollow promises, etc.)
gaping hole hollow promise
the case has ~s in it the joint agreement was a ~ (diplomacy)
shoot holes in the study hollow and self-serving
skeptics have been quick to ~ (science) their platform is ~ (politics)
blew a (sizable) hole in the stock hollow, cynical and inauthentic
his report ~ of the high-flying, high-tech company he is often dismissed as ~ (a politician)
flaws & lack of flaws: hole proved hollow
hole (tree hole) the pledge ~ (U.N.)
rings hollow
at a tree hole his argument ~ to many
people can post secrets for strangers to read ~ that is an argument that ~ (a bad argument)
♦ People can reveal secrets for strangers to read at several “tree hole”
sites on Weibo. sounded hollow
♦ A tree hole used for secret communication is featured in the beloved his speech ~ (president)
book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
concealment & lack of concealment: tree / materials & substances
computer: tree
hollow out (verb)
hole (situation)
hollow it out
hole of addiction the Supreme Court will reverse or ~ (Row v. Wade)
it’s easy to fall into a ~ (skateboarding)
hollow out abortion rights
job hole legal restrictions designed to ~
we’re still in a deep, deep ~ (unemployment)
attenuation / strength & weakness: tree / verb
financial hole
he had to declare bankruptcy to get out of his ~ holocaust
dug herself out of the hole nuclear holocaust
she finally ~ (financial) the spread of an ice sheet is more deadly to life than a ~
dug ourselves into a hole racial holocaust
we have ~ (budget deficit) Fidel Castro accused Paris of carrying out a "~"
♦ "The use of 'holocaust' by Mr. Castro demonstrates his ignorance of
climb out of their hole history and disdain towards its victims. Such words are unacceptable."
will they be able to ~ (losing team) (French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero, responding to
comments by Fidel Castro that France's deportation of Roma in 2010
fill in that hole amounted to a 'racial holocaust.'")
it will take a lot more jobs to ~ (unemployment)
destruction: allusion / history
♦ First law of holes: if you get in one, stop digging.

involvement / situation: container / hole

home (home of golf, etc.)
holed up home of golf
St. Andrews is the ~
holed up in his (Ramallah) compound origin: house / place
Arafat remained ~ for 2 years
home (home in Islam, etc.)
holed up in a (hotel) room
he is ~ after being attacked (a reporter abroad) home in Islam
people who found a ~
protection & lack of protection: animal / fox / ground,
terrain & land / hole protection & lack of protection: house
hole up (verb) home (home for the archive, etc.)
holed up home for the archive

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 a proper final ~ Homeric life
he wanted to live a more ~ (Classics grad joins the army)
home and away
the team plays the same game at ~ Homeric proportions
an armada of ~ invaded Sicily (World War II)
final home
a proper ~ for the archive Homeric retreat
the climbing party's ~ down K2 is legendary
future home
~ of First National Bank and Trust Homeric struggle
he lost a ~ (sculling)
permanent home
temporary premises vs. a ~ (museum) stern, erect, Homeric
whales making a ~ in the Gulf of Mexico he stood over his foe, ~ (a fight)
proper (final) home superlative: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
a ~ for the archive
home run (success)
location / place: house
home run for Ford
home (hit home) the new car has become a ~
hit home home-run line
I have a brother who's an addict so it ~ it was a ~ (a memorable line in a speech)
feeling, emotion & effect: house / verb conservation home run
effect / proximity: house / verb it was a ~ (fishery rebounds)
home (close to home) hit a home run
you ~ (successful proposal)
hit (very) close to home this is an opportunity for us to ~ (an initiative)
this has ~ (a school shooting)
success & failure: baseball / sports & games
feeling, emotion & effect / proximity: house
home (feel at home) home run (swing for a home run, etc.)
swinging for the fences
feel at home he is ~ (a restaurateur)
Americans never ~, even in their houses
swinging for a home run
felt at home Trump is ~ (final status peace in Middle East)
for the first time in his life, he ~ (athlete on team)
she had to leave her orphanage, where she had ~ success & failure: baseball / sports & games / verb
commitment & determination: baseball / sports & games /
feels at home in Japan verb
he ~ (a Latin baseball player) difficulty, easiness & effort: baseball / sports & game /
feel at home with my relatives verb
I don't ~ homestretch (noun)
feel most at home homestretch of the (US mid-term) elections
I ~ in the gym (a boxer) race-baiting allegations have mired the ~
♦ Home is where the heart is!
in the homestretch
feeling, emotion & effect / welcome: house this is crunch time, we’re ~ (election campaign)
Homeric (adjective) in the final stretch
we are ~ (election campaign)
Homeric aspirations
he left Oxford with ~ ( a politician) development / starting, going, continuing & ending: horse /
sports & games
Homeric battle
the two teams engaged in a ~ (football) homework
Homeric curse homework
he remembers the ~ of the truck drivers (Little Athens) show that you have done your ~ by… (job interview)

Homeric epic do your homework

her work is described as a ~ about… ~ before you buy…

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 ~ and don't make assumptions honey-tongued
do (all) your homework honey-tongued (m)
you try to ~ (preparing for NCY marathon)
the ~ French major
readiness & preparedness: school & education
speech: taste / tongue
hone (verb) hood (look under the hood, etc.)
honed a sense looked under the hood
he has ~ of "radical informality" (a leader)
he ~ of the Chrome web browser (privacy investigator)
hone their skills digging under the hood
they ~ in Iraq and then go elsewhere (terrorists)
they are ~ (investigators / how company operates)
hone (job) skills look under the hood to understand
as more Americans return to school to ~
Google doesn’t ~ who these companies are (trackers)
hone their technique kicking the tires, and looking under the hood
the hole is perfect for those wishing to ~ (kayaking)
Microsoft is ~ of Tik-Tok (possible merger)
develop and hone searching & discovery: engine
they practice a lot to ~ their routines (cheerleaders)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: engine
amelioration & renewal: blade / knife / verb
hook (off the hook)
honed
off the hook for now
finely honed (m) he might be ~, but… (criminal investigation)
he demonstrates ~ political instincts (a diplomat)
let him off the hook
functioning: blade / knife don't ~ (prosecutor to jury)
condition & status: blade / knife
let them off the hook
honey she likes them, but she doesn't ~
honey pursuit, capture & escape: fish / justice
hey, ~… punishment & recrimination: fish / justice
honey, baby, sweetie hook (hook, line and sinker)
he addresses me as ~ and other inappropriate names
swallowed his story hook, line and sinker
vocative: taste I~
honeymoon (noun) consumption / extent & scope: fish / food & drink
honeymoon acceptance & rejection: fish / food & drink
the ~ didn't last (teacher on job) hooked (enthusiasm)
honeymoon between the media and police hooked
the end to the ~ (leak) I started with a free trial and then I was ~ (brand)
honeymoon period hooked on (American) TV
his ~ is clearly over (an elected official) he got ~ (diplomat's son)
voter honeymoon hooked on social media or even an unboxing video
he still basks in a ~ (a politician) kids who are ~
end to the honeymoon completely hooked
the ~ between the news media and police (leak) I got ~ on viruses (a scientist)
honeymoon didn’t last get hooked
at first things were great, but the ~ (a new teacher) when you're a young musician you ~ on a phrase
♦ “She wasn’t prepared for the honeymoon shocker... a snoring spouse.”
♦ “She disappeared on their honeymoon in Jordan.”
got hooked
he ~ on the game (Cow Clicker)
conflict: love, courtship & marriage ♦ "I love maps, and when you get hooked, you get hooked." (W. Graham
feeling, emotion & effect: love, courtship & marriage Arader III, a preeminent map dealer of old American maps.)

enthusiasm: addiction / fish

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hook up (connect) hop (hop across, etc.)
hooked up with Lashkar-e-Taiba hopped the ocean
through friends in Durham, he ~ (group) it has now ~ and arrived in Latin America (banana fungus)
division & connection: tools & technology / verb transmission: movement / verb / walking, running &
jumping
hook up (relationship)
horde (people)
hook up with her
I might ~ sometime later down the road internet horde
he and the ~ discovered this and... (conspiracy theorists)
hooked up with her ex-boyfriend
♦ This originally referred to groups of Asian nomads, for example, the
rumors that she might have ~
Golden Horde.
hooked up with a friend amount / group, set & collection: history
he ~ who... (camping)
horizon (on the horizon)
hook up online
as more people ~ (long-distance relationships) on the horizon
there's no miracle cure ~
social interaction: tools & technology
a solution is not yet ~ (nuclear waste)
hookup (sex) with the threat of a war ~ (with Iran)
a wedding is ~, she says… (celebrity)
hookup American sanctions are ~ (diplomacy)
~s are happening while on the job (sex) what’s next ~ for you (question to a celebrity)
with a ~, it's about instant gratification (young woman)
on the immediate horizon
hookup in Japan children are not ~ (an actor)
a ~ is called a take-out (sex)
see the collapse on the horizon
homosexual hook-ups we can ~
the Minneapolis airport is known as a site for ~
see anything on the horizon
site for (homosexual) hookups I don't ~ (a change in the law in the future)
the Minneapolis airport is known as a ~
future / time: distance / eye / horizon / sky
sex: tools & technology
horizon (expand one's horizons)
hoop (jump through hoops, etc.)
expand his horizons
cumbersome bureaucratic hoops he wanted to ~ (oilman working in Nigeria)
you have to jump through ~ and wait days (healthcare)
experience: earth & world / horizon / sky
jump through hoops
they make you ~ to get a good rate (banks)
horizon (extent and scope)
jump through (superhuman) hoops widening (strategic) horizons
you must ~ to become “one of the good ones” (immigrants) the naval deploy is a clear sign of Iran's ~ (the Med)

obstacles & impedance: circus / sports & games / verb extent & scope: horizon / sky
difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / sports & games / verb horn (shape)
hoover (hoover up, etc.) Horn of Africa
hoovering up talent over 90 million people inhabit the ~
big clubs have been ~ Cape Horn
taking & removing: mechanism / verb the ~ is at the southern end of South America

hop (verb) shape: animal / horn

hopping horn (Horn of Africa, etc.)

the stockyards were ~ during the war (Chicago) Horn of Africa
the city of Memphis is ~ this month (civic festivals) over 90 million people inhabit the ~
activity: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
Cape Horn
the ~ is at the southern end of South America

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bedrock of the Horn horse (switch horses)
Eritrea and Ethiopia are the ~
switched horses
Horn moves progressive school reformers have ~ (tactics)
Eritrea and Ethiopia are the pole around which the ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / horse / verb
proper name: animal / horn
horse (high horse)
horn (lock horns)
judgmental high horse
lock horns people are quick to jump on the ~
former champions ~, they are to go head to head (Scrabble)
superiority & inferiority: animal / horse
lock horns with (the inexperienced) Zelensky
Poroshenko would love to ~ (a debate) horse (back the wrong horse)
locked horns in the debate backed the wrong horse
the three leaders ~ he ~, Clinton trounced Bush (John Major)
lock horns in (television) debate allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / gambling / horse /
assembly candidates ~ verb
lock horns over spy charges horse-trading
China and US ~
horse-trading
lock horns over whether this ~ is disgraceful (politics)
Betty and Mark ~ Bono should... (TV)
position, policy & negotiation: horse / money
locked horns on the economy
Labour and Conservative politicians ~ (BBC debate) host (host of questions, etc.)
lock horns with him over whether host of questions
they will ~ LSD allows access to a deeper reality Democrats have a whole ~
(discussion) amount: military
Oxford and Cambridge lock horns hostage (held hostage)
live coverage as ~ (Boat Race)
conflict: animal / head / horn / verb held hostage to the unions
the city is ~ (transportation unions)
hornet's nest
held hostage to (political) posturing
hornet's nest of (antiaircraft) fire reform has been ~
the Apache helicopters ran into a ~ (Iraq)
held hostage by the (culinary) canon
hornet's nest of (surface-to-surface) missile he is not ~ (a chef)
Baghdad's air defenses were a ~
held hostage by (union) demands
hornet's nest of (local) politics public education is ~
he stepped into a ~ and got stung (President)
held hostage by elites
poke a stick in the hornet’s nest democracy is ~ (Africa)
what we did was to ~ (investigation)
held hostage by politicians
stumbled into a hornet’s nest we're being ~ who don't know how we survive
she ~ (criticised transgender athletes)
held hostage by (politically powerful) interest groups
activity / environment: animal / insect their budgets are ~ (universities)
conflict /danger: animal / insect constraint & lack of constraint: crime / verb
horse (hold your horses) hostage (other)
hold your horses
~, we got it right here… (a good boxing show)
hostage to (larger) forces
architecture is always ~ (high-rise success or failure)
eagerness & reluctance: animal / horse / verb
control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb
holding us hostage
the weather is ~ (emergency response)
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 don't ~ to your own fears (reaction to terrorism) person: head / temperature
behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
constraint & lack of constraint: crime
control / feeling, emotion & effect: head / person /
hot (controversial) temperature
hotheaded (adjective)
hot
the issue has gotten so ~ that... hotheaded (political) aspirant
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature he's a ~

hot (activity) hotheaded ways

he was known for his ~
hottest (real estate) markets behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
during the housing boom, Florida was the ~ in the world
control / feeling, emotion & effect: head / temperature
hot mike
she was caught on a ~
hothouse (noun)
hot mic musical hothouse
a ~ caught the candidates trading accusations the Dominican Republic is a ~
~s are just a hot mess (Nato meeting embarrassment) growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
a ~ picked up his remarks about... (TV commentator) creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant
hottest trends hotly
cryotherapy has become one of the ~ in health and wellness
hotly anticipated (m)
activity: temperature
boxing fans look forward to the ~ rematch
hotbed (noun) hotly debated
hotbed of racism this question has been ~ for decades
stereotypes of Mississippi as a ~ (civil-rights activists) hotly contested (m)
hotbed of revolt BASE jumping is a ~ issue (Yosemite Valley)
the region has been a ~ hotly disputed (m)
hotbed of extremism nuclear reactor safety is a ~ issue
a reputation as a ~ (a university) feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
hotbed for al Qaeda activity hot seat (noun)
Yemen is a ~
in a hot seat
hotbed of volcanic activity the CEO of Boeing is back ~ on Capitol Hill (crashes)
Iceland is a ~
in the hotseat with regulators
cyclo-cross hotbed Facebook is also ~ because...
New England is a ~ (bicycling)
accusation & criticism: crime / electricity / temperature
reputation as a hotbed
it has a ~ of extremism (a Saudi university) hotshot (noun)
♦ A hotbed is a garden enclosed by glass and fertilized with manure. In
such an environment plants grow rapidly. hotshot
he's a ~
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
hot-shot (account) executive
hot dog (person) a~
♦ This word may refer to the old military practice of heating cannonballs
hot dog before firing. Such cannonballs could set on fire wooden targets like
he's a ~ siege engines, ships, etc.

character & personality: dog / person / temperature behavior: hunting / person / weapon
hothead (person) character & personality: hunting / person / weapon
hotspot (place)
hothead
he's a ~ hotspot for celebrities
L.A.'s newest ~
message for the hotheads
here’s a ~ in the community (stand-your-ground killing) L.A.'s (newest) hotspot

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 ~ for celebrities enthusiasm: dog / hunting / person
Hollywood hotspot hounded (dogged)
she stays clear of ~s
hounded by investigators and the media
disease hotspot he has been ~
the Lyme ~ was a goldmine of research
affliction: animal / dog / hunting
surfing hotspot pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting
they have turned Yakutat, Alaska into a ~
hour (finest hour)
skateboarding hot spot
the Tampa Bay area is a ~ finest hour in England
this was his ~ (soccer player scores important goal)
global hotspot
the Congo basin is a ~ for thunderstorms (meteorology) superlative / time: hour

newest hotspot hour (timeliness)

L.A.'s ~ for celebrities
hour
piracy hotspot the ~ is getting late
the Gulf of Guinea is the world’s most dangerous ~
early hours
turned Yakutat into a (surfing) hotspot I know it’s ~ but...
they have ~ (Alaska) eleventh hour
activity / location / place: temperature why did she wait until the ~ to reveal this
it’s disingenuous to wait until the ~ (politics)
hot water (in hot water) they didn’t bring this to us until the ~ (labor talks)
in hot water with my dad 11th-hour
I'm ~ Samra made no ~ appeals to the court (executed)
in hot water with that woman golden hour
I'm already ~ (an authority figure) a clock starts ticking on what is called the ~
the "~", when life can hang in the balance
in hot water for the crime
he now finds himself ~ "Golden Hour"
if treatment is available within the first ~ of injury
in judicial hot water
she finds herself ~ hour is getting late
so let us stop talking falsely now, the ~
finds himself in hot water
he now ~ time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: hour
gotten in hot water hour (of one's hour / of the hour)
he has ~ lately for his tweets (auto executive)
question of the hour
landed him in hot water women suffrage was the burning ~ (late 1860s)
his unapologetic remarks on issues have frequently ~
past & present / time: day
situation: heating water / temperature / water primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
hot water (into hot water) hourglass (shape)
get me into hot water hourglass figure
my pride and stubbornness ~ once in a while the ~ shape
situation: heating water / temperature / water shape: clock / tools & technology
hound (autograph hound, etc.) hourglass (time)
autograph hound hourglass
an ~ the sand is running through the ~ (approaching deadline)
publicity hound timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
a pack of bizarre ~s (public meetings) time: mechanism
pack of (bizarre publicity) hounds
a ~ (public meetings)

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house (a house in order) configuration: flying & falling / verb

fiscal house
hover (other)
we must get our ~ in order hover
put your house in order the batterer may ~ and refuse to leave the patient (ED)
~ before you condemn others hovers
get its house in order the fear that he might recognize me still ~
the church must ~ (pedophile priests) hovered behind her
amelioration & renewal: house her manager ~ protectively

house (hype house) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: flying & falling
/ movement / verb
this hype house
this ~ is leaning into the campaign in a big way howl (noun)
group, set & collection: house howl of pain
attention, scrutiny & promotion: house that ~ has a vent through the ballot box (democracies)
house (clean house) heard the (same) howls
we ~ in the 1980s (amateurism and sports)
cleaning house
she is ~ and stopping harassment and discrimination resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / sound
speech: animal / sound
mandate to clean house sound: animal
the new police chief has a clear public ~
howl (verb)
on a mission to clean house
somebody who’s ~ howl
why didn't liberals ~ when…
need to clean house
we ~ howling about the (new pricing) policy
people are ~ (airline fees)
♦ Michele Rhee was an educational crusader. As chancellor of the
Washington, D.C. school system, she was given a mandate to "clean
house." She appeared on the cover of Time Magazine with a broom. But
howling in protest
community members felt like they had been compared to dirt, and she people are ~
ended up having to resign her position.
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / sound / verb
amelioration & renewal: house / hygiene / verb speech: animal / sound / verb
disruption: house / hygiene / verb sound: animal / verb
house (origin) hub (center)
royal house hub of (contemporary Middle East) painting
his descent from a ~, the Ranas (India) Damascus has evolved into a ~
origin: house / royalty hub airport
house of cards he is the security chief at a major ~
narcotics hub
house of cards
Guinea-Bissau has become a global ~ (cocaine)
her ~ was about to collapse (Holmes of Theranos)
transit hub
Enron's house of cards
the UAE is a business and tourist center as well as a ~
~ began to disintegrate (bankrupt company)
publishing hub
house of cards collapses
lower Manhattan is re-emerging as a ~
the whole ~ and the entire statute falls (Supreme Court)
substance & lack of substance: cards / house shopping hub
the Fulton Street Mall is an eclectic ~
hover (numbers)
commercial hub
hovers at (around) 70% protestors occupied the ~ of Bangkok (2010)
unemployment ~ in winter (reservation)
financial hub
temperatures hovered Warsaw has become a ~
in July 1995, when ~ around 100 degrees (Chicago) center & periphery: mechanism

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location / place / shape: mechanism allegiance, support & betrayal: atmosphere / clothing &
hub (branching system) accessories

hub-and-spoke (m)
hunger (noun)
the ~ model is out of favor (airlines) hunger to escape
smuggling hub an aching ~ the loneliness and boredom (teen)
Atlanta is a major ~ (US) hunger to succeed
branching system: mechanism he has a ~ (an foreign athlete in US)

hug (configuration) hunger for (snake) meat

the ~ is a country-wide phenomenon (China)
hugs the cliff
the trail ~, 70 feet above the sea, and is very dangerous hunger for opportunity
they have a ~ (Samoans in NFL)
hug the (Mediterranean) coast
beaches that ~ (Egypt) hunger for the profits
the ~ from arctic oil (Canada)
hugs a mountainside
the Poomau Ditch Trail ~ (Kauai, Hawaii / hiking) hunger for revenge
ways people can peaceably satiate their ~
configuration: arm / verb
hunger for a better life
huge (significant) a gnawing ~ (Ellis Island)

huge nation’s hunger

I knew this was ~, this was so big (photojournalist) our sports-starved ~ for baseball (during pandemic)
importance & significance: size aching hunger
an ~ to escape the loneliness and boredom (teen)
hum (hum along)
gnawing hunger
humming along a ~ for a better life (Ellis Island)
the team just keeps ~
the economy has been ~ hunger and desire
the ~ which has driven them (Manchester City win treble)
functioning: mechanism / sound / verb ♦ “The mental adjustment took longer. It was a continual surprise to
activity: mechanism / sound / verb encounter no queues at food shops—‘like a man who braces himself to
condition & status: mechanism / sound / verb pick up a heavy suitcase,’ wrote Ginzburg, ‘and finds it empty.’ The
words ‘I’m hungry,’ recently so charged with desperation and despair,
hum (noun) only slowly reverted to their old function of expressing an ordinary desire
for lunch.” (Leningrad by the great writer Anna Reid.)
hum ♦ “It is a fact that if you are hungry and you see somebody eating
the ~ is incessant (emergency room / NYC) something you would like to have your teeth in too, spit will flood to your
mouth and you will swallow to make a noise. That noise Shani made as I
watched her. Then I saw her eyes, and they were on my can. / ‘Why no
hum of activity home for dinner to-day?’ I asked her... / Next morning I went to school
from the vast Allied camp rose a mounting ~ with my can packed tight... Not a word from my mother, only a little smile.
/ So Shani and me sat together to have dinner every day in my mother’s
activity: animal / insect / mechanism / sound smile...” (How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.)

hump (noun) ♦ “We will made do. Everyone will have a little bit.” (Abdul Aziz, 63, of
Dhaka, Bangladesh, disappointed that his money could not buy more
beans and cauliflower for his family.)
get over that hump
♦ “He who eats his fill while his neighbor goes without food is not a
we need to ~ (a sports team) believer.”

get people over the hump wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
he was an elite player who could ~ (Michael Jordan)
hungry
obstacles and impedance: direction / infrastructure /
shape hungry
I was ~, ready... (Bruno in ring waiting for Tyson)
hung (hung out to dry)
hungry for sex
hung out to dry they are ~ (ad for porn site on Web)
he feels like he’s been ~ women were assumed to be just as ~ as men (1700s)
gets hung out to dry hungry for new talent
he does it and he ~ (CIA operator) Hollywood is constantly ~

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hungry for attention or sympathy ~ on Sunday (sign)
parents ~ abuse their kids
frustrating hunt
hungry spiritually a setback in their ~ for the sniper (D.C. area)
I’m ~ (defies pandemic to go to church)
setback in their (frustrating) hunt
hungry-eyed (m) a ~ for the sniper (D.C. area)
he would stay there, ~
continue the hunt
celebrity-hungry (m) investigators ~ for the hackers behind the virus
a ~ electorate
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
content-hungry (m) hunt down (verb)
programming for ~ cable networks
Internet-hungry (m) hunted down his critics
~ investors he ~ (Turkish President)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
power-hungry (m)
another ~ self-seeker (a politician) hunter (plants)
publicity-hungry hunters for ginseng
the ~ D.C. lobbyist (a person) the first Chinese who appeared in the region were ~
publicity hungry ginseng hunter
prosecutors in his own office described him as ~ a~
stay hungry mushroom hunter
~, stay foolish (Steve Jobs / Apple Computer) thousands of species are collected by amateur ~s
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink ~s all have their secret places (France);
~s are wise to stay away from the Amanita species
consumption: food & drink
eagerness & reluctance: food & drink pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / person
hunt (in the hunt) person: hunting
hunter (other)
in the hunt for the championship
they could be ~ (sports team) bargain hunter
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting the souk is a ~'s delight (Sharjah City)

hunt (verb) job hunter

~s are searching globally
hunted for his sock
he ~
house hunter
some of these ~s were asked…
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
relic hunter
hunt (noun) ~s have dug and taken artifacts (Civil War battlefield)

hunt for a Northwest Passage souvenir hunter

Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 ~ ~s elbowing each other aside

hunt for the hackers treasure hunter

investigators continue the ~ behind the virus ship's loot unearthed by ~s
historical researchers and ~s
hunt for the sniper
a setback in their frustrating ~ (D.C. area) pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / person
person: hunting
talent hunt
the ~ (to fuel the new economy) hurdle (noun)
title hunt hurdle
eliminated early from the ~ (NASCAR) it was a difficult ~ to overcome

treasure hunt procedural hurdles

most ~s are scams put ~ in the way of…

Easter Egg Hunt technological hurdle

there are a lot of ~s (medicine)

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hurdles remain husband (verb)
~ in restarting power at the plant
husbanded that character
running into some hurdles he ~ for five years (killed off in TV show)
marine-energy developers are ~
directing: animal / verb
clear the (first major) hurdle
they are sounding hopeful that they will ~ hurtle (verb)
cleared the first hurdle hurtled from project to project
she has ~ of her bid to serve again as speaker (vote) he has ~ at a rapid clip (a filmmaker)
cleared all of the hurdles movement: force / verb
they had ~ (opposition candidates) force: movement / verb
obstacles & impedance: sports & games / walking, running husk (noun)
& jumping
husk of its former self
hurl (verb) the company is a ~ (General Electric)

hurling accusations (of racism) at anyone substance & lack of substance: plant
he has been ~ who dares criticize him (politician) hymn (noun)
hurling (rare) charges
Egyptian media were ~ of negligence (against military)
hymn to the beauty
the film is a ~ of endless prairies (Lakota Indian country)
throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
hymn to the wild at heart
hurrah (and hoorah, etc.) the play is a ~

great hurrah reverence: religion

I wanted to wish you a ~ (John Major to George HW Bush) hymnal (noun)
hoorahs for his discovery 2016 hymnal
before the ~ had entirely died away... (Fritz Schaudinn) his platform is chapter and verse from the ~ (Bernie)
achievement, recognition & praise: sound script: religion
hurricane (noun) hyperdrive (into hyperdrive)
hurricane of notes kicked into hyperdrive
she’ll peel off a ~ (guitarist Sarah Louise Henson) at that point the investigation really ~ (cold case)
♦ “You could say that ‘Hurricane Impeachment’ remains a category four
or five storm that is still well offshore and moving in an erratic direction went into hyperdrive
very very slowly.” (Ron Elving, NPR, Week in Politics, Weekend Edition,
Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, right after Hurricane Dorian.)
the aggressive South Korean media ~

amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind activity: mechanism

activity: air / atmosphere / storm / wind speed: astronomy

hurt (feeling and emotion) hypnotize (verb)

hurt my feelings hypnotized the world
she ~ Israel has ~ (according to Ilhan Omar)
control & lack of control: magic
hurt you
what’s her name, the woman who ~...
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation /
verb
I
hurting ice (on thin ice)
hurting on thin ice
small businesses are clearly ~ (economy) you're ~, buddy… (warning)
she had been ~ for more than a year (fired)
condition & status: health & medicine he was on ~ because... (Secretary of Labor resigns)
skating on thin ice
I was ~ with my cholesterol (heart attack)

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fate, fortune & chance: snow & ice only the tip of the iceberg
reported incidents may be ~ (child abuse)
ice (put on ice / constrained)
only the small tip of the iceberg
put on ice what you see here is ~ (repository of poached animals)
he was ~ (a news executive)
just the tip of the iceberg
constraint & lack of constraint: snow & ice / temperature
this is ~
ice (put on ice / delayed) amount / appearance & reality: snow & ice
put on ice during the war substance & lack of substance: snow & ice
it had been ~ (Churchill’s History) ice-cold
action, inaction & delay: snow & ice / temperature ice-cold revenge
ice (break the ice) he dished out ~ on his enemies

break the ice grew ice-cold

he uses humor to ~ their relationship ~
once you ~, you got a new friend feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature
break the ice with audiences icon (graphic)
she used humor to ~
icons on your camera
break the ice with someone strange ~
dancing is a way to ~
sign, signal, symbol: religion
break the ice by getting
the game is meant to ~ party guests out of their shoes icon (symbol)
(Twister)
icon
helps break the ice the cup of tea is a great ~ (for England)
her friendly, confident demeanor ~ (female soldier)
icons of America
♦ “You need a way to actually break the grass and start a conversation.”
(The wonderful Hafida Hdoubane, first female Moroccan mountain guide, 3 ~ are alive and well (buffalo / eagle / Native Americans)
who leads groups of foreign women that meet Moroccan women, who
are historically famous for their shyness. It is possible there is more icons of democracy
grass than ice in Morocco, even in the Atlas Mountains.) ~ are targets for terrorists (Washington, D.C.)
division & connection: snow & ice / temperature / verb icon of fall
feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature / verb the plump, round, orange ~ (the pumpkin)
amelioration & renewal: snow & ice / temperature / verb
icon of broadcast news
iceberg (the tip of the iceberg) Ted Koppel is an ~
the tip of the iceberg icon of American mobility
reported incidents may be only ~ (child abuse) Greyhound has long been an ~ (bus company)
all we know so far is ~ (investigation);
the disclosures so far are merely ~ (pedophiles) icon of the (body positivity) movement
this is just ~ she is an ~ (Lizzo)
what we’re seeing here may be just ~ (vaping deaths)
icon of a failed state
what we’re seeing is ~ (COVID-19 cases)
anarchy has made Somalia an ~
the tip of the iceberg of potential
icon of (American) popular culture
we're just at ~ (wasps trained to detect things)
the Barbie doll has become an ~
the tip of the iceberg of (secret) warfare
icon to black journalists
the affair is just ~ the US is waging in Pakistan
he was an ~ (Ed Bradley / 60 Minutes)
the tip of the pollination iceberg
icon in the pantheon
bees are just ~
Kirk Douglas will always be an ~ of Hollywood
the tip of the fiscal iceberg
icon status
Wisconsin is just ~ (states facing deficits)
Ali had achieved ~ by then (the boxer)
merely the tip of the iceberg
Australian icon
the disclosures so far are ~ (pedophiles in education)
a virtually sacred ~, the Surf Life Saver

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Australia's (national) icon iconic look
~ (the Koala) it just happened to become an ~ (Addicted to Love video)
cartoon icons iconic (Trestles) surf break
~ like Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, the Roadrunner the road project could ruin the ~
film icon representation: picture / religion
large portraits of silent-movie ~s sign, signal, symbol: picture / religion
film “icon” iconoclasm (noun)
he was an unforgettable actor and a ~ (Kirk Douglas)
nurtured her iconoclasm
pop icon her parents encouraged her ambitions and ~ (musician)
America's biggest ~ (Michael Jackson)
idea: religion
hip-hop icon sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
Lee Iacocca did commercials with ~ Snoop Dogg
iconoclast (person)
two icons
Kobe and Dwyane, ~ of American sport (NBA) iconoclast
he was an ~, willing to buck the tide (Bernard Rimland)
American icon
quotes from this ~ (Mark Twain) iconoclast of (American architecture
the teenage rebel, the quintessential ~ (adolescence) he was an ~

cultural icon iconoclast of the group

taco trucks, ~s and social magnets in Mexico (and US) he was the ~

gay icon advertising iconoclast

Madonna is widely considered to be a ~ the ~ Ted Chin spoke at the conference

heroic icon political iconoclast

Nimitz was a ~ of W.W. II he has a history of being a ~ (eccentric governor)
idea: religion
international icon
McDonald's is an ~ sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion
person: religion
mainstream icons iconoclastic (adjective)
Net culture prides itself on scoffing at ~
national icon irreverent, anti-authoritarian and iconoclastic
Australia's ~ (the Koala) ~ (Mad magazine)
idea: religion
sacred (Australian) icon
a virtually ~, the Surf Life Saver sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

career as an advertising icon

identity crisis
a reborn ~ (Hakman) Azerbaijan's (current) identity crisis
quotes from this (American) icon the issue reflects ~
~ (Mark Twain) Belgian identity crisis
become an icon the ~ hit new heights (rumor Flanders succeeded)
the Barbie doll has ~ of American popular culture identity & nature: mental illness
representation: picture / religion / sign, signal, symbol idolized
sign, signal, symbol: picture / religion
idolized and demonized
iconic (adjective) he has been alternately ~ by the press (a boxer)
iconic doll importance & significance / reverence: religion
Raggedy Ann, the 86-year-old ~
ignite (verb)
iconic figure
he was an ~, an old-school reporter ignite a (larger) conflagration
Somalia could ~ across the Horn of Africa
iconic image
~s of the Holocaust ignited a (robust) debate
it has become an ~ of his lack of connection (Bush) the conflict in Lebanon has ~ on jihadist Web sites

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ignited fear illuminate their motives
the attack ~ among its Muslim worshippers a biographical detail that may ~ but…
ignite a revolution analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark / verb
he tried to ~ in New York City's schools (education) comprehension & lack of comprehension: light & dark /
verb
ignite another war
the clash showed how a small spark could ~ illuminating (adjective)
ignites competition and conflict illuminating insight
the need for recognition and power ~ (schools) the new study provides an ~ into what's going on
ignited and fueled illuminating window
opposition was ~ by the church (innovation) the case is an ~ into the pitfalls of capital punishment
initiation: fire / verb analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark
starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb comprehension & lack of comprehension: light & dark
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.)
illustrate (verb)
Japanese Iliad
the classic Heike monogatari, sometimes called the ~ illustrates a conundrum
the story ~
epithet: books & reading / Iliad & Odyssey
evidence: picture / verb
ill (ills of society, etc.) characterization: picture / verb
ills of (American) society fictive communication: picture / verb
the candidates offered solutions for the ~ (debate) illustration (noun)
corruption: health & medicine illustration of (tobacco's) consequences
illegitimate (adjective) a vivid ~

denounce federal authority as illegitimate illustration of the gap

this is yet another ~ between the king and…
they ~ (militias)
worth & lack of worth: family classic illustration
Sarajevo was a ~ of how an agreement can be reached
illiterate (adjective)
vivid illustration
illiterate in math and science ~s of tobacco's consequences
many students are ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
financially illiterate characterization / evidence: picture
leaders and their economic advisors are ~ imbibe (verb)
historically illiterate
imbibe culture
his strategy is shallow, proud, and ~ (diplomacy)
there are new places to ~ (Harlem)
rhetorically illiterate
she is ~
imbibe new ideas
they ~ from the locals
scientifically illiterate
imbibed his love
many students leave school ~
I read about Thaddeus Kosciusko and ~ of liberty
financially and economically illiterate
imbibe the author's views
many Americans are ~ and pay the price
they will read this story and gradually ~
♦ “Beware, Monsieur, of the memory of the illiterate man!” (“The Bull That
Thought” by Rudyard Kipling.) absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb
ability & lack of ability: books & reading consumption: food & drink / verb

illuminate (verb) imbibed

illuminates imbibed from my seniors
research info that sometimes mystifies as much as it ~ views of frontier policy I had ~ (military)
absorption & immersion / consumption: food & drink
illuminated the lives
for 14 centuries the Holy Qur'an has ~ of Muslims

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immerse (verb) immune to it
I've had to deal with so much, I'm ~
immersed himself in books
he ~ about the financial collapse immune from terrorism
no country is ~ in today's world
immerse yourself in Indian culture
~ at the Fairmont, Jaipur, a five-star hotel remained (largely) immune
until this week the capital ~ to the violence (Syria)
immersed herself in each project
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine
she ~
immersed himself in his work
immunity (noun)
for more than a decade, he ~ immunity
immersed myself in the (Eisenhower) papers Iran has no ~ anywhere (Israel strikes Iran sites in Syria)
I ~ (researcher) immunity from prosecution
immerse yourself in the culture she requested ~
you try to ~ (anthropology) diplomatic immunity
absorption & immersion: verb / water Mr. Qaddafi was not arrested because he has ~
involvement: verb / water psychological immunity
immersed experience of painful feelings can help kids develop ~

immersed in Chinese granted immunity

the kids spend every other day ~ (charter school) he was ~ from prosecution in exchange for…

absorption & immersion: water protection & lack of protection: health & medicine
involvement: water impact (affect)
immersion impacted New Mexico
immersion in English how COVID-19 has ~
only ~ has proved successful (vs. bilingual ed) effect: force / sensation / verb
immersion in the (stenographic) record feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation / verb
his ~ of… (a historian) impact (effect)
English immersion economic impact
the most effective instruction is ~ the ~ of these latest tariffs
Virginia, has chosen ~ (vs. bilingual ed)
~ is more effective than bilingual education high-impact
it’s considered a ~ journal
absorption & immersion / involvement: water
what weather forecasters are calling a ~ event (storms)
immortal (person) effect: force / sensation
medical immortal feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation
Fritz Schaudinn, a ~ impacted (affected)
superlative: person / religion financially impacted
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion half of all households have been ~ by coronavirus
importance & significance: religion
effect: force / sensation
immovable (adjective) feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation
budge impasse (noun)
the negotiators won’t ~
moral impasse
resistance, opposition & defeat: movement
psychiatry is stuck in a kind of ~
position, policy & negotiation: movement
commitment & determination: movement obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips / movement
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement
immune (adjective)
implode (verb)
immune to cold
the natives seemed ~ implode violently
the repressive regime might now ~ or lash out

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life imploded all-in on the outrage
and then my ~ (diplomat falsely accused of pedophilia) I was ~ (viral video, regrets later)
destruction: explosion / physics / verb all in for fight night
Las Vegas is ~ (Fury vs. Wilder)
impotence (weakness)
all-in kind of defense
political impotence he wanted a loud, clear ~ (Edward Snowden)
corporate greed, entertainment addiction and ~ (the US)
all-in moment
functioning: health & medicine
her ~ comes in 1989 (magazine editor)
strength & weakness: health & medicine
attenuation / force: health & medicine allegiance, support & betrayal / commitment &
determination: cards / gambling / prep, adv, adj, particle
impotent (adjective)
in (situation)
impotent to stop
our leaders were ~ the series of crises in
functioning: health & medicine I emphasize with the situation that he found himself ~
strength & weakness: health & medicine situation: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
attenuation / force: health & medicine
in (in deep, etc.)
imprimatur
in it
given its imprimatur everybody in town knew who was ~ (civil-rights murder)
the UN has ~ to the policy
in deep with a gang
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion she is ~
imprint (noun) involvement: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
imprint on the Japanese incandescent (character)
deflation has left a deep ~
incandescent (18-year-old Barnard College) freshman
imprint of his (chief) speechwriter she was an ~ (Tessa Majors)
the words bore the strong ~ (presidential speech)
superlative: electricity / fire / light & dark / temperature
impression: mark character & personality: electricity / fire / light & dark /
in (currency) temperature
incendiary (speech)
in this year
long skirts are ~ incendiary comment
that’s an ~
‘in thing’
not long ago Osaka was the latest ~ to blow in (vs. Gauff) incendiary invective
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / politics is filled with ~
prep, adv, adj, particle incendiary post
in (inclusion) what triggered the uproar was an ~ at a Website
incendiary (political) rhetoric
in the shootings caused a backlash against ~
they voted him ~
incendiary call to arms
acceptance & rejection: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
she made an ~ for people to resist Washington
inclusion & exclusion: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
speech: fire / temperature
in (all in) feeling, emotion & effect: fire / temperature
all in initiation: fire / temperature
everybody’s ~, everyone wants everyone to be great (coach) incendiary (other)
all in with the players incendiary
he has gone ~ (a football coach) the situation in the south is ~ (rebellion)
all in with President Trump incendiary issue
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politically incendiary (m)
the organization has made some ~ missteps
initiation: fire / temperature
incestuous (adjective)
incestuous
academia is ~ (peer review, smallness, etc.)
incestuous alliance
the union is an ~ between public officials and labor
incestuous relationship
the scandal revealed an ~ of lobbyists and politicians
the web of ~s is troubling (stock analysts, the media)
super-incestuous (m)
the Beltway is a ~ zone (Washington politics)
ingrown, incestuous (m)
she represented a very ~ culture in that institution
♦ “Sixty-eight percent of tweets between journalists who work at The
Washington Post, NPR, [and the] New York Times... are to each other.”
(“How Journalists Congregating Into ‘Microbubbles’ Affects Quality Of
News Reporting,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 12, 2020.)
relationship: family
incoming (criticism)
incurable (adjective)
incurable optimist
I used to be an ~, but... (an Iraqi)
character & personality: health & medicine
identity & nature: health & medicine
indebted
indebted to them
my work is tremendously ~ (an author about other writers)
obligation: money
indelible (adjective)
indelible mark
he left an ~ on the world around him (Luke Howard)
she’s made an ~ on Morgan County (tragedy)
terrorism has left an ~ on his presidency (9/11)
his trip to Sri Lanka left an ~ on him (Chekhov)
indelible stain
doping left an ~ on his record (sports)
survival, persistence & endurance: mark
inebriate (verb)

incoming from both Republicans and Democrats inebriated both parties

his political fantasy has ~ (that victory is total)
Facebook should expect ~ (Congressional hearing)
restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol / verb
accusation & criticism: explosion / military / weapon
behavior: alcohol / verb
incubator (noun) inertia (noun)
incubators of despair
years of inertia
the refugee camps have become ~
environmentalists blame the government for ~
incubator of espionage starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
the campus is an ~ (free flow of ideas)
progress & lack of progress: movement
incubator of innovation action, inaction & delay: movement
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an ~ infancy (in infancy)
incubator for (left-wing) talent in its infancy
his show was an ~ on the air (TV)
the field is ~
incubator for France’s top talent ecosystem forecasting is ~
the elite Ecole Nationale d’Adminstration (ENA) is an ~ in late 1862 photography was ~ (Mathew Brady)
scientists point out the research is ~ (medicine)
incubator for terrorists
the religious school is an ~ (Indonesia) growth & development: baby / death & life

business incubator infancy (other)

a ~ helps new and startup companies infancy of our DNA testing
back in 2000, that was the ~ (wrongfully convicted)
meme incubator
it’s a ~ (TikTok) stock car racing’s infancy
those hellish days of ~
talent incubator
the art gallery has emerged as a top ~ (Damascus) growth & development: baby / death & life

technology incubator infant (noun)

the zone is one of three ~s in the state (New Jersey)
infant market
environment / growth & development: bird nurture the ~ (e-publishing)
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growth & development: baby / death & life infectious smile
we will miss his ~ and love for football (murdered player)
infatuated (enthusiasm)
transmission: health & medicine
infatuated with social networking
young adults are ~ infest (verb)
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage infested the country
bands of guerillas ~ (US Civil War)
infect (computers)
infest both sides
infected (industrial) computers bandits ~ of the border
the Stuxnet worm ~ in Iran
♦ “Clichés, like cockroaches in the cupboard, quickly infest a careless
computer: health & medicine / verb mind.” (“Orwell on Writing: ‘Clarity is the Remedy’” by Lawrence Wright,
NPR, All Things Considered, Sept. 22, 2006.)
infect (corrupt) affliction: insect / verb
infected every corner infested
criminality has ~ of the government
infested by German U-boats
infected our culture a North Atlantic ~ in February 1942 (film Greyhound)
narcissism and exhibitionism have ~
bomb-infested (m)
infect the knowledge the marines are trying to control a ~ stretch of road (Iraq)
a misconception can ~ associated with it
crime-infested (m)
infected the (educational) system the ~ streets of Baltimore
the disease of grade inflation has ~
drug-infested (m)
infecting the (entire) system people who live in ~ neighborhoods
he is a symptom of a much wider pathology ~ (politics)
gang-infested (m)
corruption: health & medicine / verb
the ~ neighborhood is riddled with lookouts
infected mafia-infested (m)
infected with (a succeed-at-all-costs) recklessness a ~ industry…
cycling is ~ (doping) mine-infested (m)
infected by a (false) doctrine steaming through ~ waters
I became ~ (religion) pirate-infested
infected computers Indonesia's waters remained the world's most ~
the data came from 729 ~ (botnets) pirate-infested (m)
corruption: health & medicine the ~ waters off Sumatra (Malacca Strait, etc.)

infection (enthusiasm) drug- and guerrilla-infested (m)

in the ~ jungle
infection of his thinking ♦ "Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat." (Slogan in a NYC public-education
the ~ has mutated, gone pandemic (quantum computing) campaign to reduce food for rats.)
♦ "The rats, at times numbering in the hundreds, according to witnesses,
enthusiasm: health & medicine have drawn early evening crowds of curious spectators to the island that
infection (corruption) divides the north and south roadways between 58th and 59th Streets."
(New York Times article about an infestation of Park Avenue rats,
perhaps attracted to tulip bulbs, quoted in Robert Sullivan's wonderful
one single infection book, Rats.)
amid that epidemic, ~ was fateful (NotPetya worm) ♦ The documentary Rat Film focuses on people living in crowded and
unsanitary conditions. James Clavell’s novel King Rat focuses on
infection spreads survival and dominance. George Orwell’s 1984 gives a nod to rat phobia.
amputate before ~ (bad players, coach at Man U)
affliction: insect
affliction / corruption: health & medicine
infidelity (noun)
infectious (adjective)
financial infidelity
infectious ~ is on the rise
his zest for life was ~ (Ernest Hemingway) ~ is when people hide their accounts or debts from their
courage is ~, it really is (a Churchill biographer) spouses

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allegiance, support & betrayal / behavior / concealment & inflated expectations
lack of concealment / subterfuge: love, courtship & many high-school graduates have ~
marriage
inflated prices
infiltrate (verb) items trickle in at ~ (Kisangani)

infiltrated this nursing home sharply inflated (m)

we still don’t know how the virus ~ (COVID-19) ~ wages

infiltrated the White House vastly inflated

COVID has ~ (pandemic) the figures are ~

transmission: military / verb figures are (vastly) inflated

that the ~ is an open secret (refugees)
inflame (verb)
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon
inflamed the (national immigration) debate
his arrest ~ (a murderer) inflection (inflection point)
inflame (voters') fears inflection point in a story
the surest way to win elections is to ~ his appearance was an ~ that will continue...
♦ “But, look, the next shoe to drop is Tara Reid’s TV appearance, maybe
inflame people’s passions on Fox, maybe this weekend. What kind of case will she present? So,
this will ~ (politics) Friday’s Biden appearance was not an end point, but an inflection point
in a story that’s probably going to be around for a while.” (Vague but
inflame the situation important sounding lines on a graph. NPR’s Ron Elving talking to Scott
Simon, Week in Politics, Weekend Edition, Saturday, May 2, 2020.)
the photos could ~ (of dead civilians)
development: direction
inflame them
good therapists usually work to resolve conflicts, not ~ inflexible (character)
increase & decrease: fire / verb stubborn or inflexible
initiation: fire / verb she has a lot of resolve, but sometimes can be ~
inflammatory (adjective) ability & lack of ability: materials & substances / movement
character & personality: materials & substances /
inflammatory comment movement
this is a baseless, ~ (diplomacy)
inform (verb)
inflammatory quotes
the army report didn't say who was responsible for the ~ inform your actions
hope and love should ~, not hate
inflammatory language
let’s have a conversation without ~ (anti-Semitism) fictive communication: speech / verb
shocking and inflammatory (m) infrastructure (noun)
desecration of the Koran is a ~ act
intellectual infrastructure
increase & decrease: fire education initiatives aim at building the ~
initiation / speech: fire the country's ~ is still eroding (research, funding, etc.)
inflate (verb) bases: infrastructure

inflate our grades infusion (noun)

we are pushed to ~ (teachers)
infusion of (new) jobs
inflated the pay the recovery will suffocate without a rapid ~
these schemes were designed to ~ of the C.E.O.
infusion of (young) recruits
inflates the (Latino dropout) rate there was an ~, many of them women (CIA post 9/11)
which ~... (education)
directing / throwing, putting & planting: water
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon / verb
ingest (verb)
inflated
ingested a heavy dose
inflated ego in Copenhagen he ~ of Aristotle (Tycho Brahe)
he is known for his ~ (a banker)
absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb

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consumption: food & drink / verb injury
ingredient (noun)
added insult to injury
ingredients for victory he ~ by...
Democrats are not sure what the right ~ are (politics) feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
mixture: food & drink
inner circle (noun)
inhale (verb)
inner circle
inhaled this stuff you're in the ~, or you're in exile (politics)
I ~ and couldn’t get enough of it (comedy)
White House inner circle
absorption & immersion: breathing / verb she has left the ~ (resigned)
consumption: breathing / verb
inroads into Trump’s inner circle
inherit (verb) the Emiratis helped the Russians make their own ~

inherited his mantle group, set & collection / power / society: center & periphery
she ~ (politics) inning (in the first inning)
inherited Ray’s mission
in the first inning of the game
Linnaeus ~ (classification)
we are still ~
inherited his father’s fiery temperament development: baseball / sports & games
the son ~
timeliness & lack of timeliness: baseball / sports & games
giving, receiving, bringing & returning / transmission: family time: sports & games
/ history / money / verb inning (ninth inning)
inheritance (noun) bottom of the ninth inning
railroading inheritance we are reaching the ~ (an election)
our national ~ development: baseball / sports & games
economic inheritance time: sports & games
the government faces a terrible ~ (Britain's new coalition) timeliness & lack of timeliness: baseball / sports & games

national (railroading) inheritance

innocence (noun)
our ~ lost its innocence
giving, receiving, bringing & returning / transmission: family overnight the community ~ (serial killer on loose)
/ history / money ♦ Serial killers and killer great white sharks cause people to lose their
innocence. (“In the Shark’s Domain,” Omnibus, BBC Sounds, 16 Jan
inject (verb) 2003.)

experience: love, courtship & marriage

inject his personality into the offense
he wants his quarterback to ~ (coach) inoculate (verb)
injected the phrase "right to die" into the lexicon inoculate themselves from the national mood
she ~ (Quinlan) politicians are trying to ~ (elections)
injected race into the drama inoculate us from these vanities
her allegation ~ (a murder case) Vietnam did not ~ (US 'exceptionalism')
inject fresh blood inoculate it against (possible legal) consequences
the king might reshuffle his cabinet to ~ they came up with a framework to ~ (a company)
throwing, putting & planting: health & medicine / verb inoculated the US against foreign wars
directing: health & medicine / verb the Vietnam War temporarily ~
injection (noun) protection & lack of protection: health & medicine / verb
injection of aid inoculated
only a massive ~ can help
inoculated against (empty) promises
throwing, putting & planting: health & medicine the public was long ago ~ (from the government)
directing: health & medicine
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine

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inoculation help & assistance: tools & technology

inoculation
insular (adjective)
but the ~ lasted less than a decade (Vietnam to Grenada) insular (warrior) caste
stress inoculation Marine pilots are an ~
making a soldier stronger and better through ~ insular sport
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine it’s a very ~ (horseracing and corruption)

inquisition (noun) siloed and insular

political journalists are even more ~ today (than in 2016)
Spanish Inquisition
isolation & remoteness: island / sea
I didn't expect the ~ (questioning)
division & connection: island / sea
oppression: allusion / history / violence
judgment: allusion / history / violence
insulate (verb)
inroads (make inroads) insulate our kids from (the kind of) news
we try to ~ that frightens them
make their own inroads into Trump’s inner circle
the Emiratis helped the Russians ~ insulate their lives from modern life
the Amish try to ~
progress & lack of progress: horse / military
protection & lack of protection: electricity / verb
insatiable (adjective) isolation & remoteness: electricity / verb
insatiable insulated
the appetite for pornography seems to be ~
the appetite of the European rich for porcelain was ~ insulated from violence
they lived in a world where they were ~ (Amish)
insatiable appetite
avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
India's seemingly ~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, temples)
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: electricity
consumption: food & drink
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink insulation (noun)
inscribed community, acceptance and insulation
they feel a sense of ~ (lesbians)
inscribed in our DNA
some places are ~ (Lake Ohrid, the Balkans) protection & lack of protection: electricity
isolation & remoteness: electricity
impression: mark / tools & technology
insurance
inside (emotions)
insurance against (unpleasant) surprises
inside there is no ~
how are you feeling ~
protection & lack of protection: money
feeling, emotion & effect: container / prep, adv, adj,
particle insurrection
insider (person) insurrection among his staff
the problems led to an ~
entrenched insiders
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
he is a Washington outsider facing down ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: military
society: center & periphery / person
intermission (noun)
power: center & periphery / person
instrument intermission in the continuing saga
his appearance this week could be just an ~ (disgraced actor)
instrument of terror
development / starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
a burning cross is a particularly powerful ~ (KKK)
instrument of foreign policy
interrogate (verb)
he believed war was an ~ interrogate
powerful instrument this idea of migration as a crisis is what I’m trying to ~
a burning cross is a particularly ~ of terror (KKK)

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interrogate the data intoxicated
his tabulating machine made it easier to ~ (punched cards)
intoxicated with power
analysis, interpretation & explanation: military / verb
he was ~ (a politician)
fictive communication: speech / verb
interrogated intoxicated by a desire
he was ~ to run in a marathon
interrogated intoxicated by having
a word, when ~, will tell us about the people who used it liberals are ~ a majority (politics)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: military feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
fictive communication: speech
intoxicating
interrogation (questioning)
entrepreneurship is intoxicating
interrogation she said ~
political ads require discussion, conversation, ~
game is intoxicating
analysis, interpretation & explanation: military
the ~
fictive communication: speech
intersection (noun) music was intoxicating
the ~
intersection of religion and politics night was intoxicating
she writes about the ~ (a journalist) the warm spring ~
intersection between creativity and commerce opera is intoxicating
he explores the ~ Italian ~
division & connection: boundary / geometry
passion is intoxicating
intertwined their ~ (performers)

intertwined scene was intoxicating

the economies of the US and Mexico have become really ~ the ~ (nature)

division & connection: cloth scent was intoxicating

the ~ (flowers)
interwoven
sound (of drums) was intoxicating
interwoven into the (social) fabric the ~ (at an African soccer game)
aggression is ~ of schools (bullying, status, etc.)
found freedom intoxicating
division & connection: cloth he ~ (immigrant)
into (be into something) feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol

into hang gliding introduce (verb)

he's really ~
introduced the word in the usual, literal way
deep into books I ~ (an English teacher)
a lot of prisoners were ~ (reading)
introduced the word to the English language
enthusiasm: container / prep, adv, adj, particle Captain James Cook may have ~ (taboo)
into (involvement) introduce new perspectives into curriculums
trying to ~ (schools)
into it
once you get that far ~ (extremism) introduce new technology into the mail stream
~ (post office)
involvement: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
introduce recreational divers to the rewards
intoxicate (verb) trying to ~ of fish watching
intoxicated us introduced me to the best pizza
the ability to wield force has ~ my brother ~ I have ever eaten
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol / verb introduced us to the music, the culture
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fictive communication: speech / verb invested years in toiling
she ~ over a nonfiction account (an author)
inundate (verb)
commitment & determination: money / verb
inundated the help line with calls
the public ~ investment (noun)
amount & effect: flood / verb / water emotional investment
there's a great deal of ~ on the part of all the players
inundated
commitment & determination: money
inundated by a flood
the public is being ~ of conflicting information invigorate (verb)
inundated with email invigorated the party
you probably feel like you're ~, don't you he ran a campaign that ~ nationwide
inundated with phone calls amelioration & renewal: death & life / health & medicine /
the hospital was ~ verb
amount & effect: flood / water invitation (noun)
invade (verb) invitation to frostbite or edema
it seemed an ~ (high-altitude bivouac)
invades the area
as cold air ~… (weather) invitation for ridicule
being a rookie is an engraved ~
invading her dreams
she said her brother's ghost was ~ (Chinese) open invitation
an e-mail address in a chat room is an ~ to spammers
invaded (1.5 million acres of) the ecosystem
exotic plant species have ~ attraction & repulsion: speech
amount & effect: military / verb fictive communication: speech

invasion (noun) invite (verb)

invite kids to rebel
invasion of (Asian) carp such limits may ~ (parents are too strict)
the ~ into the waters of the South and the Midwest…
invites abuse
invasion of immigrants open editing ~ (Wikipedia)
what European countries perceive as an ~
invites aggression
invasion of privacy appeasement ~ (diplomacy)
they were furious at the ~
invites (both direct and indirect) fires
tourist invasion detection of a unit's location ~
the economic benefits that will accompany the ~
invites neglect
British invasion quarantining inmates with H.I.V. and AIDS ~ (US)
the ~ of the 1960s (music)
invite (nuclear) retaliation
aquatic invasion use of chemical or biological agents will ~
the Great Lakes is a hot spot for ~s (non-native species)
invited (a lot more) scrutiny
furry invasion he's ~ because there's more media (politics)
blame this ~ on climate change (polar bears in Churchill)
invite trouble
invisible invasion certain songs in certain parts of town ~ (gangs)
people see immigration as an ~ (Europe)
invite hand and finger movement
see immigration as an (invisible) invasion silly putty, play dough, and clay all ~
people ~ (Europe)
amount & effect: military
invite retaliation and counter expulsions
this action will ~ (spying)
invest (verb) attraction & repulsion: speech / verb
invest my heart in someone fictive communication: speech / verb
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inviting iron out any kinks
they are having a test run to ~ (restaurant opening)
inviting
the people and the water are ~ (Jamaica) iron out the problems
I can ~
inviting coffeehouse
a lively arts scene, an ~ on every corner (Seattle) iron out wrinkles
they still need to ~ in their new contract
warm, welcoming and inviting
amelioration & renewal: cloth / verb
schools should be ~ (gay harassment)
attraction & repulsion: speech irritant (noun)
IQ (ability) lingering irritant
his decision was a ~ to Republicans
ring IQ
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
his ~ isn’t good enough (a boxer)
high (basketball) IQ
irritated
he earned a reputation as a defender with a ~ surprised, dismayed, irritated and outraged
ability & lack of ability: school & education the French have been ~ by...
knowledge & intelligence: school & education affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
iron (strength) irritating
iron will irritating
those close to Fury speak of his ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury) she is really ~
strength & weakness: materials & substances character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect:
ironclad (adjective) sensation

ironclad irritation (emotion)

you can’t report on those settlements, they are ~ (NDAs)
irritation and anxiety
ironclad accounts students express ~ (rising tuition, fewer classes)
there are ~ of him ordering a destruction of documents
anger or irritation
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances he never displays ~ in public (a Shia cleric)
strength & weakness: materials & substances
disagreement or irritation
iron curtain "Gimme a break" expresses ~

Iron Curtain of the late Middle Ages feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
this was the ~ (Turks block routes to the east) is (it is what it is)
information iron curtain
“It is What it Is”
China is no longer shrouded by an ~ (Internet)
his latest album ~, was released... (Thundercat)
division & connection: allusion / history
it is what it is
ironfisted I take precautions, but hey, ~ (delivery worker / pandemic)
~, this has happened, and... (cancer diagnosis)
iron-fisted ~, but I’m not concerned about it (athlete / lack of rest)
he's ~ it kind of stinks seeing baseball change, but ~
I grew up on the internet, which is kind of trash, but ~
iron-fisted dictator
~s have ruled the country since its birth it is what it is, get over it and move on
~ (Confederate monuments)
iron-fisted empire
the US State Department is the gloved hand of an ~ it is what it is, so they spend the night together
you know how this happens, ~ (infidelity)
oppression: fist / materials & substances
iron out (verb) it means what it means
~ (the word “coachable”)
iron out nothing is over until it’s over
there are still a few wrinkles to ~ ~ (voting and an election)

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♦ Democrats, and Michele Obama, used the phrase, “It is what it is,” to
criticize President Trump at their national convention iin 2019. Trump it (it girl, etc.)
had used the phrase while talking about coronavirus.
♦ “We definitely had a hurricane hit us last night.” (The mayor of Lake
It Boy
Charles, being interviewed on ABC about a hurricane.) ~ is a French romantic comedy film (2013)
♦ “The coronavirus is something that is there.”
‘It’ drug
analysis, interpretation & explanation: tautology it has emerged as the ~ on the Australian party scene

island (society) “it” girl

her attitude has turned her into the new political ~
island meet Broadway’s newest ~
no man is an ~ fashion’s new ~... and boy
schools are not ~s, they are connected to communities
it girls
island on my own don’t let the bouncy, cheery ~ make you feel bad about
politically, I’ve felt a little bit of an ~ (Maxine Peake) yourself
island among his men It Plant
he was sullen and morose, an ~... (a troubled leader) the Powdery Liveforever has become the ~ for thieves
♦ “I don’t know why we have you know made it this separate thing, as if (California)
it’s an island nation in which you need a visa and passport.” (Ken Burns ♦ The 1927 film It starred Clara Bow.
talking about his series on country music.)
♦ No man is an island entire of itself; every man / is a piece of the attention, scrutiny & promotion: allusion / film / object
continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: allusion / film /
Europe / is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as / well as any
manner of thy friends or of thine / own were; any man’s death diminishes
object
me, / because I am involved in mankind. / And therefore never send to
know for whom / the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne.)
itch (verb)
division & connection: island / sea itching to incite
society: island / sea the moderators were ~ conflict (a political debate)

island (island of affluence, etc.) eagerness & reluctance: sensation / verb

islands of affluence itch (enthusiasm)

there were isolated ~ (the Great Depression)
itch to ride
island of stability once you get the ~ motorcycles, you can't help but scratch it
Somaliland is an ~ in a sea of armed chaos
scratched this itch
islands of convenience and prosperity Bitcoin ~ (for idealistic nonconformist Vitalik Buterin)
there are ~ within seas of squalor (Lagos, Bombay, etc.) enthusiasm: insect / sensation
cultural island itchy (adjective)
Tunisia is a ~ bordered by sea and desert
itchy to leave
division & connection: island / sea he was ~
environment: island / sea
itchy to get back
island (beech island, etc.) he is ~ in the ring (a boxer)
beech island eagerness & reluctance: insect / sensation
no one knows why these ~ exist (stands of beech)
coffee island
he tends the dozen dispensers at the ~ (at a mini-mart) J
heat island jab (noun)
Tokyo is becoming a vast ~ (thermal pollution)
an urban ~ (UHI) is warmer than its surroundings took a jab at Lauer
Roker ~ on air (TV feud)
pump island
see a car pull up to a ~ (gas station) accusation & criticism / conflict / speech: boxing

traffic island jackass (noun)

public bathroom on a ~ in the city center
jackass
resemblance: sea / island he's a foolish ~

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character & personality / insult: animal jaws of disaster
the Israeli tankers charged into the ~ (1973)
jackpot (hit the jackpot)
fate, fortune & chance: animal / predation
political jackpot
that would be a ~ for the president jaw (jaw-dropper, etc.)
hit the jackpot real jaw-dropper
you ~ that was a ~ for me
hit the (intelligence) jackpot jaw dropped
they were hoping to ~ (Russian spies in US) the verdict was a stunner, and my ~
success & failure: gambling / money / verb feeling, emotion & effect: gesture
Jacobin jaw (jaw-dropping)
Jacobin publication jaw-dropping moment
he has written for The Nation, a ~ (culture wars) this is the ~ when a sea lion attacked a girl (video)
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping,
school reform’s new Jacobins head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill
today, ~ have opted for a hard left turn into identity politics Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
disruption: allusion / history / violence BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
April 13, 2020.)
jack up (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: gesture
jack up the cost
green technology will ~ of power (opinion)
Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde)
jack up earnings Jekyll-and-Hyde character
Wall Street will always find ways to ~ for some, he was a ~, a decorated chief who... (SEAL)

jacked up (used book) prices Jekyll and Hyde existence

the company has ~ he was rumored to have lived a ~ (government official)

jacked up (interest) rates “Jekyll and Hyde” figure

credit-card companies have ~ again he was a ~ who could be charming but had a dark side

jack up (defense) spending Doctor Jekyll – Mister Hyde moment

the government seeks to ~ it was a very strange ~ (holding job and eating disorder)

jacking up tuitions Jekyll and Hyde portrait

colleges are ~ like never before a ~ emerges of SEAL accused of murder

increase & decrease: direction / tools & technology / verb Jekyll and Hyde role
there is a bit of a ~ for the agency (helps but also arrests)
jam (situation)
Jekyll and Hyde transformation
get him out of this jam every now and then, desert locusts undergo a ~ (swarms)
perhaps a lawyer could ~ ♦ Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis
Stevenson and published in 1886.
situation: container / tools & technology
character & personality: allusion / mental health / person
jar (cookie jar) allusion: books & reading
cookie jar of jobs, concessions, contracts jeremiad (bitter lament)
Daly wants to protect the ~ (politician)
jeremiads of a Southern apologist
got caught with his hand in the cookie jar the nation didn’t pay heed to the ~
he ~ (corruption) ♦ A jeremiad often has two elements: a bitter criticism of society and a
prophecy of doom. Jeremiah is in the Bible.
cost & benefit: food & drink / government
message: allusion / Bible / religion
jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.)
accusation & criticism: allusion / Bible / religion
jaws of defeat Jerusalem (Jerusalem of the North, etc.)
if anyone knows how to grab a victory from the ~, it is
Serena Williams Jerusalem of the North
the Jews called it the ~ (Vilna / Vilnius)

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epithet: religion his statement doesn’t ~
jettison (verb) direction: boat / verb

jettisoned the case law jigsaw puzzle (noun)

the court has ~ (lawyers will appeal)
jigsaw puzzle of (smaller) languages
jettison (the under-performing) ministers Europe was once a ~ like Ladin (Italian Dolomites)
many people wonder why he doesn't ~
configuration: sports & games
dismissal, removal & resignation: boat / verb
jockey (verb)
jettisoned
jockey for advantage
jettisoned partisans ~ (politics)
he was ~ (an athlete who was traded)
jockeying for position
jettison its pariah status he has been ~ in the department for years
Zimbabwe seeks to ~
jockey for power
dismissal, removal & resignation: boat Ukrainians, Tatars, and ethnic Russians ~ (Crimea)
Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.) jockey for leaks and scoops
reporters ~
Jews of the Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean immigrants have been called the ~ jockeyed for face time
guests ~ with the newly minted star (party)
Jews of the Arab world
the Palestinians are sometimes said to be the ~ fiercely jockey
reporters ~ for leaks and scoops
Jews of the Far East
the Chinese have been called the ~ (business, diaspora) competition: animal / horse

Jews of the 21st century Johnny Appleseed

a sign said, "Latinos are the ~" (immigration protest)
Johnny Appleseed
migration: epithet / person we must drop the idea the US is ~ spreading democracy
person: journeys & trips
epithet: religion Johnny Appleseed of Agriculture 2.0
she is the ~ (brings together entrepreneurs, investors)
jewel (noun)
Johnny Appleseed of near Earth object deflection
jewel his work as the ~ has begun to bear fruit (astronomy)
Sikkim is a ~ nestled between Bhutan and Nepal
served as a Johnny Appleseed
jewel of these mountains he ~ for electric cars (made long trip in one, blogging)
she was a ~ (bookmobile lady in Western North Carolina)
transmission: allusion / apple / epithet
jewels in the crown joke (you must be joking, etc.)
they are the ~ of public education (elite NYC high schools)
real jewel joking
it's a ~ (a kayaker speaking of a river near Vancouver) you must be ~
comprehension & incomprehension: speech
hidden jewel
it's a ~ (a park) joke (it’s a joke, etc.)
superlative: mining joke
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances this university is a ~
jewel (jewel of Syria, etc.) insult / worth & lack of worth: speech
jewel of Syria jolt (noun)
this city once known as “the~” (Aleppo)
jolt of anxiety
superlative: epithet the murder sent a ~ around the city
jibe (verb) jolt to some
jibe with his record it was quite a ~ (Trump wins election)

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feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force / sensation joust (verb)
journey (in one's journey) joust among themselves for ownership
in his journey from boy to man corporations ~ of…
it was an important moment ~ jousting over (sensationalist) ads
in our journey towards the promise the two campaigns are ~ (politics)
this is a significant milestone ~ of stem-cell-based medicines conflict: history / Middle Ages / verb
course: journeys & trips jousting (conflict)
journey (on a journey) courtroom jousting with (federal) lawyers
on the journey of life the ~ was otherworldly (secrecy)
how a person behaves ~ is directly related... geopolitical jousting in the South China Sea
behaves on the journey he covered stories such as ~ (a correspondent)
how a person ~ of life is directly related to… social jousting
course: journeys & trips a lot of ~ goes on (teenagers)

journey (noun) conflict: history / Middle Ages

journey from slavery Judas (betrayal)

their ancestors' ~ into freedom (Passover) call me Judas
journey (from slavery) into freedom they will attack me in the press, ~, accuse me of...
their ancestors' ~ (Passover) allegiance, support & betrayal: Bible / religion
journey towards modernity judge (role)
Bhutan's carefully ordered ~ (elections of 2007)
judge
journey from boy to man you be the ~ (preference contest)
in his ~ history will be the ~ (proper response to pandemic)
journey from complacency to (political) power post judge
her ~ (Wilma Mankiller) are you the ~ (response to critic)
journey from slavery into freedom judgment: justice / person
their ancestors' ~ (Passover) person: justice
Bhutan's (carefully ordered) journey judged
~ towards modernity (elections of 2007)
judged by wins and loses
ancestors' journey as a coach, he will be ~
their ~ from slavery into freedom (Passover)
judgment: justice
life's journey
my ~ juggernaut
never-ending journey juggernaut of optimism
growth and development are a ~ a ~ vaulted him to the White House (Obama)
spiritual journey Fury juggernaut
it is the story of a ~ Paris is key in keeping the ~ moving (the boxer’s wife)
story of a (spiritual) journey Russian juggernaut
it is the ~ the ~ in the east had moved steadily westwards (1813)
completed his journey self-help juggernaut
he ~ from personal despair to sporting glory the ~ was published in 1936 (How to Win Friends...)
♦ Life's a journey, not a destination. (Bumper sticker.)
new-school juggernaut
♦ "It's sometimes necessary during a journey to repack and remount a
Tagovailloa turned old-school Alabama into a ~ (football)
horse." (Chinese proverb relating to a change in the middle of a plan.)
♦ No trip is long with good company! bureaucratic juggernaut
I'm up against a ~ that won't stop (immigration status)
course: journeys & trips
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 K-pop has become a ~ predation: animal / blood / throat / verb
conflict: animal / blood / predation / throat / verb
literary juggernaut
he has been a ~ (great American writer Stephen King) juicy (adjective)
publicity juggernaut juicy gossip
she is a shill for the family's ~ (a legal case) you hear some ~ that…
the book contains nearly 400 pages of ~ (on politicians)
unstoppable juggernaut
his war chest and grassroots army make him an ~ (election) juicy information
in the hope of obtaining ~ (journalists)
up against a juggernaut
he is ~ (a politician contending for nomination) juicy revelation
there was no ~ (press conference)
juggernaut rolls on
and the Anfield ~ (winning Liverpool soccer club) attraction & repulsion: taste
transformed Apple into a juggernaut jumbo (large)
he ~ (Steve Jobs)
♦ A juggernaut is associated with the Hindu deity Jagannath. It was a
jumbo jet
huge wooden chariot carrying idols in a multistory construction. The idea lightning strikes ~
that devotees threw themselves under it is a misconception.
♦ “They will also know that once the juggernaut starts to gather
jumbo squid
momentum it takes some stopping—and if allowed to roll unchecked can ~, also known as Humboldt squid
take a football generation to halt.” (‘Liverpool celebrations after beating ♦ This word comes from the name of an Ethiopian elephant who was
Man Utd symbolic & moment of release’ by Phil McNulty, BBC, January brought to the US in 1882 by P. T. Barnum and displayed in Barnum’s
19, 2020.) circus. The poet and etymologist John Ciardi tells Jumbo’s story on NPR,
“Jumbo’s Big Adventure Popularizes a New Word,” April 20, 2006.
amount & effect / force: religion
size: allusion / animal
juggle (verb)
jump (jump at the chance, etc.)
juggle careers and children
women who ~ jump to conclusions
let's not ~
juggle work and school we don't know all the facts and no one should ~
it can be hard to ~ it is important not to ~ based on the case of one patient
juggle a full load of classes and a job jumps to conclusions
it may be hard to ~ he ~, makes up his mind, and is stubborn
juggles those objectives jumped at the chance
he ~ with an unusual style I~
juggles (several) roles jumped at the opportunity
he ~ (community activist) he ~ (a filmmaker)
juggle (multiple) tasks jump (all) over this
employees who can handle the stress and ~ we knew the students would just ~ (robot fast-food
difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / sports & games / verb deliveries in dorms)

juggling eagerness & reluctance / haste: movement / verb /

walking, running & jumping
juggling the (conflicting) demands
~ of politics and governing jump (leave)
juggling act jump to another company
trying to build a team is a hard ~ (basketball) employers worry you'll ~ (overqualified)

difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / sports & games allegiance, support & betrayal / coming, arriving, staying,
leaving & returning / movement: verb / walking, running &
jugular (go for the jugular) jumping
going for the jugular jump (movement)
they are ~ (team in tournament)
needle jumped
go for the jugular the VU meter ~ (recording sounds)
they didn’t ~ (debate for political candidates)
she has to ~ tonight (Democratic debate) movement: walking, running & jumping / verb

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jump (speech) jump (jump ahead)
jumps from subject to subject jump ahead to the last chapter
she ~ let's ~
speech: walking, running & jumping / verb sequence: walking, running & jumping / verb
jump (progress) jump (jump in)
jumped from ninth place to fourth jump in
the carrier ~ in on-time arrivals (air) please feel free to ~ (a discussion)
jumped six spots involvement: walking, running & jumping / verb
Lance Armstrong ~ to second overall (Tour de France)
jump (get the jump)
progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping /
verb gotten the jump on all of them
he had ~ (a competition)
jump (increase / verb)
get a jump on the coming season
jumps by 10,000 and so you ~ (high-school athletes graduate early)
during the summer, the county's population ~ (tourists)
competition / starting, going, continuing & ending /
demand (for electric power) will jump timeliness & lack of timeliness: walking, running & jumping
the ~
jump (in jumps)
increase & decrease: direction / walking, running & advanced in jumps
jumping / verb his career ~
jump (rivers can jump their banks) progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running
& jumping
jumped its banks
the Medina River ~ today near Bandera (flooding) jump (noun)
constraint & lack of constraint: movement / verb / walking, jump in (suspicious) chatter
running & jumping there has been a ~
jump (jump a curb, etc.) jump in the number
contributing to growth is a ~ of online shoppers
jumped a curb
the van ~ and plowed into three people jump in traffic
news sites saw a ~ (Internet / Operation Iraqi Freedom)
jumped the tracks
the train ~ near Crescent City, Florida increase & decrease: direction / movement / walking,
failure, accident & impairment: walking, running & jumping running & jumping
/ verb jumping-off place / point
jump (lines) jumping-off point
he used Heidegger as a ~
jumped the line shipping arms and ammunition to ~s around Iraq
she ~ to get water for her infant (Kenyan drought)
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips /
jumped a fire line
place / walking, running & jumping
the flames ~ crews were building (Show Low)
obstacles & impedance: walking, running & jumping / verb
jump out (verb)
constraint & lack of constraint: walking running & jumping / jumps out at me
verb it you look at the data, something that really ~ is...
jump (transmission) attention, scrutiny & promotion: verb / walking, running &
jumped from birds to humans jumping
a strain of the virus may have ~ (flu) jump-start (verb)
constraint & lack of constraint / transmission: movement /
jump-start the economy
verb / walking, running & jumping the government is trying to ~

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jump-start (supported) housing space junkies
his mandate is to ~ (politician) ~ hoping to book a flight (to the space station)
jump-start the process vinyl junkie
local governments have to ~ I was such a ~, the labels, the grooves, the blackness, the
artwork on the covers...
initiation: engine / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb waterfall junkie
jump-start (noun) hardcore ~s (those who love to find, visit falls)
college basketball junkies
jumpstart on the (holiday shopping) season ~ and the NCAA tournament
get a ~ (TV ad)
junk-food junkie
initiation: engine
a notorious slacker and ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine
Internet junkie
jungle (competition) living with an ~ ("Come to bed!)
jungle bona fide junkie
it's a ~ out there (survival of the fittest) the average weather watcher and the ~ (storm chasers)
competition / danger: ground, terrain & land / jungle
political junkies
jungle (environment) ~ will obsess endlessly about…

hobo jungle enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine / person

he lives in a ~ near the train tracks jury (the jury is out)
environment: ground, terrain & land / jungle
jury is (still) out
junk (worth) the ~, we don’t know about next year (pandemic)

junk jury is still out on whether

his experiments were ~ (expert witness at trial) the ~ this approach will be successful (medicine)
television is no longer ~ (an opinion) the ~ active-shooter drills do more harm than good

junk science certainty & uncertainty / judgment: justice

handwriting, fire, fiber, and blood splatter analysis are all ~ fate, fortune & chance: justice
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: justice
junk status
their stock has been reduced to ~
worth & lack of worth: waste K
junkie (person) Kafkaesque (adjective)
adrenaline junkie Kafkaesque grounds
~s who risk life and limb (sports) lawyers forced him to reopen the case on the ~ that...
it's bound to appeal to ~s (skeleton racing)
Kafka-esque journey
fitness junkie a truly ~ through the bureaucracy (France)
I'm a ~ who works out every day
Kafkaesque nightmare
gadget junkie my ~ is to be...
holiday gifts for ~s (computer peripherals, etc.)
Kafkaesque outcome
game junkie that ~ demonstrates the way the system is run (education)
a 16-year-old ~ with a PlayStation 2
fantasy & reality: allusion / person
information junkie allusion: books & reading
if you're an ~ (technology)
kangaroo court
news junkies
day traders, ~, and the Web kangaroo court
~ can get a daily fix (Web site) the term “~” came to mind (Title IX investigation)
she claimed the hearing took place in a ~ (English Football)
pain junkie is this a ~, get a rope and do it right (barracks)
a bizarre band of ~s (ultrarunners)
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 ~ deny the accused rights (US universities) competition / progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
/ movement / sports & games / verb / walking, running &
run this kangaroo court
who appointed these people to ~ (a sports problem) jumping

found guilty by a kangaroo court kernel (noun)

we have been ~ (Manchester City soccer club) kernel of a (future) threat
judgment / oppression: animal / justice the far-sighted saw a ~

karat (24-karat) creation & transformation: plant

growth & development: plant
24-karat gold
he has a heart of ~
key (important)
24-karat gold (m) key
he is a ~ personality (a restaurant owner) the ~ is to notice when and where he does it (toddler)
this could be the ~ that unlocks the mystery
24-karat moment
Brooklyn's championship was a ~ (baseball) key to (successful) marriage
the ~ is...
24-karat nugget
his Short Symphony is a ~ (Copeland) key to his (business) strategy
the ~
24 karat product
the products I've sold are ~ in every way (fund-raiser) key to (mission) success
coordination and flexibility are ~ (military)
24 karat or fool's gold
it's hard to say if he is ~ (an athlete bought by a team) key to (the school's) success
teamwork is the ~
worth & lack of worth: mining
key to survival
karma (fate) hard work was the ~ (the Great Depression)
artistic good karma key to investing
the musical has had ~ to... (topicality) the ~ is…
fate, fortune & chance: religion key accomplishments
write down your ~ and use specific examples (job)
keel (even keel)
key advantage
keep things on an even keel Vodaphone has ~s over the competition
let's ~
key aides
keep an even keel kill the terrorist bin Laden and his ~
I need to ~ for my kids (while Dad is on trial)
key alloy
equilibrium & stability: boat nickel is a ~ in stainless steel
keep up (awareness) key (regime) assets
keep up with the issues targeting ~ (military)
I try to ~ key bridges
consciousness & awareness: walking, running & jumping / ~, road intersections, and mountain passes (war)
verb key courses
keep up (progress) avoid crowding in ~
key decision
keep up
when it comes to ~s
we want to ~ and not fall behind (government official)
technology is outpacing the ability of governments to ~ key detail
it overlooked one ~
keeping up
working-class families aren't ~ (educating kids) key difference
he points out a ~ between the men
keeping up with the rest of the world
in education, the US is not ~ key emotion
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key evidence the ~ will involve…(gene therapy)
his dying declaration was the ~ (murder case)
key time
key fact their parents are home at ~s of the day
the ~ was that…
key (rebel-held) town
key factor a~
communications is the ~; three ~s contribute to burnout...
key witness
key (terrain) features police didn't interview ~s
~ and landmarks (military) the ~ for the prosecution

key figure key transit point

he is the ~ in the group Kandahar is a ~ for raw opium

key infrastructure key staging area

every other ~ depends on it (electricity) (terrorism) Peshawar served as the ~

key meetings key finding

~ held privately by the rich counties a ~ was lax security (prison escape)

key message importance & significance: key

I think one of the ~s is… key (throw away the key)
key moment
he failed to maintain his situation awareness at ~s (war)
throw away the key
they should put him in jail and ~
key objective punishment & recrimination: key / verb
the airfield would be a ~
keynote (noun)
key organizer
Beck was a ~ of the Seattle protests keynote speaker
key partner the ~ was…
Ethiopia is a ~ in US counterterrorism efforts in the Horn of importance & significance: sound
Africa
keystone
key (leadership) positions
troops in ~ keystone members
vultures are ~ of the scavenging community
key post
he went to work filling the ~s (government) keystone species
a ~ helps determine the types of other species
key principle as the ~ disappears, so do others (oaks)
the ~ in the court case the walrus is considered a ~ in Arctic marine ecosystems
key requirement ♦ A keystone is the stone at the apex of an arch (or vault) that helps to
lock the structure in place and prevents it from collapsing, in many
the ~ during a retrograde is to maintain positive control cases.
key rules bases: infrastructure
teach your swimmers these four ~ (drownings)
kick (kick one’s butt, etc.)
key species
the caribou is a ~ in the refuge kicked my butt
asthma ~ (the great boxer Shannon Briggs)
key technique
mastered the ~ to create a nuclear bomb feeling, emotion & effect: leg / sensation / verb

key term kick (kick oneself)

define the ~s listed in this chapter (nursing)
kicked myself
key terrain I ~ for not doing a better job of…
the target may be ~, a farm, a ridgeline
punishment & recrimination: foot / verb
seize or hold ~ and counterattack the enemy;
the high ground in desert terrain is usually ~; kick (kick in the teeth, etc.)
~ or landmarks are used to … (minefield)
kick in the teeth
key test it's been a real ~

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feeling, emotion & effect: leg / foot / verb kicking and screaming
kickback (corruption) kicking and screaming
bribery and kickback (m) the president, ~, was bought into that (to agree a bill)
taken him to court on ~ charges (politician) drag some along kicking and screaming
bribery, kickbacks, theft and conspiracy he may have to ~ (a reform police chief)
a web of ~ (military contracts / Iraq) eagerness & reluctance: foot / leg
social interaction: foot resistance, opposition & defeat: sound
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: foot kick off (verb)
kicked off kicking off
kicked off the (soccer) team Memoria Day sales are ~
he was almost ~ for missing practices… kicked off here
kicked off her team an international Islamic conference ~ yesterday (Riyadh)
she may now be ~... (kid) kicks off in Tampa
dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg as the convention ~ (politics)

kicked out kick off this afternoon

the trial will ~ (impeachment)
kicked out of Harvard
he was ~ for… (William Randolph Hearst) kicked off the celebrations
bands and parades ~ at noon... (New Year)
kicked out of her dorm
her daughter was getting ~ for not paying rent kicked off a (nationwide) crackdown
authorities ~ against unlicensed Internet Cafes (China)
kicked out of their families
elderly women ~ (witchcraft / Mozambique) kick off the fiesta
revelers packed the streets to ~ (Pamplona)
kicked out of a (UW master's) program
he was ~ because... (student) kick off the (shortboard) revolution
his board designs helped ~ (surfing)
kicked out of the stadium
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: foot /
if a fan chants racist abuse now, he is ~ (soccer)
football / leg / sports & games / verb
get kicked out
if they tell their parents, they ~... (gay students); kickoff (noun)
I'd rather leave than ~ (a bad school)
kickoff breakfast
got kicked out she attended the Democratic Convention ~
I wanted to be a priest, but I ~ of seminary
tomorrow’s kickoff
dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg both sides have filed arguments ahead of ~ (trial)
kick in (start) Wednesday’s kickoff
~ is the culmination of a process (a trade treaty)
kick in
the link between recession and crime may ~ campaign kickoff
her ~ will draw inspiration from her late mother (Clinton)
instinct kicked in
a stubborn playground ~ (not backing down in combat) initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: foot /
football / leg / sports & games
training kicks in
and then your ~ (combat) kick out (verb)
wealth and connections kicked in kicked her out of the house
when he returned to Mexico, his ~ (extradited politician) I ~ (live-in girlfriend)
time to kick in kick me out of school
give your new diet ~ (weight loss) they threatened to ~
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / kick her out
foot / leg / mechanism / verb I was afraid they would ~ (toddler who bites / daycare)
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 ~ (grandmother found out he was gay) Wharton Business School. The University of Pennsylvania is a private
Ivy League university in Philadelphia, established in 1881.)
threatened to kick me out success & failure: death & life / verb
they ~ of school
dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg / verb
killed
kick-start (verb) killed in Italy
Beradelli is among 50 priests ~ (died from coronavirus)
kick-started this whole investigation
Comey’s firing ~ (politics)
killed as of April 10
with 1,185 ~ (Bronx coronavirus deaths)
kick-start weight loss
Atkins saw ketosis as the obvious way to ~
killed by coronavirus
at least 50 priests have reportedly been ~ in Italy
kick-started the process destruction: death & life
he ~ to have the relics returned to Libya
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / leg
killer (silent killer, etc.)
/ verb Silent Killer
kick up (verb) carbon monoxide, the ~
death & life / destruction: epithet
gale kicked up epithet: death & life
a ~, causing a choking dust storm (Kansas)
killer (killer story, etc.)
waves kicked up
had the ~... (open canoe in Glacier Bay) killer story
if it’s truly a ~, eyeballs will find it (young journalist)
wind kicked up
the ~ and the ridgetop turned frigid (Afghan combat) success & failure / superlative: death & life
wind was kicking up kill off (verb)
but the ~, there was no moon and they need to hurry
kill off old habits
initiation: foot / leg / verb it's difficult to ~
kill (verb) curtailment / destruction: death & life / verb

killed the idea killjoy (person)

a backlash from parents and school counselors ~ killjoy
kills innovation she was trying to be realistic and not a ~ (an educator)
regulation ~ (tech industry) feeling, emotion & effect: death & life / person
kill the legislation character & personality: person
liberals helped to ~ kind-hearted
killed the story kindhearted (m)
Esquire ~ (by Nelson Algren about Rubin Carter) a ~ woman gave him some food
kills them character & personality: heart
your immune system identifies those rogue cells and ~
kindle (verb)
curtailment / destruction: death & life / verb
kindles fears
kill (verb / accomplishment) release of bombing figure ~
killed it kindled an (environmental) movement
he ~ (an excellent performance) her protest ~ (save the trees)
killing it kindle violent behavior
they are ~ (a company doing well) its ability to ~ (alcohol and cocaine)
digs, kills, assists, blocks, aces increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb
~ (volleyball)
♦ “They are killing it, they are crushing KFC.” (Chick-fil-A versus
kindred (kindred spirits, etc.)
Kentucky Fried Chicken, according to a professor of marketing at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, also known as kindred spirits
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feeling, emotion & effect / relationship: family King of Pop
division & connection: family Michael Jackson, the ~, was also the king of shyness
king (animals) carnival king
a representation of the ~ is set ablaze (Martinique)
king of beasts
this ~ (a lion) cocaine kings
all of the ~ had mansions, limos, helicopter (Colombia)
king of fishes
on the white sand at the bottom lay the sturgeon, ~ kings and queens
homecoming, the American tradition featuring ~ (school)
king cobra
just a glimpse of a ~ can spread panic on a tea plantation primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
the ~ reaches up to 8 feet in length (India) superlative: person / royalty
the ~ can growl (India) epithet / person: royalty
king salmon King Canute
~ is the largest of Alaska's five salmon species
~ can weigh 30 pounds or more (Yukon River) King Canute
~, also called Chinook salmon… eliminating abuse is like ~ trying to hold back the tide
♦ Canute actually wished to show that God was the greatest power. He
epithet / proper name / superlative: royalty was a very good Christian, and the whole story has been misinterpreted.

king (products) control & lack of control: allusion / sea / tide

allusion: sea / tide
king
in this seafood-crazed country, tuna is ~ (Japan / sushi) kingdom (animal kingdom)
the automobile is ~ (issue of walkability of cities)
colleges where football is ~ animal kingdom
in the old days the broadcast networks were ~ Darwin linked humans to the rest of the ~ (evolution)
taxonomy & classification: royalty
King of Beers
Budweiser, the ~ kingdom (Magic Kingdom, etc.)
king of fruit Magic Kingdom
Xiyuangualu lychees were dubbed "the ~" (China) smiling faces at the ~ (Disney)

King of Steaks proper name: royalty

Pat's ~ (Harry and Pat Olivieri / Philly cheese steak) kingdom (control)
king of wool
shahtoosh wool, the "~" in Persian (Tibetan antelope)
their own little kingdom
to an extent it’s like ~ (prison / correctional officers)
superlative: epithet / royalty
area / control & lack of control: royalty
epithet: royalty
king (people) kingpin (person)
king drug kingpin
the customer is ~ (said by a Sony Corporation exec) the ~ was executed…(Federal execution)
~s continue to run their cartels from prison (Mexico)
king of the carnival
King Momo, ~ (Rio)
powerful kingpin
police have captured many of the most ~s (drug cartels)
king of Russian chanson
Mikhail Krug, often called the ~, was murdered
bandits and kingpins
ballads about ~s (grupero music)
King of the city ♦ A kingpin was the main pivot in cars for steering
he was the unofficial ~ (Pablo Escobar / Medellin)
bases / importance & significance / person: mechanism
“king” of coupe-decale power: person
he had been referred to as the ~ (DJ Arafat)
kink (noun)
king of the hill
kids like to play ~ kinks
the ~ have been worked out (interagency coordination)
king of the mountains (m) there are still some ~ to be worked out
points in the ~ competition (Tour de France)
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 there are still some ~ bring the rebels to their knees
their efforts to ~
kinks in the service
there are some ~ brought this (once-mighty) bank to its knees
he ~
kinks in the system
perhaps the Mayor can work out the ~ condition & status / dominance & submission / resistance,
opposition & defeat: direction / knee / standing, sitting &
annoying kink
the system still has ~s (gesture technology) lying / verb

iron out any kinks knee (on knees)

they are having a test run to ~ (restaurant opening) on its knees
work out the kinks the economy was ~, now it's on its feet (politics)
US officials are trying to ~ (border security) condition & status / decline: direction / knee / standing,
flaws & lack of flaws: rope sitting & lying

kinship (noun) knee (oppression)

kinship with the painter knee on the neck
he felt an immediate ~ he has his ~ of the public-health community (politics)

felt an (immediate) kinship condition & status / decline: direction / knee / standing,
he ~ with the painter sitting & lying

feeling, emotion & effect / relationship: family kneecap (verb)

division & connection: family
kneecap an (American) ambassador
Kipling (the Canadian Kipling, etc.) nobody should be able to ~ (politics)
Canadian Kipling kneecap the Postal Service
he earned the nickname, the ~ (Robert W. Service) he is trying to ~ to discourage voting
allusion / epithet: books & reading politically kneecap
he tried to ~ Bill Clinton (George HW Bush)
kiss of death
♦ “He’s basically hitting at the kneecaps of the process we all depend
on.” (A political kerfuffle.)
kiss of death
asking for a term paper in four weeks is the ~ (cheating) coercion & motivation: crime / knee / verb / violence
if he does endorse someone, it turns out to be a ~
once you lose credibility, that's the ~ (crisis management) kneecapped
trying to ban handguns would be the ~ (US)
kneecapped through a smear campaign
kiss of death is she was ~ (a US ambassador)
the ~ is be identified as the brains behind the man (politics)
coercion & motivation: crime / knee / verb / violence
kiss of death to a teen girl's reputation knee-jerk (adjective)
teenage pregnancy used to be the ~
kiss of death politically knee-jerk reaction
to be seen as a US supporter is a ~ the gun law was a ~ to the Parkland school shooting
hysteria and ~s (election politics)
♦ This refers to the kiss that Judas gave Jesus after the last supper,
which identified Jesus to the soldiers.
this law is a ~ to a tragic event

destruction / fate, fortune & chance: allusion / Bible / knee-jerk solutions

death & life / religion many companies have come up with ~ (training)
♦ “[T]he simple, elegant, inexpensive almost plebeian swing of the reflex
kitchen (creation) hammer has a cost/benefit ratio that I think no advanced technology will
likely ever match.” (Dr. Stephen Krieger, an expert on multiple sclerosis.)
“kitchen” for weather
the Arctic is the ~ in the northern hemisphere control & lack of control: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
creation & transformation: cooking kneel (verb)
knee (bring to one’s knees) kneel down before North American imperialism
we will never ~ (Venezuela)
brought the pirates to their knees
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dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat: the flood ruined every thread that ~
direction / knee / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb
knits a country together as one
knell (death knell / obsolescence) it’s a ~ (soccer)

sounded the death knell for VHS knit together as a unit

DVD ~ it has taken the team a while to ~

sounded the death knell for these landmarks division & connection: cloth / verb
the mobile phone may have ~ (London’s red phone boxes) knock-on (effect, etc.)
♦ The tolling of a bell to mark someone’s death.
knock-on consequences
curtailment / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: it will have ~
bell / burial / death & life / sound
sound: bell relationship: crashes & collisions
knell (death knell / destruction) knock out (verb)
sound death knell for youth knocked out power
drugs ~ (Kachin State in northern Burma) winds ~ (hurricane)
♦ The tolling of a bell to mark someone’s death. the storm ~ to thousands
the storm ~ to about 1.2 million people (California)
destruction: bell / burial / death & life / sound
sound: bell knocked out (several major power) utilities
knife (knife in the heart) the failure ~ (huge blackout)
knocked out 280 feet
knife in the heart
the flood ~ of the 36-inch steel pipe (water line)
the date Feb. 6, 1958, is still a ~ (Man. U fan)
destruction: blade / creature / death & life / knife / heart flood knocked out 280 feet
the ~ of the 36-inch steel pipe (water line)
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life / heart /
knife storm knocked out power
knife-edged the ~ to thousands
curtailment: boxing / fist / hitting, slamming & lashing /
knife-edged ridge
verb
the headwalls of back-to-back cirques form ~s
shape: blade / knife knockout (force)
knight (Black Knights, etc.) knockout blow
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
Black Knights
force: boxing / fist / hitting, slamming & lashing
the Robbinsville ~ (high-school football team)
Golden Knights
knockout (knockout voice, etc.)
the ~ Army Parachute Team knockout blow
Scarlet Knights the ~ was delivered when… (investigation / indictments)
the ~ are off to a slow start (Rutgers football) knock-out blow
proper name: Middle Ages he was unable to land a ~ on Amy Klobuchar (politics)

knight (knight in shining armor) knockout figure

she had a ~ and dressed provocatively
knight in shining armor
I' m the ~ (Lenox Lewis, out to save boxing) knockout voice
she has a ~ and terrific timing (a singer)
help & assistance: Middle Ages / person
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / hitting, slamming &
knit (knit together) lashing
knits together many threads knot (noun)
the story ~ of Muslim grievances (suicide bomber)
tie the city in knots
knit the plays together one million tourists will ~ (Olympics)
he ~ through overlapping themes (August Wilson)
obstacles & impedance: rope
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know (in the know) epithet: volcano
destruction: epithet / explosion / mountains & hills /
in the know about what volcano
was he ~ was unfolding in Ukraine Krakatoan (adjective)
consciousness & awareness: verb to noun
Krakatoan proportions
know-how (noun) it was a car crash of an interview of ~
♦ The awful explosion of August 4, 2020, in Beirut was literally of
technological know-how Krakatoan proportions, and all the people around the world who saw the
we have the ~ to solve the problem video of the blast wave can only have felt pity and awe.

knowledge & intelligence: verb to noun amount & effect: sound / volcano
size: allusion / mountains & hills
Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.) attention, scrutiny & promotion / destruction: explosion
drank the Kool-Aid kryptonite (noun)
wow, you really ~, no, I don’t feel that at all (culture wars)
kryptonite for syphilis
drunk the Kool-Aid penicillin has remained the ~
kids who have ~ (only one path to good life / school)
♦ “Already you have a little bit of hater-ade against you, people are
his kryptonite
drinking it about you.” (From a woman on CBS This Morning to Jeanine I truly am ~ (Yang versus Trump / politics)
Cummins on the publication of her book American Dirt.)
♦ This refers to the mass suicide of over 900 members of the People
Black Man’s Kryptonite
Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. Many of them drank a powdered “The ~” (article by Michael Eric Dyson in Savoy)
drink laced with cyanide. The Wikipedia entry for “Drinking the Kool-Aid”
is excellent. political kryptonite
immigration is basically ~ (politics)
acceptance & rejection: food & drink Republicans consider the ACT to be ~ (Obamacare)
allegiance, support & betrayal: food & drink
commitment & determination / consumption: food & drink ratings kryptonite
religion can be ~
kowtow (verb)
bring kryptonite
kowtow to anyone I am bulletproof, next time you best ~ (boast)
he did not feel like he had to ~
danger / destruction: allusion / weapon
kowtow to the (religious) establishment
there is no need to ~ (broadcasting)
kowtow to the (very) rich L
he will not ~ (Barak)
label (noun)
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
direction / knee / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb "one-percenter label
the ~ became a badge of honor (bikers)
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages,
characterization: product
etc.)
labeled
Krakatoa of the Middle Ages
it was the ~ (Kuwae eruption in 1453) labeled a troublemaker
♦ Roger Crowley in 1453 writes about a possible link between the Kuwae he was ~ in school
eruption and weather and atmospheric effects during the siege of
Constantinople. characterization: product
♦ “For many, such as the young Luke Howard and his schoolmates at the
Hillside Academy in Burford, the great cinema of light proved a laboratory
magnificent compensation for all that was strange in the air. They gazed
enraptured from the windows of the schoolhouse, while Howard, the sky laboratory for warfighting doctrines
watcher, wrote descriptions in his journal.” (The strange weather of 1783 Kandahar will be the ~ forged from…
included in England appearances of the aurora borealis. From The
Inventions of Clouds by Richard Hamblyn.) experimentation: place
♦ Another eruption often cited for its effects on sunsets and climate was
the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora that caused the “Year Without a labor pains
Summer” in 1816 and may have inspired J.M.W. Turner’s vivid red
sunsets. labor pains
♦ Simon Winchester writes about the atmospheric effects of the 1883 how to let peace be born despite the difficult ~
eruption of Krakatoa in his wonderful book Krakatoa.
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labyrinth (noun) by the mid-seventies he had climbed the ~ even higher

labyrinth of (feuding) clans and subclans promotion ladder

the Army should break down its rigid ~ (reform)
a ~ (Somalia)
labyrinth of passageways tenure ladder
once you’ve fought and clawed your way up the ~
inside the ~ (aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth)
bureaucratic labyrinth beauty-pageant ladder
she began to move up the ~
working his way through the ~
waiting for years in the ~s of the immigration system corporate ladder
their rung on the ~
giant labyrinth
arrogance and ego at the top of the ~
the ~ of this building (the United Nations)
♦ Gardens are associated with mazes, knot gardens and labyrinths. economic ladder
People also enjoy corn and mirror mazes. Labyrinth is of Minoan origin anyone who works hard enough can climb the ~ (US)
and is associated with the Minotaur.

complexity: allusion / infrastructure educational ladder

as women started climbing the ~ (effects on marriage)
lace (verb)
socioeconomic ladder
laced cannabis with heroin the ~'s lowest rung
he ~ to get women addicted to drugs
supervisory ladder
mixture: cloth / verb I never tried to go up the ~
laced (adjective) rung on the (corporate) ladder
their ~
laced with drugs
sausage rolls found ~ in Prestatyn at the top of the (income) ladder
the majority of stocks are held by those ~
laced with broken glass
peanut butter ~ found in Aberdeen climbed the (corporate) ladder
he ~
profanity-laced
he delivered a ~ speech to the seamen move up the (economic) ladder
the play chronicles the struggles of a family to ~
configuration: cloth
moving up the (career) ladder
lacerate (verb) he is ~ (military)
lacerated Trump’s calls promoted up the (developmental) ladder
he ~ for the FBI to investigate political enemies he was ~ (a baseball player)
accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health & hierarchy: direction / ladder
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.)
ladder (hierarchy)
ladders of opportunity
ladder we have created ~ (education)
they failed right on up the ~ (politics)
ladder to prosperity
ladder's (lowest) rung they want to make education a ~
the socioeconomic ~
pull up the ladders
career ladder we were naïve to think the privileged wouldn’t ~ of
he is moving up the ~ (military) opportunity behind them
immigrant ladder help & assistance: direction / ladder
Chaudri climbed a well-worn ~ (washed dishes, cab) ladder (increase)
income ladder
for her and others up and down the ~
escalation ladder
the posturing and the ~ that we’re seeing with Iran
leadership ladder increase & decrease: direction / ladder
she ascended the ~ in Congress (Pelosi)
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Lady Macbeth (epithet) accusation & criticism: whip / verb
speech: whip / verb
Lady Macbeth of Arkansas lame (lame excuse, etc.)
the yuppie wife from hell, the ~ (wife of politician)
Lady Macbeth of the Balkans lame excuse
she was known as the “~” she refused to listen to my ~s
~s for dumping partners
Wallis Simpson, Lady Macbeth, evil character what kind of ~ is that
this ~ who led this man astray (Corinna zu Sayn-
attenuation: walking, running & jumping
Wittgenstein)
flaws & lack of flaws: walking, running & jumping
behavior / control & lack of control: allusion / epithet
allusion: books & reading
lament (verb)
lag (progress) laments the killing
Trump ~
lagging
their kids' grades and test scores are ~ lamented the nation’s systemic racism
Biden ~
lag behind
women ~ men in the most visible arena of science feeling, emotion & effect: burial / sound / verb

competition / growth & development / progress & lack of lance (verb)

progress: journeys & trips / movement / verb / walking, lance this (perpetual) boil
running & jumping / verb we need to ~ (diplomacy)
lagoon amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
lagoon land (land a job, etc.)
~s where hog manure is stored
landed a (bottom-rung) job
hog-waste lagoon she ~ there (at a TV station)
North Carolina's 4,000 ~s
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish
pumped into lagoons
sewage is ~ and left to evaporate or leach into the ground land (landed him in jail, etc.)
resemblance: sea landed him in hot water
his unapologetic remarks on issues have frequently ~
lake (noun)
relationship: journeys & trips
lake of fire
eternal damnation in the ~ land (arrive / plane)
resemblance: water landed
there was controversy after the article ~
lamb (noun)
land there
lambs so, I don’t think it’s a good idea, and I’m gonna ~
death devours sheep as well as ~ I think it’s difficult, I will ~ (conclude my remarks)
♦ Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
place to land
growth & development: animal / sheep that is not a very reasonable ~ (a political decision)
lamb (sacrificial lamb) how did it land
when you read his remarks, ~ with you
sacrificial lamb
the computers served them up as a ~ (BCS football) how this plane lands
♦ They refused to be taken like lambs to the slaughter (hijacked it’s unclear ~ (budget talks)
passengers).
where did your school land
sacrifice: animal / religion / sheep so, ~ (which option did it choose in response to pandemic)
lambast (verb) ♦ This is often used with wh-question words: how did it land; where will it
land; when will it land... It seems to be connected with the idea of
something being “up in the air.” It is a natural metaphor for people who
lambast the president are accustomed to flying and airports. In Bhutan, I suspect the equivalent
the press conference saw him repeatedly ~ expression is, “So, where does this yak stop?”
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coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane / verb landscape of our lives
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: plane / verb some journeys are etched into the ~ (Lake Ohrid)
landmark (noun) heavyweight landscape
Andy Ruiz Jr has just thrown a grenade into the ~
landmark act
a ~ passed by the Senate (victims of human trafficking) media landscape
the ~ was very different in the 1980s
landmark case
the US Supreme Court, in a ~ in 2000, rejected… sport landscape
the ~
landmark climb
he made a number of ~s in the Alps technology landscape
a clearer picture of our future ~ (airline)
landmark discovery
the ~ could pave the way for new medicines nanoscale landscape
viruses, microchips operate in a ~
landmark moment
it was a ~ in the evolution of artificial intelligence economic landscape
changes in the ~
landmark project
one of his ~s was a shrine… (King Tut) educational landscape
positive changes across the American ~
landmark step
the ruling was a ~ (rape within marriage / Mexico) ethnic landscape
the brutal violence has reshaped the ~
landmark study
his ~ compared students… (single-sex schools) political landscape
and here to talk about the ~ is… (radio show)
landmark work the ~ was dramatically altered by the attack
"Desert of the Heart" is considered a ~ of lesbian fiction the democrats dominated the ~ for more than a generation
stand as a landmark American political landscape
his plays ~ in the history of black culture he left the ~ much the same way it was (Mueller hearings)
direction / importance & significance: ground, terrain & religious landscape
land / journeys & trips part of the ~
landmine (and land mine) social landscape
the ~
landmines
she worries about what she sees as ~ planted by Alito technological landscape
adapted to the new ~
landmine for prosecution
this is a ~ (new evidence) new financial landscape
electronic trading has created a ~
potential landmine
social media is a ~ (news coverage and privacy, etc.) post-Title IX landscape
in the ~, sexual panic rules (universities)
step on that landmine
no nominee would ~ (contentious issue) changes in the (economic) landscape
♦ “There are always land mines and hiccups that come along.” (Doctor there have been vast ~ since the fall of Communism
Anthony Fauci on vaccine production during the 2019-2020 pandemic.)
♦ “I can’t run any more. I can’t play with the other children and I can’t go part of the (public-school) landscape
to school at the moment because of the infection.” (Eleven-year-old charter schools are a significant ~
Mawa, in Egypt. She kicked what she though was a tin can and it blew
off her foot. The UXO was a leftover from World War II.) landscape may (well) change
danger: explosion / military / walking, running & jumping / the heavyweight ~ once more (coming fights)
weapon landscape shifted
then, in the late ‘90s, the football ~ (US)
landscape (noun)
altered the landscape
landscape pandemics ~ of public health forever
her patience for this ~ varies (NYC magazine publishing)
changes the landscape
landscape of journalism the new rule ~ (college admissions)
the Internet transformed the ~
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 it ~ (grants for Duchenne research) healing and love lane
Obama has ~ for all America (race) ya’ll know me, I have one lane, the ~ (activist at demo)
dominate the landscape carve out her own lane
health-maintenance organizations came to ~ she has managed to ~ (singing, fashion, etc.)
reshaped the (political) landscape played his lane
in 2016 he ~ but lost (Bernie Sanders) if he would’ve ~ and kept his mouth shut (gang member)
adapt to this (ever changing media) landscape stay in their lane
trying to ~ anti-gun doctors should ~ (fix wounded, not protest guns)
fit in this landscape veered into the pop lane
help me understand, where does he ~ (politics) a lot of people have ~ (from country music)
♦ If you think about it, the landscape constantly changes as you move
through it. Earthquakes and fires and floods can alter the landscape. So keeps the judiciary in its appropriate lane
can time. the idea of standing ~ (Supreme Court)
♦ (Costello) Thanks for joining us on 5 Live Boxing with Costello and ♦ This word is often preceded by a possessive adjective: my lane, their
Bunce. And now, with less than a month to go until the rematch between lane, your lane, etc.
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas, it’s a chance to assess
the heavyweight landscape as it stands and shapes up at the moment, experience: infrastructure
Steve. / (Bunce) And what a glorious landscape it is, Mike!
language (of sports, cars, etc.)
area / environment: ground, terrain & land
landslide (in a landslide) language of boxing
he understood the universal ~ (ref's gestures, etc.)
lost in a landslide language of hope
Carter ~ to Republican Ronald Reagan
the ~—whether, when and how to invoke it (hospitals)
win in a landslide language of science
if people voted today, he would ~
the abstract, technical ~ (environmental issues)
amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
language of "sport"
landslide (by a landslide) the international ~ (soccer)

won by a landslide language of the string

he ~ on the scorecards (boxer) they have the ~ (international yo-yo contest)

amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills language of white supremacy
Southern elected leaders spoke the ~ (after reconstruction)
landslide (other)
language of war
landslide of evidence its language is the ~ (US football)
there was a ~ that fell around this defendant
language of understanding, peace and harmony
landslide vote a smile is the universal ~
Proposition 187 was approved in a ~ (California)
language of acronyms and weapons systems
landslide victory she fluently speaks the military ~ (a young soldier)
the opposition won a ~ in Kenyan elections
he was appointed principal chief in a ~ (Cherokee) language of football
Bora Milutinovic speaks the ~ (soccer)
♦ In 1841, an earthquake caused a rockslide that blocked the Indus
River. A huge lake formed behind the natural dam. Later in the year it
failed, causing perhaps the largest flood in recorded history. Far
body language
downriver and across a plain, 500 Sikh soldiers drowned at Attock. people send messages through their ~
♦ In 1999, mudslides in Venezuela killed 10- to 30,000 people in Vargas mismatches between words and ~ (liars)
State. They are referred to as “El Desastre de Vargas.” the worst sort of ~ to show a gorilla
amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills computer language
lane (experience) Java, a ~ created by Sun Microsystems
FORTRAN was the first widely used ~
lane programming language
this isn’t just my ~, it’s my highway (doctor on gun control) write applications in the Java ~
he has had his ~ pretty much all to himself (politics)
different language
progressive lane it’s a ~ (military acronyms)
they are fighting for the same ~ in the party (candidates) physicists are often speaking a ~ than biologists (math)

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international "language" lapdog (noun)
the ~ of sport (soccer)
lapdogs of Bush and Cheney
universal language The New York Times reporters were ~ (Iraq War)
a smile is the ~ of understanding, peace and harmony
he understood the ~ of boxing (ref's gestures, etc.) lapdog for the president
he is a ~ (the Senate leader)
speaks the language
Bora Milutinovic ~ of football (soccer) dominance & submission: animal / dog / lap

understood the (universal) language lapidary (adjective)

he ~ of boxing (ref's gestures, etc.)
lapidary
♦ Cars have their own language—clunks, clanks, squeals, squeaks, and
rattles—which can say a lot about a vehicle’s health.” The Essays in Idleness are ~ (Kenko)
♦ “I’m not so convinced that violence fully explains football’s popularity as lapidary poems
a spectator sport, or that the language of war that suffuses the game
(blitz, bomb, sack) is meaningfully connected any longer to actual, rather his most ~ (Philip Larkin)
than notional, bloodlust. The game is more narrative than any other...”
(“Does Football Have a Future?” by Ben McGrath, New Yorker, Jan 31, lapidary polish
2011.) the high ~ of his witty prose (Waugh)
fictive communication: speech lapidary precision
language: sound / sports & games he is a realist painter of ~ (Caleb Considine)
lap (lap of luxury) ♦ This word often appears in the New Yorker Magazine, in reviews of
artists. It refers to the work involved in cutting, polishing and engraving
precious stones. The opposite would be unpolished, of course.
lived in the lap of luxury
for a time we ~ flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances / mining
superlative: materials & substances / mining
situation: container / lap
lap up (verb)
lap (in the lap of)
lapped up such complaints
in the lap of the administration he ~ (an editorial cartoonist)
it puts the issue ~ (politics)
consumption: animal / food & drink / tongue / verb
falls in the lap absorption & immersion: animal / food & drink / tongue /
the issue now ~ of the head of food safety verb
landed in the lap lash (a storm lashed the Philippines)
the case ~ of a federal judge
lash the Philippines
puts the issue in the lap about 20 major storms ~ each year
it ~ of the administration (politics)
lashed the islands with wind and rain
responsibility: container / lap the hurricane ~
lap (fall into the lap, etc.) force: hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb / violence
company's lap / whip
consumer data falls into the ~ lash out (verb)
possession: container / lap
lashed out at (Obama's) campaign
lap (victory lap) the GOP nominee ~

on the victory lap lashed out at the (US) military

Liverpool are now ~ (with win over Man U) he ~

took a victory lap lashed out over (questionable) reporting

President Trump ~ at the Michigan rally (politics) he ~ (a bereaved father)

taking a victory lap speech: verb / violence / whip

this morning the president is ~ (peace deal) accusation & criticism: verb / violence / whip

achievement, recognition & praise: sports & games last (at an earlier time)
success & failure: sports & games last Sunday night
I was talking to him ~

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time: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle the latest effort
sequence: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle in ~ to restore stability after a military coup...
last (time / verb) the latest flare-up
~ of their long-running feud (2 NASCAR drivers)
last forever
summer would not ~ the latest ‘in thing’
not long ago Osaka was ~ to blow in (vs. Gauff)
time: amount
the latest twist
last-ditch (adjective) EFPs are ~ in a lethal game of measure, countermeasure
last-ditch appeal primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
his lawyers filed a ~ (capital case)
Latin (Latin of Korea, etc.)
last-ditch effort
a hiring freeze is often a ~ to reduce staff Latin of Korea
this was a ~ to help him (a troubled athlete) ideographic Chinese—the ~—was isolated from everyday
speech
last-ditch measure
operators used seawater as a ~ to cool the reactors comprehension & incomprehension: history
conflict / difficulty, easiness & effort / fate, fortune & latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
chance / resistance, opposition & defeat: ground, terrain &
land / military latitude for interpretation
a rule leaves very little if any ~
last hurrah
latitude to intervene
last hurrah that would give him more ~ (a national emergency)
WW II veterans gathered for a ~ (memorial)
creative latitude
last hurrah for the (landmark) restaurant he had wide ~ (a filmmaker)
it was a ~ (New Year's Eve celebration / bankrupt)
maximum latitude
girls' last hurrah he takes speculation to its ~
this is these ~ (bachelorette party)
allow you some latitude
beginning or a last hurrah I'll ~ (judge at jury trial)
it may be a new ~ (US health-care legislation) ♦ In Latin, latus means wide and longus means long.
starting, going, continuing & ending: military / sound constraint & lack of constraint / extent & scope: map
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: military /
sound laugh (last laugh)
last rites (noun) have the last laugh
he may ~ here (congressional hearing)
last rites Freud may posthumously ~ (analysis of mass hysteria)
don't administer ~ to Irish Catholicism yet (scandals)
have a kind of last laugh
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine /
though the A380 killed off the 747, Boeing will ~
religion
revenge: bodily reaction / sound
late (timeliness) fate, fortune & chance: bodily reaction / sound
not too late launch (verb)
it's ~ to turn things around (politics)
launched the age
getting late he ~ of chemical warfare (Fritz Haber / 1915)
the hour is ~
launched an (international appeal
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day the Red Cross has ~ for aid (Haiti earthquake)
latest (the latest / most recent) launched a (court) challenge
latest on that case he has ~ against the King (Swaziland)
what is the ~ launched a campaign
the latest (teen) craze they ~ of civil disobedience (Birmingham)
~ in clothes, music, illegal drugs launched a crackdown

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 the government has ~ on corruption
launched a (hugely popular) franchise
the blockbuster film ~ (X-Men)
launched a movement
they ~ that has been both applauded and denounced
amount: clothing & accessories / hygiene
laurels (praise)
won more laurels
he ~ leading world-renowned ensembles (Andre Previn)
♦ “Better deserve honor and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.”

launched a project achievement, recognition & praise: allusion / history / sign,

the department ~ to install lights at crossings (safety) signal, symbol / tree
launched a review law (law of the jungle, etc.)
the UKA ~ (sports doping)
law of the jungle
launched a revolution for such is the ~, death to the weaker, food to the stronger
he ~ (astronomer looking at X-ray emitters)
competition / predation: animal / jungle
launched a (massive) search
officials ~ for the missing sailor Lawrence (T. E.)
launched an (all-out) war Lawrence of Iraq
in 2003 Thailand ~ on meth (Yaba) Travis Patriquin has been dubbed the T. E. ~
launch a (trade) war America’s “Lawrence of Arabia”
he wants to ~ Captain Travis Patriquin, ~ in Ramadi
“We perceived a single Bedawi, running southward all in a flutter, his
launched his business grey hair and grey beard flying in the wind, who yelled ‘The biggest
he ~ this spring aeroplane in the world...’ At Um el Surab the Handley stood majestic on
the grass, with Bristols and 9’s like fledglings beneath its spread of
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: flying & wings. Round it admired the Arabs, saying, ‘Indeed and at last they have
falling / mechanism / throwing, putting & planting / verb sent us THE aeroplane, of which these things were foals.’” (Seven Pillars
of Wisdom, Book X, Chapter CXIV, by T.E. Lawrence.)
inauguration / throwing, putting & planting: flying & falling /
♦ “We could not leave him where he was, to the Turks, because we had
mechanism / verb seen them burn alive our hapless wounded. For this reason we were all
launching pad agreed, before action, to finish off one another, if badly hurt: but I had
never realized that it might fall to me to kill Farraj.” (Seven Pillars of
Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, Book VIII, Chapter XCIII.)
launch pads for emotions
♦ According to his Wikipedia entry, the great Vietnamese general Vo
murder trials can be ~, which can be sky-high Nguyen Giap “had no direct military training and was a history teacher at
a French-speaking academy, citing T.E. Lawrence and Napoleon as his
launching pad for the invasion two greatest influences.”
Kuwait will be the main ~
conflict: epithet / allusion
launching pad for gay marriage epithet: history / military
Hawaii seemed the likely ~ allusion: books & reading / military
launching pad for the embassy bombings lay (put)
Somalia was a ~ (1998)
lay the blame elsewhere
used that win as the launchpad many fans ~ (struggling soccer club)
Liverpool ~ to a golden future (Champions League)
laying the blame on China
initiation: mechanism / rocket the US is ~ (politics)
throwing, putting & planting: mechanism / rocket
throwing, putting & planting: pile / verb
launder (verb)
lay (lay bare)
laundered (the warden’s) money
Andy Dufresne ~ lays bare the fault lines
the report ~ that divide this group (Amish)
concealment & lack of concealment / subterfuge: clothing
& accessories / hygiene / verb concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
/ verb
laundry (laundry list)
lay (lay into)
laundry list of unacceptable behaviors
a~ laid into President Trump’s policies
he ~
laundry list of illnesses
he’s a 67-year-old man with a ~ accusation & criticism: force / verb

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speech: force / verb / violence secrecy ~ of power (terrorism investigations)
layer (analysis) lead to blindness
trachoma can ~ as eyelashes turn in on the eyeball
layer of the onion
you notice that for every ~ there’s another underneath it led to the breakup
the issue ~ of their marriage (attending sex clubs)
layer deeper
we need to dig a ~ lead to the collapse
the situation could ~ of the Iraqi government
analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables /
mining led to a confrontation
a feud between next-door neighbors ~
lay of the land
lead to death
lay of the land even drops of spittle or beads of sweat can ~ (Marburg)
he knew the ~ (Congress)
can you give us the ~ (explain something) led to death
pregnancy often ~ in childbirth (19th century US)
area / environment: ground, terrain & land
analysis, interpretation & explanation: ground, terrain & led to the death
land what ~ of George Floyd
layup (noun) lead to dissention
bonus disparities can ~ in the ranks (military)
layup
it won’t be a ~, but it’s a shot we need to take (prosecution) leads to doom
in social-hygiene films, transgressions ~
certainty & uncertainty: basketball / sports & games
difficulty, easiness & effort: basketball / sports & games lead to menstrual dysfunction
an eating disorder can ~, osteoporosis (athletes)
Lazarus (Emma Lazarus)
lead to an ileus
Emma Lazarus pneumonia can ~, abdominal distention and fever
somewhere, ~ is weeping (US immigration politics)
led to (rapid) innovation
migration: allusion / person his modern version of a wing suit has ~ (de Gayardon)
Lazarus (Bible) led to this moment
Lazarus what ~
he’s not the comeback kid, he’s ~ (a politician) lead to reductions
amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence & price controls ~ in supply and investment
endurance: allusion / Bible / death & life / religion led (up) to this ruling
lead (one thing leads to another) what ~ (by a Florida court)
led (up) to the shooting
leads his colleagues to "blow up"
we know little about what ~
the pressure ~ from time to time
lead to success
led scientists to document
factors that will ~
his discovery ~ earlier outbreaks (epidemic)
led to trouble
lead you to your best achievements
how my nighttime walk ~
the truth is, fear of failure can ~
situation could lead
led me to a different conclusion
the ~ to the collapse of the Iraqi government
my analysis ~
development / direction / relationship: journeys & trips /
led women to desperate acts
movement / verb
a decade of war has ~ (Chechnya)
led him down a dangerous path
leading light (person)
his unswerving belief in himself ~ liberal leading light
lead to (intraabdominal) abscess the ~ caused a political earthquake (Ocasio-Cortez)
intestinal leaks may ~ knew its leading lights
leads to abuses Pasternak ~ (members of symbolist movement)

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achievement, recognition & praise / importance & lean (insufficiency)
significance / superlative: light & dark / person
lean times
leak (verb) voters are sick and tired of ~
the newspaper has had to shut its doors in these ~
word leaked
but on Thursday, ~ that the visa would not be granted lean years
leaking: water / verb she had some ~ (a professional golfer)

leak (noun) sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: fatness & thinness

lean in (verb)
leaks of information
he condemned ~ (FBI investigation) leaning in
he has not been trying to hide, he has been ~, begging to tell
leak of (classified) information
his story
the possible ~
leaks to the press leaning in on (thorny) issues
even Obama praised him for ~ (a popular young politician)
there had been ~ about… (jetliner crash)
leaks and scoops leaning in as hard as (humanly) possible
he is ~ to his position as a Trump backer (politics)
reporters fiercely jockeying for ~
♦ “And lean in always understood that. Lean in was always about being
leaks, supposition, speculation, and spin able to go for leadership positions, always about men leaning in at
home... Well, that’s right, and that’s why again lean in was always for
there's been ~ (investigation) this, lean in was always about men doing their share... So this report is
not telling women to lean in, it’s telling companies to lean in...” (“Sheryl
leaking: water Sandberg: Companies Need To ‘Lean In’ As Pandemic Threatens
leaked Women’s Progress,” NPR, All Things Considered, Oct. 1, 2020.
Sandberg is head of the Lean In Foundation. Her 2013 book Lean In
called on women to be more assertive in the workplace, but has been
leaked voice mail criticized as an unrealistic panacea for most women. Michele Obama
on his ~, he called his daughter a rude little pig famously said, “It’s not always enough to lean in because that s***
doesn’t work.” That criticism itself has been criticized.)
leaking: water
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: gesture /
leak out (verb) standing, sitting & lying / verb

leak out lean into (lean in / into something)

what you tell them would ~ (school counselors)
leaning into the campaign
leaked out in bits and pieces this hype house is ~ in a big way (politics 2020)
the truth ~ (politician)
lean into it
leaks out in debt repayments the women pulled no punches, they would just ~
aid to Africa ~ ("leaking bucket syndrome") (scriptwriters for SVU)
prevent details from leaking out leaned into her status
they want to ~ (explosion in North Korea) she has ~ as one of the only female candidates
news leaked out lean in to your career
the ~ about… ~ and embrace ambition
word leaked out leaned in to her heritage
~ and... (Iraq) in recent years Beyoncé has ~, celebrating race and culture
leaking: water / verb leaned into (fear) tactics
he ~ as he accused the left of... (politics)
lean (size)
commitment & determination: gesture / standing, sitting &
lean and agile lying / verb
the company is ~
lean on (coercion)
lean and nimble
the company must become more ~ lean on his lawyer, Jeff Sessions and other aides
the report details his efforts to ~ (obstruction of justice)
ability & lack of ability / size: fatness & thinness
coercion & motivation: standing, sitting & lying / verb

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lean on (support) leap (transmission)
lean on leap from animals to humans
after your loss, who did you ~, family, friends... (a boxer) some viruses can ~
lean on the crutch transmission: walking, running & jumping / verb
people ~ of metaphor (technology)
leap (the leap of a waterfall, etc.)
leaned (hard) on his experience
he ~ as vice president (election debate) leap, splash and spray
the ~ of waterfalls
lean on scotch
resemblance: walking, running & jumping
he began to ~ to relax (an alcoholic)
leaned on Wilson
leap (noun)
he ~ as his spiritual prop (Robert Falcon Scott) leaps in (bike) design
lean on and even pressure significant ~
many companies ~ workers to volunteer leaps in (math) proficiency
help & assistance: standing, sitting & lying / verb students have made great ~
dependency: standing, sitting & lying / verb leap in (weapons) technology
lean towards (verb) this ~

leaning towards Biden leap to stardom

he is ~ (a voter) she reflects on her ~ (film actor)

leaning towards voting leap to television

she is ~ for disapproval (declaration of national emergency) they made the ~ (from the early days of film)

allegiance, support & betrayal: standing, sitting & lying / leap from booby to boo-boo
verb it is a short linguistic ~

leap (leap into action, etc.) leap from mediocrity to greatness

11 companies that made the ~
leapt at the opportunity leaps and bounds
my father ~ (to help humanity / a doctor)
the organization was growing by ~
leaped to defend him the intelligence community has grown by ~
Churchill ~ (Stalin / World War II) technology leap
leapt into action every new ~—the longbow, the tank, the atom bomb…
the police ~ great leap
leapt into the fray students have made ~s in math proficiency
eminent academics and writers ~ (literary controversy) mental leap
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping if one can make the ~ to imagine Go in heaven…
commitment & determination / eagerness & reluctance: short (linguistic) leap
movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
it is a ~ from booby to boo-boo
leap (leap of faith, etc.)
significant leap
leap of faith ~ in bike design
you've just got to make a ~, and I'm here to catch you
made the leap
take a ~ and trust again or get out (unfaithful spouse)
they ~ to television (from the early days of film)
leap of the imagination progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping
America is a ~ (history)
throwing, putting & planting: walking, running & jumping
leap in faith leap (leaps and bounds)
marriage is a ~
♦ “When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.” by leaps and bounds
(Chinese.) the organization was growing ~
commitment & determination: walking, running & jumping in leaps and bounds
fate, fortune & chance: walking, running & jumping technology has advanced ~

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increase & decrease: walking, running & jumping leech (person)
speed: movement / walking, running & jumping
leapfrog (verb) leeches
~ come with the sudden wealth (pro athletes)
leapfrogged (traditional) technology those ~ take it all (Christian aid groups vs. refugees)
China has ~ (cellphone usage) leech, the busy bee, the whiner
leapfrogs from histories to key games the ~ (types of bad friends)
the series jumps around, it ~ (sports documentary) parasite, a leech
progress & lack of progress: animal / verb / walking, she’s a ~ (charges soldiers for water from a river)
running & jumping despised the poor as leeches
movement: animal / verb / walking, running & jumping he ~ who weakened society (Atlas Shrugged)
learn (verb) affliction: animal / person
learned from his losses character & personality: animal / person
he has ~ person: animal

knowledge & intelligence: school & education / verb

leeway (noun)
lease (lease on life) leeway
she doesn't allow me any ~
new lease on life constraint & lack of constraint / extent & scope: boat
the medication gave him a ~
the new term feels like a ~ (a teacher) left (left behind)
technology has given publishing a ~
left behind
gave him a (new) lease on life the poor are ~ (services go to wealthy)
the medication ~
progress & lack of progress: direction / prep, adv, adj,
amelioration & renewal: document particle
leash (on a leash) left field (out of left field)
on a constitutional leash come out of left field
she believes in a government ~ the announcement ~ (unexpected)
on a (very) short (constitutional) leash * “This thing was not only from left field, it was from the planet Mars,
because it didn’t happen...” (A politician dismissing an old accusation of
she believes in a government ~
sexual abuse.)
keeps him on a short leash * This refers to a throw from the left fielder to either first base or home
the company ~ (an actor who is also a pitchman) plate, surprising the runner. Ordinarily, a throw from the outfield is cut off
by the second-baseman. It takes an outfielder with a strong arm to make
control & lack of control: animal / dog such a long throw.

constraint & lack of constraint: animal / dog appearance & disappearance: baseball / sports & games
leave (leave something alone) left out (excluded)
leave it alone left out of the Paris Olympics
people told me to ~ (don’t speak out or get involved) baseball and softball will be ~
involvement: direction / verb acceptance & rejection: container
leave (death) inclusion & exclusion: container
leg (first leg, etc.)
left us
I gather he ~ last year (died) leg of the journey
euphemism: death & life / verb conditions on the return ~ were worse

leave it somewhere (commitment) leg of the trip

the plane left for the second ~ to Dover Air Force Base
left it all out there on the floor
leg of training
I ~ along with my guys (NBA win)
the final ~ for soldiers trying to become Green Berets
commitment & determination: giving, receiving, bringing &
return leg
returning / verb
conditions on the ~ of the journey were worse

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first leg the romance of the West versus its ~ (US)
the ~ of his journey
legacy of the cold war
second leg this terrible ~ (Russian stockpiles of chemical weapons)
the plane left for the ~ of the trip to Dover AFB
war's legacy
final leg the ~ continues to divide Americans (Civil War)
the ~ of training for soldiers trying to become Green Berets
family legacy
sequence: leg ~s and obligations
leg (grow legs) colonial legacy
France's ~ has deepened that alienation (immigrants)
grew legs boxing in India is a ~ (sports)
my website ~ (became successful)
genetic legacy
growth & development / success & failure: leg / verb the seed vault seeks to save the ~ of vanishing plants
leg (leg to stand on) insidious legacy
landmines are an ~ of war
have a (firm) leg to stand on
he didn’t ~ (Secretary of Labor resigns) multigenerational legacy
bases: leg / standing, sitting & lying families with ~s of college education (vs. poor)

legacy (obsolescence) radioactive legacy

using the world’s ~ (to determine age of whale sharks)
legacy costs
sever the legacy
the "~" of retiree health care and pensions (industry)
Estonia's effort to ~ of its Soviet past (monuments, etc.)
legacy equipment
deal with the legacy
adding high-tech sensors to ~ is expensive and challenging
how to ~ of slavery and colonialism
legacy issues
pass the legacy along to their children's children
there are many companies that need to confront ~
~ (Shoshone)
legacy system transmission: family / history / money
drivers are available for ~s such as Windows 98
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: family / history /
"legacy" technology money
~—an industry euphemism for obsolete hardware legacy (reputation)
legacy thinking
legacy
generals are locked in a cold-war mindset—~
his ~ is tarnished by allegations he… (a boxer)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: family / history
legacy of failure
/ money
given the long ~ at schools like Thomas Jefferson
transmission: family
legacy (history) legacy of love
they left a ~ wherever they went (eulogy)
legacy Manchester's (industrial) legacy
she talked about her ~, the things she has achieved ~ (England)
legacy of the past Michigan's (proud shipbuilding) legacy
the ~ (history) ~ (Lake Michigan)
legacy of its (Soviet) past shipbuilding legacy
Estonia's effort to sever the ~ (monuments, etc.) Michigan's proud ~ (Lake Michigan)
legacy of (vanishing) plants troubled (racial) legacy
the seed vault seeks to save the genetic ~ (on Svalbard) a stark reminder of this city's ~ (St. Louis)
legacy of war Jewish legacy
landmines are an insidious ~ there is a rich ~ associated with boxing
legacy of slavery and colonialism industrial legacy
how to deal with the ~ Manchester's ~ (England)
legacy of pain and prejudice

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proud (shipbuilding) legacy immigration, ~
Michigan's ~ (Lake Michigan)
through that lens
racial legacy I see the world through that lens (being biracial)
a stark reminder of this city's troubled ~ (St. Louis)
through the new lens of the memes
rich (Jewish) legacy looked at ~, human beings…
there is a ~ associated with boxing
through the lens of science
carry on his (great) legacy experiences now better seen ~ (hearing "voices")
a replacement will ~ (Supreme Court justice)
through the lens of a (negative) stereotype
embraced (for itself) the legacy the threat of being viewed ~
Gazprom has ~ of Peter the Great (new skyscraper)
through an ethnic lens
reputation: family / history / money he refused to view things ~ (Afghan military man)
transmission: family
through a "theological" lens
legion (noun) he does not view the conflict ~ (Middle East)

legion of fans perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
Mr. Musk told his ~ that... attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology

legions of others lens (other)

she is joining ~, many of them women, who are frustrated
lens onto the (shadowy) world
legions of poor his arrest provides a ~ of computer hackers
Karachi is a magnet for its ~
narrow lens
legions of other women presenting poetry through a ~ of immigration
and so are ~ (“me too” movement)
novel and interesting lens
amount: military he has found a ~ through which to view the conflict
lemon (noun) attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
lemon
my car is a ~ Leonardo da Vinci
failure, accident & impairment: fruits & vegetables England’s Leonardo
flaws & lack of flaws: fruits & vegetables Robert Hooke, ~ (Allan Chapman)
lend (lend a hand, etc.) knowledge & intelligence: epithet

lent an ear leper (person)

Michael unselfishly ~ to friends in need
modern-day lepers
lend a hand we treat them like ~ (fat people)
can I ~ (help) ♦ In 2009, Egypt sought to close its last leper colony, the Abou Zaabal
Leprosarium. The inhabitants of the colony protested, however. Many of
help & assistance: money / verb them preferred to live in the colony rather than return home to their
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: money / verb villages.

length (go to any lengths, etc.) acceptance & rejection: health & medicine / person /
society
go to any lengths society: health & medicine / person
the corporation will ~ to preserve the system (oil) person: society
political rivals will ~ to achieve their aims
lesson (noun)
gone to unusual lengths
police had ~ in their investigation learned my lesson
I~
behavior / extent & scope: distance
restraint & lack of restraint: distance learned his lesson
difficulty, easiness & effort: distance he has probably ~ (a politician who made a serious gaffe)

lens (through a lens) teach the kid a lesson

maybe I want to ~
through many lenses
behavior / knowledge & intelligence: school & education

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let down (fail) level (ground level, etc.)
let me down on a 30,000-foot level
don't ~ so, ~, what has emerged is that... (analysis)
let the team down from the ground level
in the most critical situation, I ~ (sports) we want to show the conflict as it looks ~
let us down perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain &
don't ~ land / height
Leslie did not ~ (a basketball player)
level (fairness)
let you down
a book would never ~ (Amos Oz) on the level
this is not ~ (criminal case thrown out of court)
let a child down
every case, an adult has ~ (under-age drinking) level of accountability
there needs to be a ~ throughout the system (justice)
let myself down
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~ level playing field
all we ask for is a ~ (tariffs)
let my family down
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~ flaws & lack of flaws : sports & games

let my team down level off (verb)

if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~
let my country down
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~
adult has let a child down
in every case, an ~ (under-age drinking)
leveling off
the epidemic may be ~ (opioid abuse)
increase & decrease : direction / verb
progress & lack of progress: mountains & hills / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / verb

dogs let him down lever (levers of power, etc.)

each time, the ~ (fighting pit bulls)
levers of power
step up or let down he holds the ~
you can ~ your colleagues
diplomatic lever
success & failure: direction / verb we need to find the right ~ (encouraging democracy)
failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
Russia’s (diplomatic) levers
lethargic (adjective) Kim’s visit to Moscow is a reminder to Washington of ~

lethargic pulls the levers

the government’s response has been ~ (earthquake relief) she ~ of power in Congress and moves legislation

lethargic display control & lack of control: mechanism

that was a ~ (a soccer game) leverage (noun)
activity / flaws & lack of flaws: health & medicine
leverage over North Korea
speed / timeliness & lack of timeliness: movement
China has the most ~
level (take something to a higher level)
diplomatic leverage
took it to a whole new level Sadat gained ~ using oil as a political weapon (1973)
yesterday he ~ (criticism of enemies) ♦ “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth.” (Attributed to
Archimedes. This attests to the power of a lever and a fulcrum.)
increase & decrease: direction
power / force: tools & technology
levelheaded (adj)
leverage (verb)
levelheaded girl
Olga was a ~ leverage its support
Israel should ~ in decisive talks with the Palestinians
character & personality: equilibrium & stability
power / force: tools & technology / verb

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leviathan (noun) her biggest challenges ~
future / time: direction / journeys & trips / verb
leviathans
Britain’s two new aircraft carriers are ~ life (give life)
leviathan government given new life to grievances
he wants to shrink our ~ (a politician) the uranium boom has ~ over land and power (Niger)
leviathan state given new life to an old myth
they protested against the encroachments of a ~ (health) the controversy has ~
intelligence leviathan survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
9/11 helped to create a sprawling ~ amelioration & renewal: death & life / verb
new leviathan life (begin life)
the intelligence services are the ~
began life as a monastery
become a leviathan St Mark’s Church ~
what started as a little startup has ~ (Facebook)
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb
♦ The Behemoth was a huge land monster mentioned in the Book of Job.
Its aquatic counterpart was the Leviathan. Both creatures were controlled growth & development: death & life / verb
life (bring to life)
by God, symbolizing God's power.

size: allusion / Bible / creature / religion

brings to life
license (noun) the exhibit ~ the personalities behind the inventions
license to publish brings Copernicus to life
this is not a ~ anti-government stories his new biography ~
license to kill bring (educational) exhibits to life
fear or hatred are not a ~ (vigilante action) sound can ~ (natural-sound recordings)
interpret this as a license brings the geography to life
editors should not ~ to publish anti-government stories "America from the Air" ~ (picture book)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: document / brings history (really back) to life
government it ~ (illuminating Hadrian's Wall with 500 beacons)
lid (keep the lid on something) brings him (back) to life
she ~ sexually (character in film)
keep a lid on such information
it’s next to impossible to ~ (mass shooters’ names) substance & lack of substance: death & life / verb
amelioration & renewal: death & life / verb
access & lack of access: bottle / container / verb
life (breathe life)
lie (lie low)
breathed life into Germany’s campaign
lying low Reus ~ (important world-cup goal)
the gangs are ~
breathe life into a career
activity: standing, sitting & lying / verb he continues to ~ that looked finished (a boxer)
lie (lie open) breathe life into the (Arab peace) initiative
the king's effort to ~
lay open to the virus
this was the American landscape that ~ breathe life into the sport
access & lack of access / protection & lack of protection: he is trying to find novel ways to ~ (Indy car racing)
ground, terrain & land / standing, sitting & lying amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
lie (lie ahead) endurance: breathing / death & life / health & medicine /
verb
lies ahead
the work that ~ will be difficult
life (life of its own)
we are ready for the struggle that ~ (war) taken on a life of its own
lie ahead his death has ~ (conspiracy theory)
as we prepare for the elections that ~… survival, persistence & endurance: death & life

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life (spring to life) life crumbled
my ~
sprang to life
Mount Marapi ~ early this week (volcano) built a good life
the town ~ from nothing (oil) we ~ together

sprang (vividly) to life put my life back together

the issues ~ (heated discussion) I'm trying to ~

activity / initiation: death & life / verb death & life: infrastructure
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb life (things)
life (from walks of life) life of the product
from all walks of life this product is fully warranted for the ~
we are ~, but we all love the same thing (hobbyists) life of the (ReadNet) school
people ~ gathered (Tunisian protests) the brief ~ offers a stark lesson... (charter)
his funeral was attended by people ~ (Pasternak, 1960)
life of four hours
friends from all walks of life the active battery pack has an estimated ~
I have ~
hailstone's life
people from all walks of life in a ~ a long time is 10 to 20 minutes
he thinks ~ can relate to his cause
battery life
students from all walks of life laptop users list ~ as their No. 1 complaint
universities should reach out to ~
design life
come from all walks of life many bridges are at the end of their ~ (collapses)
they ~ (to a funeral)
shelf life
society: walking, running & jumping
extend the ~
life (in all walks of life) the ~ of a product

in all walks of life toy life

Azerbaijanis ~ tend to… (opinions) read the directions for safer play and longer ~

active in all walks of life half-life

Muslims are ~ (US) the elimination ~ is 27 minutes (GHB)
the drug has a short onset of effect and a short ~
society: walking, running & jumping
working life
life (walks of life) equipment has outlived its predicted ~ (electric utility)
different walks of life estimated life
you've got five people from completely ~ (D. C. Metro) the active battery pack has an ~ of four hours
spreading into all walks of life extended-life (m)
an epidemic of violence is ~ ~ batteries
society: walking, running & jumping predicted (working) life
equipment has outlived its ~ (electric utility)
life (container)
brief life
life the ~ of the ReadNet school offers a stark lesson
life is full of surprises
my ~ is empty useful lives
downtown freeways have reached the end of their ~
full life
she led a ~ at the end of their (design) life
many bridges are ~ (collapses)
death & life: container
end of their (useful) lives
life (life is a building) downtown freeways have reached the ~
life draw new life from old wells
my ~ is in ruins as the industry improves its ability to ~ (oil)

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take on a life of its own lifeline (noun)
an injustice can ~ (the law is an ass)
♦ "Every rock face breathes life with its lungs and emanates an energy lifeline
that is proper only to itself." (The great Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar songwriting has been a ~ (Todd Snider / bipolar, etc.)
in "No Impossible Ways.") in Somalia, piracy isn't just a business, it's a ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life lifeline for Egypt
life (survival) the waters of the River Nile are a ~

political life lifeline for the (entire) Southwest

he is fighting for his ~ (a politician) the Colorado River drainage basin, a ~

coming back to life lifeline for (countless) villages

the economy is ~ the Congo River is the ~ (Congo)

survival, persistence & endurance: death & life financial lifeline

Jet Airways is seeking a ~ to avoid collapse (debt)
lifeblood
survival, persistence & endurance: boat / death & life /
lifeblood of the Gulf water
the estuaries are the ~ (oil spill)
life raft
lifeblood of the country
the Congo River is the ~ life raft for his floundering campaign
South Carolina is a ~ (primary elections)
lifeblood of the community
the river is the ~ survival, persistence & endurance: boat / death & life /
water
lifeblood of our communities
small businesses are the ~ (commerce) life span (noun)
lifeblood of the (modern) economy life span of 198 days
energy is the ~ (California) the annual Great Whirl has an average ~ (Arabian Sea)

lifeblood of the region growth & development: death & life

the economic ~ is the river life support (on life support)
lifeblood of Saudi Arabia
this company is the ~ (Aramco) on life support
Detroit is ~
lifeblood of the town the team is ~ (losing)
the sea was the ~ (fishing, etc.)
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine
lifeblood of (so many) colleges and schools decline: death & life / health & medicine
federal financial aid is the ~ lift (noun)
Iraq's (economic) lifeblood
pipelines funnel ~ (oil)
temporary lift
caffeine may give you a ~, but it won't sustain you
Zambia's (commercial) lifeblood feeling, emotion & effect: direction
mining and sales businesses are ~
lift (verb)
Sahel's lifeblood
the ~ has always been a seasonal monsoon lifted our spirits
Mallory's lifeblood Sara ~
mystery and danger were ~ (the climber) feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb
commercial lifeblood lift (amelioration)
mining and sales businesses are Zambia's ~
lift the sanctions
economic lifeblood they want to ~
the ~ of the region is the river
pipelines funnel Iraq's ~ (oil) amelioration & renewal: verb / weight
dismissal, removal & resignation: verb / weight
bases: blood / death & life

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lifting (heavy lifting) new ~

heavy lifting problem came to light

the ~ two years ago
let us do the ~ (ad)
appearance & disappearance: light & dark / verb
did the heavy lifting
searching & discovery: light & dark / verb
we ~, and they got the credit (disgusted)
consciousness & awareness: light & dark / verb
work & duty: burden / weight
light (bring something to light)
light (in light of) brought to light
in light of the difficulties new findings have been ~ from the old data
~ facing the Dukha and other traditional peoples appearance & disappearance: light & dark / verb
in light of the (uncovered) documents searching & discovery: light & dark / verb
an appeal ~ (trial) consciousness & awareness: light & dark / verb

in light of (yesterday's) incident

light (see the light)
~, nobody will be allowed to... see the light
in light of the revelation it ought to ~ (an unpublished manuscript)
how they would pursue the case ~ appearance & disappearance: light & dark
in light of (last week's) tragedy light (shed light)
the game has been cancelled ~
shed (no immediate) light on the (June 5) abduction
perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark
his arrest ~
light (shining light) analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark / verb
shining light concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / verb
co-workers described Nina as a ~ (died) light (shine a light)
superlative: light & dark shine a light on the abuse
character & personality: light & dark what he did was ~ (prison guard)
light (guiding light) shine a light on the women
guiding lights of the continent we must ~ who have brought knowledge into the world
the ~ are dull indeed (leaders) attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / verb
direction: journeys & trips / light & dark light (make light of something)
light (in a light) made light of the (whole) situation
in a different light he ~ (pressure)
he saw the world ~ substance & lack of substance: weight / verb
they began to view him ~
lighten (lighten things up, etc.)
in a negative light
tenants see him ~ (landlord) lightened the mood
the good news ~
perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark
lighten things up
light (come to light) things are getting a little heavy, let's ~
came to light amelioration & renewal: verb / weight
the scope of medical errors ~ when… feeling, emotion & effect: verb / weight
come to light light bulb (and bulb)
new evidence has ~
light bulb
come to light earlier a ~ went off in his head and he… (good idea)
these misdeeds should have ~ (sex abuse)
light bulb in kids' heads
came to light two years ago we hope to turn on a ~ about science
the problem ~
light-bulb moment
evidence has come to light

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 you've heard of a ~, this was a spotlight moment
these ~s feel as if they happen in a flash but...
will UK provide a ~ for US Democrats (Labor defeat)
brightest bulb
he is not the ~, his IQ is in the seventies...
light bulb went off
a ~ in his head and he… (good idea)
turn on a light bulb
we hope to ~ in kids' heads about science
idea / knowledge & intelligence: light & dark
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
consciousness & awareness: light & dark
light-hearted (adjective)
seemed light-hearted
she ~ during the re-enactment (of a crime)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / weight
heart: weight
lighthouse (protection)
lighthouses in the storm
at times like that, people are looking for ~ (downturn)
direction: boat / infrastructure / light & dark / sea
protection & lack of protection: boat
danger: boat / sea
lighthouse (illumination)
lighthouse of civilization, conviviality, and philosophy
Cordova was the ~ in West Europe (Muslim Spain)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark
comprehension & lack of comprehension: light & dark
lightly (take something lightly)
take this issue lightly
nobody should ~
substance & lack of substance: weight
lightning (adjective)
lightning-quick
he had created the mobile, ~ army (General Grant)
lightning advance
the ~ northward continues (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
lightning drive
the ~ to reach Baghdad (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
lightning (offensive) operation
one key to a ~ was making sure…(military)
lightning speed
the catastrophe developed at ~ (submarine)
color graphics downloaded at ~
the US broke again with ~ (soccer team)
the risks of a war that began with ~
the ~ of modern technology
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speed: lightning / storm
lightning (fate)
lightning
~ can strike twice
lightning struck
everything was going good, and then ~
♦ The Malay who had brought Tamb’ Itam and the girl to Samarang was
there too. ‘Not so angry as many,’ he said to me, but struck with a great
awe and wonder at the ‘suddenness of men’s fate, which hangs over
their heads like a cloud charged with thunder.’” (Lord Jim by Joseph
Conrad.)
♦ "In southern Indiana lightning struck a ball field, injuring four members
of the Seymour girl's high school softball team. One of the girls was in
critical condition, while the other three sustained non-critical injuries…
The skies were reportedly clear at the time of the strike."
♦ “The boy directly in front of me... In other words, his feet were about
that far from my head, as he was halfway through the fence, lightning
struck the barbed wire, electrocuted him on the spot. I didn’t know he
was dead, I had never seen a dead person, so I crawled beside him and
I pulled him into the meadow and I stayed with him for an hour trying to
warm him up. And that was the moment when I understood that anything
can happen to anybody at any time. And it’s an experience that has
haunted me all my life, I’ve thought about it probably every day. It was
the single-most important thing that ever happened to me.” (US novelist
Paul Auster. From “Paul Auster on his ‘single most important’ moment,”
BBC, Thursday, 14 March 2017. Paul was 14 years old when the tragedy
occurred.)
fate, fortune & chance: electricity / lightning / sky / storm
lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.)
hip-swinging bolt of lightning
he was a ~ (Johnny Hallyday)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / lightning / storm
lightning bolt (comprehension)
lightning-bolt moment
it was a ~ when I knew what I wanted to do (be a singer)
comprehension & incomprehension: electricity / lightning /
storm
lightning rod
lightning rod
the university is a ~ for people with political statements
Al Jazeera has always been a ~ (politics)
lightning rod for (public) anger
he became the ~ over the disaster (replaced)
lightning rod for criticism
he became a ~ (a baseball manager)
lightning rod for a (bitter political) debate
the issue became a ~ over whether…
became a lightning rod
the case ~ for outrage in the community (bullying)
♦ Many clerics opposed the use of lightning rods on church steeples, in
spite of the fact that the steeples attracted lighting that caused fires. In
1767, the church of San Nazaro in Brescia (Brecia) was hit by lightning
17 years after Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod. Inside,
several thousand pounds of gunpowder were being stored. The blast
destroyed not only the church but one-sixth of the city and killed over
3,000 people.
attraction & repulsion: electricity / lightning garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. (Shakespeare’s The Life and
Death of King John, Act, Scene 2.)
light show sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: allusion
celestial light show flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
the Leonid meteor shower, that November ~… limb (go out on a limb)
resemblance: theater
go out on a limb
light up (a room, etc.) French climbers are notorious for being willing to ~

lights up the stage go out on a limb to hide

she ~ they are willing to ~ him (a terrorist)
superlative: light & dark / verb willing to go out on a limb
character & personality: light & dark / verb they are ~ to hide him (a terrorist)
light up (activity) fate, fortune & chance: tree / verb

lights up social media limbo (in limbo)

Warren’s fiery performance ~ (Democratic debate)
in limbo
lit up with (anti-aircraft) fire plans are ~
the sky ~ the children are ~ (schools destroyed by earthquake)
his fate is ~ (general in trouble with president)
activity: light & dark / verb the British Government is ~ (hung Parliament)
lightweight (noun) he has been ~ waiting for his case to be resolved
we are always ~ and we just don’t know...
intellectual lightweight
in health-care limbo
she's an ~
certain of the sick find themselves ~
substance & lack of substance: boxing / weight
in legal limbo
light year (light years away, etc.) they are in ~ (spouses of terrorists in Syria)

light years ahead stuck in limbo

she was ~ of her peers the results of the first vote were ~ (votes stolen)

light years away remain in limbo

he is ~ from the keeper he used to be (decline) the results ~ (election)
Man U is still ~ from the glory days of old, but...
remains in limbo
seems like light years Boeing ~ as it figures out its next steps
it ~ since...
left people in limbo
extent & scope: astronomy / distance / star failure to agree on regulations has ~
proximity: astronomy / distance / star
left the (British) people in limbo
Lilliputian (adjective) the endless negotiations have ~ (Brexit)

Lilliputian scale situation: container / religion

photographing life on a ~ (insects) action, inaction & delay / certainty & uncertainty /
environment / progress & lack of progress: religion
land of Lilliputians
Tiger Woods has been a giant in a ~ (golf star) limelight (in the limelight)
♦The allusion is to the satire Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, which in the limelight
also contributed Brobdingnagian to the language.
it takes a special ability to be ~ and then be invisible
size: allusion
allusion: books & reading
moment in the limelight
he had a ~, 30 years later
lily (gild the lily) he had his most significant ~ a dozen years ago

gilding the lily back in the limelight

the chips are ~, but why not (lobster thermidor with chips) he is ~ (fashion)
♦ Salisbury: Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, / To guard a
title that was rich before, / To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw
basked in the limelight
a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto they ~ (officials)
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stay in the limelight line (a hard line, etc.)
he would do anything to ~
tough line
spend three weeks in the limelight taking a ~ on enforcement
after vanishing for 30 years, he has ~
conservative line
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark
the ~ that gay civil unions threaten…
limit (push the limits, etc.) hard-line
pushed the limits China's ~ policy
she has ~ too far (nudity) Trump’s ~ rhetoric

behavior: boundary / verb position, policy & negotiation: line

restraint & lack of restraint: boundary / verb line (division)
limits (push something to its limits) lines of class, race and education
pushed to its limits domestic violence crosses all ~
the agency has been ~ caste lines
survival, persistence & endurance: boundary / verb the public taps are divided along ~ (India)
difficulty, easiness & effort: boundary / verb color line
restraint & lack of restraint: boundary / verb the ~ is a fundamental U.S. problem
constraint & lack of constraint: boundary / verb
limp (verb) company lines
collaboration is occurring across ~
limping along gender lines
the US economy is ~ when issues divide along ~
condition & status / progress & lack of progress: movement
poverty line
/ walking, running & jumping / verb the minimum wage is below the ~
limp (noun) living below the ~

limp sex line

if there is a trend afoot, it has a distinct ~ the class divided along ~s (like or dislike of author)

progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running ethnic lines

& jumping groups divided along ~

linchpin ideological lines

the court's ruling broke along ~ (Supreme Court)
linchpin of medicine
racial lines
nursing's roles as a ~ goes largely unreported
threatened to divide our nation along ~ (hate crime)
linchpins of the (US) strategy there's a distinct blurring of the ~ here (South Africa)
a strong national army and police force are the ~ (war)
thin blue line
bases / importance & significance: mechanism the ~ (policemen)
♦ A linchpin is a fastener used on hitches and axels. In the case of axels, blurring of the (racial) lines
it prevents the wheels from falling off.
there's a distinct ~ here (South Africa)
♦ “Nurses are the linchpins of hospitals, and when we lose them the
wheels of medicine fall off.” variations across (geographic or demographic) lines
line (end of the line, etc.) ~ (a survey)

end of the line economic and educational lines

it's not the ~, it's the beginning of the line (rehab) typically breaks down among ~
legally, it was the ~ (man escapes conviction) ethnic and class lines
end of the line for him the drug is crossing ~ (Ecstasy)
this is the ~ (arrested for murder) gender and cultural lines
starting, going, continuing & ending: line / train when applied across ~
geographic or demographic lines
variations across ~ (a survey)

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lines are drawn there is a ~ between making a point and belaboring it
the ~ (nomination fight / politics)
fine or blurry line
crossing (ethnic and class) lines there is sometimes a ~ between saint and sinner
the drug is ~ (Ecstasy)
line has (gradually) blurred
crosses all lines but the ~ as…
domestic violence ~ of class, race and education
lines are blurring
crossed (party) lines the ~ (between hotels and Airbnb)
Democrats ~
blur the line
cuts across (ideological) lines some writers ~ (between genre and literature)
the movement now ~ (animal welfare)
blurs the line
broke along (ideological) lines realism ~ between video games and movies…
the court's ruling ~ (Supreme Court)
erased the line
divided along (racial) lines he has ~ between abled and disabled (Oscar Pistorius)
a Southern society that was still sharply ~
straddles the line
divided along (ethnic) lines he ~ between news and entertainment (TV personality)
groups ~
division & connection: boundary / line
♦ Actual lines include such things as picket lines and security lines.
line (out of line)
division & connection: boundary / line
line (categories) a little out of line
I think you are ~ here…
line between life and death behavior: boundary / line
the ~ proved a thin one (victims of terror attack)
line (finish line)
line between abled and disabled
he has erased the ~ (Oscar Pistorius) finish line of retirement
deep into the rat race, far from the ~
line between news and entertainment
he straddles the ~ (TV personality) at the finish line
I will be there ~ (lengthy lawsuit against corporation)
line between video games and movies
realism blurs the ~… get across the finish line
she is looking for women we can help ~ (politics)
line between observer and participant
the ~ (bombings / Iraq) push the bill across the finish line
they are hoping to ~ (politics)
line between saint and sinner
♦ “I will be there at the finish line. I don’t want to run halfway and decide,
there is sometimes a fine or blurry ~ ‘Nah, I’m too tired now.’” (One of a number of woman suing a major
corporation for unequal pay.)
line between martyrdom and suicide
she explores the ~ (author) starting, going, continuing & ending: line / sports & games
attainment: line / sports & games
line between the real and the unreal
the ~ in popular culture seems ever more blurred line (battle lines, etc.)
line between teaching and criticizing battle lines are formed
the delicate ~ (coaching) these ~, solid, and unmoving (impeachment)
line between making a point and belaboring it battle lines are forming
there is a fine ~ the ~ in the dispute
line between reality and play-acting battle lines are hardening
the ~ is not clear in both movies and wrestling the ~ over the issue (abortion)
the ~ as the rulers dig in (Middle East protests)
line between normal and abnormal
the ~ (psychiatry) battle lines are being drawn
the ~ (politics)
delicate line
the ~ between teaching and criticizing (coaching) battle lines have been drawn
the ~ (liberals versus conservative)
fine line

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last line toes the line
habeus corpus is the ~ of defense, a Hail Mary (law) not everyone ~
conflict: military toe the line
the judges refused to ~ (dispute with president)
line (over the line) Republicans have been asked to ~ (politics)
go over the line unanimity & consensus: line / verb
"Anything goes… As long as you don't ~ (Las Vegas)
line (government line, etc.)
stepped over the line
some people believe the group has ~ (ELF) company line
researchers toe the ~
behavior: boundary / line
government line
line (cross the line) the ~ about Waco is being challenged
crossed the line party line
her comments ~ (racer complains about pit crew) he is not touting a ~
crossed a (constitutional) line official line
the suit argues the law ~ he parroted the ~ about enemy losses
behavior: boundary / line / verb sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: line
line (tread a line, etc.) line (red line)
treading a (delicate) line red line
the government is ~ between… this is a ~ that should not be crossed (national defense)
walk a (really) fine line a ~ for us is if we see chemical weapons (diplomacy)
the government has to ~ (indictment) the use of chemical weapons would be a "~" that…
behavior: boundary / line
walks a (very) fine line
the indictment ~ here (case against Assange) line of fire
fate, fortune & chance: boundary / line / verb / walking, walk (directly) into the line of fire
running & jumping it may seem crazy to ~ (Jessi Combs / speed record)
line (on the line) danger: military / weapon
on the line line up (verb)
the season is ~ on Sunday (a sports team)
lined up to call
fate, fortune & chance: line Republicans have ~ on him to quit (politics)
line (in line) lining up behind him
they are ~ (supporting a politician)
in line with (embassies’) advisories
Westerners keep a low profile ~ unanimity & consensus: line / verb
fell in line linger (verb)
when Trump won the nomination, Burkman ~
lingers in our minds
unanimity & consensus: line each of us has a single meal that ~
line (toe a line, etc.) linger for 20 hours
the Predator can ~ over a battlefield (military)
treading a (delicate) line
the government is ~ between… anxiety lingered
~ long after the threat had passed
follow the (I.M.F.'s) line
countries that ~ but still fail to grow… effects will linger
the psychological ~...
parroted the (official) line
he ~ about enemy losses hope lingers
~ for youngster's return (missing)
toed the (Republican) line
he has ~ (a politician) questions linger
he was released from prison, but ~...

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storm lingers lion (courage)
the longer the ~, the longer we will see impacts
lions
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
we won’t be sheep, we’re going to be ~ (self-defense)
verb
lion's heart
lingering I have a ~ (winning boxer after hard match)
lingering doubts courage of a lion
put to rest any ~ about… she had the ~ (Sicilian journalist slain in Afghanistan)
jurors who may hold ~ about their guilty verdict...
♦ The jackal is a lion in his own country.
lingering fears ♦ It is better to die like a lion than live like a dog.
~ over safety (terrorism) ♦ It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion.

lingering irritant courage & lack of courage: animal / lion / person

his decision was a ~ to Republicans person: animal / lion
lingering smell lion's share
the ~ of smoke (restaurant fire)
lion's share of the attention
lingering stereotype a few books get the ~
the ~ of depression being a female condition
lion's share of the burden
lingering tensions the US is willing to do the ~, but we can't do it alone
~ burst into violence
lion's share of the credit
lingering threat he deserves the ~ (coach)
software can prevent much of the ~ of known viruses
lion's share of the rewards
lingering fears or concerns they reap the ~
try to address any ~ he may have (toddler)
deserves the lion's share
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement he ~ of the credit (coach)
link (weak link) get the lion's share
a few books ~ of the attention
weakest link in the (global) chain
you're only as secure as the ~ of information (Internet) amount: animal / food & drink / lion

weak link on the team lip (speech)

he's a ~
lip
strength & weakness: chain their ~s are sealed down at City Hall (trying to get info)
lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.) his ~s are not sealed
loose lips
“Lion of the Desert” ~ sink ships (wartime)
the Italians hanged the ~ in 1931 (Libya)
speech: mouth
Lion of Panjshir
the great Ahmad Shah Massoud, the ~ lip service (pay lip service, etc.)
Lion of Verdun paying lip service
he became known as the ~ (Philippe Petain) can you really address the issues rather than ~ (a judge)
strength & weakness: animal / epithet / lion give lip service to cooperating
epithet: animal / lion they ~ (war against terrorism)
lion (position) pays lip service to its commitment
Europe only ~ to the nuclear deal (Iran)
liberal lions
they were ~ of a past generation (Supreme Court) paid lip service to it
~ like Birch Bayh and George McGovern every supervisor at least ~ (change)
old lion pay lip service to (fiscal) responsibility
the kid is getting his shot against the ~ (boxing) politicians ~
hierarchy: animal / lion / person pay lip service to the rules

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 most at least ~ (politics) he has battled a ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury)
symbolic, lip service, or pandering amount: religion
is it ~ to get the black vote (reparations)
lite (substance)
♦ "I'll try…," "I'll get back to you…," "We'll see…," "I guess...," "Your
guess is as good as mine…," “I’ll bear it in mind,” “I hear what you say...”
(Paying lip service.)
democracy-lite
~ won’t do for Egypt
♦ “I think it’s absolutely fine, I do.” “I think it’s great.” “I have no problem
with it whatsoever.” (Comments about a gay marriage by a politician that
some considered to be paying lip service to LGBT rights.)
Facebook Lite
~ appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook
♦ “We should have that conversation; We need to have that
conversation; What an interesting idea, I think we should have that impeachment lite
conversation...” (Excellent ways not to say yes or no, to make no
commitment, while at the same time sounding sympathetic.) he has dubbed this “~” (President Trump)
♦ “You’re not gonna die, you’re gonna be fine.” (Reservoir Dogs.) independence-lite
♦ “Good luck with that!” Scotland can choose devolution-max or ~
♦ “She said, ‘I just want to check in with you and let you know your
mother’s doing fine, that she doesn’t have a temperature.’ I said, ‘That’s narco-state lite
*. My mom died at 3:30 this morning.’ And she was like, ‘Oh my God. Holland is becoming a ~
That wasn’t in the chart.’” (Pat Herrick, daughter of a Life Care Resident
in Kirkland, Washington. Her mom died of COVID-19.) NPR Lite
♦ “We agree we must do better and we are working inside to do so.” I disagree that BPP is “~” (Bryant Park Project)
(Twitter.)
♦ “Well, so fur to answer her question...we’ve created a [?] post on our philosophy lite
Website... (An ABC “voting help” segment.) this is ~ (self-help book based on philosophy)
♦ Nasreddin decided to become a judge and make some money. Ali
came to him one day to complain about Saleh. Nasreddin listened and Tory lite
said, "You're right, you're right, you're right." Ali gave money to there will be no return to a “~” agenda
Nasreddin and left happy. Then Saleh came in to complain about Ali.
Nasreddin listened and said, "You're right, you're right, you're right." substance & lack of substance: weight
Saleh gave money to Nasreddin and left happy. Nasreddin's wife was not
happy. "How can you say Ali is right, and then say Saleh is right," she litmus test
exclaimed indignantly. "You're right, you're right, you're right," replied
Nasreddin.
litmus test for (Russia's) democracy
speech: mouth the West sees the trial as a ~
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: mouth / speech litmus test for (EU) membership
lipstick (appearance) they insist on cooperation as a ~

lipstick diplomatic litmus tests

no matter how much ~ you put on a pig, it's still a pig officials caution against turning issues into ~

appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment evidence / experimentation: chemistry
/ subterfuge: materials & substances littered
listen (listen to something) littered with companies
listened to my instincts the history of the sector is ~ that went bankrupt
I ~ and didn’t... littered with (environmental) time bombs
listen to the science Central and Eastern Europe are ~
~ and act now, before it’s too late (Greta Thunberg) configuration: waste
I want people to ~, not to me (Greta Thunberg)
my message has always been, ~ (Greta Thunberg) live (location)
fictive communication: speech living
litany (noun) so where did you find this comet, where is it ~
lives here
litany of charges the Sugar Bowl ~ (ad for TV network)
he is facing a ~
lives in his archive
litany of errors he wrote a memo to file that ~ in which he...
let’s go through the ~ (poor crisis management)
lives in the indictments
litany of ills that information ~
he presents a ~ plaguing the body politic
live (down) in labs
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 most instruments ~ on E-deck (Polarstern) lives and breathes sport
Australia is a country that ~
lives in different language
the subjunctive still ~ in quite strong ways (not in English) absorption & immersion / consumption / enthusiasm /
identity & nature: breathing / death & life / verb
live at the top
banners that ~ of YouTube’s homepage (expensive ads) live up to (something)
lived on Facebook live up to the commitments
this stuff ~ for 3 months (disinformation / taken down) we expect the Japanese to ~ they have made
living on YouTube live up to expectations
some of the clips were ~ months ago many athletes do not ~ (behavior problems)
live beneath Western Front live up to those expectations
World War I munitions still ~ (NPR) the training they go through to in order to ~
live under the same roof lived up to (family) expectations
she brings together dishes that don’t ordinarily ~ (a chef) he never ~ (a drifter)
avalanche lives live up to (fans') expectations
we climb where the ~ he may never ~ but... (player with big salary)
heat lives lived up to the hopes
that’s where the ~ (the seeds in chilies) the claims for brain imaging have not ~ (psychiatry)
♦ “Roaring Meg resides at Goodrich Castle.” (An English Civil Wars-era
mortar.) live up to the hype
♦ “They reside inside of a business or a campaign headquarters...” the fight did not ~ that it received (boxing)
(Controversial voting drop-boxes.)
live up to its (professed) ideals
location: house an American failure to ~ (New Orleans hurricane)
place: house / death & life
live up to the image
live (alive / non-human) it's harder for him to ~ the public has of him (a poet)
live and ongoing live up to the (gangsta) image
it’s still ~ in the field (Extreme Ice Survey) there are those who work to ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life live up to their obligations
condition & status: death & life both countries should ~ under the agreement
live (live with something) lived up to its promise
if Pakistan ~ on infiltration, New Delhi would…
live with
I dropped an easy pass, it’s one I’ll have to ~ (sports) live up to you (campaign) promise
do you think it's so difficult to ~
live with it
so I learned to ~ lived up to (longstanding) promises
he has not ~ to tribal groups (Brazil)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
live (live and die / commitment) lived up to their reputation
Bayer Leverkusen, who ~ (soccer team)
live and die for each other lived up to his responsibilities
we’re family, these guys will ~ (rugby team) he has not always ~
commitment & determination: death & life
live up to my own standards
live (live and die / fate) I have failed to ~ (an abusive coach)

live and die by your decisions live up to his own standards

as a manager, you ~ (sports) he failed to ~

fate, fortune & chance: death & life live up to its (own stated) values
the US has failed to ~ (secret prisons, etc.)
live (live and breathe)
live up to their vows
lives and breathes a majority who took the pledge did not ~ (virginity)
he ~ boxing (promoter Frank Warren)
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 we are simply asking BP/Amoco to ~ (environment) full (parenting) load
she has been carrying the ~
lived up to its expectations or talent
the team never ~ normal load
he's teaching double the ~ of a college professor (adjunct)
live up to the conditions of the agreement
local officials would not ~ (Red Cross program) bear (some of) the load
build a new airport to ~ (Chicago)
failed to live up to
the US has ~ its own stated values (secret prisons, etc.) carrying the (full parenting) load
she has been ~
commitment & determination: direction / verb
responsibility: direction / verb handle the load
live on (verb) the system can barely ~ (airline travel)
work & duty: burden / weight
live on
there is no doubt that his books will ~ (VS Naipaul) loaded
lived on racially loaded
the bomber was dead, but the threat ~ (unexploded bombs) he tweeted the ~ term on Tuesday (“lynching”)
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb history: burden / journeys & trips / weight
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb oppression: burden / journeys & trips / weight
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life /
verb loan shark
live wire (person) loan shark
he borrowed the money from a ~ (TCN)
live wire
she was a ~ (outspoken, passionate, talented, dedicated, etc.) predation: animal / shark

character & personality: electricity / person lock (lock something away)

livid (adjective) locked it away
it was embarrassing, so I ~ (sexually assaulted)
livid that
she is ~ her husband is dating… concealment & lack of concealment: key / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: key / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / color
lock (under lock and key)
living (adjective)
kept under lock and key
living document the report was meant to be ~ (Catholic Church)
the Constitution is a ~
concealment & lack of concealment: key
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life
lockdown (noun)
load (work)
lockdown
load of a (college) professor out ~ is a giant garden party (vs. China, Italy)
he's teaching double the normal ~ (adjunct)
lockdown measures
course load a number of countries are set to relax their ~ (COVID)
I adjusted to the new ~
lockdowns and death counts
workload before life turned into this slog of ~ (pandemic)
teachers complained about the increased ~
coronavirus lockdowns
teaching and research load
faculty members can reduce the ~ by half
sports fans are going through withdrawal because of ~

parenting load lockdown is getting looser

she has been carrying the full ~ the ~ (pandemic)
♦ “Last night we got out of strict Level Four lockdown, which hasn’t
extra load allowed us to surf for five weeks. We’re in Level Three now and we can
the types of ~ that we are placing on teachers finally surf. I’m so pumped to get out there.” (A video showing a female
teen surfer in New Zealand on the shore in a wetsuit with her surfboard.
She runs to the water.)
full load
it may be hard to juggle a ~ of classes and a job constraint & lack of constraint: doors & thresholds / key

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curtailment: doors & thresholds / key the spirit of that imperative is ~ (“believe women” reporters)
locked (locked in a battle, etc.) ♦ A lodestar refers to the North Star, or to stars that help people to find
the North Star. As such, it relates to direction and following.
locked in a (custody) battle ♦ Somebody sent an anonymous op-ed article to the New York Times.
The writer included the word “lodestar.” People interested in “outing” the
they are ~ anonymous author focused on that “rarely used word” to try to determine
who sent it. (“Does ‘lodestar’ guide us to anti-Trump op-ed author?” BBC,
locked in a (seesaw) battle 6 September 2018.)
they are ~ for the strategic city
direction: astronomy / journeys & trips
locked in a (fierce and noisy) debate
Tunisians are ~ about the role of Islam in politics lodestone (noun)
locked in a (bitter) dispute lodestone for migrants
they are ~ over Kashmir Angola has become a ~ (2009 / from Congo)
♦ A lodestone is a piece of naturally magnetic rock, once used in
attachment / configuration / division & connection: doors & primitive compasses for roughly indicating the direction of north.
thresholds / key
direction: astronomy / journeys & trips / tools & technology
locked and loaded (adjective)
lofty (adjective)
locked and loaded
the US is ~ (diplomatic crisis) lofty rhetoric
the US is ~, ready to retaliate over the attack he is known for his ~ (a politician)

locked and loaded for a retaliatory strike achievement, recognition & praise: height
the military was ~ logjam (noun)
readiness & preparedness: military / weapon
logjam
locker (noun) coat checks and valet parking can become ~s (malls)

Web locker (m) logjam of traffic

he is a prominent ~ operator (file sharing) he looks out onto an endless ~

computer: container logjam on death row

the execution does not signal a break in the ~
lockstep (in lockstep)
logjam in Washington
in lockstep there is such a ~ (politics)
they were all ~, working together (Boeing, FAA)
logjam (with Congress) over the president's plan
in lockstep with the White House he seeks a way to break the ~
Senate Republicans will be ~
data logjam
act in lockstep limited storage media has created a scientific ~
he will ~ with the White House
bureaucratic logjam
march in lockstep despite the ~s the Army faced in stepping up…
climate and carbon dioxide clearly ~ (Antarctic ice)
ideological logjam
work in "lockstep" progress has been stuck in an ~ (warming)
Obama said the US would ~ with Israel to prevent…
legislative logjam
working in lockstep squabbling could lead to a ~ (politics)
Obama is ~ with the Israelis
partisan logjam
unanimity & consensus: line / military / walking, running & the White House seeks to break the ~ (politics)
jumping
political logjam
lodestar (noun) the ~ must be dislodged

lodestar of my life break in the logjam

Mother Teresa was the ~ the execution does not signal a ~ on death row
not everyone is happy about the ~ (politics)
Taliban’s spiritual lodestar
his involvement was minimal, yet he remained the ~ polarization and logjam
(Mullah Omar) they talked about the ~ in Congress

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 in 2012, a ~ when... long behind
his best writing days were ~ him
break the logjam
we must ~ (politics) time: distance
Islamic leaders are working to ~ (immunizations)
long-run (adjective)
broke that logjam
it was that demonstration that ~ (AIDS protest) long-run impact
the ~ on the world economy
clear the logjam
I sought a way to ~ (a diplomat) time: distance / movement / walking, running & jumping
♦ "The Great Log Jam" by Stewart Edward White is a terrific account of long shot
an actual log jam. It appeared in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. LII
No. 3 in July, 1901, and it is an account of the Great Log Jam of 1883 on
the Grand River in Michigan. It was perhaps the largest logjam in the
long shot
history of logging. the horse is a ~ to win
♦ What profession was associated with marking hammers, peaveys, pike fate, fortune & chance: weapon
poles, and wanigans? (Answer: old-style logging and log drives on
rivers.) longtime (adjective)
obstacles & impedance: river
longtime alliance
logroll (verb) their ~ has been frayed by his rejection of the bill

logroll to get long-time (NATO) ally

politicians ~ their share of pork the US is turning the heat up on its ~
help & assistance: history / tree / verb long-time (Trump) ally
social interaction: history / tree / verb ~ and conservative media mogul
logrolling (noun) time: distance

political logrolling long-winded (speech)

they practice ~ (politicians)
thoughtful, reflective, (occasionally) long-winded
♦ In the past, on the frontier, neighbors would help one another to roll
logs to construct buildings.
he was ~ (a politician)

help & assistance / social interaction: history / tree speech: air / atmosphere

loiter (verb) look (analysis)

loiter in the sky look at Chernobyl
drones can ~ for several hours and spy… (warfare) if you ~ you will find…

loiter (in the sky) for several hours look at the data
drones can ~ and spy (warfare) if you ~, one thing that really jumps out is...

coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement / look at Poland

verb so let’s ~ (talk show)

lone wolf (person) analysis, interpretation & explanation: eye / verb

attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb
lone-wolf attack look (look back)
it's difficult to protect against ~s (terrorism)
lone wolf individual look back
a dozen ~s with ties to the group have been caught was there a low point when you ~ (addiction)
when I had a chance to ~ and go through all the what-ifs...
racist "lone wolves" I don’t ~ and think, “Those were the days”
Obama has enraged ~
look back on her accomplishments
predation / society: animal / wolf we ~ (tribute to woman who died)
long (a long time, etc.) look back on your life
sometimes you ~ and wonder..
long day
let’s get some sleep, it’s been a ~ look back through rose-tinted glasses
it is easy to ~ and miss problematic details (history)
long nights
I’ve had some ~ in the stir... (Shawshank Redemption) never looked back

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 I switched girlfriends and ~ if you ask me, he was ~
after cutting his rival in the first round he ~ (boxing)
look for (new) ways
past & present / time: direction / eye / verb ~ to apply knowledge management
look (look forward / toward something) looking for something
they meander about, ~ to do (kids)
looking towards his future
the boy, ~ (“Ike” memorial in D.C.) looking for something new
women are always ~ in cosmetics
look towards smaller parties
he can now ~ to build a government (election winner) started looking
the four partners ~ for help
look forward to going
I don't ~ to work tomorrow... searching & discovery: eye / verb

looking forward to going look (look into something)

Andrea was ~ on holiday...
looking into what
look forward to hearing is anybody ~ happened or...
I ~ if he made it to Katahdin (AT)
looking into whether
look forward to seeing they are ~ foam produced... (Columbia disaster)
I ~ you in Detroit investigators are ~ the attack was...
federal agents are ~ he violated...
looking forward to seeing
he was ~ his wife and children looking into (food) allergies
my son has become a biter and we are ~
looking forward to spending
he was ~ time with his grandchildren look into the case
they agreed to ~ of Amy Wroe Bechtel (Vidocq Society)
looked forward to watching
she ~ the World Cup (marine in Iraq) looking into the complaint
authorities are ~ of a Saudi camel owner who...
look forward to the class
students should ~ (teacher training) look into a (horrible) crime
the soldiers were asked to ~ (Iraq atrocity)
look forward to and accept
some people ~ death (nursing) look into ecoterrorism
the FBI said it would ~ as a possible motive
future / time: direction / eye / verb
eagerness & reluctance: direction / eye / verb looking into evidence
look (look for) is the White House ~ that American POWs may...
look into (Baluch) grievances
looking for how committees set up last year to ~ (Pakistan)
we're really ~ we can improve...
look into it
looking for answers this is the first I've heard of it, I'll ~
we are ~ we'll ~, thanks for bring it to my attention...
looking for excuses look into the matter
I think you're ~ he'll ~
looking for love looking into the possibility
Don was online ~, like millions of other men... officials were ~ that tribal leaders had...
look for opportunities looking into the (various) theories
~ to develop new skills... engineers ~ (plane crash)
look for patterns look into ways
~ in your preferences (job hunt) or you could ~ of covering it up with destroying it
looking for (better) opportunities look into transferring
they are always ~ (jobs) maybe you should ~ to another school
looking for sympathy investigators are looking into
the amputee is not ~ (an amputee) ~ who received traffic tickets in... (murder)
looking for trouble

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searching & discovery: eye / verb police reform and what it ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: eye / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb
looked like in your view
what would justice have ~, what should have happened
look (look the other way) ♦ The future is less and less a time, and more and more a place that we
can see!
looked the other way
corrupt officials ~ (contract) future / time: eye / place

looking the other way look up (verb)

even the Supreme Court is shrugging its shoulders and ~
looking up
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye / verb Rhyl's image is ~ (English town)
New York's economy is ~ (post 9/11)
look (look up to somebody ) things are ~, progress is being made
so things are not ~ (a political problem)
look up to
she is someone young people can ~ (an athlete) looking up for the president
things are ~ (Iran)
look up to me
there are kids out there who ~ (an athlete) progress & lack of progress: direction / eye / verb
look up to my father as a role model loom (loom large, etc.)
I've always been able to ~
looms large over Wisconsin
looked up to Bruce Lee as a role model the president still ~ (elections)
he ~ (the martial arts star)
loom over the game
looked up to him in high school those larger issues ~ (football and CTE)
I~
presence & absence: height / verb
looked up to them all my life attention, scrutiny & promotion: height / verb
I've ~ (Native Americans) superiority & inferiority: height / verb
looked up to him ever since loop (in the loop)
he flew in space, and the US has ~ (John Glenn)
in the loop
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / height / verb we make sure you are ~ at every step (financial planning)
look (look down on something) involvement: shape
look down on me loophole (noun)
I am suffering every day when people ~ (immigrant)
loophole
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / gesture / height / until the ~ is closed…
verb
legal loophole
look (a bad look, etc.) many believe he wriggled through a ~ (Rubin Carter case)
~s are still open to abusers (France)
good look
it’s not a ~ exploiting that loophole
unions are exploiting ~ (politics and money)
appearance & reality: verb to noun
used a loophole
look like (be like, etc.) he ~ to keep practicing (a bad doctor)
it looks like he is heading ♦ Defenders fire weapons through loopholes from inside a fortification.
~ for a fourth consecutive term (parliamentary election) protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
look like loose (get looser, etc.)
what will the new normal ~ (post-COVID-19)
what might campus life ~ in the fall (during pandemic) getting looser
the lockdown is ~ (pandemic)
will look like
we will talk about what voting ~ during the pandemic constraint & lack of constraint: rope
is going to look like loose (let loose)
we don’t know what 2021 ~
let loose
might look like he has largely held his tongue, but on Friday he ~

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 he ~ in attacks on his enemies (politics) I ~ when I was four years old (died)
restraint & lack of restraint: hand / speech / verb lost one of its own
the police force has ~
loose ends
lost last year
tied up loose ends singers we ~ (died)
I put my affairs in order, ~
♦ He is no longer with us.
tie up some loose ends euphemism: death & life / verb
in this last episode, I’ll try to ~ (podcast)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: rope
lose out (verb)
loosen (loosen control, etc.) lost out to home refrigerators
block ice ~
loosening competition: sports & games / verb
a sign that the government’s grip was ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: sports & games
loosened their grip / verb
tradition, ideology, and religion have ~ in the West loser (noun)
loosen (Germany’s) manacles winners and losers
Hollande wants to ~ of austerity (economics)
there will be ~ (the economy)
increase & decrease: pressure / verb
success & failure: sports & games
loot (verb) lost (direction)
loot the assets
they could no longer ~ of the Venezuelan people
lost in illusions
the expectation leaves us ~ (that history progresses)
taking & removing: crime / verb
possession: crime / verb
easy to get lost
it's ~ in the music
Lord of the Flies
got lost in the murk
Lord of the Flies I ~ of the situation
you’ve got ~ if you take a small group of young men...
(Lords of Chaos)
get lost in the music
it's easy to ~
behavior / oppression / violence: allusion
allusion: books & reading
get lost in a (large) school
a lot of kids ~ (immigrants, etc.)
lord over (verb)
got lost in a bureaucratic maze
lorded over his (C.E.O.) son when her scholarship money ~…
the father still ~ (corporation)
leaves us lost
lorded over their slaves the expectation ~ in illusions (that history progresses)
the plantation owners ~
direction: journeys & trips
oppression / power: royalty / verb
lost (extinction)
lose (extinction)
lost with her generation
lose the big apes the Blues will be ~ (the great blues singer Mary Lane)
in 30 years we could ~ from central Africa
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: journeys & trips
losing their cultural heritage lost (death)
Nigerians are ~ (indigenous languages versus English)
lose Lake Baikal lost
the warnings of scientists who say "we will ~" so many lives were ~ here (at a concentration camp)

appearance & disappearance: death & life / verb euphemism: death & life

lose (through death) lot (lot in life, etc.)

lost him accepted their lot
my dad loved this place and then I ~ (father died) they made no excuses and just ~ and moved on (2 boxers)

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fate, fortune & chance: gambling lover (enthusiasm / person)
lottery (win the lottery, etc.) lover of Greece and Greek culture
lottery a Philhellene is a ~
it was not the ~ I wanted to win (bad luck) lover of things English
lottery winner an Anglophile is a ~
he is a genetic ~ (an athlete) lover of film
academic lottery a cineaste is a ~
getting into his class is winning the ~ enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage / person
fate, fortune & chance / success & failure: gambling person: love, courtship & marriage

loudmouth (person) low (decline)

bombastic loudmouths brought low
stop listening to the ~ on the radio, TV and internet he has been ~

character & personality: mouth / speech decline: direction

speech: mouth / person primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction

love (in love) low (emotion)

in love with birds low
what can I say, I’m ~ (a birder) I was unhappy, as ~ as any man could go (a boxer)

fall in love feeling (pretty) low

to meet a walrus is to ~ with a walrus (a walrus researcher) I was ~

enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height

love (enthusiasm / noun) low (base, bad / adjective)

love of baseball lowest form
her ~ continues to this day (Wanda Fischer) the story is the ~ of journalism (a Sun article)

fell in love low art

she ~ with big-wave surfing (Maya Gabeira) I walked past high art and ~ (New York City)
♦ “I walked past high art and low art, past the theaters where famous
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage people played to packed houses, past theaters where anonymous
people played with themselves.” (“In the Temple,” a chapter from All
love (enthusiasm / verb) Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg.)

love to see people crash behavior: direction / height

people ~ (the great Mike Metzger, freestyle motocross) admiration & contempt: direction / height

loved watching low (base, bad / noun)

Stockdale ~ the train come through the gorge (GSMR)
new low
love maps this is a ~, a blatant political ploy (mayor upset with Trump)
I ~, and when you get hooked... (W. Graham Arader III) behavior: direction / height
loved the railways admiration & contempt: direction / height
Ian has ~ since he was a child in the fifties (train spotting) low (lie low)
love sundials lying low
getting people to ~ is an uphill battle (sundial enthusiast) he is ~ over fears for his safety
♦ “When I am a medieval plunderer, I can do what I want, and I love the
freedom.” (Pol Malfait, a 53-year-old postal clerk from Ghent, Belgium. attention, scrutiny & promotion / pursuit, capture & escape:
As a medieval re-enactor, he spends the weekends pretending to be a
14th-century Flemish soldier.)
animal / height / hunting / standing, sitting & lying / verb
♦ “I probably loved atlases so much because the lines, the colours and lubricant (social lubricant, etc.)
the names replaced the real places that I could not visit. When I was
eight... (From the wonderful little book Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith
Schalansky.)
social lubricant
alcohol is a crucial ~ (Great Britain)
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage / verb
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lukewarm (feeling) attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / verb
lukewarm to Trump lure (noun)
the state was ~ but has since converted
allegiance, support & betrayal: temperature lure of the Himalayas
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature the ~ is still with Tomaz Humar (the great climber)
eagerness & reluctance: temperature lure of (modern) conveniences
lukewarm (activity) the ~, steady jobs and a cash economy (to the Inuit)

barely above lukewarm lure of the north

the economy is really ~ the ~ is hard to overcome (migrants)

activity: temperature lure of the (majestic) peaks

luminary (person)
luminaries
where the president and other ~ sat… (graduation)
establishment luminaries
she attracted ~ to the board (Kissinger, Shultz, Mattis, etc.)
achievement, recognition & praise: light & dark / person
superlative: light & dark / person
importance & significance: light & dark / person
lung (atmosphere)
“Lungs of the Planet”
the Amazon Rain Forest is sometimes called the ~
lungs of Southeast Asia
it is sometimes called the ~ (Borneo and its forests)
planet's "lungs"
the Amazon is considered to be part of the ~
Mumbai’s last green lung
the Aarey forest is often referred to as ~
♦ In 2019, forest fires in the Amazon caused leaders and the media to
repeat the old canard that the Amazon creates 20 percent of the world’s
oxygen. This figure is grossly inflated, and reflects a total
misunderstanding of the science involved. That’s because plants not only
create oxygen but use it. “The net contribution of the Amazonian
ecosystem to the world’s oxygen level is effectively zero.”
(FasctCheck.org and many other sources.)
biodiversity: atmosphere / breathing / epithet
lurch (verb)
lurched from scandal to scandal
Facebook has ~ over the past months
lurch (too far) to the left
the party should not ~ (politics)
equilibrium & stability: verb / walking, running & jumping
control & lack of control: verb / walking, running & jumping
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping
lure (verb)
lured him out of the bar
they ~ and robbed him
lure listeners down (dark sonic) avenues
her songs ~ (Billie Eilish)
the ~ pulled him back (Montana Blackfoot)
lure of sex
he used the ~ to get athletes to his club
lure of the summit
the ~ proved stronger than a fear of death (climbing)
lure of the water
the ~ was too much (drowning incident)
lure of wealth
the ~ provides powerful incentives (capitalism)
lure of easy money
the ~ sparked a land boom (Everglades)
lure of multiple majors
at many universities, the ~ has become so strong
lure of cheap homesteads and easy money
the ~ sparked a land boom
lure of investing
for many, the ~ is the thrill of uncertain reward (stocks)
♦ What do you have if you have a Damsel Dredger, a Braided Bitch, a
Crystal Rubber Bugger, a Pulsating Caddis, or a Gold Beaded Poopah?
(Trout flies for fly fishing.)
♦ In the southern Appalachians, hunters will hang a ham from a tree on
the crest of the ridge to lure bears to the scent. They will return to the
bait with dogs, which will follow the scent of the bear. Such baiting is
illegal.
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting
lurk (verb)
lurking
if you've had a heart attack, another could be ~
how many quakes are ~ in unknown faults
lurks in every direction
danger ~
lurk in every shadow
for some people, dangers ~ (anxiety)
lurking on the margins
Manchester United is ~ of the Premier League’s top four
terrorism lurks
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predation: animal / hunting / movement / verb / walking, judgment / oppression: history / violence
running & jumping
movement: animal / hunting / predation / verb / walking,
running & jumping M
lurking
Machiavelli (epithet)
lurking danger
he was seized by a gut feeling of ~ Trump’s Machiavelli
he essentially became ~, plotting and planning...
predation: animal ♦ John Julius Norwich says that Machiavelli dreamed of Italian
lust (noun) nationhood, as did Dante and Petrarch. Like Hector of Troy, the
language does not do justice to the man.

lust for gold behavior: allusion / epithet

the word lust has wider application: ~, lust for power allusion: books & reading
Lust for Life Machiavellian (adjective)
~, the film about van Gough with Kirk Douglas
Machiavellian
lust for power his rags-to-riches story is amazing, but his practices are ~
he has been described as having a ~ and money
the word lust has wider application: lust for gold, ~ Machiavellian machinations
we are deep in the weeds of ~ (politics)
lust for war the ~ of Washington politics
his brutality and ~ (a Marine)
Machiavellian sociopaths
lust for power and money challenge his notion that powerful people are all ~
he has been described as having a ~
Machiavellian tool
curb their lust his anti-corruption campaign as a ~ to eliminate rivals
politicians need to ~ for contributions
Machiavellian and ruthless
wants, needs, hopes & goals: sex he had to be ~ (a leader)
luster (noun) subterfuge: allusion

luster of (unlimited) promise machine (publicity machine, etc.)

he arrived in Washington with the ~ (a politician)
machine of state
lost its luster the great ~ always wound up mired (Colombia)
but in the 1960s, Detroit ~
anthem machine
superlative: light & dark George M. Cohan was an ~ (songwriting)
lynched entertainment machine
Hollywood is an ~ constantly hungry for new talent
lynched
I give you hope that can’t be ~ (Rochester demonstration) goal machine
Lewandowski, their Polish ~ (Bayern Munich)
judgment / oppression: history / violence
lynching (media lynching, etc.) meat machines
stop treating animals like ~ (factory farms)
partisan lynching policy machine
this was just a ~ (impeachment) she’s the ~ who can fix it (candidate Elizabeth Warren)
victim of a (media) lynching propaganda machine
his lawyer claims he is the ~ the ~ has helped keep in in power (state media)
♦ “The community is well convinced he was disloyal. The city does not
miss him. The lesson of his death has had a wholesome effect on the publicity machine
Germanists of Collinsville [Illinois] and the rest of the nation.” (The report as the ~ rolled forward (for a film)
in a local paper on the murder of Robert Prager, a German immigrant,
who was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois, now a suburb of St. Louis, on
April 4, 1918. He was stripped naked and made to walk down Main
Scream Machine
Street singing patriotic songs. The drunken mob broke beer bottles at his we put in just below ~ (Green River Gorge / kayaking)
feet, so that he walked barefoot on glass shards to the tree from which
he was hanged. The mob believed him to be a German spy. Eleven men war machine
were put on trial for his murder, and all were acquitted. From “During factory workers for the ~
World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture,”
NPR, All Things Considered, April 7, 2017.) the diamond trade fuels the ~ (Angola)

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stolen-base machine totally mad
he was a ~ (Lou “the Base Burglar” Brock) it’s mad, ~ (running with bulls at Pamplona)
well-oiled machine enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health
the team is a ~ (sports)
his administration is not a ~ (politics)
made of (character)
well-oiled (propaganda) machine what AJ is made of
Isis has a ~ we now need to find out ~ (the boxer after upset loss)

killing machine character & personality: materials & substances

the hydraulic below a dam is a ~ (kayaking, swimmers) madhouse (place)
the crocodile is an efficient ~
when let outside, the typical house cat turns into a ~ madhouse
it’s a ~ there (a crisis situation)
marketing machine
the league's ~ (N.B.A) environment: mental health

money-making machine madness (enthusiasm)

he was once a ~ worth $400 million (a boxer)
cog in the (Norwegian pedagogical) machine
he thinks of himself as a ~
became a (recording) machine
I started just taking notes, I ~ (Hamill at RFK assassination)
creation & transformation / functioning / operation:
mechanism
March Madness
college basketball fans look forward to ~
enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health
maelstrom (in a maelstrom)
in a maelstrom of (negative) attention
he has found himself ~ (an athlete)

machine (sex machine) amount & effect: sea

sex machine
maelstrom (other)
I told them he was a ~ (my boyfriend) swept up in this maelstrom
sex: mechanism savings are ~ (electronic stock exchanges)

machinery (noun) amount & effect: sea

machinery of law enforcement

mafia (group)
the ~ Stanford mafia
functioning / operation: mechanism there’s a bit of a ~ within the organization (NFL 49ers)
♦ “When I say Mafia, I mean what most people see in the word: people
mad (crazy) who take over control but never let anyone have an inside look at what
they are doing.” (The great Terje Haakonsen, after comparing the
mad scramble International Olympic Committee to the Mafia.)
organizers start the ~ to…(international festival) group, set & collection: crime
baseball-mad (m) magic (versus reality)
the crowd of ~ Habaneros (Cuba)
magic
business-mad decisions must be based on science, not ~
Hanoi is brash and ~
magic versus science, evidence and data
celebrity-mad his policy is ~ (public-health crisis)
a ~ world
fantasy & reality: magic
football-mad (m)
~ F.S.U. magic (magic bullet, etc.)
hockey-mad (m) magic bullet
in ~ Canada nothing yet has proved a ~ (against oak-killing spore)
soccer mad magic cure
Turks are ~ there is no ~ (for kid fire-setting behavior)
status-mad (m) magic formula
~ consumers there is no ~, but try… (predicting NCAA winner)

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 we don't have a ~ for predicting wildfires fantasy & reality: magic
magic wand Maginot Line
I wish I could wave a ~ and make it all better
there's no ~ (to fix aging Chicago El system) Maginot Line between two (warring) worlds
you can’t just wave a ~ and reopen the economy (pandemic) 14th Street was the ~ (Manhattan theater world)

magic word division & connection: allusion / history / military

the ~s are "please," "thank you" (adult to 3-year-old) allusion: military
there are no ~s to motivate every student (a teacher) magisterial (adjective)
"I want to speak to a supervisor" can be ~s (disputes)
magisterial
works its magic
a biography, even one as ~ as this one...
the digital effects team ~ (on a commercial)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person
amelioration & renewal: magic
magic (Magic Kingdom, etc.) magnet (attraction)
magnet for Muslims
Magic Dragon
Makkah is a ~ (Hajj)
their classic hit, "Puff, the ~"
magnets for beggars
Magic Kingdom
mosques are ~ (Harar / end of Hajj)
smiling faces at the ~ (Disney)
magnet for business
Magic Slate
they want to make it once again a ~ (lower Manhattan)
paper and pencils, ~s, communication boards
proper name: magic
magnet for (political) candidates
state fairs are a ~
magic (magic moment, etc.)
magnet for controversy
magic moment a ~, he riled people up… (an artist)
that ~ when you feel the team spirit coming together
magnet for (illegal) immigrants
feeling, emotion & effect: magic Fairfax County is a ~
magic (trail magic, etc.) magnet for immigration
New York is a ~
trail magic
we experienced a lot of ~ (on AT Trail / trail angels) magnet for (foreign) investment
tourism has been a ~ (Burma)
fate, fortune & chance: magic
help & assistance: magic magnet for (music) lovers
Nashville is a ~ (live music, museums, etc.)
magic (effect)
magnet for (illegal) migrants
magic spell the border village is a ~ (Las Chepas)
80 types of weapons and a dozen ~s (computer game)
magnet for (committed) militants
magic mushrooms Karachi is a ~
amphetamines, LSD, ~, amyl nitrate and Ecstasy
magnet for Muslims
feeling, emotion & effect: magic Makkah is a ~ (Islam and Saudi Arabia)
magical (effect) magnet for people
it isn't much of a ~ who want to meet people (a town)
magical
the effect was ~ (a new drug) magnet for politicians
the convention is a ~ and businessmen (Davos)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
magical (versus reality) magnet for (sexual) predators
Webcams are a ~
magical magnet for (slave) raiders
this isn’t ~, this is scientific (public-health debate)
the area is a ~ (Sudan)
magical shortcut magnet for retirees
joining the military should not be a ~ to hero status
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magnet for sharks social magnets
the seals are a ~ taco trucks, cultural icons and ~ in Mexico (and US)
magnet for students attraction & repulsion: tools & technology
Dr. Chamberlain was a ~ (approachable, etc.)
magnetic (adjective)
magnet for tourists
St Mark’s Square is a ~ (Venice) emotionally magnetic
the idea of our decline is ~
magnet for transients
the city has become a ~ from around the West extraordinarily magnetic
he is an ~ camera subject
magnet for westerners
attraction & repulsion: tools & technology
it's a ~ seeking large tax-free salaries (Saudi Arabia)
magnet for artists and tourists magnifying glass (under…)
Santa Fe is a ~ put us under the magnifying glass
magnets for the drunk and the unruly another death would ~ (NASCAR)
they are ~ (urban liquor markets) attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
magnets for pickpockets, shoplifters, and muggers maiden (adjective)
shopping districts are ~
maiden venture
magnet for (avid) rock climbers it was not the group's ~ into Pakistan
Looking Glass Rock is a ~ (NC)
maiden voyage
magnet for music lovers HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail for the US on its ~
Nashville is a ~ (live music, museums, etc.)
maiden win
magnet for sex offenders his solo break paved the way for his ~ (Tour de France)
the area has become a ~ upon their release from prison
experience: love, courtship & marriage / sex
magnet for gold prospectors
the area was a ~ main course
magnet for sexual predators main course
Web cams are a ~ this is just the appetizer, the ~ will come (battle)
magnet for the eating-disordered development: food & drink
running is a ~
mainstay
magnet for its legions of poor
Karachi is a ~ (Pakistan) mainstay of (gossip) columns
sex is a ~
magnet school
~s induce kids to schools outside their neighborhoods mainstay of the (bear's) diet
acorns and other mast is the ~
magnet and amenity
waterfronts are a ~ for downtown development mainstay of the economy
agriculture is the ~ (Pakistan)
immigrant magnet
~s like California mainstay of (Uzbekistan's) economy
cotton is the ~
job magnet
the bad economy took away the ~ pulling people here mainstay of (burn) management
antibiotics are a ~
media magnet
the case has become a ~ economic mainstay
trafficking of opium and heroin is Afghanistan's ~
suicide magnet ♦ A mainstay is an important rope on a sailing ship that serves to support
the viaduct has a morbid reputation as a ~ (Toronto) and stabilize.

tourist magnet bases: boat

Bali has been a ~
mainstream (society)
bad luck magnet
he is a ~ mainstream
his ideas about diet and health have entered the ~

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mainstream of (city) life make (make of something)
remote from the ~
make of the (Trump administration’s) decision
mainstream artists what do you ~
such ~ as the Chieftains
make of it
mainstream audiences so what did you ~
getting short films to ~
make of this
mainstream conventions what do you ~
Ismailis ignore some of the ~ of Islam
make of (all) this
mainstream culture so what do Americans ~ (NPR analysis)
~ and drug culture
analysis, interpretation & explanation: verb
mainstream icons
Net culture prides itself on scoffing at ~ make-believe (noun)
mainstream media air of make-believe
the ~ is often accused of liberal bias diplomacy can have an ~ (protocol, etc.)
nobody in the ~ will touch this
fantasy & reality: magic
mainstream medicine
a religious sect that rejects ~
make-believe (adjective)
mainstream popularity make-believe world
the brief ~ of folk music I lived in a ~ that afforded me great comfort (abused)

mainstream (Saudi) view fantasy & reality: magic

the ~ on social issues (women in sports, etc.)
mainstream thinking
it seeped into ~
mainstream and alternative
he straddled the worlds of ~ medicine
underground and the mainstream
he is stuck between the ~ (a snowboarder)
outside the (medical) mainstream
his approach lies ~ (controversial treatment)
make up (verb)
made the whole story up
police are investigating whether he ~ (hate crime allegation)
creation & transformation: prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
making (creation)
making and unmaking
the book describes her ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
creation & transformation: manufacturing

from the fringes into the mainstream malaise (decline)

social media can push conspiracies ~
malaise speech
entered the mainstream it became known as the ~ (Jimmy Carter / 1979)
his ideas about diet and health have ~
capitalism’s malaise
join the mainstream remedies for ~
children of immigrants will ~
American malaise
society: center & periphery / river American exceptionalism in a time of ~
center & periphery: river / society
current malaise
major league (success) United’s ~ will not continue indefinitely (soccer team)

major league economic malaise

his journey from the streets to the ~ (a rapper) the country’s ~

success & failure: baseball / sports & games state of malaise

across the globe, democracy is in a ~
make (create)
condition & status: health & medicine
make Marines malignant (adjective)
it’s essential to ~ (recruitment and training)
creation & transformation: manufacturing malignant (management) style
nobody can refine his ~

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affliction / corruption / growth & development: health & for ~, this show is a must-see (TV)
medicine
enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health / person
malpractice (noun) person: health & medicine / mental health

malpractice mantle (noun)

the diagnosis is wrong, and the prescription is ~ mantle
foreign-policy malpractice its ~ was taken away (a champion tree)
this qualifies as ~ (politics) mantle of religion
failure, accident & impairment: health & medicine blasphemy laws are cloaked in the ~
mammoth (size) mantle of his office
he still seems to be adjusting to the ~ (district attorney)
mammoth job
the heavy burden of this ~ (Man U manager) mantle of the presidency
he is set to ~ (leader)
mammoth task
the researchers gave them a ~ (students) mantle of a prophet
he increasingly adopted the ~
size: animal
antiimmigration mantle
manacle (noun) he has taken on the ~ (a political leader)
loosen (Germany's) manacles feminist mantle
Hollande wants to ~ of austerity (economics) she has laid claim to the ~
constraint & lack of constraint: crime maverick mantle
maneuvering (strategy) she wears the ~ (a politician)

backstage maneuvering progressive mantle

he took up the ~ in the nominating process (Bernie Sanders)
there has been a lot of ~ (diplomacy)
political maneuvering mantle fell on him
the ~ (job responsibility)
the ~ started immediately
position, policy & negotiation / strategy: movement assume the mantle
now that Pavarotti is dead, who will ~ (opera)
Manhattan Project
claimed his mantle
Manhattan Project for autism the new party has ~ (politics)
Gardner has dreamed of a sort of ~
given up the mantle
company’s Manhattan Project women have ~ of being defined by their husbands
he called it the ~ (Monsanto’s roundup-resistant plants)
inherited his mantle
new Manhattan Project she ~ (politics)
he’s calling it a ~ for clean energy
invoke the (respectable) mantle
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / history they ~ of originalism, but… (constitutional law)
allusion: military
cast off the mantle
mania (noun) Klopp can now ~ (of a loser in soccer finals)

mania for quantification picked up the mantle

this ~ was in Bezos’ heart (Amazon) the group ~ (fan club for dead celebrity)

self-improvement mania shake off the mantle

the ~ is sweeping the country they want to ~ of tradition (artists)

Internet retail mania taken up their mantle

the rising tide of the ~ he has ~ (politician and an issue)
enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health laid claim to the feminist mantle
she has ~
maniac (person) ♦ A mantle was a cloak.

Broadway maniacs representation: clothing & accessories

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sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: clothing & consciousness & awareness: map / verb
accessories location / place / presence & absence: map / verb
mantra (message) attention, scrutiny & promotion: map / verb
marathon (effort and time)
mantra
the ~ was trade not conquest (British East India Company) marathon meeting
gearing up for a ~ next week (city government)
mantra of American rage
the ~ (I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore) marathon (public) speeches
during his ~
mantra in the computer world
"innovate or die," long the ~ marathon, not a sprint
tackling the virus is a ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
mantra (we all learn) in nursing school
the ~ is, "If it isn't charted, it isn't done" difficulty, easiness & effort / time: distance / sports &
games / walking, running & jumping
Toyota mantra
in the ~, quality was always first marbled
cherished mantras marbled with orchards
"We must fix poverty" is one of the most ~ in education the community is ~
familiar mantra marbled polecat
“16 shots and a cover-up” became a ~ (Chicago police) the Arabic name for the ~ means “stinky”
“hope and change” mantra ♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled,
spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled!
the ~ that propelled Obama to the presidency
configuration: materials & substances
message / repetition: religion
man up (verb) march (together, etc.)
march in lockstep
man up
climate and carbon dioxide clearly ~ (ice cores)
it was time for me to ~
relationship / unanimity & consensus: military / verb /
responsibility: direction / verb
walking, running & jumping
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / verb
map (on the map) march (move)
on the map marching east
and in the West, a new storm system is ~
the village is ~ again (presidential visit)
on the streetfood map marching through
TR4 is ~ the world’s banana-growing countries (a fungus)
the Philly cheese steak put the city ~
movement: military / verb / walking, running & jumping
on the financial map
resemblance: military / movement / verb / walking, running
he put Bank of America and Charlotte ~
& jumping
on the literary map march (march ahead, etc.)
he helped put the review ~
marching ahead
put Los Angeles on the art map
the science is ~ (genetic tests)
he helped ~ (a sculptor)
force / progress & lack of progress / starting, going,
put Chicago on the map
continuing & ending: direction / movement / verb /
he ~ (Michael Jordan according to Barack Obama)
walking, running & jumping
consciousness & awareness: map
location / place / presence & absence: map march (March of Time, etc.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: map March of Time
map (drop off the map, etc.) the ~ was a series of short films (1935-1951)

drop off the map time: movement / walking, running & jumping
the Grenadines are an ideal place to ~ march (on the march)
fall off the map on the march
you see teams that ~ after losing (NBA)

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driving force / progress & lack of progress: military /
movement / walking, running & jumping
march (noun)
march of civilization
the ~ can not be stopped (British in Afghanistan)
the far right in Germany is small and ~
attenuation: center & periphery
strength & weakness: center & periphery
marinate (verb)
marinating in this
we have been ~ for the last 6 months (a political scandal)

march of globalization absorption & immersion: verb / water

the inexorable ~ mark (black mark)
march of COVID-19
black mark on the city
the lethal ~ has passed 100,000 deaths in the US
the case put a ~ (a murder)
march towards majority rule
black marks on their credit
rugby's starring role in the ~ (South Africa)
~ that can last for year (credit cards)
inexorable march characterization / reputation: color / mark
the ~ of globalization
mark (effect)
slow Biden’s march
the debate was his last chance to ~ (election) mark on Morgan County
driving force / progress & lack of progress: military / she's made an indelible ~ (tragedy)
movement / walking, running & jumping mark on the region
marching orders the waves of Germans who made their ~ (Wisconsin)
mark on soldiers
marching orders Afghanistan leaves a ~
his ~ were to bring discipline to the staff
profound marks
marching orders for the black electorate immigration left ~ on the region
the ~ were now clear (vote for Grant)
high-water mark
marching orders from the White House it was the ~ of his career (athlete)
they are getting their ~ (NSA / CIA)
indelible mark
takes his marching orders she's made an ~ on Morgan County (drunk-driving)
he ~ from liberal hypocrites (politics) terrorism has left an ~ on his presidency (9/11)
work & duty: military his trip to Sri Lanka left an ~ on him (Chekhov)

Marco Polo (Muslim Marco Polo, etc.) leave your mark

you gotta ~ on the world (tree planted for murder victim)
Marco Polo of the Arab world
Ibn Battuta, the ~ left a mark
she ~ on all of us who crossed her path (an actor)
Muslim Marco Polo
his popular chronicle made him a kind of ~ (Ibn Battuta) left (profound) marks
immigration ~ on the region
epithet: journeys & trips
made their mark
margin (on the margins) the waves of Germans who ~ on the region (Wisconsin)
on the margins effect impression: mark
boxing has long been a social staircase for those ~ feeling, emotion & effect: mark
live on the margins mark (off the mark)
they ~, where things often go wrong (justice system)
way off the mark
society: center & periphery you are ~ (argument)
marginalized target: weapon

marginalized mark (high mark)

the Pope said religion was being ~
high marks for his courage
politically marginalized I give him ~ and commitment (anti-terrorism)

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judgment: school & education marriage (relationship)
marketplace (noun) marriage of convenience
marketplace of ideas they appear to have made a ~ (terrorist groups)
New York City is a cacophony of voices and a ~ their alliance was a ~, not deep ideological affinity

competition: money marriage of Java and VRML

the ~ (computing)
marmite (noun)
marriage of mobile phones and the Internet
marmite person the ~
he was a ~, people either hate him or love him (views)
marriage of new media and old media
♦ A similar food is the durian!
the ~ (AOL and Time Warner)
attraction & repulsion: food & drink
marriage of science and government
marooned the ~ in the US

marooned by history in positions marriage of technology and opera

they were ~ out of kilter with their era (leaders) the ~

marooned on a (lonesome) block marriage of the Web and the classroom

the restaurant is ~ the ~ ("education")

marooned on a traffic island marriage between Islam and modernity

hundreds of protestors were ~ (by police) some Arabs want a ~

marooned in camps relationship: love, courtship & marriage

people are ~ (refugees from fighting) division & connection: love, courtship & marriage

marooned in a traffic jam marriage (shotgun marriage)

truckers have been ~ for a week (China)
marooned in a sea
I was ~ of premeds (an arts major)
marooned overnight
several subway trains were ~ after losing power (snow)
marooned hopelessness
in that isolation, in the ~ of the protagonists… (a film)
marooned travelers
at JFK, ~ slept on cots (blizzard)
feel marooned
people ~ (survivors of earthquake)
isolation & remoteness: island / sea
society: island / sea
marquee (attention)
marquee hearing
this is the first big ~ for the Democratic-controlled house
marquee issue
immigration is his ~ (politics)
marquee things
the ~ that make headlines (better pay and benefits, etc.)
marquee witness
he could be the ~ in this impeachment probe
attention, scrutiny & promotion: film / theater
importance & significance: film / theater
shotgun marriage of S4C and the BBC
the ~ is an awkward match
shotgun marriage between the two parties
the ~ will not last (politics)
♦ Cartersville, Ga., May 13.—William V. Jones, a young man of
Taylorsville, was violently taken from his home on Tuesday night to the
residence of Miss Ida Gaston, whom he was accused of betraying, and
compelled under pressure of shotguns to marry her. He came here to-
day and entered suit for divorce." ("Married Under Threats, of Death,"
The New York Times, May 14, 1885.)
coercion & motivation / division & connection / eagerness
& reluctance / relationship: love, courtship & marriage
married
married to her job
the kind of woman people describe as ~
attachment / division & connection / relationship: love,
courtship & marriage
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan to fight
we need a ~ climate change
Marshall Plan for racial equity
calls for a ~
“Marshall Plan” for the US healthcare industry
Democrats argued for a ~
21st-century Marshall Plan
we need to invest in a ~ for Honduras... (immigration)

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♦ “If we were to launch a Marshall Plan of equivalent size today, as a the way they generated hype was a ~ (Epic Games)
percentage of our GDP we would be talking about 800 billion dollars.”
(Benn Steil, author of Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. More to the masterclass in showmanship
point, he talks about the context and purpose of the real Marshall Plan.)
it was a ~ (historic Kim-Trump meeting at DMZ 2019)
help & assistance: allusion / history
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / history
gives a masterclass
allusion: military De Gea ~ (excellent performance in goal)

martyr (person) produced a masterclass

Tottenham ~ at Everton (English football)
free speech martyrs
knowledge & intelligence: school & education
don’t turn loudmouths and thugs into ~
superlative: school & education
resistance, opposition & defeat: person / religion
masterpiece (engineering masterpiece,
person: religion
etc.)
martyrdom (noun)
masterpiece of spins
political martyrdom a technical ~, spirals and footwork (Michele Kwan)
he had no desire for ~ (going against his party)
engineering masterpiece
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / religion
these race cars are ~s
destruction: death & life / religion the Taif escarpment road is an ~ (Saudi Arabia)
mask (drop the mask, etc.) technical masterpiece
mask a ~ of spins, spirals and footwork (Michele Kwan)
seeing people when their ~ starts to slip three-hit masterpiece
dropped the mask on his nativist sentiments he threw a ~ (baseball)
he has ~ (a politician) achievement, recognition & praise: picture
concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb creation & transformation: picture
appearance & reality: face / verb superlative: picture
subterfuge: face / verb mat (welcome mat)
mask (hide) welcome mat
mask your intentions Australia is yanking the ~ (for refugees)
in war, you try to ~ (intelligence) yanking the welcome mat
mask the location Australia is ~ (for refugees)
Moscow’s ability to ~ of Russian forces welcome: carpets & rugs
concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb match (death match)
subterfuge: face / verb
appearance & reality: face / verb in a death match
masquerade (verb) the two men are engaged ~
conflict: film / history / sports & games
masquerading as “history”
the film is right-wing character assassination ~ Matilda effect
masquerade as local news organizations example of the Matilda effect
over 300 accounts and pages ~ (internet misinformation) women who don’t cite themselves is an ~
♦ In her essay “Woman as Inventor,” Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898)
masqueraded as a Christian and English teacher claimed that women scientists did not get as much recognition as male
he ~ (a pedophile) scientists.

concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb ♦ “It was ticklish business. Powerful economic toes in the shoes of
pseudo-science had to be stamped on.” (Men Against Death by Paul De
subterfuge: face / verb Kruif. From the chapter “Death in Milk” about Alice Evans and her work
appearance & reality: face / verb on undulant fever.)

masterclass (noun) achievement, recognition & praise: allusion

masterclass mature (verb)

it was a ~, the best I’ve ever seen in my life (boxing)
matured
masterclass in (modern) marketing our relationship has ~ (between India and US)

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growth & development: death & life / verb a ~ (Kuta Beach, Bali)
maturity maze of dikes and dams and ditches
the Tulare Lake Basin, with its ~
democratic maturity
a key measure of the ~ of Turkey maze of shanties and shacks
fought their way through a dense ~ (Mogadishu)
growth & development: death & life
maze of (refuse-strewn) back streets and alleyways
maul (a storm mauled the Bahamas, etc.) the ~ (Sadr City)
maul the Bahamas complexity: infrastructure
Hurricane Dorian continues to ~ (slow moving)
maze (bureaucracy, etc.)
force: hammer / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb
maze of (bureaucratic) rules
maverick (noun) a civil-service culture, with a ~ (NASA)
maverick heath care maze
I like being a little bit of a ~ an immigrants tale of navigating the tangled ~
being the ~ that I was, I decided to challenge those rules
Shackleton was too much of a ~ for a desk job bureaucratic maze
her scholarship money got lost in a ~
hard-charging maverick workers whose only job is to navigate the ~ (Sudan)
he was a ~ who shook up football (a coach)
♦ This word relates to Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870). navigate the (bureaucratic) maze
workers whose only job is to ~ (Sudan)
character & personality: animal / cows & cattle / horse
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal / person got lost in a bureaucratic maze
when her scholarship money ~…
maze (terrain) ♦ Gardens are associated with mazes, knot gardens and labyrinths.
People also enjoy corn and mirror mazes. Labyrinth is of Minoan origin
maze of canyons and is associated with the Minotaur.
wild horses—both mustangs and runaways— roam the ~
complexity / situation: infrastructure
maze of (decaying) seracs
one last trip through the ~ (Icefall / Everest) McCarthy
maze of (tire) tracks McCarthy moment
the only roads are a ~ in the sand (Dadaab) this cancellation culture is the SJW ~ (of Walt Whitman)
♦ According to Larry Tye, author of Demagogue, “Those records
maze of trails document in detail every flight [Joe McCarthy] went up in as a tail
a ~ that leads to a construction site and a series of roads gunner. He volunteered for those flights, he came under fire... McCarthy
at great risk to himself when he could have stayed safely on the ground
maze of (deer) trails was up there as a tail gunner under enemy fire.” This acknowledgement
by Tye on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (July 7, 2020) reminds one of the
a~ lawyer Greenwald’s ultimate evaluation of Captain Queeg from The
Caine Mutiny. Charles Lindberg, also a demon of the left, was another
maze of ice and rocks American who managed to get himself into the fight in a real way at the
alone, lost in a ~ (Nuptse) risk of his life.)

maze of mangrove, canals and swamps oppression: allusion / history

the forest was a dark ~ (U Minh) McCarthyite
complexity: infrastructure
McCarthyite hysteria
maze (structures) Democrats are sometimes prone to ~ (against Russia)

maze of (hillside) slums oppression: allusion / history

people crammed into the ~ (Kabul) meal ticket
maze of (vertical) slums
squeezed into a ~ without bathrooms (Kabul)
meal ticket
she was the ~, but he was afraid he could lose her
maze of (narrow) streets
crowds of shoppers in the ~ (Nanning)
lose their meal ticket
NFL players don’t want to ~ (protest and get fired)
maze of tunnels
they got lost in a ~ (Canary Islands)
saw him as a meal ticket
she ~ (source of support and money)
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cost & benefit: food & drink / ticket consumption / product / worth & lack of worth: meat
meander (verb) mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.)
meander in new and different directions mecca of basketball
as the two states ~ (Ireland and UK) a ~ (the Christian Street YMCA in Philadelphia)
meander in unexpected ways mecca of bluegrass
conversations ~ the ~ (Bean Blossom, Indiana)
meanders from action to satire to romance mecca of Manolos and Miuccia Pradas
the film ~ Manhattan's ~ (Bergdorf Goodman)
highways meander mecca for (500,000) bikers
~ in the South a motorcycle ~ (Sturgis, S.D.)
♦ According to Merriam-Webster, this word comes from the name of a
river in Asia Minor that was known for its turning and winding. Mecca for climbers
Hueco Tanks State Historical Park, a ~
fictive motion: river / verb
direction: movement / river / verb mecca for (Arizona) tourists
a ~ (Kartchner Caverns)
measure (measure up, etc.)
mecca for glider pilots
measure myself by their standards Marfa, Texas, is a ~
I don’t ~ (manosphere versus feminism)
mecca for kite lovers
measure up to the film the Washington (D.C.) area is a ~
does the sound track ~
Mecca for train buffs
measure up to the standard she sets the town is a ~ (Folkston, GA / USA)
I certainly can’t ~
mecca to (whitewater) paddlers
measure up against other films the Altays are a ~ (Russia)
how does it ~ set in Boston
arts mecca
measure up favorably the city wants to be an ~
when we feel we don’t ~...
drug mecca
fails to measure up Spain has replaced Amsterdam as the new European ~
their new burger ~
tourist mecca
judgement: tools & technology the ~ of Waikiki (Hawaii)
meat (substance) motorcycle mecca
a ~ for 500,000 bikers (Sturgis, S.D.)
meat of the story
and now it’s time to get into the ~ (Crime in Sports) spring break meccas
~ like Pensacola and Panama City Beach
meat of the subject
and then go on to the real ~ boxing Mecca
he settled in Philadelphia, a ~ (Joe Frazier)
meat on the bone
there isn’t any ~ (nothing to investigate) gambling meccas
~ like Atlantic City and Las Vegas
substance & lack of substance: food & drink / meat
meat (fresh meat) skateboarding mecca
he moved to the ~, California
fresh meat homophile mecca
they knew we were ~ (prison-guard trainees) this ~ (San Francisco)
consumption: animal / meat / military / predation ♦ Over a billion Muslims around the world pray five times a day towards
the Saudi city of Makkah, and over two million Muslim pilgrims a year
meat (piece of meat) visit that city for the annual Hajj.
♦ “It’s like you’re praying closer to God’s ear.” (A pilgrim performing Hajj,
piece of meat on praying in Makkah near the Grand Mosque.)
they get another fresh ~ to fill the slot (adjunct PhDs)
attraction & repulsion / enthusiasm / reverence: place /
pieces of meat religion
football players are ~ sold to the highest bidder

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medal (noun) megaphone (noun)
take it as a medal megaphone for rants
I ~ (the label 'bleeding heart') the Internet gives anyone a free ~
sign, signal, symbol: clothing & accessories / military digital megaphone
achievement, recognition & praise: sign, signal, symbol / he has been communicating through his ~, Twitter
military
media megaphone
medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine) his voice is amplified by the ~ (a Wall Street analyst)

got a taste of her own medicine pulpit and the megaphone

she ~ (therapist goes to therapy) use the ~ of the office to highlight human rights
experience: food & drink / health & medicine / taste lost his megaphone
reversal: food & drink / health & medicine / taste I’m happy that Jones has ~ (deplatformed by Twitter, etc.)
fate, fortune & chance: food & drink / health & medicine /
message / transmission: tools & technology
taste
medieval (adjective) melodrama (noun)
medieval legal melodrama
to the outside eye, the system appears ~ (Afghanistan) a ~ erupted, dismaying and demoralizing patients
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
dark, sadistic and medieval
his ~ vision of the future (al-Zarqawi) melodramatic (adjective)
past & present / time: history
melodramatic
growth & development / knowledge & intelligence / don't be so ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
meet (attain)
melt (verb)
met with (limited) success
traditional methods have ~ (problem bears) melted (silently) into the trees
the platoon ~
meet (strict academic) criteria
to get in, girls must ~ (high school) melted under the onslaught
Saudi Arabia ~, as Germany… (soccer)
meet their goals
students should record whether or not they ~ appearance & disappearance: snow & ice / verb

met the objectives melt away (verb)

how well the group had ~ of the lesson (schools)
militias have melted away
on track to meet Shiite ~
the services are ~ reserve manpower goals (military)
tension melted away
attainment: verb all my tension ~
meet (something can meet you) appearance & disappearance: snow & ice / verb

met our eyes meltdown (failure)

an unusual sight ~ (on a wilderness trip)
in meltdown
meets the eye the country is ~ (Yemen)
there is more to the case than ~ (a murder)
market meltdown
fictive meeting & seeing: verb a bill to prevent a repeat of the ~ of 2008
meet (meet the moment, etc.) dot-com meltdown
the ~ and poor economy
meet the moment
Biden has plainly struggled to ~ (2019 campaign) NotPetya meltdown
Maersk’s global network in the wake of its ~ (worm)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: verb
social-media meltdown
it was a major ~ (Facebook goes down for 14 hours)

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economic meltdown menu (computer)
the landmark restaurant was a victim of the ~
the economy is in free-fall, ~ (Zimbabwe) Search Menu
Back to ~ (computer)
financial meltdown
the IMF tries to avert ~s start menu
we are still paying for the ~ (2010) each user has a customized desktop and ~ (computers)
meltdown dealt a deathblow to both ideas tools menu
the financial ~ (foreign policy) on the ~, click mail merge (computers)
avert (financial) meltdowns View menu
the IMF tries to ~ click on the following items on the ~ (computers)
triggered (economic) meltdown items on the View menu
sanctions have ~ click on the following ~ (computers)
paying for the (financial) meltdown alternatives & choices / computer: food & drink
we are still ~ (2010)
menu (other)
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: materials &
substances / nuclear energy menu of drugs
we have a ~ that... (treating virus)
melt down (emotions)
menu of (vaccine) opportunities
melt down in my office we want to have a whole ~ (COVID-19)
he would ~, start sobbing about his dad (death of dad)
alternatives & choices / amount: food & drink
feeling, emotion & effect: nuclear energy / verb group, set & collection: food & drink
melting pot (noun) mercenary (person)
melting pot, a (beautiful) tapestry, or a salad bowl mercenaries for hire
is the United States a ~ he was ashamed to see his former colleagues ~
cultural melting pot mercenary approach
a foundational element of US society is that we are a ~ some of his former colleagues took a more ~
religious melting pot mercenary model
Sarajevo, a ~ throughout its history... locals renting rooms has been supplanted by a more ~
mixture: container / fire / mining / temperature character & personality: conflict / money / person
identity & nature: container / fire / mining / temperature person: money
memory lane (down memory lane) mercurial (adjective)
trip down memory lane mercurial insight
a ~ (old photos) he is a visionary with a capacity for ~ (scientist)
walk down memory lane mercurial personality
a~ his ~ caused headaches (an employee)
memory: infrastructure mercurial and uncertain
past & present / time : infrastructure he is ~
mend (on the mend) brash and mercurial
Somalia's pirates are ~
on the mend
♦ Anxiety; irritability; insomnia; emotional instability; depression; suicidal
but now his life is ~ thoughts; racing thoughts; fearful feelings; feelings of persecution;
the presidents says he and the country are ~ (pandemic) feelings of worthlessness; anhedonia (an inability to feel pleasure); loss
of self-control; loss of joy in life; a vexing inner restlessness; restless
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / mechanism sleep; moodiness; withdrawal from society; fear of further deterioration;
vomiting; enlarged brain; congestion in lungs; gingivitis; tremors...
mend (verb) (Symptoms of mercury poisoning, known as Mad Hatter’s Disease.
Suffered by those who did fire-gilding in the past.)
mend the divisions character & personality: materials & substances
~ in East Timorese society (elections)
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb

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merry-go-round core message
his ~ is…
merry-go-round of foster care
the ~ key message
I think one of the ~s is…
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / movement:
sports & games public health message
Angolans have resisted the ~ (Marburg virus)
mesmerizing (adjective)
underlying message
mesmerizing understand their ~ (autistic behaviors)
he is ~, you can’t take your eyes off him (Ronaldo)
inspiring message
mesmerizing performance not exactly an ~
she bewitched all with a ~ leaders issued ~s

makes the film mesmerizing mixed message

strangeness and emotion ~ schools send ~s about cheating
♦ This word comes from Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). As such, it is subliminal message
a eponym.
logos can be powerful, and they are all about ~s
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
wrong message
mess (person) sending the ~ to kids (that thin is good)

mess important psychological message

he’s a ~ (not in control of his life) this would send an ~ to Noriega

hot mess message is getting through

I admit it, I’ve been a ~ lately our message is ~
being in your 20s is a ~, a mad time
drugs, alcohol and low self-esteem turned her into a ~ get the message across
we need to ~ to every fan that racist abuse is wrong
character & personality: hygiene
send messages
mess (noun) people ~ through their body language

hot mess message: tools & technology

I didn’t understand what that article said, it was a ~ messenger (shoot the messenger)
clean up the mess shoots the messenger
grownups must ~ (finances) if he doesn’t like the intelligence he gets, he ~ (a leader)
cleaning up this mess message: allusion / person
we're ~ (diplomacy)
messiah (noun)
flaws & lack of flaws / situation: hygiene messiah of the (global warming) movement
message (send a message, etc.) she has been described as the ~ (Greta Thunberg)

message of hate message: Bible / person / religion

bin Laden’s ~ (terrorism) messianic (adjective)
message of hope messianic zeal
a ~ versus false hope (schizophrenia) he has a ~ (Adam Neumann of WeWork)
the film offers a ~
message: Bible / religion
message of unity and equality
his ~ (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
messy (adjective)
messy
messages about cheating the world is ~ (Barack Obama on being “woke”)
schools send mixed ~
messy situation
play's message it’s a ~
some have questioned the ~ (controversial, political)
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene
song's message
the ~

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met (met by anger, etc.) the Immortality institute, the ~ (longevity science)

met by violence “Methuselah Trusts”

~ can build massive wealth
somewhere along the way they were ~ (murdered couple)
♦ Long living things from turtles to trees have been named Methuselah.
fictive meeting & seeing: verb Methuselah is the name given to the bristlecone pine in California’s
White Mountains, thought to be the oldest living thing at 4,600 years old.
metastasize (verb)
past & present / time: Bible / religion
metastasize primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: Bible / religion
this is a cancer that has been allowed to ~ (an issue) miasma (noun)
metastasized
the mission has ~ (a military operation)
miasma of sleaze and corruption
the administration is mired in a ~ (politics)
metastasized to (over) $20,000 corruption: air / atmosphere / smell
that debt ~ (credit-card debt)
Michael Jordan (epithet)
metastasized into a (regional) crisis
the cancer has ~ (terrorism) Michael Jordan of the dog-show world
Mick is the ~ (a blue terrier)
metastasized into a (global) crisis
recklessness ~ (financial collapse) epithet: basketball / sports & games
metastasized into a Great Depression achievement, recognition & praise: basketball / epithet /
sports & games
the great slump could have ~ (2010)
microclimate
metastasized from a controversy to an indication
the situation has ~ of a larger problem (blackface) microclimate of white literary bourgeois Cape Town
her novel is an evocation of the ~
grown and metastasized
extremism has ~ in the country environment: weather & climate
allow the (underlying) problem to metastasize microscope (under a microscope)
treating the symptoms of the problem can ~ (politics)
under the microscope
affliction: health & medicine cycling is ~ (Lance Armstrong, on doping)
growth & development: health & medicine every aspect of their relationship is ~ (celebrities)
meteoric (adjective) now her own behavior is ~ (sex scandal)
now it’s Trump’s turn ~ (a book by Bob Woodward)
meteoric
get put under a microscope
her academic progress was less than ~
the first time a family gets a foster kid they ~
meteoric rise attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology / eye
his ~ was the stuff of New York dreams (literary agent)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: tools & technology /
she had a ~ and a heartbreaking fall (Whitney Houston)
eye
the podcast chronicles her ~ and fall from grace
she enjoyed a ~ through Washington’s journalism ranks microscope (through a microscope)
his resignation cuts short a ~ through Scottish politics
look at things through a microscope
meteoric success my job is to ~, not the binoculars (reporter)
he achieved ~ (owner of Israeli winery)
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
speed: astronomy
Midas (Midas touch)
meteorically (adverb)
Midas touch
risen meteorically he had the ~ (Steve Jobs)
the money made by social-media influencers has ~
money: allusion
speed: astronomy
middle (in the middle)
Methuselah
caught in the middle
comic-book Methuselah civilians are ~ (war)
a ~, Stan Lee died aged 95...
situation: center & periphery / position
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Middle Ages (history) ~ (suit “wedgie” disqualifies swimmer)
movement: person
medical Middle Ages
the Civil War was fought at the end of the ~ (US) mile (go the extra mile)
marching backward to the Middle Ages go the extra mile
it feels like this country is ~ (religion) we will have to ~ (negotiations)
growth & development: history gone the extra mile to make
past & present / time: history we have ~ the fair safe
middle finger (noun) go the extra mile to ensure
we will ~ his safety (a famous inmate)
“middle finger” to everyone
the mass party was a ~ who had suffered (pandemic) difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / journeys & trips
♦ “Berlin’s tourism authority has launched an ad campaign featuring an extent & scope: distance / journeys & trips
elderly woman giving the middle finger to people who refuse to wear
masks... / But the campaign has proved controversial, with some in mileage
Germany calling it insulting.” (“Coronavirus: Berlin ad sticks middle finger
to mask rule breakers,” BBC, October 14, 2020.) political mileage
insult: finger / gesture ~ to be gotten from historic grievances (blacks)

middle-of-the-road given the series (all sorts of) mileage

the pandemic has ~ (lockdown entertainment)
middle-of-the-road approach cost & benefit: distance
we are taking a ~
milestone (noun)
middle-of-the-road Democrat
he’s been a ~ his entire career (a politician) milestone
position, policy & negotiation: position the groups applauded Bush's signing of the bill as a ~
it was a ~, it held a lot of symbolic meaning (diplomacy)
center & periphery: position
middle-of-the-roader milestone in (modern Holocaust) awareness
Eichmann's trial was a ~
middle-of-the-roaders
they are ~
milestone in the development
a ~ of Africa (emergency-med conference)
position, policy & negotiation: person / position
milestone in our journey
center & periphery: position
this is a significant ~ towards the promise of… (medicine)
midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.)
milestone for a kindergartner
one more stroke closer to midnight tying his shoes can be quite a ~
for him, the campaign clock took ~ (failing)
milestone payments
two minutes before midnight the companies get ~ to encourage development (space)
it’s ~ but I’m not desperate (genetic / tech safeguards)
another milestone
♦ This is a reference to the Doomsday Clock.
this is ~ in Georgia's democratic development (election)
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / clock / day
developmental milestones
timeliness & lack of timeliness: allusion / clock / day ~ occur (babies)
midwife (person) grim milestone
midwife of a flourishing English literature a ~ is passed (US death toll passes 50,000 / pandemic)
Caxton was the ~ (the printer) major milestone
played midwife to (new) democracies the extraditions are a ~ in our effort… (law)
the US ~ in Germany and Japan after World War II next milestone
served as midwife the ~ in neural prosthetics (for quadriplegics)
Stanford has ~ to many disruptive technologies sad milestone
creation & transformation: birth / person this is a ~ on our descent into intolerance (shooting)

migrate (verb) 22 milestones

we laid out a series of ~ (contract)
swimsuits migrate

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milestone was reached
today a ~ (Stock Market hits 40,000)
passed a milestone
the country appears to have ~ (Iran / nuclear weapons)
passed a milestone
the country appears to have ~ (Iran / nuclear weapons)
♦ The Romans positioned milestones on the roads. Old milestones might
indicate the distance to a place, or from a place. Modern milestones are
called mile markers, and are metal signs, instead of stones.
♦ Traditional sociologists listed five milestones of adulthood: finishing
school; leaving home, getting a job; marrying; and having a child.
achievement, recognition & praise / attainment /
importance & significance / progress & lack of progress /
sign, signal, symbol: infrastructure / journeys & trips
military-industrial complex
media-industrial complex
the best-of-the-decade ~ (2019-2020)
Democrat-media complex
the full ~ was on display (politics)
♦ Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term “the military-industrial complex” in
his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961. About that, the
linguist Noam Chomsky said, “There is no military-industrial complex: it’s
just the industrial system operating under one or another pretext.”
strength & weakness: allusion / history
milk (verb)
milked the moment
the Israelis really ~ (a diplomatic success)
milk this issue for all it's worth
he will ~ (a politician)
milk (as much) money (as possible) out of the public
they try to ~ (disgruntled boxing fan)
taking & removing: cows & cattle / verb
milk run (noun)
milk run
it was a ~, like a neighborhood delivery (firebombing)
danger / difficulty, easiness & effort: military
mill (gossip / rumor mill)
gossip mill
the ~ at the office
rumor mill
we all know the ~ churns out misinformation
getting involved in the ~ at work can get sticky
rumor mill says
the ~ he may have plans that do include Fury (boxing)
rumour mill spun out of control
the ~, creating fear in the high school
rumor mills whirred
in the soldiers’ camps, ~
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♦ Hawaii has the "coconut wireless" or the Coconut Wire. The Philippines
have the Bamboo Telegraph. Ghanaians can hear things via "the talking
drum." From time immemorial, as Ibrahim al-Koni tells us, the desert
winds have brought rumors and reports to the Sahrawis: “I heard it on
the wind.” Americans can "hear it through the grapevine," or hear a
report or account through the rumor mill. Italians say "per sentito dire"
which basically means, "heard it said," and they hear gossip "voci di
corridoio" which means "hall voice" or "voices in the hall." These systems
operate by word-of-mouth, or, nowadays, the Internet.
♦ “They’ve got a gallows-bad reputation, but, you know what a place the
beach is for talking.” / “The beach, if you don’t know is the name of the
gossip mill of white derelicts and rough customers that hang around your
South Sea island ports. You’ll find captains and traders too fond of their
grog and properly down on their luck. I’ll admit, I was fond of the gin
myself back then...” (The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson.)
content / gossip: manufacturing
mill (grist for the mill)
grist for their (propaganda) mill
the leaks will be more ~ (war)
grist for the tabloid mill
his attention-grabbing antics are ~
provided the grist
the report ~ for a lot of conspiracy theories
♦ Grist is grain that is ground to make flour.
content / gossip: manufacturing
mill (other)
"mills of citizenship"
the role of French schools as ~ (and Frenchness)
diploma mill
he received his degree from a ~ (coach)
the NCAA is trying to clean up the high school ~s
~s are only one troubling part of youth basketball
essay mills
students turn to ‘~’ to help them cheat
propaganda mill
the leaks will be more grist for their ~ (war)
pill mill
the doctor ran an illegal "~" for addicts, dealers
term-paper mill
online ~s
online (term-paper) mills
♦ A mill traditionally ground wheat, then the word became synonymous
with a factory.
♦ Workers in West Bengal's foundries make manhole covers for New
York City. The workers make a few dollars a day, and are not supposed
to work barefoot.
creation & transformation: manufacturing
million-dollar
million-dollar question
that's the ~
importance & significance: money
millstone (noun) the Wichita incident was in the ~ (caution after mistake)
debt millstone change our minds
the board has worked to reduce the ~ around the club’s neck we might ~
♦ Millstones come in pairs.
opened (Afghan women's) minds
oppression: weight the media has ~
mince (verb) keep in mind
it is a benchmark that we must ~
minced no words
Putin ~ keep that in mind
we’ve got to ~ (explanation)
speech: cooking / verb
put the problem out of his mind
mind (wrap / get one’s mind around he tried to ~
something, etc.) come into your mind
wrap our minds around what how did the idea ~
it was hard to ~ had happened get it out of my mind
wrap his mind around what I can’t ~
he is trying to ~ the future will be like (after disaster) get out of my mind
get their heads around it’s something I can just never ~ (horrible memory)
that’s very difficult for people to ~ (murder trial) going through your mind
get my head around it what was ~ at the time (the sinking of a ship)
I still can’t ~ go through your head
wrap you mind around it thousands of thoughts ~ (on a sinking ship)
you try to ~ but it’s just incomprehensible (a disaster) sticks in your mind
wrap my mind around this tragedy it ~ forever (a combat memory)
I still can’t ~ mind: container
comprehension & incomprehension: mind / verb mind (open mind)
mind (area) open mind with regard to everything
through your mind I’ve got to keep an ~ (military discipline)
so what went ~
tunnel vision versus an open mind
cross your mind ~ (criminal investigations)
did it ~ that…
have an open mind
mind: space God tells us to ~ and an open heart (interfaith issues)
mind (platform) we ~, we have to think out of the box (WHO and Ebola)

on your mind keeping an open mind

we are ~ (about cause of disease)
what’s ~
♦ "A person can be so open-minded that his brains fall out." (A critic,
on my mind speaking of Thabo Mbeki's willingness to accept any argument against
giving antiretrovirals to South African H.I.V. sufferers.)
but here’s why integration was ~
mind: access & lack of access / container
get it off my mind
I can’t ~ minded (steely-minded)
mind: platform steely-minded detective
mind (container) Miss Marple is a ~
mind: materials & substances
in mind
what do you have ~ (idea) mine (search)
in the back of your mind mine (real-time) intelligence
it’s always ~ (shark attacks / Perth) security personnel will now ~ (at airports)
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 researchers have begun to ~ of breath (medicine) text mining (m)
~ software to analyze customer feedback
searching & discovery: mining / verb
searching & discovery: mining
minefield
minnow (noun)
minefield
the unwritten rules, hidden agendas, and ~s minnow
the FA Cup allows a ~ to kill a giant (soccer)
minefield of (early) adolescence
the story follows him through the precarious ~ European minnows
the ~ knocked out Lyon on penalties (Apoel Nicosia)
minefield of challenges
♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a
the tumor presents a ~ for the surgeons minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)
minefield for those ♦ “The whole country will be behind the minnows.” (Les Herbiers plays
the immigration bill is a ~ who have been waiting... Paris St-Germain for the final of the Coupe de France.)

size: animal / fish

minefield of (US) politics
importance & significance / power / strength & weakness:
I'm not going to walk into the ~ (a foreign leader)
animal / fish / size
minefield of false-news stories minted
social media has become a ~
freshly minted (m)
political minefield ~ graduates
how to dispose of his body is a ~ (a dead dictator)
newly minted (m)
relational minefield ~ M.B.A.s
school can be a daily ~ for girls (social aggression) guests jockeyed for face time with the ~ star (party)
rhetorical minefield creation & transformation: money
he has entered the Mideast's ~ (use of word crusade)
miracle (Miracle on the Hudson, etc.)
social minefield
every day of school can be a new ~ (girls' bullying) Miracle on the Hudson
the crash landing became known as the ~ (Flight 1549)
entering a (dangerous) minefield
the administration is ~ with serious repercussions (politics) Bat Cave Miracle
the ~, 16 August 1992, Nickajack Lake Cave...
planted a (political) minefield
the British colonizers ~ in the 1920s (Sudan) fate, fortune & chance: epithet
stepped into this minefield epithet: religion
the US ~, this tangle of alliances (northern Syria) miracle (Miracle of Istanbul, etc.)
♦ “So the idea here is to prioritize tests, localize decision-making, and to
be careful that we don’t run blindly back into a virus minefield of people Miracle of Bern
that can be sick but don’t know it, asymptomatic but infectious... Masks the "~", as the '54 final is known (World Cup soccer)
are a really important layer in this effort... The mask...kinda defuses the
mine, if you will, in the virus minefield.” (ABC News Homeland Security Miracle of Istanbul
analyst Tom Bossert.)
the ~, it’s called (Liverpool wins Champions League)
♦ Mine / UXO Messages / Game and fun are fine but not with dangerous
objects and in suspicious places. / Play only in safety places. / Do NOT epithet: sports & games
throw and do not touch UXO. Report Police, KPC or KFOR. / Do NOT go
into abandoned houses. / Do NOT go in suspicious places for any miracle (other)
reason. / Do NOT touch suspicious objects. / Do NOT touch and do not
take anything that is not yours. (A poster at the entrance to the main
police station in Pristina, Kosovo, in 2008, showing pictures of the miracle
common types of mines and UXO found in the region.) there can be ~s when you believe…
♦ “It looked like a little can; it was interesting.” (Mara al-Miri, 10, injured who knows what ~s you can achieve
by the explosion of a bomblet in the village of Ayt el Shaab in southern photosynthesis is a ~ linking heaven and earth
Lebanon.)
miracle cure
danger: explosion / military / walking, running & jumping / there's no ~ on the horizon (brain tumors)
weapon
miracle drug
mining (data, etc.) the beneficiary of a ~
data-mining (m) miracle pill
~ software sorts information it is not a ~ (a drug)

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miracle worker mired in squalor and devastation
you're a ~ (helped solve a person's problem) they led lives ~ (Chechnya)
Christmas miracle became mired in controversy
sometimes ~s just don't happen the event ~ last year (investment initiative)
accomplished miracles get mired in another Iraq
he ~ the US doesn't want to ~ in another Iraq (Syria)
expect miracles obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land
you can't ~ (search dogs) flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land
pray for a miracle
until the moment of death, families ~ mirror (verb)
pray for miracles mirrored his erratic (off-the-field) behaviour
we still ~ in West Virginia (trapped miners) his unpredictable style ~ (sports)
believe in miracles echo, mirror and differ
we ~ (that trapped miners are alive) the two stories began to ~ from each other (a writer)
worked a miracle repetition: mirror / verb
you ~ last night (praise for a nurse)
mirror (noun)
pulled off a miracle
they ~... (sports comeback) mirror and a bridge
we are a ~ to culture at large (TikTok)
fate, fortune & chance: religion
cost & benefit: religion looking in the mirror
we have been ~ and changing the way we teach
miraculous (adjective) we have been ~ and rethinking our approach (education)
miraculous look at himself in the mirror
the last-minute goal bordered on ~ (sports) he's got to ~ (businessman / ethics)
miraculous escape hold a mirror up to ourselves
reports of his ~ (from capture) we must ~ and ask why (physician suicides)
fate, fortune & chance: religion holds a mirror up to how
feeling, emotion & effect: religion the film ~ people in this generation grew up
mired (stuck) ♦ Some amusement parks have mirror mazes.
♦ A carnival or funhouse mirror is a curved mirror that can distort your
mired at 9.6 percent image. Such a mirror can make you look like a fat midget, or make your
chin look a foot long.
unemployment is ~
consciousness & awareness: mirror
mired in Afghanistan
now we are ~ (war) mirror (in the rear-view mirror)
mired in crisis in the rear-view mirror
Somalia has been ~ since 1991 she knows her setbacks will soon be ~ (teen)
we’ll be glad to put this cold weather ~
mired in (economic) distress
now that that is ~ (behind us)
people are ~ (unemployment)
put this in the rear-view mirror
mired in the doldrums
he needs to ~, move past it (politician and election issue)
we remain ~ (poor economy)
past & present / time: direction / mirror / movement /
mired in grief
position
rabbis stress Yom Kippur should not be ~
mired in litigation
mis (misbehave, etc.)
the university is still ~ misbehaved
mired in misery when one of the newer gyros was switched on, it ~ (Hubble)
Haiti remains ~ failure, accident & impairment: affix
mired in a (4-decade) war
Colombia is ~ against guerrillas

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misbehave (machine) having made a ~ for war… (in Iraq)

misbehaved misleading (label) claims

exotic supplements with ~
when one of the newer gyros was switched on, it ~ (Hubble)
disruption / flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: mechanism misleading (accounting) practices
~ in the marketplace
/ verb
miscarriage (of justice, etc.) misleading statement
~s have been made
miscarriage of justice misleading or inaccurate
the referee made mistakes and there was a ~ (soccer coach) the information presented is ~(medical Web sites)
failure, accident & impairment: baby / birth / health &
totally misleading
medicine the stereotype is ~ (that young drug users are "losers")
miscue (noun) phony, dishonest or misleading
miscues there was nothing ~ about the photo (Iwo Jima)
Biden can’t afford these kinds of ~ (politics) direction: journeys & trips
his only ~ is to... (the director of a documentary) failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips
verbal miscues misread (verb)
he is no stranger to ~ (a politician)
misread what
high-profile political miscue they ~ the protests were all about (the government)
this was arguably his most ~ (a politician)
♦ A miscue refers to billiards or pool. misreading the evidence
he is ~ (scientific dispute)
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games
misread him
misdiagnose (verb) I guess I ~ from the beginning
misdiagnosed the severity misread each other’s intentions
economists ~ of the problem (financial) countries ~, in the fog of all these events (the Gulf)
analysis, interpretation & explanation / failure, accident & analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading /
impairment: health & medicine / verb verb
misfire (failure) miss (verb)
misfires miss
during a trial plagued with ~, he was found not guilty a lot of times his jokes ~ (a comic)
failure, accident & impairment: weapon success & failure: target / verb
mislead (verb) missing in action (MIA)
mislead MIA
historical analogy can ~ Google may be ~ (at tech hearings)
misled Congress missing in action from the big screen
he disputed that he ~ last month when he said... they have been ~ for years (old stars)
mislead anyone about his credentials missing in action in terms of leadership
he said he had not tried to ~ our national government is ~ (Australia)
direction: journeys & trips / verb condition & status / presence & absence: military
failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips / verb
mission (on a mission)
misleading (adjective)
on a mission
misleading John Ryder is ~ here (a boxing match)
laboratory results were ~ (vs. fieldwork)
on a mission to clean house
misleading advertisements somebody who’s ~ (an administrator)
~ (personal ads for porn sites on Internet)
commitment & determination / work & duty: military
misleading case

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mission (other) red mist descended
then the ~ (soccer player retaliates for foul)
mission is to keep
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / color / mental health
part of our ~ history alive (Trail of Tears)
violence: blood / color / mental health / mental health
strayed from its (intended) mission mix (in / into the mix)
Wall Street has ~ (to raise money, versus betting)
commitment & determination / work & duty: military soldiers in the mix
more ~ will ensure the desired outcome
missionary (person)
get (right) back in the mix
missionary to America you've got to get back up and ~ (MMA fighter)
he was a soccer ~
bring more people into the mix
soccer missionary we must ~ (process)
he was a ~ to America
remained in the mix
enthusiasm / message: person / religion he ~ as an informal outside consultant (election campaign)
person: religion
involvement: mixture
misstep (noun)
mixed up
misstep
the lamb was topped, in a ~, with tomatoes (food) mixed up with a Japanese girl
I got ~ in Honolulu
public-relations misstep
involvement: mixture
the stores decision to change its logo was a ~
costly misstep moan (verb)
this bill is a ~ (politics) wail and moan
honest misstep they’ll ~ and write outraged editorials...
he made an ~ (politician) conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition
inadvertent misstep & defeat: sound / verb
he should be blamed for an ~ (ethics) moat (noun)
incendiary misstep
moat
the organization has made some politically ~s
the Rhine is a highway as much as a ~ (Roman history)
procedural misstep moat around the outbreak
death-penalty cases are vulnerable to ~s
officials acted to build a ~ (bird-flu outbreak)
strategic misstep protective moats
the company's ~
oceans are highways rather than ~ (geopolitics)
admitted missteps digging a (legal) moat
he ~ in his first year (president)
one made no official move without first ~ (Colombia)
made any missteps protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
he hasn't ~ (political campaign)
moated
apologize for its missteps
Curtis did not acknowledge her experience or ~ (school) moated from popular sentiment
some political systems suffer because they are ~
engaged in additional missteps
Curtis ~ following the publication of the article (the school) division & connection / isolation & remoteness / protection
& lack of protection: fortification
marred by missteps
the operation was ~ and poor judgments (government) mob (group)
failure, accident & impairment: walking, running & jumping mob of volunteers
flaws & lack of flaws: walking, running & jumping police were joined by a ~ (search)
mist (red mist) amount / behavior / group, set & collection: crime
red mist came down
he acted deplorably as the ~ (prosecutor / England)

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mob (society) Molotov cocktail
mob of his day digital Molotov cocktail
he appealed to the base instincts of the ~ (orator Cleon) the arrests were greeted with ~s (hackers' revenge)
mob rule feeling, emotion & effect: explosion
the confirmation hearing descended into ~ (protests)
the impeachment is legislative ~
moment (moment where)
liberal “mob” in a moment where
he portrayed himself as a victim of a ~ (culture wars) well, I think we’re ~ 80% of the country thinks...

lynch mob past & present / time: place

the thunder of the partisan ~ moment (in this moment, etc.)
twittermob in this moment
yet none of this matters to the ~ (racism controversy) I’m more optimistic ~ than I’ve ever been
twitter mob through this moment
a ~ has managed to change a New York Times headline what music is getting you ~ (the pandemic)
baying of the mob past & present / time: container
he did not bow to the ~ (followed his own mind)
♦ According to Wilfred Funk, Litt.D., this word is a clipping of the Latin moment (for this moment)
mobile vulgus, or “the fickle crowd” and was used at the time of Charles
II. From his book, Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories. for this moment
he is the right man ~ (Dr. Anthony Fauci and pandemic)
behavior / society: person
oppression: history / society / violence past & present / time: day
mogul (noun) moment (have a moment / attention)
media mogul having a moment
long-time Trump ally and conservative ~ the Marshal Plan is ~
music mogul having its moment
the ~ lured youngsters into his cars the arepa is ~ (a corn pancake)
power: history / person having a Hollywood moment
mold (verb) Muslims are ~
clearly having a moment
mold their athletes into officers the jigsaw puzzle is ~, toilet paper, step aside...
coaches help ~ able to lead (West Point)
♦ The online Cambridge Dictionary defines this as something currently
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb popular or in fashion. It echoes old clichés like everything has its moment
in the sun, or every dog has its day.
mold (fit a mold) ♦ If something is “having a moment” in this sense, then it is a “thing.”

fit a (prescribed) mold primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day

in an environment where you feel pressured to ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion: object

fit the mold moment (have a moment / emotion)

male anchors who don't ~ (TV news)
fit a (prescribed) mold
workplaces where you feel pressured to ~
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: manufacturing
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: manufacturing
having a moment
Joe’s ~ (man weeps in front of friends)
♦ The online Cambridge Dictionary defines this as simply having an
emotional moment, for example, tearing up, weeping, the voice cracking
or wavering, or otherwise becoming overwhelmed by an emotion. It is
generally used by someone else to acknowledge the situation to others.

mole (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: verb

Russian mole
momentum (lose momentum)
he turned out to be a ~ losing its momentum
concealment & lack of concealment: animal the US economic recovery is ~
subterfuge: animal lost their momentum
they ~

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failure, accident & impairment: movement / verb proper name: creature
momentum (gain momentum, etc.) monster (create a monster)
gained momentum created a monster
the notion has ~ (that speaking out is therapeutic) we have ~ (diplomacy)
street protests have ~ (Myanmar in 2007) they still don’t accept that they ~ (Facebook)
gaining momentum affliction: allusion / creature
protests are ~ allusion: books & reading
gathering momentum monster (affliction)
a campaign to regulate the company is ~ (Facebook)
monster
force / power / speed: movement / verb only ~s could have planned this (Siberian slave labor)
it is a ~ (methamphetamine usage in small rural town)
momentum (noun) these are the ~s we've been hunting (serial shooters)
momentum of the game ~s committed this crime
the missed penalty kick changed the ~ these savage ~s will not escape their fate (terrorists)

momentum for a lottery vicious monster

the budget crisis creates ~ (state) they have become ~s (terrorists)

anti-noise momentum turned into a monster

the ~ appears to be growing in the 3 months we were engaged he ~
♦ "Unemployment is a monster which not only renders the fit powerless
lost momentum but prevents them from contributing to their society's development."
the Democrats need to regain their ~ (politics) (Abdullah Al-Asmari, in Al-Watan, on unemployment in Saudi Arabia.)

affliction: creature
word-of-mouth momentum
the ~ that propels a book (publishing) monster (size)
changed the momentum monster
the missed penalty kick ~ of the game it's a ~, it's awesome (speaking of a huge wildfire)
♦ Movement, weight and speed equals force.
monster hit
force / increase & decrease / power / progress & lack of the studio hasn't had a ~ since… (films)
progress / starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
monster hurricane
monarch (primacy) the tingling anxiety one feels facing a ~
a ~, with its 150-mile-an-hour winds
monarch of AI
deep learning is the reigning ~ monster kite
running a ~ is a special skill
monarch of the floating fiefdom
a captain was a ~ of his ship (1770) monster ramp
most of the riders had never ridden the ~ (MegaRamp)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
superlative: person / royalty monster ratings
person / power: royalty the game show's ~
monkey (insult) monster swarm
trillions of cicadas are emerging in a ~ (Brood X)
monkeys
the plane was designed by clowns supervised by ~ monster tsunami
a ~ had been unleashed (Indian Ocean / 2004)
insult: animal
monkish (adjective) monster waves
the hurricane spawned ~ that toppled beach houses
monkish breakfast monster (40-foot) waves
a ~ of raw eggs, tea, and a biscuit surfers couldn't resist the challenge of the ~
size: religion
monster dust devil
monster (Monster.com, etc.) a ~ sent sand and litter high into the air

Monster and MSN monster iceberg

the site is jointly operated by ~ (Web site) a ~ is drifting towards western Australia (2009)

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monster sandstorm complexity / environment / obstacles & impedance /
a ~ grounded coalition forces south of Baghdad progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land
concrete monster moribund (adjective)
it's a dinosaur, a ~ (an old sports stadium)
moribund
mechanical monster the pace of economic growth is ~
as the clattering ~ descends (helicopter) the economy is ~
size: creature moribund economy
monument (noun) he should focus on our ~ (politics)
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine
monument to insignificance
the novel is a 576-page ~ Mormon (Mormons of the Middle East)
greatest monument Mormons of the Middle East
"Warsaw Survivor" is music's ~ to the Holocaust the Druze are the ~
importance & significance: infrastructure sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: epithet / religion
monumental (adjective) epithet: religion
morning (early in the morning)
monumental achievement
it was a ~ (scholarship) early in the morning
but it's ~, at this point… (response to computer virus)
monumental implications
simple acts can have ~ timeliness & lack of timeliness: day
monumental law morsel (amount)
but passage of the ~ was an uphill battle
morsel of hope
importance & significance: infrastructure he was noncommittal but offered me a ~
size: infrastructure
amount: food & drink / stomach
moonscape (noun)
mortal (adjective)
moonscape
the desert was a ~ mortal blow
it was a ~, nothing left almost (after wildfire) the law would strike a ~ to a system that... (athletics)

scorched moonscape mortal threat

a ~ scoured by whirlwinds of ash (wildfire) Pakistan poses a ~ to the security and safety...

barren moonscape destruction: death & life / health & medicine

elephants turn woodland into a ~ mortally (mortally wounded, etc.)
vast, grassy moonscape mortally
Pierre is ringed by a vast, ~ (isolation) Joe Biden is wounded, perhaps ~ so (primary election)
turn woodland into a (barren) moonscape destruction: death & life / health & medicine
elephants can ~
mosaic (noun)
appearance / resemblance: moon
moored mosaic of evidence
it adds to the overall ~
moored in an (earlier) time analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
the religion seems permanently ~ (criticism)
mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.)
progress & lack of progress: boat / movement
morass (noun) “Mosquito Fleet”
the ~ had command of the lake (Champlain, 1776)
morass of (complicated and conflicting) research epithet / size / strength & weakness: insect
school officials are confronted with a ~ (education)
moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
legal morass
he found himself in a ~ flame to (a good many) moths
he was certainly a candle ~ (Lord Byron and women)

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attraction & repulsion: fire / insect / light & dark epithet: family
mothball (verb) mother (Mother Nature)
mothball the carriers Mother Nature
some wanted to ~ (because of high cost / Britain) ~ didn't cooperate (Winter Olympics weather)
~ had other ideas (concerning explorer's planned trip)
dismissal, removal & resignation: insect / verb ~ makes smart critters (salmon head upstream, etc.)
mother (mother's milk) let ~ take her course (a sick animal)
at the mercy of Mother Nature
mother's milk of politics
we're ~ right now (wildfire / town)
money is the ~
we are still ~ with her winds (California wildfires)
bases / importance & significance: food & drink
biodiversity / weather & climate: epithet / family
mother (mother ship, etc.) epithet: family

mother cloud mother (Mother Mountain, etc.)

a funnel cloud reaches down from the ~ (tornado)
Mother Mountain
mother ship Sam Ahkeah says that it is the ~ near Taos
divers on tethers to their ~
Mother and Child
their orbiting ~ (above asteroid)
the ~ are peaks in Vietnam
refueling, resupplying with the help of tenders and ~s
pirates operating from a ~ off the Somali coast proper name: family
this submarine and its mother ship (DSSV Pressure Drop)
mother (den mother, etc.)
division & connection: family
person / relationship: family den mother
she is a natural ~
mother (mother of all)
stage mother
mother of all battles I'm not a pushy ~
Saddam promised the ~ (Gulf War)
help & assistance: animal / family / person
“mother of all biases”
overconfidence is often known as the ~ (psychology) mother hen
mother of all (oil and gas) companies mother-hen (m)
this is the absolute ~ (Saudi Aramco) she justified her ~ efforts as being in her daughter's best
interests
superlative: family
help & assistance: animal / bird / family / person
mother (mother of invention, etc.)
mother lode
mother of invention
if necessity is the ~, discontent is the father of progress mother lode
the ~, the jackpot, Valhalla (88th episode of show)
mother of (all) learning
repetition is the ~ hit the mother lode
we ~ (information in archive)
mother of machines
the clock was destined to be the ~ (scientific instruments) source: mining

mother of NPR mother tongue

Cokie Roberts, a founding ~
speak Chinese as their mother tongue
creation & transformation: epithet / family over a billion people ~
person: family
speak English as their mother tongue
mother (mother earth, etc.) 372 million people ~

mother earth translate from their mother tongue

care for our ~ students who need to ~ to English

considered as our mother taught in their native tongue

in Bangladesh, the river is ~ (has human legal status) children must be ~ (indigenous languages / Nigeria)
relationship: epithet / family speech: family / tongue

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mount (verb) negotiators tried to scale ~ (G-20)

bloodshed mounted mountain of evidence

police have a ~ and a statement (murderer)
the ~ on both sides (gang violence)
concerns (over data security) mount mountains of garbage
neighborhoods here are ringed by ~ (Luanda)
as ~ (Internet)
costs mounted mountains of refuse
~ filled the streets (Athens)
his ~ and mounted some more (bankruptcy)
losses are mounting mountain of research
a ~ shows that…
livestock ~ (blizzards in Colorado / especially cattle)
pressure is mounting mountains of waste
~, public nudity, drunkenness, drugs (biker rally)
the ~
outrage is mounting mountain of (coal) waste
a ~, now 50 stories high (Shanxi Province)
~ over the security guard who...
death toll mounted mountains of paperwork
the ~ take up so much time that... (Sudan aid)
the pandemic worsened and the ~
continued to mount man-made mountain
a~
heat-related deaths ~
♦ “There would need to be a Mt. Everest of evidence to get them to
increase & decrease: pile / verb change their minds.” (Politicians.)

mountain (at the top of the mountain) amount: mountains & hills

at the top of the (boxing) mountain mountainous (adjective)

he has reclaimed his place back ~ (Tyson Fury)
mountainous seas
hierarchy: direction / mountains & hills / position ~ threatened to dash them against the rocks (sailing)
Cape Horn, with its ~
mountain (difficulty)
mountainous waves
mountain ~ crashed against the headlands (Pillar Point)
you can move ~s if you put your mind to it ~ overturned ocean-going freighters (typhoon / Japan)
steep mountain resemblance / size: mountains & hills
the team has a ~ to climb
Mount Everest (and Everest)
move mountains
they will ~ for your (coach about his players) Everest
♦ "Enjoy [your unbeaten streak]—the emotion of getting to the top of the
"Ulysses" was an ~ no filmmaker dared assault
mountain—because you can't duplicate that. It's a lot tougher to stay on
the mountain than it is to climb it." (Ara Parseghian's advice to Tyrone Mt. Everest of the gene therapy community
Willingham.) it was the ~ (Muscular Dystrophy cure)
difficulty, easiness & effort: mountains & hills Mt. Everest of surfing
Hawaii's Waimea Bay, the ~
mountain (amount)
Mount Everest of wreck diving
mountain of cocaine the Andrea Doria is considered the ~
he has done a ~ (a troubled celebrity)
Mount Everest of surfing waves
mountain of criticism Pipeline is the ~ (North Shore of Oahu)
she was subjected to a ~ (a tennis star)
Mount Everest of the yachting universe
mountain of data Cape Horn is regarded as the ~
the newspaper had to sort, search and understand a ~
my Everest
mountains of data beating Klitschko was ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury)
sift through ~
regarded as the Mount Everest
mountain of debris Cape Horn is ~ of the yachting universe
people trapped under a ~ (building collapse)
♦ "It's really the center of the surfing universe. It's like Mount Everest for
surfers everywhere. And Pipeline is really the wave one needs to come
mountains of disagreement

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to terms with as a surfer in order to be considered a great surfer." (Shaun tunnel's mouth
Tomson.)
his office at the ~ (Mont Blanc)
♦ “Burn your TV, fill your pockets with chocolate and ham, and go for a
big walk.” (A Norwegian.) cave mouth
♦ “It’s all bullshit on Everest these days.” (Sir Edmund Hillary in an salamanders also live under rocks near ~s
interview with the Guardian in 2003.)
goal mouth
superlative: mountains & hills / place
moving quickly from post to post in the ~ (ice hockey)
size / danger / difficulty, easiness & effort: epithet /
mountains & hills / place river mouth
attainment / epithet: mountains & hills sea snakes can be found near ~s
mounting orientation / resemblance: mouth
mounting (medical) bills mouth (speech)
he needs to protect himself from ~
speaks out of both sides of his mouth
mounting concern he ~
in response to ~ over…
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / speech: mouth
mounting criticism
he had to address the ~ mouthpiece (person)
mounting debt loyal mouthpiece
a network of lies and ~s she was a ~ (president’s press secretary)

mounting (public and congressional) doubts repetition / sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / speech:
there are ~ about the war mouth / person

mounting evidence mouthwatering (adjective)

~ suggests that…
mouth-watering prospect
mounting pile the fight was a ~ for boxing fans
a ~ of invitations
looks mouth-watering
mounting scandal a bout at a catchweight ~ (boxing)
a ~ over accusations that… (church)
eagerness & reluctance / feeling, emotion & effect: bodily
increase & decrease: pile reaction / food & drink / taste
Mount Rushmore mouthy (adjective)
mouthy
Mount Rushmore of heavyweights
if there were a ~, it would have the likenesses of... he's ~

superlative: allusion / place / mountains & hills speech: mouth

mouse (size) move (move an inch, etc.)

mouse lemur move an inch
~s are the planet's smallest primates (Madagascar) I wouldn't ~ (negotiations)

size: animal resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb

mouth (entrance) move (take action)

mouth of the Bosphorus move on this
ferries chug up into the ~ (Istanbul) gentlemen, we need to ~ (reaction to plot)

mouth of the Gulf of Aden move aggressively

Socotra, the main island at the ~ many universities felt they had to ~ (online education)

mouth of a cave moves slowly

8 Delacour's langurs scampered into the ~ (Vietnam) bureaucracy ~

mouth of the cave got to move

piles of breakdown at the ~ we've ~ (act)

mouth of a (hanging) valley action, inaction & delay: movement / verb

the ~ generally discharges a waterfall

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move (direction) next move
commanders have been forced to rethink their ~
moving in a different direction now we await the ~ from House Democrats (politics)
we're ~ (an investigation) what is our ~ (an investigation)
move in that direction poor political move
it is in everyone's interest to ~ (diplomacy) this is a ~ (Republicans)
moving in a different direction risky move
we're ~ (an investigation) he testified in his own defense, a potentially ~ (trial)
move in that direction smart move
it is in everyone's interest to ~ (diplomacy) it's just not a ~ (celebration resulting in a penalty)
direction: movement / verb strategic move
this was a ~ (an airline merger)
move (progress)
strategy: cards / chess / sports & games
moved beyond race
America has largely ~ (opinion) move (move up)
move forward moving up in the world
we can't ~ until you send your answers back (US census) he is ~ (affluence, power)
moving forward move up the (beauty-pageant) ladder
things are ~ and they're moving quickly (many projects) she began to ~
we are ~ with solutions on many issues (politics)
move up the (economic) ladder
moving a little too fast the play chronicles the struggles of a family to ~
maybe we've been ~ (relationship)
move up the ranks
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement / workers who want to ~
verb
progress & lack of progress: movement / direction / verb
move (chess move, etc.) hierarchy: movement / direction / verb

chess moves movement (progress)

with a couple of ~, the CIA changed Iran’s history (1953)
little movement
move towards authoritarianism there has been ~ in the negotiations
critics called the vote a ~ (Hugo Chávez) progress & lack of progress: movement
career move move on (resiliency)
one of the best ~s I ever made
move on
genius move
let's just ~ (end of a relationship)
playing that card was no ~ (father's influence)
we've got to ~ (put the church controversy behind)
career-ending move we need to close the book on this and ~
it was considered a ~ we want to close this dark chapter of our history and ~
it’s time to put this behind us and ~ (Muller report)
unprecedented move
in an ~… moved on
Nina had ~ (after end of relationship)
get-tough move
in the latest ~ move on with your life
you need to ~ (encouragement)
bold move
it was regarded as an unusually ~ move on with our lives
we’ve got to put this behind us and ~ (disaster)
dangerous move
it was a politically bold and ~ (gay marriage) move on from it
if I hold on to that, I’ll never be able to ~ (boxer / defeat)
extraordinary move
removing a commander in combat is an ~ forget the past and move on
it’s time to ~
latest (get-tough) move ♦ “We should move on, we should leave the past behind. Not forget it,
in the ~ but just leave it behind... Not forgetting, it doesn’t mean not cooperating
with you or not working with you or anything... You have never been

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damaged by us, that’s why you never will know what is the feeling... It’s
not about you.” (Twenty-year-old Arian speaking with 16-year-old Selena mudslinging (noun)
on the bridge over the Ibar that separates their two communities in
Mitrovica, Kosovo.) mudslinging
they both seem to prefer ~ (politicians)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / resiliency /
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips / mudslinging between rival factions
movement / verb ~ is being waged out in the open (catholic church)

move on (change the subject, etc.) name-calling and mud-slinging

~ (politicians)
move on to other areas
I'm going to ~ that need discussion accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land

move on to a different story muffled

let me ~ (ABC news interview)
muffled
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips / Australia’s conversation has been ~ by defamation laws (sex
movement / verb abuse)

Mozart (Mozart of Rock, etc.) constraint & lack of constraint: speech

‘Mozart of rock’
Muhammad Ali (epithet)
tributes paid to ~ Eddie Van Halen Muhammed Ali of her generation
hard-rock’s Mozart Megan Rapinoe is the ~
~, Eddie Van Halen her generation’s Muhammad Ali
epithet: music Megan Rapinoe is ~

mud (drag something through the mud) younger generation’s Muhammad Ali
Nike supports the ~ (Colin Kaepernick)
dragged the city’s reputation through the mud
epithet: boxing / sports & games
he has ~ (false allegation of hate crime)
achievement, recognition & praise: boxing / epithet / sports
accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land / verb & games
reputation: ground, terrain & land / verb mule (drug mule, etc.)
mud (dragged through the mud)
mule profile
dragged through the mud he fit the ~ (busted drug courier at airport)
the doctors in the case have been ~ (criticism)
drug mule
getting dragged through the mud Iranian ~s fly into Dubai every few months
my name is ~ (suspicion of sports doping)
transportation: animal
accusation & criticism / reputation: ground, terrain & land
mule-headed
mud (sink in the mud)
mule-headed
mud of defeat he is ~ (stubborn)
the US is sinking into the ~ (Iraqi spokesman on war)
character & personality: animal
sinking into the mud multiplier (force multiplier)
the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war)
obstacle & impedance / progress & lack of progress: acts as a force multiplier
ground, terrain & land / verb Fox TV ~ for President Trump
increase & decrease: military / number
mud (in the mud)
multipronged
in the mud
we're all ~ and have to get dirty (intelligence) multipronged approach
♦ “You cannot catch rats without going into the sewers.” (A spy for we need a ~ to containing COVID-19
Britain.)
multipronged effort
behavior: ground, terrain & land / height this is a ~
multipronged scheme
the suit claims the pair of companies carried out a ~

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branching system: animal / horn geopolitical muscle
Iran is increasingly flexing its ~s
murderous (adjective)
political muscle
murderous footsteps the Eastern Band has visibly flexed its ~ (Cherokee)
he is determined his son will not follow in his ~ they use their ~ to scare Republicans
murderous hail economic and political muscle
the Turks loosed a ~ of bullets (Gallipoli) unions once had ~
murderous microbes flex its muscles
the way our bodies fight off ~ North Korea might ~
destruction: crime / death & life / violence flexing its muscles
murk (in / amid the murk) the religious right is ~ in the corridors of power
Saudi Arabia is ~ in the oil market
amid the murk
it's hard to find clarity ~ flexing its (geopolitical) muscles
Iran is increasingly ~
in the murk of the conflict
he is a beacon of moral truth ~ (Middle East) flexing their muscles
California politicians are ~ on the national stage
in the murk of history ♦ You got so many kids out here acting crazy, wanting to flex some
he is a shadowy figure lost ~ muscle. They don't have respect for life." (South Los Angeles resident,
commenting on a spate of gang killings.)
in the murk of the situation
force / power: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
I got lost ~
strength & weakness: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
perception, perspective & point of view: water / light & dark
muscle (muscle its way through, etc.)
murk (other)
muscled its way through the Midwest
cultural and political murk the storm ~ (tornadoes and rain)
investigators have been slowed by the ~ (Middle East)
movement: force / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
perception, perspective & point of view: water / light & dark force / power / strength & weakness: movement / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone / verb
murky (adjective)
muscular (adjective)
murky problem
what to do with pirates has become a ~ (Somalia) muscular response
we need to have a ~ (impeachment politics)
murkier question why have such a ~ (measures against pandemic)
you get into the ~ of whether there are other factors at play
force / power / strength & weakness: skin, muscle, nerves
murky world & bone
foreign women working in the ~ of the bar trade (Japan)
muse (person)
still murky
exactly what happened is ~ muse
she was his ~, model and co-conspirator (Wendy Whiteley)
remain murky
though the facts ~... (criminal case) muse and doormat
the muddy line between ~ (Broadway)
remains murky
even now, the source of the problems ~ two muses
the film brings together his ~, De Niro and DiCaprio
certainty & uncertainty / comprehension & lack of
comprehension / perception, perspective & point of view: relationship: allusion / person / religion
light & dark / water creation & transformation: allusion / person / religion
person: religion
muscle (political muscle, etc.)
museum (noun)
muscle of the operation
a guy I thought might be the ~ (drugs) museum of agriculture
the EU is a ~ (according to US ambassador)
muscle-flexing
~ by Pakistan's armed forces primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques
past & present / time: antiques

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mushroom (verb) mutinous (adjective)
mushroom into a (strategic) blunder mutinous mood
this is a tactical mistake that will ~ (a company's decision) workers are in a ~
mushroomed in Zambia mutinous homeowners
anti-Chinese sentiment has ~ since 2005 ~ are trying to secede from the town
mushroomed along the coast resistance, opposition & defeat: boat
resorts and hotels ~ (Negombo) allegiance, support & betrayal: boat
♦ In Asheville, North Carolina, mushrooms truly DO mushroom after a
period of rainy, damp weather. They spring up in patches, can be quite
mutiny (noun)
colorful, and some of them can be quite large.
mutiny against her teachers
appearance & disappearance: plant / verb the 9-year-old girl contacted Johnny Depp to lead a ~
mushroom (shape) mutiny among (federal) judges
the verdict is so outrageous that is has produced a ~
mushroom cloud
the blast sent a huge ~ into the sky (Beirut 2020) mutiny among taxpayers
high taxes set off a ~
shape: plant
World Cup mutiny
musical chairs Anelka was involved in the ~ (against the coach)
musical chairs at the Justice Department victim of a mutiny
~ (acting attorney general due to be replaced) he was the ~ by ultra-conservatives (politics)
game of music-show chairs provoked a mutiny
the game of ~ may not be over (BBC Radio 2) he ~ (a boss, of his employees)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: sports & resistance, opposition & defeat: boat
games allegiance, support & betrayal: boat
muster (pass muster) muzzle (verb)
passes (constitutional) muster muzzle dissent
a judge will decide if the law ~ they are seeking to ~
judgment: military / verb constraint & lack of constraint: animal / verb
muster (muster courage, etc.) speech: mouth / verb
myopia (noun)
muster the courage
republicans must ~ to stand up myopia
assembling: military / verb this ~ can be cured by leadership (shortsightedness)

must-have (noun) myopia of (modern democratic) politics

the ~ is all too obvious (the near term, quick fixes, short-
must-have termism)
trees are a ~ in city budgets (environmentalists) perception, perspective & point of view: eye
wants, needs, hopes & goals: verb to noun future / time: eye
mutate (verb) myopic (adj)
mutated into a metaphor myopic policymaking
as its use ~ (the word weaponize) this kind of ~ was dubbed the “political-business cycle”

creation & transformation: biology / verb future / perception, perspective & point of view: eye

mute (speech) myth (noun)

mute myths about trauma and sexual offences
he remained ~ there are a number of ~

speech: sound myths and tropes

what are some common ~ about looting

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create that myth his presidency was the ~ (politics)
I didn’t ~, but I certainly inherited it (drunk journalists)
economic nadir
bolster the myth they have taken us to this ~ (politics)
this has helped to ~ that children…
political nadir
perpetuate (dangerous) myths the government has reached a ~
her comments ~ (opinion)
hit a nadir
bound up in the myths sales have ~
Indians are ~ white Americans have created
hit its nadir
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion the population of panthers ~ in the 1980s (Florida)
mythology (noun) decline: astronomy
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy
family mythology
this Paradise Lost kind of ~ (formerly rich family) nail (hit the nail on the head)
bases: religion hit the nail on the head
you ~ when you say...
you don’t offend me, you ~
N hits the nail on the head
that ~ (what you said was right)
nadir (at the nadir) one critic called it “Brooklyn verismo,” that pretty much ~
at a nadir hit some nails on their heads
his popularity was ~ (a politician) the prophets ~ (futurists got some things right)
at its nadir success & failure: nail / target / verb
the team is ~ (losing)
nail (nail something)
at their nadir
in 2009, stock prices were ~ nailed it
you ~ (correct answer)
at the nadir of the (financial) crisis
~, gold was a safe haven (investment) nailed a (48-yard) field goal
he ~ (football)
at the nadir of a bad economy
the store opened ~ nailed (several huge) jumps
he ~ and a spock 540
at the nadir of his tenure
he finds himself ~ (a politician) nailed the message
her cheerful, soulful, poppy songs that ~ (Lizzo)
reached their nadir
house prices have not yet ~ (falling) success & failure: nail / target / verb

decline: astronomy / direction nail (nail somebody)

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy / nail this guy
direction we need more evidence to ~ (police)
nadir (since the nadir) pursuit, capture & escape: nail / verb
since the (recession's) nadir nail (bite one’s nails)
~ in 2009, things have improved
decline: astronomy
bite their nails
he parents ~ during big-wave season (Maya Gabeira)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture
nadir (other)
/ verb
nadir of his career nail biter (noun)
the ~ came after… (Frank Sinatra)
nadir of education nail biter of a mission
the late sixties were surely the ~ (US) it’s a ~ (India spacecraft)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture
nadir in (US) history

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nail-biting (fingernails) left us naked
the destruction of their air-defence radars ~
nail-biting experience
protection & lack of protection: clothing & accessories
the space repair was a ~ for NASA
nail-biting thriller
nakedly
it's a ~ (a TV show) nakedly often
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture bars were places where people revealed themselves, most ~

nail down (gain) concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
appearance & reality: clothing & accessories
nail down the agreement name (reputation)
she helped to ~ between… (government)
success & failure: nail / verb name
his ~ is dirt
nail down (settle) my ~ is clean (exonerated)
nail down the facts bad name
it was very hard to ~ his comments give boxing a ~ (Deontay Wilder)
nailed down her proofs big enough name
Evans ~ (concerning undulant fever) he was still a ~ that his latest book sold well, but...

nailed down the source good name

scientists believe they have ~ of the coronavirus (MERS) the company has a ~
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: nail / verb clear his name
he has vowed to ~ (a politician)
naked (unadorned) he wanted to prove his innocence and ~ (refuses deal)
naked abuse clear my name
this is ~ of power (politics) I’m here today to ~ and restore my reputation (fired coach)
naked aggression tarnished the (Hernandez) name
lies, deceit and ~ (Saddam Hussein) they felt she had ~
naked bigotry ♦ “A name doesn’t spoil a man, but a man can spoil a name.” (A Finnish
proverb.)
the ~ (4 Pakistani female nurses murdered)
♦ Life is for one generation; a good name is forever. (Japan.)
naked discrimination ♦ “You have blackened our name. Kill yourself and clean our shame or
their marginalization is due to ~ (an ethnic group) we will kill you first.” (Text message to a 17-year-old Turkish girl in
Southeast Anatolia from one of her uncles. She had taken a boyfriend.)
naked politics ♦ The Howards and the Turners; the Hatfield and the McCoys; the
this is ~ (impeachment investigation) Frenches and Eversoles; the Martins and Tollivers; the Bakers and
Howards... (Famous Appalachian family feuds.)
naked self-interest ♦ “Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against the Campbells, but I would
~ among budding lawyers (university) not stay a night in the company of one.” (Said by a MacDonald recently,
referring to a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells after the
naked truth Campbells had accepted the MacDonalds’ hospitality. The murders took
what I believe to be the ~ (identity of murderer) place in 1692.)

concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories reputation: proper name
appearance & reality: clothing & accessories name-check (verb)
naked (substance) name-checked you
naked the President has ~, called you a rat (NPR)
our leaders are ~ ♦This merely means to mention somebody’s name.

♦ This reminds us of the 1837 story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by attention, scrutiny & promotion: person / verb
Hans Christian Andersen, about the child who exclaimed, “The King has
no clothes!” nanny (person)
substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories
nanny state
naked (protection) people expect the ~ to do everything for them (Brexit)

naked to the elements dependency: baby / family / person

they were ~ person: baby

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nap (noun) official narrative
the migrants don’t believe the ~
taking a nap
the GOP is ~ somewhere (politics) in his narrative
although, ~, the other side is to blame...
action, inaction & delay: sleep
consciousness & awareness: sleep change in the narrative
now, this is a real moment, right, this could be a real ~
Napoleon (of surgery, etc.)
control of this narrative
Napoleon of the Polar regions the white media does not want to relinquish ~ (black sports)
that extraordinary explorer, the ~ (Amundsen)
part of the narrative
Napoleon of Surgery TikTok has become ~ of the election (2020)
on June 26, 1870, ‘the ~’ died (James Syme)
frame the narrative
“Chinese Napoleon” it is vital to ~, to persuade the justices of your version
the last Mongol emperor was driven from Peking by the
upstart ~ (Chu Yuan-chang) shape the narrative
TikTok has helped ~ of the election (2020)
Muslim Napoleon
his resting place resembles that of a ~ (Mehmet II) get across the narrative
to ~, the basic idea of what’s going on in the country
Mahometan Buonaparte
so brave and so good they call him the ~ (Ali Pasha) plays to their narrative
they are trying to spin the data that ~ (politics)
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / military ♦ “Politics is story-telling, and politics hopefully is about persuasion,
allusion / epithet: military about winning people’s hearts and minds.” (Senator Ted Cruz.)

narcotic ♦ This word has its own Wikipedia entry.

narcotic
rising profits were a ~ that affected everyone
♦ “Salt is the primordial narcotic.”
feeling, emotion & effect: addiction / health & medicine
narrative (noun)
narrative
what ~ they want to advance (disinformation)
people were expecting this ~ that... (a controversial show)
♦ Narrative (count noun): (a) Your personal view and set of beliefs, which
conflict with the other fellow’s. (b) A codeword for, “I completely disagree
with you.” (Collocation) You do your very best to frame the narrative and
attack the other person’s narrative. My narrative is right. Your narrative is
wrong. (See belief, polemic)... (A definition written in the spirit of
Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.)
feeling, emotion & effect: addiction / health & medicine
narrow (breadth)
narrow lead
he holds a ~ over his opponent (election)

narrative of the Supreme Courts narrow win

in his ~ he identifies issues like gun rights, free speech the US survived with a ~ over Spain (World Cup soccer)
size: breadth
narrative of elevating
his comment cohere around a ~ white Americans narrow-minded (adjective)
narrative in his head narrow-minded
he has a ~ that he wants Americans to believe he is ~
press narrative mind: breadth
that’s the ~, it’s backwards from what’s likely to happen
narrowness (noun)
my narrative
but I mean, it’s his words, it’s not ~ (disagreement) ideological narrowness
~ is a threat to intellectual openness
digestible narrative
we’ll tackle the ~ that sports are a pathway... mind: breadth

dominant narratives nascent (beginning)

what do ~ do to our understanding of history
nascent campaign
false narrative kindness and decency is the central thrust of his ~ (politics)
he led an entire generation into believing a ~
growth & development: baby / birth
national narrative
being a part of a ~ sends a message (arrested for rioting)

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nature (force of nature) draws near
the night ~
force of nature
she is a wonderful woman, a ~ (Canadian innocence project) drawing near
the time is ~
amount & effect / force / power: storm
proximity: distance / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
character & personality: storm
future / time: distance / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
navel gazing (omphaloskepsis)
near (verb)
navel-gazing tabulation
the ~ of credentials is insufferable (literary world) verdict nears
Weinstein judge warns defense as ~
academic navel gazing
future / time: direction / distance / movement / verb
thinking about free will is much more than ~ (justice, etc.)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: religion nearsighted
nearsighted
navigate (verb) the committee members are ~ (Nobel Peace Prize)
corporate America is ~
navigate the (bureaucratic) maze
workers whose only job is to ~ (Sudan) nearsighted and ill-informed
most Americans are ~
navigate the (tangled health-care) maze
it's difficult to ~ (immigrants) future / perception, perspective & point of view: eye
navigate the (DMV) process neck (save one’s neck)
he coached applicants on how to ~ (crooked lawyer)
save his neck
navigate the terrain nothing he can do will ~
he knows how to ~ (philosophy)
save his own neck
navigate a (dense) thicket he is doing anything he can to ~ (death row)
Netflix is trying to ~ of challenges
death & life: neck
navigate the threat survival, persistence & endurance: neck
they are forced to ~ of rape daily (girls in South Africa) fate, fortune & chance: neck
difficult to navigate neck (stick one’s neck out)
for Democrats, the issue has been ~ (Trump vaccine)
♦ The great Captain James Cook taught navigation to Captain William
stick their necks out
Bligh. Captain William Bligh, in turn, taught navigation to Captain people don't want to ~ (buying decisions)
Matthew Flinders. The three men were responsible for great voyages.
Cook’s three voyages are legendary. Bligh’s navigation of an open boat stick your neck out
from Tofua to Timor following the mutiny on the Bounty is one of the if you ~, you might get your head cut off (Mexican politics)
greatest feats of navigation and survival in history. Flinders was the first
to circumnavigate Australia, mapping sections of the coast. Cook did not
have an accurate time-piece to rely on, which meant that establishing
stick our necks out for you
longitude was a huge problem, necessitating the use of ancient we’re not going to ~ (not in national interest)
techniques and experience and knowledge. Nowadays, of course,
people use their cell phones to navigate, using GPS. And so people fate, fortune & chance: neck
enter the wrong destination and arrive at the wrong city, huge semi-
trailers literally get stuck trying to drive down narrows lanes, and people neck (fate)
drive onto railroad tracks, blindly trusting their cell phones.
neck
direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
my ~ is on the chopping block (accountability)
navigation (cyberspace) fate, fortune & chance: neck
ease of navigation neck (up to one's neck)
great content and ~ (a Web site)
up to their necks in clutter
direction / computer: boat
they are ~
near (near future, etc.) up to his neck in corruption
near getting everyone's ~ around here (illegal logging / Siberia)
we’re nowhere ~ on top of this virus (pandemic) buried up to my neck
near future I was ~ in debt
nobody knows what the ~ will bring involvement: neck

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neck (pain in the neck) electronic necklace
an ~ of sensors (traffic management in urban areas)
pain in the neck
configuration: clothing & accessories
rebuilding it will be a ~ (damaged overpass)
what a ~ needle (verb)
pain in my neck needled Republicans about why
she was often a ~
he ~ the resolution… (politics)
affliction: health & medicine / neck / sensation
affliction / speech: sensation / verb
neck (oppression) needle (move the needle, etc.)
neck of the people moral-outrage needle
as the boot is removed from the ~ (Saddam's regime)
it takes a lot to move the ~
boot on the neck needle seems (kind of) stuck
the government has its ~ of the company
the ~ to me (on progress)
knee on the neck move the needle
he has his ~ of the public-health community (politics)
these ads can ~ if executed correctly (social consciousness)
putting our foot on their neck move the needle from A to B
we’re out here every night ~ (a protest leader)
legislators have the power to ~ (regulation of social media)
took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck moved the needle against social inequality
so 2010 ~ (South African World Cup)
these philanthropists haven’t ~
♦ “That issue [prejudice] is now full and centre and top of the mind in the
world and I think this movement of Black Lives Matter and taking the moving this needle forward
knee campaign made the world sit back and look at the issue. So 2010
took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck, I don’t think it will be allowed
black women are ~ (protesting a policy)
to put that knee on Africa’s neck again.” (Danny Jordaan, organising
chief for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, won by Spain. From "2010
action, inaction & delay / effect / feeling, emotion & effect
took world football's knee off Africa’s neck,” BBC, July 11, 2020.) / progress & lack of progress: tools & technology / verb
oppression: neck needle (shape)
neck (area) bullets, needles, prisms, columns
snowflakes come in shapes: ~, stars, cups, and plates
neck of land
we landed on a ~ shape: cloth
area: shape needle (the Needles, etc.)
shape: neck
the Needles
neck (Throggs Neck, etc.) ~ are a group of rock pinnacles (Arizona)
Chicken's Neck proper name: cloth
the Siliguri Corridor, or the ~ (India)
needle (needle in a haystack)
Throggs Neck
~ is a neighborhood, peninsula and bridge (the Bronx) needle in a haystack
they found a ~ (searchers for body of missing girl)
proper name: neck
needle in a haystack of nothing
neck and neck (adjective) my blog was a ~
neck and neck with the Yankees found a needle in a haystack
they are ~ (a baseball team) they ~ (searchers for body of missing girl)
competition: horse / neck looking for a needle in a haystack
necklace (noun) these poor scientists were ~ (viruses back in the day)
♦ “Someone said it's kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack—only
necklace of islands right now, the haystack is covered with snow." (Winter search for body of
missing woman.)
to the east was a long ~ known as the Lau Group
♦ In August, 2008, two-year-old Emmett Trapp wondered off into the
necklace of sensors desert. Many wished to look for him, but officials refused offers of help,
saying only they were qualified to search, based on their training. After
an electronic ~ (traffic management in urban areas) 40 hours, the little boy was found by a citizen who had disregarded the

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officials. The boy was just outside the official search zone, which had the earthquake rattled Myanmar and ~
been combed over and over. He was only about a mile from his home.
♦ “Knowing that the divers on the scene were not up to this specialized neighboring Jordan
task of entering the cave, and assuming—that Gant might still be alive in Syrian refugees are flooding into ~
an air pocket—[Buddy] Lane pleaded by telephone that trained caver
divers be called in. This was refused. He asked that he, as a specialist in neighboring lands
cave rescue, be allowed to come to the scene to assess the situation. (In
the intense politics of rescue, a team must be invited to the scene by the Christians are seeking shelter in ~ (from Iraq)
IC—incident commander—of the lead agency.) His request was
refused... Refused permission to even approach the cave, Lane pleaded configuration / proximity: house
nemesis (noun)
at regular intervals that cave divers be used. Each time, his request was
denied by the IC...” (“The Bat Cave Miracle, 16 August 1992, Nickajack
Lake Cave, New Hope, Tennessee.” Lane and Curry ended up saving
Gant’s life.) nemesis of Koch Industries
searching & discovery: tools & technology the EPA has been a ~ for decades

needle (thread the needle) Chicago’s nemesis

they were ~ in the late 80s (“Bad Boy” Pistons)
thread the needle
sees her as its nemesis
I tried to ~ (a diplomat)
the banking lobby ~ (politics)
difficulty, easiness & effort: cloth ♦ Nemesis was the Greek Goddess of divine retribution, revenge and
justice.
negotiate (terrain, etc.)
punishment & recrimination: allusion / justice / religion
negotiated the (rocky) terrain judgment / revenge: allusion / justice / religion
she adeptly ~ of the New York publishing world
neophyte (noun)
direction: ground, terrain & land / journeys & trips / verb
political neophyte
neighbor (verb) Grant wasn’t entirely a ~
♦ From the Greek for new and plant.
neighbors China
Russia ~ in the Far East experience / growth & development / person: plant
configuration / proximity: house / verb nerve (anxiety)
neighbor (noun) war of nerves
how soldiers cope with the ~ (waiting for combat)
friendly neighbors
Azerbaijan and Armenia are not ~ nerves are shot
her ~, she has no confidence (Wimbledon)
new neighbor
her apartment had a view of her ~, the Atlantic Ocean nerves can become frayed
♦ “Choose your neighbor before your house.” ~ in the blasting Antarctic winds
♦ “Good fences make good neighbors.”
calm his nerves
♦ “A big river and a rich man can be bad neighbors.”
he lit a cigarette to ~
♦ “When your neighbor’s house is on fire, carry water to the top of your
own roof.” calm people’s nerves
configuration / proximity: house / person he appeared on TV to ~ (trade war)
♦ Andy: Barney, you've just GOT to control your nerves. (The Andy
neighborhood (numbers) Griffith Show. Barney was comically excitable. In every culture.)

in the neighborhood of 3,000 feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
most scholars believe that the actual number is ~ nerve (strike a nerve, etc.)
direction / proximity: number
raw nerve
neighborhood (area) her epic fail is still a ~ among Democrats

dangerous neighborhood hit a nerve

the US needs a real partner in a ~ (Sudan) the tweet ~ for doctors (from NRA)

area: house hit a Russian raw nerve

the German report ~ (about Kursk Battle)
neighboring (adjective)
struck a nerve
neighboring countries her article ~ (rant against obese people)
Venezuela’s health crisis has spilled over to ~ (measles)
struck a (growing anti-bullying) nerve

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 his death ~ in America (suicide) nestled between Bhutan and Nepal
Sikkim is a jewel ~
touched a (raw) nerve
the withdrawal ~ (troops give up area) nestled in the heart
George Washington University, ~ of the nation’s capital
hitting a nerve with progressives
the speech was clearly ~ (Bernie Sanders) configuration: animal / bird
struck a (raw) nerve in Haiti net (cast a net)
the incident ~ (foreign adoptions)
cast a (wide) net
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & they have not yet ~ (a criminal investigation)
bone / verb
casting a very broad net
nerve (courage) it is a fishing expedition for information, ~
lose our nerve cast a (wide) net for the assassins
terrorists can win if we ~ and abandon our mission (Iraq) police ~ (bus / rail / plane, etc.)
lost his nerve pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
one intended suicide bomber ~ (Casablanca)
netherworld (noun)
shatter (the enemy's) nerve
the objective is to ~ (shock and violence) flourish in the netherworld
these falsehoods ~ of internet pranksters and trolls
get up the nerve
it has taken me 11 years to ~ to come here... disappeared into the netherworld
he ~ of Egyptian jails
courage & lack of courage: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
environment: direction / earth & world
nerveless (adjective) concealment & lack of concealment: direction
center & periphery: direction / society
nerveless Stosur society: center & periphery / direction
a ~ dominated the match (tennis)
neuter (verb)
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect:
sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone neuter Grant
Johnson hoped to ~ and control the army (politics)
nerve-racking
neutered blogging
nerve-racking social media ~ as a mode of online expression
it was ~
neuter (if not destroy) trade unions
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves the legislation was designed to ~
& bone
attenuation: health & medicine
nest (empty nest) force / strength & weakness: health & medicine
empty nest neutral (in neutral)
some parents find freedom in an ~
in neutral
"empty nest" parents uncertainty is keeping the economy ~
~ whose children fly back home
activity / functioning: mechanism
empty nest syndrome condition & status: mechanism
how to cope with ~ (kids go away to college)
neutralize (kill)
place: animal / bird / house
neutralized the threat
nest egg police engaged the shooter and ~ (shot him dead)
nest egg euphemism: death & life / verb
at age 69, he had a ~ (retirement savings)
never-never land
money: animal / bird
never-never land Britain
nestled she set her novels in a ~, massively elitist (Christie)
♦ This is an allusion to Peter Pan.
nestled on the Black Sea
this regional capital ~ (Trabzon, Turkey) environment / fantasy & reality: allusion

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new (orange is the new black, etc.) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: epithet / prep,
adv, adj, particle
data is the new oil next (at a later time)
~ (as valuable as oil)
next day
“nice is the new nasty”
the ~ we were sent to the rear (soldiers)
her career rise might signify that ~ (Rachel Maddow)
next summer
orange is the new black
the bitter political climate ahead of elections ~
~ reprises “Pink is the new black”
time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
orange is the new grey
sequence: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
~ for Bangladesh beards (henna)
Niagara (the river and falls)
pink is the new black
“~” was perhaps the origin for “orange is the new black” Niagara of vitriol
it was a ~ (a rock interview)
shark is the new dolphin
the ~ (favorable reference on net/ don’t kill maneaters) amount & effect / force: river / water
listening is the new reading nibble (nibble at, etc.)
~ (an advertisement for audiobooks)
nibbling away at land and vital infrastructure
70 is the new 50 coastal erosion is ~ (remote Air Force radar stations)
~ (you’re only as old as you act) ♦ “Hyenas have been known to nibble feet protruding from hut doors.”
(Malawi.)
rum about to become the new gin
is ~ destruction: animal / food & drink / predation / verb
Next Big Thing nibble (noun)
the suckers who want to get in on the ~ (stocks)
♦ “The pattern “X (be) the new Y” reprises the old phrase, “the next big
got a nibble
thing.” he finally ~ from a potential employee

attention, scrutiny & promotion: object pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: object night (death)
newborn
go (gently) into that good night
"newborn" country do not ~ (Dylan Thomas)
Kosova, the ~ death & life: day / sign, signal, symbol
newborn league sign, signal, symbol: day
the ~ is fighting for its life (soccer / US) nightmare (worst nightmare)
♦ The Newborn monument in Pristina, Kosovo, is a popular spot for
citizens and tourists alike. Children, especially, enjoy climbing and worst nightmare
playing on the giant letters.
the ~ a parent could endure (missing kid found dead)
growth & development: baby / birth / death & life
girl's worst nightmare
amelioration & renewal: baby / birth / death & life
it's every ~ (getting pregnant accidentally)
new school
industry's worst nightmare
new-school juggernaut shoppers like her are the supermarket ~
Tagovailloa turned old-school Alabama into a ~ (football) he turned into the ~ (George Atiyeh vs. logging)

new school / old school mother's worst nightmare

a classic ~ rift (newer kayaking moves) as a teen, she was every ~ (drugs, sex, etc.)

past & present / time: school & education parent's worst nightmare
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: school & every ~ (child kidnapping, murder)
education
my worst nightmare
next (next Steve Jobs, etc.) this was ~ (emergency landing in plane)

next Steve Jobs feeling, emotion & effect: sleep

she was supposed to be the ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
sequence: epithet / prep, adv, adj, particle

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nightmare (noun) Kafkaesque nightmare
my ~ is to be...
nightmare
you're seeing shyness as a ~ and it can be… legal nightmare
she talks about her ~ (rape) it was the beginning of a ~
traveling alone with young kids can be a ~ (airlines) a ~ arises (Jehovah's Witnesses and doctors)
she sees her ~ unfolding before her (traffic jam) logistical nightmare
it's been a ~ (affirmative action for fire department) getting a force that size into Iraq by air would be a ~
he soon discovered the job was a ~ the Hajj is a ~ (Makkah / Saudi Arabia)
shopping for school clothes can be a ~ (girls) resupply was a ~ (Egyptians fight in Yemen)
the ~ was not over (one more round / boxing)
the ~ began with an e-mail (hackers extort company) nuclear nightmare
India has revived the ~ (nuclear tests)
nightmare of all firefighters
structural collapse is the ~ racial nightmare
turning the trial into a ~
nightmare of (loose) granite
a ~ and overhanging seracs (Dhaulagiri) ultimate nightmare
"brilliant" bombs strike some as the ~
nightmare of Sept. 11
nearly a year after the ~, kids still… 18-hour nightmare
it turned into an ~ (Mogadishu firefight)
nightmare scenario
the ~ for NATO beginning of a (legal) nightmare
the ~ for many biologists, conservationists it was the ~
that's a ~ for those… (politics)
start of the nightmare
nightmare year yeah, that was the ~ (security arrest)
it was a ~ (teaching at troubled D.C. school)
dream and nightmare
nightmare first round every surfer's ~ (Condition Black / huge surf)
they horribly underachieved in a ~ (World Cup)
nightmare arises
credit nightmare a legal ~ (Jehovah's Witnesses and doctors)
divorce can create ~s
nightmare began
examination nightmare his ~ with a phone call from…
but would it be an ~ (scheduling school tests)
nightmare (finally) coming to an end
traffic nightmare is the ~ (politics)
the city festival will cause a ~
found himself in a nightmare
parking and traffic nightmares he ~ (bureaucracy)
residents living near the popular club face ~
make commuting (by train) a nightmare
public-relations nightmare the gropers who ~ for women (in Japan)
they are fighting a ~ (restaurant chain)
turned into an (18-hour) nightmare
horrifying nightmare it ~ (Mogadishu firefight)
blind dates are either a huge success or a ~
turned the dream into a nightmare
living nightmare the loans have ~ (home ownership)
he described his life as a "~" (paralysed neck down) ♦ A find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare…

scheduling nightmare feeling, emotion & effect: sleep

family events can become a ~
nightmarish (adjective)
annual nightmare
the ~ of Christmas cards nightmarish scene
it was a ~ (125-vehicle pileup that killed four)
bureaucratic nightmare
he found himself in a ~ nightmarish thoughts
~ about…
complete nightmare
it's turned into a ~ (trapped at airport by blizzard) feeling, emotion & effect: sleep

concave nightmare
a ~ of loose granite, overhanging seracs (Dhaulagiri)

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nimble (adjective) I’m ~
power: person
nimble
the security system is not ~ enough (border) nod (agree)
nimble negotiating heads nod
Egypt had distinguished itself for ~ (the past) there are days when I see ~ (a defense of Facebook)
nimble mind unanimity & consensus: gesture / head / verb
he has a ~
nod (acknowledge)
nimble enough
are they ~ to close and reopen (schools in pandemic) nods to Ralph Ellison
the chapter ~ (Colin Whitehead)
nimble and aggressive
the company vowed to be more ~ (layoffs) achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / verb

nimble, tough-minded and effective nod (acknowledgement)

we need government that is ~
nod to the victims
lean and nimble it’s a ~ to make it easier for them (no contest plea)
the company must become more ~
party nod
remain nimble everyone knew that Grant would get the ~ (politics)
we must ~ (military) achievement, recognition & praise: gesture
keep your mind nimble no-holds-barred
you need to ~
ability & lack of ability: movement
no-holds-barred conversation
it was a ~
nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.)
no-holds-barred dramas
nine-eleven moment Riot Girls offer ~(BBC Radio 4)
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumter attack) restraint & lack of restraint: sports & games / wrestling
Australia's 9/11 noise (worthlessness)
in many ways, it is ~ (Bali bomb blast)
“What will archaeologists twenty-five centuries from now make of the noise
ruins of One World Trade Center, currently nearing completion in trying to pick out the signal from the ~ (epidemiology)
downtown Manhattan?” (The beginning of “Deep Frieze” by Daniel
Mendelsohn. His article is about the Parthenon, another “memorial to a
a lot of extraordinary data are nothing but ~
devastating attack...one terrible day in September.”) the ~ makes it hard to distinguish what matters (the media)
results are results and the rest is ~ (politics and elections)
subterfuge: allusion / epithet / history
epithet: history / military noise of customer behavior
allusion: military Amazon leads the way in finding patterns in the ~
nineteen eighty four (and 1984) "noise" in the data
~ makes the new results dubious (earthquakes)
went all 1984
technology was a lot more fun before it ~ noise in the system
there's going to be some ~ (way to produce statistics)
oppression: allusion / books & reading
allusion: books & reading noise to folks
that is ~, what matters is... (a temporary legal distraction)
Noah's Ark
annoying noise
Noah's Ark of (exotic) wildlife they create this ~ (government internet trolls)
the Berenty Reserve is a ~ (Madagascar)
terrible noise
modern-day Noah’s Ark enlightening and helpful data vs. ~ (AI and medicine)
Norway’s Global Seed Vault is a ~ for plant seeds
full of noise
biodiversity: allusion / Bible / epithet / religion the information space is ~ (fakes, disinformation, theories)
nobody (a nobody) chaos and noise
just a nobody viewers were left with ~ (presidential debate)

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nonsense and the noise activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / obstacles
if you are tired of the ~ in our politics (Amy Klobuchar) & impedance / worth & lack of worth: sound
signal-noise nomad (person)
I will wait for a bit more ~ clarity drug trials)
nomads of the agriculture world
cut through all this noise beekeepers are the ~
trying to ~ (what was true and what wasn’t)
academic nomad
rise above the noise she's become an ~ (adjunct professor)
artists need to ~ and stand out (TikTok)
railroad nomads
separate the noise from what is sound and true "shantytown," a word evoking ~…
we have to ~ and rely on fact (election journalism)
Greyhound nomads
separate the signal from the noise they arrived as ~ (Somali refugees in Lewiston)
~ (when considering what president says)
techno nomad
separate signal from noise he was a ~, moving from country to country (J. Assange)
if the volume is turned to 11, how do you ~ (culture wars)
become an academic nomad
integrate, unify, and make simple the (apparent) noise she's ~ (adjunct professor)
he wants to ~ of the world (Karl Friston) ♦ “In their eyes man was a born migrant, settlement the perversion of
♦ This word is similar to static. degenerates, and cutting the soil to grow crops, murder.” (Chinese
nomads. From “Heavenly Horses” in What Am I Doing Here by Bruce
♦ “Some of that data will be enlightening, and really helpful. But some of Chatwin.)
it is going to be terrible noise and even lead to unnecessary testing and
anxiety.” (Dr. Eric Topol on the kind of health data people can now track ♦ “No one but a slave would agree to live behind walls or under a mud
with their smartphones.) roof...” (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
♦ “The human mind can acquire knowledge from very limited input and migration: person / journeys & trips
rapidly sort through noisy, conflicting information to reach judgments.”
person: journeys & trips
activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / obstacles
& impedance / worth & lack of worth: sound
no man's land (people)
noise (attention) No Man's Land
early cartographers called it ~
noise
no man's land
there has been a lot of ~ and trending on Twitter about...
the reserve is a vast, jungly ~ (rain forest)
we can’t react to all the ~ outside, there’ll be criticism
the desert was not a ~ (archaeology)
there’s nothing wrong with making ~ (progressive issues)
the piers became a ~, blocked off by highways
clatter isolation & remoteness: map / journeys & trips
how do you get through the ~ that he creates (politics)
no man's land (regulatory, etc.)
political noise
it’s all just ~, I don’t listen to it (a political kerfuffle) bureaucratic no man's land
attention, scrutiny & promotion / conflict / feeling, emotion he found himself in a ~ amid 3 agencies
& effect / obstacles & impedance / resistance, opposition regulatory no man's land
& defeat: sound oil-exploration waste falls into a ~
noisy (debate, etc.) control & lack of control: military

noisy no man's land (danger)

we will be very ~ in the House because we are unhappy
no-man's-land
fierce and noisy murders and kidnappings make the district a ~
Tunisians are locked in a ~ debate about...
left charities in no man's land
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition the error in funding has ~
& defeat / speech: sound control & lack of control: military
noisy (data, etc.) area / danger / environment: military

noisy data
non-person
studies chase small effects hidden in ~ literary non-person
he has become a ~ (disgraced French author)

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acceptance & rejection: person / society nose (Devil's Nose, etc.)
person: society
noon (high noon) Nose
the ~ is a peak in Alberta, Canada
high noon for Darwin’s theory Devil's Nose (m)
it was ~ (1860 Oxford debate) the ~ section of the Mokelumne (a river)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day / film / sun
Gladstone's Nose
fate, fortune & chance: day / film / sun ~ is a rock in the Western Cape, South Africa
noose (fate) Alligator Nose
noose ~ is a point in Honduras
the ~ is tightening (manhunt) Dolphins Nose
the ~ is tightening around him (a dictator) the ~ is a point in Andhra Pradesh, India
noose around Baghdad the ~ is a headland (Myanmar)
we're tightening the ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom) proper name: nose
noose around my neck nose (orientation)
for six months the media had a ~ (Van Gaal at Man U)
nose of the plane
global financial noose pulled back on the stick to get the ~ up
the ~ is tightening around Iran (sanctions)
deck, tail, nose, rails and wheels
legal noose a skateboard has a ~
the newspaper is putting its head in a ~ (libel)
orientation: animal / direction / nose
noose is tightening
the ~ (manhunt) nose (under somebody's nose)
tightening the noose everybody's nose
we're ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom) this is going on right under ~ (child abuse)
they are ~ but we will fight to the end (protestors)
under the noses of the security forces
fate, fortune & chance: death & life they set up cells right ~
north (numbers) consciousness & awareness: nose / proximity
north of $50 million nose (ability)
he has invested ~ to build...
nose for it
north of minus fifteen to twenty percent he has a great ~… (talent for basketball)
we’re looking at negative GDP growth that’s ~
ability & lack of ability: nose
direction: numbers
nose (bloody nose, etc.)
North Korea (epithet)
bloody nose
North Korea of Africa the dream of giving Germany a ~ (Greek soccer)
Eritrea is often described as the ~
“bloody nose” attacks
Africa’s North Korea risk of brinksmanship and talk of ~ (diplomacy)
why Eritrea is called ~ (The Economist magazine)
♦ The Economist has a wonderful article entitled “Why Eritrea is called
“bloody nose” option
Africa’s North Korea” (August 14th 2018). It is wonderful because it starts a limited, pre-emptive military strike, the so-called ~
out with how Eritrea is NOT like North Korea.
“bloody nose” theory
isolation & remoteness: epithet they call it the ~ (military force with diplomacy)
nose (shape) got a bloody nose
he had a rough hearing, he really ~ (confirmation hearing)
Nose
a popular routes is "The ~" (rock climbing) suffered (something of) a bloody nose
they’ve ~ in the past couple of days (armed clashes)
shape: nose
♦ “Obviously we have a bloody nose this morning, but we are not down
for the count. We will continue to stand up and fight this risky route.”
(Jane Kleeb, an opponent of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, after a legal
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coercion & motivation / punishment & recrimination: blood his career took a ~ because of questionable integrity
/ nose / sign, signal, symbol / violence
takes a nosedive
nose (thumb one's nose) tourism ~ in Crimea

thumbed his nose at the (US) government decline: direction / flying & falling / plane
he has ~ (laws) nostrum (noun)
thumbing their nose at the rules vague nostrums
people are ~ (leash law for dogs)
they give voters promises and ~ (politicians)
thumb its nose at the US feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
Russia is putting him up to ~ (Edward Snowden)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
♦ “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” / “No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at
you sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.” (Abraham vs. Sampson in Romeo and notch (verb)
Juliet.)

resistance, opposition & defeat: nose notched 10,000 new coronavirus cases
New York State ~ between...
insult: gesture / nose / verb
nose (attention) attainment: number / verb
note (compare notes)
get your nose out of your computer
~ and spend more time with... compared notes about Iraq
attention, scrutiny & promotion: nose the soldiers ~ (in hospital ward)

nose (look down one’s nose) knowledge & intelligence: school & education
note (on a note)
looks down its nose
satire generally ~ at its subject on a confident note
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / gesture / height / Republicans ended their convention ~
nose on a high note
nose (hold one’s nose) at least I finished ~ (learning a job)

held their noses ended (their convention) on a confident note

voters who ~ and voted for him (lesser of two evils) Republicans ~

eagerness & reluctance: gesture / nose / smell finished on a high note

at least I ~ (learning a job)
nosedive (verb / decrease)
leave on a high note
temperature will nosedive he wanted to ~
the ~ by this weekend
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / plane /
verb note (right note)
nosedive (noun / decrease) struck (all) the right notes
the words he spoke ~ (a conciliatory politician)
taken a nosedive
the temperatures have ~ flaws & lack of flaws: music / speech

increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / plane note (note of caution, etc.)
nosedive (verb / decline) note of caution
he sounded a ~ over encouraging…
nosedived
relations (with North Korea) have ~ note of confidence
he is injecting a new ~ into the Nato campaign
nose-dived from A's to (straight) D's
her grades ~ note of fear
in his voice I detected a ~ (dangerous weather)
decline: direction / flying & falling / plane / verb
cautious note
nosedive (noun / decline) he sounded a ~ at the meeting
nosedive defiant note

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 the Iraqi information minister sounded a ~ went nowhere
the peace plan ~
hopeful note
striking the same ~, the girl's aunt... (abducted girl) progress & lack of progress / success & failure: direction /
journeys & trips / movement / verb
new note
he is injecting a ~ of confidence into the Nato campaign nowhere (out of nowhere, etc.)
optimistic note out of nowhere
he struck an ~ he had himself a career day ~ (football)
detected a note came out of nowhere
in his voice I ~ of fear (dangerous weather) the team ~ (winning in the NCAA tournament)
injecting a (new) note come out of nowhere
he is ~ of confidence into the Nato campaign he had ~, now he’s all over Radio One (Headie One)
sounded a note of caution appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky
he ~ over encouraging…
noxious (adjective)
struck (all) the right notes
the words he spoke ~ (a conciliatory politician) noxious (online) behaviors
stalking and bullying are ~ (Internet)
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
noxious law
note (one note) we need to repeal this ~
one-note character noxious tide
in the original script he was a ~ (Do the Right Thing) we need to stem the ~ of ideologically-driven rhetoric
complexity: music noxious (racial) views
nothing-burger this book connects his ~ to his foreign policy

nothing-burger bigoted and noxious

the film is ~
they claim the meeting was a ~ (political scandal)
♦ Literally, this word tends to collocate with fumes, chemicals and smoke.
biggest nothing-burger ever In other word, smells.
she called it the ~ (political scandal) feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances / smell
big, fat nothingburger corruption: smell
is the memo a damning expose or a ~ (politics) nudge (noun)
♦ For information about this word, see “‘Nothingburger’: From 1950s
Hollywood to the White House” by Ben Zimmer, Wall Street Journal, nudge behaviours
March 9, 2017.)
the ICO is targeting ~ (Snapchat streaks, “likes,” etc.)
importance & significance: food & drink
nudge technique
substance & lack of substance: food & drink
but does the “~” really work (Japan / blue lights / suicide)
nourished ~s are a way of influencing behaviour
we must put an end to so-called “~s” (kids and social media)
nourished by the media ~s encourage children to make bad choices (social media)
sports are ~
behavioral nudge
growth & development: baby / plant the mask acts as a ~ to people for better hygiene (pandemic)
nowhere (go nowhere, etc.) Inclusion Nudges
she is the co-author of the ~ Guidebook
go-nowhere
he took a series of ~ jobs get nudges
~ that remind you... (Gmail)
getting nowhere
we are ~ fast takes a (gentle) nudge
sometimes it ~ to get the ball rolling
going nowhere
♦ “Paul is in custody, if anyone sees him in there, I mean, hey—nudge,
the peace process is ~ anyway nudge—do what ya gotta do.” (A HEAVILY redacted transcript from
negotiations are ~ (politics) “Small Town Murder,” #184, hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmy “I’ll
mispronounce your name” Whisman.)
get anywhere
if you’re worried about the outcome, you don’t ~ (sports) coercion & motivation: arm / gesture

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force: arm / gesture nurture, protect, love
nugget (noun) the essence of motherhood is to ~
tap, feed and nurture
nuggets about what
he wants to ~ this anger (politician appeals to base)
the trial could offer a few more ~ Wikileaks planned...
growth & development: baby / plant / verb
key nugget
the ~ was when he said... nurtured
amount / worth & lack of worth: mining nurtured by the West
numb (adjective) he is a criminal ~ (an award winner)
nurtured by his father
numb with grief
his ideas about cooking were ~
she and others who knew her best felt ~ (murdered)
nurtured by his mother
became numb
his early interest in poetry was ~
he ~ to even the most gruesome scenes (a marine)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation carefully nurtured
he was ~ by the club (young soccer player)
consciousness & awareness: sensation
growth & development: baby / plant
number (number is up, etc.)
nut (person)
number came up
my ~ (blown up by a landmine) religious nut
fate, fortune & chance: number he's a ~ (controversial politician)
character & personality: fruits & vegetables / mental health
numbered (days are numbered, etc.)
/ person
numbered nuts (crazy)
Mubarak's days are ~
fate, fortune & chance: number nuts
but what's really ~ is insisting that…
nursery (noun)
behavior: fruits & vegetables / mental health
stellar nurseries nuts and bolts
~ where stars are born
creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant nuts and bolts
growth & development: plant take me through the ~ about how this is going to work

nurture (verb) bases: mechanism

nurtured his student's career

nutshell (in a nutshell)
he ~ and became a second father (a coach) in a nutshell
nurtures (militant) groups that’s it, ~ (short and sweet)
Pakistan ~ in the area this is Atkinson ~ (review of a writer)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: food & drink
nurtured her iconoclasm
her parents encouraged her ambitions and ~ (musician)
nurtured her interest
it was he who first ~ in art
O
nurture the (infant) market oak (Royal Oak, etc.)
~ (e-publishing) Royal Oak
nurtured relationships the ~ battleship was sunk by a U-boat in Scapa Flow
he ~ with members of the faculty (journal editor) proper name: tree
nurtured a reputation oak (strength)
Japanese companies have ~ for reliability (products)
Hearts of Oak
nurture civil society the British have ~
education helps to ~

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strength & weakness: materials & substances / tree achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / government
epithet: government
Oasis (Oasis of the Seas, etc.)
obsessed
Oasis of the Seas
the ~ is the world's largest cruise ship politically obsessed
for those of us who are ~ (pundits)
Oasis Hotel
the ~ has 8 awards of excellence (Cairo) enthusiasm: mental health
proper name: desert / ground, terrain & land ocean
oasis (environment) ocean of air
we live submerged at the bottom of an ~ (atmosphere)
oasis
Somaliland is an ~ in comparison to Somalia ocean of sand
the Sahara's ~
oasis of (relative) calm
it provides an ~ within Iraq (Kurdish region) resemblance: sea

oasis of peace octopus (noun)

it was once an ~ in volatile West Africa (Ivory Coast)
world-strangling octopus
oasis of peace and stability he saw Victoria’s British Empire as a ~
Ghana is an ~ in turbulent West Africa
extent & scope / predation: animal / arm
oasis within New York City
Park Slope, Brooklyn, is an ~ (parks, families, etc.)
odd couple
oasis for (late-night) customers odd couple
we are an ~ (White Castle) this ~ makes for a compelling violin concerto
character & personality: love, courtship & marriage
jungle oases
a civilization grew near these ~ (cenotes / Mayas) relationship: love, courtship & marriage

green oasis
odds (fate)
New York City's High Line is a ~ (elevated walkway) beat the odds
peaceful oasis the way I look at it, I ~ (tough upbringing)
Bali was considered a ~ (before Kuta Beach bombing) fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling
spiritual oasis ode (praise)
Cloud Cottage Sangha is a ~ for me (Buddhist)
ode to cinema
considered a (peaceful) oasis his film is an ~ as a whole (Cannes hype)
Bali was ~ (before Kuta Beach bombing)
ode to historically black colleges
environment: desert / ground, terrain & land
her performance was an ~ (Beyoncé at 2018 Coachella)
oats (feel one’s oats) achievement, recognition & praise: speech
feeling its oats Odyssey (Mars Odyssey, etc.)
China is ~ (booming economy)
Odyssey
power / strength & weakness: animal / horse
the 75-square-foot solar array that powers ~ (Mars)
Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.) so far, ~ is an unqualified scientific success (Mars)

Jakarta’s Obama Mars Odyssey

they call him ~ (governor Joko Widodo) the ~ (a NASA Mars probe)
proper name: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips
Russia's Obama
Jean Gregoire Sagbo is known as ~ odyssey (on an odyssey)
♦ Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, has been compared to Obama
for the following reasons. He is hugely popular with the young and the on an odyssey
poor, who consider him a hero. He often visits his supporters, listens to these girls have been ~ (from Sierra Leone to US)
them, shows that he cares about them, and gives them a feeling of
positivity and hope. He has helped to subsidize healthcare and education
for them. He is humble and his reputation is clean. Finally, he is tall and
on a (six-day, 900-mile) odyssey
lanky, just like Obama! he claimed she accompanied him ~ (kidnapper)

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led his family on a (diagnostic) odyssey offshoot
the boy’s illness ~
offshoot of (Shiite) Islam
development: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips
Zaydism is an ~
odyssey (other) offshoot of Dutch
odyssey of two (likable) women Afrikaans is an ~
the documentary is the ~ Los Angeles offshoot
Georgia man's odyssey the Actor's Lab, a ~ of the Group Theater
a ~ to Europe... (7 flights with XDR TB) latest offshoot
substance-abuse odyssey stand-up paddling is surfing's ~
she began a long ~ by sniffing fingernail polish... branching system: plant
personal odyssey oil (pour oil)
the documentary is the ~ of two strong, likable women
poured oil on the fire
remarkable odyssey he has ~
her life traces a ~ from her farmhouse in Poland to…
increase & decrease: fire / verb
three-decade odyssey
his trip turned into a ~ oil (new oil, etc.)
development: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips “new oil”
it’s become common to call data the ~
off (be off, etc.)
♦ Oil and data are different because oil can only be used once, data
off many times. But both have to be processed (oil) or analyzed (data) to
become valuable. Both can make companies rich (Amazon,
the game is ~ ExxonMobil).

starting, going, continuing & ending:: prep, adv, adj, particle worth & lack of worth: epithet / materials & substances
offbeat (adjective) epithet: materials & substances
old (of old)
offbeat
she would do things that were ~ (Lizzo) days of old
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: music in ~
past & present / time: day
offer (offer hope, etc.)
old guard
offers audiences a vision
the latest performance similarly ~ of themselves old guard
the ~ has yielded the throne (world soccer)
offers a sympathetic ear to kids
he ~ (juvenile offenders) evangelical old guard
there’s a lot at stake for the ~ (gender issues)
offer (consumer) feedback
user-opinion sites ~ old guard and its rising stars
we will hear from the party’s ~ (political convention)
offer hope
it we ~, then the stigma begins to fade (HIV) old guard and younger, more liberal members
this exposes a divide between the ~ (Democratic Party)
offers hope
a monkey trial ~ (pandemic vaccine) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: allusion /
giving, receiving, bringing & returning:: verb history
fictive communication: verb old hand (experience)
offspring newcomers (to the research) versus old hands
offspring of the phone booth ~ (science)
the ~, referred to as an "enclosure" accepted (as soldiers) by the old hands
product / relationship: family we were being ~
experience: hand

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old school sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
importance & significance: religion
old school on (be on, etc.)
he is unashamedly ~ (a 68-year-old Montana farmer)
on
old-school in his approach
stocks kept falling, and the Great Depression was ~
he's as ~ to opponents as he is in the ring
back on
old-school Alabama
the summit is ~
Tagovailloa turned ~ into a new-school juggernaut (football)
starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle
old-school discipline
he was famous for his ~ (sports coach) one-size-fits-all
old school 35mm film one-size-fits-all approach
he wanted to deliver his film on ~ the ~ is not the way to go (retirement plans)
public health officials concede no ~ exists (pandemic)
old-school mentality
that's that ~ (comment on boxer's work ethic) one-size-fits-all journalism
we were offering ~ to very different audiences
old-school reporter
he was an ~ who would challenge anyone one-size-fits-all solution
there is no ~ (to managed retreat due to climate change)
old-school style
he brings ~ to the sport (auto racer not afraid to bump) adapting: clothing & accessories
old-school French bistro one-strike-and-you're-out
a much loved, ~
one-strike-and-you're-out (honor-code) policy
new school / old school (m) ~ do more harm than good
a classic ~ rift (newer kayaking moves)
punishment & recrimination: baseball / sports & games
past & present / time: school & education
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: school & ongoing (investigation, etc.)
education
ongoing (security) arrangements
olive branch ensure ~ are appropriate

olive branch ongoing (budget) battle

it was an ~ from Bobby Knight to Alford (dispute) an ~ between the school system, county

extended an olive branch to South Korea ongoing debate

he ~ the ~

offered an olive branch to the Republicans ongoing (intratribal) disputes

in the State of the Union, he ~ ~ (Native Americans)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: tree ongoing effort
the regulations are part of an ~ to…
Olympian (size) this mission is an ~ to take away enemy sanctuaries
Olympian scorn ongoing focus
his reactions to the world ran from dismay to ~ there is an ~ on these economic issues (White House)
size: allusion / mountains & hills / religion ongoing investigation
Olympian (perspective) would compromise the ~
ongoing mission
Olympian view
we don't comment on ~s (military)
he takes an ~ of contemporary politics (George F. Will)
perception, perspective & point of view: religion ongoing (contract) negotiations
~ (pilots union)
Olympus (Mount Olympus)
ongoing plot
Olympus of sociological research forcing terrorists to betray the details of ~s
the University of Chicago was the ~
ongoing (management) problems
superlative: allusion / place / mountains & hills / religion the ~

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ongoing process he offers insights into the ~ world of finance
this is going to be an ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark
ongoing studies consciousness & awareness: light & dark
a number of recent and ~ comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark

ongoing theft open (after lockdown, etc.)

the ~ of intellectual property
open up
ongoing violence the states are starting to ~ (after pandemic lockdowns)
against a backdrop of ~ (Middle East)
reopen
ongoing work the border will ~ after a thaw in relations (Burma / Thailand)
researchers and their ~
reopens for business
ongoing management problems as America ~ (pandemic lockdown relaxation)

ongoing love-hate relationship amelioration & renewal: doors & thresholds

the ~ between… open (open marriage, etc.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
open marriage
condition & status: movement
they had an ~
onion (noun)
constraint & lack of constraint: access & lack of access
layer of the onion restraint & lack of restraint: access & lack of access
you notice that for every ~ there’s another underneath it open (in / into the open)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables
into the open
onslaught (noun) she has brought the issue ~

onslaught of criticism out in the open

Twitter changed its policy after an ~ mudslinging between rival church factions is being waged ~

onslaught of events came into the open

the idea went quickly by the wayside by the ~ all of these things ~ (vicious election debate)

onslaught of globalization broke out into the open

many countries resist the ~ the anger ~ for the whole world to see (Catholic pedophilia)

under the onslaught get the feelings (we have about war) out into the open
Saudi Arabia melted ~, as Germany... (soccer) artists can ~ (Margaret MacMillan, Reith Lectures)
amount & effect / force: military consciousness & awareness: ground, terrain & land
concealment & lack of concealment: ground, terrain & land
ooze (verb) / hunting
oozes tradition and swagger open-and-shut
the team ~ (Alabama football)
open-and-shut case
leaking: verb / water it wasn't an ~
opacity (noun) it should have been an ~
certainty & uncertainty: books & reading
opacity of (Lanier's) criticism
the ~ may account for… open-minded (adjective)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark open-minded
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark “I’m ~,” he said softly
opaque (adjective) people are more ~ now (race)
my neighbors are very ~
opaque we should be more ~
it's really very ~ what is happening (revolution) he had tried to be ~

opaque world extroverted, unpretentious and open-minded

he offers insights into the often ~ of finance Tijuana citizens have acquired a reputation for being ~

often opaque youthful, open-minded

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 he has made a name for himself as a ~ reformer (MBS) option (nuclear option)
♦ "A person can be so open-minded that his brains fall out." (A critic,
speaking of Thabo Mbeki's willingness to accept any argument against nuclear option
giving antiretrovirals to South African H.I.V. sufferers.)
threatening Medicare funding is the ~ (compliance)
mind: access & lack of access / container
constraint & lack of constraint: container
nuclear option for state
this is the ~ (opting out of federal Medicaid)
openness (noun)
opposes the (so-called) nuclear option
intellectual openness he ~ (withdrawal of US from Afghanistan)
ideological narrowness is a threat to ~
employ the nuclear option
mind: access & lack of access employers may be forced to ~ (drop health coverage)
constraint & lack of constraint: container
oppose the nuclear option
open up (emotions, speech, etc.) I oppose the ~ (changing rules in Congress)

open up considered the “nuclear option”

we are asking them to ~ all over again (crime podcast) the move was always ~ (Commerce Dept’s entry list)

opened up about her mother alternatives & choices / coercion & motivation /
she finally ~ punishment & recrimination: nuclear energy
feeling, emotion & effect: container / verb oracle (person)
speech: container / verb
oracle of Silicon Valley
open up (access) he has been nicknamed the ~
♦ The Delphic Oracle was an important priestess in ancient Greece.
open up the sportscasting world
~ for women person: religion
future / message / time: person / religion
access & lack of access: container / verb
opera (noun) oracle (Oracle Corporation, etc.)

opera of screeches, shrieks and squawks Oracle Corporation

the American multinational ~
a riotous ~ (tropical birds)
proper name: religion
resemblance / sound: music
opiate (noun) orbit (noun)

opiate of the people in his orbit

the investigation will look at people ~ (politics)
sports, not religion, is the ~
suspicions are swirling around people ~ (sex trafficker)
consciousness & awareness: addiction / health & medicine
within his orbit
optics (noun) he engaged the respect and affection of all ~

optics Trump orbit

the ~ look bad (politics) he never lost touch, that often happens in ~
the ~ are just awful (a newspaper story)
campaign orbit
optics of rapprochement three people in the ~ have tested positive for coronavirus
Kim’s letter played a part in the ~ (Korean leader)
China’s orbit
optics of a response Thailand has moved firmly into ~
the ~ like that would be devastating here (Tiananmen)
entered the Trump orbit
confrontational optics she first ~ during the campaign
allies might be turned off by the ~ of a street protest
brought him into the orbit
♦ “It’s not the optics that are not good, it’s the facts that are not good.” Juilliard ~ of Wynton Marsalis (Lawrence Leathers)
(Colorado Republican Congressman Mike Coffman about an ethics
issue.)
get out of that orbit
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / tools & he tried to ~, but his dad pulled him back (Charles Koch)
technology
leaving Larry’s orbit
just as Daniel was ~, others were being drawn in (cult)

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configuration / proximity / relationship: astronomy an ~ followed the collapse of Saddam's regime
attraction & repulsion / bases: astronomy
division & connection / involvement: astronomy
orgy of (sectarian) violence
they were the victims of an ~ (Yazidis in Iraq)
orchestrate (verb)
restraint & lack of restraint: sex
orchestrated the assassination original sin
no one knows who ~
orchestrated attacks original sin
he has ~, bombings, kidnappings and beheadings the ~ was what happened in 1953 (Iran-US relations)
torture is the ~ that creates these problems (Guantanamo)
orchestrate a coverup
they tried to ~ original sin of this country
slavery is the ~
orchestrated a hoax
he may have ~ (false hate-crime allegation) euro's original sin
perhaps this was the ~ (no penalty for breaking rules)
directing: music / verb
Roberts’ original sin
orchestrated for conservatives, ~ was his vote... (Supreme Court)

orchestrated campaign fate, fortune & chance: religion

Muslims fear they are the target of an ~ (religion)
orphan (noun)
orchestrated leads
~ from the White House have exposed rifts orphan
the issue is an ~
directing: music
orphan in the world of learning
orchid (character) geography was an ~ (Middle Ages)

orchid children “orphan” academies

“~” are more sensitive and biologically reactive the school has been caught in the twilight zone of ~

orchid or a dandelion orphan diseases

is your child an ~
♦ Terms with similar meanings are teacup and snowflake. In the old
days, such people were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy;
a wallflower.
character & personality: person / plant
resiliency / strength & weakness: person / plant
order (get something in order, etc.)
incentives to develop orphan drugs for ~
orphan drugs
incentives for companies to develop “~”
orphan wells
these “~” often sit on farmland (bankrupt oil firms)
* Orphan drugs treat rare diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people.

division & connection / person / relationship: family

get your house in order
you must ~ orphaned
get our (fiscal) house in order inactive, abandoned, or orphaned
we must ~ (debt) at least 167,000 wells are ~ (oil)
put his life (back) in order division & connection / relationship: family
he saw Islam as a way to ~
Orwellian (adjective)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene
Orwellian agency
organ (of government, etc.) the futility of fighting an ~ with an obvious vendetta
organs of law and authority Orwellian surveillance system
drug money swept away the flimsy ~ (Colombia) exporting such an ~ to other countries
operation: government / mechanism called mandatory vaccination “Orwellian”
orgy (noun) she ~ (a political candidate)
oppression: allusion
orgy of demolition allusion: books & reading
ISIS destroyed the ancient theater in an ~ (Syria)
orgy of looting

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Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
prep, adv, adj, particle
Oscars of surfing
the Billabong Big Waves Awards are the “~” out (want out)
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / film wanted out
superlative: epithet / film she ~ (of a marriage)
epithet: film avoidance & separation / situation: container / verb
ostracized (society) allegiance, support & betrayal: container / prep, adv, adj,
particle
socially ostracized
if you're truthful, you'll be ~ out (reveal)
acceptance & rejection: society outed himself (over the weekend) as the owner
he ~ of the Twitter handle... (politician)
ounce (amount)
concealment & lack of concealment: container / verb
ounce of prevention
an ~ is worth a pound of cure out (out there, etc.)
ounce of truth out there
there’s not an ~ in anything he says there’s a lot of information ~ (murder investigation leaks)
we want to get our information ~ (to media, reporters)
amount: weight
out there for all to see
oust (verb) what happened behind closed doors may soon be ~
ousted her put the theory out there
they ~ in a boardroom coup our strategy has been to ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: government / verb concealment & lack of concealment: container / prep, adv,
ousted (removed) adj, particle
out (all out, etc.)
ousted in April
he was ~ and filed a whistleblower’s complaint all out
dismissal, removal & resignation: government Lizzo wears a leotard, she’s twerking, she’s ~ (compliment)

out (leave somebody an out, etc.) commitment & determination: container / prep, adv, adj,
particle
left an out for Iran
he has ~
outburst (noun)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism
the US airstrike resulted in an ~
out (exclusion)
emotional outbursts
out there was a rational foundation for these ~
they voted him ~
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion
acceptance & rejection: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
inclusion & exclusion: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
outcast (person)
out (outpace, etc.) outcast Hollywood rebel
he was the ~ (film director Nicholas Ray)
outgun, outpace, outshine, outweigh, etc.
outcast and non-conforming
outworked and outthought Ibiza has long been an island for the ~
she ~ male rivals (Pelosi)
social outcast
superiority & inferiority: affix he is a ~
out (currency) acceptance & rejection / dismissal, removal & resignation:
person / society / throwing, putting & planting
out this year society: person / throwing, putting & planting
short skirts are ~
person: society

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outcome (noun) outpace (verb)
realistic outcomes outpacing the ability
when scientists run simulations, they must get ~ technology is ~ of governments to keep up
product: movement superiority & inferiority: verb / walking, running & jumping
competition: verb / walking, running & jumping
outcry (noun)
outpost (noun)
outcry
of course there’s going to be an ~ (sportswashing) outposts at US universities
the language centers provide China with ~
sparked an outcry
his remarks ~ (about racism) presence & absence: military
survival, persistence & endurance: military
conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: sound
feeling, emotion & effect: sound outpouring
outdueled outpouring of aid
the disaster prompted an ~
outdueled by Manning
Romo was ~ (two football quarterbacks) outpouring of generosity
the ~ has slowed to a trickle (aid)
conflict: weapon
outpouring of good neighborliness
outfox (verb) this ~ went beyond delivering meals (Irish / pandemic)
outfoxed his (political) opponents outpouring of (new) poems
he ~ in his 60s the floodgates opened with an ~ (Geoffrey Hill)
subterfuge: animal / fox / verb outpouring of sympathy
outgunned there has been a tremendous ~ from so many…
outpouring of (both) praise and outrage
outgunned, outspent, out-lied
her film has drawn an ~
we’re going to be ~ (election)
strength & weakness: military / weapon tremendous outpouring
there has been a ~ from so many of you
conflict: military / weapon
superiority & inferiority: military / weapon amount & effect: water
outlet (noun) outrider (noun)
outlet for (public) criticism hedonistic outriders
the majlis provides an ~ (Saudi Arabia) he had contempt for modernity and its ~
outlet for their frustrations driving force: horse
people need an ~ (Baghdad gyms)
outrun (verb)
outlet or hobby
a creative ~ that fosters a sense of achievement (coping) outrunning our ability
the virus is ~ to counter it
creative outlet
a ~ can do a lot to relieve stress competition: direction / position / sports & games / verb /
walking, running & jumping
give people an outlet
the media ~ (TV and radio in Afghanistan) outset (from the outset)
amelioration & renewal: pressure from the outset
she had wanted a different approach ~
outlier (noun)
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips
outlier
when it comes to free speech, the US is the ~ (too free) outset (at the outset)
outlier case at the outset of her (newspaper) career
why is an ~ like this getting so much oxygen (hate crime) she covered right-wing movements ~ (journalist)
society: center & periphery at the outset of the investigation
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: center & periphery we said ~ that if the facts and the law...

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at the outset of 2020 outweigh (power)
~, we look back on...
outweigh us in every department
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips
they ~ (war)
outshine (verb) power: weight / verb
outshines us in health care superiority & inferiority: verb / weight
Canada clearly ~ outweigh (cost and benefit)
outshine the main act outweighed the bad
sometimes an opening act will ~ (concerts) the good ~ (in a relationship)
outshine the competition outweigh the deeds
he continues to ~ the acts of a few should not ~ of the many (war)
outshone everyone else outweigh the risks
she ~ onstage (ballet) the drug is usually safe but benefits must ~
outshone his rivals cost & benefit: scale / weight / verb
during the financial crisis, he ~ (a C.E.O.)
he ~ in the first debate (a politician) oven (the Oven, etc.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / primacy, currency, decline Gladiator School, Torture island, the Oven
& obsolescence / superiority & inferiority: astronomy / light nicknames included ~ (Rikers Island jail)
& dark / verb ♦ Rikers Island jail is nicknamed the Oven because it gets so hot in the
summer due to its concrete floors and steel doors.
outsider (person)
epithet: cooking / temperature
outsider
Trump won because he was an ~ over (dominance)
they are ~s banging on the doors of city government
over me
byzantine regulations are hard for the ~ to navigate (Egypt)
I don't want nobody ~
outsiders to the world
has an advantage over her
~ of money soon notice… (finance)
he ~ (politics)
outsider art hierarchy: position / prep, adv, adj, particle
he is well known to fans of ~
over (finished)
outsider's view
an ~ over
class was finally ~
Washington outsider
the Gilded Age of rock journalism is ~
he is a ~ facing down entrenched insiders
this won’t be ~ anytime soon
straight-talking outsider starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle
he was a ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: prep, adv. adj
political outsider over (overheated, etc.)
he presents himself as a ~ who will not represent K Street
he was a ~ (independent politician Ross Perot) overdose, overweight, overheated, overdone, etc.
he is a ~, who wants to change the way Washington works
flaws & lack of flaws: affix
rebellious outsider sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: affix
he is a ~
overboard (behavior)
weird outsider
he is the ~ who becomes influential (scientist) a little overboard
I admit I went ~ (dispute with store manager)
buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates
they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers) way overboard
♦ The Japanese refer to foreigners as gaijin, literally, "outsider.")
we have gone ~ (incarceration)

power / society: center & periphery / person behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: boat
overboard (throw somebody overboard)
threw the commanding officer overboard

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 they ~ without a thorough investigation (military) there is a cost to having an ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat / verb / violence flaws & lack of flaws: burden / weight
dismissal, removal & resignation: boat / verb / violence oppression: burden / weight
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: burden / weight
overcome (verb)
overloaded
overcome
it was a difficult hurdle to ~ overloaded with spices
the lure of the north is hard to ~ (migrants) the sauce was wildly out of balance, ~
overcome a broken heart overloaded, bogged down
you can ~ hospitals are ~ (epidemic)
overcome its (deep-rooted) problems flaws & lack of flaws: burden / weight
the company must ~ oppression: burden / weight
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: burden / weight
overcame a lot of things
she ~ in her life, but... (died in pandemic) overlord (person)
overcome a confidence-shattering rookie year conglomerate’s IT overlords
trying to ~ (basketball) the ~ gathered in Maidenhead, England (NotPetya worm)
resistance, opposition & defeat: verb power: history / person / royalty
resiliency: verb
obstacles & impedance: mountains & hills
overnight
overdose (noun) overnight success
she was an ~ (an artist)
overdose of history the firm wasn’t an ~
as a child I was poisoned by an ~ (Israeli Amos Oz)
collapsed overnight
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: addiction / health & apple sales ~
medicine
come about overnight
overdrive (in / into overdrive) the recession didn't ~

into overdrive solved overnight

it sent the village rumour mill ~ the problem will not be ~

went into overdrive speed: day

my imagination ~ overplay (verb)
activity: engine / mechanism
overplayed their hand
overflowing (adjective) they ~ (Google versus EU)

overflowing inbox failure, accident & impairment: cards / sports & games /
problems with an ~ verb
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: water overreach (verb)
overheated (adjective) overreached
BP ~ (and caused an oil-drilling catastrophe)
become overheated
she advises him not to get so ~ (an advocate) behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack
of restraint: arm / boundary / distance / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
overreach (noun)
overinflated (adjective)
constitutional overreach
overinflated reputations this monumental act of ~ (US Prohibition)
a critic should prick ~ (poetry)
behavior: arm / boundary / distance
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere
restraint & lack of restraint: arm / boundary / distance
flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere constraint & lack of constraint: arm / boundary / distance
overload (noun) overrun (verb)
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 tourists are ~ the emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb overthrow the government
he vowed to ~ (Joseph Kony / Uganda)
overrun (overwhelmed) its goal is to ~ and install a theocracy (Algeria)
overrun overthrew the government
we must avoid the risk of hospitals being ~ (pandemic) the military ~ (Fiji / 2006)
overrun with calls vowed to overthrow
911 dispatchers were soon ~ he ~ the government (Joseph Kony / Uganda)
overrun with requests dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,
staff are being ~ for information currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / equilibrium &
overrun by otters stability / verb
the state has been ~ (Illinois) overturn (verb)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
overturn the ban
overshadow (verb) they will go to court to try and ~
he is working to ~ (nuclear power / California)
overshadowed the race he led the charge to ~
the tragedy ~ (fatality)
overturn the (climbing) ban
attention, scrutiny & promotion / primacy, currency, decline the group wants to ~ (Twin Sisters / Idaho)
& obsolescence / superiority & inferiority: light & dark /
shadow / verb overturned the conviction
a French appeals court ~ of six accused of…
overstep (verb)
overturned (conventional) theories
overstepped his authority he ~ about the origin of autism (Rimland)
a judge ruled the health commissioner ~
overturn his (father's) will
overstep his boundaries Leon Hendrix was seeking to ~ and gain control
a journalist should not ~
dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,
overstepped his bounds currency, decline & obsolescence / reversal: direction /
he’s a creep who ~ (gossip) equilibrium & stability / verb
overstepped a line overturned
he felt she had ~
the covert operation probably ~ overturned convictions
unnecessary appeals and ~
overstepped the line faulty FBI lab work may result in ~s
most priests are not predators, but some have ~ (sex)
dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,
overstepped his (electoral) mandate currency, decline & obsolescence / reversal: direction /
the governor has ~ (politics) equilibrium & stability
overstepped his office owe (obligation)
the president has ~ (interfering in local issue)
owe people explanations
overstepped its power you don't ~
the government has ~
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack
owe her everything
I ~ (my wife, said by a grateful husband)
of restraint: boundary / verb / walking, running & jumping
owe you anything
over-the-top (adjective) the world does not ~
over-the-top news stories owe you nothing
most ~ cite anonymous officials (South Korea) your parents ~
restraint & lack of restraint: direction
owed it to myself
overthrow (verb) I ~ to consider the implications…

overthrew his father owe a lot to my parents

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owe a debt (of gratitude) to my editor oxygen for the theory
I ~ (writer / acknowledgments) the ~ is that...
owes to Allah political oxygen
Hajj is a duty that mankind ~ underdog candidates gulped much-needed ~ (TV debate)
with her ~ running out, she heads for the exits (candidate)
obligation: money / verb the impeachment has been sucking up a lot of the ~
owe (relationship) oxygen has been sucked up
owe its existence to fiber optics much of the political ~ by the presidential race (other races)
the information superhighway ~ provide more oxygen
owes its origins to the Phoenicians if they did that, it would ~ for this controversy (sports)
the name Spain (Hispania) ~ give oxygen
owe my (windsurfing) career to him ignoring it will ~ to extremists (ethnic identity of criminals)
I ~ (mentor) we don’t want to ~ to his ideology (media suppresses
manifesto)
owe a lot to my heritage
I ~ (Iowa) giving oxygen
Biden has accused him of ~ to bigotry
relationship: money / verb
suck up all of the political oxygen
own (possess) impeachment going forward is ~ in Congress
own the defeat initiation: air / atmosphere / chemistry / fire
he must ~ and be held responsible for it (Labor Party) increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / chemistry / fire
growth & development: air / atmosphere/ chemistry / fire
owned it
I accepted my Gemini soul, I ~, in fact I adored it (Kravitz) oxygen (life)
oxygen
owns the past
for Soviet Russians, his poetry was ~ (Boris Pasternak)
who really ~ (looted and smuggled antiquities)
survival, persistence & endurance: air / breathing
owning her talents
she is now ~ (victim of sex abuse)
possession: money / verb P
own (dominate)
pace (at a pace)
owned the center
Fury ~ of the ring and dictated the fight (boxing) at the pace of repairs
frustrated ~, he traveled to San Jose…
"own" Myanmar
people say China is the "big daddy" and will soon ~ at one's own pace
and there's more freedom to work ~
owned the pool
the US has ~ (at British Olympics) at a snail's pace
moving ~ is the norm above 8,000 meters (climbing)
dominance & submission: money / verb
at their own pace
own (make something one's own) the computer program allows students to work ~
made it her own
at an accelerating pace
she ~ (the song "Respect" sung by Aretha) these norms are unraveling ~
possession: money / verb
at an alarming pace
ownership (noun) but disasters have continued ~ (mine industry)
took no ownership at an accelerated pace
he took ~ of what he’s done (criminal case) lesbian culture evolved ~
achieving the desired outcome at an ~
possession / responsibility: money
oxygen (fuel) at a set pace
it is not ~ (human growth and development)
oxygen
liberalism is the ~ that his conflagration required (Trump) at a furious pace
why is an outlier case getting so much ~ (hoax hate crime) when national chains were building ~;

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 once the snow began, it fell ~ on Sunday, he finished in the main ~ (Tour de France)
at a glacial pace packs of youth
benefits and appeals are decided ~ (veterans) ~s roamed the streets (Ottawa power outage)
at a rapid pace lead pack
the polar ice cap will shrink ~ for the next 50 years as the ~ approached the third turn on lap 39 (NASCAR)
he stayed in the ~ (Nascar racer)
at a tolerable pace
denial allows assimilation of tragic information ~ main pack
Armstrong finished with the ~ (Tour de France)
speed: foot / walking, running & jumping
troop or pack
pace (speed) everyone involved in a ~ (Boy Scouts)
pace (of medical research) is glacial finished with the (main) pack
the ~ Armstrong ~ (Tour de France)
dictated the pace break free from the pack
he has ~ (mixed-martial arts fight) ~ (ad for a contraceptive)
gathers pace separate it from the pack
as the emergency response ~ each translator tries to bring something new to ~ (Dante)
♦ “Every word has its own pace.” (Peter Sokolowski of Merriam-Webster,
answering a question about how long it takes for a word to become group, set & collection: animal
recognized.)
package (benefits, etc.)
speed: foot / walking, running & jumping
incentive package
pace-setter (noun) creating ~s
pace-setter benefit package
the US has always wanted to be the ~ (in physics, etc.) the federal government offers a very generous ~ (jobs)
pace setter settlement package
the company is more an efficient imitator than a ~ the company's ~ (for death of worker)
publishing pacesetter severance package
the magazine was a ~ of the Internet economy the charge will fund ~s (a company)
pathfinders and pacesetters he got a $5.5 million ~ (executive of failed company)
jazz venerates its ~ (elders) financial aid package
competition / driving force: person / sports & games / asking for a better ~ (colleges)
walking, running & jumping generous (benefit) package
pacesetting (adjective) the federal government offers a very ~ (jobs)
configuration / group, set & collection: container
pacesetting bebop pianist
Tyner was referring to the ~ (Bud Powell) package (commercial)
pacesetting artists package rate
~ like Samuel Fosso and Pascale Martine Tayou 30 percent off the ~ for a ski trip
driving force: sports & games / walking, running & jumping hotel's ($899-a-couple) package
competition: sports & games / walking, running & jumping the ~
pack (competition) dive package
selling ~s
head of the pack
the consensus is that she is at the ~ (a candidate) air and accommodation packages
the lodge offers ~ (Alaska)
leading the pack
he is ~ but nipping at his heels is Pete Buttigieg (election) most heavily promoted package
competition: animal / dog / wolf most choose the ~ (buying autos)

pack (group) $899-a-couple package

the hotel's ~
pack of riders
offers (air and accommodation) packages

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 the lodge ~ (Alaska) affliction: health & medicine / neck / person / sensation
configuration / group, set & collection: container pain (emotional)
pack rat (person) in pain
if Aaron was ~, he took care not to show it (dad died)
pack rat
he is a ~, and kept the original packaging (a CD) leave me in all this pain
don’t ~ (emotional pain)
character & personality: animal
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / mental
page (on the same page)
health / sensation
on the same page painful (adjective)
this year, everyone is ~ (successful team)
unanimity & consensus: books & reading painful
this has been very ~ from a balance-sheet perspective
page (turn the page)
painful chapter
turn the page it was a ~ in Indian history (white boarding schools)
it's time to ~ and go to the next chapter of my life
painful truth
turning over a new page here’s the ~
we are ~ in the history of Kyrgyzstan (elections)
painful vigil
turn a new page after two world wars the ~ of a mother
he went to Germany to ~ (Charles de Gaulle)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation
turn the page on past events paint (characterize)
the settlement is an opportunity to ~ (payment of fine)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: books & reading paint the entire border patrol with this same brush
to ~ is irresponsible and unfair (misdeeds of 3 agents)
page (development)
painted her as an adulteress
page has turned the prosecution ~
it feels like a ~ regarding sex abuse (stronger sentences)
painted the North as a promised land
start a new page he ~ (Robert Sengstacke Abbott of Chicago Defender)
we will ~
paint democrats as extreme
development: books & reading republicans want to ~
pain (economic pain, etc.) paint alcoholics in harsher colors
we need to ~ (TV shows)
economic pain
many Americas are experiencing great ~ (recession) paint a (bleaker) picture
there is only corruption, humiliation, and ~ there are doctors who ~ than necessary
tariffs will just cause us ~
painted an (ugly) picture
political pain she ~ of him as a drug user (trial)
Trump knows economic meltdown brings ~ (COVID-19)
paint the accuser as troubled
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine his lawyer continued to ~
pain (pain in the neck, etc.) characterization: picture / verb

pain in the ass paint (resemblance)

it's a ~ (doing the job right)
knead, wax, pluck, rub, and paint
pain in the butt estheticians ~ people
journalists are a ~ (asking questions, etc.)
resemblance: picture / verb
pain in the neck paint (coat of paint)
rebuilding it will be a ~ (damaged overpass)
what a ~ fresh coat of paint
pain in my neck it’s pretty much just NAFTA with a ~ (USMCA)
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appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment palette (noun)
/ subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances
palette of ethnic groups
palace (movie palace, etc.) the Kachin dominion includes a ~ (Burma)
Palace of Weddings palette of options
the city's elegant ~ (Krasnoyarsk) the government has a ~ it can use to shore up the economy
Beckingham Palace alternatives & choices / amount: color
their country mansion, known as ~ (English soccer star) group, set & collection: color
corn palace palm (in the palm of one's hand)
the world's only ~ (Mitchell, South Dakota)
in the palm of his hand
ice palace he had everything ~ and it was taken away (arrest)
in the late 1800s cities built ~s for winter carnivals
in the palm of their hand
movie palace they had victory ~ but... (soccer team)
the ~s of his youth
attainment / possession: hand
pet palace
Atwood's Pet Resort in SeaTac is a ~ panacea (noun)
air-conditioned palace panacea
the Grand Ole Opry moved into its new ~ the new rules will not be a ~
blockchain is not a ~, it’s not this magical thing
resemblance: royalty
♦ A synonym for panacea is cure-all. In Greek mythology, Panacea was
palatable (adjective) a goddess of healing.

amelioration & renewal: allusion / health & medicine /

palatable to the left
religion
a way that is ~
consumption: food & drink / taste
pancake (verb)
flaws & lack of flaws: food & drink / taste pancaked during the earthquake
palatial (adjective) several buildings ~
configuration: food & drink / verb
palatial (Manhattan) loft
she designed the kitchen in his ~ pancake (pancake ice, etc.)
run from basic to palatial pancake ice
river shacks ~ (South Carolina) ~ in the Weddell Sea
♦ “A hut is a palace to the poor man.” (Irish.)
shape: food & drink
size: royalty
pancake (noun)
palisade (noun)
pancake
palisades of steel the collapse created a ~ on the floors below
they are great ~ (container ships)
configuration: food & drink
resemblance: fortification
pancaked
pall (cast a pall)
pancaked
cast a pall on the (peace) process the plane was ~, it's totally crushed and pulverized
the victory by Hamas ~ about half of the parking garage was ~
cast a pall over the Olympics pancaked floors
the accident ~ (luge death / Winter Olympics) they could see bodies in the ~ (earthquake)
casts a pall everywhere configuration: food & drink
if it ~, there is a special darkness to it here in the US (mass
shooting) pander (verb)
♦ A pall is the cloth covering a coffin, hearse or tomb.
pandered to their political bases
feeling, emotion & effect: burial / cloth / verb the politicians ~
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♦ According to Homer, Pandarus led the Lycians in the Trojan War.
Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare refer to him as instrumental in pan out (verb)
supplying the girl Cressida for the king of Troy. He helps the two lovers in
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. pan out
the deal didn't ~
speech: sex / verb
if the projects ~… (energy development)
Pandora's box (open a Pandora’s box, she had a couple of relationships that didn't ~
etc.) ♦ One dictionary dates the origin of this word to 1868. Famous gold
rushes include: California (1848), Australia (1851), South Africa (1886),
and the Klondike (1898).
Pandora’s Box
this is a ~ and we don’t know what will happen (vaccine) success & failure: mining / verb
worth & lack of worth: mining / verb
Pandora’s box of (menacing) possibilities
they have opened a ~ (war) pantheon (noun)
Pandora’s box of (legal) troubles pantheon
his plea agreement may have opened up a ~ for Trump other athletes deserve to be in that same ~ (winners)
forbidden fruit, a Promethean fire, a Pandora’s box pantheon of (past keynote) speakers
this is ~, and evil genie he joins a ~ (political conventions)
reopen the Pandora's box of (ethnic) conflict pantheon of great surfers
failure to act will ~ (Balkans) his long rides in the barrel place him in the ~ (Garrett
McNamara)
opened a Pandora's box of (menacing) possibilities
they have ~ (war) Blues pantheon
♦ Nathaniel Hawthorne wonderfully tells the story of Pandora’s box in A the Chicago ~ (Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Magic Sam,
Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. His emphasis is on the curiosity that all and Junior Wells)
children have.
♦ In Greek mythology, the myth of Prometheus and the story of Pandora pop pantheon
are intertwined. she is part of the ~, for sure (Lana Del Ray)
♦ “I opened a Pandora’s box. I released a Frankenstein. People are just
breeding for the money... unscrupulous breeders are crossing poodles icon in the pantheon
with inappropriate dogs simply so they can say they were the first to do Kirk Douglas will always be an ~ of Hollywood
it.” (Wally Conran, the Australian who created the labradoodle in the late
1980s. He now says his creation is his “life’s regret.” The labradoodle ♦ In ancient Greek times, a pantheon was a temple dedicated to all of the
has been called the first “designer dog.” His concern is about dogs and gods.
their health problems.)
superlative: allusion / place / religion
affliction initiation: allusion / creature / religion / verb sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
importance & significance: religion
Panglossian
pants (caught with one's pants down)
Panglossian viewpoint
it’s easy to make fun of his ~ caught with our pants down
♦ Pangloss was a fictional character form Candide by Voltaire. Candide
we were ~ (CDC official)
was famous for his optimism.
readiness & preparedness: clothing & accessories / verb
character & personality: allusion
pants (get in somebody's pants)
allusion: books & reading
panhandle (area) get in my pants
they all wanted to ~ (pretty girl and high-school boys)
Florida panhandle
sex: clothing & accessories / verb
he drove through the ~
♦ Nine US states are considered to have panhandles, including Florida. pants (scare the pants off somebody)
shape: cooking scare the pants off people
panopticon (noun) it will ~ (lawlessness)
courage & lack of courage: clothing & accessories / verb
medical panopticon
hyperbole: clothing & accessories
Thrun envisages a ~ that constantly scans us (AI diagnosing)
♦ This refers to Jeremy Bentham’s idea for a circular penitentiary open to pants (big girl pants, etc.)
hidden view from a central office. The idea was, inmates would control
themselves if they knew they were being secretly watched at every put on the big boy pants
moment. he needs to ~ and act as commander in chief
surveillance: allusion / crime / history put your big-girl pants on

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 you need to ~ and deal with it paradise
♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
and get out there and show them what you got...” hikers' paradise
growth & development: death & life Aspen is a ~
role: clothing & accessories smuggler's paradise
paper tiger the ~ of Tijuana (drugs)

paper tiger surfer's paradise

this ~ (Kuta, Bali)
Osama bin Laden believed America was a ~
substance & lack of substance: animal / tiger surfers' paradise
Jaws is a ~ (north shore of Maui, Hawaii)
strength & weakness: animal / tiger
the North Shore of Oahu has long been a ~
force: animal / tiger
parachute (drop in) bird lover's paradise
Horicon Marsh is a ~ (Wisconsin)
parachute journalism
writers doing the 20th century version of ~ (Appalachia)
skateboarder's paradise
the park is a ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane
train lover's paradise
parachute (golden parachute) China is a ~ (43,000 miles of operating tracks)

golden parachute island paradise

CEOs got high salaries and generous ~s the ~ turned into hell by terrorists (Bali)

lucrative golden parachute windsurfing paradise

they rewarded him with a ~ (Blatt) the Columbia River Gorge is a ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane natural paradise
achievement, recognition & praise: plane they live in a ~ (langurs of Halong Bay)
parachute (verb) socialist paradise
he promised Venezuelans a better life in a ~
parachute into poor countries
college kids ~ for medical missions (malpractice) tropical paradise
in theory this place should be a ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane
♦ Truly, the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin is a bird-lover’s paradise with its
appearance & disappearance: plane geese and great blue herons. The largest freshwater cattail marsh in the
parachuted United States also has an amazing backstory that started with the last
Ice Age and continues to the present.

parachuted in environment / superlative: religion

he was ~ last year to lead a turnaround of the business flaws & lack of flaws: religion
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane Paradise Lost (allusion)
parade (noun) Paradise Lost
this ~ kind of family mythology (formerly rich family)
parade of suspects
♦ Paradise Lost was the poem by John Milton.
the investigation has seen a ~ over the years (crime)
division & connection: allusion / religion
parade of witnesses
a ~ has corroborated his account (hearings) paradisiacal (adjective)
after a ~, it was up to the jury
paradisiacal sounds
endless parade fountains provide ~ (Hama, Syria)
the seemingly ~ of principals (troubled middle school) ♦ Pronounced para-duh-SEE-uh-kul.
never-ending parade feeling, emotion & effect: religion
a ~ of visits
paralysis (noun)
nonstop parade
a ~ of local heroes carrying the Olympic torch political paralysis
it was a result of the ~ in Washington
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
~ may push American off a fiscal cliff
walking, running & jumping
group, set & collection: walking, running & jumping functioning: health & medicine / movement

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paralyze (verb) the Washington Post and its ~
taxation of ~s and their subsidiaries
paralyzed Algiers division: family
the heaviest snow in more than 50 years ~
parent (relationship)
paralyzed Yaoundé
antigovernment riots ~, Cameroon's capital (2008) parent company
a revenue-sharing arrangement with its ~
riots paralyzed Yaoundé
the Washington Post and its ~
antigovernment ~, Cameroon's capital (2008)
taxation of ~s and their subsidiaries
snow (in more than 50 years) paralyzed Algiers
parent star
the heaviest ~
the brown dwarf orbits around its ~ (astronomy)
functioning: health & medicine / movement / verb
cat parents
paralyzed (feeling) they are ~ to Miko the cat (Miko’s owners)

paralyzed with grief division & connection / relationship: family

when I got home I was ~ (Everest 96) pariah (person)
paralyzed by fear
pariah of the village
we are absolutely ~ (stuck in a job you don't like)
Tom came upon the juvenile ~ (Huck Finn)
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / health & medicine
pariahs in their communities
paralyzed (functioning) they have become ~ (girls do sex online controversy)

paralyzed by hackers pariah state

Baltimore struggles to revive computer systems ~ Israel is an apartheid ~

left (most of) the capital paralyzed pariah status

the assault ~ (Baghdad terrorism) Zimbabwe seeks to jettison its ~
Iran can continue its march towards ~ or...
functioning: health & medicine / movement
became a pariah
paramount (adjective) he ~ in the late 70s (Hollywood producer)
and so Atiyeh ~ (environmentalist George Atiyeh)
paramount importance
being ethical is of ~ become pariahs
importance & significance: height / mountains & hills he said he and his girlfriend had ~ (falsely accused)

parapet (noun) becoming a pariah

he is rapidly ~ (a French author / MeToo)
parapets of schism made himself a pariah
Catholics and Orthodox hurl insults at each other over the ~
he ~ at his old studio (an actor)
conflict: fortification ♦ This word refers to a caste in India and to the British Raj.

parasite (person) ♦ “Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry
Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and
dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless
parasite and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and
critics are ~s (literary critics) delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.
tax evaders are ~s to society (Italy) Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied
Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not
she is a ~ who exploits her culture for money (a writer) to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance...”
they are ~s whose work depends on the activity of others (Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.)
♦ “Frankie was...a wild figure... I had come to join his gang through
parasite on the economy clause number two (the threat of torture), and had stayed with it for
the government is not simply a ~ profitable reasons of fun and adventure... When the women of our street
could think of no more bad names to call Frankie Buller for leading their
parasite, a leech children into fights that resulted in black eyes, torn clothes, and split
she’s a ~ (charges soldiers for river water) heads, they called him a Zulu, a label that Frankie came to accept as a
tribute.” (“The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller” by the great writer Alan
Sillitoe.)
affliction: animal / person
acceptance & rejection / society: person
parent (parent company, etc.) person: society
parent company
a revenue-sharing arrangement with its ~

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Paris (epithet) thrust and parry
election year ~
Paris of the East ♦ “Lieutenant-Colonel Dunlop was here wounded when half way up by a
Bucharest’s historic center was on praised as “The ~” sirdar of Mysore, who met him scimitar in hand. Parrying a cut with his
sabre, the colonel slashed open his antagonist’s breast, and mortally
"Paris of the South" wounded him. The sirdar made another cut that nearly hewed off the
head of the colonel, and falling back into the breach was instantly
attempts to promote Asheville as the ~ bayoneted. Dunlop reached the summit, and then fell from loss of
blood...” (“Seringapatam, 1799, from British Battles on Land and Sea by
Paris of the Middle East James Grant.)
before 1975, Beirut was known as the ~
Beirut was once known as the ~ avoidance & separation: blade / sword / verb / weapon
resistance, opposition & defeat: blade / sword / verb /
Paris of Java weapon
Bandung, Indonesia, is known as “The ~” (Dutch heritage)
parse (verb)
superlative: epithet / place
parse each of his sentences
park (walk in the park) let’s ~ (radio host / news show)
walk in the park analysis, interpretation & explanation: speech / verb
people who said it would be a ~ were wrong (Brexit)
I knew it wasn’t going to be a ~ (transgender hormones) part (moving parts)
it should be a ~ (US women should win World Cup)
a lot of moving parts
difficulty, easiness & effort: walking, running & jumping there are ~ to this story
park (hit something out of the park) so many moving parts
there are ~ in terms of the legal issues
hit it out of the park
she ~ (a great debate performance) complexity: mechanism

hit it out of the park a second time party (garden party)

he ~ (second season of a TV series)
giant garden party
success & failure: baseball / sports & games our lockdown is a ~ compared to China and Italy (pandemic)
parked (movement) difficulty, easiness & effort: party

parked over the islands party (late to the party)

the storm is ~
late to the party
movement: engine / mechanism aren't you rather ~ (entering new market)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / progress & we’re kinda ~ here (antisatellite warfare)
lack of progress / starting, going, continuing & ending: timeliness & lack of timeliness: party
engine / mechanism / movement
parrot (verb) party (invited to the party, etc.)
parroted the (official) line invited to the party
he ~ about enemy losses who is ~, and who isn’t (success in America)
not everyone can be ~ (haves and have-nots)
parrot the Pledge of Allegiance inclusion & exclusion: party
kids who ~ often say, "I led the pigeons to the flag"
repetition: bird / verb
party (party is over)
parry (verb) party is over
we’re coming for you, the ~ (cops versus gang)
parried the attacks with some skill starting, going, continuing & ending: party
he ~ (a political debate)
parry both
pass (time can pass, etc.)
he was able to ~ (during a political debate) pass
parried queries I hope these times ~ soon (a cop)
Merkel ~ during “Chancellor’s Question Time” passes
parry Romney every minute that ~ is crucial
Santorum used humor to ~ (politics) time: movement / verb

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pass (free pass) passion (enthusiasm)
free pass passion
many thought the press gave him a ~ (politician) my ~ is skiing
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ticket passion in life
cost & benefit: ticket his biggest ~ was climbing (killed by lightning)
pass (end) passion for chemistry
his ~ (Richard Smalley)
pass
your problems will soon ~ passion for graffiti
his ~ was extinguished when… (tagging accident)
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / walking,
running & jumping passion for (water) sports
a ~ (kitesurfing, etc.)
pass (its time has passed, etc.)
passion for trains
time has passed his life-long ~ (model trains, train spotting, etc.)
it’s a tradition whose ~
passion for vengeance
time may have (already) passed the understandable ~ (against terrorists)
it’s a gimmick whose ~ (augmented reality phone app)
passion for water sports
future / past & present / time: direction / movement / verb a young man with a ~ (kitesurfing, etc.)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement /
verb passion for acting
he quit his job to pursue a lifelong ~ (TV, movies)
pass (progress)
passion for boating
passed the US he has a love and ~ (a kayaker)
many countries have ~ in healthcare and quality of life
passion for caving
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement his ~ and cave diving has taken him around the world
competition: journeys & trips / verb
passion for dancing
pass away (verb) an active teen with a ~
passed away last week passion for gambling
he ~ his ~
♦ A “deceased person” who has “passed away” is a dead person who
has died. passion for sky diving
♦ “Fire Department medic unit Number 4 responded and transported the he had a ~
victim to Temple Hospital, where she was subsequently pronounced at
5:33 a.m.” (A police spokesperson about a murder.) passion for caving and cave diving
♦ “Unfortunately, he was found in a pond and he is no longer with us.” his ~ has taken him around the world
(Body found.)
passion and devotion
♦ “I was able to hold his hand as he journeyed on.” (With brother when
he died.) ramen inspires ~ among Japanese and foreigners
♦ His life was tragically cut short. (Murdered.) lifelong passion
euphemism: death & life he quit his job to pursue a ~ for acting (TV, movies)
space flight has been his ~ (astronaut)
pass by (progress)
interest / passions / hobbies
pass us by the return of ~ (after trauma, crisis abroad)
we don’t want to let this ~ (chance to adopt new technology)
love and passion
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / progress & he has a ~ for boating (a kayaker)
lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement / verb
secret or (a) passion or (an) issue or (a) decision
passing (death) when race is a ~ (people)

passing of our friend and brother followed his passion

it is with the heaviest of hearts that I tell you of the ~ he ~ (a windsurfer)

euphemism: death & life follow your passion

death & life: movement that's part of the spirit of mountaineering, to ~

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inspires passion pass on (verb)
ramen ~ and devotion among Japanese and foreigners
pass on
turn your passion into a profession which track would you like to ~ (BBC Inheritance Tracks)
how do you ~ (ad on TV or arts school)
♦ According to Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., passion originally meant suffering: transmission: hand / verb
the passion of Christ. Then it morphed in the late 14th century (the time
of Chaucer) to mean powerful emotions like hatred and rage, including passport (noun)
the tender passion of love. In Funk’s day, it came to relate to the
powerful emotion of sex. Today it commonly means enthusiasm. passport to freedom
Compassion comes from the same root and literally means, “with education is our ~ (young European Muslim women)
suffering,” or “I feel your suffering.”
♦ "Some people may say that passion is folly. I think if you haven't passport out of death row
followed your passions, you haven't lived. If you haven't lived, you a low IQ can be a ~
haven't evolved." (John Chao, photographer and founder, publisher and
editor in 1993 of the magazine American Windsurfer. In December 2016 sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: document /
he drove a panel truck full of firewood and propane from The Dalles,
Oregon, to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Dakota Access government
Pipeline activists in their winter camps.)
past (in the distant past, etc.)
enthusiasm: sex
control & lack of control / feeling, emotion & effect: sex in the distant past
the meteorite was blasted off the surface of the moon ~
passionate the Revolutionary War and Civil War are in the ~, but...
passionate about this case in the not-distant past
I was ~ (the great lawyer Johnnie Cochran) Mormons experienced persecution ~
passionate about the (local) people in the not so distant past
he was so ~ (a scientist in the field) nominees sought bipartisan support ~
passionate defender lies in the distant past
President Jacob Zuma is a ~ of Zulu traditions (S. Africa) for most Americans, World War I ~
passionate response past & present / time: distance
she delivered a ~
past (distant past, etc.)
young, passionate and pissed
I was ~ (climber who lost best friend) distant past
litigating cases from the ~ can be difficult
enthusiasm: sex
control & lack of control / feeling, emotion & effect: sex Earth’s distant past
the documentary looks at the ~
passionately
past & present / time: distance
feel passionately
but for those of us who ~ about the oceans (preservation) past (in the past)
enthusiasm: sex in the past
control & lack of control / feeling, emotion & effect: sex this all happened ~
passage (nasal passage, etc.) ♦ Scott Simon: When is the past past? Ever? / Chanelle Benz: Well, I
think we can lay the past to rest once we’ve had some kind of reckoning
with it.” (“Chanelle Benz On ‘The Gone Dead,’” NPR, Weekend Edition,
nasal passage June 22, 2019.)
the standard Q-tip can’t bend through the ~
past & present / time: container
resemblance: route
pasture (put something out to pasture)
passage (noun)
put him out to pasture
passage to adulthood we need to ~ (a controversial executive)
he writes about his ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal / horse
passage into womanhood dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse
her quinceañera, the celebration of a Hispanic girl's ~ ♦ This simply means to retire someone (or something) and is a
benevolent concept. An alternative is, “Time to send him off to the
passage from ballet student to restaurant apprentice sanctuary.” A less benevolent idea is “Slaughter the donkey when its
her rocky ~ work is done.” Or “it’s time to send him to the glue factory.”
♦ Cats in the Cradle; Imagine; Yesterday; Happy (Pharrell); American
course / growth & development: journeys & trips Pie; Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)... (“Hallelujah! The Songs We Should

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Retire,” NPR, All Songs Considered, hosted by Bob Boilen, October 11,
2017.) patchwork (noun)
♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR,
Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term
patchwork
woke has had its day and should be retired. the system, however ~, works well
♦ “Why It’s Time To Retire The ‘Serious Conversation About Race’”, with creation & transformation: cloth
Damon Young. (1A, WAMU, NPR, July 16, 2020.)

pasture (put out to pasture) path (on the path)

put out to pasture on the path to sainthood
some think the musical should be ~ (The King and I) the Pontiff put him ~

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal / horse on the path to democracy and freedom
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse they are ~ (Iraq)
patch (and patch up) on the right path
I have put Qatar ~ (Sheikh Hamad)
patched up the (contentious) issue with a compromise so the economy's ~
they ~ (world leaders)
continue on the path
patched things up we're going to ~ that we started on last year
the two eventually ~ (a relationship)
the company has ~ (problems) continue on the (same) path
we will ~ that was laid out by Osama...
patched up their differences
they have ~ (a couple) got on the (right) path
he straightened his life out and ~ (former criminal)
patched the (security) flaw
Microsoft has ~ set out on this path
he ~ in 1997 by writing... (rehabilitated his career)
patched his relationship
he has ~ with them put Qatar on the right path
I have ~ (Sheikh Hamad)
patch the rift
he is trying to ~ (disagreement) put him on the path
the Pontiff ~ to sainthood
amelioration & renewal: cloth / verb
continue on this path
patch (patch together) we should let the economy ~
patched together an agreement course: journeys & trips
leaders finally ~ (diplomacy)
path (on a path)
patched together a (workable group)
he has ~ on a (sustained) expansion path
the economy now appears to be ~
creation & transformation: cloth / verb
on a (good expansionary) growth path
patch (rough patch) the economy seems to be on a good expansionary ~
rough patches on a downward path
you go through ~ in your sport that make you want to quit the debt to GDP ratio is ~ (economy)
danger / difficulty, easiness & effort / obstacles & on a troubled path
impedance / survival, persistence & endurance: forest / when someone you love is ~
journeys & trips ♦ "In Japan there has been only one path, and today an increasing
number of people are not on it. It's easy to say that academic
patched background is not everything. But the parents cannot suggest another
path because they don't know one." (A Japanese psychologist talking
patched about Hickikomori, the withdrawal from society by young people.)
Windows is full of security holes that can never be ~ course: journeys & trips
patched up path (in the path)
the problems have been ~
amelioration & renewal: cloth
obstacles in the path
the FAA threw ~ of the Peotone proposal (airport)
threw obstacles in the path

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 the FAA ~ of the Peoton proposal (airport) path (path of peace, etc.)
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
path
path (down a path) the ~ they follow may not be simple (investigation)
figure out what ~ will work best for you (education)
down a path (that) jihad is its ~ (Hamas motto)
don't force your child ~ you wanted to follow
path of Allah
down a dangerous path the ~
his unswerving belief in himself led him ~
path of peace
down the wrong path the ~ is still the right path
it has taken us ~ (antiterrorism)
path of prosperity
down a moderate and secular path we need to get back on the ~ (politics)
lead Pakistan ~
path of (ecological) sustainability
go down paths they follow a ~ (reindeer peoples)
they can ~ that relate to... (investigation)
path of reason, justice and dialogue
led him down a dangerous path adopt the ~ to resolve… (Kashmir)
his unswerving belief in himself ~
course: journeys & trips
taken us down the wrong path
it has ~ (antiterrorism) path (path to / toward something)
continue down that path path to citizenship
it’s important that we ~ (environmental cleanup) we offer a ~ for 1.8 million illegal immigrants

force your child down a path path to jihad

don't ~ you wanted to follow (but didn't) hundreds of Americans have followed the ~

course: journeys & trips path to legalization

immigrants need a ~ (US)
path (cross paths)
path to power
cross paths behavior that’s admired is the ~ among people everywhere
when competitors ~, violence usually follows (prison)
path to pride
cross his path his job to help the school find a ~ (troubled high school)
he is a danger to all who ~
path to riches
crossed paths a marketing wizard who hopes he had found the ~
late Monday night, the two men ~ again (cop / felon)
path to success
crossed her path negotiations with no clear ~ (Middle East)
she left a mark on all of us who ~ (an actor)
paths to success
cross paths with a stripper there are many ~
an accountant might ~ (at an airport)
path to discipline, tenacity, courage
fate, fortune & chance: journeys & trips / verb hardship is the surer ~
path (beat a path) path to inner peace
the Buddhist ~
beating a path to China's door
the world is ~ path toward a market economy
the difficult, unguided ~ (Russia)
eagerness & reluctance: journeys & trips / verb
path (off the beaten path) path toward peace and prosperity
putting the continent on a ~ (Africa)
off the beaten path course: journeys & trips
even tours of federal buildings ~ are possible route: infrastructure
far off the beaten path path (alternatives and choices)
she lives in a place ~
path of least resistance
isolation & remoteness: journeys & trips
he's lazy, he'll take the ~

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path of the lesser evil but Qatar does not stray too far from ~
we took the ~ (US support of Saddam)
course: journeys & trips
two paths path (tough / easy path, etc.)
there are ~ now for supercomputing
you can take one of ~ in high school (boy-crazy or study) clear-cut (career) paths
another path not all fields at universities have ~
parents can't suggest ~ (Japan) clear path
different path negotiations with no ~ to success (Middle East)
persuade young delinquents to take a ~ difficult path
many paths military families walk a ~ in wartime (dissent, etc.)
there are ~ to success smooth path
one path no candidate will have a ~ to the Democratic nomination
in Japan there is only one ~ straight path
quickest path we ask Allah to lead the Muslims to follow the ~
the ~ is not always obvious surer path
the ~ to raise school's profile is to buy a football team hardship is the ~ to discipline, tenacity, courage
two paths difficult, unguided path
there are ~ now for supercomputing the ~ toward a market economy (Russia)
you can take one of ~ in high school (boys or academics)
long, tortured path
adopt the path it's been a ~ for the international space station
~ of reason, justice and dialogue to resolve… (Kashmir)
path appears clear
chose the path the ~ for Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee
another bored child of privilege who ~ of revolution
walk a difficult path
find a path military families ~ in wartime (dissent, anxiety, etc.)
his job to help the school ~ to pride (high school)
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips
follow a path flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
they ~ of ecological sustainability
path (clear a path)
followed his (father's) path
he eventually ~ (seminarian) clear the path for Mr. Sanders
her departure will ~ in particular (election)
follow their (mothers') paths
often, young prostitutes ~ into the sex trade clears the path for thousands of Floridians
this ruling ~ (voting rules)
follow in Qeis's path
he vowed he will ~ (suicide bomber) amelioration & renewal: journeys & trips / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / verb
alternatives & choices: journeys & trips obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips / verb
path (a path can turn) path (other)
path took an (unexpected) turn career path
her life's ~ (serious injury) clear-cut ~s
development: journeys & trips a ~ shaped by combat experience (the military)

path (somebody’s path) converging paths

he concluded that species had evolved along ~ (Darwin)
brother's path
academic path
he assured his father he wouldn't follow his ~
decide what the best ~ for you may be
father's path
Buddhist path
he eventually followed his ~ (seminarian)
the ~ to inner peace
life's path
spiritual path
her ~ took an unexpected turn (serious injury)
turning to a ~ in their search for answers
Saudi Arabia's path
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 a preliminary trial is a ~ to a criminal trial (Colorado) jazz venerates its ~ (its elders)
take its path driving force: journeys & trips / person
justice has to ~ (investigation) searching & discovery: journeys & trips / person
walked this path before pathology (noun)
no one has ~ (dealing with pandemic)
pathology
got on the right path Nazism emerged as a ~ of an inflation-wracked…
he straightened his life out and ~ (criminal)
symptom of a (much wider) pathology
started down a path he is a ~ infecting the entire system (Chinese politics)
we have ~ that we won't turn back from (legal action)
affliction: health & medicine
set me along this path
my mother helped to ~ (of being a writer)
pathway (route)
stray from the path pathway to citizenship
a good Muslim must not ~ illegal immigrants need a ~
the Dreamers need a ~
stray (too far) from (Saudi Arabia's) path
but Qatar does not ~ pathway from complaint to trial
the ~ is too long (sex abuse cases)
get back on the path
we must ~ of prosperity (politics) illicit pathways
the~ from Columbia to the US became expressways
course: journeys & trips
route: journeys & trips
pathbreaking
patient zero
pathbreaking article
he wrote a ~ on this subject patient zero in the NotPetya plague
the servers that played the role of ~ (computer worm)
pathbreaking filmmaker
affliction / initiation: health & medicine
he was a ~ who… (obituary)
pathbreaking ideas
patron saint
he garnered admiration for some ~ but also enmity patron saint
path-breaking research feminists found in her a sort of ~ (an artist)
he brought ~ to economics representation: religion
pathbreaking role pattern (holding pattern)
the museum played a ~ in fostering education
coronavirus-induced holding pattern
path-breaking study society’s normal activities are in a ~
he was the primary author of a ~ that found…
action, inaction & delay: plane
pathbreaking work
his ~ opened a new era in cancer research Patton (the Patton of Asia, etc.)
importance & significance: journeys & trips “Patton of Asia”
driving force: journeys & trips Claire Lee Chennault nicknamed him the ~ (Xue Yue)
pathfinder (Mars Pathfinder, etc.) epithet: military

HMS Pathfinder pause (noun)

the ~ was sunk by a German U-boat in 1914
hit pause
Lisa Pathfinder they have agreed to ~ on their escalating trade war
the European Space Agency’s ~ a judge has ~ on a major US contract
Nissan Pathfinder action, inaction & delay: mechanism
he was struck by a ~ starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
proper name: journeys & trips pawn (noun)
pathfinder (person) pawn of Israel and the West
he is widely seen as a ~
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pawn in the Great Game paid little mind to the outside world
Azerbaijan was a ~ for territory and power they ~ (rural isolation)
pawns in a (political) chess game paid with his life
they use human beings as ~ (hostages) he ~ for the people's freedom (terrorist)
pawns in a (highly profitable) scam pay for their actions
we were ~ (employees at Southern Poverty Law Center) they must ~ (teen killers)
pawn on the board paid his debt
they were grasping at straws, I was just a ~ (John Artis) he has ~ many times over (44 years in prison)
use him as a pawn pays (little) heed
both sides will try to ~ for their own purposes (politics) the program ~ to issues of gender and sexuality
using migrants as pawns paid (close) notice
he has accused the Turks of ~ France's minority communities ~ when…
control & lack of control / power / strength & weakness: pay the (ultimate) penalty
chess / sports & games they want those guilty to ~ (death)

pay (benefit) pay my respects

pays to go back
sometimes it ~ and start over (detective / cold cases)
pays to be nice
it ~ to strangers (got free tickets)
cost & benefit: money / verb
pay (pay a price)
pay the price
when it comes to high heels, the feet ~
the Democrats will ~ in 2020 (for impeaching Trump)
you have released the whirlwind and you will ~ (politics)
pay a price
you want the fame but, baby, you ~ (Frank Sinatra)
pay the price of the war
they ~ with their arms and legs (injured civilians)
pay the price (of the war) with their arms and legs
they ~ (injured civilians)
I was determined to ~ to Ronald Reagan (on his death)
paid his respects
the president personally ~ to Sheehan
pay his respects
he went to the cemetery to ~ (to a victim of terrorism)
pay its respects
the base was opened for the public to ~ (military deaths)
paid their respects
people ~ to the 12 men who died (coal miners)
paid tribute
he ~ to the men and women in the armed services
paid a (surprise) visit
he ~ and was shocked by what he saw (illegal logging)
paid an (unannounced) visit
Rumsfeld ~ to Iraq (government official)
obligation: money / verb

pays the price in fear, suffering and death pay (revenge)

society ~ (anti-vaccination fears and causes) pay
paid a price for his beliefs I'm going to make you ~ (a threat)
Yusuf Islam has ~… (controversy, etc.) you will ~ for what you did
whoever did this needs to ~ (murder)
pays a price for her (burning) righteousness
she ~ (a play) revenge: money / verb

paid a very high price payback

we ~ (military commander, about casualties) payback for his reporting
cost & benefit: money / verb was his murder a crime or a political ~ (journalist)

pay (obligation) payback time

it's ~
paid me a complement
he ~ retribution and payback
he wants ~
paying tribute to our (nursing) colleagues
~—past, present and future revenge: money

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pay dirt increase & decrease / progress & lack of progress /
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / shape:
pay dirt mountains & hills
he finally hit ~ (in the 1930 census) (genealogy)
pearl (Pearl of the Orient, etc.)
movie pay dirt
the company turns graphic novels into ~ pearl of the Aegean
Naxos has always been the ~
hit pay dirt
he finally ~ (a researcher) Pearl of Africa
on the fourth day, he seemed to ~ (experiment) Mogadishu, the ~, is in ruins (Somalia)
searching & discovery / success & failure / worth & lack of Pearl of Asia
worth: ground, terrain & land / mining when Phnom Penh was known as the ~

pay off (verb) Pearl of the Orient

Manila, the ~ (Philippines);
pay off the city that came to be known as the ~ (Saigon)
what you are doing will ~ (studying / school)
"Pearl of the Adriatic"
paying off the ~, on the Dalmatian Coast (Dubrovnik)
the training is ~ (military / counter-IED measures)
China's strategy is ~ (G-20 negotiations “Pearl of the Antilles”
the city was considered the ~ (Havana, Cuba)
gamble paid off
the ~ superlative: epithet / sea
epithet: sea
lessons paid off
the piano ~ (plays well) pearl (string of pearls)
work had paid off string of pearls (m)
all our hard ~ (a scientist) when the 21 pieces of the "~" comet hit Jupiter

cost & benefit: money / verb configuration: sea

worth & lack of worth: money / verb pearl (clutch one’s pearls)
payoff
clutch their pearls
payoff for a job well done her language made some ~ (a lawmaker)
it was an incredible ~ (successful medevac)
clutching their pearls over his behavior
cost & benefit / worth & lack of work: money they are ~
♦ “Some of Trump’s defenders argue he’s not really serious, and he’s
peak (at the peak) just trying to get people clutching their pearls.”
♦ “Please, spare us the pearl-clutching faux-outrage.” (Politics.)
at the peak of his career
he disappeared seemingly ~ (an artist) feeling, emotion & effect: clothing & accessories
at the peak of his popularity Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor,
he was ~ (a leader)
etc.)
at the peak of his powers
he is ~ (a rugby player) Pearl Harbor moment
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumpter attack)
achievement, recognition & praise / growth & development
/ increase & decrease / primacy, currency, decline & Australia's Pearl Harbor
the Japanese attack on Darwin is known as ~ (1942)
obsolescence: mountains & hills
subterfuge: allusion / epithet / history
peak (other) epithet: history / military
peaks and troughs allusion: military
the regional patterns of ~ could change (rising sea levels) pecking order
peaks and valleys corporate pecking order
it's a long season, you're going to have ~ we still have ~s and rigid job categories (lack of change)
there are more emotional ~ in the film (than in the book)
at the bottom of the pecking order
we were ~ (biker club)

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hierarchy: animal / bird he earned the nickname, "the ~" (Streltsov)
pedal (pedal to the metal) epithet: sports & games
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / sports &
pedal to the metal games
our default in the ER is ~ (a doctor)
pendulum (reversal)
press the pedal to the metal
they dropped their work on dengue so they could ~ on Zika pendulum is swinging back
now the ~ (from spending to austerity)
keep his pedal to the metal
he vowed to ~ in challenging the president (politics) pendulum has swung too far
some think the ~ and they want to push it back
extent & scope / functioning: mechanism
commitment & determination: mechanism pendulum will swing back
the ~ (politics)
pedestal (on a pedestal)
development / reversal: movement / pendulum
put him on a pedestal primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement /
they ~ (George Washington) pendulum
people who ~ since he took charge
pent-up (constrained)
put on a pedestal
he has been put ~ by some and vilified by others (politics) pent-up anger
there's a lot of ~
put on a (high) pedestal
they are ~ (priests in immigrant community) pent-up energy
♦ “I placed myself on a high pedestal, I refused to lower myself and sleep
all that ~ came bursting out (a filmmaker)
around...” (An immigrant girl in England.)
pent-up (civic) forces
admiration & contempt: height the dictator's ouster unleashed a whirlwind of ~
pedestaled pent-up frustration
~s have flared into violence (Nigeria)
pedestaled notions
the pressure to conform to ~ of female beauty... left it all pent up
it's as though the stuttering ~ (talkative person)
admiration & contempt: height / statue
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: height / statue feeling, emotion & effect: container
constraint & lack of constraint: container
peek (verb)
penumbra (noun)
peeked through the clouds peppered him with questions
the sun ~
she ~
peek out from behind morning clouds attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / shadow
the sun is just starting ~
superiority & inferiority: light & dark / shadow
appearance & disappearance / resemblance: eye pepper (verb)
peel (peel back the layers, etc.)
pepper his correspondence
peeled back the layers references to his impending doom ~ (Nietzsche)
as investigators ~, they found more
peppered him with questions
peel back the world she ~
he writes with eager curiosity to ~ the world of…
peppered that in
analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables / we’ve talked about a bunch of policies, we’ve ~
verb giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb
Pele (Pele of Saudi Arabia, etc.) throwing, putting & planting: food & drink / verb

Pele of Saudi Arabia

peppered
Majid Abdullah, the ~ getting peppered
Pele of Brazilian literature he is ~ (boxing match)
he is the ~ (Paulo Coelho, according to Arnaldo Niskier) giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink
Russian Pele throwing, putting & planting: food & drink / verb

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percent (one hundred and ten percent) action, inaction & delay: speech
performance / role: theater
gave it one hundred and ten percent sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / speech: theater
I ~ (investigation of child abduction)
periscope (noun)
commitment & determination: number my periscope
perch (verb) from ~ as a state fire marshal, we’re now looking at...
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
perch on the edge
people ~ of an unstable cliff (near Seven Sisters) permeate (verb)
configuration: animal / bird / verb permeates their lives
the sea ~ (Norwegians)
perched
absorption & immersion: air / smell
perched in the rugged hills
their house is ~ perspective (from a perspective)
perched on a rock from the perspective of another culture
the local prison is ~ with fabulous views (Monaco) see Uluru ~ (Australia)

perched on a (Danish) sand dune from the perspective of curators

for 120 years, it was ~ (Rubjerg lighthouse moved) the arrangements were organized ~

configuration: animal / bird from the perspective of lesbians

discussing social events ~ and gay men
perch (knock something off its perch)
from the perspective of students
knock Facebook off its perch but ~ and many staff members, nothing changed
only the government can ~
from the perspective of African people
“knock Glasgow off their perch” history ~ as subjects, not objects...
Edinburgh want to ~ (rugby)
from a black man's perspective
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / bird ~, I expect to be able to... (soccer racism)
percolate (verb) from the customer's perspective
we're trying to look at it ~
percolating
the debate is ~ in various forms (controversy) from the employer's perspective
help them see the barrier ~
percolating (for years) around the blogosphere
the argument has been ~ from the government's perspective
~, he should have been deported years ago
percolated throughout the U.S. Army
the idea of permanent divisions ~ prior to 1917 from the passengers' perspective
~, it was a normal day... (D.C. Metro)
activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water
initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water from a pilot's perspective
performative (speech) a look at the flight data from a ~ (crash of…)
from the victim's perspective
performative murder ~
how to send an anti-racist message without appearing ~
from a native perspective
performative-anger if you look at history ~ (Cherokee)
he is calm in a sea of ~ posers (election candidate)
from a classroom perspective
socially performative it's important to remember ~ that...
the act of cancellation is still mostly conceptual or ~
from a cost or time perspective
permanent and performative when it's infeasible or impractical ~
he said posting on Twitter can feel “~” (can be intimidating)
♦ “But, yeah, the idea of performative activism is a fine line, I mean, you from a law-enforcement perspective
can’t just stay silent. But, it’s kind of unethical to use those platforms, things get a little easier ~
those voices, as a way to kind of put a spotlight on yourself.” (Colin
Meloy, lead singer with the Portland band The Decemberists. From “On from a collecting perspective
His New Song, Colin Meloy Gets Lost In ‘Slint, Spiderland,’” NPR,
Morning Edition with David Greene, Sept. 2, 2020.) ~, there is a huge interest in these dolls

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from a marketing perspective to ~, each... (water scarcity / Middle East)
~, bankers just don't see the possibilities
put the interview in perspective
from the African perspective ~ (jobs)
studying from the ~ (African-American studies)
put it (all) in perspective
from a federal perspective what ~ was a woman who came up and said...
that is possible from a ~ in this matter
put things in (a different) perspective
from their perspective you sure ~ when you tell us about...
~, the future of arctic wildlands... (Greenpeace, etc.)
put things in (their proper) perspective
from your perspective if you ~, it doesn’t really matter...
and so ~, how do you think about that and...
put things in perspective
from an economic perspective when we finish grieving and we can ~
~, the Strait of Malacca is… (importance)
put the whole thing in perspective
from a historical perspective old people can better able ~ (memories)
people teaching ~
kept in perspective
from a psychological perspective the threat needs to be ~ (Al-Shabab in Somalia)
people teaching ~
perception, perspective & point of view: position
from a sociological perspective
people teaching ~
perspective (into perspective)
from a strategic perspective puts everything else into perspective
~, the Strait of Malacca is… (importance) a child's death ~ (on Tour de France)

consider it from a (larger) perspective put it into perspective

~ that includes… (the town, history, etc.) I think you have to ~ (string of skydiving fatalities)

look at history from a native perspective put this into perspective

if you ~ (Cherokee) to ~, this is... (comparison of pay-per-view fights)

look at it from their perspective perception, perspective & point of view: position

made it from the Japanese perspective perspective (other)

he ~ (Clint Eastwood / a film) perspective
see the world from a different perspective your ~ is welcome (a call-in TV show)
people who ~ (autism) perspective that
looked at from a long term perspective the past ~ they were pastoralists has been corrected
however if ~... (exploiting ANWR) perspective of a historian
♦ Heard on NPR: “Carrie, let me get your 3,000-foot perspective on he brought to the subject the shrewd ~
something. Do you think that...” / “Let me ask you to pull back 3,000 feet
and get the larger view here.” / “Let’s back up and just get big picture for perspectives of the Civil War
a second...”
if both black and white ~ are recognized...
♦ “We are looking at it from the 30,000 foot level.” (California Democrat
Congressman Adam Schiff on NPR.) perspective on (AIDS) issues
♦ “[Their goals] are not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level.” articulate the public health ~
(Barak Obama, speaking about two politicians.)
perspective on life
perception, perspective & point of view: position
articulating the Saudi ~, religion and Sept. 11
perspective (in perspective) perspective on how
difference in perspective they don't have enough ~ they're being formed (teens)
the ~ between Western and Arab views of Hezbollah Parent's Perspective
kept things in perspective a ~ (depression in children)
most importantly, they have ~ public health perspective
keep things in perspective articulate the ~ on (AIDS) issues
to ~, these are scary cases but... (stranger abductions) marketing perspective
put the figures in perspective I think in terms of the larger picture, which is a ~

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balanced perspective I'd like to ~ to the discussion
it is important to have a ~ (safety and study abroad)
consider (Native American) perspectives
limited perspective federal officials need to ~ when...
I had a ~ (status of windsurfing of US vs. rest of world)
gained some perspective
Saudi perspective he professed to have ~ in the ruins of his career
articulating the ~ on life, religion and Sept. 11
promote (the proper ethical) perspectives
another perspective commanders ~ (military)
~ came from prostitutes... ("John" School)
supplied perspective
cultural perspective David Morrison of NASA ~ (asteroid danger to earth)
a distinctive ~ that we simply don't have
take a (global or an American) perspective
different perspective should it ~ (black studies)
different groups have ~s
they can't see that their partner simply has a ~
keep some perspective about it
~s can produce different outlooks on the war (pilots) try to ~ (toddlers who throw food)

enough perspective introduce (new) perspectives into curriculums

they don't have ~ on how they're being formed (teens) trying to ~ (schools)

historical perspective agreed with my perspective

Biological warfare: A ~ (JAMA article) not everyone ~

invaluable perspective depends on your perspective

Glen Mills provided him with ~ (a good school) so it probably ~ as to where you are (education reform)

new perspective provided him with (invaluable) perspective

it must revitalize itself with new ideas and ~s (college) Glen Mills ~ (a good school in a bad neighborhood)

3,000-foot perspective gives you (a little) perspective

Carrie, let me get your ~ something, do you think that... it ~ (reading about industry trends)

sense of perspective gives you a perspective

he has a thick skin and a ~ (homicide detective) it ~ that everyone is not the same (International camp)

shortcomings of the perspective gives you perspective

they try to redress the ~ (African-American studies) the institute ~, you see that other people feel…
perception, perspective & point of view: position
objectivity or perspective
~ are not easy to come by in books generated by the war pest (person)
reflection or perspective sex pests
calm ~ are not easy to come by (war books) a division of the Guardian Angels is on the lookout for ~
sympathy and perspective ♦ “A Canadian man nearly blew off his own head while trying to kill a
mouse with a rifle...”
~ are not easy to come by in wartime
♦ “A Japanese man burned his house down while trying to kill a
time, distance, and perspective mosquito.”
I am able to write about it now because of ~ ♦ “Police arrested a man who tried to torch a hornets’ nest, but instead
ended up setting fire to two rented motorbikes.” (Cambodia.)
perspectives differ ♦ “A New York City woman set off 21 bug bombs insider her apartment,
why their ~ (Boomers vs. Gen Xers) causing an explosion that collapsed her five-story building, injuring 14
people.”
my perspective might have been skewed ♦ “A New Jersey man’s over-zealous attempt to eradicate a home
~ (US vs. European attitudes to...) cockroach infestation ended in an explosion.”
♦ “A California man is currently homeless, after attempting to clear spider
perspective lends understanding webs from his backyard using a propane-powered blowtorch.”
~ (history of Dubai)
♦ “A Seattle man used a can of spray paint and a lighter as a makeshift
blowtorch to kill a spider and ended up burning down his house.”
perspective was shared
Cohan's ~ by a number of Asian-Americans ♦ “The world record for the longest chain of mini dominoes was...
thwarted when a fly triggered the dominoes.” (A failed attempt at a
Guinness World Record.)
adds a (fresh) perspective
the parent's view ~ to their fight (intersexed) ♦ “A Texas woman ended up burning down her home in a heated battle
with a snake. When the Texarkana resident spotted the serpent in her
garden, she doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze. The flaming snake
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slithered into a nearby brush pile, igniting it and the house in a power: history
conflagration...”
♦ “The flies plagued Giufa and stung him. He went to the judge and Pharaonic (adjective)
complained about them. The judge laughed at such a simple young man
and said, ‘Whenever you see a fly you can strike it.’ While the judge was Pharaonic
speaking, a fly rested on his face and Giufa dealt it such a blow that he
broke the judge’s nose.”
the scale and ambition of the project are ~ (a book)

affliction: animal / insect / person size: allusion / history

pester (verb) pharmacy (Pharmacy of the World, etc.)

pester you for sex Pharmacy of the World
they constantly ~ (men at a hotel on Cyprus) India, the world’s biggest drug maker, is often called “The
~”
affliction: animal / horse / insect / verb
epithet: health & medicine
pet (vocative) Phoenix (myth)
my pet
Phoenix
don’t worry, ~
we will rise from the ashes like the ~ (town burns)
vocative: animal
scientific Phoenix
pet (pet cause, etc.) he was a ~, rising from the ashes of his mistakes (Pasteur)
♦ In Greek mythology, the Phoenix was a bird that periodically was
pet cause consumed by fire and then regenerated itself from the ashes. In Atlanta,
seeking attention for a ~ Georgia, a bronze monument of the Phoenix rescuing a woman from a
fire commemorates that city’s rise from the ashes of the Civil War.
pet ideas ♦ In his notes to Canto XXIV of The Inferno, John Ciardi describes the
they want their ~ adopted (conservatives) Phoenix thusly: “The fabulous Phoenix of Arabia was the only one of its
kind in the world. Every five hundred years it built a nest of spices and
pet name incense which took fire from the heat of the sun and the beating of the
Phoenix’s wings. The Phoenix was thereupon cremated and was then re-
my girlfriend's ~ for it is… born from its ashes.” This is close to the story the Egyptians told
Herodotus in the 5th century BC.)
pet phrase
"We shall see" is one of his ~s creation & transformation / destruction / origin / survival,
persistence & endurance: allusion / fire
pet project
allusion: destruction / fire
a ~ of Navy Secretary Danzig
earmarks are ~s that lawmakers insert into giant bills photobomb (verb)
pet theories photobomb the images
history can reinforce one’s ~ Ms Steinbach denied she had been asked to ~
teacher's pet ♦ Kelly Steinbeich (AKA Kelleth Cuthbert) became known as the Fiji
Water Girl after she upstaged celebrities on the Golden Globe red carpet
I was the ~ (school) while providing that brand of water to them.
enthusiasm / relationship: animal ♦ “There has been an increase in so-called ‘Zoom-bombing.’”(Video
conferencing during the Coronavirus pandemic.)
petri dish attention, scrutiny & promotion: picture / theater / verb /
petri dishes of cafes and storefronts weapon
a new theatrical culture grew in the ~ (NYC)
pick (pick oneself up)
♦ The petri dish was named after the German bacteriologist Julius
Richard Petri. pick themselves up
growth & development: biology they've got to ~ (a losing team)

phantom resiliency: direction / hand / verb

phantom classes pick apart (analyze)

an academic scandal involving ~ (athletes) picking apart the language
appearance & disappearance / presence & absence: opposition leaders have been ~ (Brexit deal)
creature analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth / verb
pharaoh (power) pick up (verb)
military pharaoh pick up
power has transferred from a ~ to an Islamic one (Egypt)

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 demand will eventually ~ (airline industry) you never see the ~, do you (criticism)
increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle / get big picture
verb let’s back up and just ~ for a second (NPR)
picnic (no picnic) context / perception, perspective & point of view: picture
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
no picnic
Isabelle is ~ herself (needy and insecure) picture (view)
loving him is ~
the shelter is ~, but he’s thankful (disaster relief)
picture of the economy
the conventional ~ is…
getting Lyme disease is ~
no picnic being a kidney patient picture of their kids
confused parents have no clear ~
it’s ~ even in the best conditions (Gaza Strip)
no picnic for lawmakers heart-wrenching picture
the ~ of last week…
the August recess is ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink complicated picture
an investigation presented a ~
picnic (other)
accurate picture
picnic present an ~ of the current boom (economy)
in comparison with Nanda Devi East, Everest is a ~
better picture
difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink we need to get a ~ of what's going on
picnic (church picnic) bigger picture
you never see the ~, do you (criticism)
church picnic
the rally was more ~ than protest (Tea Party) bleak picture
it is an amazingly ~ that you present (jobs / adjuncts)
behavior / conflict: religion
bleaker picture
picture (out of the picture) there are doctors who paint a ~ than necessary
out of the picture clear picture
he is ~ (husband who abandoned family) confused parents have no ~ of their kids
no single agency has a ~ of who is responsible for what
take you out of the picture
a mistake will ~ (competition) complete picture
complaints authorities haven't provided a ~ (epidemic)
wanted him out of the picture
she ~ (murder) conventional picture
involvement / presence & absence: picture the ~ of the economy is…

picture (in the picture) different picture

a ~ emerged of the risks…
put you in the picture
little-picture (m)
this will ~
a ~ trend
involvement: picture
pessimistic picture
picture (in the big picture) they are painting a ~ of her career (an actor)

in the big picture sordid picture

it's not important ~ the allegations painted a ~ (recruiting violations)
♦ If you want to know whether a ship is moving, you don’t look at the true picture
deck, you look over the side... (A quote attributed to the great geologist
John Tuzo Wilson, an important convert to and proponent of the theory disclosure will give a ~ (toxic emissions)
of continental drift and plate tectonics.)
ugly picture
context / perception, perspective & point of view: picture she painted an ~ of him as a drug user (trial)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
whole picture
picture (big picture) you have to look at the ~
you might not be seeing the ~ (health ad)
bigger picture

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quite a (gloomy) picture it took him less than two weeks to ~ (serial rapist)
he presented ~ of the region
piecing together (historic) clues
one-sided picture he began ~
the ~ purveyed by the media
piece together what
favorable picture police are trying to ~ led to the shooting
suspects want to paint the most ~ possible
pieced together where
picture emerged investigators have still not ~ the money came from
a different ~ of the risks…
analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle / verb
as the cases accumulated, a common clinical ~ (epidemic)
pied piper
picture (of what is going on) is getting clearer
more and more the ~ (epidemic) “pied piper of R&B”
described a different picture he adopted the nickname, ~ (R. Kelly)
but he ~… (of a crisis) attraction & repulsion: allusion / epithet / magic
get a better picture epithet: books & reading
we need to ~ of what's going on (diplomacy) piety (noun)
painted an (ugly) picture pieties of the (early) 1990s
she ~ of him as a drug user (trial) liberals have reverted to the ~ (alleged sex harassment)
painted a (damning) picture lazy pieties
the report ~ of a culture of coercion (sports camp) she avoids ~ and reactionary forecasts ( a writer)
paint a (bleaker) picture takes aim at the pieties
there are doctors who ~ than necessary she is a heretic who ~ of diet culture
add nuance to the overall picture idea: religion
future research will no doubt ~ (epidemiology) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture pig (insult)
characterization / evidence: picture
pig
pie (apple pie) he's a ~
apple pie no matter how much lipstick you put on a ~, it's still a pig
nativism is as old as ~ ♦ What do you expect from a pig but a grunt!

identify & nature: food & drink / sign, signal, symbol insult: animal

piece (missing pieces) pile (pile of money, etc.)

missing pieces pile of money
the ~ now are falling into place (police investigation) they hoped to make a ~

analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle amount: pile

piece (pick up the pieces) pile-on (noun)

pick up the pieces pile-on on Bernie Sanders
hopefully, negotiators can ~ and find a way forward there did seem to be a ~ (election debate)

amelioration & renewal: destruction / verb bipartisan pile-on

resiliency: destruction / verb it was a ~ (Boeing congressional hearing)

pieces (go to pieces) callouts, draggings, and pile-ons

some Y.A. books are targeted in intense social-media ~
went to pieces
when he was abandoned by his friends, he ~ (politician) joined the pile-on
he ~, drank more, gave up... soon big-named comedians ~ (Instagram problem)
♦ A person who joins a pile-on is a piler-on. The plural would be pilers-
euphemism: mental health on: “She was one of the early pilers-on and she is begging forgiveness.”

piece together (verb) unanimity & consensus: pile / sports & games
accusation & criticism: pile / sports & games
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pile on (gang up on) Yemen are buying textiles for clothes." ("Balad bustles as pilgrims
trade," by Omaima Al-Fardan and Fatima Sidiya, Arab News, 7 Dec.
2009.)
pile on
some urged Democrats not to ~ (attacks on Joe Biden) enthusiasm: religion
attraction & repulsion: religion / place
piled on
national Democrats ~ (calls for resignation) pill (poison pill)
fans ~ (to criticize Bill Buckner after his 1986 error)
poison pill
the media ~ (criticism of Bill Buckner after 1986 error)
they included a ~ in the spending bill (to kill it)
unanimity & consensus: pile / sports & games / verb
destruction / subterfuge: health & medicine
pile on (increase) pill (bitter pill, etc.)
piling on the pressure
bitter pill
he’s ~ (politics)
the long term solution may be a ~
increase & decrease: pile / verb
bitter pill to swallow
pile up (verb) getting advice can be a ~

pile up hard pill to swallow

disturbing details began to ~ (missing child) it was a ~ having medalled in the past (track loss)

distractions can pile up feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
~ (while driving a car: kids, music, cellphone, etc.) consumption: health & medicine

evidence was piling up pill (miracle pill)

the ~ (investigation of missing woman)
miracle pill
increase & decrease: direction / pile / prep, adv, adj, it is not a ~ (a drug)
particle / verb amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
pilgrimage (trip) pillar (basis)
pilgrimage site pillars of Islam
his restaurant is a ~ for foodies pilgrimage is one of the five ~
annual pilgrimage pillar of the (US) approach
they've made the ~ for 12 years (Daytona 500) another ~ is to minimize civilian casualties
make the pilgrimage pillar of the (Iraq) coalition
Scandinavians ~ here each year (northern Jutland) a ~ has collapsed (Spain)
makes a pilgrimage pillar of the community
nearly every day, somebody ~ here (Lake Lure) the family was a ~
♦ “They say they just want to see the site. I’m just stunned. It takes work he has always been a ~ (slain businessman)
on their part to find out [the locations] where the movie was shot.” (John
Cloud at Lake Lure, North Carolina, on people who come looking for pillars of excellence
where the film Dirty Dancing was filmed. The movie, released in 1987,
starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Dirty Dancing Cove is the black schools that were once ~ fell into decline
popular name for the place where Swayze and Grey practiced lifts in the
water.) pillar of their faith
♦ The "devotional crawl" around Kang Rinpoche (Mount Kailas) in a pilgrimage that is a ~ (Hajj)
western Tibet takes about two weeks. The path starts at an altitude of
15,000 feet, attains an altitude of 18,600 feet at the Drolma La Pass, is pillars of our plan
33 miles long, and crosses streams. Most pilgrims walk or crawl in a here are the four ~ (State of the Union address)
clockwise direction, but the Bonpos go counterclockwise. Pilgrims spend
years and even decades simply getting to the mountain. pillar of (modern) science
♦ "Downtown Jeddah is bustling with the annual post-Haj commercial peer-reviewed journals are a ~
boom caused by the influx of pilgrims. Many pilgrims are on a shopping
spree while others set up stalls to sell items they brought with them to pillars of (Somali) society
help pay for their journey, and even take a little extra cash home with
them… Asian pilgrims can be seen buying Islamic-themed gifts,
clan elders, the traditional ~ (Somaliland)
perfumes, beauty products, henna, and prayer rugs… Tunisians,
Indonesians, Pakistani and Egyptians are buying religious books and EU’s (major policy) “pillars”
rugs. African pilgrims are buying gold, electronics, cosmetics, furniture the ~ include free movement and Schengen open borders
and other products in bulk in order to re-sell these items back home…
The Gold Street at Bab Sharif has temporarily turned into a Little community pillar
Khartoum or Little Nouakchott due to the sheer numbers of Mauritanian
the ~ became an object of loathing (pedophile)
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ideological pillar ♦ In Krakatoa, Simon Winchester reprints a German soldier’s list of
punishments in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in 1676. The soldier
she assaulted the ~s of the system mentions beheadings, six unfortunate men who were broken on the
wheel, a hanging, whippings, burnings (brandings), two soldiers forced to
traditional pillars run the gauntlet, and “A Dutch Schoolmaster’s Wife,” caught cheating on
clan elders, the ~ of Somali society (Somaliland) her husband, who was “put in the Pillory.”

four pillars accusation & criticism: speech / violence / verb

the AAMDC executes the ~ of Missile Defense pilot (verb)
five pillars
pilgrimage is one of the ~ of Islam
piloted the school to (considerable) success
he ~ (a principal)
first pillar directing: boat / verb
the ~ of our framework offers a path to citizenship for...
second pillar
pin (attach)
salah, prayer, is the ~ (of Islam) pinning its hopes on a new strategy
second (Israeli) pillar the company is now ~ (oil leak)
a ~ was the Israeli Air Force (1973 war) pinning their hopes on the new treatment
fourth pillar they are ~ (leukemia)
fasting during Ramadan is the ~ of Islam pinned their hopes on the report
fifth pillar many Democrats ~ as a game changer (politics)
Hajj is the ~ (Islam) attachment: cloth / verb
rested on the (three) pillars pinball (verb)
victory ~ of intelligence, the air force, and tanks
pinballed around the box
bases: infrastructure
Joe Allen’s deflected shot ~ (soccer)
pillar (Pillar Rock, etc.) movement: ball / sports & games / verb
Pillar pinch (pinch of hunger, etc.)
the ~ is a mountain in British Columbia
pinch of hunger
Pillars of Hercules to feel the ~ in April and May (Alaska)
the northern pillar of the ~ is the Rock of Gibraltar
economic pinch
Pillar Point what unites them is the ~ and anger at the president
we walked to ~ (Hong Kong)
feel the pinch
proper name: infrastructure
they don’t ~ yet (subsistence farmers and COVID)
pillar (resemblance) feeling the pinch
pillar of fire the economy is bad, and shopkeepers are ~
a ~ rose from the home (plane crashes into home) ♦ “Scraping along / In a little shack, / With hardly a shirt / To cover his
back, / And a prairie wind / To blow him down, / Or pinching times / If he
pillars of smoke went to town.” (“Nancy Hanks” by Rosemary Benet. The 1933 poem
describes the poverty in which Abraham Lincoln grew up.)
huge ~ rose above buildings (bombardment)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
resemblance: infrastructure
affliction: sensation
pilloried survival, persistence & endurance: sensation

pilloried in the media ping-pong (verb)

he was ~ ping-pongs along
pilloried (by critics) for supporting as the dialogue ~, the audience… (a play)
he is sometimes ~ the revolutions (Arab Spring) ping-pong back and forth
accusation & criticism: speech / violence versions ~ between the House and Senate (spending bill)

pillory (verb) ping-ponged (around) from music to comics

the conversation ~
pilloried the president over (federal) spending
he has ~ (politics) ping-pong between institutions
patients often ~ (nursing homes and hospitals)

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ping-pong between the two (major) parties pinned vertically
voters ~ (Mexico) his boat was ~ (kayaking)
ping-ponged between Los Angeles and New York attachment: cloth
he ~
pinned (pinned down)
ping-ponged (numerous times) between Syria and Iraq
her family ~ pinned down on a roof
the two marines were ~ (Falluja)
ping-pongs between vulnerable and obnoxious
attachment: cloth
she ~ (a child in a film)
movement: ball / direction / sports & games / verb pinpoint (locate)
ping-pong (noun) pinpoint with accuracy
engineers can ~ the areas... (oil)
ping-pong editing
what I call ~ (close-ups toggle between 2 talking people) pinpoint the (relic's) age
but metals experts could not ~ (a watch)
ping-pong exchange
the ~ of offer and counteroffer pinpoint (with accuracy) the areas
engineers can ~... (oil)
ping-pong structure
the book’s ~ makes for a kinetic read pinpoint the location
acoustic sensors can ~ of snipers (combat)
ping-pong with your emotions
this sport plays ~ (Costello & Bunce / boxing) pinpoint locations
G.P.S. can ~
budget ping pong
it’s a game of ~ between the two parties (spending bill) pinpoint the (shooter's) position
police used computer software to ~
game of (legislative) Ping-Pong
it’s a ~ (budget dispute) pinpoint the (tumor's) size and location
a CT scan can ~
movement: ball / direction / sports & games
difficult to pinpoint
pinnacle (achievement) it is ~ a spot in the desert
pinnacle of glory location: map / verb
it was the ~ in a career of already meteoric achievement
pinpoint (accuracy, etc.)
pinnacle of her profession
after reaching the ~ on her shuttle mission… pinpoint accuracy
direct his bombs with nearly ~
pinnacle of (Scottish) wooden shipbuilding
she really was the ~ (the Terra Nova) pinpoint precision
cops can track a person’s whereabouts with ~ (5G)
pinnacle of success
Tyson reached the ~ at the age of just 20 pinpoint timing
surfers must hit a wave with ~
reached a pinnacle
location: map
his popularity ~ when he won the lead in the school play
♦ A pinnacle is a long pointed "cap" on a tower or buttress. They are pioneer (person)
common on gothic cathedrals. The name comes from the Latin for "little
feather." pioneer of their sport
♦ Towers (the Trango Towers); cathedrals (the Baltoro Cathedrals); a fallen ~, Craig Kelly (avalanche / snowboarding)
spires (the Lobsang Spires); spurs (the Abruzzi Spur), peaks (Broad
Peak); horns (the Matterhorn), pyramids (Carstensz Pyramid / Puncak pioneers of (wilderness) therapy
Jaya); pinnacles; pillars; crags; domes (Half Dome); knobs (Huckleberry
Knob); balds (Hooper Bald)… (Climbing.) he is one of the ~

achievement, recognition & praise: height / infrastructure pioneer of tow-in surfing

Laird Hamilton, the ~
pinned
pioneer in his field
pinned in the (submerged) rock jumble he is a ~ (psychology)
I saw his boat, ~ (kayaking)
pioneers in their field
pinned to the ground those who become ~s of endeavor
the squad was engaged by weapons fire and ~

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pioneer species pipe dream
~ like brown sedge colonize disturbed sites
pipe dream
industry pioneer it's not just a ~ anymore
the National Captioning Institute, the ~
remains a pipe dream
big-wave pioneers democracy ~ in places like the Congo and Sudan
~ such as Greg Noll and Jeff Clark (surfing)
dismissed as a pipedream
Internet pioneer restoring function after paralysis can no longer be ~
an ~
fantasy & reality: addiction / mental health
hip-hop pioneers
~ RUN-DMC pipeline (Pipeline, etc.)
skateboarding pioneer Pipeline
Andy Kessler, a ~… (1970s / NYC) ~ is one of the world's most dangerous surf spots
~ has claimed its victims (fatalities)
snowboarding pioneer
Craig Kelly, a ~ who died in an avalanche Pipeline breaks
♦ “The Explorer” (1898) by Rudyard Kipling is a stirring poem about an ~ 30 feet from shore (Hawaii)
explorer and the pioneers who followed in his footsteps.
proper name: infrastructure
♦ “I think pioneers are very important because I think they set the scene,
they show others that they can do it, and they put it on the agenda...and
others can take it up.” (Zerbanoo Gifford speaking about Dadabhai
pipeline (shape)
Naoroji.)
waves, tubes, pipelines and barrels
importance & significance: history / person the ~ of surfing
driving force: journeys & trips / person
shape: infrastructure
person: journeys & trips
pioneering pipeline (other)
pioneering contribution aviation pipeline
their ~s to intelligence testing he was in the ~, he was training in aviation (military)

pioneering (elephant) researcher drug pipeline

a ~ in Nairobi the ~ that runs through the reservation (border)

pioneering study money pipeline

his ~, "Sexual Behavior…" (Alfred C. Kinsey) the US vowed to shut down the ~ that finances terror

pioneering work serves as a pipeline

he has done ~ in this field (neural prosthetics) the boarding school ~ to some of the best universities

importance & significance: history directing / route: infrastructure / water

pipe (sports) piracy (noun)

full pipe Internet music piracy
the park has a ~, bowls, vert ramp and fun box music executives are trying to end ~

halfpipe biopiracy
snowboarders catch big air in the ~ if the tribe does not share in the profits, it's ~ (Brazil)

quarterpipe electronic piracy

the landing area flows to a 27-foot-tall ~ do not participate in or encourage ~ of copyrighted materials

shape: infrastructure taking & removing: crime

pipe (go down the pipes) pirate (person)

went down the pipes pirate server
our relationship ~ French police located and dismantled the ~ (botnet)

failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / verb pirate trade

destruction: infrastructure / verb its perceived benefits have fueled a ~ (tree frog)
music pirate
the industry is pursuing lawsuits against ~s (Internet)

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porch pirates it was a mob scene with ~ (perp walk in cuffs)
they call them ~ (parcel thieves)
sharpened its pitchforks
radio pirate Twitter ~ and came for her (NPR interviews racist)
~s get on the bad side of the FCC ♦ This refers to the irrational oppression of Frankenstein’s monster.

buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates oppression: allusion / creature

they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers)
pitch in (help)
counterfeit, pirate or bootleg (m)
seizures of ~ labels soared (music) pitch in on child’s play
the government needs to ~ (no playgrounds, etc.)
track down the pirates
~ (CDs, computer software, etc. / UAE) help & assistance: throwing, putting & planting / verb
♦ Somali pirates are now capturing ships closer to India than to Africa. pitch-perfect (adjective)
Xarardheere is a notorious pirate town on the Somali coast.
♦ “[A] sudden check came in the form of a piratical incursion. A small pitch-perfect
prau arrived which had been attacked by pirates and had a man his speech was ~ for his audience
wounded. They were said to have five boats, but more were expected to
be behind and the traders were all in consternation, fearing that their flaws & lack of flaws: music / speech
small vessels sent trading to the “blakang tana” would be plundered. The
Aru natives were of course dreadfully alarmed, as these marauders
attack their villages, burn and murder, and carry away women and
pitfall (noun)
children for slaves... (The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.
Chapter 30: The Aru islands & residence in Dobbo.) pitfalls of capital punishment
the case is an illuminating window into the ~
taking & removing: crime / person / sea
person: boat / crime / sea pitfalls of launching adolescents
it’s time to wake up to the ~ into an adult lifestyle (models)
pit (bear pit)
pitfalls in interpretation
bear pit of the House of Commons ~ (seismic data interpretation by geologists)
she stands tall in the ~
scams, schemes, and pitfalls
transformed the ring into a bear pit the shadow world of literary ~
he ~ and bullied his rival (boxing)
pitfalls await
conflict: animal / blood / hole / predation / sports & games many ~ the new House majority (politics)
/ violence
environment: hole avoids the pitfalls
his book ~ that come with its territory (a biography)
pit bull (dog) ♦ “Not far from the rock there is a big pitfall. This is in the form of a stout
fence to keep animals away from their watering-place, built up partly of
pit bull fallen logs and partly of growing trees. Big stakes had been driven in to
she’s a ~, sinks her teeth into a case and doesn’t let go hold it firmly and prevent the animals from trampling it down. In a few
places openings were left with pits dug underneath them, hidden by
pit bull for the president grass and dry twigs spread over the top. When the deer come down to
the water at night, they come up against the fence, and in trying to find a
he has been a ~ (a lawyer) way round, come to the holes and fall into the pits. There are fences like
that stretching over a distance of thirty miles and more, with a couple of
pit-bull lawyers hundred pitfalls. / This pitfall on the Vangou had been abandoned... /
copyright is in the custody of ~ Dersu abused the Chinese terribly for abandoning the pits without filling
them in.” (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
attachment: animal / dog / teeth
coercion & motivation / commitment & determination / danger: hole / hunting / walking, running & jumping
violence: animal / dog pivot (noun)
pitch (promote)
pivot (away) from green energy
pitches the nation's charms Ohio’s ~ (coal)
he ~ (tourism) remarkable pivot
enthusiasm: speech / verb this represents a ~ for the State Department (in Iraq)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: speech / verb ♦ Teen speak: “Obviously now our plans have had to pivot” instead of
“We have had to change our plans.”
pitchfork (oppression)
development / reversal: direction / mechanism
pitchfork-wielding
they are derided as ~ hysterics (sensitivity readers)
pivotal (adjective)
pitchforks and torches pivotal elections

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 these are ~ (Zimbabwe after Mugabe) place (in a place / feelings)
pivotal (naval) battle in a good place
it was a ~ (Battle of Trafalgar)
the last time he saw her she was not ~ (suicide)
pivotal day in a really dark place
Friday marks a ~ in the Senate’s impeachment trial
I was ~, I was 17, it seemed like the end of the world...
pivotal people ♦ “I understood where he was mentally at that point because I’d been
name five ~ in your life there.” (A suicide in prison.)

pivotal (backstage) role feeling, emotion & effect: container / place

he played a ~ in persuading… situation: container / place

development: direction / mechanism place (situation)

importance & significance: mechanism in a (much less privileged) place
place (resting place) other children are ~ than my family (pandemic)

resting place situation: container / place

the sub would never move from its ~ (sunk) plague (verb)
place: burial
plague patients with (long hospital) stays
euphemism: burial / death & life infections ~
place (at a place where, etc.) plagued California for years
at a place where blackouts have ~
we are still ~ black people can’t... plagues Vermont all winter
at a place (right now) where a remedy for the cabin fever that ~
we are ~ our hospitals are overtaxed (pandemic) plagued him for years
♦ “We are at a place right now where our hospitals are overtaxed depression had ~
is equivalent to “We are in a time right now when our hospitals are
overtaxed.” The question for time as a place would be, “Where are we plague Guatemala
right now?” Why has “at a place” replaced “in a time”? Does it have to do
with travel? Virtual travel, on the Internet? police corruption, lawlessness and drug trafficking ~
development: movement / place plagued Russia
past & present / future / time: movement / place illegal logging has long ~ (Siberia)
place (place where) plagues the south
the lawlessness that ~ (Somalia vs. Somaliland)
place where
we need to get back to a ~ individuals... (=time when) plagued him
injuries ~ (an athlete)
development: movement / place
past & present / future / time: movement / place plagued the investigation
place (time) leaks ~ (DC sniper murders)
affliction: health & medicine / verb
dire place
we have come to a ~ when it comes to coronavirus plague (noun)
in a much much better place plague of locusts
we are ~ right now than we were a month ago (COVID) its worst ~ in nearly 30 years (Afghanistan)
got to this place plague of (gold) prospectors
how we ~ is because... (history) the natives faced a ~
development: movement / place plague of (Western) wildfires
past & present / future / time: movement / place the annual ~ (US)
place (area) plague of drugs and prostitution
victim's relatives have worried about the ~
place where
sports are often seen as a ~ all that matters is... crack plague
the ~ of the late 1980's
area: place
cellphone plague

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 the ~ began in the 1990s (a teacher / schools) crash-plagued (m)
the innovative but ~ aircraft
HIV plague
the growing ~ crime-plagued (m)
a ~ neighborhood
NotPetya plague
the servers that played the role of patient zero in the ~ deficit-plagued
the ~ Federal Government
growing (HIV) plague
the ~ injury-plagued
after an ~ season in Europe (sports)
annual plague
the ~ of Western wildfires (US) insurgent-plagued
Haditha, a lawless, ~ city in Anbar Province
plague began
the cellphone ~ in the 1990s (a teacher / schools) mine-plagued (m)
African children live on the most ~ continent
faced a plague
the natives ~ of gold prospectors mosquito-plagued (m)
Siberia's ~ expanse
consider motoboys a plague
ordinary motorists ~ (Sao Paulo) scandal-plagued (m)
♦ The great traveler Ibn Battuta recorded that during the Plaque of 1348 a ~ program (Alabama football)
in Damascus, representatives and members of the three major the ~ former prime minister
religions—Muslims, Jews, and Christians—all made their way to the
Mosque of the Footprints with their holy books to pray for the end of the violence-plagued (m)
sickness. Ibn Battuta recorded that in Damascus deaths reached under
2,000 people a day, while in Old Cairo they reached 24,000 a day. in ~ Iraq
♦ China has been periodically ravaged by plague, including 1911 and affliction: health & medicine
1917. A. J. Cronin writes about plague during that period in his novel,
"The Keys of the Kingdom," and so does Mary Ninde Gamewell in "New planet (noun)
Life Currents."
♦ “Plagues always bring moral judgments with them.” planet in the Arab world
affliction / amount & effect: health & medicine Egypt is a ~
importance & significance: astronomy
plagued
plank (noun)
plagued with violence
Southern Thailand has been ~ for years plank of the investigation
the obstruction charge was a secondary ~
plagued with cracks
the monument is ~, leaks and corroding surfaces bases: infrastructure
plagued by drugs plant (put)
her life has been ~ and other personal demons
planted a bomb
plagued by (sectarian) violence he ~ along the route (terrorist)
Karachi has been ~ (Shiites / Sunnis)
planted the explosives
plagued by homesickness he would not speculate about who might have ~
he was ~ (student)
planted a (political) minefield
plagued by (cost) overruns the British colonizers ~ in the 1920s (Sudan)
the project has been ~ (Big Dig / Boston)
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant /
plagued by coups and dictators verb
Mauritania has been ~ since independence
plant (create)
plagued by faulty elevators, mold, and leaky roofs
the 33-story building is ~ plant the seeds
the British helped to ~ of discord in Afghanistan
plagued by scandals and intrigue Nasser wanted to ~ of revolution on the Arabian Peninsula
the Vatican is still ~ (finances)
planted the seeds
accident-plagued (m) he ~ that gave principals more autonomy (education)
accident-plagued I95
planted and tended
corruption-plagued as field director, she has ~ chapters across the country
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creation & transformation / growth & development / play (verb)
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant /
verb play to their base
he expects Republicans to ~ for a time
plastered (impression)
performance: theater / verb
plastered across magazine covers
her face was ~ play down (verb)
played down concerns
impression: materials & substances
the Pentagon has ~ over the Chinese fighter (plane)
plate (step up to the plate) played down the importance
step up to the plate Democrats ~ of the findings (politics)
it's time to ~ and take responsibility played down the incident
we need to ~ and take this issue seriously (climate change) he ~
stepped up to the plate attention, scrutiny & promotion: prep, adv, adj, particle /
he could have ducked it but he didn’t, he ~ (honesty) theater / verb
she ~ and advocated for her community (Stella Bowles) attenuation: theater / verb
responsibility: baseball / sports & games / verb play (play out)
commitment & determination: baseball / sports & games /
play out
verb
how do you think this will ~ (a sports scandal)
plate (on one's plate)
playing out
on your plate all this was ~ in Washington (controversy)
I know that you have an incredible amount of work ~
play out along the border
a lot on his plate anger and confusion continues to ~
he has ~ and wants to get back to work (Obama)
development: rope / verb
have a lot on your plate starting, going, continuing & ending: rope / verb
I know you ~ (busy)
playbook
work & duty: food & drink
playbook
plateau (noun) others are taking a page out of that ~
hit a plateau follow the (administration’s) playbook
if you slip up or ~, don't beat yourself up (weight loss) nominees closely ~
progress & lack of progress / shape: mountains & hills script: books & reading / sports & games
increase & decrease: mountains & hills / shape
playground
plateau (verb)
playground for Westerners
plateaued Nairobi, once a favorite ~ in Africa…
there was an initial upswing, but it has ~ since (soccer)
summer playground
slightly plateaued Lebanon's resorts were the ~s of wealthy Arabs
she has ~ (decreased need for sex)
whitewater playgrounds
increase & decrease: mountains & hills / shape / verb the ~ do not freeze in winter (city of Vancouver)
platform (noun) rapids-filled playground
the river is a ~ (paddle sports / the Gauley)
platforms to bloggers
his show gave ~ like… environment: school & education
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater playing field (uneven playing field, etc.)
plain (plain people, etc.) uneven playing field
corruption and greed have created an ~ (college admissions)
plain people
we’re ~, just country people playing field has been tilted
they claim the ~ has been tilted in China’s favor
character & personality: people
flaws & lack of flaws: sports & games

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sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sports & games pull the plug on its fall sports season
competition: sports & games Big Ten presidents are ready to ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
playing field (level the playing field) pulled the plug on the show
CBS ~
level the playing field
the changes will ~ (sex cases on campus) pulling the plug on its mascot
amelioration & renewal / competition / sanctioning, the university is ~ (getting rid of it)
authority & non-conformity: sports & games / verb pull the plug on the (global) talks
plod (verb) no one is quite ready to ~ (climate)
pull the plug on hate radio
plod along we need to ~
he expects Republicans to ~ for a time
time to pull the plug
progress & lack of progress / speed: journeys & trips /
it's ~ on the project
movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
movement: journeys & trips / speed / verb / walking, decided to pull the plug
running & jumping they ~ on their marriage
plot (verb) threatening to pull the plug
investors are ~
plot new lives
freed miners in Chile ~ curtailment: infrastructure / verb / water
dismissal, removal & resignation: infrastructure / verb /
direction: journeys & trips / map / verb water
plot line (development) plugged (fixed)
torn up the (division’s proposed) plot lines holes have been plugged
Andy Ruiz Jr has ~ the security ~ (computers)
development: theater amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / water
plow (plow on, through, etc.) plugged in / into
plowing ahead plugged in
we are ~ (difficult medical research) he likes to convey the impression he’s ~ (radio host)
plow on plugged into politics
he remains determined to ~ (Elon Musk after a failure) people who are very ~
plowed through the (review) books division & connection: electricity
I ~ (studying for test)
plum (desirable)
work & duty: farming & agriculture / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: farming & agriculture / verb plum assignment
starting, going, continuing & ending: farming & agriculture / the final ~ at the end of a distinguished career
verb it was a ~ for a young detective
plow (put) plum commission
won the ~ for the library (architecture)
plowed their money into gun smuggling
they have ~ (ex-pirates) plum (committee) seats
promises of ~ (politics)
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / verb
directing: farming & agriculture / verb flaws & lack of flaws / superlative / worth & lack of worth:
fruits & vegetables
plug (verb)
plumbing (noun)
plug the hole
the Ministry must find savings to ~ in their budget plumbing of the Internet
the copyright legislation messes with the secure ~
amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / verb / water
plug (pull the plug) plumbing components
the essential ~ are the routers (Internet)
pulled the plug on the project economy's plumbing
homeland security ~ (border towers)

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 financial data centers put much of the ~ in one place shape: animal / bird
Internet's plumbing plummet (decline / decrease)
we're now seeing attacks on the ~
he wants to create standards to secure the ~ plummeted from $5.9 to $3.3 billion
spending at the agency ~
bases: infrastructure
plummeted out of contention
plume (shape) the team ~ (sports)
plume business has plummeted
~s started blowing off the summit (Everest) its advertising ~
plumes of ash levels can plummet
sending out ~ and three rivers of lava (volcano) women's testosterone ~ as they age
plume of cyanide morale had plummeted
a ~ reached to the Black Sea (spill into Danube) ~ (US soldiers / Vietnam War)
plume of dust price (of gold) has plummeted
a rockslide sent up a ~ the ~
plume of (sarin) gas rates have plummeted
blowing up the Khamisiyah dump released a ~ (Iraq) crime ~ over the last decade
plume of smoke production plummeted
the ~ from a rocket-propelled grenade agricultural ~, leading to growing unemployment
plumes of smoke temperature can plummet
sent up huge ~ (military air strikes) the ~
plume of water wages plummeted
on the left is a huge ~ called "The Thing" (kayaking) ~, and the black market flourished
plume altitude blood pressure plummeted
information about ~ (volcanic eruption) his ~
plume bifurcation output plummeted
~ was visible (volcanic eruption) economic ~ and unemployment rose
♦ “Now, I want to talk to you about, well, this is your phrase, the year you
ash plume plummeted to stardom. That’s a great phrase. You made The Graduate
~s from the two volcanoes in 1967...” (Another brilliant Kirsty Young BBC Desert Island Discs
interview, this time with Dustin Hoffman.)
sarin plume
US troops in the path of a huge ~ (Gulf War) decline / increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling /
verb
smoke plume
~s streaking diagonally through the sky (shuttle disaster) plunder (verb)
vapor plume plundered intellectual property and trade secrets
traces of water in a ~ it has ~ (a certain country and its economic espionage)
classic plume taking & removing: crime / verb
you can see the ~ blowing off the top right now (Everest)
plundered
huge plume
sending a ~ of smoke into a cloudless sky (air strike) plundered
had he tapped on the link, the phone would have been ~
toxic plume
bombing chemical sites could send up ~s taking & removing: crime

radiological or biochemical plume plunge (noun / decline)

evacuation in the event of a ~ plunge in the stock price
path of a (huge sarin) plume the ~ was based on reaction to an article...
US troops in the ~ (Gulf War) harrowing plunge
♦ Many species of birds were nearly driven to extinction by plume a day after a ~ in the stock market
hunters eager to make money from adorning women's hats. At one time,
cormorants and egrets were mercilessly hunted for their feathers. primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction

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increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling pursuit, capture & escape: animal / crime / verb
plunge (decline / decrease) poached
plunged to 38 years poached by (software giant) Oracle
in Zambia, life expectancy has ~ (AIDS, drought, etc.) she was ~ (prodigy)
plunged by two-thirds taking & removing: animal / crime
the number of Shinto weddings has ~ (Japan) pursuit, capture & escape: animal / crime
plunged 33 percent pocket (deep pockets)
new-home sales ~
deep pockets
grades plunged the Gulf's ~ beckon (arms sales)
his ~ (school)
with deep pockets
markets plunged even hedge funds ~ can borrow money (FED)
but the ~ (bankruptcy)
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
sales plunged
but then ~ (the auto industry)
pocket (in the pocket)
life expectancy has plunged in the pocket of Donald Trump
in Zambia, ~ to 38 years (AIDS, drought, etc.) the Republican Senate is completely ~

increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / verb control & lack of control: purses & wallets
decline: direction / flying & falling / verb pocketbook (money)
plunge (plunge into something) good for the pocketbook
plunge into (dangerous sexual) behavior it's ~, too (energy conservation)
newly released prisoners often ~ (H.I.V.) hit (more and more) pocketbooks
plunge into the ocean the strike will ~ the longer it goes on
~ of pleasure (ad for porn Web site) money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
plunge into my subject point (sticking / friction point)
before I ~… (lecture)
sticking points
plunging into the unknown so what are the ~ in these talks (tariff negotiations)
we are ~ (new technology)
flaws & lack of flaws: mechanism
involvement: flying & falling / water / verb
point (tipping point)
plunge (involvement)
tipping point
take the plunge we're at that ~ (demand for antibiotic-free meat)
it was time to ~ (begin dangerous trek) what was the ~ that made the company say, “Enough”
involvement: flying & falling / water
Syria's tipping point
plus (benefit) this could be ~ (pro-democracy protests)

plus to us social tipping point

he has been a ~ (versus a detriment) we have passed a ~, we can no longer look away (justice)

negative or a slight plus passed a tipping point

tariffs might be a ~ we have ~, a point of no return (Greta Thunberg)

cost & benefit: letters & characters reached a tipping point

poach (verb)
poached rival quarterbacks
he ruthlessly ~ (leader of a league)
poached several employees from Apple
the company ~
taking & removing: animal / crime / verb
he thinks 3D has reached a ~ (new normal for films)
development: direction / mechanism
importance & significance: mechanism
point (point where)
in a point where
I was ~ I was ready to be done with it (drugs)
development: place

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point (at a point / development) ~, the most interesting match was…

at a point from our point of view

characteristics which are catastrophic ~ (a terrorist)
I don’t think I was ~ to be ready then (to give up drugs)
in a point from your point of view
which country is most promising ~ (Central Asia)
I was ~ where I was ready to be done with it (drugs)
♦ “At a point” in one sentence and “in a point” in the next sentence might from an Indian point of view
be psychological blending (confusion) of development and situation. museum exhibitions ~ (Native Americans)
development: place from the Japanese point of view
point (at a low point / progress) the film is told ~ ("Letters from Iwo Jima")
he tells the story of Iwo Jima ~ (Clint Eastwood film)
at a low point
the investigation was ~ (of a serial killer) from an intelligence point of view
~, this is a problem
progress & lack of progress: height
from the policy point of view
point (low point / emotion) another aspect, again ~ (educational establishment)

hit some (real) low points from a safety point of view

I’ve ~ in my life improve things ~ (motor racing)
feeling, emotion & effect: height from a driving point of view
~ you know what's happening (racing)
point man (and point person)
from a human point of view
point man its scope and setting is horrible ~ (terror)
he is the ~ for the administration's efforts to… (politician)
from a military point of view
point person for the Obama administration ~, we don't face any threats (Uzbekistan)
Biden was ~ on Ukraine (politics)
from a pragmatic point of view
State Department’s point person ~, don't… (monitoring employees)
the ~ on Iran...
♦ The point man is the lead man in a column of soldiers. He goes a bit from a scientific point of view
ahead of the group and must look for snipers, mines, and booby traps. ~, geothermal power is touted as "clean"
The enemy may shoot him dead. Or, the enemy may shoot to wound him
and then pick off anyone trying to come to his aid. Or, the enemy may let catastrophic from our point of view
him pass and shoot at the main body of men, leaving him cut off without he has 3 characteristics which are ~ (a terrorist)
support. Walking point is nerve-racking and dangerous and can literally
drive a soldier crazy.
consider (the traps) from the enemy's point of view
driving force: military / person ~ (military)
person: military
describes an event from two (different) points of view
point of view (from somebody's point of the book ~
view) imagine it from their point of view
~ (toilet training for toddlers)
from the point of view of concealment
select supply positions ~ told from his point of view
the story is ~
from the point of view inside his (climbing) boots
it was written ~ (Boukreev's "The Climb") told from the Japanese point of view
the film is ~ (Letters from Iwo Jima)
from Abdul Tawab's point of view
~, the marriage helped his position perception, perspective & point of view: position

from the animals' point of view point of view (other)

~ (animal rights, cruelty, eating meat, etc.)
point of view
from the destroyers' point of view depending on your ~
Native Americans ~ their parents denied or ignored their ~ (suicidal kids)
from the enemy's point of view point of view of concealment
consider the traps ~ (military) select supply positions from the ~
from a spectator's point of view point of view on tourism

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 a Hawaiian ~
employer's point of view
an ~ (on hiring) (job searching)
people's points of view
~ are influenced by their language and culture
each other's point of view
it is important to try to understand ~
another person's point of view
it is important to understand ~
public health point of view
he patiently explained the ~ (an epidemic)
Hawaiian point of view
a ~ on tourism
Nez Perce point of view
increased emphasis to the ~ (park sites)
minority point of view
the ~
outlaw point of view
his affinity for the ~ (teacher in jail)
conflicting points of view
good articles tend to be built on ~ (journalism)
differing points of view
these ~ (in the "education" community)
opposing points of view
the two songs show ~ of the same situation...
clear point of view
she has a very ~
different point of view
in order to understand a ~
different points of view
we seek out sources with ~ (free press)
people have ~ (culture, circumstances, etc.)
strong point of view
reluctance to offer a ~ on civics (education)
excellence often involves taking a ~
a ~ can even work against you
two (different) points of view
describe the same event from ~
differences in point of view
those ~ fueled the debate (Confederate flag)
affinity for the (outlaw) point of view
his unconcealed ~ (teacher in jail)
denied or ignored their point of view
their mother and father ~ (suicidal kids)
explained the (public health) point of view
he patiently explained the ~ (an epidemic)
understand each other's point of view
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it is important to try to ~
♦ Nasreddin was lying on the bank of a river, relaxing. Across the water,
he saw a man. The man shouted, "Hey, how to I get to the other side of
the river?" Nasreddin shouted back to him, "You are on the other side of
the river!"
♦ A FUNNY STORY. A city man decided to visit his relative in the
countryside. He made a sign that said, "Gone to the countryside," posted
it to his door, and set off. He drove through the desert. Then he drove off
road, following tracks in the sands. At a certain point he could drive no
more, so he got out and walked the flat barren empty gravel desert.
Finally, he reached his relative's house. On the door, he saw a sign:
"Gone to the countryside."
♦ “Where you stand (on an issue) is determined by where you sit.”
perception, perspective & point of view: position
point out (verb)
point out that
let me ~ I wasn't...
pointed out that
he ~ murder is illegal in all societies
pointed out
Chevron Texaco ~ it was already doing a lot... (Nigeria)
another cause of concern, he ~, are the lack of road signs...
pointed out in the NYT magazine
as she ~...
pointed out the blunder
only when he ~ did Hutchison... (Everest)
pointed out the inconsistencies
liberals have long ~ of conservative support for…
pointed out problems
media stories have ~ in assisted living...
neglects to point out
what he ~, though, is that...
attention, scrutiny & promotion: finger / verb
poised (adjective)
poised on Baghdad's doorstep
coalition forces are ~
poised to lose
the party is ~ the elections
poised to write
he is ~ a triumphant new chapter (Obama)
readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability
poison (noun)
political poison
advocating gun control has been ~
talk of confiscating guns can be ~ with certain voters
destruction: materials & substances
poison (verb)
poison the atmosphere
fear and distrust can quickly ~ (epidemic)
poison (everyday) life his critics say he is a ~ who exploits divisions (politics)
trivialities ~
intensely polarizing
poison the project among intellectuals, he is ~
this academic feud began to ~ (undersea mapping)
division & connection: direction
poison the well police (thought police, etc.)
establish a false persona, then ~ of information (Facebook)
♦ Perhaps the worst mass poisoning of a population in history has taken behavior police
place in Bangladesh. Around 25 million people have been exposed to the ~ don’t just stick to soccer (women in sports)
arsenic through runoff from agriculture and industry into man-made
ponds and the water table. Ironically, many of the contaminated ponds
and boreholes were dug with the help of international relief organizations
cultural police
to protect villagers from unclean water. ~ punish writers for using their imagination (sensitivity)
corruption / destruction: materials & substances / verb fun police
we sound like the ~, but... (Gay Pride festival litters beach)
poisonous (adjective)
notability cop
poisonous some ~ cruised past my bio and pulled me over (Wikipedia)
the taint of a bankruptcy can be ~
the rot in Pakistani society is more ~ than anyone thought outrage police
the ~ are calling for him to be fired (TV news culture wars)
poisonous atmosphere
a "~" has descended on the Times (firings) speech police
given tech companies discomfort in the role of ~...
poisonous (political and rhetorical) climate
politics suffers from a ~ thought police
he called Facebook “~” (for removing his posts)
poisonous doctrine
he was an antidote to the ~ of extremism parenting police
she has run afoul of the ~ (the marvelous singer Pink)
poisonous mix
he despises the ~ of religion and politics (an Iraqi) spelling police
Oh, look... the spelling police are here (a BBC HYS sports)
poisonous situation
it was a ~ (politics and war) comment section police
you don’t need to be the ~ (internet bulletin board)
feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
destruction: materials & substances ‘leftist’ language police
Chapo Trap House offends the sensibilities of ~
poker (game) ♦ “I feel like the mask police, and that’s not what I signed up for.” (An
unhappy Iowa State University RA (resident assistant) during the 2020
high-stakes poker coronavirus pandemic. RAs at universities have quit or gone on strike for
this is ~ (a business decision) “danger pay.”)
♦ “[The Olympics] need us more than we need them. See how they
strategy: cards / gambling poison sports. They’re like the secret police or worse, like your parents.”
poker-faced (adjective) (The great snowboarder Terje Haakonsen.)
♦ “What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging
traffic?” (An unhappy Captain Jerry Miner, with the Indiana University
poker-faced police, after IU’s daily paper ran a photo of a traceur standing on top of a
they were ~ school arch.)

poker-faced chairman oppression: justice / person

the ~ control & lack of control: person
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person
appearance / concealment & lack of concealment / feeling,
person: crime
emotion & effect: cards / face / gambling
police (verb)
polar (polar opposite, etc.)
polices (his kid's gaming) habits
polar opposite he ~ carefully
he is the ~ of the coach he replaces (soccer)
police my identity
extent & scope: earth & world attacks by people trying to ~ (cultural appropriation)
polarizing (adjective) police his mind
he is now aware of how to ~ (a troubled boxer)
polarizing figure
he is a ~ (a football coach) police students’ speech

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 universities should not ~ so carefully
control & lack of control: justice / verb
polish (verb)
polished the image
the Klitschko brothers have ~ of the sport (boxing)
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances / verb
amelioration & renewal: light & dark / verb
polished (adjective)
polished professional
there is a vulnerable woman beneath the ~
polished speaker
he is a ~ who hits just the right tone (Beto O’Rourke)
flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark / materials & substances
accused of being a Pollyanna
he isn't usually ~ (a financier, stock-market guru)
♦ Pollyanna was a character from the 1913 children's-literature novel by
Eleanor H. Porter. A Pollyanna is a person who is incredibly optimistic
even in the most dire circumstances, and the word is often used in the
pejorative sense.
character & personality: allusion
allusion: books & reading
Pollyannaish (adjective)
Pollyanna-ish (and calming) assumption
it was the ~ of some analysts that while…
Pollyanna-ish notion
he mocks the ~ that nations hate war
seems (oddly) Pollyanna-ish
at times, he ~ about his future

pollute (verb) sounding Pollyanna-ish

I know I'm ~, but…
polluted airwaves character & personality: allusion
rudeness has ~
allusion: books & reading
corruption: water / verb
Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
polluted
“Pompeii of the East”
polluted with incivility the site is known as the ~ (1815 eruption of Mount
the airwaves are ~ Tambora)

polluted with sex Pompeii of the New World

our children's minds are being ~ Cerén is sometimes called the ~ (El Salvador)
♦ Pompeii and the nearby town of Herculaneum were buried by the
polluted with spam eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The excavated Pompeii is today a
Web searches on health are ~ Unesco World Heritage Site and a time capsule for life in the Roman era.

polluted (political) rhetoric epithet: ruins / volcano

we must clean up our ~ destruction: epithet / explosion / mountains & hills /
volcano
polluted sea
pop music has become a ~ pontificate (verb)
corruption: water pontificate on any subject
he was ever ready to ~ (Thomas Edison)
Pollyanna
speech: religion / verb
Pollyanna
not everything goes smoothly, and she is not a ~ poodle (noun)
I don't want to be a ~, but tomorrow is another day
UK poodle
I am no ~
the US government and its ~
Pollyanna appeal dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
the film has a ~
animal / dog
Pollyanna territory
she explores optimism without tipping into ~
pool (verb)
feel like (such) a Pollyanna pool and share
I ~ here… enhance the ability of the FBI and CIA to ~ information
group, set & collection: water / verb
sound (too) Pollyanna
do I ~ pool (people)
turned me into a Pollyanna pool of (available) brides
the awards show has ~ the ~ is scarce... (rural China / Loess Plateau)

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pool of candidates pop up (verb)
he'd looked at the entire ~ (government)
popping up in (third-tier) cities
pool of (prison-educated) college graduates writers are ~ (China)
the ~
popping up (all) over the country
pool of test takers coronavirus clusters are ~ (US)
the ~ has grown larger
appearance & disappearance: direction / plant / prep, adv,
adjunct pool adj, particle / verb
spent 7 years in the ~ in Atlanta (Ph.D.)
portal (entrance)
applicant pool
the ~ has doubled (entry to a Jesuit boys' high school) portals to the underworld
Maya culture long considered cenotes to be ~
employment pool
Seattle offered an ideal ~ portals for discovery
mistakes are the ~
jury pool
strike eccentric citizens from ~s portal back to the 1960s
~s are disproportionately female the book offers a vivid ~
most of the ~ was white
portal: doors & thresholds / gate
labor pool
the shrinking ~ will slow growth portrait (view)
media-pool (m) portrait of life
a ~ representative in the execution witness room he painted a grim ~ in North Korea

office pool grim portrait

~s for money are generally illegal (sports) he painted a ~ of life in North Korea

press pool portrait emerges

and as the ~ left the room a Jekyll and Hyde ~ of SEAL accused of murder

talent pool painted a (grim) portrait

the company's ~ is remarkable he ~ of life in North Korea

shrinking (labor) pool analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture

the ~ will slow growth characterization / evidence: picture

ideal (employment) pool position (noun)

Seattle offered an ~
staking out their positions
group, set & collection: water the two sides are ~ on the issue (politics)
pool (things) position, policy & negotiation: line / position

pools of information possessed

databases are vast ~
possessed by rage
pool of (two- and three-year-old) used cars he was ~
the ~ feeling, emotion & effect: hand / mental health / religion
car-pool (m) fictive possession: hand
~ lanes possession: hand

envy pool post (abandon one’s post)

women are little ~s with one another
abandon his post
group, set & collection: water he will not ~ to run for governor
Pope (Pope of Beaujolais, etc.) allegiance, support & betrayal: military / verb

‘Pope of Beaujolais’ poster (poster child, etc.)

the ~ dies aged 86 (Georges Duboeuf)
poster boy for everything
epithet / representation: religion he became a ~ that was wrong with boxing
poster boy for how

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 he is a ~ to do it well (a fund-raiser) the classified ~ review (US government)
poster boy for the sport protective posture
he was considered the ~ (Ray Mancini / boxing) it causes us to maintain ~s but doesn't stop us (BW)
poster child for the spoiled athlete position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying
he's a ~
posture (performance)
poster child for ignorance
he has become a ~ (racist) defiant posture
Iraqi officials struck a ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
representation: picture / sign, signal, symbol
sign, signal, symbol: picture tough-guy posture
he hides behind a ~
post-mortem (analysis) ♦ George Stephanopoulos: “How much of this is real, and how much of
this is posturing?” / Dan Abrams, ABC News Chief Legal Analyst: “”I
post mortem think this is real posturing.”
I’m sure after the ~ people will analyse and... (sports)
performance: standing, sitting & lying
post mortems on her campaign
now she has dropped out, ~ have begun (election)
posturing
campaign post-mortem partisan posturing
her book is a ~ after days of ~ by senators, she was confirmed (judge)

election post mortem political posturing

Republican governors perform ~ a lot of the rhetoric is just ~ (politics)

focus of post-mortems finger-pointing and (political) posturing

the bridge’s design will be a ~ (collapsed) we must put behind us ~ and solve this problem

analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying
& medicine performance: standing, sitting & lying

posture (position) potato (small potatoes)

posture of (ADA) units small potatoes
the readiness ~ (military) I think it’s ~ compared to... (politics)
importance & significance: potato / size
posture on the border
the force has increased its security ~ potency (strength)
posture as tough on terrorism potency of this
he seeks to exploit his ~ the ~ is beyond the individual services (aircraft carrier)
posture, stance, attitude functioning / strength & weakness: health & medicine
what surprised you most about China's ~ (diplomacy) attenuation / force / power: health & medicine
assault posture potent (adjective)
the Iraqis were in a classic air-land ~
potent
security posture the ideology is very ~ (Isis)
the force has increased its ~ on the border
potent weapon
readiness posture the method of non-violent resistance is the most ~
the ~ of ADA units (military)
politically potent
systems posture the Arab community is not as ~
we will review our ~ based on events (White House)
functioning / strength & weakness: health & medicine
aggressive posture attenuation / force / power: health & medicine
put his troops in a more ~
the guard prides itself on its ~ (Iran) pothole (noun)
defensive posture public relations potholes
destroyed 10 Iraqi T-55 tanks dug in a ~ the film would soon run into a number of ~
the Israeli counterattack has all of Lebanon in a ~
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure / journeys & trips
nuclear posture (m)

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failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / journeys & Hurricane Dorian continues to ~ as a Category 4 storm
trips
force: fist / hammer / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm /
potshot (noun) verb / violence
potshot pound (pound targets, etc.)
a few ~s have been aimed at him (criticism of artist)
pounded targets
potshot approach US aircraft ~ in Libya
I don’t like that kind of a ~ (politics and criticism)
destruction: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / verb /
gleeful potshots violence
Republicans are taking ~ at Democratic opponents
pour (in, into, out, etc.)
two potshots
they loved her ~ at the state’s Republican governor poured in
complaints ~
take potshots at Harvard
people like to ~ (elitist, rich, politically correct, etc.) pouring in
casualties from the attack started ~ (to a hospital)
taken (more than a few) potshots at his home state
he has ~ over the years poured out
thousands of protestors ~ of the mosque
takes potshot at whatever is bothering him
he takes ~ (comedian) poured into (neighboring) Turkey
thousands of Syrians ~
accusation & criticism: speech / weapon
pouring into Iraq
pounce (verb) terrorists from every group are ~
pounce pouring into Kabul
Schmeichel held on to the ball as Aguero waited to ~ with rural migrants and refugees ~
pouncing pour into the city
his opponents are ~ (politics) thousands of delegates began to ~ for the… (UN)
pounced poured into hospitals
prosecutors, then, ~ (on defendant’s testimony) scenes of anguish as civilian casualties ~
pounced on the story pour into his office
British tabloids ~ messages ~ from disaffected Saudis (dissident)
quick to pounce poured into the slum
the Obama campaign was ~ (on opponent's gaffe) police ~ in armored cars (Paraisopolis / São Paulo)
♦ An article about tigers at the BBC states that a tiger can leap forward
33 feet from a sitting position! pouring into streets
Jewish worshippers ~ following sundown prayers
eagerness & reluctance / predation: animal / hunting /
movement / verb / walking, running & jumping aid poured in
movement: animal / hunting / predation / verb / walking, international ~ and disaster was averted…
running & jumping
leads poured in
pound (amount) the ~ (70,000 / child abduction)
pound of cure invitations have been pouring in
an ounce of prevention is worth a ~ (proverb) ~ (to speak at colleges / author)
amount: weight praise poured in
~ for Carter (Oslo agreement)
pound (snowfalls pounded the
amount & effect: verb / water
Northeast, etc.)
movement: verb / water
pounded the Northeast pour (put)
record snowfalls have ~
pour fuel on the fire
pounding the Northeast
this will ~ of toxic political warfare
the hurricane is ~
pour fuel on the flames
pound the region

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 the documents are likely to ~ of a strained relationship the ~ Goldman Sachs
pour gases into the air powerhouse (legal) team
factories ~ he was represented by a ~ (rich pedophile)
poured his heart and soul into the game powerhouse teams
he ~ (Reggie Miller speaking of Larry Bird) scouts from ~ like the Florida Gators... (sports)
poured our hearts into the movement global powerhouse
we really ~ (social justice) US whalers were a ~ (in the past)
poured money into improvements ratings and merchandizing powerhouse
King Fahd ~ (Hajj) it is a ~ (Sponge Bob cartoon show)
poured money into its Web site driving force / power / strength & weakness: dam /
the company phased out its catalogue and ~ electricity / river
poured my soul into it praise (sing someone’s praises)
I ~ (singing performance)
singing his praises
pour its resources into transit I have been ~ ever since he joined Liverpool (sports)
some question whether the region should ~
sang the praises of the contract
poured effort and money into developing the mayor ~ (Chicago teachers’ strike ends)
different companies have ~ jets
achievement, recognition & praise: music / verb
poured (intense) fire into the position
he ~, killing three enemy as… pray (verb)
pour (deadly) fire upon the enemy praying that
Pfc. Lozada continued to ~ (combat) Democrats are ~ the case will disappear

poured a stream of fire at the enemy wants, needs, hopes & goals: religion / verb
undaunted, he ~ (combat)
preach (verb)
pouring on the pressure
he is ~ (a boxing match) preach about what
my father would ~ we could do and couldn't do
throwing, putting & planting: verb / water
directing: verb / water preaches against the evils
Sports Illustrated periodically ~ of steroid use
pour (resemblance)
preaching to the choir
pouring over the mountains we are ~ (a drug program / parents)
dark storm clouds were ~
preaching a gospel (of rebirth) to everyone
pour downhill he is ~ (Detroit mayor)
boulders ~ in debris flows
preaching a gospel
resemblance: verb / water he is ~ of rebirth (Detroit mayor)
powder keg preach hate
school textbooks ~
powder keg
Northern Nigeria is a ~ (sectarian divisions) preach the virtues
the region is a ~, and things could get out of hand many ~ of diversity and tolerance, yet…
human powder keg practices what he preaches
plantation owners knew they were sitting on a ~ (race) he ~ by hiking regularly (fitness)
handle (political) powder kegs message: religion / speech / verb
he knows how to ~ (president) speech: religion / verb
♦ “Far from bringing peace, De Gaul’s visit put a spark in the powder
barrel.” (His visit was to Algeria in the 1950s.)
precede (at an earlier time)
danger / initiation: explosion / military / weapon preceded the car
the horse ~
powerhouse (noun)
preceded the (boxing) match
powerhouse (investment) bank months of trash talking and hype ~

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time: direction / movement / position / verb predator (people)
sequence: direction / movement / position / verb
preceding (at an earlier time) predators on the Internet
the problem of sexual ~
preceding days predator in a white coat
in the ~ the soldiers got ready for battle he is a ~ (doctor accused of sex abuse)
sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep,
predators and the prey
adv, adj, particle in prison, there are the ~
precipice (at the precipice) predators and thieves
at the precipice of (epic) failure they are all ~ (bankers)
he stands ~ (politician) online predator
at the precipice of becoming ~s trying to have sex with children
within minutes, he heard from his first ~ (Webcam)
it was recorded when he was just ~ a star (music)
at the precipice of the presidency lethal predators
~ are psychopathic, sadistic, and sane (evil)
he stands ~ (Obama)
skating at the precipice real predator
he is a ~, he’s destroyed many women’s lives
news organizations that are ~ of financial disaster
tottered at the precipice serial (sexual) predator
he was a ~ (pedophile)
she ~ of despair (mother lost her son through death)
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain sexual predator
dealing with ~s (pedophile)
& land / mountains & hills
the problem of ~s on the Internet
precipice (other) Web cams are a magnet for ~s
headed for the precipice sexual-predator (m)
as Britain and the Boer republics ~ (war) six states have ~ laws
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain prey and predator
& land / mountains & hills he believed people fell into two groups: ~
precipitous (adjective) evolved into a (serial) predator
how a high-school dropout ~
precipitous deterioration
♦ If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you.
their daughter's ~ in the month before her death
predation: animal
decline: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
predation (noun) predatory (adjective)
predations of (unscrupulous) business people predatory business
Internet gambling is a ~
Africa can defend itself against the ~....
defend themselves against the predations predatory coach
~s are some of the most successful (sex abuse)
young people must know how to ~ of credit
predation: animal predatory educators
I view for-profit collages as ~, like predatory lenders
Predator (UAV)
predatory lender
Predator the poor fall prey to ~s
a Hellfire air-to-ground missile launched from the ~
the ~ is a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone
predatory priest
the archdiocese is accused of harboring ~s
Predator drone
an unmanned ~ (military)
predatory publisher
the company is a ~ (fees, no checking, fake lists)
Predator unmanned aerial vehicle
the ~, a 27-foot-long drone
predatory lending
the ~ is operated remotely by controllers on the ground ~ is alive and well (credit cards)

proper name: animal / military / predation criticize (payday) loans as predatory

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 consumer advocates ~ (300 percent annual interest) under enormous pressure
children are ~ to succeed (education)
predation: animal
prehistoric (adj) under relentless pressure
schools ~
prehistoric (college football) coaches come under pressure
~ are killing players (heat stroke, etc.) Saudi Arabia has ~ from Washington to reform
knowledge & intelligence: history
plays well under pressure
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history the team ~
past & present / time: history
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
prescription (noun)
coercion & motivation: pressure
prescription pressure (noun)
the diagnosis is wrong, and the ~ is malpractice
pressure
prescription to save the ~ leads his colleagues to "blow up" from time to time
a ~ globalization from itself
pressure to be
prescription for disaster they face strong family ~ dutiful sons
it was a ~ (girl wants acceptance, boys like alcohol)
amelioration & renewal / script: health & medicine
pressure to succeed
there's a lot of ~ (Chinese athletes)
present (up to the present)
pressure to open up
up to the (very) last ball the ~ areas like Badger-Two Medicine and ANWR
the match was impossible to call right ~ (tennis) pressure of allies
up to the present day the ~ who counsel against war
she explores his legacy right ~ (Julius Caesar) pressures of his job
continues up to the present day feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope with the ~
the cities tradition as a hotbed of espionage ~
pressures of sex, drugs and alcohol
past & present / time: direction / height / history / the ~ (adolescents)
mountains & hills prep, adv, adj, particle pressures (and stress) of everyday life
press (verb) escape the ~ (an inn)

press him pressure from (hardline) Muslims

I had questions, but I didn't ~ Saudi Arabia faces internal ~

coercion & motivation: pressure / verb pressure from Moscow

because of political ~
pressure (under pressure)
pressure from (the other) players and parents
under (relentless) pressure to boost she felt ~ (ice-hockey goalie)
schools ~ scores
pressure from abroad
under (enormous) pressure to succeed ~ is responsible for the government's about-turn
children are ~ (education)
pressure from family members
under the pressure of (battle) conditions the relentless ~ (India)
the unit performed well ~
pressure on the adversaries
under pressure from Washington diplomatic ~ to seek a diplomatic solution
Saudi Arabia has come ~ to reform
pressure on (arable) land
under pressure from the Vietnamese-Americans population ~
~, the museum left out…
pressures on Muslims
under pressure from (animal rights) groups the social ~ can be intense (US high schools)
the business is ~
pressure on police
under pressure from higher-ups people are scared and there's a lot of ~ (murders)
the recruiters are ~ (military)
pressure on getting

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 there's so much ~ good grades strong (family) pressure
they face ~ to be dutiful sons
pressure in the Alps
increasing settlement ~ and avalanche… so much pressure
there's ~ on getting good grades
pressure along the Appalachian Trail
growing development ~ freedom from (job) pressures
it’s hard to imagine ~
pressure and competition
society is full of ~ (China / suicide) anger under pressure
he has shown ~ in the past (police chief)
pressures and stress
escape the ~ of everyday life (an inn) pressure is building
~ to end the 18-year moratorium on whaling
development pressure
growing ~ along the Appalachian Trail ease the pressures
~ on common resources (medicinal plants, etc.)
family pressure
they face strong ~ to be dutiful sons escape the pressures
~ and stress of everyday life (an inn)
government pressure
~ kept the book under wraps face (strong family) pressure
they ~ to be dutiful sons
immigration pressure
~ on Germany or even Italy felt pressure
she ~ from the other players and parents (sports)
job pressure
freedom from ~s put on the pressure
it’s time to ~
population pressure
~ on arable land come under pressure
Saudi Arabia has ~ from Washington to reform
schedule pressure
I do not think we are being unduly influenced by ~ crack under pressure
favored competitors have been known to ~ (cycling)
settlement pressure
increasing ~ in the Alps and avalanche… crack under the pressure
some people ~ (stressful, demanding jobs)
added pressure
he expected ~ (NASA scientist, after series of failures) keep up the pressure
we need to ~
sustained pressure
~ from the European imperialist powers put pressure on their children
parents ~ to achieve
academic pressure
~ and peer pressure in schools prevail in the face of (extraordinary) pressures
the boldness that enabled him to ~ (Musharraf)
diplomatic pressure
~ on the adversaries to seek a diplomatic solution thrive under (enormous) pressure
he faces increased internal and international ~ (a ruler) some people are able to ~ (jobs)
♦ “Pressure is for tyres.” James Milner, Liverpool football player, on being
intense pressure asked if he felt pressure when taking penalty kicks. YNWA.
she was under ~ to join the boycott (Olympics);
teenagers will be under ~ to… (early puberty) feeling, emotion & effect: pressure

internal pressure pressure cooker

Saudi Arabia faces ~ from hardline Muslims
political pressure
because of ~ from Moscow
relentless pressure
the ~ from family members (India)
schools under ~ to boost students' performance
social pressure
the ~s on Muslims can be intense (US high schools)
the ~s on middle school girls (acceptance, sex, etc.)
pressure cooker
the White House is a ~ that can burn out idealistic aides
despotism is a ~ without a safety valve (protests)
our son graduated from the ~ that is Cornell
he was a ~ who lacked a safety valve (murderer)
pressure cooker of the San Siro
he did a good job in the ~ (a soccer player)
pressure cooker of ideas
the California scene in those days was a ~ (art)

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pressure-cooker atmosphere fall prey to (predatory) lenders
the accusations underscore the ~ in the region the poor ~
pressure cooker environment fall prey to traffickers
high school can be a ~ (bullying, sex, etc.) older women can ~ (sex trafficking)
reputation as a pressure cooker fall prey to HIV
M.I.T. is battling a ~ (student suicides) as many as 45 million people will ~ (by 2010)
environment: pressure fell prey to the (voracious) sun
eight ~ (stranded whales)
pressured
predation: animal / verb
pressured to choose
many students feel ~ sides (rape allegation at school) prey (other)
pressured to cooperate prey for terrorists
his client is being ~ in the investigation subways, shopping centers are easy ~
feel pressured prey and predator
many students ~ to choose sides (rape allegation) he believed people fell into two groups: ~
I ~ to fit a prescribed mold (work)
easy prey
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure subways, shopping centers are ~ for terrorists
coercion & motivation: pressure their status outside the law makes them ~ (migrants)
pressure-filled predators and the prey
in prison, there are the ~
pressure-filled environment
this ~ makes them (easy) prey
their status outside the law ~ (illegal immigrants)
pressure-filled meeting room
in a ~ regard girls as prey
boys ~
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
predation: animal
pretty (adjective)
price (noun)
pretty
it’s not always ~ (discussing race) price to pay
a little bit of sexism is a small ~ for a lot of attention
flaws & lack of flaws: eye
price to be good
prey (prey on something) he's willing to pay the ~ (an athlete)
prey on (homeless) addicts price of doing
drug dealers who ~... the ~ the same old thing is higher than price of change
preyed on parents’ fears price of fame
he ~ (university admittance fraud) Hinckley forced Jodie Foster to think hard about the ~
preyed on his mind price of freedom
the matter ~ as he went about his daily routine (Archimedes) "the ~ is eternal vigilance"
preyed on the political prisoners price of hypocrisy
criminals ~ (gulag) the ~ has never been lower (politicians and sex)
prey on the sheep price of liberty
there are a lot of wolves in here who will ~ prison) eternal vigilance is the ~ (Thomas Jefferson)
prey on ego and greed price of peace
regal-sounding diploma mills ~ the costs of war and the ~ (soldiers)
behavior / predation: animal / verb
price of success
prey (fall prey to something) weary but optimistic, he weighed the ~ (a rapper)

fall prey to (unscrupulous) agents price of war

don't ~ (sex trafficking of Nepalese to UAE) white tombstones, a reminder of the ~ (Arlington)
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price of our inaction primed (ready)
the ~ will be paid by our kids (unplanned growth)
primed for outrage
price for writing we are all so ~ (culture wars)
there is a ~ your mind (journalist in conflicts)
primed to detonate
price for (their) fame the film was ~ this weekend (open)
celebrities pay a huge ~
initiation / readiness & preparedness: explosion /
price for freedom mechanism / weapon
the ~ is high (fight against terrorists)
prince (epithet)
price for your sins
Jesus Christ paid the ~ Prince of Cartography
John George Bartholomew, called the “~”
heavy price
fame came with a ~ prince of surgeons
Lister, the ~, hugged Pasteur (1892)
high price
we paid a very ~ (military commander, casualties) superlative: epithet / royalty
epithet: royalty
huge price
celebrities pay a ~ for their fame prince (person)
small price little prince
a little bit of sexism is a ~ to pay for a lot of attention I got used to being the ~ (first-born Asian male)
terrible price superlative: person / royalty
but Knievel's fame came at a ~ (daredevil / injuries) person: royalty
have a price princess (person)
false hope can ~ (unproven treatments)
princess
paid the (ultimate) price she thinks a ~ in a pink gown is kid stuff (Halloween)
she ~ (drug death)
you have to be willing to ~ (surfing) princess phase
every little girl goes through a ~ (US / pink)
paid a heavy price
he was overconfident throughout and ~ (a goalkeeper) princess or angel
I want to be Britney Spears, no more ~ (Halloween)
weighed the price
weary but optimistic, he ~ of success (a rapper) pop princess
teen ~ Britney Spears
comes at a price
user-friendliness ~ superlative: person / royalty
person: royalty
came at a (terrible) price
but Knievel's fame ~ (daredevil / injuries) prism (through the prism)
comes with a price through the prism of its own ideology
fame ~ the US sees the world ~
♦ No sin without a price through my own ethnic prism
cost & benefit: money I view the world ~

price tag looks at Israel through the prism

he ~ of his Christian faith (Bush)
price tag
obsessive attention to the ~ is misleading sees his role through the prism
there's no ~ you can put on it (hearing a wolf in the wild) Bush ~ of the war on terror (Middle East)

cost & benefit: money perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology

prick (verb) prism (other)

prick (overinflated) reputations ethnic prism
a critic should ~ (poetry) my own ~ sometimes distorts my perspective

affliction: sensation / verb ideological prism

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 his ~ has not changed (Qaddafi / anti-imperialism)
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
prisoner (constraint)
prisoners of our own doctrine
we were ~ (Israelis in 1973 war)
prisoner of duty
he could seem like a grudging ~ (President Grant)
♦ “Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.” (Turkish.)
constraint & lack of constraint: crime
prisoner (no prisoners)
take-no-prisoners (m)
the ~ approach to justice
his aggressive, ~ attitude was always on display (a coach)
punishment & recrimination: military
prize (noun)
prize
it was their biggest ~ yet in the 18-day old war (airport)
she has some obstacles between her and the ~ (candidate)
Arctic prize
perhaps the biggest ~ is oil and natural gas
strategic prize
the city is a vital crossroads and a ~ (war)
An Nasiriya is considered a ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
considered a (strategic) prize
An Nasiriya is ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: money
wants, needs, hopes & goals: money
prized
prized in China
the saiga horn is ~ as a traditional remedy (Mongolia)
prized as an ingredient
the saiga horn is ~ of Chinese medicine
prized (in China) as a (traditional) remedy
the saiga horn is ~
prized as dairy cattle
the kuri are native to the Lake Chad region and ~
prized for their odor
durians are ~ (fruit)
prized for their taste
edible wild mushrooms are ~ (poisonings)
prized by the (local) Bushmen
ostrich eggs are greatly ~ (water containers)
prized by Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups
a stash of weapons-grade uranium that would be ~
prized dish
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they're a ~ at restaurants (Cat Ba langurs)
prized fur
llamas and their ~
prized (QB) recruit
Alabama beat Tennessee for a ~
horn is prized
the saiga ~ in China as a traditional remedy
greatly prized
ostrich eggs are ~ by the Bushmen
most prized (m)
sable was the ~ accessory in the courts of Europe
♦ “They arrive with gold and depart with pepper.” (An amazed Tamil
trader. Europeans prized pepper. From At Home: A Short History of
Private Life by Bill Bryson.)
♦ “Jade has no meaning for our culture, but we are thankful to Allah that
the Chinese go crazy for it.” (Yacen Ahmat, a Uighur in Khotan’s jade
bazaar, in Xinjiang.)
♦ The small corpses of Carolina parakeets were used whole by milliners
to adorn women’s hats. The last known representative of its species died
in February 1918.
cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: money
procrustean (adjective)
procrustean
requiring rigor from expert and amateur is ~ (data)
procrustean criticism
they faced ~ from rightists and leftists (immigration)
procrustean decisions
film editing sometimes requires making ~
* This refers to making everyone and everything fit to an arbitrary
standard; to ensure conformity. In science, it can relate to tailoring data
to fit the hypothesis. It is similar to “one size fits all.” Procrustes was a
crazy man who stretched people or cut off body parts so that his victims
would fit a metal bed.
* “Perhaps a laudable anxiety to be correct and systematic in making and
recording meteorological observations has induced the prevailing idea
that extreme precision is all-important, and that observations should be
very numerous. Observatories, unquestionably, such should be the case;
but to treat all localities, all alike, and to require a similar registration from
each, would indeed be Procrustean, while their application of very
refined instruments might be like cutting wool with razors.” (The Weather
Book by the great sea captain and scientist Robert FitzRoy.)
adapting / unanimity & consensus / oppression: allusion
prod (verb)
prodded the government to do something
he ~
prodding districts to apply
the government is ~
coercion & motivation: finger / verb
product (noun)
product of my environment
I’m a ~ (place, food, friends, speech, etc.)
product of mentorship
I’m a complete ~ (Broadway producer Scott Rudin)
product of its time
the film was a ~ (Gone with the Wind)
product of her upbringing
she is the ~ (an Appalachian musician)
product of her (Midwest) upbringing
this is possibly a ~ (an inviting personality)
product of their (life) experiences and their education
they are to some extent the ~ (Supreme Court justices)
identity & nature / product / relationship: manufacturing
creation & transformation: manufacturing
profit (verb)
sport's profile
trying to raise the ~ in the US (table tennis)
military profile
the US has raised its ~ in the region (Korea)
profile soared
her ~ spectacularly in 2016 (after interviewing Trump)
raised her profile
the endorsement ~ (a politician)
raise the (sport's) profile
trying to ~ in the US (table tennis)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height

profit from lessons learned profile (picture)

he was confident that he could ~
profile of the killer
cost & benefit: money / verb he created a ~
worth & lack of worth: money / verb
profile of the women
profile (low profile) construct a reproductive ~ in the tribe
low profile profile of Los Angeles
US citizens should maintain a ~ (terrorism) as the demographic ~ changed (police department)
my company was ~
profile parameters
keep a low profile ~ for Arab terrorists
Westerners ~ in line with their embassies' advisories
person's (personality) profile
maintain a low profile a ~ is a powerful influence
Americans should ~ (terrorism overseas)
US citizens should ~ (Saudi Arabia) consumer profile
portal sites are doing a lot with ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height
credit profile
profile (high profile) customers with even riskier ~s (phone companies)
high-profile case criminal profile
~s involving sex techniques for developing a ~
the police are under pressure to solve the ~
flight profile
high-profile disappearance the dangerous potential of the ~ (aircraft crash)
it was the nation's fourth ~ of a child
mule profile
high-profile intellectual he fit the ~ (busted drug courier at airport)
Mr. Ramadan ins not just a professor but a ~
personality profile
high-profile target a person's ~ is a powerful influence
the US is a ~ (terrorism)
DNA profile
highest-profile (soccer) star the law mandates taking a ~ of all criminals
he is one of the world's highest-paid and ~s the F.B.I. maintains a national database of ~s
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height detailed profile
profile (attention) ~s that include the donors' health history
criminal profile
profile of atheists techniques for developing a ~
raising the ~ in America (a march)
demographic profile
profile in the US as the ~ of Los Angeles changed (police department)
trying to raise the sport's ~ (table tennis)
different (homicidal) profile
profile in the region he appears to fit a ~
the US has raised its military ~ (Korea)
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 these victims do not fit any ~ (spree killings) progress (verb)
geographic profile case has progressed
~s use crime locations to determine…
a lot has happened as this ~
homicidal profile progress & lack of progress: movement / verb
he appears to fit a different ~
development: movement / verb
particular profile promethean (adjective)
victims usually fit a ~, such as prostitutes…
Promethean Award
psychological profile the ~ for Headteacher of the Year in a Primary School
construct a ~ of a serial killer
the FBI is working on developing a ~ of the suspect Promethean fire
FBI ~s of the Green River killer appear to match him this is forbidden fruit, a ~, a Pandora’s box, and evil genie
reproductive profile Promethean hero
construct a ~ of the women in the tribe the Romantic view of Satan as a ~ (Frankenstein)
profile had suggested promethean heroes
an FBI ~ the kidnapper is a predator, and possibly… a high Romantic vision of authors as ~ of creativity
profile (also) suggested Promethean individualism
the ~ that the killer… (FBI-created profile) as a teen, Nietzsche was drawn to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ~
construct a (psychological) profile Promethean task
~ of a serial killer the scale-up for treating a human is a ~ (growing livers)
developing a (criminal) profile ♦ This word refers to at least 3 things: (1) great creativity and originality
(2) defiance of authority and disobedience (3) great suffering.
techniques for ~
♦ In Greek mythology, the myth of Prometheus and the story of Pandora
fit a (particular) profile are intertwined.
victims usually ~, such as prostitutes… ♦ “Paine is the preeminent spokesman of a new class of people who are
emerging at just hat time. We used to call them the artisans, self-
fit any (discernible) profile educated working men with a skill... They’ve taught themselves to read
or they’ve become literate.. And they develop political ambitions. And
these victims do not ~ (spree killings) Paine is the perfect spokesman of this group of people who meet in
taverns and coffeehouses and public squares to discuss self-
fit the (mule) profile improvement and the improvement of society. And that’s why—it’s
he ~ (busted drug courier at airport) Promethean, I suppose, is the word I’m looking for. It’s the desire to
share the fire, not just with the gods but with the whole of humanity, so
characterization: picture everyone can warm themselves by the flame and see by it, too.”
(“Hitchens: How Paine’s ‘Rights’ Changed the World,” NPR, October 23,
profile (profile in courage) 2007. From the special series, “Books That Changed the World.”)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: allusion / religion

profiles in courage
major businesses are not exactly ~ (the bottom line) difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / religion
♦ The beloved US president John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, Promised Land
in which he singled out eight senators for their bravery and integrity.
♦ “Look, I never expect a foreign leader I’m dealing with, or a colleague painted the North as a promised land
senator, to voluntarily appear in the second edition of Profiles in he ~ (Robert Sengstacke Abbott of Chicago Defender)
Courage. So you got to think of what is in their interest.” (Joe Biden
speaking to Evan Osnos.) environment / superlative: allusion / Bible / religion
allusion / character & personality: books & reading prong (river)
prognosis (noun) South Prong
the ~ of the Current River
grim prognosis
the ~ was consistent with new figures (world economy) branching system: animal / horn
reliable prognoses prong (part)
there aren’t any ~ of how the Arctic climate will develop
two main prongs
scientific prognoses the scheme consisted of ~ (college admissions scandal)
grim ~ have come to pass (death of the Amazon)
branching system: animal / horn
condition & status: health & medicine
future / time: health & medicine prop (noun)
spiritual prop

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amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mining / verb epithet: map
allegiance, support & betrayal: infrastructure / mining /
verb
public-spirited
prophet (person) public-spirited
~ citizens
prophets ~ journalists
some of these ~ had been spectacularly wrong (stocks)
character & personality: religion
prophets of doom
we must reject the ~ and their predictions of the Apocalypse
pull (tidal pull)
mantle of a prophet tidal pull
he increasingly adopted the ~ the ~ of Berkeley was strong on her (academic)

turned (doomsday) prophet attraction & repulsion: astronomy / sea / tide

the news anchor ~ (the film Network) relationship: astronomy / sea / tide

message: person / religion pull (attraction)

future / time: person / religion gravitational pull
person: religion some felt the ~ of the gold rush in California (migrants)
prop up (verb) exerted a pull
props up North Korea with aid and trade Lake Ohrid has ~ on me since my childhood (Balkans)
China ~ attraction & repulsion: astronomy
prop up his government relationship: astronomy
foreigners ~ (Venezuela) pull (pull for someone)
prop up (global) growth pulling for you
China may not be able to ~ we're ~
props up Maduro allegiance, support & betrayal: arm / burden / verb
the military ~ (Venezuelan leader)
pull (pull yourself together, etc.)
prop up her spirits
though her body sagged, her doctor helped ~ pull himself together
he would ~ and seem to be under control (troubled)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mining / verb
allegiance, support & betrayal: infrastructure / mining / resiliency: mental health / verb
verb amelioration & renewal: mental health / verb
proselytize (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: rope
pull back (verb)
proselytize for his government
his political allies are expected to ~ (workers) pulled back
he ~ after giving the green light and go order (military)
message / speech: religion / verb
prowl (on the prowl) pulled those ships and planes back
he ~ (called off military attack)
on the prowl for (naïve) girls starting, going, continuing & ending: verb
Internet predators are always ~ avoidance & separation: verb
behavior / movement / predation: animal pull out (verb)
prune (verb) pull out of the agreement
prune the budget they want to ~
they are seeking ways to ~ (government) starting, going, continuing & ending: burden / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: farming & agriculture / dismissal, removal & resignation: burden / verb
plant / tree / verb pull through (verb)
Ptolemy pull through
I thought she was strong enough to ~ (died of Covid)
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managed to pull through condition & status / measurement: blood
some companies have ~ (satellite constellations)
pummel (the storm pummeled the
survival, persistence & endurance: verb
island, etc.)
pull together (verb)
pummels Midwest with snow
pull together spring blizzard ~
we all ~ (hurricane)
he asked conservatives to ~ (politics) pummeling the islands with rain and winds
maybe we can ~ to beat this pandemic the hurricane is ~
but in North Carolina, we’re gonna ~, work to clean up pummeled Barbados
we will ~ and through this (a disaster) the hurricane ~
pull together as a country force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb
we’re going through a time when we have to ~ (pandemic)
pummel (verb)
pull together as a team
are we going to be civilized and ~ when there’s a crisis pummeled him over the cost
Republicans ~ of the bill (politics)
pull together to help
it’s vital that we all ~ weather this crisis (pandemic) pummeled the company's earnings and stock prices
the problem has ~
pull together, grieve together, work together
we will ~, and love one another (high school shooting) pummeled her rival
she ~ (a tennis match)
unanimity & consensus / work & duty: arm / burden / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone / verb accusation & criticism: boxing / fist / speech / verb /
violence
pulpit (bully pulpit, etc.)
pummeled
pulpit
television is the ~ from which they preach (politics) pummeled
the bank's shares have been ~
presidential bully pulpit
Obama should use the ~ to address entitlements pummeled in the media
she has been ~ (a leader)
pulpit and the megaphone
use the ~ of the office to highlight human rights pummeled for failing
he has been ~ to solve the problem
message: Bible / religion / speech
pulsating (adjective) pummeled by conservatives
he was ~ for even broaching the topic (politics)
pulsating contest pummeled by the storm
in a ~, Ward produced a composed performance (boxing) the area was ~
feeling, emotion & effect: movement
pummeled by both sides
pulse (noun) he has been ~ (Obama)

pulse of the planet pummeled by drugs and crime

the satellites allow scientists to take the ~ (climate) the neighborhood has been ~

pulse of the (Israeli) public feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / sensation
the polling firm regularly takes the ~ pump (direct)
oceans' pulse pumps $20 million into the (local) economy
robot subs help to take the ~ rafting ~ (Summersville, WV)
on the pulse of the nation pumped (new) life into the (martial-arts) genre
the prime minister does not have his finger ~ he ~
taken the pulse pumped (more than) $100 million into (city) schools
we have ~ of sex in the US today (survey) the Gates Foundation has ~
keep our finger on the pulse directing: verb / water
help us to ~ (popup survey at a website)

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pumped (directed) restraint & lack of restraint: boxing / fist / speech / sports
& games / verb
pumped into the facility speech: boxing / sports & games / verb
for all the money that was ~…
punch (punch back)
directing: pump / water
punching back
pumped (feeling) he wants Trudeau to keep ~ (trade war)
so pumped resistance, opposition & defeat: boxing / verb
others were not ~ (eager to deploy to Iraq)
punch (roll with the punches)
so pumped to get out there
I’m ~ (a female teen surfer) roll with the punches
you just have to ~ (government shutdown)
♦ “Last night we got out of strict Level Four lockdown, which hasn’t
allowed us to surf for five weeks. We’re in Level Three now and we can
survival, persistence & endurance: boxing / verb
finally surf. I’m so pumped to get out there.” (A video showing a female
teen surfer in New Zealand on the shore in a wetsuit with her surfboard. resiliency: boxing / verb
She runs to the water.)
punch (beat somebody to the punch)
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / pump
beat Kim to the punch
pump up (verb) it was a way for Trump to ~ (cancel meeting before Kim
could)
pump up your confidence
~ (job hunting) sequence: boxing / verb
readiness & preparedness: boxing / verb
pumped the rookies up
having ~, he now deflates them… (NFL camp) punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.)
increase & decrease / feeling, emotion & effect: air / punch
atmosphere / mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle / pump Atlantic Beach was feeling Hurricane Isabel's ~
/ verb
most brutal punch
punch (punch above one's weight, etc.) the storm saved its ~ for New England

fight above our weight one-two punch

we're going to have to ~ (politics) the ~ has devastated wildlife (algae and red tide)
the extinction could have been a ~
punches above its weight
Hungary ~ in math, it has produced many mathematicians packed a punch
the storm ~
punched (massively) above our weight
we ~ (small Wales does great in Rugby World Cup) force: boxing / fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm /
violence
power / substance & lack of substance: boxing / verb /
weight punch (punch in the gut, etc.)
punch (sucker punch / verb) punch in the gut
they broke the story and for us that was a ~ (police)
sucker punched France
the US has ~ (scored a goal against run of play) punch in the gut reading
it was kind of a ~ about the case for the first time (racism)
behavior: boxing
readiness & preparedness / restraint & lack of restraint / punch-counterpunch
subterfuge: boxing / fist / verb this kind of ~ makes Canadians nervous (trade war)
punch (pull a punch) gut punch
historic oil bust delivers a ~ to Texas county
pull any punches that is a ~ of a finding from a new study (pandemic deaths)
she didn’t ~
knockout punch
pulled no punches he is looking for a ~ (political race)
he ~ when he spoke of the president (cursed him)
prosecutors ~ (called him a liar, thief, cheat) one-two punch
the women wrote the toughest scrips, they ~ (Chris Meloni) the ~ of self-righteous preening and hypocrisy
the ~ of the pandemic and the oil bust (Texas)
pulled his punches
he was very direct, never minced his words or ~ packs an (emotional) punch

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 the play ~ the Supreme Court ~
landed a (rhetorical) punch confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: football / verb
she ~ (at a political debate)
punt (noun)
took a (gut) punch
we ~ in Iowa (Joe Biden on Iowa caucus results) more of a punt than a (long-lasting) decree
the decision was ~ (Supreme Court)
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / violence
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: football
effect: boxing / fist / violence
punching bag (noun) puny (adjective)
punching bag for politicians puny (bailout) mechanism
Facebook has become a ~ on all sides (hearings) we must extend the euro's too ~

media’s (new) punchbag strength & weakness: health & medicine / size
she became the ~ (Meghan, Duchess of Sussex) puppet (control)
rhetorical punching bag
puppet
Biden wasn’t as much of a ~ this time (election debate)
she was a ~ under his control
♦ Punchbag is British English (BE) for the American English (AE) promoters run the shop, the guys in the ring are just ~s
punching bag, or heavy bag. The Guardian spells it as one word.
Merriam Webster has it as two words.
puppet of the Left
accusation & criticism: boxing he is the ~ (politics)
punchline (joke) puppets on a string
Scott saw his men as ~ (negative criticism)
punchline
he is a ~ (athlete who failed, choked, blew it) puppet master
some say he is a ~ of the news media (WikiLeaks)
insult: speech he is the ~ of a brutal human-trafficking group
punctuate (verb) puppet rulers
Nazi ~ in Croatia killed thousands (Jasenovac)
punctuate her points
her hands move emphatically to ~ control & lack of control: puppet / theater
unanimity & consensus: puppet / theater
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters / verb
puppet (sockpuppet / internet)
punctuate (configuration)
sock
punctuate the horizon I will not be coming back here as a ~ (Wiki editor)
huge red-rock walls and pillars ~ (Utah / Indian country)
sockpuppet
configuration: letters & characters / verb
a sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of
puncture (verb) deception (Wikipedia)

punctured Slater's aura computer / subterfuge: puppet

he ~ of invincibility (surfing) concealment & lack of concealment: puppet

puncture (widely held) beliefs puppeteer (noun)

the allegations ~ about how he operated cast Murdoch as a ~, controlling British politics
destruction: air / atmosphere / hole / verb they ~ through is partisan newspapers

punt (verb) control & lack of control: puppet

punt to the courts purgatory (noun)

the strategy is to ~ and run out the clock (politics) period of purgatory
punted their decision back to him he had been living in a ~ (pilot’s crash kills at air show)
they ~ (did not decide themselves) remain in purgatory
punted on a major test the refugees ~
the Supreme Court ~ (gerrymandering) action, inaction & delay / environment / situation: religion
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purse (money) pursuing (even quadruple) majors
students are ~
purse of seventeen million dollars
a ~ (boxing match) pursue these matters
but we'll ~ further to build on… (diplomacy)
total purse
the ~ is at least $475,000 (New York Marathon) pursue (military) objectives
army forces must ~ energetically
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
pursue opportunity
purse strings they left to ~ in California (black Okies)
controls the (family’s) purse strings pursue (new job) opportunities
he ~ the ability of workers to ~
controls the purse strings pursue (other) opportunities
Congress ~ she resigned, saying the time had come to ~
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol pursue the opportunity
she encouraged him to ~ (of study abroad)
pursue (pursue a dream, etc.)
pursue all possibilities
pursue it with (great) vigor he said investigators would ~ (blast)
I intend to ~ (full investigation)
pursue this
pursue their (own hidden) agendas I think it's wrong to ~, we should let it drop
factions ~ outside of the law
pursues his vision
pursue (both old and new) approaches Wangurri clan Elder Timothy Buthimang ~
NASA will ~ simultaneously
pursue a film career
pursue an (acting) career left her TV show to ~
he moved to Los Angeles to ~
pursue its lawsuit
pursue a (film) career the company retained the right to ~ if…
left her TV show to ~
pursued a (ruinous) economic policy
pursue the case he has ~ (a president)
the Pakistani government vowed to ~ (rape of girl)
whether to pursue
pursuing a doctorate the lawyers will determine ~ further appeals
he was ~ in computer sciences at…
continue to pursue
pursue her dream and so we will ~ a relationship with Russia that…
she quit her job to ~ of becoming…;
aggressively pursued
pursue a dream if it had ~ an investigation (FBI / 9/11 terrorists)
people who switched courses late in life to ~
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
pursue an education
it is in his interest to ~ in computers or technology pursuit (in pursuit)
pursue my education in pursuit of (economic) development
the thing that will make me happiest is to ~ Native American tribes ~
pursue (higher) education in the pursuit of their duties
women who delay marriage to ~ and a career they are overzealous ~ (Saudi religious police)
pursued her goal in pursuit of goals
she ~ by studying… ~ that are political, religious, or ideological (terrorists)
pursue your interests in pursuit of gratification
you can certainly find an hour a day to ~ cybersex addicts risk jobs, marriages ~
pursue (other) interests in their pursuit of justice
I want to have time to travel and ~ rape victims often find cultural bias ~ (Mexico)
pursue its (own strategic) interests in the pursuit of knowledge
the US should ~ (vs. high-minded goals) men swear off women ~

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in pursuit of (various) objectives push one's enemy to the point of despair
~ (special operations) one should never ~, because…
in its pursuit of peace push them over the edge
Afghanistan has a long way to go ~ just a tiny temperature rise can ~ (coral bleaching)
in our pursuit of victory pushed religion too far
we well be relentless in our ~ (Iraqi Freedom) the Islamists ~ (a Somali)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting pushing or suppressing
people wonder if the BBC is ~ agendas
pursuit (other)
force: arm / verb
pursuit to satisfy
her ~ the ticking biological clock push (push against, etc.)
pursuit of excellence push (hard enough) against Beijing’s attempts
it's what the ~ in his field requires (a doctor) they didn’t ~ to cover up its misinformation
pursuit of happiness resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / verb
freedom, equality, justice and the ~ (US)
push (a number)
pursuit of revenge
the ~ is a turn-on for men (brain studies) pushing $500
the price of gold is ~ an ounce
pursuit of truth
attainment: arm / number / verb
the historian's supposedly disinterested ~
dangerous pursuit push (push somebody away, etc.)
climbing mountains can be a ~ push him away from me
noble pursuit I don't want to ~ (relationship)
working for the homeless or some other ~ avoidance & separation: arm / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting push (summit push, etc.)
push (coercion and motivation) push for acceptance
push you on this the public ~ of its technology (Microsoft)
I do want to ~ (a pushy reporter) push for (Maori) rights
pushed me to do better the ~ (New Zealand)
he ~ (a teacher) push for the summit
push immigrants to drop out the final ~ began in the evening
critics say Regents English Tests ~ summit push
pushes for (speedy) elections in anticipation of a ~ the next day (K2)
as the Bush Administration ~ (in Iraq) waiting to begin the final ~ (Camp IV / Everest)

push you around final push

don't let people ~ the ~ for the summit began in the evening

push myself next big push

I’m a little scared but I’m gonna ~ (Sky Brown) the US retrenches for its ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

coercion & motivation: arm / gesture / verb difficulty, easiness & effort: arm
force: arm / gesture / verb push back (verb)
push (promote) push back
pushed the story they are preparing to ~
prominent right-wing media figures ~ (conspiracy) pushed back against the military’s claim
attention, scrutiny & promotion: arm / verb he ~ of impropriety (a filmmaker)

push (force) resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / force / verb

push a breed to extinction

economic forces can ~ (indigenous pigs, cows)

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pushback (noun) the problem of ~ in public schools

pushback from Congress over the treaty pushy people

don't let ~ affect your decisions
do you expect any ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: force / arm pushy stage mother
I'm not a ~
pushed around
come across as pushy
pushed around or you'll ~...
we will not be ~ (tariff war) behavior / character & personality / coercion & motivation:
coercion & motivation: force / arm force / arm
pushed out put (put something back together)
pushed out of better paid work into lower paid work put my life back together
they were ~ I'm trying to ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: force / arm putting his life back together
he was just ~ after being sexually assaulted
pusher (drug pusher, etc.)
put the talks back together
world’s drug pusher negotiators have been scrambling to ~
they don’t want to be seen as the ~ (Fentanyl)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mechanism / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: person resiliency: infrastructure / mechanism / verb
pushing (keep on pushing, etc.) put (put something together)
pushing the extremes put it together
~ of calculational speed (a supercomputer) nobody ~ (clues leading to a spy)
pushing a quick pace put these pieces together
with Heras ~, they passed Jalabert (Tour de France) when we ~, we have a better idea about…
pushing for an Islamic state analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle / verb
~ in Egypt
put (put something to rest)
pushing for a place
~ in the cell-phone business put these accusations to rest
the idea for the interview was to ~ (historical sex abuse)
pushing yourself into unknown realms
adventure is ~ put the matter to rest
♦ Curtis Mayfield’s song “Keep on pushing” was a rousing anthem of
Cook had now ~ (no Southern Continent)
encouragement and hope during the Civil Rights movement.
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: burial
commitment & determination: arm / force
put (put somebody through something)
push on (verb)
put me and my family through
pushed on I had to forgive the media for what they ~ (Bill Buckner)
in spite of the insults, she ~
affliction / oppression: mechanism
resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival,
put off (verb)
persistence & endurance: force / journeys & trips / verb
pushover (noun) putting it off
I’ve been ~ (making a plan)
no pushover action, inaction & delay: verb
the Iraqi Army was no ~
putty (noun)
difficulty, easiness & effort: arm / force
pushy (people) putty in the hands
students are ~ of all-powerful professors (sex abuse)
pushy control & lack of control: materials & substances
knowing how to be encouraging without being ~ (kids)
character & personality: materials & substances
pushy parents creation & transformation: materials & substances

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put up with (verb) size: person

put up with it
they are a nation of terrorists, and we won’t ~
put up with this
enough is enough, I’m not going to ~
putting up with it
we’re not ~ anymore in this country (politics)
survival, persistence & endurance: verb
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: verb
puzzle (problem)
puzzle
I'm happiest working on ~s (chemist)
puzzle-solving
there is ~ in all technical climbing
puzzles, riddles and real-life problems
solving ~ (forensic science)
piece of the puzzle
that was the ~ we needed (crime tip)
pieces of the puzzle
gather as many ~ as possible (investigation)
pieces of a puzzle
one agency can have ~ that another agency is missing
larger puzzle
it might be a key piece in the ~ that is emerging
(investigation)
unlock the (whole) puzzle
a tiny detail can ~ (police investigation)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture / puzzle
comprehension & incomprehension: picture / puzzle
puzzling
puzzling comment
not long after hearing this ~...
puzzling details
investigators were trying to make sense of some ~
pyramid (hierarchy)
tip of the (tennis) pyramid
it seemed impossible they could regain the ~
tennis pyramid
it seemed impossible they could regain the tip of the ~
football league pyramid
I’ve had to start from the very bottom of the ~ (Vardy)
at the apex of the (economic) pyramid
those individuals ~
at the bottom of the economic pyramid
new jobs are coming ~ (poorly paid jobs)
at the top of the pyramid
the people ~ know exactly what they are doing (justice)
hierarchy: history / shape
Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhic victory
the confidence vote may prove to be only a ~
Pyrrhic victory for Napoleon
it was a ~ (Borodino)
♦ “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be
utterly ruined.” (Attributed to Pyrrhus of Epirus, following the Battle of
Asculum.)
♦ A variation is a Hannibalic victory, referring to Hannibal’s famous
victory over the Romans at the Battle of Cannae during the Second
Punic War, which he failed to follow up on. Ultimately, he would be
defeated.
♦ You can win the battle and still lose the war.
cost & benefit / resistance, opposition & defeat / success
& failure: allusion / history / military
allusion: military
Q
quagmire (noun)
quagmire of Vietnam
we're in the ~ (war in Afghanistan)

puzzling disease quagmire of (boxing) negotiations

making some sense of this ~ the two camps are swimming through the ~

puzzling news Libyan quagmire

this was ~ indeed... Egypt might get sucked into the ~ (military intervention)
comprehension & incomprehension: puzzle fear of a (Somalia-like) quagmire
~ which could have endangered US troops (Rwanda)
pygmy (size)
digging themselves deeper into the quagmire
pygmy goat they are ~ (an embattled regime fighting to survive)
visitors pet ~s (at a zoo)
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land
pygmy parrot progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land
the ~ is so small it fits in a human hand (Madagascar)

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quarantine (verb) King and Queen
the coronation of a Geek ~ (Geek Prom)
quarantine (suspicious) files into sandboxes
systems ~ (computing) kings and queens
homecoming, the American tradition featuring ~
acceptance & rejection / avoidance & separation /
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine / verb call María Lionza the queen
devotees ~ (María Lionza religion / Venezuela)
computer: health & medicine / verb
queen (Queen of Soul, etc.) superlative: person / royalty
person: royalty
Queen of Crime queen (Dairy Queen, etc.)
Agatha Christie, the so-called ~ (mystery writer)
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of Soul
the ~ is the third Cunard ship of that name
Aretha Franklin, the ~ (singer)
Queen Charlotte Islands
“queen of the skies”
the ~, or Haida Gwaii (British Columbia)
the Boeing 747, the ~, was the first jumbo jet
Dairy Queen
queen of her sport
Faisal found a job at ~
she is the ~ in her country (speedskater)
proper name: royalty
Queen of Soul Food
Sylvia Woods, the ~ (Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem) quest (in a quest)
Queen of the English Channel in our (never-ending) quest to be
Alison Streeter, the “~,” has swum the distance 43 times ~ more, and do more
superlative: epithet / person / royalty in the quest for peace
epithet: royalty the deal was a necessary concession ~
queen (role) in their quest for profits
companies often change business strategies in their ~
queen bees
selecting ~ from the most productive colonies pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages
searching & discovery: Middle Ages
queen-size
a ~ bed quest (on a quest)
beauty queen on a (widely publicized) quest to ascend
the Georgia ~ is accused of murdering her boyfriend she was ~ Everest
Coffee Queen go on a (vision) quest
she won the popular title of ~ (Argentina) ~ with the help of a medicine man
drag queen pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages
~ theater searching & discovery: Middle Ages
drama queen quest (other)
Nikki is fussy, she's a ~ (sister)
quest to ascend
Festival Queen her widely publicized ~ Everest ended in disaster
Nicholas County Potato ~ (West Virginia)
quest to become
opera queen she is 2 months into a ~ the youngest person to …
gimlet-eyed ~s
quest to develop
soap-opera queen in their ~ a vaccine effective for HCV
the ~ Susan Lucci
quest to find
powwow queen the ~ the biggest, scariest wave (surfing)
this year's ~
quest to get
homecoming queen their ~ cheap AIDS drugs (India)
she was ~ her senior year (high school)
a gay student who ran for ~ caused a huge stir quest to honor
students elected their first male ~ (university) their ~ a man (Rocky Versace, Medal of Honor)

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quest to observe ceaseless quest
the ~ an extremely young moon is a lifelong one in the ~ to stake out bigger slices of the market
quest to reach her quest
in his ~ the largest possible audience (film) she isn't about to give up ~ anytime soon
quest to land personal quest
her ~ at the FBI was still up in the air he was on a ~ to…
quest for answers spiritual quest
an almost three-year ~ (Columbine shooting) jihad can also mean one's private ~
quest for employment private spiritual quest
his Ph.D. has not helped him in his ~ jihad can also mean one's ~
quest for Everest decadelong quest
her ~ (climber) airlines' ~ to create frictionless travel
quest for identity century-long and decade-long quest
the ~ is a constant undercurrent in the Middle East this ~ (genome achievements)
Quest for Immortality three-year quest
the ~: Treasures of Ancient Egypt (exhibit) their ~ to impose dosage restrictions
quest for the moon start of their quest
NASA's ~ in the 1960s the ~ to dethrone the champs (NBA)
quest for peace exhaustive but fruitless quest
the deal was a necessary concession in the ~ the ~ for a scientific basis for…
if the US stays steady in our ~ (Middle East)
go on a (vision) quest
quest for profits ~ with the help of a medicine man
companies will change business strategies in their ~
give up her quest
quest for self-understanding she isn't about to ~ anytime soon
transmute the violent impulse into a ~ (prison teacher)
made reliability its quest
quest for a (separate) state Toyota ~
the ~ (Uighurs)
pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages
quest for a (fourth Tour de France) title searching & discovery: Middle Ages
his ~ (Lance Armstrong)
question mark
quest for (some elusive underlying) unity
our ~ question mark
he has got a lot of ~s (an athlete)
quest for the mountain quail the ~ hovering over their rematch (boxing)
my personal ~, a Code-2 bird (bird-watching)
question mark over the evidence of...
quest for love, lust, adventure so now there is a ~ (a criminal trial)
one woman's ~
question marks around how
NASA's quest there are ~ the shoes... (alphaFLY)
~ for the moon in the 1960s
certainty & uncertainty: letters & characters
woman's quest
one ~ for love, lust, adventure
quicksand (in / into the quicksand)
airlines' (decadelong) quest in the quicksand of organized crime
~ to create frictionless travel ~, murder is an option for solving disputes
♦ “We reached the river about two in the afternoon. A stiff breeze was
vision quest blowing off the sea, and the waves were noisily breaking on the beach,
go on a ~ with the help of a medicine man sucking back along the sand in a cloud of foam. From the mouth of the
river a sand-bank stretched out to sea. Thoughtlessly I walked along it,
never-ending quest when suddenly I felt a great weight tugging at my feet. I tried to retreat
but to my horror found I could not stir from the spot. I was slowly sinking.
in our ~ to be more, and do more ‘Quicksands!’ I yelled in an unnatural voice... (Dersu Uzala by V.K.
Arseniev.)
widely publicized quest
she was on a ~ to ascend Everest

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♦ Famous film “quicksand” scenes include Lawrence of Arabia and quixotic project
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili.
each of them pursued a ~ (two inventors)
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land
quixotic run
quiet (adjective) Yang’s ~ addressed the challenges of automation (election)
♦ This adjective comes from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes, a
gone quiet surprisingly modern book for having been written so long ago. Quixote
the gangs have ~ means different things to different people. The phrase “tilting at
windmills,” especially, can be viewed positively or negatively.
seek quiet
fantasy & reality: allusion / person
Israel does ~, with elections only a week away (fighting)
allusion: books & reading
stay quiet
are we going to ~ as they turn back the clock (protest)
quiz (verb)
activity / conflict: sound quiz the heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound the US Senate Commerce Committee will ~ about...

Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.) judgment: school & education / verb

Petain, the Laval, the Quisling

he became the ~ of China (Wang Jingwei) R
♦ Wang Jingwei escaped his treason trial by dying in Japan in 1944,
where he was receiving treatment for an old wound from an
assassination attempt. Following Japan’s defeat, his tomb in Nanjing was
rabbit hole (fantasy)
destroyed and his body was burnt.
rabbit hole
♦ Benedict Arnold; Wang Jingwei; Vidkun Quisling; Pierre Laval; Philippe
Petain... (Famous people accused of being traitors.) the Percocet could have sent her down a ~

epithet: military rabbit hole of conspiracy theories

allegiance, support & betrayal: epithet / history / military simply typing “federal reserve” led students down a ~

quiver (noun) populist rabbit hole

the country is diving down a ~ (Czech Republic)
quiver
we carry a whole ~ (of protection while climbing) follow Trump down the rabbit hole
when people ~, that’s when we lose (a Democrat)
presidential quiver
he will use every arrow in his ~ to get his will went down the rabbit hole
she ~ of the alt-right to embrace an ideology of hate
amount / group, set & collection: weapon
allusion: books & reading
Quixote (Don Quixote) fantasy & reality: addiction / allusion / animal / hole /
mental health / person
Don Quixote’s lance
he is fighting globalization with ~ (US isolationism, etc.) rabbit hole (exploration)
medical Don Quixote rabbit holes
he became an academic picaro, a ~ (Paracelsus) ~ leading to music you won’t find elsewhere (bandcamp)
played Sancho Panza to Scott’s Don Quixote informational rabbit hole
Wilson ~ (The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford) clicking on the links would propel me down an ~ (Title IX)
tilting at windmills Internet rabbit hole
he suggested that Trump is ~ (attributed to Xi Jinping) following a browser down some weird ~ (surfing)
fantasy & reality: allusion / person trapped in that rabbit hole
allusion: books & reading they have a website and I got ~ last night
quixotic (adjective) ♦ “You can go down the YouTube rabbit hole following Carroll Shelby. I
lived down there for a while.” (Matt Damen talking about his role in the
film Ford v Ferrari.)
quixotic ability
his ~ to extract himself from peril (James Weddell) searching & discovery: allusion
quixotic campaign rabid (enthusiasm)
he finally ended his ~ for the GOP nomination this week
rabid fans
quixotic gesture ~ that make for a true sports town
in a characteristically ~, he offered them a truce (Mehmet)
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rabid (behavior) closely fought race
other ~s just outside Washington
rabid animals
they are ~ that should all be put down (looting and arson) closely watched race
in the most ~ in Virginia (politics)
rabid supporters
there are many ~ of death for blasphemy (Pakistan) quadrennial race
the ~ for the White House
♦ Calpurnia: Scout, Jem, come on inside. Come on, come on! (Inside, on
the phone.) Mr. Finch, this is Cal. I swear to God there’s a mad dog in the (most closely watched) race
down the street a piece. He’s coming this way! (From the beloved film of
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck. In a very dramatic scene, ~ in Virginia (politics)
Mr. Finch shoots the mad dog and Jem learns something about his
father that he hadn’t known.) competition: government / sports & games / walking,
♦ “On a day in October in 1831, a nine-year-old boy ran frightened away running & jumping
from the edge of a crowd that blocked the door of the blacksmith shop of
a village in the mountains of eastern France. Above the awed excited race (arms race)
whispers of the people at the door this boy had heard the crackling “s-s-
s-z” of a white hot iron on human flesh, and this terrifying sizzling had arms race with spammers
been followed by a groan of pain. The victim was the farmer Nicole. He
had just been mangled by a mad wolf that charged howling, jaws
this has been a bit of an ~ (CAPTCHAS)
dripping poison foam, through the streets of the village. The boy who ran
away was Louis Pasteur, son of a tanner of Arbois and great-grandson of arms race to build plush new dorms and stadiums
a serf of the Count of Udressier... (Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif. Berea College has opted out of the college ~
The chemist Louis Pasteur would go on to develop the rabies vaccine.)
technological arms race
behavior: animal / dog / health & medicine / wolf the stock market has become a great ~ (electronic)
rabidly spark a (technological) arms race
the Vaporfly shoe could ~ before this summer’s Olympics
rabidly intolerant
they are ~ of Israel competition: allusion / history / military / sports & games /
rapidly opposed walking, running & jumping
Republicans ~ the legislation race (competition)
behavior: animal / dog / health & medicine / wolf
race to build
race (the term raced to its end, etc.) the ~ computer chips out of individual molecules

raced to its end race-to-the-moon (m)

as the term ~ (university) the glorious ~ days

time: movement / speed / verb / walking, running & arms race

jumping the ~ and mutual misunderstanding
Southeast Asia is facing a regional ~
race (hurry)
competition: movement / sports & games / walking,
racing to develop running & jumping
scientists around the world are ~ a vaccine (COVID)
race (race to the bottom)
racing to take credit
politicians are ~ for the initiative race to the bottom
we are engaged in a ~ (two states wooing companies)
race toward an election
decline: direction / sports & games / walking, running &
as we ~ in November...
jumping
competition / speed: movement / verb / walking, running &
jumping race (race against time, the clock, etc.)
movement: speed / verb / walking, running & jumping race against time
race (politics) saving endangered animals is often a ~
we are in a ~ (disaster relief)
race in Hawaii
an all-female ~ (for governor) race-against-time (m)
it's a classic ~ film
race for the White House
the quadrennial ~ in a race with the clock
we are ~
all-female race
an ~ in Hawaii (for governor) race against time, it’s a race against the clock
it’s a ~ to get these animals refloated (stranded pilot whales)

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race is on
the ~ to save the Gulf (oil spill)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports & games / walking,
running & jumping
competition: sports & games / walking, running & jumping
radar (on the radar)
on the radar
he has long been ~ of groups following hate groups
on their radar
he had been ~ for a long time (trafficker)
on anyone's radar
it's not really ~ (Pakistan's contribution to warming)
on our radar
he came ~ when we were looking through footage (riot)
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology
radar (below / under the radar)
under the (cultural) radar
men-only clubs operating for decades under the ~
passed under the educational radar
the NCSS standards ~ completely unnoticed (education)
went below the radar
it really ~ (a piece of news)
work below the radar
they work best when they ~ (ICRC / POWs)
keep him under the radar
we are trying to ~, out of the spotlight (troubled athlete)
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology
radar (drop off the radar)
dropped off the radar
several of the men have "~" (terrorists)
appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny &
promotion / consciousness & awareness / presence &
absence: tools & technology / verb
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology
radar (radar screen)
radar screen
I want this on everybody's ~ (kids need more sleep)
films like "Good Will Hunting" put him on our ~s
Hollywood's radar screen
he popped onto ~ two years ago with…
national radar screen
he disappeared from the ~ 4 years ago (a coach)
blip on the radar screen
Ecstasy is no longer a ~ (the club scene)
fell off the radar screen
both men ~ (terrorists)
disappeared from the (national) radar screen
he ~ 4 years ago (a coach)
popped onto (Hollywood's) radar screen
he ~ two years ago with…
put him on our radar screens
films like "Good Will Hunting" ~ (an actor)
radar screen went dark
then the ~ where Heinrich was concerned (child murder)
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology
radioactive (adjective)
radioactive
he is only 24, yet he's currently ~ (troubled player)
radioactive in the Arab world
NATO is ~ and seen as a tool of US imperialism
radioactive for them
Democrats have decided the issue is ~ (gun control)
radioactive words
the play contains ~ (relating to race, sexual identity)
find me radioactive
his friends began to ~ (an investigative reporter)

radar (under the radar screen) avoidance & separation / destruction: nuclear energy

under the radar screen

raft (amount)
girls' aggression often passes ~ (school bullying) raft of books
well under the radar screen there have been a ~ about the case
flying ~ was a move by Congress to… raft of shell companies
flying (well) under the radar screen he set up a ~
~ was a move by Congress to… raft of research
passes under the radar screen there has been a ~ lately that...
girls' aggression often ~ amount: boat

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rage (verb) third rail of (American) politics
this issue was once considered ~ (gun control)
raging in New York City
the epidemic is ~ third-rail issue
this is one of those ~s (criticism of Israel)
activity / behavior / control & lack of control / feeling, there are certain topics that are ~s (China and Hong Kong)
emotion & effect: force / movement / mental health / verb this was a ~ that the governor didn’t want to touch (guns)

rage (enthusiasm) embraced the third rail

he has ~ of Republican politics (pro-immigration)
become all the rage ♦ “There are certain topics that are third-rail issues in certain countries,
Paris danced the Mazurka, which had ~ societies and communities. Supporting a separatist movement in a
Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues, not only for the Chinese
enthusiasm: mental health government, but also for all citizens in China.” (Brooklyn Nets owner Joe
Tsai, about comments made by the general manager of the Houston
ragged (adjective) Rockets about China and Hong Kong. The general meaning of the
phrase is “untouchable.”)
ragged (red) beard danger: electricity / train
he had a shaved head and a ~
railroad (verb)
ragged roadscape
a ~ of motels, franchises and big box stores... railroad the sick into giving up
the healthy could ~ (assisted suicide)
ragged, sensitive, elemental
Joplin’s voice—a ~ howl... railroaded him into seeking
he claimed the university had ~ publicity (cold fusion)
battered and ragged
the ships left gleaming and laden and returned ~ railroad innocent folks
the judicial system can ~
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth / clothing & accessories
coercion & motivation / oppression: train / verb
raging (adjective)
railroaded
raging forest fire
for the first time in my life I beheld a ~ (V.K. Arseniev) railroaded
he was ~, chosen to be the scapegoat (wrongly convicted)
activity / behavior / control & lack of control / feeling,
emotion & effect: force / movement / mental health got railroaded
people say they think he ~ (victim of #MeToo movement)
rail (verb) coercion & motivation / oppression: train
railed against the government’s trade policies rain (amount and effect)
he ~
accusation & criticism: sound / speech / verb rained on (northern) Israel
Hezbollah rockets ~
speech: sound / verb
rail (off the rails) rained debris for (more than) 10 miles
the explosion ~ (2 trains collide)
off the rails
raining mud and ash
it seems like he is ~ (behavior of celebrity)
it is now ~ (eruption of volcano on Rabaul)
off-the-rails speech
rockets rained
everyone is talking about his ~
Hezbollah ~ on northern Israel
gone off the rails amount & effect / resemblance: rain / verb
science has ~, gone astray, many times (Havana syndrome)
rain (rain down)
went off the rails
he ~ after moving to the big city (Brazil) rained down
failure, accident & impairment: train more than a hundred cruise missiles ~ (Libya)
behavior: train rain down missiles on Israel
rail (third rail) they could ~
rained down on her
third rail of politics
boos ~ (an athlete)
social security reform is the ~

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amount & effect / resemblance: rain / verb raise (attention)
rainbow (searching and discovery)
raises
end of the rainbow the other question it ~is...
Chile, to me, is the ~ (Bill Sharp / surfing)
raised (a number of ) issues
follow every rainbow we both ~ (diplomacy)
~, 'till you find your dream (song)
raised objections
searching & discovery: allusion / atmosphere / sky they have ~
rainbow (color) raised a (fundamental) question
his firing ~
rainbow sheen
material or ~ on water (pollution incident) raises the question
it ~, how can...
resemblance: atmosphere / color / sky
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / height / verb
rainbow (Rainbow Falls, etc.)
raise (feeling)
Rainbow Falls
~ is on the Wailuku river in Hilo, Hawaii raised our spirits
she really ~
rainbow trout
~ are predators feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height / verb
♦ Many falls around the world are named Rainbow Falls. This is often raised (reared)
because, when the light is right, you can see a rainbow in the mist at the
bottom of the falls.
raised to be
proper name: atmosphere / color / sky I was ~ a good Christian

rainbow (mixture) growth & development: death & life

rainbow mix rake (destroy)

a ~ of Creole, Garifuna, Mestizo, Spanish, Maya (Belize) raking the coast
rainbow nation the hurricane is ~
what Trinidadians call their "~" destruction: tools & technology / verb
♦ Rainbows occur when it is raining while the sun is shining. To see a
rainbow, turn your back to the sun. Look at your shadow on the ground. rake in (verb)
From the shadow of your head (the antisolar point), measure 42 degrees
upwards, or about four fist widths with your arm held straight out in front rake in big money
of you, as if you were holding a stick in your fist vertically. There you may
see the top of the rainbow. The sun must be less than 42 degrees above lobbyists can ~ (government)
the horizon, so that you will never see a rainbow at noon on a summer
day in the US, when the sun is high in the sky. At 51 degrees, you may raked in more than $100 million
see a second rainbow above the primary rainbow. their business model has ~ (Somali pirates)
mixture: atmosphere / sky giving, receiving, bringing & returning: tools & technology /
rainforest (epithet) verb
rake up (verb)
rainforests of the sea
coral reefs are often called the ~ raking up some horrible memories
biodiversity: epithet we are ~ (a crime podcast)

rainmaker (person) searching & discovery: tools & technology / verb

rally (verb)
lead rainmaker
the congresswoman’s chief of staff and ~ has resigned rallied the troops
♦ A rainmaker is a lawyer or salesman who makes a lot of money for the she ~ (an executive of troubled company)
company, or a person who can ensure progress and success.
rallied around her
worth & lack of worth: person / rain
her fans ~ (controversy)
person: money / rain
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain rallied around the reporting
/ weather & climate fellow reporters have ~
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 conservatives have ~ (a minister in trouble) close ranks, (they) circle the wagons
the groups ~ (bands, sororities, fraternities / hazing)
assembling: flags & banners / military / verb
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners / military / allegiance, support & betrayal: line / military / verb
verb unanimity & consensus: line / military / verb
ramp (off-ramp) protection & lack of protection: line / military / history /
verb
diplomatic “off-ramp” rank (break ranks)
there appears to be no easy ~ in this crisis
break ranks
accept this off-ramp some Democrats will ~
he is willing to ~ that Iran is offering (diplomacy)
broke ranks
looking for an off-ramp she ~ and told Americans... (pandemic)
he is ~ (de-escalation of a crisis)
allegiance, support & betrayal: line / military / verb
offers (both sides) an off-ramp unanimity & consensus: line / military / verb
the attack ~ (de-escalation of crisis)
rank-and-file (adjective)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: infrastructure
rampart (protection) rank-and-file rebels
she has secured her nominations after negotiations with ~
rampart against militancy (politics)
France relied on Ben Ali as a ~ hierarchy: line / military
ramparts of flesh and blood rape (verb)
they were living ~ against barbarity (the Kurds)
raping me all over again
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
I felt like the system was ~
rampart (Upper Ramparts, etc.) destruction: violence
Upper Ramparts rape (noun)
the ~ is a canyon on the Porcupine River (Yukon)
rape of (Indonesia's) forests
proper name: fortification / military
the devastating ~
rampart (resemblance) destruction: violence
ramparts of the Hindu Kush rapier (noun)
the Wakhan Corridor is cut off by the ~
rapier thrust
resemblance: fortification / military
there is a ~ to Solskjaer’s side (BBC hype)
ramp up (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword
ramping up our efforts rash (affliction)
we are ~ (diplomacy)
rash of (home) burglaries
ramp up (COVID-19) testing concern about a ~
the US wants to ~
rash of cases
increase & decrease: tools & technology / verb
a ~ occurred in Puerto Rico (early puberty)
rank (close ranks) rash of clashes
close ranks a recent ~ between bikers (motorcycle gangs)
when cops are attacked, they often ~ rash of crime
the natural tendency for the Arab world is to ~ gun sales are up after a ~s
closed ranks around him there has been a ~s against women
in the past they have always ~ (politics) Academy officials have no explanation for the ~

close ranks behind him rash of drownings

will the party ~ (politics) the ~ has tourism officials on the spot (Florida)

close ranks with Obama rash of abductions and murders

her concession and her call to ~ (politics) the impression of a ~ of children

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rash of accidents and near misses rat (smell a rat)
a ~ had spooked the sailors of the 7th Fleet
smell a rat
recent rash I ~ (something suspicious)
the ~ of cybervandalism
evidence / suspicion: animal / rat / smell
affliction / amount / amount & effect: health & medicine
rat race
rash (road rash, etc.)
rat race
river rash deep into the ~, far from the finish line of retirement
it's just ~ (scratches on used kayak)
corporate rat race
road rash many women drop out of the ~ (competition, etc.)
he proudly showed off his ~ (skateboarder)
drop out of the (corporate) rat race
resemblance: health & medicine
many women ~ (competition, etc.)
rash (hasty) ♦ The Rat Race is for Rats! (A bumper sticker.)
♦ Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. (A bumper sticker.)
rash decision
♦ “I get away from all that rat-race noise down in the street.” (Carole
he made a ~ (short of money, he shoplifted) King, “Up On the Roof.”)
haste: health & medicine competition / work & duty: animal / rat
Rashomon (point of view) ratchet up (verb)
Rashomon effect ratcheted up its criticism
the ~ refers to conflicting eye-witness accounts of an event the State Department has ~ of China on this issue
Rashomon moment meeting a Rorschach test ratchets up the pressure
this was a ~ (3-group confrontation on DC mall) this ~ on him (athlete receives sports award)
♦ In the 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa, four people give radically different his arrest ~
versions about how a man ended up dead.
ratcheted up the pressure
perception, perspective & point of view: allusion / film
he has ~ on foreign oil companies
rat (lab rat, etc.) ratcheted up his (anti-American) rhetoric
he has ~
gym rat
he's a ~ tensions ratchet up
he was the quintessential ~ (Larry Bird / basketball) before a deployment, ~ (military families)
lab rat ♦ A ratchet is a tool that can be used to tighten cables or metal strips.
The pawl of the ratchet, which looks like a Toucan's beak, prevents
if you weren't such a ~, you would know that slippage backwards. Deckhands on riverboats use ratchets to tighten
cables that hold the barges together. Warehouse workers often use a
mall rat ratchet to securely bundle together trash-compacted material, which is
my brother is a ~ then taken away by a forklift.

pack rat increase & decrease: tools & technology / verb

I’m a bit of a ~ (hoarder) increase & decrease: mechanism / pressure / verb

river rat rattle (disrupt)

~s (kayakers, rafters) versus the locals
he has been a ~ since the age of 14 (guide)
rattled some people
I ~ (female CEO and former athlete)
"snow rat"
he was a ~ from childhood (a snowboarder)
rattle our cage
don’t ~
enthusiasm: animal / person / rat
rattle cages
rat (snitch) the government is willing to ~ to get things done
♦ “Justice will be served and the battle will rage / This big dog will fight
rat when you rattle his cage...” (“Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The
the other inmates think he's a ~, an informant Angry American”) by Toby Keith.)

allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / person / rat disruption: equilibrium & stability / sound / verb

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rattled (feeling) razor (razor-thin)
rattled razor-thin margin
the city is ~ (a series of murders) the election was decided by a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability size: breadth
rave (verb) reach (secure)
raved about her (smoky gray) eyes reached an agreement
Multichannel News ~ Democrats said they had ~ with the White House
enthusiasm / speech: mental health / verb reach your conclusion
how did you ~
rave (rave review, etc.)
attainment: movement / verb
rave reviews
her album came out to ~ (Lizzo) reach (a number)
enthusiasm / speech: mental health reached number one
his song ~ in the charts
ravenous (adjective)
reached 72 mph
ravenous for success gusts ~ (windy weather)
he is ~
reached an unprecedented high
intellectually ravenous suicide rates have ~
he was ~ (an academic)
reached a 9-year high
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
stabbings have ~
consumption: food & drink
attainment: number / verb
ravenously
reach (reach an answer, etc.)
ravenously followed
the media ~ the story reach your answer
how did you ~
consumption: food & drink
reached its conclusion
raw (adjective) on 22 May the trial ~
raw analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
her emotions are still ~ movement / verb
rubbed raw reach (a place on a journey)
she was ~ emotionally (newspaper advice columnist)
the battle ~ the country’s divides (political, social, etc.) reached its lowest ebb
morale had ~ when... (military)
remain raw
emotions ~ reached an impasse
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves we have ~ in the negotiations
& bone reached a point
raw (raw recruit, etc.) we have almost ~ of no return
reached a crisis point
raw novice we have ~ in education funding
how much work it takes to become a ~ (boxing)
reached its lowest point
experience: meat
her life ~ one morning in a gutter
ray (ray of hope, etc.) reached (one of) its most crucial stages
ray of hope 350 million years ago, evolution ~ (life moves to land)
looking for a ~ development: journeys & trips / movement / verb
amount / evidence: atmosphere / light & dark attainment: journeys & trips / movement / verb
reach (the news reached him, etc.)
reached him

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 sadly, the good news never ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading /
♦ Bad news travels fast! verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: journeys & read (analyze)
trips / movement / verb
read between the lines
reach (beyond reach) they fail to listen, observe and ~
~ and you can see...
beyond our reach you have to ~ to understand
what was once in our grasp is now ~
read clues
attainment / proximity: arm the FBI's failure to properly ~ available before 9/11
reach (within reach) read a map
within reach I can't ~ to save my life
the president has declared world peace ~ read your (electric) meter
attainment / proximity: arm how to ~ (utility brochure)

reach (extent and scope) read my mind

you ~
global reach
our local touch with our ~ (L.A. Times)
read the (blocking) schemes
they know how to ~ (football players)
gang's reach
the ~ extends across America
reading the skies
as long as people have walked the earth, they have been ~
reach was extended
the paper’s ~ by Pullman porters (Chicago Defender) read the signs
if you can't ~, you won't survive (the taigá)
extent & scope: arm
reads the signs
reach out (verb) he ~ like a map ("Shadow Wolves" tracker)

reached out to people read the sky

he has ~ who have been looked over (a fashion designer) they pride themselves on their ability to ~ (hunters)

reached out to families read a (financial) statement

she ~ from the neighborhood (school needs students) she learned how to read a ~

reaches out to his rivals read the weather, wind, sun, stars
he ~ (politician) a sailor must be able to ~ (sailing)

reach out to students hard to read

universities ~ from all walks of life Ohio is ~ (elections)

reach out to those analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading /
it is not unusual for the Amish to ~ who hurt them verb

reach out to us read (the sign read don’t enter, etc.)

we hope he will ~ (cops seek contact with criminal)
altimeter read
reach out to (minority ethnic ) youth my ~ 27,500 feet (Mount Everest)
the government has failed to ~ (France)
banners read
reach out to non-Muslims huge ~ “Allez les Bleus” (World Cup soccer)
~ and educate people about Islam
card read
division & connection: arm / verb his business ~ “Any kinds of Ladies’ Tailor and Skin, etc.”
read (read something in something) decal (on the door) read
a ~ “In the name of Allah we enter...”
read too much into it
don't ~ label reads
the ~, “Made in England”
read anything into that
but I really would beg you not to ~ map reads
“These islands are rich,” the ~

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poster read rank-and-file rebels
the ~, “You’re Not Good Enough To Be A Marine” she secured her party’s nomination after negotiations with ~
radar read world’s oldest rebel
the ~ 31,500, 25,400, and 18,300 (diving plane) he calls himself the ~ (Harry Leslie Smith)
sign read sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / person
a hand-painted ~, “God Bless America” resistance, opposition & defeat: military / person
watch read rebel (adjective)
my ~ 1:17 P.M. (at the top of Mount Everest)
Rebel Royal
fictive communication: books & reading / verb Princess Margaret: ~
realm (area) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
realm of ideas
now that partisanship infects every corner of the ~ rebel (verb)
realm of giant peaks rebel
the ~ (Pakistan) he began to ~ (in school after death of father)
realms of sci-fi and fantasy sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / verb
he explored the ~ (Rod Serling) resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
♦ “Crushing pressure, brutal cold and utter darkness; an epic journey into
the unknown; alien worlds; bizarre creatures; extraordinary new
rebellion (noun)
behaviours; unendurable pressures; savage hordes of Humboldt squid...”
(BBC enters the hype realm for Blue Planet II, The Deep.) seeds of rebellion
♦ “Adventure is pushing yourself into unknown realms, not dying just
enforced potty sitting can sow the ~ (toddlers)
because the pro sucked.” (The great climber Todd Skinner.)
courting rebellion by pushing ahead
area: royalty he is ~ with his plan (political party)
reap (verb) conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: military

reaped (vast) sums from (Nigerian) oil rebirth (noun)

Shell has ~
rebirth of (mountain) culture
reap (enormous political) support from the unions the ~
politicians can ~ (education)
gospel of rebirth
reap their (biggest) profits by selling he is preaching a ~ to everyone (Detroit mayor)
sex traffickers ~ virgins (Asia)
death and rebirth
reaping a (bitter) harvest the primordial pageant of ~ of light (solar eclipse)
teachers are ~ (dislike by public)
growth & development: birth
reap the (almost immeasurable) rewards primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: birth
a few corporations ~ of a vast new world (AI) amelioration & renewal: birth

reap the whirlwind reboot (verb)

he who sows the wind shall ~ (Bible)
reboot the series
product: farming & agriculture / plant / verb he is helping ~ (new Twilight Zone)
reared (raised) starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb

reared on fiascoes reboot (noun)

young Americans have been ~ (war, recession, etc.)
reboot
growth & development: death & life Ukraine is ready for a ~ (political change)
rebel (person) starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism

rebel, tree sister, earth protector reborn

I am a ~ (Extinction Rebellion)
reborn career
outcast Hollywood rebel a ~ as an advertising icon (Jeff Hakman)
he was the ~ (film director Nicholas Ray) amelioration & renewal: birth

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growth & development: birth recast (modern) womanhood
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: birth she helped ~ (Helen Gurley Brown / Cosmo)
rebound (recover) recast as a villain
a guard cast as a hero was ~ (Richard Jewell)
ability to rebound
resilience is the ~ characterization: manufacturing / verb
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
skin can rebound
~ and look younger (anti-aging creams) received (wisdom, etc.)
resiliency: ball / movement / verb received wisdoms
movement: ball / verb I do like to question ~ because they suit somebody
rebound (verb) transmission: giving, receiving, bringing & returning
rebounded in numbers recipe (noun)
it's possible the sharks have ~
recipe for conflict
rates never fully rebounded in the brutal world of Afghan politics, this was a ~
vaccination ~ (autism fears)
recipe for controversy
increase & decrease: ball / movement / verb combining sex and religion is a ~ (the arts)
movement: ball / verb
recipe for disaster
rebound (on the rebound) this is a ~ (using pig organs for human transplants)
on the rebound recipe for success
the economy is finally ~ working together is a ~ (sports)
the sick seal appears to be ~
recipe for a breakdown
amelioration & renewal / resiliency: ball I can't let it tear me apart because it's just a ~ (anxiety)
rebound (rebound headache, etc.) script: food & drink
rebound headache recoil (verb)
it sounds like you're experiencing ~s
drugs can cause ~s recoiled from his comments
fellow Republicans ~
rebound hypertension
abrupt discontinuation may cause ~ (drug) recoiled from (a lot of) positions
he ~ propounded by Miller (politics)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: ball
attraction & repulsion: tools & technology / verb
rebuild (verb)
recycle (verb)
rebuild their lives
they are trying to ~ recycle parts
we hope to ~ of the program
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb
amelioration & renewal: manufacturing / verb
recant (verb)
red (Red Sea, etc.)
recanted
one of his earliest supporters ~ Red Sea
Jeddah, the bride of the ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: religion / verb
Red Volta
recapture (verb) the ~ is a tributary of the Volta River
recapture past glories proper name: color
patience is required as the club tries to ~ (Man U)
red alert (on red alert)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb on red alert
all organizations employing Westerners are ~ (terror)
recast (verb)
readiness & preparedness: color
recast the (university's) image
it is part of a longstanding plan to ~

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red carpet (treatment) last redoubt
North Korea is the ~ Stalinist isolation
red carpet for investors
lay out the ~ gritty, blue-collar redoubt
Williamsburg used to be a ~ (Brooklyn)
lay out the red carpet for investors
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
they ~
rolled out the red carpet for Karzai
red tape
the White House ~ red tape
welcome: carpets & rugs / royalty rescue efforts got bogged down by ~ (earthquake)

red flag bureaucratic red tape

the ~ required to…
red flags
it raised some ~ to me (ethical question) incompetence and red tape
the company's disclosure raises a ~ (fraud) the ~ is amazing (Italian government)

red flags of arson ran into red tape

there are many ~ (arson investigation) the inmate's transfer ~

intelligence red flags cut through (all) the red tape

a range of ~ signaling terrorist activity (Kenya) he ~ to get it done

warning signs or red flags got bogged down by red tape

there were no ~ (mass shooter) rescue efforts ~ (Kobe earthquake)
obstacles & impedance: government
red flags may signal
the following 10 ~ an early problem (children) action, inaction & delay: government

raised red flags

reel (verb)
I ~ at the time the decision was made reeling from accusations
♦ "Not only were there red flags, they were flapping in the wind." (A Wall Street is ~ that it is a rigged casino
psychiatrist, commenting on the suicide of a university student.)
reeling from her diagnosis
warning: color / flags & banners / sign, signal, symbol
she is ~ (HIV)
sign, signal, symbol: color / flags & banners
red (politics) reeling from the effects
the town is ~ of the hurricane
red state reeling from 3 hurricanes
is Iowa at this point a ~ or a blue state Cuba is still ~ in a year last year
♦ "Is Iowa at this point a red state or a blue state?" "Iowa is still a purple
state." (US politics, as talked about on NPR.) reeling from a (citizens') revolt
♦ “Red, R, Reagan, that’s why we chose red.” (A network broadcaster the city council is ~ over officials' pay
during the 1984 presidential election, explaining why states that had
gone for Reagan were colored red on a national map. Democratic states reeling from a (massive) scandal
were colored blue.) Massachusetts is ~ in its state's crime lab
identity & nature: color
reeling from a series
redoubt (noun) the industry is ~ of scandals

redoubt of independent Russian mass media reeling from the shock

the radio station is the last ~ the staff is still ~ of the shootings

redoubt of (all-male Protestant) privilege economy is reeling

Princeton University was a ~ the ~, and politicians are making it worse
equilibrium & stability: verb / walking, running & jumping
redoubt for the townies and old-timers
the hotel and its bar is the last major ~ disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb / walking, running
& jumping
redoubt for carousing reel in (verb)
it was a ~ (Sarajevo bar during war)
redoubt in hay loft reel him in
the barn cat watched me from its ~ maybe there's a way we can ~ (investigation)
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb

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reflex (noun) rehearse (verb)
reflex response rehearse for combat
shaming has become the ~ to anything (Twitter) the maneuvers are a chance for soldiers to ~ (Kuwait)
standard reflex rehearse on terrain and under conditions
when confronted, his ~ is to try and gaslight you if possible, ~ like those at the operation site (military)
♦ “[T]he simple, elegant, inexpensive almost plebeian swing of the reflex
hammer has a cost/benefit ratio that I think no advanced technology will rehearsed your answers
likely ever match.” (Dr. Stephen Krieger, an expert on multiple sclerosis.) when you have your script and have ~ (interview)
control & lack of control: skin, muscle, nerves & bone rehearse procedures
~ for evacuation requests (casualties / military)
refrain (common refrain, etc.)
rehearse the signals
common refrain ~ to be used on the patrol (military)
there’s a ~ among these MeToo stories (relief)
rehearses (critical) tasks
Navy refrain the platoon ~
“SWOs eat their own” is a common ~ (jealousy)
tasks to rehearse
repetition: music some important ~ include assaulting a bunker
refuge (noun) failure to rehearse
refuge from bullying short planning time, ~, and leader fatigue… (military)
nowadays there is no ~ (teens and cyber-bullying) plan, rehearse, and execute
seek refuge ~ the operation (military)
many ~ in delusion, denial and fantasy (Mideast) readiness & preparedness: theater / verb
protection & lack of protection: place reign (verb)
rehearsal (noun) uncertainty reigns
rehearsal even with computer models as a guide, ~
~s build confidence and improve performance (military) starting, going, continuing & ending: royalty / verb
~s reveal weaknesses or problems (military)
reign (noun)
rehearsal of all (critically timed) events
a ~ should be done (ARSOA) reign
his ~ as the heavyweight champion lasted only…
rehearsal for invasion his ~ as a terrorist mastermind (Palestinian)
North Korea calls the maneuvers a ~
reign as the (heavyweight) champion
rehearsals or reconnaissance his ~ lasted only seven months
terrorists undertake ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
dress rehearsal
if a full-scale ~ is impossible (military) reigning
mission rehearsals reigning academics
this plan, along with ~… (military) he battled against the stale works of the ~
plans, SOPS, standards, and rehearsals reigning champion
integrate measures into ~ (fratricide) as ~, Armstrong… (Tour de France)
planning, rehearsal, and execution reigning champs
during mission ~ (military) we're the ~ (basketball)
reconnaissance and (some) rehearsal reigning wisdom
no doubt it required some ~ (attack on Red Cross) this has become the ~ of the nineties
conduct rehearsals former and reigning (m)
~ on terrain that resembles the actual ground (military) ~ heavyweights (boxing)
readiness & preparedness: theater primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty

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re-ignite (verb) holds the reins to the union
he ~
re-ignite (economic) growth
I'll ~ (commercial for a politician) turn over the (organizing) reins to Ross
he will ~
initiation: fire / verb
handed the reins
reign of terror / fear, etc. he has been ~ (new coach for team)
reign of fear seize the reins
Iraq's Shiites describe a ~ (Saddam) he will probably ~ (football player for a position)
reign of terror control & lack of control: animal / horse
a full-scale invasion to end the ~ (Haiti)
stoning is used to extend the ~ (Iran)
rein (free rein)
reign of terror against (ethnic) minorities free rein
carrying out a ~ (Burma) he was given ~ to loft his jumper (basketball)
the panel has a ~ to look at other areas of his research
reign of terror in Uganda
Idi Amin's ~ have a free rein
weapons inspectors must ~ (in Iraq)
reign of terror by (indigenous) Dayaks
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / horse
a savage ~ (Indonesia)
Idi Amin's reign of terror
reined in
~ in Uganda reigned in
savage reign of terror the violence of his previous films has been ~
a ~ by indigenous Dayaks (Indonesia) violence has been reined in
imposed a reign of terror the ~ (in a filmmaker's latest film)
foreign militants have ~ in South Waziristan control & lack of control: animal / horse
oppression: allusion / history / royalty / violence reinvigorate (verb)
rein (rein in) reinvigorated the agency
rein in (Medicare) costs she has ~
he wants to ~ (politics) reinvigorates support
rein in (tribal and personal) rivalries Nike’s ad ~ in Kaepernick’s corner
~ (Afghanistan) amelioration & renewal: death & life / health & medicine /
rein in the rocket fire verb
Hamas has been trying to ~ rekindle (verb)
rein in (government) spending rekindles memories
we need to ~
it ~ of the bad old days of Suharto
control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb
rekindle our relationship
rein (reins of power, etc.) I'm not looking to ~

reins of Holland rekindling their romance

he ran PSV Eindhoven before taking the ~ (coach) Lindsay and Samantha may be ~ (celebrities)

reins of power rekindle stereotypes

he has successfully gathered all the ~ into his hands (crown he worries the case might ~ of Mississippi
prince)
rekindle (these) stereotypes
reins to the union CBS comes along to ~ (show on hillbillies)
he holds the ~ initiation: fire / verb
organizing reins starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb
Rose will turn over the ~ to Sunny Ross relative (relationship)
hold on the reins
he now has a much stronger ~ (government)
relative
anorexia nervosa, or its ~, bulimia nervosa

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relative of the giraffe religion to many
the okapi, a ~… barbecuing is a ~ …
close relative morphed into a religion
chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a ~ of Alzheimer's for many Americans, work has ~
relationship: family enthusiasm: religion
relax (relax control, etc.) religiously
relax the (normally strict) boundaries watches the show religiously
a psychiatrist may ~ of the doctor-patient relationship he ~
relax their lockdown measures enthusiasm: religion
a number of countries are set to ~ (COVID-19)
remain (verb)
relaxed some rigid rules
he has ~ (coach) remain
but many questions remain (terrorism)
increase & decrease: pressure / verb
remaining coy
relax (feeling) most potential candidates are ~ for now (presidency)
relaxed and drank wine coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / presence &
in the afterglow of our rafting trip we ~ absence / survival, persistence & endurance: movement /
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure verb

relic (noun) remedy (verb)

relic of a (different) era remedy the problems
this system is a ~ (governance) we must ~ of the past
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
relic of the past
privacy has become a ~ (Internet, etc.) remedy (noun)
his confrontational approach was rejected as a ~ (coach)
whooping cough, once thought to be a ~... remedy for stress
will Covid-19 make handshakes a ~ a sense of control is the best ~ (living with terrorism)
relic of an earlier time remedies for violations
the club is a ~ (a social club) administrative ~ of the statute (Title IX)
relic of households past remedy for the cabin fever
the iron is a ~ a ~ that plagues Vermont all winter
relic of the Cold War administrative remedy
NATO is not a useless ~ ~s for violations of the statute (Title IX)
dated relic best remedy
some think the musical is a ~ (The King and I) a good mousing cat is the ~ (mice in stable)
a sense of control is the ~ for stress (terrorism)
obsolete relic
the book-based world will be an ~ (Internet) legal remedy
the injustice cried out for a ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: Bible / religion in some countries marriage is a ~ for statutory rape
past & present / time: Bible / religion
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
relief (in bold relief)
remote (past)
in bold relief
the Battle of the Bulge revealed those intelligence failures ~ remote past
in the ~, dinosaurs roamed the land
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height
past & present / time: distance
religion (enthusiasm)
remote (future)
religion
deep in the Bible Belt, here football is ~ (Knoxville) remote future
football is a ~ and Saturday is the high holy day (South) alternative scenarios of the ~ (science)
events set in a ~ (science fiction)

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future / time: distance help & assistance / performance: theater
amount / group, set & collection: theater
remove (kill)
report card
remove him from the battlefield
the president’s decision to ~ saved US lives Report Card for America's Infrastructure
the 2005 "~" (American Society of Civil Engineers)
euphemism: death & life / verb
nation's report card
renaissance (noun) the national assessment is often called " ~"
renaissance of fable mixed report card
the Age of Discovery brought a ~ for Obama, a ~ from Afghanistan
renaissance era report card gives
its release ushered in Disney’s ~ (Little Mermaid, 1989) a ~ 29 states an F (health-care price transparency)
career renaissance gets a bad report card
she is enjoying a ~ (an actor) when a school ~
something of a renaissance issues report cards
documentary has undergone ~ in the last ten years the state department of health ~ on hospitals and surgeons
amelioration & renewal / growth & development / primacy, judgment: school & education
currency, decline & obsolescence: birth / history
reprieve (noun)
repair (verb)
reprieve from (intense) colds
repair the economy with only 20 weeks of ~ every year… (Siberia)
we need to ~ at home
fate, fortune & chance: justice
repaired their relationship punishment & recrimination: justice
she and Tom have ~
rescue (verb)
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
rescue the program from mediocrity
repair (noun) he promised to ~ (a new coach)
in need of repair rescue these 78 RPMs, tapes, wax cylinders, everything
their marriage is ~ we try to ~ (AMAR Foundation / Mustapha Saeed)
amelioration & renewal: mechanism survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
repay (verb) help & assistance: death & life / verb
rescue (noun)
repaid me with petty insults
he ~ for having rejected him (#MeToo) come to their rescue
repay the debt of gratitude people are looking to scientists to ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
we can never ~ owed to our nation’s veterans ♦ “Knowing that the divers on the scene were not up to this specialized
task of entering the cave, and assuming—that Gant might still be alive in
obligation: money / verb an air pocket—[Buddy] Lane pleaded by telephone that trained caver
divers be called in. This was refused. He asked that he, as a specialist in
repercussion (noun) cave rescue, be allowed to come to the scene to assess the situation. (In
the intense politics of rescue, a team must be invited to the scene by the
IC—incident commander—of the lead agency.) His request was
repercussions and reverberations refused... Refused permission to even approach the cave, Lane pleaded
fears about the ~ of a targeted killing persisted at regular intervals that cave divers be used. Each time, his request was
denied by the IC...” (“The Bat Cave Miracle, 16 August 1992, Nickajack
shocking repercussions Lake Cave, New Hope, Tennessee.” Lane and Curry ended up saving
Gant’s life.)
her reaction had some ~
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
crime and its repercussions
help & assistance: death & life
this gruesome ~
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
reservoir (amount)
effect: sound reservoirs of rage
repertoire (noun) the loneliness of children and their often unrecognized ~
repertoire of your teaching kit reservoir of good feeling
jokes may contribute to the ~ (education) polls show a surprising ~ toward Obama

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tap into the reservoir effect: sound / verb
the militants can ~ of submerged hatred rest (put something to rest)
amount: dam / river / water
put this matter to rest
reservoir (source) we must ~

viral reservoir starting, going, continuing & ending: sleep / verb

bats are among the most dangerous ~ on earth reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: sleep / verb
source: dam / river / water restlessness
reservoir (group) musical restlessness
that ~ has made her a lightning rod (country music)
reservoir of labor
the DPs became a ~ (WW II “Baltic Swans,” etc.) activity: sleep

group, set & collection: river / water resurface (verb)

reset (noun) resurfaced
jihadists have ~ to pursue an Islamic state
reset he went to ground for a few months but then ~ (wanted)
he wants an overall ~ (policy towards Afghanistan) his self-destructive tendencies have ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism appearance & disappearance: verb / water
reset (verb) resurrect (verb)
reset relations resurrect a career
Obama promised to ~ with Russia he was desperately trying to ~ that… (a boxer)
reset the trajectory resurrect (many of the old) criticisms
he helped formulate the strategy that ~ of the war a German defeat will ~ (soccer)
fix or reset resurrected a killer
the law’s efforts to ~ struggling schools (NCLB) scientists have ~ (reconstructed 1918 flu virus)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb resurrect performers
reshape (verb) CGI can ~ from another era
amelioration & renewal: death & life / religion / verb
reshape how
the debate could ~ Americans understand foreign aid resurrection (noun)
reshaped Hollywood resurrection of the (1918) flu
the Jaws producer who ~ (Richard Zanuck) the story of the ~ began in 1995…
reshaping (Indian) society retrieval, resurrection, and revival
westernization is ~ his ~ (Thoreau / US literary canon)
reshaped the (ethnic) landscape amelioration & renewal: death & life / religion
the brutal violence has ~ survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / religion
creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing / verb resuscitate (verb)
resonate (verb) resuscitate this (all but abandoned) city
how can we ~ (Detroit)
resonated around Mexico
the news ~ (arrest of Garcia Luna) resuscitate the middle class
if only we could ~
resonate with students
his speech will ~ (politics) amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
endurance: death & life / health & medicine / verb
resonates with Latin voters
Bernie’s message ~ (election) retch (verb)
resonated loud and long retch
accounts of the 1963 Everest epic ~ if education jargon causes you to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb make me want to retch

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 some of his comments ~ (politics) his heart and liver function had ~ (CO poisoning)
acceptance & rejection / consumption / feeling, emotion & returning to normal
effect / hyperbole: bodily reaction / food & drink / stomach things are slowly ~
/ verb
returned in force
retire (verb) it was still horribly cold and the wind ~ (climbing)

retire the term conditions return

it’s time to ~ (LGBTZ+) coral can recover if ~ to normal (bleaching)
♦ This simply means to retire someone (or something) and is a function had returned
benevolent concept. An alternative is, “Time to send him off to the
sanctuary.” A less benevolent idea is “Slaughter the donkey when its
his heart and liver ~ to normal (CO poisoning)
work is done.” Or “it’s time to send him to the glue factory.”
wind returned
♦ Cats in the Cradle; Imagine; Yesterday; Happy (Pharrell); American
Pie; Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)... (“Hallelujah! The Songs We Should
it was still horribly cold and the ~ in force (climbing)
Retire,” NPR, All Songs Considered, hosted by Bob Boilen, October 11,
2017.)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR,
verb
Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term
woke has had its day and should be retired. return (animals, etc.)
♦ “Why It’s Time To Retire The ‘Serious Conversation About Race’”, with
Damon Young. (1A, WAMU, NPR, July 16, 2020.)
return of this (national) symbol
the dramatic ~ (bald eagle)
dismissal, removal & resignation: verb / work & duty
return of the wolf
retort (speech) the west has seen the ~ (US)
angry retort dramatic return
the allegations have brought an ~ the ~ of this national symbol (the bald eagle)
♦ A retort is a chamber or vessel relating to heat. primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
speech: tools & technology survival, persistence & endurance: direction
retreat (withdraw) return (point of no return)
retreated into himself point of no return
he ~ (high-altitude bivouac on Gasherbrum IV) many see annexation as a ~ in terms of a peace deal

retreated into a fantasy world fate, fortune & chance: journeys & trips
she ~ (9-year-old, father jailed) development: journeys & trips
commitment & determination: journeys & trips
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction /
military return (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / military return of function
retreat (reverse) full ~ is common (fracture)

retreated from that stand return of cold temperatures

he has since ~, saying… (politician) the ~ led to an ice age

retreated on several points return to function

still, the state has ~ (prisoners' demands) complete ~ is the norm (fracture)

retreating on his policy return to the fundamentals

he is ~ to... (president) Salafis advocate a strict ~

retreated on that return to the "old days"

but the EPA ~ (reverses a ban) what he really wants is a ~ (Pakistani Christian)

reversal: direction / military / verb return to traditional foods

resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / military / verb the tepary bean symbolizes a ~ (Tohono O'odham)

return (verb) point of no return

I reached the ~
return to normal
coral can recover if conditions ~ (bleaching) symbolizes a return
the tepary bean ~ to traditional foods (Tohono O'odham)
returned to normal
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement

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rewritten (changed) reverberate (verb)
rewritten reverberates beyond our own shores
tools that allow the code of life to be ~ (Crispr-Cas9) the political dialogue in the US ~ (New Zealand massacre)
creation & transformation: writing & spelling reverberate through admission offices
the case is sure to ~ (forged transcripts)
reveal (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb
reveal how transmission: sound / verb
his novels ~ things really got done (spycraft)
reverberation (noun)
reveal a (genetic) bottleneck
blood samples ~ (too few Amur tigers left) reverberations across the globe
the attacks in Christchurch have had ~ (mass shooting)
reveal some dirt
critics hoped the report would ~ on the President (politics) global reverberations
the choices that are made have ~ (world leadership)
revealed the extent
dawn ~ of devastation political reverberations
the ~ continued to be felt (assassination)
revealed a (deep) fissure
the resignations ~ among Afghan leaders repercussions and reverberations
fears about the ~ of a targeted killing persisted
reveals (many) hidden gems
the road ~ (N7 in France) reverberations haven't died away
that was 150 years ago, yet the ~ (Civil War)
reveal gulf
antiwar marches ~ between leaders and people feeling, emotion & effect: sound
effect / transmission: sound
reveal the hypocrisy
he listed the façade of respectability to ~ review (noun)
reveals a (disturbing) pattern rave reviews
the data ~ to a trained eye his new pitch has drawn ~ (a pitcher)

reveal themselves mixed reviews

secrets always ~ in the light of truth but his performance got ~ (a lawyer)
concealment & lack of concealment: verb judgment: theater
evidence: verb revive (verb)
reveal (big reveal, etc.)
revive (computer) systems
big reveal Baltimore struggles to ~ paralyzed by hackers
when will she make the ~
revive hiring
big reveals government intervention can ~
one of their ~ was stegosaurus (finds / paleontologists) amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
gender reveal endurance: death & life / health & medicine / verb
at a ~ party
revolt (verb)
concealment & lack of concealment: verb to noun
searching & discovery: verb to noun revolted against the pay
shareholders have ~ awarded to...
rev up (verb)
revolted against her attempts
revved up the debate many supporters of her party have ~ at austerity
the information ~ over the war
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
increase & decrease: engine / verb
revolt (noun)
revved (revved up)
shareholder revolt
revved up the aftershocks from the ~ will be felt...
the crowd is ~
citizens’ revolt
feeling, emotion & effect: engine the city council is reeling from a ~ over officials’ pay

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resistance, opposition & defeat: military the CAT scanner ~ throughout the world
revolution (noun) revolutionized women's lives
the sewing machine ~ (1870s)
revolution in (data) storage
astronomy faces a ~ revolutionized forensic anthropology
the body farm ~ (Knoxville, TN)
communications revolution
the ~ that is the Web importance & significance: history / verb
disruption / growth & development: history / verb
information revolution
the impact of the ~ revolve (revolve around something)
Internet revolution revolved around heroism
helped propel the ~ for many tribes, life ~

digital music revolution revolves around the ocean

his startup, MP3.com, helped ignite the ~ our life ~ (Perth / Australia)

shortboard revolution revolved around the sea

his board designs helped kick off the ~ (surfing) his life ~ (a surfer)

lesbian revolution revolved around sports

her hit song Wenn die beste Freundin unleashed a ~ his childhood ~

sexual revolution revolved around a (church) youth group

living in a country that went through the ~ (US) her social life ~

aftermath of the (sexual) revolution revolve around personalities and geography

in the ~ allegiances ~ (Tuvalu politics)

impact of the (information) revolution bases: astronomy / movement / verb

the ~ attraction & repulsion: astronomy / verb

path of revolution revolving door

another bored child of privilege who chose the ~
revolving door
revolution is brewing her romantic life is a ~
a ~ (against bilingual education) it has been a ~ and there’s been a lot of turnover (politics)

launched a revolution revolving door of the Trump administration

he ~ (astronomer looking at X-ray emitters) through the ~ goes another high-level departure

kick off the (shortboard) revolution
his board designs helped ~ (surfing)
importance & significance: history
disruption / growth & development: history
revolutionary (adjective)
revolutionary for biology
the discovery of DNA was ~
revolutionary for physics
the discovery of cosmic microwave fluctuations was ~
revolutionary breakthroughs
~ in armor technology (military)
importance & significance: history
disruption / growth & development: history
revolutionize (verb)
revolutionized the (retail drug) business
Mr. Walgreen ~ in the 1950s
revolutionized (medical) care
revolving door between the DEA and the drug industry
if you take a look at the ~ (regulators become lobbyists)
revolving door between sickness and health
many moved constantly in a ~ (Egypt / preventive medicine)
revolving door of (national-security) advisors
this has been the ~ (firings, resignations, etc.)
movement: doors & thresholds
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: doors &
thresholds / movement
reward (verb)
reward you with its beauty
whatever the season, the galax will ~ (plant)
reward the winners with certificates
we ~ of achievement (class project)
rewards loyalty over excellence
he ~ (president)
reward (or punish) students for their behavior
grades should not ~

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rewards (creative) approaches rewarding thing
the competition ~ to… (research) it's the most ~ I've ever done (adoption)
rewards the (personal) loyalty rewarding spiritually
the bureaucracy ~ of those at the bottom it's very ~ (paragliding / Hawaii)
reward or punish fun and rewarding
grades should not ~ students for their behavior wilderness and travel medicine can be ~
cost & benefit: money / verb cost & benefit: money
reward (noun) rewind (verb)
reward rewind
I think that the risk is part of the ~ (a climber) if I could ~ I would (a swatting leads to death of innocent)
rewards of fish watching present & past / time: film
introduce recreational divers to the ~
ribbon (Ribbon Reef, etc.)
rewards like money, sex and drugs
the human brain is acutely attuned to ~ Ribbon Creek
we paddled up ~ (Alberta, Canada)
rewards for (good) work
high grades are given as ~ (school) Ribbon Lake
~ is in Alberta, Canada
rewards or other kinds of motivation
recognize achievement with ~ (job) Ribbon Reef
we scuba-dive on ~ (Queensland, Australia)
rewards and dangers
proper name / shape: cloth
developing the Arctic carries ~ for those in the area
cash reward rich (rich land, etc.)
the new software is delivering ~s rich
unpredictable rewards the land here is particularly ~
~ produce much larger signals in the brain worth & lack of worth: money
lion's share of the rewards rich (plentiful)
they reap the ~
rich in (natural) beauty
incentives and rewards the Aisén area of Patagonia is ~ (Chile)
improve class climate through ~ (teachers)
rich in minerals
perils and rewards Guinea, a former French colony that is ~
the ~ of the backcountry (Mt. Rainier)
rich in uranium
rewards (certainly) justified the effort the north of Niger is ~
the ~ (hiking)
rich in protein, iron and calcium
carries rewards teff, an easily absorbed millet ~ (Ethiopia)
developing the Arctic ~ and dangers
feature-rich
delivering (cash) rewards it is not nearly as ~ or versatile (a camera)
the new software is ~
fiber-rich (m)
attuned to rewards to avoid hemorrhoids, fill up on ~ foods
the human brain is acutely ~ like money, sex and drugs
♦ Honesty; doing the right thing; learning and education; kindness and fossil-rich (m)
helping people and animals... (Things that are their own rewards.) at the ~ site in China…
cost & benefit: money oxygen-rich (m)
rewarding fish need ~ water to survive (pollution)
resource-rich (m)
rewarding China and India court ~ counties like Nigeria
the work is very hard but very ~ (nursing assistant)
target-rich (m)
rewarding experience he flew into a ~ environment (combat)
it's the most ~ I've ever had (adoption)

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wildlife-rich (m) ♦ It looks like we’re in for a wild ride, so hang on. (A Wall Street bear
market.)
the ~ province of Mpumalanga
experience: horse / movement / riding
amount: money
rich (superlative) ride (ride on something)
rides on our ability
rich (maritime) heritage the future ~ to adapt
the New York and New Jersey area has a ~
rides on terminology
rich (Jewish) legacy much ~ (diplomacy)
there is a ~ associated with boxing
riding on this
rich (basketball) tradition a lot of people's jobs are ~ (strike)
Philadelphia has a ~
hopes are riding
rich, sophisticated and varied all ~ on their daughter (immigrant family)
Islamic civilization—~
dependency: riding / verb
superlative: money
fictive transportation: riding / verb
ricochet (verb) ride out (verb)
ricochet ride this thing out
this could ~ we'll just have to ~ (a hurricane)
movement / reversal: verb / weapon
rode out the hurricane at home
riddled they ~

riddled with clichés ride out his affliction

the script is ~ he chose to ~ (instead of going to the hospital)

riddled with flaws rode out the storm

that particular study was ~ the punch hurt him, but he ~ (boxing)

riddled with lookouts survival, persistence & endurance: boat / riding / verb
the gang-infested neighborhood is ~ rift (division)
affliction: animal / hole / insect
rift
flaws & lack of flaws: animal / hole / insect a ~ occurred between the radicals (Seattle mosque)
configuration: animal / hole / insect
ride (rough ride, etc.) rift between Hamas and Fatah
hopes to end the deepening ~
ride of my life rifts between blacks and whites
this has been the greatest ~ (graduating basketball star)
already existing ~ in the South
rollercoaster of a ride rifts between the Defense Secretary and the military
I’ve had a ~ (rugby player Gareth Thomas)
~ (US)
bumpy ride rifts (between blacks and whites) in the South
consumers are in for a ~ this year (customer service)
already existing ~
fantastic ride rifts in the city
we have had a ~ (soccer coach / his team loses in semifinal)
trying to heal the racial ~ (LA)
greatest ride rift among Indians
this has been the ~ of my life (graduating sports star)
the move created a ~ here (Yakama Nation)
rough ride rifts over (America's) strategy
we're in for a ~ (new troops in Iraq)
orchestrated leaks from the White House have exposed ~
wild ride deepening rift
it’s going to be a ~ (future events)
hopes to end the ~ between Hamas and Fatah
his tweets and interviews make for a ~ (President Trump)
centuries-old rift
take you along for the ride
a ~ has come to the surface (Egyptians in the US)
a start-up that's ready to ~ (job)

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racial rift rigid and puritanical (m)
trying to heal the ~ in the city (Los Angeles) Wahhabism, the ~ strain of Islam
new school / old school rift ideologically rigid
a classic ~ (newer kayaking moves) our political leaders are too ~
exposed rifts less rigid (m)
leaks have ~ over America's strategy the Berbers practice a ~ form of Islam today
healed the rift ability & lack of ability: materials & substances / movement
the years have not ~ between Shipa and her family constraint & lack of constraint: materials & substances /
movement
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
rigid (character)
right (right a wrong, etc.)
rigid
right our (fiscal) ship she was not ~, and her views evolved (Ann Landers)
we must ~ (budget) we are not being so ~ as saying that is the only option
don't be ~, stay aware of your environment (military)
right this wrong
we must ~ rigid in his beliefs
his parents claim he is not ~ (religion)
right a (perceived) wrong
seeking to ~ with a firearm rigid or extremist
his parents say he is not ~ in his beliefs
seeking to right
~ a perceived wrong with a firearm character & personality: materials & substances
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / orientation ability & lack of ability: materials & substances / movement
/ verb ring (ring false, etc.)
right (bragging rights) rang false
her story ~
claim bragging rights
Putin’s eagerness to ~ is justified (hypersonic missiles) rang hollow
his apology ~ (insincere)
competition: sports & games
rings true
right-hand (right-hand man, etc.) his story ~
right-hand man ring true
he was Mubarak's ~ for decades his stinging accusations about EU institutions ~
importance & significance: hand / position perception, perspective & point of view: sound / verb
rigid (constraint) ring (ring of truth, etc.)
rigid (religious) beliefs ring of truth
he has ~ his words had the ~ (murder trial)
rigid doctrine it doesn't have the ~ (an FBI report)
the group does not have a ~ magical ring
rigid hierarchy those three letters have a ~ (BBC)
teachers should avoid establishing a ~ of groups 'Vichyssoise' still has a ~ to it (for a chef)

rigid routine successful ring

inside, life followed a ~ (a Chinese factory) it had a ~ (a boxer's boxing name for himself)
perception, perspective & point of view: sound
rigid rules
he has relaxed some ~ (coach) ringed (circled)
rigid (production) schedule ringed by sand flats
workers must deal with ~s Rabbit Key, a small mangrove hummock ~ (Florida)
rigid versus a flexible (m) ringed by barbed wire
commanders must weigh the benefits of a ~ plan the area is ~ (military post)
rigid and omnipotent ringed by mountains of garbage
its caste dynamics were ~

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 neighborhoods here are ~ (Luanda) riot (run riot)
ringed seal ran riot
the ~ is a chief prey of the polar bear (Arctic)
they ~ in a 5-0 win (a soccer match)
♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled,
spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled! ran riot at St Mary’s
configuration: shape Leicester ~ to win (a soccer match)

ring in (the New Year, etc.) ran riot around the streets
he ~ of Holytown as a young lad (Chris Bungard)
ring in the Year of the Pig
mind ran riot
next month, China will ~
his busy ~ after his success (a troubled boxer)
rung in some huge changes behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: crime
the past 10 years have ~ for television
riot (other)
ringing out 2019 and ringing in the New Year
today we are ~ Riot Girls
starting, going, continuing & ending: bell / sound / verb ~ offers no-holds-barred dramas (BBC Radio 4)
~ offers provocative writing by women (BBC Radio 4)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: bell / sound / verb
coming, arriving, staying , leaving & returning: bell / sound behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: crime
/ verb
riot (riot of color, etc.)
ringmaster (role) riot of wildflowers
spring covers the Rocky Mountains in a ~
ringmaster of the (daily) news briefings
he was the ~ (government public-affairs news briefer) riot of life and colour
Southern Africa is a ~ (ocean currents)
ringmaster of loyalty investigations
he was the ~ (Joe McCarthy) resemblance: crime

role of the ringmaster ripe (adjective)

he is playing the ~ (a crusader and media personality)
ripe
turned himself from spectator to ringmaster the time is ~ to sit down with the Chinese
he artfully ~ and took control (a mayor)
ripe for a (large) fire
directing: circus / person conditions are ~ (dead trees)
performance: person
person: circus ripe for cultivation
the colonists found meadows ~
ring out (the New Year, etc.)
ripe for rebellion
ringing out 2019 and ringing in the New Year the city is ~ (Basra)
today we are ~
seemed ripe
starting, going, continuing & ending: bell / sound / verb the time ~ for a fresh attempt (scientific ballooning)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: bell / sound / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bell / sound / made conditions ripe
verb the fronts and temperatures ~ for tornadoes

ring out (voice) timeliness & lack of timeliness: fruits & vegetables
growth & development: fruits & vegetables / plant
voice rang out
her ~ with an accusation
ripple (verb)
speech: bell / sound / verb ripple out
all sorts of abuses ~ (from dogfighting)
ring out (a shot rang out, etc.)
rippled westward
shot rang out the tradition may have ~ with the Scythians (art)
suddenly, a ~ and a bullet fired from the house struck…
rippled through the system
sound: bell / verb United's flaws ~ (plane transportation)
rippled through Hollywood

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 a groundswell of cases like hers ~ (MeToo) rise (prices rose, etc.)
rippled through every industry rose 20 percent
the effects of the movement have ~ (MeToo)
prices ~
rippled around the ground increase & decrease: direction / verb
a sense of foreboding ~ (a soccer game)
rise (rise to the challenge, etc.)
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water
transmission: verb / water rising to the challenge
ripple (noun) we are ~
rise to the occasion
ripples
can they ~
delays can have ~ thousands of miles away (planes)
rose to the occasion
ripple on the economy
he ~ like freshly baked dough
that move, in turn, has had a ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction /
ripples of Columbine
height / verb
what were the ~
ripples of the shutdown
rise (rise above something)
travelers everywhere felt the ~ (airport) rose above party politics
ripple in the atmosphere he was a towering figure who ~ (a politician)
the smallest changes can have a ~ (tornadoes) behavior: direction / height / verb
ripples from the drownings rise (rise and fall / verb)
the ~ have affected river access (kayaking)
rise and fall on the believability
ripple effects the case will ~ of the accusations (rape)
the ~ have affected river access (kayaking fatalities)
Kazakhstan’s policies have caused ~ in all directions fate, fortune & chance: direction / height / verb
success & failure: direction / height / verb
political ripple
the existence of child workers has made barely a ~ here rise (rise and fall / noun)
barely a ripple rise and fall of a business colossus
the existence of child workers has made ~ the ~ (Carlos Ghosn)
ripples could extend growth & development: direction / height
the ~ beyond the industry (tainted beef) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
height
have ripple effects
weather delays ~ (air transportation) rise (resistance)
made (barely) a ripple rose in revolt
the existence of child workers has ~ here the people ~

sending ripples through colleges rise up

the changes are ~ no one knows if the people will ~
people who ~ often get killed (rebellion)
adds to the ripple effect
every new infection ~ (AIDS epidemic) resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying /
verb
♦ “Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of
the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that
propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence...” (Nature,
rise (on the rise)
Chapter 4 (Language), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.)
on the rise
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: water feed prices are ~ (drought effect on herds of animals)
rip through (verb) on the rise in Tajikistan
Islam is ~
ripped through the community
the virus has ~ growth & development: direction / height
increase & decrease: direction / height
movement: force / verb
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rise (rise of agriculture, etc.) it's kind of a ~

rise of the Roman Empire wild rite of passage

Las Vegas becomes a ~ for new 21-year-olds (booze)
with the decline of Greece and the ~…
growth & development: journeys & trips / religion
rise of Buddhism
with the ~ the study of anatomy was prohibited ritual (noun)
rise of Christianity and Islam ritual of (village) life
the practice predates the ~ (FGM) in a ~
rise of China rituals and routines
if you are worried about the ~ many people have ~ before bedtime (nursing)
rise of agriculture concert ritual
his hypothesis suggests that the ~ led to… ~s include "body surfing"
rise of feminism bedtime ritual
this period witnessed the ~ follow a nightly ~ (bath, pajamas, story, bed) (kids)
rise of podcasts springtime ritual
the popularity of audiobooks coincides with the ~ drinking sap from the maple tree is a ~ (S. Korea)
growth & development: direction / height pre-spring-break ritual
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / what became a ~ (females diet / eating disorders)
height
fraternity drinking ritual
rise (achievement) his son had taken part in a ~ (died)
meteoric rise personal finance ritual
she had a ~ and a heartbreaking fall (Whitney Houston) recording checks is a ~
on the rise hazing ritual
he has been ~ (a politician) it was a ~ (training)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height Yale has strict policies barring ~s (fraternities)
~s pushed too far (high school)
rise (achieve)
mating ritual
rise in the company cicadas engage in a frenetic ~
he was anxious to ~ (workplace sociopath)
ancient ritual
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height / verb the ~ of the blood feud still holds sway (Albania)
rising (rising star, etc.) bizarre rituals
elaborate and sometimes ~ (OCD)
rising star
she is a ~ (a singer) nightly (bedtime) ritual
~ Poeti Norac has died (the French surfer) follow a ~ (bath, books, and bed) (toddlers)

rising star in the (Lincoln) firmament superstitious ritual

General Grant was a ~ ~s such as wearing the same shirt (sports)

rising star in the (progressive) ranks wacky (bedtime) ritual

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is the ~ you learn who's got ~s (sharing a room)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height yearly ritual
the start of the ~ (Cancun spring break)
rising (upcoming)
bedtime ritual
rising generation follow a nightly ~ (bath, pajamas, story, bed) (kids)
young women were part of this ~ (CIA post 9/11) you learn who's got wacky ~s (sharing a room)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / follow a (nightly bedtime) ritual
height ~ (bath, books, and bed) (toddlers)
rite (rite of passage) stop the ritual
colleges have tried various tactics to ~ (alcohol)
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engage in a (frenetic) mating ritual development / direction: journeys & trips
cicadas ~
road (road from / to something)
taken part in a (fraternity drinking) ritual
his son had ~ (died) road to recovery
she is well on the ~
behavior: religion the economy is on the bumpy ~
river (resemblance) road to riches
other companies saw a different ~ (online education)
river of (yellow taxi) cabs
a ~ ebbed and flowed down Broadway and 7th Ave road to ruin
a doctor's ~ (addiction)
River of Grass
the ~ that is the Everglades (Florida) road to the truth
the Florida Everglades, the so-called ~ the ~ is still a very long one (slave laborers in Siberia)
the subtle, sodden grandeur of the so-called ~
road to sin and evil
river of (high-altitude) air it blocks the ~ (women and non-mahram males)
the jet stream, a speeding ~, veered far south
road to stardom
river of ice the ~ hasn't been a superhighway for her (film actor)
the glacier is broad and grand, like the ~ it is
road to the White House
river of lava his ~ was paved with discretion and loyalty
sending out plumes of ash and three ~s (volcano)
the volcano sent 200-foot-wide ~ through the town road to a fit, fabulous body
the ~ isn't short
river of wind
that ~, called the jet stream road from convert to jihadist
the ~ can be remarkably short (terrorists)
atmospheric river
the Pineapple Express is an ~ road from research to (finished) product
you can see the ~ on the satellite here (weather report) the ~ is long and costly (drugs)

resemblance: river road (to get) from where we are now to impeachment
there’s a long ~
river (amount and effect)
course: infrastructure / journeys & trips
river of hogs route: infrastructure / journeys & trips
this annual migration, this “great ~” (Buncombe Turnpike) progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips
iron river
the ~ refers to the flow of guns from the US into Mexico road (along / on the road)
amount & effect: river / water along the (long) road of parenting
movement: river / water it'll help you ~ (advice about toddlers)
river (Niger River, etc.) on the road to fame
they were young, just starting ~
Niger River
Mungo Park explored the ~ on the road to peace
we’re still ~ (Palestinian road map)
proper name: river the negotiations are an important stepping stone ~ (Sudan)
riveted on the bumpy road to recovery
riveted in the (public) imagination the economy is ~ to recovery
Brandi Chastain is forever ~ well on the road
riveted on the drama she is ~ to recovery
the nation’s attention is ~ unfolding in Washington bumps along the road
attachment: tools & technology there have been a few ~

road (turn in the road, etc.) first step on that road

this is a pretty aggressive ~ (to impeachment)
turn in a (troubled) road
start on the road to e-riches
it was one more ~ (personal problems)
all eager to ~ (Internet prospectors)

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♦ “We’re still on the road to peace, it’s just going to be a bumpy road, and
I’m not going to get off the road until we reach the vision.” (President road (end of the road)
Bush on Palestinian road map, after suicide bombing.)
the end of the road
course: infrastructure / journeys & trips a defeat does not necessarily mean ~ for Nigeria
road (come down the road / pike) hit the end of the road
he has ~ (arrested for murder)
coming down the pike
so a lot is ~ today starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips
♦ "When you don't know what's coming down the pike, you worry." (A
businesswoman, speaking about government regulation.)
road (long road)
future / time: direction / movement / verb long road
the ~ we have traveled in the U.S. (desegregation)
road (road ahead, etc.) it’s a ~ when you face the world alone (Mariah)
it’s been a ~, and sometimes it has been fun (old rocker)
on the road ahead
nobody knows what is ~ long road of parenting
it'll help you along the ~ (learn to pick your battles)
long road ahead
there is still a very ~ for Ms Warren (running for presidency) long road to an uncertain result
future / time: direction / journeys & trips investigators face a ~

road (down the road, etc.) long road ahead

there is still a very ~ for Ms Warren (running for presidency)
down the road
face a long road
but that's ~, right now, people are still…
investigators ~ to an uncertain result
this will lead to problems ~
it could be indictable ~ (in the future) traveled a long road
the company hopes to make money ~ (in the future) we have ~ (desegregation)
easier down the road help you along the long road
it'll make your job ~ I'll ~ of parenting (learn to pick your battles)
few years down the road course: journeys & trips
we don't want to find out a ~ that… (investigator) difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips
further down the road road (tough / easy road, etc.)
they hope for improvement in relations ~ (diplomats)
bumpy road
further down the track the economy is on the ~ to recovery
and then, ~, Trump will be waiting (election)
dangerous road
ample time down the road it seems like a ~ to go down (a social issue)
there will be ~ to allocate responsibility
difficult road
future / time: direction / distance / journeys & trips they team slogged a ~ to qualify for the tournament
road (down a road before) hard road
it's been a ~ (a victim of abuse)
down this road before
we have been ~ rough road
I can tell you've been ~ President Obama faces a ~ (politics)
down that road before safe road
I've been ~ (exploited by girlfriend) do I take the ~, or do I venture out
past & present / time: journeys & trips / movement / place tough road
experience: journeys & trips / movement / place it's been a ~ for everybody
road (go down that road, etc.) troubled road
it was one more turn in a ~ (personal problems)
go down that road
let’s not ~ bumps along the road
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / eagerness & there have been a few ~
reluctance: journeys & trips / movement bumps in the road
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stumbles on the road this can’t be a ~ (Al Sharpton on whites getting black
there have been some ~ to reform electoral support)

on a road (that)... consciousness & awareness: allusion / Bible / journeys &

~ is paved with leaks, supposition, speculation (enquiry) trips / religion
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips roadblock
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips
legislative roadblock
road (the high road) the union headed to Albany to set up a ~ (education)
taken the high road face some roadblocks
he has ~ and refused to respond to the insults we ~ (better relations with China)
behavior: direction / height thrown up roadblock after roadblock
road (fork in the road, etc.) Texas has ~ for people (mail-in voting)
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
come to a fork in the road
the countries involved in the Middle East have ~ road map
when things like that happen, you ~
road map toward peace
different road a ~ in the Middle East
other companies saw a ~ to riches (online education)
road map to cutting
similar road he has a detailed ~ spending (politician)
the six countries all followed a ~ (to democracy)
roadmap for the Internet
going down that road the 13 root servers that provided the ~
I am not ~
road map for what
going down a road it's a ~ we must do (plan to save coral reefs)
you are ~ that will be your undoing
script: journeys & trips / map
take you down the wrong road
it's a question that can ~ (job interview)
roar (activity)
♦ Robert Frost’s classic poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” roar again
recounts how he came to a fork in the road and took “the one less
traveled by.”
the American economy will ~ (after pandemic)
♦ Guide posts on trails are also called finger posts and must be the activity: animal / sound
forerunners of all route signage. Wikipedia has a very nice entry. The
fingerpost from the beloved US TV show M*A*S*H, showing the roar (noun)
directions and distances from the little base in Korea to places in the rest
of the world, may or may not be located somewhere in the Smithsonian.
roar of the waterfall
alternatives & choices: journeys & trips he had to shout over the ~
road (push something down the road) sound: animal
resemblance: sound
pushed down the road
some of the big decisions were ~ (government) roar back (verb)
action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with & roaring back
ignoring things: journeys & trips / verb / walking, running & he promised to bring manufacturing ~ (politics)
jumping it could come ~ (coronavirus)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: animal /
road (the Silk Road, etc.)
sound / verb
Silk Road
the ~ was not one route, but a series of routes
roast (verb)
Whale Road roasted the president
early Icelanders referred to the sea as the ~ she ~ (White House Correspondents’ Dinner)

proper name: journeys & trips speech: cooking / fire / verb

route: epithet rob (verb)
road (road to Damascus) rob the winds of their moisture
road to Damascus kind of conversion the uplands ~ (valley in rain shadow)

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robbed me of my health and vitality in a world of cookie-cutter ~, he was different
he ~ (a sex abuser)
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
robbed me of my youth, innocence, and self-worth strength & weakness: mechanism
he ~ (seduced by older man) robust (adj)
taking & removing: crime / verb
robust
robbed our quality-control systems are ~

robbed of our child robust debate

we were ~ (murdered) the controversy has ignited a ~ on Web sites
taking & removing: crime robust response
the threat of terrorism requires a ~
robbery (noun)
robust suite
highway robbery the MQ-9 has a ~ of visual sensors for targeting
it’s an outrage, ~ (boxer gets draw instead of win)
robust (testing) system
taking & removing: crime we need a ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
Robin Hood strength & weakness: health & medicine
condition & status: health & medicine
Robin Hood in reverse
this is a transfer of wealth, it’s ~ (socialism) rock (verb)
Robin Hood figure rocked the (scientific) community
in Mexico, some saw him as a ~ ( “El Chapo” Guzman) the earthshaking experiment has ~
taking & removing: allusion / crime rocked the media
allusion: books & reading the story ~
Robinson Crusoe rocked the (Japanese) sport
Robinson Crusoe winter the match-rigging scandal has ~ (sumo)
a ~ alone in a makeshift hut (Nansen and Johansen) rocked Silicon Valley
Arctic Robinson Crusoes the scam ~ (technology fail)
Edible Country diners aren’t ~ (Swedish “outdoorsiness”) rocked their world
♦ “Immediately our Pinnace return’d from the shore, and brought a fertility-clinic mix-up has ~
abundance of Craw-fish, with a Man cloth’d in Goat-Skins, who look’d
wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been on the Island four feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb
Years and four Months... His name was Alexander Selkirk a Scotch
Man...” (A Cruising Voyage round the World by Woodes Rogers.) disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
♦ In The Last Place on Earth, a brilliant book, Roland Huntford tells the rock (Rock of Chickamauga, etc.)
tragic story of Hjalmar Johansen. After surviving the “Robinson Crusoe
winter” with Nansen in the Arctic, he took to drink, separated from his Rock of Chickamauga
wife and children, resigned from the army, went bankrupt, and became
destitute. Nansen, wishing to help his old companion who had saved his his legendary status as “the ~” (General George H. Thomas)
life, convinced Amundsen to take him on his expedition, which
Amundsen did, against his better judgement. In Antarctica, Johansen strength & weakness: epithet
rubbed Amundsen the wrong way. The result was that Johansen was left
out of the party that went to the South Pole. Back home, Johansen rock (support)
resumed drinking and ended up committing suicide. He was a man who
withstood and overcame harshest nature, but not society. rock
isolation & remoteness: island / sea she has been our ~ (a soccer player)
society: island / sea rock of a family
allusion: books & reading Barbara Bush was the ~ dedicated to public service
robot (noun) bases: ground, terrain & land
robot rock (on the rocks)
he's not a ~, he's got feelings and emotions
I'm not a ~, I get tired (an athlete) on the rocks
their relationship is ~
robot in (pressure-packed) situations
he's a ~ (a coach) failure, accident & impairment: boat / sea
danger / destruction: boat / sea
robot kids

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rock (between a rock and a hard place)
caught between a rock and a hard place
we have been ~
stuck between a rock and a hard place
I’m ~ (too poor to improve situation)
situation: ground, terrain & land / pressure / weight
oppression: ground, terrain & land / pressure / weight
rock (turn over every rock, etc.)
look under every rock
people then were not prepared to ~ (historical sex abuse)
turn over every rock to see
we're going to ~ if… (police investigation)
difficulty, easiness & effort: ground, terrain & land / verb
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: ground, terrain & land / verb
rock-bottom (adjective)
rock-bottom
the prices for scuba diving are ~ (Belize)
rock-bottom price
rented at ~s
rocket (resemblance)
fired a rocket past the keeper
a moment later, he ~ (soccer)
resemblance: rocket
Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar)
“Gibraltar of the West”
Vicksburg residents thought the ~ was unassailable (US
Civil War)
“Gibraltar of the Western World”
Quebec was then named the ~ (1759)
my Rock of Gibraltar
Lisa has been ~ (emotional support in a relationship)
♦ “After weeks of incessant but minor cannonading, the grand attack was
made on the 13th of September, 1782... / Artillery salvoes more
tremendous, if possible, than ever were now directed from Gibraltar;
incessant showers of red-hot balls of every calibre, of flaming carcases,
and shells of every species, flew from all quarters... / From the
depressed guns the red-hot globes of iron seemed to streak the air with
red lines as they went on their errand of destruction.../ The long blockade
was terminated by the announcement of the signature of the
preliminaries of a general peace, on the 2nd of February, 1783... And
thus ended the great siege of Gibraltar, which lasted three years seven
months and twelve days, from the commencement of the blockade till the
cessation of hostilities.” (British Battles on Land and Sea by James
Grant.)

decline: direction / ground, terrain & land epithet: military

protection & lack of protection / strength & weakness:
rocked (disruption) fortification / military / mountains & hills
rocked by the leak rocky (adjective)
the intelligence community was ~ of classified documents
rocky
rocked by the sex scandal his relationship with his superiors was ~
the network was ~ (CBS) their season has been ~ (a women’s basketball team)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability rocky (midterm Congressional) elections
disruption: equilibrium & stability the president faces ~
rocket (increase) rocky ending
he had a ~ to his nine years in Pittsburgh (NFL player)
rocket to 1 billion
the number of passengers is expected to ~ by… rocky (on-again, off-again) relationship
they've had a ~ (a couple)
rocketing upward
demand is ~ (for a service) rocky start
his NFL career got off to a ~
levels will rocket
sediment ~ (dam removal) rocky tenure
he had a ~ at the State Department (resigned)
increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / rocket /
verb rocky year
it was a ~ for the newspaper (criticism)
rocket (speed)
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
rocketed down the slope on his back
he ~ (a climber) rod (iron rod, etc.)
rocketed to fame with an iron rod
she ~ in New York (an actor) in the 1990s the Serbs ruled Kosovo ~

speed: rocket / verb oppression: materials & substances / weapon

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rodeo (first rodeo) progress & lack of progress: ball / movement
starting, going, continuing & ending: ball / movement
my first rodeo flaws & lack of flaws: ball / movement
I worked on several viruses, this is not ~ (COVID-19)
roll (verb)
our first rodeo
this is not ~, we’ve been through this before (hurricanes) start rolling
revolutions often ~ when the army refused to shoot
his first debate rodeo
this won’t be ~ (a debate moderator / presidential debate) rolling on
the controversy keeps ~
experience: animal / horse
progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing &
rogue (noun) ending: ball / movement / verb

rogue cells roll (move)

your immune system identifies those ~ and kills them
roll across the mountains
rogue pharmacists some strong thunderstorms ~ (news / weather)
corrupt doctors and ~ worked hand in hand (opioids)
thunderstorms roll
rogue (Chinese) scientist some strong ~ across the mountains (news / weather)
a ~ claims to have edited the DNA of twin girls
movement: ball / direction / verb
gone rogue
he has ~
roll (slow-roll)
society / control & lack of control: animal slow-rolled their requests
character & personality: animal opponents claim that he ~ (politics)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal constantly slow-rolled
roil (verb) he ~ any sort of military option (politics)

roiled (Tibetan) areas action, inaction & delay: ball / movement / verb
ethnic unrest has ~ of China roll back (verb)
roiling the markets roll back policies
what is ~ is the fact that… (international finance)
he has attempted to ~ to address carbon emissions
disruption / feeling, emotion & effect: water / verb
roll back the (health-care) reform
role (act) politicians want to ~

played the role reversal: mechanism / verb

he ~ of a loving husband and doting father (murderer) roller coaster (emotional roller coaster,
performance: theater etc.)
role (function or part) roller-coaster ride
sport's (starring) role culture shock can be a ~ of emotions
the ~ in the end of apartheid (South African rugby) roller coaster of a career
played a role she had such a ~ (Judy Garland)
the investigation into his sexting case ~ in the 2016 US roller coaster of ups and downs
presidential election he really has been through a ~ (footballer Jamie Vardy)
importance & significance: theater emotional roller coaster
roll (on a roll) it's frustrating, an ~
an ~, with many tears and goodbyes (deployment)
on a (pretty good) roll the family rode an ~ for months (daughter kidnapped)
we're ~ now (basketball coach / win streak)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / movement
get on a roll roller coaster (development)
you ~, you get momentum… (winning streak)
started the year on a roll roller coaster
my life is a ~ and this is a down time
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roller-coaster rollout (noun)
this is a real ~ (attempts to rescue trapped miners)
rollout of new features
roller-coaster ride he is overseeing a ~ to protect users (bullying / Facebook)
it's been a ~ ride for investors
inauguration: mechanism
rollercoaster week
it’s been an up and down, ~ (impeachment trial) roll over (verb)
roller coaster (weight) gains and losses roll over
she has a long history of ~ Watford won’t ~ (FA Cup final underdogs)
legal roller coaster resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / dog / verb
the ~ over stem-cell research… conflict: animal / dog / verb
movement: direction / sports & games romance (noun)
development: direction / movement / sports & games
increase & decrease: direction / movement / sports & romance with the West
games his ~ makes him vulnerable to detractors (leader)

roll in (verb) enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage

rolling in Romeo and Juliet (epithet)

donations are ~ (after fire at cathedral) Romeo and Juliet of the East
movement: ball / verb Layla and Majnun were the ~ (Lord Byron)

rolling (movement) epithet: love, courtship & marriage

allusion: books & reading
rolling end
the war had a rolling start and will have a ~ (Iraq) roof (a roof can cave in)
rolling start roof has caved in on the team
what commanders have called a ~ to the war (Iraq War) the ~ (losing)
the war had a ~ and will have a rolling end (Iraq War) failure, accident & impairment: house / roof / ruins
rolling blackouts destruction: house / roof / ruins
another day of ~ (California) roof (through the roof)
movement: ball
going through the roof
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement the price is ~
roll on (resiliency) shot through the roof
roll on prices have ~
roll on, soldier extent & scope / increase & decrease: direction / house /
resiliency: journeys & trips / verb flying & falling / roof

roll out (verb) roof (roof of the mouth, etc.)

roll out (six) new models roof of the cave
Chrysler will soon ~ (automobiles) the ~ collapsed

rolled out 17 different initiatives roof of his mouth

he ~ to reduce gun violence he got peanut butter on the ~

rolled out a package orientation: direction / house / roof

the Party ~ of reforms (China / economy) roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
rolling out new policy
we are not ~ (politics / election)
Roof of the World
the Pamir mountains, which the natives called “The ~”
roll the (new) settings epithet: height / house / roof
we are going to ~ this week (Website)
room (wiggle room)
roll out their new shows
each fall the 3 networks would ~ at the same time (TV) wiggle room
inauguration: mechanism / verb negotiators had very little ~

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 he then used the only ~ the law allowed him breathing room
provide ~ to consider the options
wiggle room on wages the rate increase gives the Postal Service "~"
the MTA has hinted at ~ (negotiations with union)
negotiating room
wiggle room for players how much ~ is there on the part of…
there's no ~ (11-point table-tennis games)
situation: container / ground, terrain & land
allow yourself room
if you don't ~ for slipups… (dieting)
constraint & lack of constraint: container / ground, terrain
& land constraint & lack of constraint: space
room (war room) situation: space
root (at the root)
assembling a war room
the White House is ~ as impeachment looms at the root of his desperate act
readiness & preparedness: military the mystery ~

room (space) bases: plant / tree

root (tear something out by the roots,
room to hide
thick forests and deep gorges offer ample ~ (Caucasus) etc.)
room for a dart game tearing it out by the roots
a few pool tables and ~ it’s like we’re trimming the branches of the tree when we
should be ~ (drug trafficking in Sinaloa)
room for wasted space
no ~ in the apartment dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / tree / verb
curtailment / destruction: plant / tree / verb
room for 12 coffins
a mausoleum with ~, 20 cremation niches and… root (root cause)
legroom root cause
new seats allow more ~ nobody is looking at the ~s…
sea room root causes of the conflict
a ship with adequate speed and ~ the accord failed to address the ~ (Darfur)
ample room root causes of jihad
thick forests and deep gorges offer ~ to hide (Caucasus) it's not easy to address the ~
constraint & lack of constraint: space root cause of these problems
the ~ …
room (opportunity)
root causes of global warming
room for advancement the burning of coal, oil, and gas is the ~
his predecessor left because there was no ~
root cause of Global Dimming
room for compromise the burning of coal, oil, and gas is the ~
there is little ~
root cause of why
room for diplomacy that might be the ~… (reasons for a disaster)
there is ~ here… (UN issue)
root causes or common threads
room for error in some places, suicides seem to have ~
there’s no ~
bases: plant / tree
room for improvement analysis, interpretation & explanation: plant / tree
there was ~ in his shooting (basketball)
root (root of the problem, etc.)
room for maneuver
how much ~ do you think he has in Brussels (diplomacy) roots of conflict
the ~ run deep (Sudan)
room for an additional voice
there's ~ (new newspaper) roots of militancy
the ~ lie in a feeling of intense humiliation
room for slipups
if you don't allow yourself ~… (dieting) roots of this misery
the ~ are not hard to find (Indian reservations)

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root of the problem ancient roots
once you find out the ~ the science of anatomy has ~
roots of terrorism biological roots
understand and address the ~ little info about the ~ of the disorder
roots of the disorder humble roots
there is little info about the ~ this learned man from ~ (North Carolina poet laureate)
bases / origin / relationship: plant / tree urban roots
this competition is a tribute to the ~ of street skating
root (origin)
deep historical roots
roots in Mexico it’s a dispute that has ~ (Greece and Macedonia)
he is proud of his ~ (son of immigrants)
proud of his roots
roots in Virginia he is ~ in Mexico... (son of immigrants)
time to research her family ~
deny his (Jewish) roots
roots (deep) in the Jordanian desert he's tried to ~ (politician)
he is of the Beni Hassan tribe, with ~
identity & nature / origin / relationship: plant / tree
roots in the (local) culture
he had no ~ (Barak Obama in Hawaii) root (take root, etc.)
NASCAR’s (moonshine whiskey) roots deep roots
he represented ~ (Junior Johnson) child labor retains ~ (west and central Africa)
Catholicism has very ~ in Ireland
family's roots
time to research her ~ in Virginia firm roots
Christianity failed to set ~ in Japan and China
surfing's roots
I'm stoked to be in Hawaii, back to ~ shallow roots
his success has ~
university's (military-school) roots a sport with ~ in this country (tennis in China)
the ~ many residents have ~ in the city (state workers)
Democracy has ~, it’s a fragile flower
home-town roots
he is stressing his ~ (a Mississippi politician) take root
but the colony did not ~ (Australia)
military-school roots
the university's ~ taking (commercial) root
the new generation of nanomaterials is ~
reporting roots
it marked a return to his ~ (editor reports on war) took root
cricket ~ during the colonial era of the Raj (Pakistan)
moonshine-running roots
its ~ (NASCAR) put down roots
many Canadians have ~ in Florida (home-buyers)
Azeri roots
many Iranians have ~ set (firm) roots
Christianity failed to ~ in Japan and China
Catholic roots
the region has never lost its ~ (New Mexico) growth & development: plant / tree
survival, persistence & endurance: plant / tree
Dalit roots strength & weakness: plant / tree
despite his ~, he earned a degree... (Kanshi Ram)
root (root server)
Italian roots
Rico himself has no ~ (mobster) root server
organizations responsible for operating the ~s
Jewish roots the ~s serve as a sort of master directory for the Internet
he's tried to deny his ~ (politician) 8 or more of the world's 13 ~s must fail before…
Polynesian roots the 13 ~s that provided the roadmap for the Internet
he traces the history of surfing back to its ~ root server (m)
Southern roots at the top of the ~ hierarchy is the "A" root server
as NASCAR grew from its ~ into a national sport the most complex DDOS attack ever against the ~ system

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computer: plant Rashomon moment meeting a Rorschach test
this was a ~ (3-group confrontation on D.C. Mall)
rooted
♦ A group of Kentucky teenagers, a Native American, and black Hebrew
Israelites all met by accident on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
rooted in (violent) collisions Read “Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more
a sport whose popularity is ~ (NFL / concussion) complicated than it first seemed” by Michael E. Miller, The Washing Post,
Jan 22, 2019.
deeply rooted (m)
Ethiopia, a country with a ~ (Christian) identity perception, perspective & point of view: allusion / picture
fireworks are a ~ tradition in Peru Rosetta Stone
family deer hunts in November are a ~ tradition
bases: plant / tree
Rosetta stone for understanding
the article is a ~ Y.A.’s toxic culture (Kat Rosenfield)
root out (verb) ♦ “The brilliant victory won by Nelson in the Bay of Aboukir imprisoned
the army of France amid the arid sands of Egypt; but, nevertheless,
root out crooked cops Napoleon led it in 1799 across the desert to Palestine. He took Jaffa by
storm, and laid siege to Acre, where, as related, he was repulsed by the
the force must ~ British and Turks under Sir Sidney Smith. Subsequent to this, alarming
news from France caused him to hurry home and leave his troops in
root out corruption Egypt, when they began to lose heart, about the time our great
the UN must improve its accountability and ~ expedition to that country was projected, with the purpose of driving them
he is trying to ~ (a leader) out of it.” (British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant. A French
soldier had found the stone, but the British took it from the French by the
root out an enemy Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801, which is why it is in the British
Museum, and not the Louvre.)
the marines are trying to ~ that knows the terrain
comprehension & incomprehension: allusion / history
root out militants analysis, interpretation & explanation: allusion / history
efforts to ~ inside Egypt
rot (verb)
root out (wasteful) spending
we need to ~ rotting from the inside
America is ~
root out terrorists
send more troops and ~ (in Iraq) left to rot
the working class has been ~ (US)
dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / tree / verb
destruction: plant / tree / verb corruption: food & drink / verb
rope (learn the ropes, etc.) rot (noun)
learning the ropes rot in (Pakistani) society
she is still ~ (a waiter) the ~ is more poisonous than anyone thought (violence)
knows the ropes rot in the system
she ~ Shevardnadze sniffed out the ~ (Georgia)
experience: boat / rope Rot at the Top
the lead opinion piece was entitled, “The ~” (corruption)
rope (at the end of one's rope)
rot and corruption
at the (very) end of my rope with him the moral ~ (of the Republican Party)
I think I'm ~ (kid)
moral rot
feeling, emotion & effect: rope the silence on the issue is an example of ~
rope (on the ropes) personification of the rot
on the ropes she is the ~ that has sickened the party (politics)
many Hawaiian species are ~ sniffed out the rot
survival, persistence & endurance: boxing / rope Shevardnadze ~ in the system (Republic of Georgia)

Rorschach (test) stop the rot

the church needed someone else at the helm to ~ (Catholics)
Rorschach test ♦ The fish rots from the head. (A proverb about leaders in organizations,
she is our newest human ~ (Alexandria (Ocasio-Cortez) governments, etc.)

legal Rorschach corruption: food & drink

the cases before the Supreme Court are a ~

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rotten (adjective) route (course)
rotten roundabout route
your billing system is ~ he had come to painting by a ~
rotten in gaming culture go this route
he has become a global symbol for all that is ~ (swatting) I'm surprised more people don't ~ (turn down fame)
rotten administrator came (to painting) by a roundabout route
she's a ~ but a nice person he had ~
rotten shape course: journeys & trips
the job market is in ~
rout (defeat / noun)
corruption: food & drink
Biden rout
rough (adjective) Sanders assessing campaign after ~
rough edges stock rout
her policies aim to smooth capitalism’s ~ Dow falls more than 4% amid coronavirus ~
♦ “Never was a rout and never was a victory more complete!... / Along
rough flight the whole line of road from Vittoria to the Pyrenees, a distance of one
it was a ~ hundred miles, the way was strewn with dead or abandoned horses,
dilapidated carriages, clothing of every kind, uniforms, books, rich
rough patches dresses, laces, veils, gloves, and bonnets torn forth from mails and
you go through ~ in your sport that make you want to quit imperials, by the rude hands of guerillas, cacadores, and peasants;
letters, orders, and French bank-notes in bundles, too, lay there. / Many
unfortunate women—some of them the wives of officers, and others
rough ride ladies of the court—barefooted, almost naked, and in the most pitiable
we’re in for a ~ (new troops in Iraq) condition, were overtaken in wild and solitary places, and most
barbarously used and then murdered by the merciless Spaniards.”
rough road (Vittoria, 1813. British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant.)
President Obama faces a ~ (politics)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
rough times
develop better coping skills to get you through ~
rout (defeat / verb)
flaws & lack of flaws: sensation rout (champions) Arsenal
the Blues scored three times in ten minutes to ~
roulette (noun)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
genetic roulette
we are playing ~ with our agriculture and crops
routed (defeated)
play roulette routed
boxers ~ with their brains (Gerald McClellan tragedy) the Gunners were ~ (Arsenal loses soccer game)

fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games routed in Delhi elections
India’s ruling party ~
round (boxing)
routed in the state
Round One he got the youth vote even though he was ~ (election)
it's ~ in a prizefight, but the bell hasn't rung yet
routed during his first run
round one he was ~ for governor (politics)
this is just ~ (in the budget battle)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
15-rounder
it’s a long haul, son, it’s a ~ (pandemic)
row (row to hoe)
development / time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: long row to hoe
boxing / sports & games it’s going to be a ~ (a legal challenge to president)

round up (assemble) tough row to hoe

he's got a ~ (a boxing match)
rounded up a few things without him, the state will have a ~ (prosecution)
I’ve ~ (Cortana internet search) work & duty: farming & agriculture
assembling: animal / verb difficulty, easiness & effort: farming & agriculture

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row (row in the same direction, etc.) this was my ~

row in the same direction digital Rubicon

I had remained on the near shore of a ~ (smart compose)
it’s better when we ~
unanimity & consensus: boat political Rubicon
impeachment crosses ~ with House vote
row (row back)
crossed my Rubicon
rowed back on most of them finally I ~ (author uses Smart Compose)
the Academy tried to make changes, but they have ~
crossed that Rubicon
rowed back on its promise and so we ~ (journalist passes info to police)
the company has ~ to... ♦ The Roman Tribune named Curio encouraged Caesar to cross the
Rubicon, saying, “A man prepared is a man hurt by delay.” Because he
reversal: boat / direction “settled Caesar’s doubts that day” Dante put Curio in Circle Eight of hell,
as a sower of discord. “Ah, how wretched Curio seemed to me / with a
royalty (noun) bloody stump in his throat in place of the tongue / which once had dared
to speak so recklessly!” (John Ciardi’s wonderful translation of the
basketball royalty Inferno.)
the Lakers are ~ (NBA winners) commitment & determination / fate, fortune & chance:
US running royalty allusion / history / journeys & trips / river
Kara Groucher was ~ (medal winner) rub off (verb)
superlative: royalty
rubs off on the (local) host
rub (rub somebody the wrong way) the factory refutes the idea that foreign technology ~

rubbing fans the wrong way rubbing off on you

her whining is ~ (an auto racer) I guess living with me is ~ a little (father / son)

rubbed me the wrong way rub off on Vanessa

what he said ~ (rationalization) I hope some of her will ~ (better behavior)

rubbed a lot of people the wrong way transmission: rubbing & washing / verb
she ~ (a poor woman who married money) rudderless
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb
rudderless in the gathering storm
rubber stamp (noun) the hospital is ~ (deficits)

rubber stamps for (special-interest) groups seemed rudderless

we must assure that these forums are not just ~ an isolated political class that has ~, even helpless

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mark control & lack of control / direction: boat

rubble (in the rubble) ruffled (feathers)

In the Rubble appeared ruffled
Finding a New Economics ~ (financial earthquake) he rarely ~ (a diplomat)

destruction: ruins appearance: animal / bird

feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird
rubble (other)
rug (under the rug)
financial rubble
regulators sifted through the ~ swept under the rug
the whole affair will be ~
reduced the country to rubble
they have ~ (Somalia) concealment & lack of concealment: carpets & rugs

sift through the (political) rubble rug (pull the rug out)
both sides will be left to ~ (impeachment trial) pulled the rug out from under him
destruction: ruins the White House ~ (failed to support him)

Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.) allegiance, support & betrayal: carpets & rugs / verb

Rubicon moment

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Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.) ruin (in ruins)
Ruhr Valley in ruins
Hebei Province, China's new ~ (steel) my life is ~
epithet: manufacturing / mining largely in ruins
a civil war that left the country ~ (Sierra Leone)
ruin (verb)
economy is in ruins
ruined our country with corruption the rural ~ (Buryatia)
they have ~ (president and his family)
lay in ruins
ruined me professionally his reputation ~ (a beaten general)
the accusations ~
left that country (largely) in ruins
ruined the INS a civil war that ~ (Sierra Leone)
decades of that civil-service mentality have ~
left his life in ruins
ruined the careers his alcoholism ~
the Greenville has ~ of two captains (nuclear sub) ♦ “The timeless allure of ruins” by Paul Cooper (BBC Culture, 16 January
2018) is a wonderful article about our fascination with ruins,
ruin (Bruce's) career accompanied by tremendous artwork.
he essentially tried to ~ (scientists)
destruction: infrastructure / ruins
ruins the ceremony
letting white guys or non-Indians in ~ ruin (road to ruin)
ruin it doctor's road to ruin
if you overcook kangaroo meat, you ~ a ~ (addiction)

ruins kidneys destruction: infrastructure / ruins

life support ~, it ruins brains, it ruins all the organs ruined
ruins (people's) lives
crystal meth ~ (a cop) ruined by the greed
the land was ~ of strip-mining
ruined my life
destruction: infrastructure / ruins
he ~ and a lot of girls’ live (rich pedophile)
ruled
ruined his (medical) practice
the H.M.O.s have ~ ruled by vice
ruin his (company's) reputation my soul was ~
he was determined not to let the hackers ~ control & lack of control: royalty
ruin the (tourist) trade rumble (verb)
crime could ~
ready to rumble
ruins the catalytic converters the other Democrats are ~ (political debate)
high-sulfur fuel quickly ~ (sour crude)
♦ The wonderful boxing announcer Michael Buffer is associated with the
catchphrase, “Let’s get ready to rumble!” He has been paid up to one
tried to ruin million dollars to say it. According to the Internet, he copyrighted the
he essentially ~ Bruce's career (scientists) phrase in 1992 and has received $400 million from others using it at
sporting events. “One of the things I really love about my job is
quickly ruins enthusiasm,” he has said. Only in America!
high-sulfur fuel ~ the catalytic converters (sour crude)
conflict: boxing / sports & games / verb
endanger or ruin run (a road can run, etc.)
I hope this doesn't ~ your career
destruction: infrastructure / ruins / verb runs through the (An Nafud) desert
the route ~
ruin (financial ruin, etc.) ♦ Run is extremely polysemous, as explained in “A Verb for Our Frantic
Times” by Simon Winchester, New York Times, May 28, 2011. And
financial ruin Winchester himself can be heard speaking at “Has ‘Run’ Run Amok? It
he faced ~ Has 645 Meanings... So Far,” NPR, Talk of the Nation, May 30, 2011.

destruction: infrastructure / ruins fictive motion: verb / walking, running & jumping

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run (run deep / high / strong) running into some hurdles
marine-energy developers are ~
run (especially) deep
fears of Moscow ~ in Poland (2009) ran into problems
but Zhou's plan to get even ~
runs deep
Wright's admiration for the marines ~ (correspondent) ran into (political and financial) problems
the sense of allegiance to the Catholic Church ~ (city) the project ~ (museum)
resentment of the US ~ (Arabs) ran into (serious) resistance
support for the insurgency ~ (Kandahar) she ~... (girls wants to play football)
runs deepest run into trouble
in places where anti-American sentiment ~ (Iraq, etc.) trail angels figure out where hikers are likely to ~;
ran high the laws have ~ on free-speech grounds (cross burning);
as anti-Western sentiment ~ in the Arab world he has ~ with the law before

runs high ran into red tape

envy ~ in the world of art and intellect the inmate's transfer ~

run high run into a brick wall

emotions ~ with an abandoned infant (ED nursing) law enforcement has ~

runs strong run into stone walls

the grief and anger still ~ (murder) journalists have ~ with the administration

admiration (for the marines) runs deep ran into a hornet's nest
his ~ (an embedded correspondent) the Apache helicopters ~ of antiaircraft fire
obstacles & impedance: crashes & collisions / walking,
anger (still) runs strong
the ~ running & jumping / verb

emotions run high run (in / over the long run)

~ with an abandoned infant (ED nursing)
over the long run
envy runs high our advocacy of human rights ~
~ in the world of art and intellect
happiest in the long run
fears (of Moscow) run deep the thing that will make me ~ is to pursue my education
~ in Poland (2009)
pay off in the long run
grief (still) runs strong it would ~
the ~ future / time: distance / movement / walking, running &
resentment (of the US) runs deep jumping
~ in the Arab world run (on the run / haste)
tensions (in the area) are running high
~ (Gaza) on the run
we had to improvise solutions ~
tradition and reverence for the dead run deep
haste: walking, running & jumping
this is a town where ~ (Puerto Rico)
♦ Melting snowpack will cause a river to run high. If it runs too high, it run (on the run / retreat)
might burst its banks and cause a flood.
have our enemies on the run
feeling, emotion & effect: river
we ~ (terrorism)
run (run into next week, etc.) resistance, opposition & defeat: walking, running & jumping
run into next week run (a good run, etc.)
the defense's case will ~
a good run
starting, stopping & continuing: walking, running & jumping
the term has had a ~, but we don’t need it anymore
future / time: movement / walking, running & jumping it’s been ~, but it’s come to an end (Blog of the Nation)
run (run into something) paper coupons had a ~, but they ran out of steam
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
run into (further) delays
in case the Russians ~ (space station)

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runaround rungs of power
he worked his way up the ~ (government)
bureaucratic runaround
months of unanswered phone calls and ~s (NYC) rungs of the (Hindu) caste hierarchy
those on the lowest ~
♦ In the wonderful film "Coal Miner's Daughter" there is a funny scene.
Doolittle asks Mr. Ted Webb for his daughter Loretta's hand in marriage. rung on the (corporate) ladder
Mr. Web tells him to ask his wife, Clara. Clara tells him to ask Ted.
Loretta, who has been waiting expectantly, stops Doolittle on his way their ~
back to her father and asks him what is going on. Doolittle explains, and
Loretta advises him to wait until Ted and Clara are both in bed, and he ladder's (lowest) rung
can catch them together. And that is just what Doolittle does. the socioeconomic ~
progress & lack of progress: direction bottom rung
runaway (control) child molesters and informants are on the ~ (prison)
bottom-rung (m)
runaway consumerism
she landed a ~ job there (at a TV station)
some criticized the long lines as a sign of ~ (Ikea)
lowest rung
runaway cycle
the socioeconomic ladder's ~
events in the Arctic could lead to a ~ of melting
highest rung
runaway debt
free speech occupies the ~ of First Amendment values
we have to stop ~ (ad for a politician)
hierarchy: ladder
runaway rhetoric
we must tone down this ~ running (continuing)
runaway success long-running argument
the ~ of the building a ~ about what it means to…
runaway spending long-running battle
the country is headed off a fiscal cliff of ~ the ~ over the rights of…
control & lack of control: animal / horse / walking, running long-running competition
& jumping their ~
run away (verb) long running conflict
settles a ~ that went to arbitration (business)
run away on us
we must not let the virus ~ again (Jacinda Ardern / COVID) bitter and long-running (m)
♦ “Beyond Yasothon, past Mahachanachai, outside of Village Number 3, the bloody culmination of a ~ feud (cop / citizen)
a water buffalo had somehow slipped the tyranny of its nose-ring, and
was coursing along the embankment above the green rice paddies like a time: distance / movement / walking, running & jumping
black torpedo.” starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, persistence
control & lack of control: verb / walking, running & jumping & endurance: walking, running & jumping

rung (on the bottom rung) run-of-the-mill

on the bottom rung run-of-the-mill politician
your ~
child molesters are ~ (prison)
informants are ~ (prison) run-of-the-mill sinner
hierarchy: ladder people will realize that he was just another ~

rung (bottom rung) worth & lack of worth: manufacturing

run out (of time)
bottom-rung job
she landed a ~ there (TV station) running out of time
bottom-rung workers we're ~ (press conference)
in the new academic world, she's ~ (adjunct)
~ in plants, in warehouses, behind counters
my greatest fear is ~ (filmmaker)
hierarchy: ladder
time is running out
rung (other) ~ (negotiations)

rung of the hierarchy time: consumption

trappers occupy the most basic and brutal ~ (fur trade)

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run out (verb) rust (resemblance)
running out of excuses wheat rust
I'm ~ that sound plausible a fungus causes ~
the disease, ~, caused famines in the past
ran out of gas in the 1950s, ~ devastated crops in North America
he ~ (a losing boxer)
resemblance: chemistry
run out of ideas
we've ~ rusty (adjective)
running out of patience rusty
Iraqis are ~ with foreign fighters his skills are ~
luck is running out ring rusty
I feel my ~ (Marine killed in Falluja) I was a bit ~, I haven’t boxed in a year
patience is running out a little rusty
my ~ after a winter's layoff, every kayaker is ~
consumption: walking, running & jumping / verb flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: chemistry
rupture (noun) rut (in a rut)
bridge the rupture in a rut
US diplomats are trying to ~ (Middle East) we are ~ and spinning our wheels (financial reform)
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism stuck in a rut
division & connection: mechanism he is ~, unable to move forward
rush (rush to judgment) obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress:
rush to judgment ground, terrain & land / movement
we contended there had been a ~ (defense lawyer) ruthless (sun, etc.)
we don't need a ~ (national-security lapse)
ruthless
fell victim to a rush to judgment the calculus behind people trafficking is ~
she ~ by police following the murder the katabatic winds off the glacier can be ~ (very cold)
haste: justice ruthless deadlines
rush (oil rush, etc.) every day brings ~ (an independent contractor)
oil rush Ruthless Sun
the discovery well set off an ~ (East Texas 1903) Beneath a ~ (a book by Gilbert King)
activity / haste: movement empathy & lack of empathy: animal

Russian roulette
play Russian roulette with my livelihood S
I can't afford to ~
saber rattling
playing Russian roulette with your lives
you are ~ if you get critically ill abroad (poor care) calculated saber rattling
it's not the drum beat of war, it is ~
fate, fortune & chance: weapon
just sabre rattling
rust (functioning) is this a serious threat or ~ (military intervention)
rust message: military / sound / sword
at age 38, the ~ caught up with him against… (boxing)
sabotage (verb)
ring rust
Tyson had ~ after long layoff (the great boxer) sabotage what
he showed considerable ~ (boxer after a layoff) are you trying to ~ we are doing here
flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: chemistry sabotaged his (attempted) reforms
conservatives ~ (politics)
destruction / disruption: military / verb

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sabotage (noun) boomers are generally willing to ~ (careers)

digital sabotage sacrificed his dream

he ~ of attending college to help finance…
it’s been a summer of ~, hype houses, conspiracy theories
destruction / disruption: military sacrificed his life
he ~ by throwing himself directly onto the grenade
sabotaged
sacrificed their lives
sabotaged by subzero temperatures the Rangers who ~ (Roberts Ridge)
our efforts to force the route were ~ (climbing)
sacrifice themselves
destruction / disruption: military thousands will come after us, ready to ~ (terrorists)
saccharine (adjective) sacrifice their personal lives
they don't want to ~ (for a career)
saccharine propaganda
Green Book’s ~ (Academy Award winning film) ready to sacrifice
thousands will come after us, ~ themselves (terrorists)
feeling, emotion & effect: taste
consumption: taste willing to sacrifice
each one of us is ~ himself for... (suicide terrorist)
sacred (adjective)
sacrifice: religion / verb
sacred to Democrats
it is a program ~ (low-income heating assistance) sacrilegious (adjective)
sacred to Cubs fans sacrilegious to suggest
the statue is ~ maybe it’s ~, but...

sacred to a newspaper sacrilegious for women to smoke

there is nothing more ~ than its credibility it was once ~ cigarettes

sacred to you sacrilegious about making

maybe it’s ~, but it’s not sacred to me (US anthem) there is nothing ~ a sequel (film)

sad and sacred offensive or sacrilegious

it is a place ~ to many Americans (New York 9/11 site) do you worry about being ~
importance & significance: religion being sacrilegious
I hope I’m not ~ in suggesting that...
sacred cow
considered sacrilegious
sacred cow of (farming) subsidies athletes who be on games are ~
many countries are afraid to touch the ~
felt sacrilegious
Victorian sacred cows it ~ to hear my brother say those words
his mordant wit and irreverence for ~ (Lytton Strachey)
seemed sacrilegious
sacred cows are slaughtered it ~ to visit Oxford and not visit Faulkner’s house
some ~ on the way (educational theory)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
destroy the "sacred cow"
I am not out to ~ of the Kennedy presidency (filmmaker) saddle (shape)
idea / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal / saddle between the peaks
cows & cattle / religion he climbed the ~

sacrifice (give up something) shape: horse

sacrificed free speech to political correctness saddle (acting saddle, etc.)

the university has ~ acting saddle
sacrificed everything for me she got right back in the ~ (after college)
he ~ and the team (Tour de France) role: horse
sacrificed himself for the sake of the team saddle (oppress)
he ~ (professional foul / soccer)
saddled him with (derogatory) nicknames
sacrifice for success

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 his opponents have ~ (a politician) he dismantled the ~ (Pinochet / Chile)
saddled America with (high) unemployment gaps in the safety net
the stimulus merely ~ and more debt ~ for troubled students (suicides at college)
oppression: horse / verb / weight dismantled the (social) safety net
he ~ (Pinochet / Chile)
saddle (Saddle Island, etc.)
weaken, repair, or strengthen the social safety net
Saddle Island we can ~, or leave it alone (politics)
we visited ~ (Yemen)
protection & lack of protection: circus
Saddle Mountain
~ is in Queensland, Australia sag (verb)
proper name: horse sag
morale in some parts of the office has begun to ~
saddle (saddle up)
sags a little bit
saddle up the first half of the movie ~
let's ~ (get ready and go)
decline: direction / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: horse / verb
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness: materials &
saddle (in the saddle) substances / verb

back in the saddle

saga (noun)
NATO is ~ (Libya) saga
he is ~ running Breitbart News (after political job) there is continuing public interest in his ~ (a boxer)
firmly in the saddle legal saga
president Arroyo is now ~ (following plots against her) his ~ was far from over
the Scottish Nationalists seem ~
he is ~ as IPL chairman for the next 5 years (cricket) scientific saga
the modern fight against syphilis is a ~
control & lack of control: horse
development: journeys & trips
saddle (get back in the saddle)
sail (sail to victory, etc.)
get back in the saddle
if you fall off a horse, pick yourself up and ~ sailed to victory
he ~ (a politician)
resiliency: horse / verb
sailed through the House and Senate
saddle (a burr in the saddle) the bipartisan bill ~ by unanimous voice vote (Hubbard Act)
burr in the saddle of the company difficulty, easiness & effort: boat / movement / verb
the controversy is a ~ attainment: boat / movement / verb
affliction: horse / sensation sailing (smooth sailing)
saddled smooth sailing
saddled in debt after that, it's ~ (job)
I was ~ it's not been all ~ (marriage)
it's not going to be ~ from now on
oppression: horse / weight
difficulty, easiness & effort: boat
safety net
saint (superlative)
safety net
the ~ has become a hammock (dependency) saint
the poor don't need a ~, they need a trampoline Judge was a real ~ (9/11 chaplain)
he was not a ~ (anger issues / politician)
safety net for (troubled) students
gaps in the ~ (suicides at college) no saint
Mr Berlusconi has always maintained he is “~”
safety net for the poor and uninsured
the hospital was a ~ (closed) revolutionary saint
Lenin, the ~
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behavior / reverence / superlative: religion we ~ (encouragement to those who stick to their diets)
sainthood (noun) achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / military / verb

secular sainthood salvage (verb)

his family has mixed feelings about his ~ (Matthew
Shepard)
salvage a (decent) life from the wreckage
money to ~ of misfortune
superlative: religion
salvage order out of chaos
salient (important) we are trying to ~ (East Timor)

salient points salvage his career

he covered all the ~ in his report he got a chance to ~
♦ A salient is a projecting part of a fortification. Or it is a bulge on the
front line. If the salient is cut off, it becomes a pocket. A salient can form
salvage their credibility
in a number of different ways, and can be defended or used offensively politicians need to ~ (versus corruption)
in a number of ways. In World War II, the Kursk Battle and the Battle of
the Bulge each developed around a salient. At Kursk the Germans salvage its season
attacked a Russian salient; at the Battle of the Bulge, they used their the team is desperate to ~ (sports)
own salient to spearhead their attack. Both ended up in crushing defeats
for them. salvage a (recently scrapped) summit
importance & significance: fortification / ground, terrain & they are trying to ~
land / military amelioration & renewal: boat / manufacturing / verb
salivate (verb) salve (noun)
salivating over the (class-action) lawsuits salve for (racial) rancor
lawyers should be ~ the only ~ is honesty
salivating at the prospect amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
consumers are ~ of the new product
salvo (noun)
salivating to attack
Republicans are ~ the president over… latest salvo
this is the ~ in the war against plastic straws
salivating to build
developers are ~ in the area verbal salvo
they exchanged ~s over this turn of events (enmity)
eagerness & reluctance: bodily reaction / mouth / verb
fired salvos
salt (sailor) a number of generals publicly ~ at each other
old salt accusation & criticism / speech: weapon
the ~ sent the apprentice off to find Charlie Noble
♦ Hazing inexperienced sailors is a tradition. “The old salt sent the
sand (political sands, etc.)
apprentice off to find Charlie Noble.” Here, the Charlie Noble actually
refers to the galley chimney. But in this case the unwitting apprentice political sands
would assume he had been sent to find a person, and would end up the ~ are shifting (diplomacy after the Arab Spring)
asking the entire ship’s crew, all of them in on the joke. This is referred to
as a fool’s errand. environment: desert
experience: boat / taste sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
salty (language) stick my head in the sand
salty response I didn’t want to ~ and deny what was going on...
a ~ from an artist who won’t back down (you idiot!) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: animal / bird /
speech: taste desert

salute (verb) sandwiched

saluted his efforts sandwiched between Australia and Indonesia
his colleagues ~ to lower racial barriers (tribute) East Timor is half an island ~

salute her timing sandwiched between Europe and Central Asia

I have to ~ (author produced timely book) Turkey has a strategic role in a region ~ (Caucasus)

salute you sandwiched between Togo and Ivory Coast

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 ~, Ghana is considered a model democracy savage (verb)
configuration: food & drink
savaged his critics
sanitize (verb) the president ~

sanitized Mark Twain's masterpiece savaging him

he has ~ by replacing the N-word critics are ~ (a journalist over ethics)

sanitize the history accusation & criticism: animal / predation / verb

the Japanese often ~ speech: animal / predation / verb
behavior: animal / predation / verb
textbooks sanitize
~ Japan's wartime atrocities (Japanese schools) savant (noun)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb heavily travelled savants
(sports) scouts are ~ who value young players
sanitized
knowledge & intelligence: person
sanitized edition
the ~ of 'Huckleberry Finn' has caused an uproar save (verb)
sanitized version save globalization from itself
lawmakers read aloud a ~ of the US Constitution a prescription to ~

less sanitized (m) save face

reenactors aim for a fun, ~ view of the Old West dictators always need to ~ (China / repression)

concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene save "honor"

Pakistani killed daughters to ~ (headline)
sanitizing
save the honor
sanitizing language men who kill women to ~ of their family
military officials used ~ to mask the fact...
save his own skin
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene he was a liar who just wanted to ~ (criminal trial)
sardined save their skins
executives sold their stock, hoping to ~ (Enron)
sardined in the settlement
no more convicts could be ~ save his voice
he would play music to ~ (early days of radio)
configuration: animal / fish / pressure
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
satellite (noun)
savior (epithet)
Iranian satellite
Bahrain could become an ~ Saviour of Poland
long live Napoleon, the ~
attraction & repulsion / relationship: astronomy
savior of mothers
Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia of coal, today he is known as “the ~” (Semmelweis)
etc.) epithet: religion
Saudi Arabia of coal savior (noun)
the US is the ~
West Virginia has been called the ~ Wale’s saviour
it was always likely Bale would be ~ (soccer game)
Saudi Arabia of cotton
the South was the ~ (the US Civil War) environmental savior
the press made Obama out to be the ~
Saudi Arabia of lithium
Afghanistan could become the ~ (mineral) global savior
we know that Bolivia can become the ~ NASA doesn't really want the job of ~ (NEOs)
Saudi Arabia of clean water white saviour
thanks to Lake Michigan, Chicago is the ~ she was accused of exhibiting a ~ complex (aid worker)
amount: epithet wildlife savior

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 she is referred to as “India’s greatest ~” (Indira Gandhi) development / initiation: scale / verb / weight
help & assistance: religion scalp (save one’s scalp)
savor (verb) save his own scalp
he is a career criminal trying to ~ (jailhouse snitch)
savor the benefits
~ of living a healthier lifestyle (energy, sleep, etc.) survival, persistence & endurance: hair / head / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone / verb
savored the feeling
I ~ (a massage) scalp (noun)
savor the moment claim another (big) scalp
some other voice was telling me to slow down, to ~ Palace ~ (victory against Tottenham Hotspur in FA Cup)
savored the moment collected scalps
I ~ (a moonlit swim) they issued demands, ~ (students force resignations)
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste / verb take scalps
say (a sign can say something, etc.) he is looking to ~ at Sony (underperforming films)
achievement, recognition & praise / punishment &
say
restaurants signs that ~, “Restrooms for customers only” recrimination / success & failure: hair / history / violence

says scapegoat (noun)

a street sign that ~ Martin Luther King scapegoat
the rumor mill ~ he may have plans... (boxing) he was railroaded, chosen to be the ~ (wrongly convicted)
said the San Francisco Chronicle
“US Terrorized by Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” ~ scapegoats of imperialism
♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared the they became the ~ (Indians in East Africa)
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald
and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the make Pakistan a scapegoat
San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds the US is trying to ~ for the war in Afghanistan
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.)

fictive communication: speech / verb chosen to be the scapegoat

he was railroaded, ~ (wrongly convicted)
scaffold (verb) ♦ One goat was sacrificed. The scapegoat was driven off into the
wilderness to perish with the sins of the community lying symbolically on
scaffold instruction its horns.
we need to ~ in mixed-ability classes and materials oppression / punishment & recrimination / sacrifice:
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb animal / justice / religion
help & assistance: infrastructure / verb
scar (verb)
scaffolding (noun)
scarred me
cosmic scaffolding the way my grandpa taught me to drive forever ~
strands of dark matter form a kind of ~
affliction: health & medicine / mark / verb / wounds &
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure scars
help & assistance: infrastructure
scar (psychological scars, etc.)
scale (scales of justice, etc.)
deep (psychological) scars
scales of justice soldiers are coming home with ~ (from Iraq)
he put his finger on the ~ to exonerate the police
economic scars
sign, signal, symbol: justice / scale the longer the recovery, the more long-lasting the ~
judgment: justice / scale (COVID)
scale (tip the scales) emotional scars
the ~ he inflicted on his children
tip the scales
this could ~ psychological scars
~ suffered by the orphan subjects (experiment)
tip the scales against him
♦ “I heard yesterday that there is a military hospital hidden in the forest
this could ~ (politics)
for the soldiers who have had their faces shot away. They apparently
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that make me despair.” (Elfriede Kuhr, a young German schoolgirl. From affliction: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.)
♦ “A World War One memorial to soldiers whose story has been scathing (adjective)
described as an unresolved ‘taboo’ is set to be unveiled... / The statue is
to be unveiled by descendants of some of the soldiers, at Queen Mary’s scathing editorial
Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, where many of the men were treated.” (“Ending
the taboo of soldiers with ‘broken faces’” by Sean Coughlan, BBC, 9
in a ~, the newspaper condemned the university for...
November 2019.)
scathing portrait
affliction: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars the book offers a ~ of the president
scar (blemish) scathing report
the ~ faults Boeing for the deadly crashes
scar on the history
the Sand Creek massacre is a permanent ~ of Colorado scathing testimony
he lashed out at his former boss in ~
permanent scar
the Sand Creek massacre is a ~ on the history of… affliction / speech: health & medicine / mark / wounds &
scars
flaws & lack of flaws: mark / wounds & scars
scattershot (adjective)
scar (resemblance)
scattershot approach
scar on the face they have taken a ~
the slums are a ~ of a beautiful city (Jeddah)
configuration / extent & scope: weapon
gaping scar
the open-pit mine has left a ~ two sq miles in size scene (behind the scenes)
resemblance: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars behind the scenes
scarred (afflicted) people want to know what goes on ~
working (feverishly) behind the scenes
scarred by a (harrowing) incident the US is ~ (diplomacy)
all of us have been ~ that happened to a friend…
concealment & lack of concealment: theater
scarred by (childhood) rejection and abuse attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater
an angry young man ~
scent (throw somebody off the scent)
scarred for life
I was ~ (traumatic incident) threw the Nazis off the scent with subterfuge
she ~ (saved Polish Jews)
emotionally scarred
if you are half as ~ as I am… throw the investigators off the scent
he tried to ~
affliction: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars
throw the press off the scent
scarred (battle-scarred, etc.) he tried to ~
scarred with piles pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / smell / verb
the open land around Norilsk is ~ of tailings (mines) subterfuge: hunting / smell / verb
battle-scarred buildings schism (noun)
checkpoints and ~ (Middle East)
schism between the sides
battle-scarred capital the ~ has deepened (politics)
in Mogadishu, Somalia's ~
♦ “Better the Sultan’s turban than the cardinal’s hat!”
battle-scarred country division & connection: religion
a ~ divided among warlords (Afghanistan)
schizophrenic (adjective)
battle-scarred air base
American forces based at the ~ (Afghanistan) schizophrenic
flaws & lack of flaws: mark / wounds & scars the weather is ~

scarring kind of schizophrenic

we’re ~ (a musician about music scene)
scarring experience schizophrenic blend
it was a ~ (being bullied)
she encapsulates the ~ of exhilaration and alarm (tech)

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schizophrenic issue she sometimes ~ like her children (Sarah Sanders)
it’s a ~, in fact (Egyptian attitude to West)
accusation & criticism: family / verb
♦ The secondary definition in the OED is “with the implication of mutually
contradictory or inconsistent elements.” Some see this definition as scorched-earth
hurtful to the mentally ill and would like to see it removed.

behavior: health & medicine / mental health scorched-earth attacks

voters want answers to their questions, not ~ (politics)
schooled
scorched-earth offensive
schooled (at an early age) on how to be this ~ that we saw from the president (attacks his critics)
he was ~ a drug dealer
scorched-earth politics
experience / knowledge & intelligence: school & education republicans have adopted his slash-and-burn, ~
scintilla (scintilla of doubt, etc.) scorched-earth pursuit
the senator’s ~ of communists (Joe McCarthy)
scintilla of evidence
there is not a ~ against him conflict / destruction: military / fire

scintilla of merit scorching (adjective)

there is not a ~ in this claim (of a jailhouse snitch)
scorching (final) scene
♦ This is from the Latin meaning a spark. in the play's ~, she unleashes a torrent of fury at…
amount: light & dark feeling, emotion & effect: fire / temperature
scintillating (adjective) score (settle a score, etc.)
scintillating performance
score
she gave a ~
you're gonna pay, 'cause I'm the one who's keepin' ~
feeling, emotion & effect / superlative: light & dark
settle scores
character & personality: light & dark
there are worries that people may try to ~
scissor (resemblance) ♦ Score refers to an account or a bill.

scissor kick revenge: money / verb

his 94th-minute ~ sent the game to penalties (soccer)
scorecard (noun)
movement / resemblance: blade
culture, diversity and inclusion scorecard
scissor (genetic scissors, etc.) in 2016 the company began using a ~ (hiring)
Crispr-Cas9 genetic scissors judgment: baseball / sports & games
their discovery, known as ~
scour (verb)
creation & transformation: blade / tools & technology
scoured the shops for antiques
sclerotic (adjective) they ~
sclerotic bureaucracy scoured the Earth for (rare) fruit
businessmen must deal with a ~ Bill Whitman ~ (collector)
sclerotic culture scoured the Web
she campaigned to change the ~ of Sacramento (election) crazed fans ~ ("Blair Witch Project")
sclerotic (judicial) system scoured his computer
the ~ is in need of reform police ~
sclerotic, authoritarian (m) scoured the neighborhood
it is not the only country with a ~ political system more cops ~
unthinking and sclerotic (m) scoured (all) the records
they rebelled against ~ traditionalism (filmmakers) the new team ~ in the case (prosecution)
condition & status: health & medicine scoured 46,332 sq miles
scold (verb) the search ~ of sea floor (for MH370)
scoured the streets and homeless shelters
scolded the White House press corps for behaving officers ~ but could find no trace of him

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searching & discovery: rubbing & washing / verb scrambling to stop
health officials are ~ the spread of the virus (measles)
scoured
scrambled for his (political) survival
scoured by whirlwinds he has ~ this week (ethics problems)
a scorched moonscape ~ of ash (wildfire)
activity / difficulty, easiness & effort / haste / movement:
scoured by wind verb / walking, running & jumping
the land is ~ and baked by sun
scramble (disrupt)
resemblance: rubbing & washing
scourge (noun) scrambled the lives
he has ~ of everyone in the news business (president)
scourge of (mass) incarceration scrambled their plans
the ~ rips apart poor communities
the impeachment trial has ~ (politicians)
scourge of (violent) jihad disruption: mixture / verb
the ~ has not gone away
scrap (verb)
scourge of racism
we thought the ~ was a distant memory (soccer) scrapped (nearly all of) the changes
he has ~ (of the previous regime)
scourge of the Resistance
Klaus Barbie was the ~ scrapped the idea
the team ~ of…
scourge in the black communities
crack cocaine was a ~ scrapped (NASA's) plan
affliction: violence / whip the administration has ~ to return to the moon

scout (noun) scrap its plan

the government must ~ to restart the nuclear reactors
boy scouts scrap that strategy
the ~ are shining paragons of American boyhood
they should ~ and try something different
sports scouts scrapped the (color-coded) system
~ are heavily travelled savants who value young players
the Obama administration ~ (terrorism alerts)
♦ The scout / snipers serve as the eyes and ears of the battalion
commander. dismissal, removal & resignation: manufacturing / verb
searching & discovery: military / person scrap (noun)
scout (verb) scraps of the (old) economy
scout blind drops young people should fight over the remaining ~
please ~ (memorial to kayaker Edward Lee Green) amount: food & drink
scout for talent scrape (verb)
he came to Bosnia to ~ (KSM / terrorist)
scrape 500,000 members’ private details
searching & discovery: military / verb
the flaw allowed hackers to ~
scramble (verb) computer / dismissal, removal & resignation / searching &
scramble to get discovery / taking & removing: blade / knife / verb
I had to ~ some money scrape by (verb)
scrambled (this week) to prevent scraping by
attorneys ~ the public release of recorded statements
farmers are just ~
scrambling to provide survival, persistence & endurance: blade / knife / verb
the government is ~ additional security (Olympics)
scrapped
scrambling to put
negotiators have been ~ the talks back together scrapped by the governor
the project was ~
scrambling to salvage
they are ~ the treaty (diplomacy) project was scrapped
the ~

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program will be scrapped script (to script)
he believes the ~ later this year (State Dept.)
exactly to script
tour was scrapped things haven't gone ~ (a boxer's career)
the ~ (music)
gone (exactly) to script
want them scrapped things haven't ~ (a boxer's career)
Americans oppose the bills and ~
development / script: theater
dismissal, removal & resignation: manufacturing
script (off script)
scratch (scratch and claw)
go off script
scratch and claw for the maximum they are so good when they ~ (two quarterbacks)
she is going to ~ she can get (politics)
development / script: theater
conflict / difficulty, easiness & effort: animal / verb
scrub (remove)
scream (scream “premium,” etc.)
scrub campuses clean
scream ‘premium’ some want to ~ of words, ideas, and subjects that might
if there are scratches on the tin, that doesn’t ~ (paint) cause discomfort
scream out to the young people scrub a computer
this sentence will ~ that you can’t drive drunk they made a plan to ~ (criminal investigation)
fictive communication: speech / verb
scrub the record
scream (scream for action, etc.) can you imagine Clinton after impeachment trying to ~

screaming for action scrub your criminal record

the public is ~ now (Australia / fires / climate change) state agencies can ~ (expungements, sealing records)

sound: animal / verb concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb

resistance, opposition & defeat / speech: animal / sound / dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene / verb
verb scrum (reporters)
screen (split screen) sidewalk scrum
split screen of conduct during a ~ with reporters, he was asked why... (a politician)
it’s a ~ that is required (manufacturing hygiene in India) ♦ A press gaggle is similar.

split-screen day behavior / group, set & collection: sports & games
this was really a ~ in the US Senate (2 important events) activity / resemblance: sports & games

series of split screens scum (insult)

Trump is hoping to set up a ~ (during impeachment trial)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / comparison & contrast:
film
screw (tighten / loosen the screws)
loosen the screws
if we ~ on restrictions the economy will return (pandemic)
scum
you people are just as much garbage as this ~ (TMZ)
wash the scum off the streets
we need to ~ (criminals, etc.)
some day a real rain will come and ~ (film Taxi Driver)
insult / violence / worth & lack of worth: hygiene

tightened the screws scupper (verb)

the judge ~ and… (sentence) scupper all chances
pressure: tools & technology / verb that might ~ of getting peace talks going again
coercion & motivation: pressure / tools & technology / verb scuppered the deal
screw up (verb) that’s what ~ the last time

screwed up scupper the (current) recovery

I~ the Federal Reserve does not want to ~

failure, accident & impairment: tools & technology / verb destruction: boat / sea / verb

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scuppered sea (in a sea)
scuppered in a sea of (armed) chaos
the deal was ~ Somaliland is an island of stability ~
efforts to pass the Law of the Sea Treaty are always ~
in a (rising) sea of (moral) pollution
scuppered by Wenner they saw themselves as a small archipelago of decency ~
previous attempts at this book were ~ (a biography)
in a sea of sexism
destruction: boat / sea we existed ~ (Poppy Northcutt of NASA)
scuttle (verb) in a sea of viruses
we are swimming ~ (bacteria, viruses, etc.)
scuttled an agreement
she headed off a dispute that nearly ~ (diplomacy) in a sea of woes
a school flailing ~ (title of article)
scuttled her plans
she ~ to become a teacher environment: sea / water
scuttled its economics program sea (environment)
the university ~
sea
scuttled the talks it is the ~ we all swim in (the Internet and regulation)
no side wishes to appear to have ~
environment: sea / water
♦ On November 27, 1942, the French scuttled the French fleet in Toulon
as the Germans attempted to seize it. Three battleships, 7 cruisers, 15
destroyers, and 12 submarines were sunk. Sea valves were opened,
sea (at sea)
also, demolition charges were set off. The German military was
disappointed they hadn't been able to seize the ships intact, but Hitler at sea
was pleased because the fleet was destroyed and could not be used policy makers are ~
against the Axis. The captains of a few ships were able to sail them to
the Allies. direction: boat / sea
♦ On the 21st of June, 1919, German sailors scuttled the interned
German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow. Arguably, It was the greatest sea (amount)
loss of shipping in a single day in world history. Fifty-two of the 74 ships
went to the bottom. sea of clouds
destruction: boat / sea / verb I saw a ~ extending miles and miles (fire tower)

scuttled sea of data

the testing mandates had generated a ~ (education)
scuttled by the governor sea of debt
the project was ~
a ~ threatens to drown the dreams of a generation
scuttled show sea of (unfamiliar) faces
the musical was a last-minute replacement for a ~
all I saw was a ~
deal was scuttled sea of humanity
the ~ (politics)
the pilgrims formed a ~ (Hajj)
plan was (later) scuttled sea of (rights) issues
the ~ was (government)
the turbulent ~ (copyright)
destruction: boat / sea
sea of merchandise
Scylla and Charybdis there's a ~ (department store)

between “Scylla and Charybdis” sea of people

their proposals are an unnecessary choice ~ (Greek crisis) as far as I could see was a ~ (state funeral)

Scylla of blandness and the Charybdis of confrontation sea of pilgrims

like most shows of this ilk, it toggles between the ~ a seemingly endless ~ (Hajj)

Scylla of negativity and the Charybdis of cheerleading sea of protestors

how to steer between the ~ (literary criticism, etc.) a ~ were waving Socialist party flags (Albania)

alternatives & choices: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey sea of red

danger: allusion / boat / Iliad & Odyssey / sea the stands were a ~ (Seoul World Cup stadium)
seas of squalor

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 islands of prosperity within great ~ (Bombay, etc.) seamlessly
sea of thoughts seamlessly
he says his mind is a muddled ~
they work together ~
sea of unknowns division & connection: cloth
the oil spill has created a ~
search (for truth, cure, etc.)
sea of candles and flowers
a ~ (public memorial to terrorist victims) search for answers
the ~ should start with…
sea of (Japanese) flags and signs
turning to a spiritual path in their ~
the stands were a ~ (baseball)
search for a cure
sea of (2,000 mostly) Hispanic students
the ~ for autism
this ~ (school)
search for evidence
sea of red ink
the ~ of childhood abuse
keep it from crashing in a ~
amount: sea
search for fulfillment
their ~ goes unrewarded (quarterlifer crisis)
sea (sea of sand, etc.)
search for identity
sea of mud his adolescence was marked by a painful ~ (racial)
everywhere is a ~ (after a tsunami)
search for thrills
sea of sand the ~ can kill (Chilko River rafting disaster)
their way was blocked by an impassible ~ (desert)
search for the truth
dune sea in the unrelenting ~
the great ~s called ergs in Arabic (Sahara)
unrelenting search
sand sea in the ~ for the truth
the Eastern Erg, a ~ covering 120,000 square miles
spiritual search
resemblance: sea he began a ~ that took him to…

seal of approval searching & discovery: hunting

seal of approval search (digital strip search, etc.)

he gave me that grin of his, and that was his ~
digital strip-searches
mob's seal of approval critics are unhappy over ~ (cop requests for smartphones)
a kiss on the cheek was the ~ ~ of victims are unnecessary and violate victims’ rights

sign, signal, symbol: royalty searching & discovery: clothing & accessories
judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sign, seared
signal, symbol
seam (burst at the seams) seared into my consciousness
that period of time was ~ (divorce of her parents)
bursting at the seams
seared in the Japanese consciousness
a nearby campground is ~
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ~
size: clothing & accessories
seared into the national consciousness
seamless (adjective) their names are ~ (names of World War I battles)

seamless service seared in my mind

the company delivers ~ to its customers that's a moment that is ~ forever (disaster)

seamless teamwork seared in her memory

~ can be a potent weapon (epidemiology) her rape is ~

division & connection: cloth remain seared

the images ~ in our collective memory (9/11)
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth
impression: fire / mark / sensation

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searing (adjective) seat (front-row seat)
searing attack front-row seat to the tornado
he launched into a ~ on the Republicans (politics) they had a ~ (storm chasers)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation had a front-row seat
they had a ~ to the tornado (storm chasers)
season (time)
proximity: theater
season of our life
in each ~, there are certain tasks which must be seat (in the driver’s seat)
accomplished
in the driver’s seat
seasons of our lives he continues to be ~ going forward (politician)
as the seasons turn, so do the ~ turn
firmly in the driver’s seat
harvest season hip-hop and streetwear are ~ (fashion industry)
he has a sense that this is his "~" (lifetime awards)
puts you in the driver’s seat
going through a season a good credit score ~
we are ~ right now but we will come out of it (hope of
change) control & lack of control / driving force: engine

development / time: season second-class (adjective)

seasoned (adjective) second-class citizen
comedy has always been a ~ (in films, versus drama)
seasoned
I’m ~, I’ve seen a lot of things, but not like this (cop) hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: ticket

seasoned actor seduce (verb)

she is a ~ seduce patrons (of the arts) into parting
seasoned doctors he hoped to ~ with some money (backers' audition)
~ are likely to be resistant to coaching seduce Hollywood
seasoned executive the film has gone on to ~ since being unveiled at Cannes
the company needs a ~ with a proven track record pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage / sex
seasoned investigator / verb
he is a ~ who specializes in cleaning house (government) seduced
seasoned (tax) lawyers
seduced by him
even ~ are confounded by the new rules
authors were often ~ at first but then became disenchanted
seasoned professional (publishing)
she is a ~
seduced by the French Revolution
seasoned (diplomatic) troubleshooter Byron, Heine, Goethe, Hegel and Beethoven were all ~
he is a ~ (dispatched by president to Egypt)
seduced by the siren song
seasoned and sensible (m) they've been ~ "college for everyone"
he is a ~ traveler pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage / sex
young but seasoned attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex
he is ~ (city lobbyist at state capital) seductive (adjective)
experience: taste
seductive spokesman
seat (front seat) he is a ~ for a new brand of youthful defiance (Han Han)

front seat seductive theory

I have had a ~ to many profound events it's a ~

front seat to history sounded seductive

it’s such a privilege, you have a ~ (Cokie Roberts) the pitch has ~ (for an educational fad)

proximity: theater attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex

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see (a date can see something, etc.) came to see
thousands ~ Willy Nelson (concert)
saw over 250 climbers
advise you to see
23 May ~ try to summit (Mount Everest) I ~ a doctor
fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb
place to see
see (fictive) the mall, for many teens, is a ~ and be seen

seen social interaction: eye / verb

this is some of the hottest air we have ~ in half a decade see (see action, etc.)
see from him saw action
what do you want to ~ (what do you want him to do) she last ~ Jan. 8 against Arizona (basketball)
seeing a reverse brain drain see combat
the US is ~ as foreign students go home he never expected to ~ (young soldier)
see fees saw combat
consumers ~ everywhere (phone, credit cards, hotels) the B-2 stealth bomber first ~ in the air war over Kosovo
see more responsible government see the world
we are beginning to ~ (Indonesia) in his early 20's he set off to ~
seen an increase I wanted to ~…
the library has ~ in attendance at spoken-word events see a great fight
seen (angry) protests win or lose, you're going to ~ (with boxer Arturo Gatti)
Bolivia has ~ by the country's indigenous majority expected to see
seen the return he never expected to ~ combat (young soldier)
the west has ~ of the wolf (US / relocation programs) a lot to see
seen a series there is quite ~ within the underwater caves here
the last few years have ~ of political upheavals (England) set off to see
seen a 100 degree temperature in his early 20's he ~ the world
New York City has not ~ in seven years ♦ “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” (The
tagline for a cute series of ads by Farmers Insurance.)
seen (a series of political) upheavals experience: eye / verb
the last few years have ~ (England)
see (comprehension)
saw Basques ambush
the battle ~ a part of Charlemagne’s army see
you'll ~…
saw the Scandinavians eliminated I ~ (understand)
her goal ~ by the same team that...
see your point
fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb I ~ and it’s a good one
see (visit / meet) see for yourself
you'll ~ how you can save (ad for store)
sees him (maybe) once a month
his biological father ~ see the potential
don't you ~ for disaster here
see a doctor
he had to pay $95 to ~ (immigrant) comprehension & incomprehension: eye / verb
I advise you to ~
see (see something coming)
saw a neurologist
she ~, who diagnosed traumatic brain injury with… saw it coming
I never ~
see the (patient's) nurse they never ~
please ~ to obtain a mask (hospital) nobody ~ (boy arrested)
we were caught flatfooted, we never ~
see you around
I'll ~ see it coming
he didn't ~ (heart attack)

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♦ Shrek: My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me. I should have seen it see nothing wrong
coming.
many ~ with it
♦ You don't play with snakes and not expect to get bitten.
see choice
consciousness & awareness: eye / movement / verb
patients ~ as both a blessing and a burden
development: eye / movement / direction / verb
future / time: eye / movement / verb saw himself
see (future) what mattered was how he ~ (identity)
see any hope
see Palestinians don’t ~ in the plan
we’ll just have to ~ (what will happen)
but we don’t know what the court will do, we’ll ~ see it
when you think about your future, what do you ~ there's another world out there, you just can't ~
see beyond the next election see warmth
many politicians can barely ~ the thermal-imaging camera can ~ through walls (cops)
remains to be seen saw different things
it ~ if he can weather the storm (a politician) people ~ (televised hearings)
he claims he will win, but that ~
it ~, and we just don’t know yet, it’s too early continue to see
we ~ strong job growth
future / time: eye / verb
hard to see
see (perceive) progress may be slow and ~ (nursing / rehabilitation)
see Tutsi as (foreign) interlopers perception, perspective & point of view: eye / verb
many Congolese ~ (eastern Congo)
see (refer to)
see the collapse on the horizon
we can ~ (a resumption of ethnic strife) see www.nim.nih.gov / research
a draft version is available, ~
sees himself as an ambassador
he ~ for his sport (Tito Ortiz) See Instructions
~ (product)
see it as a (good) excuse
some ~ not to go to the office (snowfall in London) reference: eye / verb

seen themselves as the gatekeepers see (see through something)

book publishers have long ~ of literary culture
see (right) through you
see immigration as an (invisible) invasion I can ~ (to real motivations)
people ~ (Europe)
saw through the (spurious) claims
saw the Germans as liberators he ~ of a therapy called... (autism)
many Siberian gulags ~ (W. W. II)
seen through the spin
see themselves as members I think people have ~ (of powerful sex abusers)
many Congolese Tutsi ~ of a vulnerable minority consciousness & awareness: eye / verb
see boxing as a ticket concealment & lack of concealment: eye / verb
many Indian girls ~ to a middle-class life (India) appearance & reality: eye / verb

see themselves as the victims seed (noun)

Shiites always ~ (said by a US diplomat / Iraq)
seeds of distrust
see the world from a different perspective India's 21-day war with China in 1962 sowed ~
people who ~ (autism)
seeds of doubt
see eye to eye plant the ~
I don't ~ with my new boss
seeds of rebellion
sees fit enforced potty sitting can sow the ~ (toddlers)
he is determined to live as he ~ (a Native American)
seeds of (sectarian) hatred
see the best the ~ had taken root
~ in others (wise advice)
seeds of revolt

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 Facebook helped to blow the ~ across the country the temptation to ~ is strong (journalism)
seeds of revolution future / message / time: eye / magic / person / religion
Nasser wanted to plant the ~ on the Arabian Peninsula person: magic / religion
seed for that (momentous) law seesaw (noun)
the ~ was planted about 40 years earlier (Title IX)
seesaw of emotions
seeds for (future) unrest thus began, for him, a violent ~ toward Kevin
they have planted the ~ (military hangs on to power)
seesaw battle
plant the seeds they are locked in a ~ for the strategic city
the British helped to ~ of discord in Afghanistan
see-saw (economic) recovery
planted the seeds the ~
he ~ that gave principals more autonomy (education)
legal seesaw
sowing the seeds the ~ was part of a protracted battle (environment)
he could be ~ of a new disaster (price controls)
development: direction / movement / sports & games
sow the seeds movement: direction / sports & games
enforced potty sitting can ~ of rebellion (toddlers)
seethe (verb)
♦ "He planted the seed, and I'm just one of the apples that fell from the
tree." (Tribute paid by a black rodeo rider to a pioneer in his sport.) seething with anger
♦ You don't harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.) protestors are ~ (against the US)
♦ “He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water /
creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant temperature / verb / water
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
seismic (adjective)
seed money
seismic
seed money the impact would be ~ (educational reform)
the government loans will be ~ (to new businesses)
seismic change
provided seed money the results are a ~ for Irish politics (nationalists win)
tech tycoons ~ (for an AI startup)
seismic impact
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant this will have a ~ in the world of athletics (doping bans)
seen (perceived) seismic news
this is ~ in the world of sports business (Nike change)
seen as modern-day people
we aren’t ~ at all (a Native American) seismic shift
perception, perspective & point of view: eye increased female enrollments portends a ~ (education)
we need a ~ in the way maternity care is provided
seen (future)
seismic win
remains to be seen Japan are praised for their ~ against Ireland (Rugby)
it ~ if he can weather the storm (a politician)
he claims he will win, but that ~
constitutionally seismic
their relationship was ~ (Wallis Simpson and King)
it ~, and we just don’t know yet, it’s too early
future / time: eye / verb historic and seismic (m)
the coalition government marks a ~ shift (Britain)
seep (verb)
amount & effect / extent & scope: earthquake
seeps into (neighboring) countries seismically
heroin ~ and then into Russia (from Afghanistan)
seeped into mainstream thinking shifted seismically
power has ~ (Liverpool vs. Manchester United)
it ~
amount & effect / extent & scope: earthquake
movement: water / verb
seer (person) seize (verb)
play the seer seized Dirac
this idea ~ (Paul Dirac / that math was beautiful)

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seized hold allegiance, support & betrayal: money / verb
a militant consensus ~ of the Austrians (1914) resistance, opposition & defeat: money / verb
seized me send (emotion or effect)
the story really ~ (an author / camels in US)
sent her into a tailspin
seize the moment the news ~ (light sentence for her stalker)
he has failed to ~ (a politician and economic problems)
sent a chill through the academic world
seize the reins the sentences ~ (China arrests)
he will probably ~ (football player for a position)
he was seized by a ~ of lurking danger send a shiver through Congress
the news will likely ~ (Senators sick from coronavirus)
fictive possession / possession: hand / verb
taking & removing: hand / verb sent a jolt of anxiety around the city
the murder ~
seized (by an emotion)
sent (racial) tensions to a boiling point
seized by a (gut) feeling his death ~ (Amadou Diallo, shot by police)
he was ~ of lurking danger
sent shock waves through French politics
feeling, emotion & effect: hand the poll ~ (strength of right)
fictive possession / possession: hand
taking & removing: hand sent shock waves through the American psyche
Tet ~ (Vietnam War)
self-destructive (adjective)
feeling, emotion & effect: movement / verb
self-destructive behaviour
he is known for his ~ (celebrity)
send (fictive)
self-destructive tendencies send (mixed) messages
his ~ have resurfaced schools ~ about cheating

self-destructive habit sent mixed signals

most addicts want to kick their ~ his lawyer has ~ (about what his client might do)

behavior / character & personality: explosion / ruins send the Americans to the dustbin
destruction: explosion / ruins the Afghans will ~ of history

sell (promote) sent the game to penalties

his 94th-minute scissor kick ~ (soccer)
sell his (immigration) bill to the public
a trip to ~ (President Bush) send the wrong message to kids
the ads ~ (that thin is good)
sells women an ideal
the fashion industry also ~ of beauty (thinness) send messages through their body language
people ~
sell yourself
you have to ~ (job interviewing) fictive transportation: verb

selling himself as a dealmaker send (cause to move)

he’s ~ who can take on President Trump (Joe Biden) sent up a plume of dust
message: money / verb a rockslide ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: money / verb sent up (huge) plumes of smoke
sell out (verb) the military air strikes ~

selling out to big energy send up toxic plumes

environmentalists say federal officials are ~ (drilling) bombing chemical sites could ~

sold out for the money sent streams of lava down the mountain
he was a great actor, but he ~ (films) the volcano ~

sold out his (progressive) ideals sent sand and litter (high) into the air
he has ~ a monster dust devil ~

sold out its members sent a wall of water downstream

some say the union has ~ (contract) the dam failure ~

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fictive transportation: verb servant (dominated)
sensitive (feelings) servant of the Kremlin
so sensitive he is a ~ and not the Ukrainian people (politics)
don’t be ~ servant to anyone
character & personality: sensation we are sovereign and independent and won’t be a ~
character & personality: skin, muscle, nerves & bone dominance & submission: person
sensitive (adjective) serve up (verb)
sensitive to their concerns serves up anti-Obama rhetoric
we must be ~ (diplomacy) he ~ every night (a news host)
sensitive issue supplying: food & drink / verb
this is a ~ in Israel
set (skill set)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
& bone skill set (was perfect) for that show
his ~ (S.N.L.)
sentence (life sentence)
bring a skillset
permanent life sentence women ~ (CIA)
there can’t be a ~ on someone who does something wrong
group, set & collection: tools & technology
judgment / punishment & recrimination: justice
setback (progress)
sentinel (noun)
setback
sentinels of environmental quality a ~ in their frustrating hunt for the sniper (D.C. area)
birds are ~
setbacks
sentinel disease he has had some ~
she calls it a “~” in the era of climate change (CKDu) she knows her ~ will soon be in the rear-view mirror (teen)
warning: military / person handed (its first major) setback
Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.) the terrorist group was ~ when...

Serengeti of the North crises and setbacks

the heartbreak of constant medical ~
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is often referred to as
the ~ progress & lack of progress: direction / movement /
biodiversity: epithet / place journeys & trips

sermon (message) set off (verb)

subject of his sermon set off a domino effect
the sinister power of TV is the ~ (the film Network) this ~ (economic collapse)

message: Bible / religion / speech set off a (political) storm

her decision has ~ in the Netherlands
servant (help)
set off a firestorm
servants he ~ of opposition when he…
hold the church accountable for the actions of its ~
set off a (trade) war
servants to us economic sanctions could ~
fossil fuels are enormous ~
set off shock waves
civil servants he ~ with his statement
54% of ~ come to work late (Saudi Arabia)
set off a shoot-out
public servant the request ~ between the two camps
he is a ~ in the Russian Forestry Service
initiation: explosion / verb
help & assistance / work & duty: person
set off (feeling and emotion)
set him off

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 little things would ~ (a violent man) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: equilibrium &
stability / verb
set the president off
that was the thing that ~ (upset him) sewn (sewn up)
set off a wave of emotions sewn up the nomination
the resignations ~ from sadness to relief he has effectively ~ (a politician)
set off a wave of fury sewn up the support
the nominee list ~ she has ~ she needs (politics)
set off a wave of pride reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth
his success has ~ (Japanese ballplayer)
sexy (adjective)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb
sexy
set out / off (verb) the hypothesis was ~ (psychology)
set out on this path attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex
he ~ in 1997 by writing... (rehabilitated his career)
shackle (noun)
set out to film
they ~ the city's prostitutes (documentary / Calcutta) break the shackles
we must ~ of an oppressed people's chains
set out to find
when he ~ his biological father, he never imagined... constraint & lack of constraint: animal / crime
oppression: animal
set out to master
I ~ fence-building and brush-clearing shade (throw shade)
set out to take threw some shade at the channel
Mr. Marwa ~ revenge (on murderers of his relative) he congratulated his rival but also ~ (PewDiePie)

set out to terrorize throw shade at Florida

extremists rejected these terms and ~... (Rwanda) people ~ (Florida Man meme)

set out to take revenge throw shade at the biggest name

Mr. Marwa ~ (on murderers of his relative) he seemed to ~ in hip-hop

set off on a wild rampage accusation & criticism: light & dark / verb
dozens of teenage boys ~ (Central Park) shadow (concealment)
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips /
movement / verb
in the shadows
killing, interrogating and bribing are done ~ (terrorism)
set piece (noun)
from the shadows to the spotlight
regular weekly media set-pieces survivors have moved ~ (sex abuse)
the ~ are no longer the must-watch sideshows (soccer club) live in the shadows
performance: theater many homeless men and women avoid shelters and ~

set sail (verb) live life in the shadows

they ~ (CIA agents)
set sail on the seas
he ~ of his exciting career as a microbe hunter lurking in the shadows
syphilis is a major scourge ~ (China public health)
♦ “We traveled very pleasantly all day; in fact nothing can be more
beautiful than the views of this immense river; sometimes as smooth as
a mirror, at other times ruffled with a gentle breeze, but at all times operate in the shadows
sweeping us along at the rate of six or seven miles per hour." (Mungo spammers ~, relying on botnets (Russia)
Park on the Niger River.)
♦ “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.” (A Japanese saying.)
returned from the shadows
the hactivist group Anonymous has ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
/ verb drive them (further) into the shadows
the law will only ~ (illegal migrants)
settle down (verb)
draw the undocumented out of the shadows
settle down we need to ~ and into the sunlight of legal status
nobody knows when things will ~ again (shaken)

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concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / shadow labored in (Moscow's) shadow
a city that has always ~
shadow (cast a shadow)
escape the shadow
cast a shadow he will never ~ of the previous coach (basketball)
his flaws ~ (Sinatra)
emerge from his brother's shadow
casts a shadow (of suspicion) over all priests he was desperate to ~ (boxer Mike Quarry)
it ~ (sexual misconduct)
step out of the long shadow
cast a shadow over the Oscars Sarajevo is attempting to ~ of war
the war ~ this year (Iraq)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / shadow
cast a shadow over the (New York) Police superiority & inferiority: light & dark / shadow
the case ~
shadow (proximity)
cast a shadow over our (foreign-policy) record
Rwanda ~ shadow
I'm supposed to be your ~ (follow you and watch you)
cast a (dark) shadow
the tragic accident ~ over US-Korean relations in the shadow of Mount Snowdon
she works as a hill farmer ~
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow
oppression: light & dark / shadow lives in its shadow
shadow (in / under the shadow) the volcano shapes the lives of everyone who ~
proximity: light & dark / shadow
in the shadow of the gun
they live ~ (Kashmiris) shadow (beyond a shadow of a doubt,
in the shadow of terrorism etc.)
many are revitalizing family ties ~ (US)
beyond any shadow of a doubt
under the shadow of a boycott I will convince you ~ (trial)
Algeria voted ~
without a shadow of a doubt
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow they knew, ~, that he was guilty
oppression: light & dark / shadow
certainty & uncertainty: light & dark / shadow
shadow (dark shadow, etc.)
shadow (devitalized)
dark shadow
the ~ of the tyranny has been lifted (Obama / Libya) shadow of himself
he’s a ~, of his best times (a chess grandmaster)
deadly shadow
the mystique of pole vaulting includes a ~ (fatalities) shadow of its former self
the company will be a ~
horrible shadow the group is a ~ (terrorists)
there has been this ~ over his legacy (child abuse) the once proud newspaper is a ~ (cuts, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow shadow of what it used to be
oppression: light & dark / shadow in reality the Royal Navy is already a ~
shadow (attention) pale shadow
it was a ~ of their mighty clashes (soccer tie)
shadow of the (previous) coach
he will never escape the ~ (basketball) attenuation: light & dark / shadow
substance & lack of substance: light & dark / shadow
brother's shadow
he was desperate to emerge from his ~ (Mike Quarry) shadow (follow)
in Moscow's shadow shadow the politician
a city that has always labored ~ (St. Petersburg) she asked to ~ on a 15-hour “ride-a-long” (reporter)

in his shadow proximity: light & dark / shadow / verb

anything I do is completely eclipsed, I’m ~ (jealousy) shadow (shadow government, etc.)
in the shadow of (such a) legend
was it hard growing up ~ (grandson of famous woman) shadow governors
the rebels have named ~

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shadow foreign secretary it’s a step back, but we need to ~ and go again (soccer)
Labour’s ~ Emily Thornberry
resiliency: gesture / verb
shadow attorney general shake (remove)
the ~
shadow foreign policy shake her demons
they view what he did as a kind of ~ (politics) she couldn't ~ (singer dies of drug overdose)

repetition: light & dark / shadow shake my depression

I couldn't ~
shadow (shadow boxing, etc.)
shake off the mantle
shadow boxing they want to ~ of tradition (artists)
jumping rope, ~, hitting the heavy bag (boxers)
shake off the sense
substance & lack of substance: light & dark / shadow I couldn't ~ of pessimism and failure I felt
shadow (rain shadow, etc.) dismissal, removal & resignation: movement

rain shadow shaken (feeling)

the uplands leave the valley in a ~
shaken to my core
configuration: light & dark / shadow I was ~ (by a perceived injustice)
shadowy drained and shaken
I left feeling ~ (tour of Auschwitz)
shadowy figure
he is a ~ whose intentions remain shrouded in mystery left him shaken
the violence ~
shadowy (extremist) groups
~ have burned Internet cafes leave the movie shaken
you ~ (a film review)
shadowy (Internet) organization
the documents were released by a ~ feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability

shadowy world Shakespeare (epithet)

his arrest provides a lens onto the ~ of computer hackers
“hillbilly Shakespeare”
shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army the man who was called the ~ (Hank Williams)
the ~, born in the 1970's (Pakistan)
superlative: books & reading / epithet
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / shadow allusion / epithet: books & reading
shady (adjective) Shakespearean (adjective)
shady dealings Shakespearean in scope and grandeur
~ made him a rich man the Olympics will be ~ (drama, tragedy, comedy)
there were some ~ going on in the Ukraine (US politics)
Shakespearean proportions
corruption / subterfuge: light & dark / shadow this is a tragedy of ~ (family murder)
shake (disrupt) superlative: books & reading / epithet
allusion / epithet: books & reading
shaken the university
the allegations have ~ shake up (verb)
shakes people from their slumber shook up the (immigration) debate
I hope this film ~ (Spike Lee) the president ~ (President Trump)

shook Hollywood and the country to its foundation shook me up

the murders ~ (Charles Manson) his story ~ (a suicide)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb shake-up (noun)
shake (shake something off)
shakeup in leadership
shake it off what do you think the ~ indicates
she’s now struggling to ~ (label of calculating)
shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security

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 what do you think the ~ indicates shape the future
a battle that could ~ of home cinema (standard)
sudden shake-up
the ~ could signal instability in the regime shape public perception
he wants his surrogates to ~ (politics)
disruption: equilibrium & stability
creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing / verb
shaky (equilibrium)
shaped
shaky bank
~s, volatile markets… shaped our world
firsthand accounts of events that ~ (BBC witness history)
shaky ground
their relationship is on ~ shaped by coal
the 19th century was ~
shaky relationship
they have a ~ shaped by oil
the 20th century was ~
shaky science
the company’s claims rest on ~ shaped by natural gas
the 21st century may well be ~ (energy)
shaky start
the spacewalk got off to a ~ creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing
shaky truce shard (the Shard, etc.)
they have reached a ~ in their trade dispute
the Shard
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability ~ was designed by Renzo Piano (London building)
shallow (adjective) proper name: materials & substances / shape
shallow analysis shark (thrown to the sharks)
this is a ~ of a complex problem thrown to the sharks
shallow book Alberto has been ~ (unproven allegations of doping)
it is a ~ from a shallow man allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / shark / verb
shallow goal shark (predation)
looking beautiful is a ~
financial shark
shallow roots he is a ~ who downsizes companies
she has ~ in the state (a politician)
full of sharks
shallow questions elite summer basketball is ~ (AAU coaches)
they are asking very ~
attracts sharks
uneducated & shallow whenever money is being made illegally, it ~ (drugs)
her detractors are ~
♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a
extent & scope: depth / water minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)
substance & lack of substance: depth / water person / predation: animal / shark
shape (condition) character & personality: animal / shark

financial shape sharp (adjective)

airlines aren't in ~ to back a new industry (biofuels) sharp
fiscal shape his skills are still ~
we are in better ~ now (politics) condition & status / functioning: blade / knife
in good shape sharp (speech)
baseball is ~
condition & status: health & medicine
sharp words
the officer exchanges ~ with a man
shape (verb) speech: blade / knife
shape a (desired) behavior sharpen (verb)
teachers can ~
sharpen her concentration

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 the extreme pressure only seemed to ~ (Wimbledon) shattering (adjective)
sharpen our instincts confidence-shattering (m)
we must ~ for empathy
trying to overcome a ~ rookie year (basketball)
sharpen his skills ear-shattering (m)
he took a kayaking clinic to ~
he heard an ~ noise
sharpen wit earth-shattering
the prospect of death can ~
the potential is ~
amelioration & renewal: blade / knife / verb
destruction: materials & substances
increase & decrease: blade / knife / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / materials &
sharp-tongued substances

sharp-tongued shave (removal)

she's a ~ woman
shave billions off their taxes
speech: blade / knife / tongue companies know how to ~
shatter (emotions) dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / hair / verb

shattered (people's) hopes shave (close shave)

they ~ of seeing their country become a democracy
close shave
shatter (the enemy's) nerve it was a ~ (narrow escape)
the objective is to ~ (shock and violence)
danger: blade / hair
shatter her self-esteem fate, fortune & chance: blade / hair
it will ~ shed (verb)
feeling, emotion and effect: destruction / materials &
substances / verb
shed (36,000) jobs
the economy ~ last month
shatter (destroy) shed the pound
shattered the (fragile) calm those who are trying to ~ (dieting)
the attack ~ that had descended on Tel Aviv dismissal, removal & resignation: hair / verb
shatter our image sheep (consciousness)
it does kind of ~ of Taos (crimes)
sheep
shattered stability most people are ~
the country's first-ever coup in 1999 ~
♦ She: And a lot of people had this question, Wait, are other people
shatter stereotypes going? / He: And the families have that kind of fear, what if I’m, you
know, if I look around, no one else came with me... So it’s a collective-
Tunisia's liberal social policies ~ of the Arab world action problem, we all have to step forward at the same time... They
would be able to act as a collective.” (The angst some parents suffer
shattered the family's life trying to select the best public grade-school for their kids in New York
her daughter's rape and death ~ City and its environs. High schools have open houses to sign-up such
parents.)
shatter everyday life
consciousness & awareness / behavior: animal / sheep
drugs and crime ~
destruction: materials & substances / verb sheep (predation)
shattered sheep
we won’t be ~, we’re going to be lions (self-defense)
shattered by the (Sept. 11) attacks
that illusion was ~ prey on the sheep
there are a lot of wolves in here who will ~ prison)
confidence (in United) is shattered ♦ “Death devours lambs as well as sheep.” (Infant mortality.)
his ~ (airline delays)
strength & weakness: animal / sheep
illusion was shattered destruction / predation: animal / sheep
that ~ by the Sept. 11 attacks
shelf life
destruction: materials & substances
shelf life on coaches

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 the ~ has never been shorter (winning and losing) shelved the plan
Beijing officials have ~ to redevelop the neighborhood
has shelf life
he ~, he will last (a philosopher) dismissal, removal & resignation: books & reading / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / food & shepherd (verb)
drink
shepherding the (main) bill through the Senate
shell (substance) he is ~ (US)
shell shepherded me through the medina
he came back a ~, like a ghost (soldier) he ~ (Fez guide)
shell company directing: animal / journeys & trips / sheep / verb
~s for the tax evader and money launderer
Sherlock Holmes
substance & lack of substance: sea
Sherlock Holmes
shell (protection) I used to call her ~ (journalist Lyra McKee)
come out of his shell searching & discovery: allusion
she encouraged him to ~ during his teenage years allusion: books & reading
come out of my shell shibboleth (noun)
I was a shy person who needed to ~ (got into boxing)
shibboleths
came out of my shell these are not official regulations, they’re more ~
that’s when my life began and I ~ (gay leaves home)
shibboleth of political correctness
stayed inside my shell “everyone has rights” is a ~
I ~ for the first two or three weeks (summer camp)
shibboleth of old thinking
protection & lack of protection: animal / sea / water heavy tanks are seen as a ~ (the military)
isolation & remoteness: animal / sea / water
shibboleth in American politics
shellshocked it’s hard to think of any greater ~ (middle class)
shellshocked educational shibboleth
I was so ~, I left the building by the wrong exit "learning styles" has become an ~
shell-shocked Barca side political shibboleth
a ~ was unable to fashion any serious response the “right of return” has remained a ~ (Palestinians)
looked shellshocked liberal and conservative shibboleths
he ~ in court (a celebrity who was arrested for rape) empirical evidence vs ~ (voting patterns)
♦ “This man took part in the Mons retreat, battle of the Marne, battle of
the Aisne, and the first and second battles of Ypres. He also fought at
shibboleths and cliches
Hill 60, Neuve Chapelle, Loos and Armentieres... When I saw him nine the ~ of conventional Washington punditry
months later he was mute. Many attempts had been made to cure him.
He had been strapped down in a chair for twenty minutes at a time, when shibboleth—a rule—
strong electricity was applied to his neck and throat; lighted cigarette there is a ~ in the movie business, that...
ends had been applied to the tip of his tongue and ‘hot plates’ had been
placed at the back of his mouth. Hypnotism had been tried. But all these
methods proved to be unsuccessful in restoring his voice.”
myths and the shibboleths
(“DISORDERS OF SPEECH / Case A1—MUTISM / PRIVATE, 24 the project breaks down the ~ surrounding the Irish famine
YEARS OF AGE. From Hysterical Disorders of Warfare by Lewis Ralph
Yealland, M.D.) abandon another (long held republican) shibboleth
he was ready to ~ (Northern Ireland)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion
cling to the shibboleths
shelter (verb) they ~ that have spelled disaster (South Africa)
sheltered the terrorist jab at the shibboleths
Pakistan denied that it had ~ he took a populist line to ~ that China promotes
protection & lack of protection: place / verb
took root as a shibboleth
shelve (verb) this early finding ~
shelved its mascot ♦ “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles
approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility
the university has ~ is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing.” (Quoted in “Forget What You

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Know About Good Study Habits,” by Benedict Carey, the New York U.S. ~
Times, September 6, 2010.)
♦ “There’s no evidence to support the conventional wisdom that kids can protection & lack of protection: military / weapon
be auditory or visual learners.” (“Think You’re An Auditory or Visual
Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely,” by Patti Neighmond, NPR, Morning shift (change)
Edition, August 29, 2011.)
♦ “One of the biggest surprises from Dr. LeDoux’s work is that there may political shift
be no such thing as the limbic system—a hypothetical construct of there has been a big ~
pathways in the forebrain, which contains the hippocampus, amygdala
and a few other tiny structures that has been supposed to underlie position, policy & negotiation: position / movement
emotion and motivation.” (“Using Rats to Trace Anatomy of Fear, Biology
of Emotion,” by Sandra Blakeslee, the New York Times, November 5, shifty (adjective)
1996.)
♦ “The brain loves peppermint!” (A North Carolina teacher-trainer and shifty character
devotee of “brain-based” educational research, encouraging teacher- she's a ~, watch out
trainees to hand out peppermint in class to promote learning.)
behavior / character & personality / subterfuge: direction
idea: religion
sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: allusion / religion shine (noun)
shield (on one’s shield) a little of the shine
~ had now been taken off his halo (a politician)
go-out-on-his-shield kind of guy
he’s a ~ (the boxer Deontay Wilder) flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark
go out on my shield shining (superlative)
I just wish my corner had let me ~ (a boxer / towel)
♦ “In Aristophanes’ comic play, Lysistrata, the women go on sex strike as shining examples
a way of ending the Peloponnese War. Do you think we would be as these men stand as ~ of bravery
warlike if women were in charge?” [Delighted laughter and clapping from
the audience.] / “It’s such a good question. My brief answer is no. shining paragons
[Nervous laughter from audience.] You know, the Peloponnesian war, it ~ of American boyhood (scouts)
was the Spartan mothers who said, ‘Come back bearing your shield or
on it....’ I’m not sure that women are by nature kinder or gentler.” superlative: light & dark
(Margaret MacMillan, “War and Humanity,” the Reith Lectures, BBC.)

commitment & determination: allusion / history / military ship (ship of state, etc.)
shield (noun) ship of their research
they caulked up every seam in the ~
shield from the (sun's harmful) rays
ozone provides a protective ~ ship of state
the protestors wish to sink the ~
Europe’s shield
EU chief says Greece is ~ in migrant crisis steer and stabilize the ship
a government that can ~ through the economic crisis
missile shield
the first step in deploying a ~ bases: boat / sign, signal, symbol
a global ~ won’t work epithet: boat / sea
sign, signal, symbol: boat / sea
missile defense shield
U.S. testing of a ~
ship (ship of the desert)
Desert Shield (m) “ships of the desert”
the ~ buildup before the Persian Gulf War many Australian farmers keep the country’s prolific ~
transportation: boat / epithet
global (missile) shield
a ~ won't work epithet: boat / sea

human shield
ship (tight ship, etc.)
rebels used men, women and children as ~s run a (very) tight ship
Saddam's loyalists are using Iraqi civilians as ~ we ~ (a company with many rules)
his supporters have offered themselves up as ~s
steering the ship
protective shield some believe he was actually ~ (a vice-president)
ozone provides a ~ from the sun's harmful rays
control & lack of control: boat
human and religious shields
the Iraqis have used ~ (Iraqi Freedom) ship (abandon / jump ship)
testing of a (missile defense) shield abandon ship

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 it's time to ~ (a failing company) launches 1,000 conspiracy theories
it will be a snafu that ~ (2020 Iowa caucus results)
jumping ship
a lot of investors are ~ initiation: allusion / boat / Iliad & Odyssey
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: boat ship out (remove)
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat
ship him out
ship (sink the ship) they wanted to ~, and this was their opportunity (dismissal)
sink the ship dismissal, removal & resignation: boat / verb
the protestors wish to ~ of state
shipwreck (noun)
destruction: boat / verb
shipwreck of my conscience
ship (a sinking ship) I would not make a ~ (Paulet, 1587)
leave a sinking ship destruction: boat / crashes & collisions
what a fool, he had a chance to ~ (sour soccer fan) failure, accident & impairment: boat / crashes & collisions
decline: boat / sea shirt (lose one’s shirt)
failure, accident & impedance: boat / sea
lost their shirts
ship (right the ship, etc.) they ~ when the market crashed
right the ship failure, accident & impairment: clothing & accessories
we’ll see if the company can ~ (financial problems)
shiver (noun)
righted the ship
he ~ (a troubled government agency) send a shiver through Congress
his polls were shaky, he was sagging, but he has ~ (election) the news will likely ~ (Congressmen get coronavirus)

right our (fiscal) ship feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / skin, muscle, nerves &
we must ~ (budget) bone

steady the ship shoal (noun)

even Messi was unable to ~ (loss to Liverpool)
shoals of theology and cosmology
steadied the ship Lyell had tried to avoid the ~ (Principles of Geology)
his performance more than ~ (politician at debate)
run aground on the shoals
amelioration & renewal: boat / verb the promises have ~ of changing sex ratios
equilibrium & stability: boat / verb
failure, accident & impairment: boat / sea
ship (turn the ship, etc.) danger / destruction / obstacles & impedance: boat / sea
turn the ship around shock (verb)
he is struggling to ~ (a soccer manager)
shocked the world
reversal: boat / verb Ireland ~ by announcing… (dispute with Vatican)
ship (ship has sailed, etc.) shocks and terrifies
violence ~ even the best-trained troops (combat)
ship has sailed
that ~ (no regrets now) offend, shock or disturb
those that ~ the majority (freedom of expression)
ship has (long since) sailed
the civility ~ in American politics (2019) feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force / verb
♦ “Your dad loved her very much. If there was one other cat in this world
that could have loved her and treated her as well as your dad, then it
shock (in shock)
was me. But, unfortunately, for yours truly, that train has sailed.” (Austin
Powers to Vanessa Kensington from the film Austin Powers: still in shock
International Man of Mystery.) he was ~ but relieved… (survivor of porch collapse)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: boat / verb feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force
ship (launched a thousand ships) shock (feeling)
launched a thousand jokes and memes shock
this bipartisan hope that has ~ (infrastructure) 9/11 was a ~ that should not have come as a surprise

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shock of combat not one of the students in the group looked ~
training can lessen the surprise and ~
shocked that
shock of losing people are ~ this is so close to home
the ~ his dad, there was so much anger (a young man) they're kind of ~ her parents are white, and she's not
he said that he is ~ a killing could take place there
shock of prison
after the ~ wears off shocked to see
he was ~ so many dead or wounded (combat)
shock for me
it was a ~ and everyone else shocked at her appearance
they were ~ (eating disorder)
shock for the (previously unbeaten) team
it was a ~ shocked at the prices
they may be ~ (rent for assisted living)
shock radio
for those who enjoy ~ shocked at what
they are ~ is now happening
shock and delight
the winners' ~ (MacArthur Award) shocked when
Iraqi commanders were ~ they discovered…
shock or horror or outrage or indignation
I could not show ~ (journalist witness to ethnic strife) shocked by the attacks
Australians were ~ (bombing on Bali)
family's shock
she recalls the ~ when her mother was arrested shocked by the decision
he was ~ not to renew his contract (job)
culture shock
reverse culture shock can worse than the classic ~ shocked by the (gorilla) killings
conservationists were ~ (DR Congo / Virunga)
sticker shock
bracing themselves for ~ (laptop-computer prices) shocked by the news
they were ~ (favorite restaurant closed)
absolute shock
this is an ~ (death of a young athlete) shocked by the number
she was ~ of Muslims having surgery to…
quite a shock
it was ~ (mine disaster) shocked by these revelations
I was ~ (in the press)
look of shock
I saw the ~ in his face shocked by the (death) toll
people were ~ (climbing disaster)
state of shock
we were all in a complete ~ (athlete's sudden death) shocked by the verdict
I'm ~ (jury lets businessman off)
anger and shock
the ~ (to yet another terrorist bombing) shocked by the viciousness
police were ~ of the attack (hate crime)
surprise and shock
training can lessen the ~ of combat shocked silence
through it all she sat in ~
shock (of prison) wears off
after the ~ shocked and appalled
we are ~ by this news (plans to shoot tigers)
lessen the (surprise and) shock
training can ~ of combat shocked and baffled
the rap word was ~ by the murder (Jam Master Jay)
come as a shock
I know this may ~ to you... shocked and bewildered (m)
it may ~ to people… the ~ passengers (train crash)

reeling from the shock shocked, embarrassed and disgusted

the staff is still ~ of the shootings residents are ~ (town government)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force shocked and grief-stricken (m)
~ relatives of the victims gathered (bus-truck crash)
shocked (adjective)
shocked and outraged
shocked I was ~

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shocked, upset, fearful and angry his death ~ (Doug Coombs)
the community is ~ (hate crime) the arrests have ~ (blood doping)

completely shocked sent shockwaves through the sport

I was just completely shocked their bans ~ (sports doping)

definitely shocked sent shock waves around the globe

when I found out, I was ~ the dramatic plunge of the Web site ~

genuinely shocked sent shock waves rippling

I was ~ the discovery of sperm whales ~ through Nantucket

a little shocked set off shock waves with his statement

he looked ~ that I wasn't ready to go out he ~
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force feeling, emotion & effect: earthquake / explosion
effect: earthquake / explosion
shocker (noun)
shoe (a shoe can drop or fall)
honeymoon shocker
couples who encounter the "~" (a snoring spouse) next shoe
what’s the ~ to drop, what happens next
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
the other shoe
shocking (feeling, emotion and effect) people wait for the other ~ to drop (occupation)
shocking shoe has fallen
the mismanagement and incompetence is ~ now that the ~, where will he go (fired)
the firing was surprising but not ~ (Notre Dame coach)
waited for the other shoe
shocking crime his colleagues ~ to drop (investigation)
it was a ~ (a murder)
fate, fortune & chance: clothing & accessories / verb
shocking defeat
they talked about his ~ of Lewis (boxing) shoe (in somebody's shoes)
shocking news in her shoes
the ~ is… I'm gay, I've been ~
shocking scenes put yourself in his shoes
~ of dead or terrified children (Chechen terrorism) ~ (see it from that person's point of view)
shocking story put yourself in the other person’s shoes
he related a ~ ~, you might be more sympathetic
shocking upset empathy & lack of empathy: clothing & accessories
at the conclusion of the ~ (football) perception, perspective & point of view: clothing &
accessories
shocking and inflammatory (m)
desecration of the Koran is a ~ act shoe (the shoe is on the other foot)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force shoe’s on the other foot
what might happen to you if the ~
shock wave
reversal: clothing & accessories
shockwave of trauma
this decision has caused a ~ across the church (Methodists shoe (a stone in the shoe)
reject gays)
stone in our shoe
send shock waves through the market Ecuador’s president has described him as a ~ (Assange)
such a drastic step would ~
stone in Nato’s shoe
sent shock waves through French politics Turkey is fast becoming a ~ (over Libya)
the poll ~ (strength of right)
affliction: clothing & accessories / sensation
sent shock waves through the American psyche feeling, emotion & effect: clothing & accessories /
Tet ~ (Vietnam War) sensation
sent shockwaves through the skiing world

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shoestring (noun) the Sahel is the ~

shoestring budget shore of the salt pan

after reaching the further ~ (Ntetwe in Botswana)
NASA supports the ~ to find NEOs
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: clothing & accessories Sahara's southern shore
the Sahel is a band of dry grassland, the ~
money: clothing & accessories
resemblance: sea
shoot (plant)
shore up (verb)
shoots of ballet activity
she helped the new ~ that developed (Karsavina) shore up their (criminal) case
the police are working to ~
creation & transformation: plant
growth & development: plant shore up her confidence
shoot (speech) a victory would ~ (athlete)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mining / verb
shoot first
he tends to ~ and aim second (a politician) short (a short time, etc.)
shoot from the hip short time later
people who ~, who tell it like it is he arrived a ~
speech: weapon / verb time: distance
shoot (shoot back) short-circuit (verb)
shot back short-circuited the process
he ~, "Of course it's easier…" (to criticism) he ~
speech: weapon / verb short-circuited the (traditional campaign) route
shoot (shoot oneself in the foot) he has ~ (billionaire politician and advertising)
failure, accident & impairment: electricity / verb
shot himself in the foot disruption: electricity / verb
he has ~ again (Colin Kaepernick)
shortcut (verb)
failure, accident & impairment: foot / verb / weapon
shoot-out (noun) shortcut it
it’s a long process, and we can never ~
shoot-out between the two camps difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / movement /
the request set off a ~ (privacy vs. right to know) journeys & trips / verb
conflict: weapon
shortcut (noun)
shoot up (verb)
shortcut to success
shot up athletes who take a ~ (doping)
the price of gas has ~
safety shortcut
the price of food has ~
~s led to the oil spill
the price of helium has ~
increase & decrease: direction / verb / weapon magical shortcut
joining the military should not be a ~ to hero status
shore (far shore)
difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / movement /
left stranded on the far shore journeys & trips
his system of critical judgment was ~
shortsighted
division & connection: ground, terrain & land / island / sea
society: ground, terrain & land / island / sea shortsighted to treat
it is ~ addicts as criminals
shore (resemblance)
shortsighted in the extreme
shore this policy is ~ (self-interest vs. collective good)
Sahel is the Arabic word for "~"
shortsighted and dangerous
shore of the Sahara Desert it would be both ~ to allow…

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criticized it as shortsighted one more shot
they ~ (a policy) at least give it ~ (try)
future / perception, perspective & point of view: eye on track for a shot
a win would keep him ~ at the title (boxer)
shot (nerves are shot, etc.)
give him a shot
shot hopefully somebody will ~ (an athlete)
her nerves are ~, she has no confidence (Wimbledon)
got a shot
failure, accident & impairment / feeling, emotion & effect: she finally ~ on the Tonight Show
skin, muscle, nerves & bone
taken a shot
shot (shot in the arm, etc.) at least 7 expeditions had ~ at Gasherbrum IV
shot in the arm cost the climbers a shot
it's a ~ (the encouragement of a research prize) helping the other group ~ at the summit
shot in the arm for the local economy attempt: weapon
this is a ~ (a basketball tournament)
shot (chance)
real shot in the arm
this victory is a ~ (union victory) one-in-a-million shot
400 times a day, a ~ will occur (probability)
shot of adrenaline
his writing is a ~ that awakens us from our apathy fate, fortune & chance: weapon

feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine shot (criticism)

amelioration & renewal: health & medicine taking shots at him
shot (attempt) everyone is ~ (criticism)

shot at advancement accusation & criticism / speech: weapon

his son has a better ~ than he faced as a young man shot (shot over the bow, etc.)
shot at the job shot over the bow
I thought I had a ~ (job interview)
it was a ~ (penalty against Facebook)
shot at the peak warning: boat / weapon
this was their last ~ (mountaineering)
shot (call the shots)
shot at the summit
helping the other group cost the climbers a ~ calls the shots
he ~ (boss)
shot at the title
a win would keep him on track for a ~ (boxer) calling its own shots
North Korea is ~ and not taking orders from anybody
shot at the (world) championship
a ~ (boxing) control & lack of control / directing: weapon / verb
shot in Orlando shot (opening shot)
he knew he had a ~ (to win, at a championship)
opening shot of his campaign
title shot the speech was the ~ (politics)
give Tyson a ~ (boxing)
conflict / development / sequence / speech: weapon
another shot
Tyson might get ~ (to fight for championship) shot (parting shot)
first shot parting shot
Tomaz got his ~ at the Himalayas in 1994 as a ~, he said…

good shot conflict / development / sequence / speech: weapon

I thought I had a ~ at the job (interview) shot (warning shot)
last shot
fired a warning shot
this was their ~ at the peak (mountaineering);
he ~ at his colleagues (about priorities)
a ~ to right a historical wrong (reparations)
conflict / development / warning / speech: weapon

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shot (best shot) shoulder (stand shoulder to shoulder,
best shot etc.)
the guys have given it their ~
standing shoulder to shoulder
I have given it my ~ (spots event)
we must make sure we are ~ (US and Britain)
gave it my best shot allegiance, support & betrayal / unanimity & consensus:
I ~ (tried as hard as I could)
shoulder / standing, sitting & lying / verb
attempt: weapon
shoulder (a shoulder to cry on)
shot (shot across the bow)
offered him a shoulder to cry on
fired a shot across the bow she ~
he also fired a ~ (praised, then criticized)
empathy & lack of empathy: shoulder
accusation & criticism / conflict: boat / weapon
shoulder (look over somebody's
shot down (and shot down in flames) shoulder)
shot down in flames look over our shoulders
that theory was quickly ~ the government should not be allowed to ~
the approach was ~ at his conference
its strategy has been ~ (a political party) surveillance: shoulder
shot down in flames by the focus group shoulder (tapped on the shoulder, etc.)
their suggestions were ~
tapped on the shoulder
got shot down people were promoted by getting ~
the idea this was terrorism ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: shoulder
got shot down in flames
they ~ for criticizing the president (Dixie Chicks) shoulder (oppression)
destruction: flying & falling / military / plane / weapon shoulders
it's definitely a weight off my ~
shoulder (shoulder the burden, etc.)
oppression: shoulder / weight
shoulder the blame shoulder (rub shoulders)
he must ~ for the loss (sports)
shoulder the (financial) burden rubbed shoulders with them
the government should ~ the magazine eagerly ~ (celebrities)
proximity: shoulder / verb
shoulder the cost
BP must ~ of the cleanup (oil spill) social interaction: proximity / shoulder / verb

shoulder the load

the defense is not yet ready to ~ (sports)
shoulder the responsibility
he must ~ now
responsibility / work & duty: shoulder / verb / weight
shoulder (fall on the shoulders)
falls on the shoulders of regular Americans
the tax burden still ~ (politics)
falls on the shoulders of BP
that ~ (responsibility)

shoulder (shoulder to the grindstone) falls on the shoulders of those

the burden ~ least able to bear it (the poor)
put your shoulder to the grindstone
responsibility: shoulder / weight
you've got to ~ (work harder)
work & duty: shoulder / weight
shoulder (stand on somebody's
shoulders)
shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders)
stand on the shoulders of other artists
shrugging its shoulders artists ~
even the Supreme Court is ~ and looking the other way
stand on the shoulders of giants
action, inaction & delay: gesture / shoulder / verb
we ~ (achievement)

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standing on the shoulders of giants they were aided by a ~ by the Hornets (soccer)
I really feel as though I was ~ (an author)
resemblance: film
stand on the shoulders of those show (the show must go on)
we all ~ before us (tweakers of innovation)
stand on their shoulders show must go on
we are proud to ~ the ~

bases: shoulder / verb starting, going, continuing & ending: theater

shout (verb) show (steal the show)

shooting from the rooftops stole the show
he is ~, “Hey, Democrats, we have a problem” Travis Pastrana ~ (X Games / motocross)
she ~ at the MLS match (girl belts out national anthem)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / verb
speech / warning: sound / verb
shout-out (noun) showboat (verb)
shout-out to southeast Ohio showboat
his ~ has inspired more than donations he likes to ~ (an athlete)
♦ A showboat was a river steamboat on which theatrical performances
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound were given. Show Boat was a very popular novel and musical.

shove (noun) ♦ “From 1919 to 1921. We used to play at the foot of Canal Street during
the winter and then we go up the river, all the way up to Davenport, Iowa
(Eye-Oh-Way). That’s where I first met Bix Beiderbecke. He was a little
shove in the back kid, he was coming up with the horn, he’s come on the boat... We used
the army delivered a very strong ~ when... (coup) to sit around and blow a little, that’s when I found out he could play that
piano—“In the Mist”—a lovely kid.” (“Louis Armstrong,” BBC, Desert
coercion & motivation / force: arm / gesture Island Discs, 1968, with Roy Plomley.)

show (verb) attention, scrutiny & promotion: boat / theater / verb

behavior / character & personality: boat / theater / verb
shows that show business (performance)
history ~...
shows show business
Wilder feels Fury’s scare ~ he can get at his rival (boxing) it’s just ~, it’s sort of performance art (politics)

evidence / fictive communication: picture / verb performance: theater

show (nature, etc.) showcase (verb)

put on a show showcase your talents
at night the stars ~ for free (Carole King) a good resume can ~
the meteor shower could ~ starting... attention, scrutiny & promotion: container / verb
performance: theater showcase (noun)
show (performance) showcase of (twisted) psychology
all (a) show the trial has been a ~ (murder)
the meeting was ~, no substance attention, scrutiny & promotion: container
become a show shower (verb)
bring your popcorn, this has ~ (congressional hearing)
showered the two men with gifts
put on a show she ~
she doesn’t try to ~ (favorable reaction to a politician)
players ~ to get calls (soccer) showered him with praise
♦ A commentator talking about a senate hearing used the words stunt, they ~
spectacle, and public show.
amount & effect: rain / verb
performance / substance & lack of substance: theater throwing, putting & planting: rain / verb
show (horror show) showered
defensive horror show showered with honors

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 Wellington was ~ banana shrine
Ann Lovell's house is a ~ (banana memorabilia)
showered with (geographical) medals and awards
he was ~ (Amundsen) poster-filled shrine
her bedroom is a ~ to the Backstreet Boys
amount & effect: rain
enthusiasm / reverence: religion
showman (person)
shrink (downsize)
whip-smart showman
he was a ~ who loved the media attention (defense lawyer) shrink its footprint
as the US military begins to ~ in Afghanistan
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / person
show up (verb) shrink our (leviathan) government
he wants to shrink our ~ (a politician)
show up shrink the military
the officials were supposed to testify but didn’t ~ he wants to ~ and reduce its footprint overseas
waves don’t ~ for surfing contest
increase & decrease: size / verb
showed up to donate
residents ~ blood shrink (decline)
showed up in Mozambique shrank
TR4 ~ five years ago (banana fungus) as Britain’s global influence ~ (after WWII)
show up on weather radar decline: size / verb
the swarm was big enough to ~ (grasshoppers)
shrinking violet (person)
show up for school
neighborhood crime makes it harder to ~ shrinking violet
he is not a ~ who will wilt under pressure (a politician)
appearance & disappearance: prep, adv, adj, particle / verb ♦ Terms with similar meanings are teacup and snowflake. In the old
shrapnel (noun) days, such people were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy;
a wallflower. The modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion).

emotional shrapnel character & personality: person / plant

the ~ scarred both children (divorce) person: plant
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: weapon shrivel (verb)
shred (verb) shrivel (slowly) to irrelevance
the group could ~
shredding his (congressional) support
he is ~ (politics) decline: plant / size / verb
destruction: cloth / verb shroud (noun)
shred (shred of hope, etc.) shroud of mystery
a ~ surrounds him
shred of evidence
I was unable to find a ~ to show... cover: cloth
shred of kindness shrouded (covered)
is there a ~ insider her that...
shrouded in clouds
shred of (true) remorse the top of the mountain was ~ all day (Mount Hood)
we have never seen a ~ from him (family of victim)
exhaust-shrouded (m)
shred of comfort or hope we walked down ~ Fifth Avenue
the film offers hardly a ~ (Network)
fog-shrouded (m)
amount: cloth the helicopter crashed in the ~ Balsam Gap area
shrine (reverence) a passenger jet overshot a ~ runway, killing 42
snow-shrouded (m)
shrine to the Backstreet Boys we walked through the ~ fields
her bedroom is a poster-filled ~ (teen girl)
remained shrouded
shrine to NASCAR she ~ in a flowing black abaya (Doha)
the new museum is a ~ (auto racing)

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configuration / cover: cloth shunned
shrouded (concealment) shunned (by executives) for being (openly) gay
shrouded in mystery he was ~
the details are ~ (an ancient Swazi rite) shunned by the world
the course of infection in chimps is ~ (SIV) he felt ~
he is a shadowy figure whose intentions remain ~
Lewis' death was ~ (Lewis and Clark expedition) acceptance & rejection: society
the exact origins of the film are ~ (controversy)
the whole Liston story is so ~ (death of the boxer)
shut down (verb)
its mission has been ~ (X-37B space plane) shut them down
shrouded in secrecy we have to spot them and ~ (Nazi websites)
its work is ~ (Saudi Dept. of General Statistics) curtailment: mechanism / verb
shrouded in myths and mystery shut off (verb)
the origin of the Maasai is ~
shut off the comments
shrouded from public view everyone has appealed to the Harold Sun to ~ (AFLW)
inmates’ lives are largely a mystery, since prison life is ~
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
shut off the spigot
they are trying to ~ of Russian boar (invasive species)
shrug (gesture)
shut off the (gushing federal) spigot
responded with shrugs many voters don’t want to ~
Wall Street luminaries have mostly ~ and dismissals curtailment: mechanism / verb
shoulder shrug shut out (verb)
he has kind of a ~ towards that (politician about spying)
it was a big ~ because it doesn’t help us any (murder) shut out Huawei
U.S. makes another move to ~
action, inaction & delay: confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: gesture / shoulder shut out poor kids
elite colleges ~
shrug off (verb)
access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / verb
shrug off acceptance & rejection: doors & thresholds / verb
it's nothing that you can just ~ (responsibility)
shut out (adjective)
shrugs off the media’s questions
he ~ with his good-natured grin (a politician) shut out
many writers have been ~ (publishing)
shrugged off his reputation
he ~ as a daring space explorer (Neil Armstrong) shut out of the system
organizations like ours will be ~
shrugged it off
he ~ (a setback) shut out from education
the women are ~
avoidance & separation: gesture / shoulder / verb
feel shut out
shun (verb) many Afghan women ~ of politics
shunned computers keep them shut out
he ~ for years (a journalist) academic hurdles that ~ of higher education
shunned the spotlight access & lack of access: doors & thresholds
he ~ for the rest of his life (Neil Armstrong) acceptance & rejection: doors & thresholds
shunned violence shuttered (adjective)
the group has ~
shuttered
shun the 21st century with 90% of the economy ~ (pandemic)
they ~ (Mennonite colony in Bolivia)
curtailment: window
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shy (adjective) we are not dealing with a ~ industry (oil leak)
condition & status: health & medicine
shy of coming
others are ~ into Pakistan (versus China) sick (disgusted)
shy about criticizing sick of lawyers
Trump has never been ~ America is ~ (terrorism)
eagerness & reluctance: love, courtship & marriage sick of war
shy (shy away) Ugandans are ~ (Lord's Resistance Army)

shied away from focusing sick of hearing

I'm ~ your complaints
he has not ~ on abuses in Russia (a Russian journalist)
shy away from making sick of airports and plane
I am ~ (security, poor service, etc.)
the Republicans will not ~ tough proposals
shy away from speaking out sick and tired of it
frankly, I am ~
he did not ~ politically (a cleric)
♦ “Sick of the news? Come look at pictures of baby animals.” (The
shy away from (difficult) decisions internet.)
he does not ~ (a politician) feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
shied away from the issue sick (with anxiety, etc.)
politicians have ~ (taxes)
sick with anxiety
shy away from the fact
I was almost ~ (teaching first class)
we cannot ~ that...
avoidance & separation: horse / verb sick (to my stomach) with dread
I felt ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: horse / verb
Siamese twins sick with envy
one academic ~ over another
Siamese twins
worried sick
medicine and botany had become ~, neither could advance
both were ~ (parents of abducted young woman)
without the other...
♦ The great Saudi pediatric surgeon Dr. Abdullah al-Rabeeah and his made me sick
teams have successfully separated a number of actual conjoined twins. her story ~ to my stomach (rape)
The world salutes him and his great patron, King Abdullah.

relationship: family / health & medicine

felt sick (to my stomach) with dread
I ~ (mother of 1 pound 15 oz baby)
sibling feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
hideous sibling sickle (shape)
education's ~: training
relationship: family
sickle cell (m)
he has ~ anemia
sick (condition) shape: blade / tools & technology
sick sickness (noun)
the bond market is ~
sickness in society
Sick Man there is a ~ (gun violence)
our country is the ~ of Europe
affliction / corruption: health & medicine
sick computers
she fixes ~ (tech worker) side (conflict)
sick (auto) industry two sides
increased new-car sales would help our ~ the ~ were on the brink of major fighting
sick institution conflict / division & connection: direction
~s should be allowed to die (finance)
side (on one’s side / time)
sick, failing or unsuccessful (m)
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 time is ~ (negotiation and diplomacy) involvement: center & periphery / sports & games
center & periphery: sports & games
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / position
time: direction / position sidelined (adjective)
side (on one’s side / person) coronavirus-sidelined
the ~ aircraft carrier
on your side
you need someone ~ (ad for lawyer) curtailment: sports & games
dismissal, removal & resignation: sports & games
on the side of the White House center & periphery: sports & games
the public is not really ~ (political issue)
sideshow (noun)
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / position
side (on the good side, etc.) sideshow
the Russians didn’t see information warfare as a ~ (vs US)
on America’s good side importance & significance: center & periphery / circus
if they want to be ~
sidestep (verb)
social interaction: position
side (on the wrong side, etc.) sidestepped Congress
the President ~ and issued an order
get on the wrong side of him sidestep the issue
you don’t want to ~ (a workplace sociopath) the academy is doing its best to ~ (controversy)
social interaction: position
sidestepped the (major) issues
side (dark side) the Supreme Court ~ (gerrymandering)

dark side sidestepped that question

this fantastic concept has a ~ (adult family home)
people soon realized he had a ~ (bad temper)
dark side of addiction and (emotional) abuse
he had a ~
dark side to America’s drinking boom
there is a ~ (drinking during the pandemic)
she has ~ for months (politics)
sidestepped the question
he ~ entirely, instead discussing citizenship (a politician)
sidestepped questions
the State Department spokesman ~ about why…
the supreme court nominee ~ about abortion, the ACA

dark side to him avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking,

he had a ~ (a serial killer) running & jumping

has a dark side sidetracked

although regarded as genteel, cricket ~ (match fixing)
become sidetracked
flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark it’s easy to lose focus and ~ with all the nonsense
sideline (on the sideline) got sidetracked
he ~ and ended up talking about...
on the sideline of history
I didn’t not want to be ~ but rather a part of it (jihad) failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement
sitting on the sideline
hope is not ~ or shirking from a fight (a politician) sideways (go sideways)
stand on the sidelines go sideways
Russia will not ~ from there, things started to ~ (political fortunes)
involvement: center & periphery / sports & games went sideways
center & periphery: sports & games with all the gangs, it ~ very quickly (Wood Green)
sideline (involvement) failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
watches from the sidelines
he now ~ (Iraqi politician) siege (under siege)
relegated to the sidelines under siege
the ambassador was ~ (war) NBC news executives are ~ after release of the book

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under siege from a population boom fans have been left to ~ of a failed season (sports)
the wilderness is ~
sifted through evidence
Prime Minister is under siege investigators ~ and interviewed survivors (arson)
and now to the U.K., where the ~ (Brexit)
sift through the (classified) materials
wilderness is under siege it could take three months to ~ (investigation)
the ~ from a population boom
sift through names
world under siege the computer program will help officials to ~ (crime)
videos depicting a Muslim ~
sifted through many submissions
country under siege she ~ (photo competition)
this is a ~ (by crime / South Africa)
sift through the (political) rubble
has much of the US under siege both sides will be left to ~ (impeachment trial)
dangerous weather ~
sift through the results
amount & effect / conflict: fortification / military search engines make you ~ for an answer
resistance, opposition & defeat: fortification / military
sifted through the trash
siege (other) they ~, looking for anything edible or saleable

siege mentality sifted down to her

the ~ (Israel)
the government is showing signs of a ~ (Syria)
the generals are comfortable in their ~ (Myanmar)
siege tactics
traditional ~ used in Himalayan climbing
laid siege to NBC
Weinstein ~ (threats and enticements)
amount & effect: fortification / military
resistance, opposition & defeat: fortification / military
the terrible facts ~ when she heard…
♦ Sieves are found in most any kitchen. Archaeologists also employ
them. Workers used sieves to search for human remains and objects
from the World Trade Center collapse.
searching & discovery: tools & technology / verb
worth & lack of worth: tools & technology / verb
sifted
sifted for (fresh) clues
the new trove of material was being ~ (terrorism)

sieve (noun) sifted for evidence

the report is ~ of subtle changes in policy (China)
come through the sieve
a lot of the personal Lenin was never allowed to ~ (archives) sifted, correlated and analyzed
data can increasingly be ~ (online behavior)
searching & discovery: farming & agriculture
wisely sifted
scientist (rocket scientist) more information, ~, is usually better than less
rocket scientist searching & discovery: tools & technology
you don’t need to be a ~ to explain this (criminal trial)
sigh (sigh of relief)
take a rocket scientist
it doesn’t ~ to understand what they did was illegal (police) sigh of relief
there’s a collective ~ in Florida (hurricane track)
knowledge & intelligence: person
breathed a sigh of relief
sift (searching) Americans ~ and told themselves the system had worked
sifted the sources breathing a sigh of relief
she has ~, examining their reliability (historian) companies are ~
leaders are ~
sift for youth they are all ~ (health care)
job requirements in the Valley ~ (Silicon Valley)
feeling, emotion & effect: breathing / bodily reaction
sifted the debate for clues danger: bodily reaction / breathing
observers ~ about action on carbon legislation
sight (in sight)
sifted through the returns for lessons learned
both parties ~ (election) in sight
relief is ~
sift through the debris gains are nowhere ~ (progress of war)

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 there’s no relief ~ (wildfires in California) the ~ of huffing (sniffing glue, etc.)
there is still no viable solution ~
there is no end ~ to this opioid litigation stroke's warning signs
the end is ~ (impeachment trial) recognize ~

future / time: distance / eye ample warning signs

proximity: eye there were ~ (psychotic breakdown)

sight (lose sight) education about the warning signs

public ~ of suicide
lose sight that
do not ~ we are at war (government) warning signs or red flags
there were no ~ (mass shooter)
lose sight of the big picture
don't ~ (advice to teachers) display (any of) the warning signs
if they ~ of suicide…
consciousness & awareness: eye / verb
know the warning signs
sight (in somebody's sights) ~ (depression)
in the SEC's sights for fraud missed the warning signs
the Wall Street firm is ~ they ~ (son's breakdown)
had him in their sights warning: sign, signal, symbol
federal prosecutors ~ (criminal investigation)
sign (sign off)
have it in our sights
we ~ (merger) signed off on the plan
he ~ (government)
target: weapon
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: writing & spelling /
sight (sights) verb
turned their sights on Joe sign (verb)
then they ~ (prosecutors in trial)
signed your work
target: weapon bloody boot prints, just like a signature, you boys ~ (murder)
sign (sign of the times, etc.) evidence: verb / writing & spelling
in a sign of the times signal (verb)
~, the retail chain has declared bankruptcy
signal a change
evidence: sign, signal, symbol I don't mean to ~ in policy (government official)
sign (warning sign) signals danger
stress is an external stimulus that ~
warning sign
~s include confusion, ashy skin (heatstroke) signals the onset
~ that your child may be doing drugs ejaculation ~ of puberty in boys
warning sign of problems signal the presence
a ~ ahead the green palm trees ~ of water (Egyptian desert)
warning signs of psychosis signal a problem
spotted the ~ in himself the following 10 red flags may ~ (child development)
warning signs of suicide signal a shift
public education about the ~ gifts can ~ in a relationship
warning signs of an (impending) eruption signaled a willingness
scientists caught the ~ the administration has ~ to be creative with…
warning signs for stroke signal diabetic coma
people should learn the ~ Kussmaul respirations ~ (nursing)
warning signs for violent behavior signaled a sucking chest wound
17 ~ the bubbling blood ~ (ED)
warning signs and dangers gifts can signal

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 ~ a shift in a relationship screen exhaust systems to reduce ~ (trucks)
palm trees signal lane signature
the green ~ the presence of water (Egyptian desert) increase the ~ to aid passage of larger forces
red flags may signal return signature
the following 10 ~ a problem (child development) a ~ that indicates a mine (mine detector)
evidence: sign, signal, symbol / verb sand (and dust) signatures
movement is detected by ~ (military)
signal (mixed signals)
track signature
mixed signals about his plan the smaller the width or ~ of the vehicle
the President is sending ~ for the southern border
aircraft signature
sent mixed signals ensure that the ~ will be minimized
his lawyer has ~ (about what his client might do)
firing signature
message: tools & technology
the field artillery's ~ makes it vulnerable
signal (signal and noise) acoustic signature
sends (multiple) signals reducing the ~ of our submarines
Iran's action ~ (military deployment) acoustical signature
separate the signal from the noise the V-22 Osprey flies with a lower "~"
~ (when considering President Trump) considerable (heat) signature
pick out the signal from the noise stationary aircraft have a ~
trying to ~ (epidemiology) criminal signature
message: sound / tools & technology he left his ~ at each crime scene (serial killer)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: sound / tools & dramatic (dust) signatures
technology rapid movement causes ~ (military)
signature (evidence) electronic signature
signature it has no ~ (an air-defense weapon);
if he is alive, he's not moving enough to create a ~ the Tactical Operations Center has little ~

signatures of (past or present) life infrared signature

organic molecules, possible ~ (Mars) reducing ~s is a passive anti-air consideration

signature of our submarines metallic signature

reducing the acoustic ~ locate mines by a slight ~ (AN/PSS-12)

signature of the vehicle operational signature

the smaller the width or track ~ its ~ was aggressiveness (L.A. police)

signature of water slight (metallic) signature

searching for the chemical ~ locate mines by a ~ (AN/PSS-12)

signatures of unmanned aerial vehicles small (thermal) signature

the small thermal ~ the ~s of unmanned aerial vehicles

artillery's (firing) signature thermal signature

the field ~ makes it vulnerable the small ~s of unmanned aerial vehicles

chemical signature track signature

searching for the ~ of water the smaller the width or ~ of the vehicle
researchers mine the elaborate ~s of breath visual signature
chemical "signature" markers provide commanders with a ~
DEA labs are testing the heroin to find a ~ thermal and optical signatures
dust signatures friendly and enemy ~
rapid movement causes dramatic ~ (military) footprint or signature
heat signature they don't have a ~ (terrorists)
stationary aircraft have a considerable ~

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detected by (sand and dust) signatures siloed and insular
movement is ~ (military) political journalists are even more ~ today (than in 2016)
evidence: writing & spelling isolation & remoteness: farming & agriculture
division & connection: farming & agriculture
signature (signature issue, etc.)
silver (speech)
signature crusade
he made health-care reform the ~ of his career silver
speech is ~, silence is gold
signature issue
he has made immigration his ~ speech: materials & substances
attention, scrutiny & promotion: writing & spelling silver-tongued
signpost (noun) silver-tongued (m)
a ~ recruiting sergeant
signpost as to how bad
Speech is silver, silence is gold!
his death was a ~ things were (Liston, boxing, the mob)
speech: materials & substances / tongue
signposts of my childhood
I pass the ~ simmer (verb)
signposts of (rulers') authority simmered with resentment
Baghdad's bridges are ~ he ~
signpost on a road activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water
the Balfour Declaration was a ~ heading towards a cliff initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water
sign, signal, symbol: infrastructure / journeys & trips simmering (activity)
evidence: infrastructure / journeys & trips / sign, signal,
symbol simmering resentment
~ blossomed into warfare (two politicians)
silent (fall silent)
long-simmering debate
fall silent the ~ over whether dinosaurs…
the factory will ~
long-simmering dispute
starting, going, continuing & ending: sound his ~ with…
curtailment: sound
long-simmering event
silo (academic silos, etc.) this ~ in our history
academic silos long-simmering tension
the school wants to break down ~ ~ between the private university and the town
silo-busters long-simmering (ethnic) tensions
leaders should be ~ ~ have erupted into violence
♦ This word is nicely written about in “The Vocabularist: How did ‘silo’ get
to mean something else?” by The Vocabularist, BBC, 30 June 2015. long-simmering (racial) tensions
♦ “This is the problem of spying. You are always in one particular silo the altercation caused ~ to erupt
within that particular organization in a black hole of information like
Afghanistan, so you are really focusing on one area but you are blind activity: heating water / temperature / water
sometimes basically to other activities happening around.” (Aimen initiation: heating water / temperature / water
Dean.)
sink (destroy)
isolation & remoteness: farming & agriculture
division & connection: farming & agriculture sank the (prosecution's) case
siloed it was the torpedo that ~ (forensics)
destruction: boat / sea / verb
siloed
Jobs had insisted that departments were ~ (secrecy) sink (behavior)
“siloed” (healthcare system sunk to a new low
the US has a ~ (public, private, fragmented) she has ~
siloed off sink to the level
I’m kind of ~, our studios are in Brooklyn... we cannot ~ of our oppressors
women are so ~ in this profession (TV directors)

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sinking lower and lower increase & decrease: direction / verb
broadcasters are ~ to get higher ratings sinkhole (noun)
behavior: direction / verb
sinkhole of shame and self-hatred
sink (put) stuttering leaves behind an ever-deepening ~

sink (a lot of) money into their kids' sports decline: ground, terrain & land
adults ~ sink in (verb)
throwing, putting & planting: water / verb
sink in
sink (sink into a coma, etc.) it took two days for it to ~
if you let that ~, that’s an alarming statistic (police suicide)
sank into a coma
he ~ sinks in
reality ~
consciousness & awareness: direction
absorption & immersion: verb / water
sink (sink into debt, etc.) comprehension & incomprehension: verb / water
sinking (deeper) into debt sinking (sinking feeling, etc.)
I was ~ (now homeless)
sinking feeling
swim or sink I had a ~ that…
we are going to ~ together (revitalizing Detroit / 2010)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction
survival, persistence & endurance: direction / water
sink or swim
sink (sink into despair, etc.)
sink or swim type
sink into despair it was a ~ type of thing (new bandmember)
she was starting to ~ (losing soccer game)
survival, persistence & endurance: water
heart sank
my ~… (news of murder of boy) siphon (verb)
spirits sank siphon Republicans away
my ~ a “centrist” might ~ from Trump (elections)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb siphoned funds to her own pockets
she ~
sink (sink into the mud, etc.)
directing: verb / water
sinking into the mud
the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war) siren (siren call / song)
sinking into the mud siren song of bargains
the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war) the ~ is too irresistible to avoid (outlet malls)

failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb siren call of booze

they cannot resist the ~ (alcoholics)
sink (sink into obscurity, etc.)
siren call of fads
sank into obscurity don't give in to the ~ (tattoos you can live with)
Petra ~ about 1000 AD
heed the siren call
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / verb her book is for all who ~ of the water (swimming)
sink (decline) seduced by the siren song
they've been ~ "college for everyone"
sinks into melodrama
the story ~ ♦ A Ulysses pact (contract) allows a mentally ill person to stipulate in
advance that he be hospitalized during an episode, thus circumventing a
legal requirement that he give permission.
sank fast
United ~ after City went ahead (2019 soccer game) attraction & repulsion: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
stocks sank siren (other)
blue-chip ~ Friday (stock market)
siren
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siren-voiced (m) Sisyphean (adjective)
a ~ singer
Sisyphean task
attraction & repulsion: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
it is a ~ (creating a database)
sister (big sister) difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion
big sister sit (a house can sit somewhere, etc.)
I was like a mother hen to them, I was like ~ (skateboarder)
sat in a suburb
help & assistance: family
his house ~ called...
sister (relationship) sitting 2 points above the regulation zone
sister Manchester United ~ (English soccer)
our ~s the plants, our brothers the animals (a Navajo) fictive position: standing, sitting & lying / verb
sister city sit (sit on something)
Asheville's ~, Saumur, France
China has terminated the ~ relationship with Prague sitting on the report
the government is ~
sister event
Bike Week and its ~, Biketoberfest (Daytona Beach) sits on his ideas
so he ~ (Darwin takes his time to publish)
sister organizations
he described them as “~” (terrorist groups) action, inaction & delay: standing, sitting & lying / verb
concealment & lack of concealment: standing, sitting &
sister publications lying / verb
the Los Angeles Times and its ~
sit (sit on one’s hands)
sister ship
the HMS Queen Elizabeth and her ~, HMS Prince of Wales sat on their hands
the Zaandam and its ~ the Rotterdam they ~ on the sidelines (politicians)
sister science sit (back) on our hands
natural language processing and its ~, speech generation what are we supposed to do, ~ when we see there may be
problems
sister technology
Smart Reply is a ~ of Smart Compose action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: standing, sitting & lying / verb
sister virus
Marburg's ~: Ebola (African hemorrhagic fevers) sit by (verb)
ugly sister sit idly by
eugenics and its ~, eugenic euthanasia (Nazis) I couldn’t ~ (need to take action against barking dogs)
three sisters (m) action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
~ soup, built from beans, squash and corn ignoring things: standing, sitting & lying / verb
person / relationship: family sit down (verb)
sister (the Seven Sisters, etc.) sit down with the opposition
Two Sisters we need to ~
we sailed to the ~ (Saudi islands off of Jizan) sitting down with the Taliban
Three Sisters we shouldn’t be ~
we could see the ~ (mountains in KwaZulu-Natal) position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying /
Seven Sisters table / verb
the Pleiades are often called the ~ (stars) sit-down (other)
Assam is one of the ~ (states in India)
sit-down with the child
Seven Sisters (m) have a serious ~ (a serious talk)
the ~ Waterfall has 7 separate streams (Norway)
serious sit-down
Roaring Sister have a ~ with the child (a serious talk)
the ~ is a rock on the Western Cape of South Africa
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position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying / skeleton (skeleton crew, etc.)
table
skeleton crew
sit out (verb) we are operating with a ~
we were able to open with a ~ (store after hurricane)
sit out this year
a ~ would remain aboard to maintain the vessel (ship)
he can’t afford to ~ (working during pandemic)
sit it out skeleton staff
schools are operating with a ~ (pandemic)
he could stay in Ulm and ~ until the Russians arrived
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle,
action, inaction & delay: standing, sitting & lying / verb
nerves & bone
involvement: standing, sitting & lying / verb
sitting duck skeleton (substance)
sitting duck skeleton
my brother's a ~ (snitch in prison) this is just a ~, you need to flesh it out (essay)
the convoys are ~s (Pakistan) substance & lack of substance: skeleton / skin, muscle,
you’re a ~, you have no way to defend yourself (sniper) nerves & bone
protection & lack of protection: animal / bird / hunting
skeleton (resemblance)
danger: animal / bird / hunting
skein (entanglement) skeleton
she was skin and bones, a ~
messy skein
charred skeleton
he was already tangled in a ~ of indictments
all that was left of the boat was a ~ (burned to waterline)
complexity / involvement: cloth
resemblance: skeleton / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
skeletal (adjective) sketchy (adjective)
skeletal
sketchy stuff
state services for victims are ~ (sex / North Dakota)
there is still some ~ taking place (banks)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle,
a little bit sketchy
nerves & bone
details remain ~ at the moment (a criminal assault)
skeleton (skeleton in the closet) certainty & uncertainty / flaws & lack of flaws: picture
skeleton skewer (verb)
who knows what ~s he's got in his closet (troubled)
skewered the powerful with his cartoons
skeletons in our closet he ~ (an editorial cartoonist)
I knew we had ~ (newspaper's lack of coverage of…)
skewer (office) life and (business) norms
skeletons in its (Communist) closet modern literary fiction often attempts to ~
Poland exhumes ~
♦ “These two women are such easy targets, a fingerless chef could
skeletons in the closet skewer them.” (A neat line from a book review by the critic Heller
McAlpin.)
all the ~ are spilling out (Turkey)
he has a few ~ that he doesn't want you to know about accusation & criticism: cooking / verb
affliction / speech: cooking / verb
skeletons (in the closet) are spilling out
all the ~ (Turkey's past) skewered
newly revealed skeletons skewered in an (attack) ad
~ joined old ones in his closet (a politician) he has been ~ for speaking French (a US politician)
exhumes skeletons accusation & criticism: cooking
Poland ~ in its Communist closet affliction / speech: cooking
♦ "If you autopsy anybody's personal life deep enough, everybody's got
skeletons." (A police chief under fire.) skin (feeling)
concealment & lack of concealment: skeleton got under his skin
I knew I ~ (at a trial)
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 she really ~ the budget is subject to annual ~s
gotten under his skin conflict: military
this has clearly ~ (irritated)
skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
made my skin crawl
it ~ (disgust) skirted the issue
he ~
feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
avoidance & separation: clothing & accessories / verb
skin (jump out of one’s skin) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: clothing &
accessories / verb
jump out of my skin
loud noises make me ~ skirt (configuration)
hyperbole: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb skirt Xinjiang and Tibet
feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / the Kunlun Mountains ~
verb
configuration: clothing & accessories / verb
skin (save one's skin)
sky (the sky can fall)
save their skins
executives sold their stock, hoping to ~ (Enron) sky
the ~ is not falling (fears of attacks on Internet)
save your skin
fate, fortune & chance: air / atmosphere / sky
it's lucky they're taking you to the boss, that may ~
survival, persistence & endurance: skin, muscle, nerves & sky (a clear blue sky, etc.)
bone / verb a clear blue sky
euphemism: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb the attack on the politician did not come out of ~
skin (outside) appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky
skin sky-high
someone had tended to its guts, if not its ~ (a rifle)
sky-high
mango skin fans were ~ after the win
the ~ ripping away from the fruit's flesh… emotions were ~ (at a murder trial)
orientation: skin, muscle, nerves & bone sky high
skin-deep costs are ~
extent & scope: atmosphere / sky
skin-deep
the reforms have only been ~ skyrocket (to attention, etc.)
extent & scope: breadth / skin, muscle, nerves & bone skyrocketed onto the (national political) scene
substance & lack of substance: breadth / skin, muscle, he ~ in 2018
nerves & bone
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / rocket / sky /
skinny (adjective) verb
skinny skyrocket (increase)
department budgets are already ~ (state government)
population has skyrocketed
skinny on results in Europe's prisons, where the Islamic ~
diet books are fat on profits, ~
price (of helium) is skyrocketing
skinny (coronavirus) bill the ~
the senate failed to pass even the ~
profits skyrocket
substance & lack of substance: fatness & thinness / weight
corporate ~ even as the economy remains stalled
skirmish unemployment is skyrocketing
skirmishes the economy is crashing, ~ (politics)
it’s important to know which ~ to join and which to ignore increase & decrease: direction / rocket / sky / verb
(bureaucracy)
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skyscraper (tall building) slap in the face for the US
the attack was a ~ (by Iran)
earthquake-resistant skyscraper
architects design ~s slap in the face
his offer was a ~
4,000 skyscrapers
a city that already has ~, double New York (Shanghai) slap in the face to Chicagoans
his actions were a ~ (false accusation of hate crime)
size: atmosphere / sky
slap in the face to the female students
skyway it was a ~ (who had been molested at USC)
Cherohala Skyway insult: face / gesture
the ~ connects western North Carolina and Tennessee
slash (verb)
tunnel and skyway (m)
Montreal is known for its ~ network slash (state) agencies
Toronto and Minneapolis are known for their ~ networks he wants to ~

route: atmosphere / sky slash (private and corporate) taxes

his budget blueprint would ~ (politician)
slack (noun)
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / knife / verb
slack
she deserves a little ~
slash-and-burn (adjective)
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: rope slash-and-burn process
their approach to cutting costs is a ~ (politics)
slam (verb)
conflict / destruction: fire / farming & agriculture
slammed the politician for his hatred and bigotry dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / fire / farming &
he ~ agriculture
accusation & criticism / speech: force / hitting, slamming & slate (a clean slate, etc.)
lashing / verb / violence
wiped my slate clean
slam-dunk I feel like God has ~ (executed for 6 murders)

slam-dunk (positive) drugs test reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: books & reading
the case did not have a ~ to stand upon (sports doping) slave (verb)
slam-dunk for him slaved over this
this is no ~ (a tough boxing match)
I really ~ (a project)
slam-dunk for Republicans difficulty, easiness & effort: history / verb
this should have been a ~ (election)
hyperbole / work & duty: history / verb
certainty & uncertainty: basketball / sports & games slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
difficulty, easiness & effort: basketball / sports & games
slap (awareness) slaves to the clock
we aren't ~, like the Americans
slaps you right in the face slave to fashion
this reality ~ (weekly death toll during pandemic)
she is a ~
consciousness & awareness: face / gesture / sensation /
slave to laziness
verb
don't become a ~
slap (punish) slave to the past
slapped them on the face Turkey is not a ~
last night we ~ (Iranian attack on US) slave to the rules
insult: face / gesture / verb I refuse to be a ~

slap (slap in the face, etc.) slave to tobacco

to smoke is to be a ~ (public-health ad)
slap to the prosecutor
his words were a ~ (judge orders new trial) slave to trends
she is chic, but not a ~

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debt slave sleepy (little farm) town
don't be a ~ to your mortgage a~
become a slave activity: sleep
don't ~ to laziness
sleeve (on one’s sleeve)
♦ Do a favor for a beggar and you'll be his slave!
♦ Teach me one thing, and I am your slave. with his heart on his sleeve
he always fights ~ (boxer Johnnie Tapia)
dependency / dominance & submission: person
wear my influences on my sleeve
sledding (tough sledding) I ~ (a writer)
tough sledding concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
it's been ~, but… (progress of war)
sleeve (up one’s sleeve)
difficulty, easiness & effort: snow & ice
up his sleeve
sledgehammer (noun) he will have his own little tricks ~ (rugby coach)
taken a sledgehammer to America’s trustworthiness concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
he has ~ and credibility (politics) subterfuge: clothing & accessories
taking a sledgehammer sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
is he ~ to crack a nut here (overreaction)
roll up their sleeves
destruction / force: tools & technology
everyone will have to ~ and work collaboratively
sleep (noun) rolls up their sleeves
awakening from (its winter) sleep they want someone who ~, gets things done (politics)
nature is ~ difficulty, easiness & effort / work & duty: clothing &
resemblance: sleep accessories / gesture

sleep (put something to sleep) sleight of hand

put woke to sleep linguistic sleights of hand
it’s time to ~ governments propagandize citizens with ~

reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: sleep / verb subterfuge: magic

starting, going, continuing & ending: sleep / verb concealment & lack of concealment: magic
sleeping (consciousness) slender (adjective)
sleeping majority slender chance
I was one of the ~, but now I have woken up (Egypt) there was a ~ she would recover (sick)

consciousness & awareness: sleep slender victory

Uruguay’s ~ over Saudi Arabia ensured that...
sleepwalk (verb)
size: fatness & thinness
sleepwalking into a level of risk
it’s ~ you don’t realize you have (funds cut to Navy) sleuth (person)
sleepwalking towards (greatly increased) risk sleuth
we are ~ (end of INF nuclear treaty between Russia and US) is not the biographer also a ~

consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb / walking, searching & discovery: person
running & jumping slice (piece)
sleepy (activity)
slices of the market
sleepy backwater in the ceaseless quest to stake out bigger ~
oil transformed Khartoum from a ~ to a modern city amount: blade / knife
sleepy community slice (road slices, etc.)
the ~ of…
slices through the land
sleepy oasis
where a creek ~ near the house
Korla, once a ~, is undergoing an oil boom (Xinjiang)

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slices through the heart of the forest
the Cuiabá-Santarém road, which ~
road slices
the ~ through thick pine and spruce forest
resemblance: blade / knife / verb
slide (slide to perdition, etc.)
slip up (fail)
slip up or hit a plateau
if you ~, don’t beat yourself up (weight loss)
♦ “Iran put a banana peel in front of the United States and President
Trump put his foot right on it.” (Cali Nasir’s analysis after an Iranian proxy
militia in Iraq killed an American. The resultant US airstrike against the
militia resulted in an outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism, including an
attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.)

slide to perdition failure, accident & impairment: verb / walking, running &
give socialism a foothold, and nothing can arrest the ~ jumping
decline: direction / movement sliver (piece)
slide (verb) sliver of the electorate
slid into a depression this impacts just a small ~
she ~ of extraordinary depth and duration sliver of remorse
slide to perdition he express what seemed to be a grudging ~
give socialism a foothold, and nothing can arrest the ~ sliver of solace
decline: direction / movement / verb there may be a ~ in the fact that...
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / movement / verb amount: blade / knife
slim (small) slog (verb)
slim majority slogged a difficult road
Republicans have a ~ in the Senate the team ~ to qualify for the tournament
size: breadth / fatness & thinness difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / walking,
slink (slink in, etc.) running & jumping / verb

slunk in through a ship slog (long hard slog, etc.)

the deadly flu ~
slog of lockdowns and death counts
subterfuge: animal / movement / verb before life turned into this ~ with no definite end (pandemic)
transmission: animal / movement / verb
easy slog
slip (verb) this is not going to be an ~

slipping lifelong slog

gun sales have been ~ under Trump learn a language, getting there needn’t be a ~ (an ad)

slipped 7 percent long hard slog

murders ~ last year the fight will be a ~ (war)
the candidates have a ~ to go (election)
decline: direction / verb the election campaign will be a ~
increase & decrease: direction / verb it may be a ~ to bring about regime change (in Venezuela)
slip (permission slip) tough slog
it was a ~ to get that done (legislation)
permission slip
the US does not need a ~ to defend its security difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / walking,
running & jumping
complicit in the permission slip
they must disavow him or they are ~ (politics) slope (on a slippery slope)
behavior / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: school on a slippery slope
& education she is ~ (celebrity bad behavior)
slipstream (in a slipstream) danger / fate, fortune & chance / starting, going,
continuing & ending: ground, terrain & land / mountains &
in Tyson Fury’s slipstream
Anthony Joshua is ~ now (boxing) hills

superiority & inferiority: plane / wind slope (slippery slope)

competition: direction slope

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 the ~ is slippery in both directions (censorship) economies in the US and Europe also ~
slippery slope towards democracy remains sluggish
this was the start of the ~ (South Africa) hiring ~
slippery-slope argument speed: animal / movement
the ~ (relating to precedents) condition & status: health & medicine / movement
fear of a slippery slope slumber (noun)
the ~ was pervasive (military intervention)
shakes people from their slumber
start of the slippery slope I hope this film ~ (the great Spike Lee)
this was the ~ towards democracy (South Africa)
consciousness & awareness: sleep
push the state down a slippery slope
this will ~ of prosecuting thoughts (versus acts)
slump (verb)
danger / fate, fortune & chance / starting, going, slumped
continuing & ending: ground, terrain & land / mountains & economic growth ~
ridership fell as tourism ~ (cabs)
hills
sloppy (adjective) slumping
manufacturing is ~ in recent months (employment)
sloppy display slumping (back) into recession
it was a ~ from Wales (soccer) Ireland is ~ (falling exports)
sloppy pass slumped to (its third) defeat
her ~ back almost gifted Cameroon a goal (World Cup) the team ~ of the season as...
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene
slumped to a (record) low
slow (adjective) the Syrian currency has ~

slow to ground decline / increase & decrease: direction / verb

the FAA was ~ the 737 MAX (after two crashes) slump (in a slump)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: movement
in a (record) slump
action, inaction & delay / speed / time: movement the birthrate is ~ (USA)
slug (slug something out) remains in a (severe) slump
slugged it out the economy ~
Obama and Clinton ~ in the primaries decline / increase & decrease: direction
conflict: boxing / verb slump (other)
sluggish (adjective)
the Slump
sluggish by 1933 ~ had spread like the plague (England)
growth has been ~ slump in form
tourism is still ~ the club has seen an alarming ~
sales were ~ in July
hiring remains ~ slump in home sales
economies range from ~ to staggering (downturn) furniture sales have been hit by the ~
sluggish economy “Trump Slump”
everyone is feeling the effects of the ~ because of the ~, shops have more guns than buyers
he found himself bedeviled by the ~ (president)
team’s slump
sluggish growth he is adamant he can fix his ~ (a manager)
the report shows ~ (economy)
economic slump
sluggish pace Russia’s ~ has been good for London
the economy is improving, but at a ~
great slump
sluggish response the ~ could have turned into a Great Depression (2010)
the city will investigate the ~ to the storm
ongoing slump
remain sluggish the decline in the U.S. birthrate is an ~

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slump is dragging on smart dust
the ~ "~"—tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe
~ would monitor, measure and understand the world
slump has hit ~ remains a ways off
the economic ~ the nation’s truckers ~ has proved impossible because sensors need power
slump is worsening smart fuse
Miami’s housing ~ a "~" for penetrating warheads uses an accelerometer
broke out of its slump smart house
the team finally ~ (won) ~s could monitor the elderly
bucked the retail slump ~ could monitor those with chronic conditions
the company has ~ smart mine
get out of their slump dumb mines versus ~s (self-destruct / self-deactivate)
the team won’t ~ until they start scoring and... smart munitions
hit a slump targeting of assets for attack by ~ (UAVs)
after years of blockbuster global sales, the iPhone has ~ smart tractors
reverse its (sales) slump farmers could use it to keep tabs on autonomous ~ (5G)
the company hopes to ~ smart elevators and window shades
decline / increase & decrease: direction complaints about ~ (new office building)

slut (enthusiasm) "smart" licenses and visas

~ that incorporate anti-counterfeiting chips
photo slut
~s, surfers going big on small waves for the money smart crosswalks
~ flash overhead warnings when you step off the curb
stats slut
he abhors the "~s" (a football analyst) smart ID card
soldiers will be issued with ~s
eagerness & reluctance / enthusiasm: sex
smart and scatterable (m)
small-minded ~ mines and their delivery vehicles (military)
small-minded from dumb to smart to brilliant (m)
she's ~ ~ bombs (military)
♦ “We call it a smartie, and her name is Ripley.” (SpaceX vice president
extent & scope / mind: size Hans Koenigsmann, about the dummy named Ripley sent into space on
smart (verb) March 2, 2019.)

knowledge & intelligence: mechanism

smarting from the last couple of weeks ability & lack of ability: mechanism
people are still ~ (a bruising political battle)
smash (smashed the record, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb
smashed the (previous) record
smart (technology) he ~ (mountaineer Nirmal Purja)
smart bomb destruction: ruins / verb
~s are less likely to go astray success & failure: fist / force
~s used to be guided by a laser
~s hit the target, but rely on good intelligence smear (verb)
~s and stealth technology won Gulf War I
"brilliant" bombs are the ~s of the future smear my character
all-weather ~s are guided by satellites I will not let her ~ (politics)
JDAM ~s are guided by inertial guidance and GPS smear my reputation
JDAM ~s are unaffected by clouds, dust, smoke she tried to ~
the stock of satellite-guided ~s is depleted
smeared (Chicago’s) reputation
smart card he has ~ (false hate-crime accusation)
~s that store data have been routinely cracked
smear somebody
smart device information, disinformation, ~ (current state of politics)
~s—smart PCs, smart cell phones...
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 attack groups can ~ and do it anonymously (politics) smitten (effect)
smear (people) casually smitten by the song
don’t ~ on a podcast (politics)
I was ~
reputation: mark / verb
smitten by birding
flaws & lack of flaws / speech: mark / verb
he was ~
smear (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / hitting, slamming &
smear campaign lashing / weapon
the allegations are part of a ~ by opponents
the ~ is based on unjustified and groundless allegations
smitten (afflicted)
there is no evidence of a ~ (against a film) smitten by polio
smear on conservatives he was ~…
the Right condemned the report as a ~ (hate groups) affliction: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / weapon
inflammatory and misleading smears smoke (evidence)
he described warnings over US farming practices as ~
smoke
reputation: mark where there is ~, there is fire
flaws & lack of flaws / speech: mark
evidence / substance & lack of substance: fire
smell (suspicion)
smoke (smoke clears)
smell right
something doesn't ~ (suspicion) smoke has cleared
now that the ~, investigators… (stock-market plunges)
smells bad
something ~ (suspicion) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: fire
suspicion: smell smoke and mirrors
smell (evidence) smoke and mirrors
this is ~, nothing has changed (politics)
smell of disaster he has accused ministers of using “~” over its plan...
it began to ~ (a public-relations offensive)
smoke and mirrors deal
smell an upset the government has done ~ with the energy companies
they began to ~ (a team playing well)
subterfuge: magic / theater
evidence: smell
smoke out (verb)
smile (verb)
smoke out the opposition
smiled on him he is trying to ~
Lady Luck has ~
smoke out the truth
smiled on Modi he decided he would ~ (investigation)
but fortune ultimately ~ and his colleague
pursuit, capture & escape: fire / verb
smiled on me concealment & lack of concealment: fire / verb
God has ~
fate ~ that day smokescreen (concealment)
smile on the Winter Olympics smokescreen
Mother Nature is finally starting to ~ his aggressiveness is just a ~
smiled on (affirmative action) programs subterfuge: fire / military
he has ~ from the bench (a judge) concealment & lack of concealment: fire / military
smiled on us smoking gun
I think today Mother Nature ~ (NASA launch)
smoking gun
judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: face / the letter is a ~ that shows…
gesture / sign, signal, symbol / verb the document is the ~ (investigation of Boeing)
sign, signal, symbol: face / gesture / verb
find a smoking gun
prosecutors could not ~

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finds no smoking gun smooth transition
he ~, no evidence that… (a historian) the new administration has made a ~
provides the smoking gun smooth and speedy
Madagascar ~ for… (impacts from asteroids or comets) we should encourage a ~ transition to democracy
turn up a "smoking gun" flaws & lack of flaws: hardness & softness / sensation
months of searching failed to ~ (UN / Iraq)
smorgasbord (noun)
evidence: fire / weapon
smorgasbord of sound
smolder (verb) the musical festival offers a virtually limitless ~ (SXSW)
smolders smorgasbord of meetings
the conspiracy theory still ~ today (spy issue) the annual gathering is a ~ (UN general assembly)
tensions smolder biggest smorgasbord
racial and gender ~ (hiring firefighters) it’s the ~ on TV (Olympics coverage)
activity: fire / verb alternatives & choices: food & drink
starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb amount / group, set & collection: food & drink
smooth (verb) smother (amount and effect)
smooth over their frictions smothered her (little) boy with love
Britain and Pakistan hope to ~ she ~ and attention

smooth over its (rocky) relations smothered the trio in hugs and kisses
the Chinese military wants to ~ with the Pentagon her grandmother ~

smooth (capitalism’s) rough edges amount & effect: breathing / verb

her policies aim to ~ (a progressive) smother (cover)
smooth relations
officials hope to ~ with Beijing
smothered the grenade with his body
he shouted a warning and ~ (combat)
amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness / sensation /
verb
smothered the ball
the goalkeeper ~ to prevent the own goal (soccer)
smooth (smooth the road, etc.) sand dunes smother
smooth the road ~ empty homes (desertification / northwest China)
there is no way to ~ to assimilation (forget racial past) cover: breathing / verb
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / journeys & trips smother (oppress)
smooth (speech)
smothered me with their rules
smooth talker they ~ (angry teen about her parents)
he is a ~ campaign to smother
speech: sensation / taste an unsuccessful ~ separatist ambitions
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech oppression: breathing / verb
smooth (character) snag (noun)
smooth and self-assured technical snag
he is ~ (a politician)
a ~ aborted the test launch (satellite rocket)
character & personality: materials & substances /
hit a snag
sensation
negotiations ~ over…
smooth (lack of flaws) ♦ "Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great
steamer in her marks in that murky waste of water, one should know that
smooth ride not only must she pick her intricate way through snags and blind reefs,
and then shave the head of the island so closely as to brush the
the team's season has not been a ~ (sports) overhanging foliage with her stern, but at one place she must pass
almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would
smooth transfer snatch the hull timbers from under her if she should strike it, and destroy
he seeks to ensure a ~ of power to his son a quarter of a million dollars' worth of steam-boat and cargo in five

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minutes, and maybe a hundred and fifty human lives into the bargain." now we have ~ we’re winning (against terrorism)
(Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.)
♦ There’s a saying that if you cut the head off a snake, two more will
obstacles & impedance: river grow.
♦ “They cut off the head of the snake, Gaddafi. But now there are
snail (at a snail's pace) hundreds of snakes replacing him. We are still fighting for the same
thing—to find a just ruler for Libya.” (Anwar Suwan of Libya.)
at a snail's pace
moving ~ is the norm above 8,000 meters (climbing) destruction: animal / head / snake

moving at a snail's pace snake (a trail can snake, etc.)

queues are ~ (Passports Department) snake downward
speed: animal the trails ~ (public cave)

snail (snail's pace / other) snaked down the streets

lines of voters ~ outside polling places (Lusaka)
snail's pace of the investigation
the ~ (murder) snakes between Boston and Cambridge
the Charles River ~
snail's pace of (scientific) publishing
the ~ snake through the wilderness
logging roads ~
speed: animal
snaked through the long hallways
snake (insult) lines of people ~ (congressional hearing)
snake snakes (more than) 300 miles
the guy was a ~ (got her in trouble) the Trans-Ecuadorean pipeline ~
you don't play with ~s and not expect to get bit
snakes from Lago Agrio to the Pacific
snake and a traitor the Trans-Ecuadorean pipeline ~
Sanders loyalists called Warren a ~ (no endorsement)
trails snake
♦ “There are no snakes in Vermont, but there are Vermonters.”
the ~ downward (public cave)
character & personality: animal / person / snake
insult / person: animal / person / snake
pipeline snakes
the Trans-Ecuadorean ~ more than 300 miles
snake (head of the snake)
fictive motion / movement: animal / snake / verb
head of the snake resemblance: animal / snake / verb
he is the ~ (a terrorist leader) snake (snake-bit)
Raqqa is the ~ (IS)
hit the head of the snake snake-bit
I want to ~ of IS in Raqqa (David Cameron) I’m ~ (Spike Lee on losing two Oscars to “driving” movies)
♦ This means having bad luck, bad fortune. There are many snakes, but
described as the head of the snake few people get bitten.
he was ~ (a people-trafficking kingpin) fate, fortune & chance: animal / snake
affliction: animal / snake
snake pit
snake (cut off the head of the snake, etc.)
media snake pit
cut off the snake’s head jump into the ~
if you want to resolve a problem, you should ~ (war) ♦ Psychiatric hospitals were referred to as snake pits for their chaos,
the Iraqi government has ~ (al-Zarqawi) distress and horror.

cut off the head of the snake environment: animal / hole / mental health / snake
the King urged Washington to “~” conflict: animal / hole / snake
danger: animal / snake
cut the head off the snake
they are urging the US to ~ (war)
snap (verb)
you have to ~ if you want to kill it (cricket match-fixing) snapped
cut the head off a snake he had a short fuse and he just ~ (troubled veteran)
we’re trying to ~, but the body is so damned long (crime) failure, accident & impairment / feeling, emotion & effect:
it’s better to ~ before it grows and reproduces (Taliban)
materials & substances / verb
taken off the head of the snake

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snapshot speech: weapon / verb
sniping (noun)
snapshot of the epidemic
the studies were the first to provide a ~ in the US Gingrich's sniping
characterization: picture ~ has left Romney better prepared for… (politics)
accusation & criticism: military / weapon
snare (verb)
speech: military / weapon
snared real people snooze (verb)
his website had ~ (fake news)
involvement: hunting / verb snooze beside walls and in museum courtyards
cannons ~ (Istanbul)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
resemblance: sleep / verb
snarl (verb)
snowball (verb)
snarled travel
the storm ~ (snow) snowball
obstacles & impedance: rope / verb their problems ~ (newly homeless)

snarl (speech) snowballed into beatings

the abuse ~ (school)
snarled
snowball into panic
“Shut up!” he ~
a false alarm can ~
speech: animal / sound / verb
snowball into something
sound: animal / verb
this could ~ much worse (trade war)
snatch (verb)
snowball into trouble
snatched defeat from victory these trends could ~ for the US (conduct of war)
athletes who have ~
snowballed from there
snatched victory it ~ and the interest never died (windsurfing)
his late goal ~ (soccer)
snowballed out of control
taking & removing: hand / verb it was an accident that ~ (murder trial)
fictive possession: hand / verb
snowballed and avalanched
sneeze (verb) it quickly ~ (late August 2020 sports protest)

sneezes continued to snowball

if Wall Street ~, Europe gets a cold the effects ~
relationship: bodily reaction / health & medicine / verb started to snowball
transmission: bodily reaction / health & medicine / verb the number of her Instagram followers ~
sniff out (verb) scandal has snowballed
the ~
sniffed out a new avenue
he soon ~ for his marketing genius (Southern Poverty Law increase & decrease: snow & ice / verb
Center) relationship: snow & ice / verb

sniff out intelligence snowball (snowball effect)

spies ~
snowball effect
sniffed out the rot entitlements like these always seem to have a ~
Shevardnadze ~ in the system (Georgia)
created a snowball effect
searching & discovery: smell / verb the media and public fascination with serial murder ~
evidence: smell / verb increase & decrease: snow & ice
snipe (verb) relationship: snow & ice

snipe from the sidelines snowflake (person)

tradition dictates former presidents don’t ~
today’s snowflakes
accusation & criticism: weapon / verb Pogba and ~ are an embarrassment (rabid soccer fan)

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targets snowflakes sober (verb)
the ad campaign ~ (British Army)
♦ A similar term to snowflake is teacup. In the old days, such people sobered voters about the costs
were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy; a wallflower. The Iraq has ~ of big wars
modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion).
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol / verb
character & personality / strength & weakness: hardness &
softness / person / snow & ice sober (adjective)
person: snow & ice
sober assessment
snuff (verb) the panel has issued a ~ of National Defense Strategy

snuffed the rally with an interception sober reminder

they ~ (football) this report is a ~ of the expensive legacy costs of...

snuffed out the movement feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol

a series of high-profile arrests soon ~ (in Syria) sobering (adj)
curtailment / destruction: fire / verb
sobering figures
soaked these are ~

sun-soaked (m) sobering realization

the highway runs along ~ Pacific beaches (Hawaii) it was a ~ (owners find their cat is obese)
absorption & immersion: water feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
soak up (verb) soft (soft on crime, etc.)
soaked up the sun soft on Australia
she ~ he does not want to be painted as ~ (Indonesian politics)
absorption & immersion: verb / water soft on crime
he tarred his challenger as ~ (George HW Bush / Clinton)
soap opera (noun)
soft on illegal immigration
soap opera he is ~
it’s the greatest ~ of the year (NBA Draft)
strength & weakness: hardness & softness
perennial soap opera
Real Madrid is a ~ (conspiracy, intrigue, passion, etc.) softball (noun)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater softball question
feeling, emotion & effect: theater TV interviewers lobbed ~s at him
soar (verb) difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games

career was soaring soften (verb)

his ~ (an academic)
soften the blow
rents are soaring the program intends to ~ of the economic downturn
~ (in France)
soften their image
sales and profits soared the rebels are on a mission to ~
~ (a drug company)
soften the impact
toll soars the military is trying to ~ (families greet coffins)
China landslide death ~
soften the law
increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / verb lawmakers have tried to ~ (marijuana)
soar (a heart can soar) softened her stance
she has ~ on the issue
hearts soared
our ~ when we realized that... attenuation: hardness & softness / verb

feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / heart soften (speech)
heart: direction / flying & falling
soften his tone
the president appeared to ~ (tariffs)

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softened their tone
the US and China have ~ (dispute)
work & duty: military
speech: hardness & softness / verb
amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness / verb soldier on (verb)
soft-hearted (adjective) soldiered on
she and her mother ~ (in poverty, after divorce)
soft-hearted woman
she's a ~ resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival,
character & personality: heart persistence & endurance / work & duty: military /
heart: hardness & softness movement / verb

soil (fertile soil) solid (adjective)

fertile soil for the cultivation solid evidence
Pakistan has proved to be ~ of terrorist activity there is no ~ that…

growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant solid bet

investing in gold is not a ~
soil (on one's soil)
solid footing
on its soil the company is on ~ (profitable, etc.)
the government will protect foreign diplomats ~
solid foundation
possession: ground, terrain & land terrorism has weakened the ~ of our democracy
soldier (noun) solid performance
she had a ~ (an athlete)
soldier in a team
I’m a ~, I do what I’m told (a jockey) solid (backup) plan
the team has a ~
good soldier
the best way to rebuild her political capital was to be a ~ solid results
Laura is such a ~ and good person (soccer player / mistake) the bank has shown ~
loyal soldier rock solid
he was more a ~ (vice-presidential debate) the case law is ~ (suit should fail)
good little soldier rock-solid (m)
I need you to be a soldier of God, a ~ (female victim their ~ case began to crumble (murder)
testimony about Catholic Church sex abuse)
♦ “I mean, I’ve been in the Twitter war zone for a while, it takes a lot to
look solid
phase me at this point. You can’t take it personally, none of these people the economies of Southeast Asia ~
actually know you. It’s like if you’re fighting a war and there’s some
opposing soldier that shoots at you, it’s not like they hate you. They don’t remain solid
even know you. So, just think of it like that. They’re firing bullets, the ties between our two countries ~
whatever, but they don’t know you, so don’t take it personally.” (Elon
Musk talking to Joe Rogan.) flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness / substance &
♦ James Pietragallo: There’s a game in 2003... [A certain football player] lack of substance: equilibrium & stability / materials &
was asked about [a great play he had made], in the locker room, keep in
mind, this was 2003, there are not one but two wars happening in this substances
country at the time...and he said, “It’s war. They’re out there to kill you so
I’m out there to kill them... I’M A SOLDIER!...” / Jimmy Whisman: And Pat Solomonic (adjective)
Tillman was just killed... / James Pietragallo: You’re a spoiled college
kid... What are you talking about? How dare you say that? / Jimmy Solomonic choice
Whisman: How tone deaf... / James Pietragallo: They should have taken firefighters had to make a ~ (choose which fire to fight)
him and just dropped him in the middle of Falluja...” (A HEAVILY
redacted transcript from “Crime in Sports,” #228, hosted by James
Pietragallo and Jimmy “I’ll mispronounce your name” Whisman.)
Solomonic compromise
supporters of the decision regarded it as a ~ (politics)
♦ “In the Falklands War the sailors sitting on the HMS Sheffield after they
had been hit by an Exocet sang it for 3 hours while they were waiting to
be rescued. And the RAF pilots would sing it...” (The “Bright Side” song
Solomonic decision
by Monty Python. BBC Radio 4, Inheritance tracks, Eric Idle.) the three-judge panel made a ~
♦ “Fear and filth went hand in hand.” (E.B. Sledge in combat on
Okinawa)
Solomonic solution
she suggested a ~
♦ “Nobody can soldier without coffee.” (A Union cavalryman, writing in
1865.) they fear her ~ will flood both sides (raising sluice gages)
♦ In 1941, 10-11 May, during the blitz, London firefighters had to make a
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Commons or the fire on the roof of Westminster Hall. They chose to save every place has its ~ (Solovetsky Islands)
Westminster Hall.

judgment: allusion / Bible / religion

soul of the Democratic Party
she has won a critical battle for the ~ (anti-Semitic Somali)
soothe (sensation)
soul of snowboarding
soothe concerns he was the ~ (Jake Burton Carpenter of Burton Snowboards)
what he said did not ~ political soul
amelioration & renewal / feeling, emotion & effect: health a window into the dark corners of our ~ (conspiracy beliefs)
& medicine / sensation / verb heart and soul
soothsayer (person) racing has lost its ~ (death of popular driver)
he was the ~ of our team (mountaineering)
soothsayer he poured his ~ into the game (Larry Bird / basketball)
I’m not a ~, I don’t have a crystal ball
there were some ~s who were saying... (election results) hearts and souls
their ~ are in it (NASA scientists)
market soothsayers
TV allowed the ~ to reach a voracious audience sell my soul to the devil
I'd ~ for…
media soothsayers
identity & nature: religion
all these ~ are crazy (sports)
stock market soothsayer
soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
secrets of the ~ (David Schwartz) sell my soul to the devil
future / message / time: magic / person / religion I'd ~ for…
person: magic / religion hyperbole: money / verb
sore (affliction) wants, needs, hopes & goals: money / verb
commitment & determination: money / verb
running sore soul-searching
Bloody Sunday became a ~ in the body politic (Ireland)
affliction: health & medicine soul-searching
after much ~ we decided…
sore (sensation) I did some ~, it was a wakeup call to me (athlete)
there will be ~ (boxing champ loses in shock defeat)
sore loser
he's just a ~ (boxer complains of decision) career-oriented soul-searching
he did some ~
sore spot
regional rivalries are a particular ~ (Central Asia) national soul-searching
the Holocaust memorial is the result of years of ~
sore subject
money can be a ~ in any relationship analysis, interpretation & explanation: religion

feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves sound (perception)
& bone
sound of that
sort out (analyze) I don't like the ~

sort it (all) out perception, perspective & point of view: sound

joining us to ~ is our media correspondent... sound (measure)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: mechanism
sounds (dark comedic) depths
soul (bare one’s soul) the play ~

bare their souls to the authorities measurement: depth / verb / water

it is not easy for women to ~ (rape, sex abuse) extent & scope: depth / verb / water
concealment & lack of concealment: religion sound (solid)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: religion
scientifically sound
soul (identity) their theory isn’t ~ (about autism and the brain)

soul flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances

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strength & weakness: materials & substances corruption: food & drink / taste
soup (mixture) sour (personality)
soup of pollutants sour person
the fish live in a ~ (tomcod in New York) she’s a ~

mixture: food & drink character & personality: food & drink / taste

soup (alphabet soup) south (numbers)

went south
alphabet soup crop prices ~ (worries of trade war)
he dislike the alphabet soup (LGBTQ+)
direction: numbers
alphabet soup of choices
we have the ~ (federal organizations and their initialisms) south (go south, etc.)
alphabet-soup designation heading south
the ~ for sexual minorities the lifeless Gunners are ~ (failing Arsenal football team)
alphabet-soup of law enforcement going south
the ~ that’s here (Louisville protests) she knew things were ~ when he locked the door (rape)
mixture: food & drink / letters & characters going south quick
sour (verb) things were ~ (California wildfire)
went south
souring on the (administration's) handling that’s when things ~ (runaway locomotive)
polls show the public is ~ of the catastrophe then, things ~
soured many on service things ~ pretty quickly
a variety of things has ~ (military reservists) crop prices ~ (worries of trade war)
the economy ~ and jobs dried up
soured investors something ~ in the prosecutor’s case, perhaps a witness
uncertainty over legislation has further ~ (Mexico) there was hope of an agreement, but things ~

soured relations went (seriously) south

the incident ~ between the two countries something ~ in the prosecution’s case (all charges dropped)
♦ “The cardinal points are always, historically, metaphors. West is the
sour the relationship area of promise for Westerners—follow the sun. The allure of the north—
raising the question of human rights could ~ (diplomacy) it’s the gate to Heaven, as native people say. The fear of the south starts
with Captain Cook. The east is always behind you, you know where you
soured some came from.” (The photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper, from “The Ends
of the Earth” by Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, October 7, 2019.)
her decision ~ in law enforcement (a district attorney)
♦ “I’m goin’ way down south... / Way down to Mexico way... / Ain’t no
relationship soured hangman gonna / He ain’t gonna put a rope around me...” (“Hey Joe” by
but the ~ (between two politicians) Jimmie Hendrix.)
♦ “Gog and Magog were generally located in the extreme north.” (Early
relationship has soured maps, based on the Bible.)
the ~ between museums and archaeologists ♦ “Why care for these dead bodies? They really have no friends but the
worms or fishes. Their owners were coming to the New World, as
corruption: food & drink / taste / verb Columbus and the Pilgrims... I saw their empty hulks that came to land;
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste / verb but they themselves, meanwhile, were cast upon some shore yet further
west, toward which we are all tending, and which we shall reach at
sour (adjective) last...” (“The Shipwreck” by Henry David Thoreau, writing about the Irish
immigrant ship St. John.)
sour taste
♦ “The Montana doctor, McCray, had tried to find a serum to guard his
the whole experience left a ~ in my mouth fellow citizens and one morning woke up with bloodshot eyes and an
ache in his bones. In ten days McCray had gone West to join
gone sour McClintic...” (Men against Death by Paul De Kruif.)
her perfect marriage had ~ ♦ “The East signified luck to the ancient soothsayers; the sunrise
represented life and the beginning of things. These old time prophets
turn sour judged the future by the flight of birds. If the sacred birds flew east when
when did the relationship ~ the priests released them from their cages, it meant good fortune. This
superstition was taken over by the Christians [in the architecture of early
churches]. In these ancient Roman augurs, however, if the sacred birds
turned sour happened to fly west it presaged disaster, for the early fathers
his life in England ~ associated the setting sun with death and destruction.” (Word Origins
and their Romantic Stories by Wilfred Funk, Litt.D.)
went sour
a series of business ventures ~ failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb

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decline: direction / verb sown (mine-sown, etc.)
sow (verb)
mine-sown (m)
sowed farmlands and fields with mines a ~ strip of earth (border)
combatants ~ (Balkans) configuration: farming & agriculture / plant
sowed violence across the region space (environment)
extremists have ~ (Northern Caucasus)
white-majority spaces
sow chaos
some blacks code-switch when entering ~
Assad's fall could ~ in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon
information space
sowed (such) confusion
the ~ is full of noise (fakes, disinformation, theories)
he and his legal advisers ~ that… (a general)
brave space
sowed discord
the term ~ was first popularized in 2013
the act ~ that lasted for years
online space
sow fear
TikTok has enabled a lot of people to jump into the ~
they use terrorism to ~ and undermine security
snipers ~ (combat) commemorative spaces
less than 1% of our ~tell Latin X, indigenous stories...
sowed fear
the killings have ~ and apprehension (sniper murders) “free space”
the term ~ was first used by Harry C. Boyte
sow goodwill
you can ~ by referring them to competitors (business) non-essential spaces
the mayor has threated to close all ~ (pandemic)
sow instability
the drug war has helped ~, particularly in Bolivia personal space
the insurgents seek to ~ (Iraq) a threat to ~ is tragically palpable (police shootings)
sow the seeds public spaces
enforced potty sitting can ~ of rebellion (toddlers) recontextualize the country’s current ~ and add new ones
sowing the seeds sacred space
he could be ~ of a new disaster (price control) he had to reimagine what a ~ looks like (architect)
sown the seeds safe space
this successes may have ~ of his demise (business) ~ is always imaginary
~s have been credited with producing radical identities
sow terror
~s are very powerful sites
shooting and carjacking rampage ~ through city (news)
social spaces
sow doubt and defeatism
~ that offer a sense of safety or security
a psy-op to ~ (military)
space and opportunity
sowed fear and apprehension
our goal is ensuring ~ for potential protestors (a mayor)
the killings have ~ around the area (sniper)
claiming and protecting space
sow fear and distress and anger
~ has always been fundamental in anti-racist protest
terrorists know that headlines ~
♦ "He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind." dominates that space
the US ~, whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, all that (Fareed
creation & transformation / growth & development /
Zakaria)
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant /
verb held the space
my dear friend Shameka ~ at Injustice Square for 120 days
sown (planted)
made spaces
sown in (such) a field these artists ~ where women could share thoughts, feelings
antipersonnel mines should not be ~ until…
share a space
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant / figuring out how to ~ with predatory people (artwork)
verb ♦ “Yeah, you’re in a world, right, I mean, you’re in something like a
fantasy or a dream, and we all have that interior space all the time, but to
get to go into someone else’s interior space, how incredible is that?”
(Miranda July.)

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area: space Chinese investment has ~ in Karachi (Sind)
spaghetti (snarl) sparked an (intense) search
her disappearance ~ that ended when…
spaghetti plots
these are the ~ (storm approaches cast / weather report) sparked an uproar
his dismissal ~ on campus (popular coach Bobby Knight)
configuration: food & drink her transgender talk ~ (a Canadian feminist)
spar (verb) spark (widespread) violence
elections could ~ (Ivory Coast)
sparred over education and immigration
the candidates ~ (politics) sparked a war
the border dispute ~ (Eritrea and Ethiopia)
Republicans and Democrats sparred
~ during the third day of impeachment hearings sparked a wildfire
conflict: boxing / verb a single protest ~ (1848)

spare (a minute to spare, etc.) sparks the wildfire

Virginia will be the match that ~ of change (politics)
ten minutes to spare
spark or reinforce
he called the attack off with ~ (President Trump)
these stores can ~ the "Hillbilly" stereotype
timeliness & lack of timeliness: money / verb
initiation: fire / verb
time: consumption / money / verb
spark (verb) spark (noun)
sparked attention spark
the taunts were the ~, underlying resentment the fuel
the "frog vaccine" has ~ among foreign researchers
sparked a (land) boom spark for his comeback
the rivalry was the ~ (a rapper)
the lure of cheap homesteads and easy money ~
sparked a (wild) celebration small spark
the clash showed how a ~ could ignite another war
his winning penalty kick ~ (soccer)
spark conflicts signs of a spark
her campaign never caught fire or even showed ~
fences could ~ over access to water (nomads)
sparked his imagination sparks erupted
those ~ into a bonfire of civic rage
reading science fiction ~
spark (media) interest sparks flew
they had different ideas about money, and ~ (a couple)
parental kidnappings do not ~ (of kids)
~ during the debate
sparked a (major) inquiry
her death ~
keep the spark alive
the dreams of what were ahead helped ~ for me (love)
spark interest
these clouds continue to ~ (Noctilucent Clouds)
put that spark in me
he ~ that made me want to be a scientist
spark a new interest
sometimes learning will ~
created a (much-needed) spark
his visit ~ and drew the world's attention to the Bronx
sparked an outcry initiation: fire
his remarks ~ (racism)
spark (spark of hope, etc.)
sparked outrage
the killing ~ around the world spark of hope
the shooting was captured on video, and ~ across the city the ~ is getting smaller, but it hasn’t gone out
sparking outrage amount: fire
the Israeli raid is ~ around the world
sparkling (superlative)
sparked a recall
ignition problems ~ (automobile company) sparkling form
the Watford keeper was in absolutely ~ against West Ham
sparked resentment

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superlative: light & dark spawned terrorism
the Taliban's militancy has ~ inside Pakistan
spark plug
spawned three tornadoes
team's spark plug severe weather ~
he's the ~
spawned (monster) waves
initiation: electricity
the hurricane ~ that toppled beach houses
sparring partner (role) creation & transformation: animal / birth / fish / verb
verbal sparring partner spawned
she is his ~ and confident
spawned by the war
help & assistance: boxing / person
the terrorism ~ in Chechnya
spartan (adjective) creation & transformation: animal / birth / fish
spartan speak (evidence)
my room was very ~
speak for itself
size: allusion
we hope the evidence will ~
Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.) speaks for itself
Black Spartacus the subpoena ~
the ~ died in the Swiss mountains (Toussaint Louverture) our work ~ (World Health Organization)

resistance, opposition & defeat: allusion / epithet / history speak for themselves
epithet: history the test results ~

spasm (noun) spoke for themselves

his results ~ (the surgeon Harvey Cushing)
spasms of bloodshed
speak louder
~ continue (violent drug gangs)
actions ~ than words
convulsed in a spasm
spoke for itself
for 3 minutes the casino ~ of violence (biker riot)
his silence ~ (politician loses electoral vote)
affliction: health & medicine / movement ♦ “Volcanoes like to speak in low-frequency sounds that humans can’t
activity: health & medicine / movement perceive called infrasound. So we developed sensors that we can deploy
to listen to the volcanos talk to us.” (Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, Boise State
spasmodic (adjective) volcanologist and National Geographic Explorer, about the Masaya
Volcano in Nicaragua.)
spasmodic (sectarian) slaughter evidence: speech / verb
during the ~ of 2006-2007 (Iraq)
fictive communication: speech / verb
activity / affliction / starting, going, continuing & ending: speak (the people have spoken, etc.)
health & medicine / movement
spoke
spawn (verb) people in Massachusetts ~ (elections)
spawned controversy judgment: speech
the agency has ~ (Darpa)
speak (speak to something)
spawned a generation
tanning beds ~ of tanning addicts speak to anyone, anywhere, at any time
the questions ~ (philosophy)
spawned a (TV) miniseries
the book ~ speak to the imagination
lighthouses ~
spawned an (Oscar-winning) movie
her book ~ (To Kill a Mockingbird) speak to this moment
the film doesn’t ~ in history
spawned (a great wave of ) philanthropy
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Mellon ~ fictive communication: speech / verb

spawned QAnon speak (carry a message)

the site ~, the conspiracy theory (an internet website)
speaks truth to power

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 he ~ he helped ~ (downtown revitalization)
speaks to people looking to spearhead
she ~ (Lizzo) we are ~ a major shift…
message: speech / verb driving force: weapon / verb
speak for (represent) spearhead (noun)
speak for the team spearhead of a (new) economy
the owner tweeted that Morey didn’t ~ (NBA) energy is the ~
representation: speech / verb spearhead of globalization
the W.T.O. is the ~
speak out (verb)
spearhead of the (democratic) movement
speak out against (perceived) injustices Solidarity was the ~ in Eastern Europe
she feels compelled to ~
spearhead for (Islam's) advance
spoken out against Chinese rule the Sufis were the ~ into South Asia
she has ~ over Tibet
driving force: weapon
spoke out with a (contrary) opinion
we ~ species (type)
resistance, opposition & defeat: speech / verb vanishing species
he’s a ~ (moderate Republican)
speak up (verb)
taxonomy & classification: animal
speak up
they were too scared to ~ (a corporation) species (vanishing species)
a manager warned her not to ~
vanishing species
spoke up he’s a ~ (moderate Republican)
he ~ and said, "This man is not qualified"
she was glad that she ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal

courage to speak up speckled (configuration)

the importance of having the ~ (military) speckled with ships
resistance, opposition & defeat: speech / verb the harbor of San Francisco was ~

spear (tip of the spear) speckled with copses and farmhouses

rolling fields ~
"tip of the spear"
they will be the ~ if America invades Iraq speckled trout
the ~ (brook trout)
tip of the spear of the armored column ♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled,
the ~ (7th Cavalry Regiment) spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled!

tip of the spear of fighting configuration: mark

these two agencies are supposed to be the ~ this pandemic
specter (noun)
driving force: weapon
specter of Sept. 11
spearhead (verb) he is haunted by the ~
spearhead the Orange Revolution specter of defeat
Ms. Tymoshenko helped ~ (Yulia) incumbents face the ~ (elections)
spearhead a campaign specter of war
he called on radiologists to ~ to reduce dosages the ~ is rising
spearheading the drive ugly specter
she is ~ to get him elected the deal raises the ~ of conflict of interest
spearheading the initiative specter (of the past) lingers
Brazil, France, Mexico and Norway are ~ the ~
spearhead the project specter (of eating disorder) haunts

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 the ~ many dancers spell (under a spell)
confront the specter under her spell
once again, Americans ~ of impeachment (politics)
she brought employees, investors and journalists ~ (a fraud)
confronts the specter under the (nonconformist) spell of Thoreau
he ~ of mortality (aging)
he fell ~ (Andrew Martinez)
evokes the specter falls under its spell
the Army ~ of Tiananmen Square (Hong Kong protests)
everyone ~ (a panda)
facing the specter fell under its spell
he is ~ of death
I quickly ~ (a book)
raises the specter fell under Kelly’s spell
rising crime ~ of the bad old days (Newark)
she ~ (sex abuse)
rising corn prices ~ of higher prices for beef and pork…
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
haunted by the specter
attraction & repulsion: magic
he is ~ of Hurricane Katrina
spell (cast a spell)
affliction: creature
speed (up to speed) cast a spell on a ball
he seemed to ~ (Juninho / soccer)
up to speed on the details cast a spell over the (rapt) audience
I'm sorry, I'm not ~
he ~ (a pianist)
up to speed on that feeling, emotion & effect: magic / verb
I'm not ~
spell (in a dry spell)
time to get up to speed
new hires need ~ in a dry spell
I was ~, lacking imagination and incentive (an artist)
bring him up to speed
his advisors will ~ on the details (president) six-month dry spell
having been in a ~ (dating)
get new workers up to speed
experienced employees can help ~ quickly growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
/ weather & climate
keep its algorithm up to speed
he has struggled to ~ (YouTube) spell (into a dry spell)
functioning / speed: mechanism / movement fell into a (long) dry spell
condition & status: mechanism / movement he ~ (athlete)
spell (spell disaster, etc.) growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
spells disaster / weather & climate
this ~ for urban peace (unemployment, guns, etc.) spell (throughout a dry spell)
spell disaster throughout that dry spell
unattended daily challenges could ~ (Velux 5 race) ~ he showed composure (golfer)
spells doom growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
contact with outsiders often ~ for isolated tribes / weather & climate
spell trouble spell (dry spell / other)
four of these symptoms could ~ (panic disorder)
spells trouble dry spell ended
and then the long ~ (investments and buying)
I think the whole thing ~ for the president (investigation)
spell (job-search) woes ended his dry spell
the goal ~ (sports)
bad credit can ~
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
fate, fortune & chance: writing & spelling / verb
/ weather & climate
future / time: religion / writing & spelling / verb

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spellbinding (adjective) spent weeks in the hospital
she ~ recuperating
spellbinding story
the play was the concluding chapter in a ~ (series) spent 19 days in jail
she ~
spellbinding mug shot
we look at his ~ and wonder why he did it (murder) spent the night in the (dining hall) lodge
they ~ (climbers)
attachment / feeling, emotion & effect: magic
spent years in exile
spellbound (adjective) they ~ in Iran (Hakims / Iraq)
spellbound spent 29 years in the Navy
I watched her, ~ Ms. Evans ~
she listened ~ to his account
spent years in school
spellbound by (Old English) poetry I ~ studying a foreign language
he was ~ (Auden)
spent less time at high altitude
stunned and spellbound (m) I'd ~ (Everest)
he confessed all he had done to a ~ courtroom
spent a few hours with Hani Shukrallah
held us spellbound I~
she ~ (an actor's performance)
spent eight months (in jail) awaiting
kept the crew spellbound he ~ until…
the aurora ~ for hours (the Far North)
spent three years building
attachment / feeling, emotion & effect: magic I just ~ this (an inn destroyed in flood)
spelled out spent (most of) his (adult) life climbing
he has ~
spelled out in the handbook
the policy is ~ distributed to every.... spent about two hours digging
the group ~ the cave by hand (climbers)
policy is spelled out
the ~ in the handbook distributed to every... spent about 15 minutes examining
the trauma team ~ the boy
analysis, interpretation & explanation: writing & spelling /
letters & characters spend several weeks feeling
I ~ incredibly guilty about the situation
spell out (verb)
spent the afternoon hiking
spells out we ~
nothing in the law ~ what to do with a student like her...
spent the afternoon and early evening paddling
spells out what we ~ (sea-kayaking)
nothing in the law ~ to do with a student like her
spent endless hours practicing
spell out fees she ~ basketball (SuAnne Big Crow)
contracts that don't ~ or... (assisted living)
spent three hours removing
spell it out surgeons ~ the arrow (hunting accident)
do I have to ~ in every ugly detail
spent a week searching
spells (all) this out police ~ the area
the contract ~....
spent their 77-hour ordeal standing
analysis, interpretation & explanation: writing & spelling / the miners ~, wet (trapped)
letters & characters / verb
spent three months studying
spend (time) he ~ English in Santa Monica

spent the night on cots spend the last four years studying
about 20 people ~ (tornado survivors) he has ~ oceanography

spent a day in combat spent the evening talking

the academic professional who has never ~ they ~

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spent his career training character & personality: creature / statue
he ~ young men and women for war
spice up (verb)
spent a lot of time trying
I ~ to fix it spice up your sex life
10 ways to ~
spend days waiting amelioration & renewal: food & drink
they can ~ in line (Chinese truck drivers / coal)
spigot (open / close, etc.)
spent the morning watching
I ~ TV cash spigots
his Iowa performance won’t open any ~ (election)
spent his life working
having ~ in hospitals… loan spigot
lenders opened the ~ (home loans and foreclosures)
spent six hours working
he ~ on the framework (space-station spacewalk) gushing (federal) spigot
many voters don't want to shut off the ~ (deficit)
spent several years working
he ~ at a restaurant spending spigot
the ~ must close (government spending)
spent most of my time rock climbing
At 20 I ~ (Reinhold Messner) open the (military-spending) spigot
the Cold War helped to ~
spent the day sightseeing
he ~ on the Las Vegas Strip shut off the spigot
they are trying to ~ of Russian boar (invasive species)
spent her (two) pregnancies nauseated and vomiting
she ~ supplying: infrastructure / water
constraint & lack of constraint: water
spend the night
~, not a fortune (Scenic View Motel, Bryson City, NC) spike (increase)
spend (Monday) night spiked last week
I'll ~ someplace outside of Washington (trip) gun and ammunition sales ~
time: consumption / money / verb increase & decrease: shape / verb

spend (spend energy, etc.) spike (spike in business, etc.)

spent a lot of energy spike in business
they ~ in the search dollar stores are seeing a ~
cost & benefit: money / verb spike in demand
we can expect a ~ (housing market)
spew (vomit)
spike in its traffic
spewed venom the new ~ began early Sunday in the US (a hashtag)
she ~ (neurotic woman)
increase & decrease: shape
hate-spewing (m)
~ crazies rarely care about the facts spill (amount and effect)
speech: bodily reaction / verb spilled out
throwing, putting & planting: bodily reaction / verb US special forces troops ~ of C-130s...
sphere (in the sphere) spilled out into their back yard
trash ~ (hoarders)
in the economic sphere
~, things don’t look good (pandemic) spilled into the streets
outrage ~ (protests)
environment: earth & world
spilled (out) into the streets
sphinx (noun) people ~ (earthquake)
sphinx of Washington spill across the border
the silent ~ finally spoke at length (Robert Mueller) problems from Somalia ~ (into Kenya)
Washington sphinx spilled over the border into Chad
for two years he was a ~, silent and mysterious (Mueller) the Darfur conflict has ~

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spill over into other countries spine (courage)
he believes this trend will ~, including...
America’s spine
spill over onto MSRs we have seen the steel in ~
take action to ensure refugees do not ~ (military)
show (a bit of) spine
spilled over the border politicians must ~ (to unsympathetic audiences)
its forces opened fire when the fighting ~ (Thailand)
have (enough) spine
spilled into Virginia some Republicans ~ to stand up to the president (politics)
none of the protests ~ (from D.C. / IMF / World Bank)
stiffened his spine
amount & effect: water / verb
he showed signs of going wobbly, but Pelosi ~ (politics)
movement: water / verb
courage & lack of courage: back
spill out (speech, emotions, etc.) strength & weakness: back
spilled out spine (branching)
she pauses briefly before the words ~
spine of the Pyrenes
spills out behind us we have the ~ (on the French coast)
her indignation ~, but soon she calms down and...
agricultural spine
speech: container / verb / water
in the landlocked Central Valley, the state's ~ (California)
feeling, emotion & effect: container / verb / water
bases / branching system: back
spin (spin out of control)
spin-off (noun)
spinning out of control
digital downloading and copying is ~ spin-offs from (space) experimentation
his personal life seemed to be ~ the medical and technological ~
Nairobi is ~ (crime)
medical and technological spin-offs
spun out of control the ~ from space experimentation
the argument ~
creation & transformation / product: movement
control & lack of control: movement / plane / verb
spin up (verb)
spin (message / verb)
spin up late at night
spin the data a lot of the protests we have seen ~ (street protests)
they are trying to ~ that plays to their narrative (politics)
occurrence: movement / verb
message / subterfuge: movement / verb
spiral (spiral out of control, etc.)
spin (message / noun)
spiraled out of control
spin Rye's junior prom ~ (drunk teens)
where does the science end and the ~ begin (COVID) events quickly ~ (Bosnian war)
political spin spiraling out of control
all the ~ in the world won't change that… in danger of ~
put an alarmist spin on the story spiral out of control
the reporter ~, as though the company were in bad shape medical expenses can often ~
his life seemed to ~ (drug addict)
seen through the spin
I think that people have ~ (of powerful sex abusers) spiraling out of control in the Caucasus
violence is ~
message / subterfuge: movement
spin (spin control) life spiraled out of control
his ~
international spin control prom spiraled out of control
official attempts at ~ Rye's junior ~ (drunk teens)
attempts at (international) spin control expenses can (often) spiral
official ~ medical ~ out of control
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violence (in Iraq) spiraled spiraling (health care) costs
as ~ beginning in 2003 how to cover the uninsured and control ~
violence is spiraling spiraling (suicide) rates
~ in Russia's North Caucasus ~ sound a warning bell
control & lack of control: movement / plane / verb spiraling violence
~ in the Middle East
spiral (spiral downward, etc.)
increase & decrease: direction
spiraled downhill
at home, he ~ (troubled soldier back from Iraq) spirit (feeling)
spiraled downward spirit of the hajj
the economy of Detroit has ~ the ~, where all stand equal before God
decline: direction / flying & falling / verb spirit of adventure
wilderness education instills the ~ (high school)
spiral (downward or upward) safaris are antithetical to the ~ (luxury / Zambia)
spiral upwards spirit of camaraderie
the reported tanker attacks caused oil prices to ~ developing a ~
increase & decrease: direction / plane / verb spirit of the carnival
movement: shape / verb some say the true ~ is being lost (Rio / commercialism)
spiral (in a spiral) spirit of defiance
in a death spiral what I appreciate about Bonds is his ~ (baseball player)
American newspapers are ~ (declining circulations) spirit of the (American) military
decline: direction / flying & falling the honorable and decent ~

spiral (into a spiral) spirit of the Olympics

taking controversial judging decisions in the ~
plunged into a spiral of drug use
he ~ in his early teens spirit of reconciliation
work together in a ~ (Vietnam, US)
decline: direction / flying & falling
spirit of religion
spiral (on a downward spiral) violence and terrorism are incompatible with the ~
on a downward spiral spirit of the sport
the team is ~ (sports) what violates the ~ (doping, etc.)
he has been ~ over the past 6 months (alcohol, etc.)
spirit of wilderness
decline: direction / flying & falling Windy Falls embodies the ~ to me
spiral (downward spiral, etc.) spirit of exploration and adventure
for centuries, the North Pole has inspired a ~
downward spiral
sexual addiction is an ugly ~ spirit of amateur competition
her ~ began years ago when… supposedly this violated the ~ (1920s)
decline: direction / flying & falling spirit of sisterhood
encourage the true ~ (sorority)
spiral (other)
spirit competition
spiral of depression the annual Cheerleading Worlds—the Super Bowl of ~s
the downward ~, which can lead to death
spirit, courage and talent
death spiral a man of indomitable ~ (Mayor Giuliani)
the avalanche ~ is likely to continue
NASA's spirits
decline: direction / flying & falling the success lifted ~
spiraling (increase) city's spirit
spiraling costs Rocky Balboa has come to symbolize the ~ (Philly)
the ~ of a college education company's (fighting) spirit

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 no one questions the ~ Buffalo residents met the blizzard with ~
festival's (innovative) spirit competitive spirit
the ~ (San Sebastian International Film Festival) the ~ (Ping-Pong players)
group's (enterprising) spirit entrepreneurial spirit
the ~, anti-drug message the ~ that built America lives on in Dubai
there is a deep ~ and a highly ambitious workforce
people's spirits he spoke of their ~ and effort (Somali immigrants)
the wet weather has dampened ~ (France) America's open frontier and ~… (bail bond companies)
state's (independent) spirit free spirit
the ~ (Nevada) she was a ~ who played the flute
Christmas spirit good spirits
~—goodwill toward men she was in ~, but hungry and in pain (rescued POW)
Ramadan spirit independent spirit
local Muslims complain of a lack of ~ (Dubai) the state's ~ (Nevada)
St. Patrick's Day spirit indomitable spirit
get in that ~ a man of ~, courage and talent (Mayor Giuliani)
community spirit innovative spirit
unprecedented level of ~ (after tragedy) the festival's ~ (San Sebastian International Film Festival)
holiday spirit patriotic spirit
share some ~ people show their ~ (Veterans Day)
pioneer spirit true spirit
the ~, the cowboy spirit encourage the ~ of sisterhood (sorority)
school spirit level of (community) spirit
bonfire, and the ~ it inspires… unprecedented ~ (after tragedy)
team spirit show of (team) spirit
they hold hands in a show of ~ (high-school football) they hold hands in a ~ (high-school football)
that magic moment when you feel the ~ coming together
honorable and decent spirit
cowboy spirit the ~ of the American military
a latter-day extension of the ~
names that evoked the ~ band and spirit (m)
the ~ squads (college football)
start-up spirit
a corporate culture that maintains the ~ body and spirit
an ordeal of ~ (high Himalayan bivouac)
can-do spirit
its ~ has given way to a civil-service culture (NASA) compassion, spirit, (even) gallantry
NASA's original sense of mission and ~ residents show ~ (nursing home)
enterprising spirit courage, spirit and (selfless) devotion to duty
the group's ~, anti-drug message his ~
fighting spirit minds and spirits
no one questions the company's ~ a place to renew our ~ (creative retirement center)
she attributes her ~ to her father (singer with pink hair)
his exemplary ~ in the face of… (military) name, spirit and tradition
the ~ of the school (Saint-Cyr)
uplifting spirit
it retains its ~ (film into a musical) Opportunity and Spirit
NASA's durable twin rovers, ~ (Mars)
American spirit
he is an outstanding example of the ~ (hero bus driver) spirit changed
her ~, she wasn't the same (after being beaten)
adventurous spirit
she's an ~ spirits sank
she has always had an ~ my ~

civic spirit boosted my spirits

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 it ~ spit out (verb)
break my spirit spit out
no matter how long they keep me here, they can't ~ (jail)
high-tech machinery can ~ 400,000 lobster traps
dampened (people's) spirits creation & transformation: bodily reaction / mouth / verb
the wet weather has ~ (France)
spit (spit down)
embodies the spirit
he ~ of moderate Islam... spat down rain
the sky ~
inspired a spirit
for centuries, the North Pole has ~ of exploration resemblance: bodily reaction / mouth / verb
for centuries, the North Pole has ~ of adventure
spit (verb)
lift our spirits
the best thing to ~ is a sexy photo (man's magazine) spit you out
the river will ~ like a pumpkin seed (enders / kayaking)
lifted (NASA's) spirits
the success ~ spit (tons of) lava
Mount Nyiragongo ~ onto this central African border…
symbolize the (city's) spirit
Rocky Balboa has come to ~ (Philly) resemblance: bodily reaction / mouth / verb

violated the spirit splash (effect)

supposedly this ~ of amateur competition (1920s)
big splash
prop up her spirits why did we make a ~ about it (arrest of a spy)
though her body sagged, her doctor helped ~ she made a ~ in her visit to the state (candidate)
keep their spirits up major splash
they sang and prayed to ~ (illegal migrants on boat) he made a ~ early on (a writer)
get in that (St. Patrick's Day) spirit felt the splash
it's not hard for her to ~ when the Internet bubble popped, every Web site ~
getting in the spirit made a splash
we are ~ (Halloween) the book ~
♦ “When Younghusband reached Lhasa, he was greeted by hordes of
clapping Tibetans. He took it as a gesture of welcome, not realizing that
made a splash
clapping was a traditional way of warding off evil spirits...” (The 1904 he ~ when he accused…
British invasion of Tibet.)
♦ “When the drum is made, before you cut the tree down, there is a spirit
make a (big) splash
in the tree. Then the skin that is put on the drum, the skin is never dead why did we ~ about it (arrest of a spy)
because you will never get a sound out of a dead skin. Then, with the
spirit of the person playing it, it becomes what...three...three spirits. It ♦ “Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of
becomes an irresistible force against any, any immoveable object. the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that
(Babatunde Olatunji.) propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence...” (Nature,
Chapter 4 (Language), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.)
♦ “This is where my daughter’s spirit was last. I’m more drawn to this
spot than I am even to the cemetery where we keep her remains.” (A effect / feeling, emotion & effect: water
bereft mother, clearing trash away from the roadside memorial where her
daughter had died in a car crash eight years earlier.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: water

feeling, emotion & effect: religion split (noun)

spirited generational split
the contest represents a ~ within the Democratic party
spirited competition
a~ cause splits
they seek to ~ between the citizens and the government
free-spirited
division & connection: materials & substances
the ~ girlfriend
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
mean-spirited (m)
~ defenders of traditional values
split (verb)
character & personality: religion splitting the party
the issue is ~ (politics)
division & connection: materials & substances / verb

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failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances / spooked
verb
split (split apart / up, etc.) spooked
financial markets are ~
split families apart current bondholders would be ~
our immigration policies ~
got spooked
split up he ~ (a suspect under police surveillance)
Connie and Ivy ~ (marital problems) feeling, emotion & effect: creature
division & connection: materials & substances / verb
sport (team sport)
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances /
verb ultimate team sport
spoil (verb) aviation safety is the ~ (regulators and manufacturers)
unanimity & consensus: sports & games
spoils it for everyone else
one bad apple ~ sportswash (verb)
spoil it for the rest of us sportswash their (deeply tarnished) image
don’t let a few bad apples ~ they are trying to ~ (foreign investment in EPL)
♦ “A name doesn’t spoil a man, but a man can spoil a name.” (A Finnish
proverb.) sportswash its appalling (human rights) record
the country must not be allowed to ~
corruption: food & drink / verb
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb
spoiled (adjective) appearance & reality: hygiene / verb
spoiled athlete sportswashing (noun)
he’s a poster child for the ~
sportswashing
spoiled child sportswashing is nothing new (in British colonies)
Israel is the West’s ~ ~ is a new word for an old business
corruption: food & drink ~ allows tyrannical regimes to launder their reputation

sponge (noun) sportswashing stain

the ~ is obvious
sponge
he's a ~ (a coachable tennis player) sportswashing in action
he called her his ~ because she asked so many questions fans’ defense of repressive policies is ~
he is a ~ when it comes to soaking up information accused the country of sportswashing
sponge of culture Amnesty International has ~
it's a ~ (headquarters of an artists’ collective) concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene
sponge for ideas appearance & reality: hygiene
she was a ~ (a cook with thousands of recipes) spot (tight spot, etc.)
sponge for (musical) ideas in a tight spot
he is a ~ from a great variety of sources (composer) we're ~ with very little wiggle room
sponge for information in a (very) difficult spot
I'm a ~ (an arts organizer) this outcome puts him ~ (failed negotiations)
human sponge wriggled out of tight spots
he's a ~ (a comedy writer who collects words, ideas) he's ~s before (terrorist)
absorption & immersion: animal / water ♦ A “fat man’s squeeze” is the name for a narrow spot in a cave.
♦ “Damn, we’re in a tight spot.” (O Brother, Where Art There? The film is
spook (verb) loosely based on the Odyssey.)

spooked the sailors situation: container / ground, terrain & land / movement
a rash of accidents and near-misses had ~ of the 7th fleet constraint & lack of constraint: container / ground, terrain
& land / movement
spook them
horses know what to do if you don't ~ spotlight (in / under the spotlight)
feeling, emotion & effect: creature / verb in the spotlight since high school

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 she has been ~ (college basketball player) the ~ is bringing the country down (social media)
in the spotlight for the way grab the spotlight
police are ~ they handled the case this gives China a chance to ~
in the national spotlight shunned the spotlight
the reporter put the case ~ (murder) he ~ for the rest of his life (Neil Armstrong)
in the spotlight shift the spotlight to the president's handling
how do you handle having your love life ~ (a celebrity) we need to ~ of the economy (politics)
under an (international) spotlight attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark
its every move is ~ (a political group)
sprawling (adjective)
sport is in the spotlight
the ~ after the death of… sprawling city
Aleppo is a ~ of 3 million people
put the case in the (national) spotlight
the reporter ~ (murder) sprawling compound
he has retreated to his ~ (a dictator facing protests)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark
sprawling (intelligence) leviathan
spotlight (into the spotlight) 9/11 helped to create a ~
dragged into the spotlight sprawling (computer) networks
they had been ~ by… as we grow more dependent on ~, we grow vulnerable...
thrust into the spotlight extent & scope / size: standing, sitting & lying
I was ~ (Miss USA and the Haiti earthquake) configuration: standing, sitting & lying
from the shadows to the spotlight spring (growth)
survivors have moved ~ (sex abuse)
Arab Spring
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark the series of revolts represent an ~
spotlight (out of the spotlight) growth & development: season

out of the (public) spotlight spring (spring into action, etc.)

he is now ~
sprang into action
keep him out of the spotlight scientists in Germany ~ to develop a test for the virus
we are trying to ~, under the radar (troubled athlete)
spring into action
attention, scrutiny & promotion: spotlight / light & dark when a disaster hits, local responders ~
spotlight (shine a spotlight) eagerness & reluctance: movement / verb / walking,
running & jumping / verb
shine a light on the abuse
what he did was ~ (prison guard) springboard (noun)
shined a spotlight on (racial) tensions springboard to the sacred
an attack that has ~ here (Long Beach) she uses nature as a ~ (a poet)
shines a spotlight on the practices initiation: mechanism / water
he ~ and beliefs of the Mormons throwing, putting & planting: mechanism / water
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark / Springsteen (epithet)
verb
Bruce Springsteen of chat
spotlight (steal the spotlight) Joe Rogan is the ~ (New Jersey, T-shirts, no BS, etc.)
steal the spotlight achievement, recognition & praise: epithet
any team can ~ in the early stages of the Tour de France
spring up (verb)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark /
verb sprang up
many new housing developments ~
spotlight (other) appearance & disappearance: plant / prep, adv, adj,
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sprinkle (verb) Half Moon Spur
we looked up ~ (New Zealand)
sprinkled (nonscientific) rulers throughout the agency
proper name: horse
she ~ (C.D.C.)
configuration: rain / verb spur (on the spur of the moment)
sprinkled (configuration) go stargazing on the spur of the moment
it was not uncommon for them to ~
sprinkled with the names
haste: horse
Antarctica is ~ of explorers and scientists
sprinkled among the crowds
spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.)
~ were far-right extremists earned his spurs on the battlefield
configuration: rain he ~ (General “Mad Dog” Mattis)
♦ “Spur” exercises and ceremonies are still held in the US military. This is
sprint (verb) similar to “earn one’s stripes.”

sprinted through seven hearings over five days achievement, recognition & praise: horse / military
Republicans ~ (impeachment hearings) experience: horse / military
speed: verb / walking, running & jumping spurn (verb)
sprout (verb) spurned fizzy drinks
Coke’s earnings down as global consumers ~
sprouting next to slum communities
you see high-rises ~ (Bangkok) spurned calls
his rivals ~ to quit (politics)
sprouting all around
condos and office buildings are ~ spurned the chance
Real Madrid ~ to go back above Barcelona (lost game)
appearance & disappearance: plant / verb
acceptance & rejection: love, courtship & marriage / verb
spur (verb)
spurned
spurred the international community to threaten
the atrocity ~ the Serbs with Nato airstrikes (Bosnia) spurned by anyone
bamboo bows are ~ who can afford a compound bow
spur growth
the government is trying to ~ gift spurned
it was a ~ (soccer player misses easy goal)
coercion & motivation / initiation: horse / verb
acceptance & rejection: love, courtship & marriage
spur (shape)
spur-of-the-moment (adjective)
spur ridge
as we snowshoed up a ~ spur-of-the-moment brawl
the ~
spur track
trains roll in and out on the network of ~s haste: horse

bone spur spurred

he removed a ~ that had developed (in elbow)
spurred to speak out
branching system / shape: horse he has been ~ out (environmental activist)
spur (Geneva Spur, etc.) spurred to action
he has been ~, to speak out (environmental activist)
Geneva Spur
we slowly made our way up the ~ (Everest) initiation: horse

Mummery Spur sputter (verb)

they were swept away high up on the ~ (Nanga Parbat)
sputtering
Snake Spur the economy is ~
~ twisted before us (Queensland, Australia)
sound: engine
Sunrise Spur condition & status / failure, accident & impairment /
~ is in Queensland, Australia functioning: engine / mechanism / sound / verb

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square (public square) creation & transformation: pressure / verb

modern public square

squeeze (coerce)
Twitter is a ~ (lawsuit against Twitter) squeeze apologies from corporations
modern town square ~ (slavery)
Twitter is not merely a website, it is a ~ squeeze settlements from corporations
inclusion & exclusion: infrastructure / speech ~ (slavery)
society: infrastructure / speech squeezed Kosovo for concessions
square off (verb) he ~ (a US diplomat)
coercion & motivation / oppression: hand / pressure / skin,
square off in the general election on 6 November
the two men ~ muscle, nerves & bone / verb

conflict: boxing / verb squeeze (put the squeeze on something)

square one put the squeeze on a rival gang
he ~ (Al Capone)
at square one
after Pearlman’s arrest, van der Wilt was ~ (career) coercion & motivation / oppression: hand / pressure / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games
squeeze (pressure)
squash (verb)
financial squeeze
squash it the city is feeling the ~
Facebook is taking this new step, hoping to ~ (Q-Anon)
putting the squeeze on Taiwan
destruction: verb / weight China is ~
squeal (protest) coercion & motivation / oppression: hand / pressure / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone
squealing
downstream industries are ~ (steel tariffs) squeezed (oppressed)
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / sound / verb squeezed
speech: animal / sound / verb if the growers are ~, the banana workers feel the pain
sound: animal / verb
coercion & motivation / oppression: hand / pressure / skin,
squeeze (fit) muscle, nerves & bone
squeeze (5,500) inmates into a space squeezed (fitted)
prison officials, trying to ~ built…
squeezed into a maze
squeeze the subject in families are now ~ of vertical slums (Kabul)
he cajoles teachers to ~ (civics)
squeezed onto 550 acres
squeeze their experiences onto one page Dharavi is home to a million people ~ (Mumbai)
many try to ~ (resumes)
squeezed between Tajikistan, Pakistan and China
configuration: pressure / verb
the Wakhan Corridor is ~
squeeze (squeeze something from / out configuration: pressure
of something)
stab (stab somebody in the back)
squeeze some good from his pain
he began talking about it, hoping to ~ stab each other in the back
how we like to ~ (blacks)
squeeze out a living from this terrain
parents who ~ (mountains) stabbed her in the back
he ~ (was unfaithful to his wife)
squeeze (so much) power out of engines
allegiance, support & betrayal: knife / verb
how it was able to ~ so small
squeeze sales out of (fewer) resources
stab (stab of pain, etc.)
helping businesses ~ stab of love
she feels a ~ so fierce (mother for husband, kids)

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stab of pain stack (blow one's stack)
I felt a ~ in my ribs
blew my stack
feeling, emotion & effect: knife / sensation
I finally got fed up and ~
stab (stab in the dark) feeling, emotion & effect: boat / explosion / verb
stab in the dark stage (verb)
it was a ~, but…
staged the abduction
take a stab in the dark police do not believe the missing girl ~
go ahead and ~ (make a prediction)
♦ Any doubtful scenario can carry the equivalent idea, if the phrase is staged an (impromptu) parade
short and obvious and entails a target: “Go ahead, throw a dart at the a million people ~ (French World Cup victory)
dartboard with a blindfold on, and tell us what you think will happen...”
staged protests
certainty & uncertainty: blade / knife / light & dark
angry citizens ~ against the government
stab (attempt) staged an (unauthorized protest) rally
stab in the dark they ~ near Red Square
it was a ~, but… staged tests
stab at Everest he ~ under simulated combat conditions
Chantal Mauduit was making her seventh ~ staged a (phony) kidnapping
stab at boxing he ~ to cover up his crime
many of my friends also took a ~ directing / performance: theater / verb
seventh stab stage (set the stage, etc.)
Chantal Mauduit, who was making her ~ at Everest
sets the stage for a confrontation
making her (seventh) stab at Everest this ~
Chantal Mauduit, who was ~ without oxygen
sets the stage for (further) violence
took stabs at boxing the incident ~
many of my friends also ~, some for the workout…
stage has been set
take a stab at TV the ~ for another week of violence in Hong Kong
sometimes filmmakers ~ (Bruckheimer, Spielberg, etc.)
development: theater / verb
attempt: knife
stage (center stage)
stabbing (stabbing pain, etc.)
center stage
stabbing pain Clinton's next opportunity to take ~
I felt a ~ in my side
take center stage
feeling, emotion & effect: knife / sensation
Clinton's next opportunity to ~
stability (noun) attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater
restore stability center & periphery: theater
in the latest effort to ~ after a military coup… stage (attention)
functioning: equilibrium & stability national stage
stabilize (verb) this was his debut on the ~ (a politician)

stabilize the situation burst onto the stage

US officials are trying to ~ he was one of several poets who ~ in the 60s (Russia)

amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / verb returning to the world stage
China is ~
stable (noun)
have the stage
stable of (young) fighters they ~ now, and are forcing people to listen and understand
he has a ~ at the James Shuler Memorial Gym (Philly)
has the stage all to himself
group, set & collection: animal / horse he ~ (a controversy others can't comment on)

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attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater this is a ~ (lynching of blacks in the US)
center & periphery: theater
stain on the honor
staged (directed) it is a ~ of the US military (anti-gay policy)

staged stain on (Illinois) politics

the famous photo was not ~ he is a ~ (jailed governor)
there was nothing faked, nothing planned, nothing ~
stain on the profession
staged by the government he is a ~ (nurse who killed patients)
the confessions were ~ for domestic consumption
stain on his reputation
staged by an ethnic group the ban lingered as a ~
the blockade is part of a strike ~ (Nepal) the second ~ involves… (a US general)

staged for the auditor's benefit great stain

the lesson was clearly ~ (school) the incident was a very ~ on the reputation of the Army

staged reading indelible stain

their ~ of the Constitution was cynical (politics) doping left an ~ on his record (sports)

organized or staged reputational stain

the accident has not changed how the event is ~ (race) the ~ is greater in these cases (sex abuse)
directing / performance: theater bore the stain
the city ~ of what had happened (Philadelphia, MS)
stage-manage (verb)
remove this stain
stage-managed visits we must ~ from the laws of our nation (gays in military)
the military ~ to troops (Afghanistan in 2006)
put a stain on her record
performance: theater / verb this could ~
stagger (verb) flaws & lack of flaws / reputation: mark
staggered the (scientific) community stairway (Stairway Falls, etc.)
he ~ (11-year-old William James Sidis)
Stairway Falls
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb ~ is in Queensland, Australia
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
Grand Staircase
stagnant (adjective) the ~ rises from the Grand Canyon (geological layers)
stagnant proper name / shape: stair
wages are ~, jobs scarce, and credit tight
stake (importance)
stagnant economy
employers are reluctant to add jobs in a ~ stakes
Republicans are to blame for the ~ (NYT) the ~ are high
decline: movement / water raised the stakes
the pope’s opponents have ~
stagnate (verb)
♦ This word relates to potential for gain or loss.
stagnated under his rein importance & significance: gambling
the office ~
stake (high stakes)
decline: movement / water / verb
stain (verb) high-stakes test
teachers prepare students for ~s
stained everyone importance & significance: gambling
he has ~ (cyclist denies doping, then confesses)
stakeholder (person)
reputation: mark / verb
flaws & lack of flaws: mark / verb stakeholders in education
there are many ~
stain (noun)
♦ In the old days, stakeholders held the money of bettors.
stain on our history interest / person: gambling

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stake out (verb) stalked the residents
tragedy ~ of Maple Street
staking out their positions
predation: animal / hunting / movement / verb / walking,
the two sides are ~ on the issue (politics)
running & jumping
stake out (bigger) slices pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / movement /
in the ceaseless quest to ~ of the market predation / verb / walking, running & jumping
movement: animal / hunting / predation / verb / walking,
stake out (new) territory running & jumping
as Microsoft tries to ~
stalking-horse (noun)
possession: surveying / verb
stalking horse
stale (adjective) the company was the system's ~ (sued)
stale ♦ Hunters discovered that if they hid behind a cutout of a horse, they
would not frighten their prey.
there's nothing ~ about the new retail concept
subterfuge: horse / hunting
stale manager
he is a ~ in charge of a stale squad (soccer) concealment & lack of concealment: horse / hunting
stall (verb)
stale news
this is ~ being recycled by those with personal agendas stalled
stale work negotiations have ~
he battled against the ~s of the reigning academics the economic recovery has ~
movement: engine / mechanism / verb
feel stale
he started to ~ and underachieving condition & status / failure accident & impairment /
functioning / progress & lack of progress / starting, going
grown stale continuing & ending: engine / mechanism / movement /
the company's offerings have ~ (mobile phones) verb

went stale stalled (progress)

the relationship finally ~ (coach and team)
stalled talks
corruption / flaws & lack of flaws: food & drink a breakthrough in ~ on a bill that… (lawmakers)
stalemate (noun) remains stalled
the economy ~ in a deep recession
political stalemate the governor's controversial plan ~ (by opposition)
infrastructure projects are at risk due to the ~
movement: engine / mechanism
progress & lack of progress: chess condition & status / failure accident & impairment /
Stalingrad (epithet) functioning / progress & lack of progress / starting, going
continuing & ending: engine / mechanism / movement
Stalingrad of the East stalwart (noun)
the campaign is often described as the ~ (Kohima / Imphal)
stalwart of the club
Syria’s Stalingrad he has been a ~ for 40 years (cricket supporter)
the once thriving city was now known as ~ (Homs)
stalwart of (modern) jazz
turn Sloviansk into a “Stalingrad” Joe Mudele, a ~, died this week aged 93
he threatened to ~ (War in Donbass in 2014)
conservative stalwart
conflict: epithet / history / military
he faced ~ Ted Cruz (Beto O’Rourke)
resistance, opposition & defeat: epithet / history / military
epithet: history / military Ireland stalwart
allusion: military ~ McCay set to win 300th Ireland cap (hockey)
stalk (verb) strength & weakness: health & medicine / person
stalk the refugee camps stamp (impression)
malnutrition and disease ~ (Darfur)
stamp of our experiences
stalks their every move our faces bear the ~
death ~ (soldiers in Afghanistan / IEDs)
put a stamp on a great career

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 his performance ~ (athlete) stance (take a stance)
put its stamp on the national character take a stance on abortion
nature has ~ (Norway)
we would never ~ (editor of small paper)
impression: mark / tools & technology
take a (strong) stance against North Korea
stamp (stamp of approval) China is under pressure to ~

government stamp of approval took an assertive stance

the label is the ~ for energy saving (EnergyStar) he took an ~ (diplomacy)

privacy stamp of approval take a strong stance

the company gives a ~ to Web sites China is under pressure ~ against…

societal stamp of approval position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying /
it is doubtful the practice will ever win a ~ verb

gave his company a stamp of approval stand (resist)

the government ~ (regulators)
stand against Hollywood
gave its stamp of approval to the plan it's futile to ~ when… (film dispute)
the board ~
stand our ground
put its stamp of approval on the negotiations we must ~ on education and health care (budget cuts)
the Arab League has ~
stood their ground
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mark the mayor and the police chief both ~ (criticism)
stamped stood firm
he ~ and got his way and it is good he did
stamped on the nation's conscience
the murders were ~ (Philadelphia, MS / civil rights) stand fast
the US will ~ against violence at its diplomatic missions
impression: mark / tools & technology
stand together
stamp out (verb) we’re going to ~ and take a stand on behalf... (a protest)
stamp out "criminal machismo" “Still Standing”
he has vowed to ~ (abuse of women) his podcast is called, ~
stamp out racism futile to stand
we must ~ (in the sport of soccer) it's ~ against Hollywood when… (film dispute)
stamp out superstition resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying /
Mao tried unsuccessfully to ~ (China / numbers, etc.) verb
stamp out many traditions stand (position)
the ruling mullahs sought to ~ (Iran / Nowruz)
stand on the issue
stamp out their way of life
where does he ~
Saddam drained the wetlands to ~ (marsh Arabs)
position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying /
sought to stamp out
verb
the ruling mullahs ~ many traditions (Iran / Nowruz)
vowed to stamp out
stand (stand as one, etc.)
he has ~ "criminal machismo" (abuse of women) stand as one
destruction: foot / verb we ~ (on policy issue)

stampede (noun) unanimity & consensus: standing, sitting & lying / verb
crowd stampede stand (stand firm)
a thousand people drowned in a great ~ (Lagos)
stand firm for social justice
behavior: animal / cows & cattle / horse we will ~
movement: animal / cows & cattle / horse
commitment & determination: standing, sitting & lying /
verb

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stand (stand behind something, etc.) stand (a tough stand, etc.)
stand behind their product stand on abortion
they ~ (satisfied J.C. Penney shopper) people want to know his ~
stood by his decision tough stand
he ~ to fire her his ~ could create instability (a world leader)
stand tall united stand
he will ~ for you (ad for politician) a ~ on African development
allegiance, support & betrayal: standing, sitting & lying / window-dressing public relations stand
verb he took a ~ on the coronavirus crisis (EU official)
stand (stand in the way) stand reflects
his new ~ more politics than principles (politician)
stand in the way
just a few contract details ~ (boxing) take a stand
never ~ of a person's dream FIFA must ~ on fan racism
he has made it clear he will not ~ (investigation)
taken a stand
stand in their way athletes have ~ by taking a knee (NFL)
nothing is going to ~
position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying
obstacles & impedance: standing, sitting & lying / verb
stand (stand still / time)
stand (stand the test of time, etc.)
time can stand still
stands the test of time time can move and ~
what ~ (our favorite books)
time seems to have stood still
stood the test of time ~ (Mocha Island)
standards of honor that have ~
their marriage has ~ (arranged)
time was not standing still
but ~...
stood or fell time: movement / standing, sitting & lying / verb
the government ~ by its alliance with…
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / survival,
stand (stand still / progress)
persistence & endurance: standing, sitting & lying / verb standing still
stand (last stand, etc.) his friends were moving ahead while he was ~
progress & lack of progress: movement / standing, sitting &
her last stand lying / verb
her senate appearance may prove to have been ~ (Rousseff)
stand (stand still / development)
last stand for Ted Cruz
is Indiana the ~ (republican presidential primary) language doesn’t stand still
♦ The rearguard action of a group of British soldiers at the village of Khig, ~ (it constantly changes and evolves)
following the British disaster in the Battle of Maiwand (27 July 1880)
during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, was one of the most courageous development: movement / standing, sitting & lying / verb
last stands in military history. It helped to allow the bulk of the British
troops to safely withdraw to Kandahar. The only survivor of the last stand stand (a lamp can stand, etc.)
was Bobbie, a terrier attached to the Berkshires, who made it all the way
back to England. Bobbie visited Queen Victoria, who awarded him with a stands tall
medal. Custer’s last stand is well known to Americans. Less well known
is the fact that there was one survivor, Comanche, the favorite mount of the Palace of Westminster ~ on the left bank (Thames)
Captain Myles Keogh. The horse was found wandering the battlefield,
badly wounded. Comanche was transported by ship to Fort Lincoln, and fictive position: standing, sitting & lying / verb
then to Fort Riley, Kansas, to live out his life in peace, never ridden
again, allowed to eat the flowers from the flower gardens, and called
standard-bearer
upon only to participate in “riderless horse” ceremonies. Another famous
rear-guard action was the Battle of Thermopylae in Greece in 480 BC, standard bearers of (American) tennis
against the invading Persians, who were eventually defeated. they are the ~ (Williams sisters)
resistance, opposition & defeat: flags & banners / military / standard-bearer for women's issues
standing, sitting & lying she is a ~ nationwide
standard-bearer for his issues
he has been a consistent ~ for decades (Bernie Sanders)

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Party’s standard-bearer standing (reputation)
he was anointed as the ~ (Hubert Humphrey)
standing with the US
less controversial standard bearer they try to increase their ~ (some countries)
some Democrats might vote for a ~ (primary election)
in good standing
losing its standard-bearer
the company is ~ (Starbucks)
he is a doctor ~
♦ In the notes to his translation of Canto XXXII of Dante’s The Inferno, standing will fall
John Ciardi writes, “At the battle of Montaperti [Bocca degli Abbati]
hacked off the hand of the Florentine standard bearer. The cavalry,
our ~ because of our performance (the US / pandemic)
lacking a standard around which it could rally, was soon routed.” And so
Bocca degli Abbati ended up in the 9th circle of hell, “The Treacherous to
reputation: height / standing, sitting & lying
Country,” completely deserving a boot to his head.
standing (continuing)
representation: flags & banners / military / person
person: flags & banners / military longstanding absence
adapt to the ~ of water (Santa Fe)
stand by (verb)
long-standing dispute
stand (idly) by the ~
we cannot ~ while the dictator kills his people
long-standing embargo
action, inaction & delay: movement / standing, sitting & a~
lying / verb
long-standing feud
stand by / with someone (support) motivated by a ~ (murder in Afghanistan)

stood by him longstanding grievances

he thanked the fans that had ~ (scandal) the uranium boom has given new life to ~ over land

standing by me long-standing history

I know he is ~ a woman with a ~ of depression and abuse

stood by his story long-standing resentments

his bosses ~ (a reporter) ~ over past mistreatment (US blacks)

stand with the victims longstanding taboo

we ~ of injustice a ~ against use of nuclear weapons except as last resort
allegiance, support & betrayal: standing, sitting & lying / longstanding (Chinese) tradition
verb spitting is a ~

stand down (verb) longstanding (security) relationship

the ~ between the two countries
stand down
planes were in the air when word came to ~ long-standing and deserved (m)
it has a ~ reputation for… (a company)
stood the military down
the operation was in the early stages when Trump ~ deep and long-standing
our ties are ~ (US / Canada)
ordered them to stand down
news executives ~ (“catch and kill”) recurrent, chronic, or longstanding
symptom episodes may be ~ (depression)
starting, going, continuing & ending: military / verb
action, inaction & delay: military / standing, sitting & lying / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, persistence
verb & endurance: standing, sitting & lying
stand for (verb) standoff (noun)
stand for standoff
what does he ~ (a candidate) there’s a ~ here and somebody has to blink (politics)
stand for nothing standoff between the US and Israel
his politics ~ (a critic of a politician) the diplomatic ~
representation: standing, sitting & lying / verb standoff over the North's (nuclear) activities
position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying / the ~ (Korea)
verb
standoff distance

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 a 62-meter ~ from launcher to detonation point his acting and singing careers appear to be ~ (disgraced)
hostage standoff brought Beijing to a standstill
a ~ ended early yesterday the vacation exodus ~ (Autumn Festival)
diplomatic standoff came to a standstill
the ~ between the US and Israel the main port in Chittagong ~ (Bangladesh)
75-minute standoff come to a standstill
after a ~ life as we know it has ~ (pandemic)
71-day standoff progress & lack of progress: movement / standing, sitting &
the ~ (Wounded Knee II) lying
conflict: standing, sitting & lying stand up (stand up for something)
stand out (attention) stood up for
if Joe believed in something, that's what he ~
stand out
two main courses ~ (restaurant review) stand up for what
they are proud to ~ they believe in
stands out
she really ~ stands up for what
he ~ is right (ad for a politician)
stood out
some things ~ (murder investigation) stand up for (other) people
she taught him to ~
stand out from the crowd
a good cover letter will help you to ~ stand up for students
teachers admitted that they did not always ~
stands out from the crowd
one man ~ stand up for themselves
children must learn to ~ (during abductions)
stood out among her (immediate) peers
she ~ (investment banker) stand up for the students
and we've had straight teachers who ~ (gay)
stands out as something special
the Ponzi scheme still ~ stand up for (all the) women
I hope she will ~ in the world (father of abuse victim)
stand out in my mind
there are so many images that ~ from that time... stand up for the little guy
he isn't afraid to ~
stand out in the (reality-show) cesspool
it's hard to ~ (TV) allegiance, support & betrayal: standing, sitting & lying /
verb
stood out to me
the thing that ~ was... (a sports reporter about gifted athlete) stand up (stand up to something)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / superlative: standing, stand up to aggression
sitting & lying / verb we must ~
standout (noun) stood up to the (schoolyard) bully
he ~ (student vs. record-industry lawyers)
standout on the (basketball) team
he is a ~ (high school) stand up to bullies
we are supposed to ~, not follow them (politics)
standout in a regime
Ali Hassan al-Majid was a ~ of criminals (Iraq) stand up to a bully
attention, scrutiny & promotion / superlative: standing, you have to ~ (political demagogues)
sitting & lying stand up to employers
employees must ~ (unions)
standstill (noun)
stand up to (religious) fundamentalists
standstill traffic he was brave enough to ~ (assassinated)
he spends 10 minutes on average in ~
stand up to the government
at a standstill it took a brave man to ~
with politics ~… (lack of government action)

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stand up to (scientific) scrutiny recognize our ~s (customer service)
she has no figures which would ~
star power
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying / the film hardly lacks for ~
verb
star professor
star (shape) ~s move from one university to the other

star dune star quality

~s have a high central column youth, ~ and idealism
~s have 3 or more arms radiating outwards (deserts) the ~ that very few people have

star quilt star scorer

a traditional ~ (Sioux style) she was a ~ (basketball)

five-pointed star star turn

a Wiccan religious symbol, a ~ inside a circle the case was full of dramatic ~s
Wicca's symbol, the pentacle, is a ~ inside a circle star case agent
gold star ~s fabricated reports (CIA)
she awards a ~ for good work (teacher) Harvard's (rising academic) stars
Silver Star, Bronze Star he had been one of ~
he won a ~, and Purple Heart (World War II) movie's star
shape: astronomy / star the ~

star (rock star) child star

she is a Hollywood ~ gone bad
rock-star mathematician
~ Cedric Villani movie star
it was my first experience with celebrities and ~s
Democratic rock star
he went from ~ to political rock bottom (Beto O’Rourke) pop star
Youssou N'Dour, the Senegalese ~
person: astronomy / star
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: astronomy rap star
/ person / star one of the first female ~s
star (person) rock star
fans of the Croatian ~ Marko Perkovic (Thompson)
star of the climbing world
a 16-year-old ~ has died (Luce Douady) soccer star
a ~ at J.E.B. Stuart High School
star of the sitcom David Beckham, the ~
the ~ (TV) one of the world's highest-paid and highest-profile ~s
star of mixed martial arts television star
Tito Ortiz, a ~, trains in gyms at Big Bear Lake writers, politicians, ~s…
stars in show business basketball star
some of the biggest ~ were there (a party) Len Bias was a ~
stars in Major League Baseball the ~ Michael Jordan
international ~ country-music star
star on the (acoustic music) scene a guitar signed by various ~s
she's a fast-rising ~ gangsta-rap star
star at the academy he is better known as the ~ DMX
she has been an academic ~ (Naval Academy) Hollywood star
star's ego a biography of a ~
massaging a ~ is a necessary indignity his client list once included many ~s (PI)

star athlete martial arts star

a top student, a ~, and a caring girlfriend he looked up to the ~ Bruce Lee as a role model

star performer rising star

the 25-year-old ~ (film actor)

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 Sgt. Murad is a ~ in this effort (Arabic speakers) achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency,
Ocasio-Cortez is the ~ in the progressive ranks decline & obsolescence / superlative: astronomy / light &
rising (Hispanic) star dark / person / star
the GOP has a ~ in Texas (politics) star (decline)
rising (academic) star star was (clearly) dimming
he had been one of Harvard's ~s his ~ (a baseball player)
fast-rising star star (of Lucy Lunsford) has dimmed
she's a ~ on the acoustic music scene how the ~
widely known and highly paid stars star was fading
~ (network-news anchors) her ~ fast (head of corporation)
academic star star had (already) set
she has been an ~ at the academy (Naval Academy) his ~ long before his death
he had been one of Harvard's rising ~s
star has fallen
international star his ~ (a teen idol)
~s in Major League Baseball
star had wobbled out of the heavens
political star in the end, her ~ (Whitney Houston)
Pakistan's new ~ is bad news for the US
decline / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence:
superstar astronomy / light & dark / star
she evolved from star to ~ (an actor)
he is one of those ~ authors star (five stars, etc.)
nationally famous stars five stars
from local acts to ~ (music) he gave the restaurant ~
25-year-old (rising) star achievement, recognition & praise / judgment: astronomy /
the ~ (films) sign, signal, symbol / star
biography of a (Hollywood) star star (fate)
the ~
lucky stars
person: astronomy / star he needs to thank his ~, because...
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: astronomy
/ person / star stars align
sometimes the ~ and we’re treated to an artist...
star (achievement) every song is a roll of the dice, but sometimes the ~ (a hit)
star stars rarely align
his ~ continued to rise the ~ to produce a winner (music)
Napoleon now became the idol, his ~ in the ascendant
stars aligned
star in the (neoconservative) firmament the ~ when he was given a chance to direct his first film
Bloom had become a ~
stars have aligned
Obama's star the ~ for Lopez Obrador (election)
~ is still rising
stars lined up
rising star the ~ (John Paul Stevens joins the Supreme Court)
she was once Silicon Valley’s fastest ~
he is regarded as a ~ in the Democratic Party stars have to align
a lot of ~ for those tax increased to pass (politics)
shooting star
♦ “This was written in the stars, a million miles away. Before I was ever
Gale Sayers was football's ~ born I was destined to do what I did...” (The great boxer Tyson “The
Gypsy King” Fury after his victory over Deontay Wilder.)
star is still rising
♦ Nina Totenberg: [John Paul] Stevens’ rise was, to some extent, a
Obama's ~ fluke... / Clifford Sloan: It was an accident of history, and the stars lined
up in a way that could not have been possible before that precise
star rose moment and probably could not have been possible after that precise
he won his first contest and his ~ quickly moment.” (He had no political ties and was known as a judge’s judge.
Gerald Ford. who only became president after Nixon resigned, and who
star continued to rise was vice president only because Spiro Agnew had resigned, suddenly
had the appointment to fill, at a time after Watergate when people were
his ~

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sick of politics. Ford appointed Stevens to the Supreme Court. and he
was swiftly confirmed with bipartisan support, 98-0 in the Senate. Things start (running start)
have been quite different since.)
running start
fate, fortune & chance: astronomy / star he’s off to a ~ (politician runs for presidency)
star (Silver Star, etc.) starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games
Silver Star, Bronze Star startling (adjective)
he won a ~, and Purple Heart (World War II)
startling announcement
proper noun: astronomy / military / star it was a ~ (diplomacy)
star-crossed (adjective) feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / skin, muscle,
nerves & bone
star-crossed affair
she had a ~ with the man of her dreams starvation (noun)
star-crossed (Cuban) initiative starvation budget
Grant reviewed the ~ scientific agencies on ~s
fate, fortune & chance: astronomy / star ♦ "His wife was called Itusarssuk. She loved children because once,
success & failure: astronomy / star during a hunger period, she had to kill four of her own to spare them from
the death of starvation… (Book of the Eskimos by Peter Freuchen.)
stare (stare at defeat, etc.) ♦ “That period confirmed the ancient proverb, ‘man is a wolf to man.’
Traveler turned off the road at the sight of traveler, stranger meeting
staring at defeat stranger killed for fear of being killed. There were isolated cases of
she was ~ at 4-1 in the second set (tennis) cannibalism...” (Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.)
♦ “[T]he great Bengal famine of 1943, is still frighteningly fresh in the
fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb minds of the peasants...” (Halfway to Freedom by Margaret Bourke-
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye / verb White.)
♦ The Irish Hunger Memorial, in Battery Park City, New York City,
stare down (verb) commemorates the Great Irish Famine that killed up to a million between
1845 and 1852. The Choctaw Nation, which itself had experienced
stared down his (personal) demons hunger and death on the Trail of Tears just 16 years earlier, contributed
he ~ what little they could to famine relief, and their contribution is recognized
by a memorial in County Cork, Ireland.
staring down Iran ♦ “Grit of Women” by Jack London is one of the greatest love stories in
the US is ~ (diplomacy) world literature.

sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food

stared down his opponents
he ~ (a politician) starvation wages (noun)
staring down the regime starvation wages
protestors are ~ sweatshop workers endure ~, dangerous conditions
stare down risk ♦ My dictionary dates this phrase to 1898.
skiers ~ (crashes, fatalities, etc.) sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food / work & duty
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / eye / verb starved
stare-down (noun)
starved for attention
stare-down over (budget) issues he is ~ (a boy)
they got into a ~ (ruling party and opposition)
starved for cash
stare-down with the police the army has been ~ since the cold war's end (Iraq)
some protestors stayed behind for a ~
starved for sex
stare-down contest Meagan complained she was ~ (on national TV)
we had a ~, and he won (conflict)
cash-starved (m)
stare-down game ~ budgets
in a kids' ~, you lose if you laugh or giggle
love-starved (m)
had a stare-down visits a ~ wife in her house
he and the coyote ~
sex-starved (m)
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / eye we find ~ girls (Internet porn site)
sports-starved (m)

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 our ~ nation’s hunger for baseball (during pandemic) avoidance & separation: container / verb
situation: container / verb
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
steal (steal the show, etc.)
Star Wars (film)
stole the show
Star Wars bar scene Travis Pastrana ~ (X Games / motocross)
London was the ~ of jihad (1999) she ~ at the MLS match (girl belts out national anthem)
fantasy & reality: allusion / film
steal headlines
static (noun) we aren't here to ~ (cold-case detectives)

static of statistics steal the spotlight

a story can dart through the ~ into people’s hearts and minds you can ~ in the early stages (Tour de France)

oceans of static attention, scrutiny & promotion: crime / verb

locating kernels of truth within ~ taking & removing: crime / verb

chaos and static and negativity steal (steal customers, etc.)

his ~ (politics) steal customers from convenience stores
♦ This word is similar to noise. Kmart hopes to ~ like 7-Eleven
activity / worth & lack of worth: sound stole a (close) decision
analysis, interpretation & explanation: sound Trinidad ~ (against De La Hoya / boxing)
obstacles & impedance: sound
stole the round
stay (stay of execution) he ~ at the end (a boxer)
“stay of execution” on tree removal steal the vote from Gbagbo
the petition called for a ~ in the city he was toppled when he tried to ~
stay of execution until 2035 taking & removing: crime / verb
plug-in hybrid vehicles will probably get a ~ (before ban)
steal (steal dreams, etc.)
year-long stay of execution
the new plan gives library services a ~ (budget cuts) stolen my dreams and my childhood
you have ~ (Greta Thunberg)
get a (vital) stay of execution
renters will ~ (a temporary eviction ban during pandemic) taking & removing: crime / verb

given a stay of execution steam (verb)

the couple ordered to pull down their eco-house was ~
steaming over this
fate, fortune & chance: justice I'm ~ and ready to explode (angry)
punishment & recrimination: justice
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / pressure /
action, inaction & delay: justice
temperature / verb
stay around (verb)
steam (blow / let off steam)
stay around
we don’t know how long it will ~ (coronavirus) blew off steam
he ~ in the Kamnik Alps (troubled climber)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb
blow off (a little) steam
stay away (verb) on Fridays after work I like to ~
stay away from being arbiters let off steam
they deliberately ~ of the truth (social media) if your child is high-spirited, let her go outside to ~
avoidance & separation: verb let out steam
stay out (verb) I’ve been running since law school, just to ~
amelioration & renewal: pressure / verb
stay out of the drama feeling, emotion & effect: pressure / verb
the US should ~ unfolding in Egypt (protests)
steam (pick up steam, etc.)
stay out of it
we don’t want controversy, we try to ~ (Hallmark) gathering steam
job growth is ~

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 it looked like PMS as a defense was ~ steamrolled (here) by the pandemic
we were ~ but now infection rates are low (NYC)
pick up steam
it looks like it's starting to ~ (firefighter on wildfire) destruction / force: tools & technology
picking up steam steamy (adjective)
the US job market is ~
steamy
force: train / verb Bollywood soap operas are not as ~ as Latin ones
steam (full steam, etc.) steamy (sex) movie
I watched this ~
head of steam
Biden needs a ~ heading into Super Tuesday (election) steamy (Australian) videos
tourists will want to buy ~
full steam ahead
prosecutors are moving ~ got steamy
our phone conversation ~ (sex talk)
force: train
sex: temperature
steam (lose steam)
steel (strength)
losing steam
the campaign was ~ steel
you have been baptized in fire and come out ~ (combat)
ran out of steam
she ~ in the home straight (800-meter race) ring of steel
Times Square will be a ~ (New Year’s security)
force: train / verb
strength & weakness: materials & substances
steam (take the steam out, etc.)
steep (verb)
take the steam out of the protests
the president is trying to ~ (France) steeped myself in classics
at Oxford, I ~
force: train / verb
amelioration & renewal: pressure / verb steeped himself in the theories
steamroll (verb) at Oxford, he ~ of Richard Dawkins (scientist)
absorption & immersion: verb / water
steamrolled to victory
the Americans ~ (sports) steeped
steamrolled into Iraq and Syria steeped in the (French Revolutionary) heritage
the group ~ in 2014 (Isis) he was ~ (Napoleon)
steamrolled through the playoffs steeped in history
the Detroit Pistons ~ (basketball) this rivalry is ~ (Man U vs. Liverpool / soccer)
steamrolled (rival) Bernie Sanders steeped in turmoil
Joe Biden has ~ in primary elections the team is ~ (sports)
steamroll the (traditional studio) system absorption & immersion: water
streaming companies are going to ~
steer (verb)
steamrolled his way
he ~ to title in 2014 and 2015 (a wrestler) steered contracts to cronies
he ~ (political corruption)
steamroll Siberia and the Far East
if the economy doesn’t improve, China will ~ steered money to his mistress' husband
he ~ (a politician)
destruction / force: tools & technology / verb
steer money to a program
steamrolled the tried to ~ that… (controversy)
steamrolled by a (billionaire) bully steer patients towards abortion
I will not allow our food community to be ~ counselors may ~ (genetic diseases)
steamrolled by Ovechkin steer them in the right direction
Luongo is fine after being ~ (hockey collision) you have to ~ (training elite athletes)

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steer mothers in the right direction stellar (performance) reviews
we need to ~ (breastfeeding) he had ~ (a policeman)
steered people into returning stellar views
the recession has ~ to school the house has across the Anacostia to the Capitol
steer him from bad influences stellar year
some who worried did try to ~ (troubled football player) the company had a ~ (profits)
steered away from describing stellar body of work
he ~ his injury (an athlete) she has a ~ (a biologist)
steer people away from generics superlative: astronomy / star
drug companies may hype expensive products to ~
stem (from stem to stern)
steers the talk away from gay issues
she ~ (marriage) from stem to stern
the book is anti-religious ~
steers us off course
extent & scope: boat
sometimes life ~
steers the conversation stench (noun)
he ~ (group therapy) stench of corruption
steered a middle course he has begun to remove the ~ (brave Newark mayor)
he ~ (Abraham Lincoln) evidence: smell
directing: boat / mechanism / verb step (shape)
direction: boat / mechanism / verb
steer (steer clear of something) step pyramid
Djoser’s ~ at Saqqara (Egypt)
steered clear of controversy
step waterfall
he has ~ (an ex-politician)
a cascade or ~ isn't steep, doesn't plunge
steer clear of drugs shape: stair
programs to help students ~
step (first step, etc.)
steers clear of (clothing) styles
he ~ favored by Hispanic gangs good first step
avoidance & separation: boat / mechanism / verb the repeal is a ~ (politics)

steering wheel first step toward stability

housing is only the ~ (homeless)
steering wheel of the Republican Party
first step towards keeping
there is a fight to grab control of the ~
the measure is a ~ a campaign promise
put his hand on the wheel at the Justice Department
first step in limiting
Trump tried to ~ and control the investigation
EPA takes ~ aircraft emission
grab hold of the industry’s steering wheel
first step to repeal
Washington can no longer just ~ (auto making)
this is the ~ Obamacare (politics)
control & lack of control: mechanism
starting, going, continuing & ending: walking, running &
stellar (adjective) jumping
sequence: walking, running & jumping
stellar (boxing) ability
Mayweather is honing De La Hoya's already ~ step (step ahead / pursuit)
stellar (young) boxer one step ahead of him
Dmitriy Salita is a ~ and an Orthodox Jew I'm trying to stay ~ (woman being stalked)

stellar (job) candidate one step ahead of them

she seems like a ~ but every time he was ~ and he got away (hunt for KSM)

stellar (employment) record one step ahead of us

he was denied partnership despite a ~ with the firm he was ~ (a criminal)

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pursuit, capture & escape: walking, running & jumping
step (a step ahead / competition)
one step ahead of her daughter
she tries to stay ~ (a 13-year-old / dating, etc.)
one step ahead of their teachers
it's easy for students to stay at least ~ (cheating)
we think this is a ~ (a conference)
step forward from the ideological dark ages
this is a ~ (education issue)
taken a (giant) step forward
our nation has ~ on the issue of race
progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping

one step ahead of our kids step (a step back / backwards)

we've got to stay ~
a step back
at least one step ahead the team has taken ~
cheaters are always going to be ~ of the testers
a step back for us
remained a step ahead it’s ~ today, but we need to shake it off and go again (sports)
AOL has ~, first with chat and email…
a step backwards
stay one step ahead this is a ~ to the bad old days (homeless policy)
she tries to ~ of her daughter (a 13-year-old / dating) the game was ~ (disappointed soccer coach)
competition: walking, running & jumping progress & lack of progress: direction / walking, running &
jumping
step (a step away)
step (not one step back)
step away
he's just a ~ from success (a singer) not one step back
the time has come to finish retreating, ~
proximity: walking, running & jumping
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / walking,
step (a step closer) running & jumping
one step closer to a second term step (in step)
he is ~ (Hawaiian politics)
in step with New Yorkers
one step closer to being
her views are more ~ (politician)
he is ~ back in the NFL (Kaepernick)
proximity: walking, running & jumping
in step with the times
he is not ~
step (every step of the way)
in step with voters
every step of the way she is ~ (a politician)
he was there ~ (supporting us)
more in step
allegiance, support & betrayal: walking, running & jumping his conservatism is ~ with Republicans (politics)
step (a step in the right direction) marched in step
his career has ~ with the growth of the field
step in the right direction
from what I hear, it's a ~ unanimity & consensus: walking, running & jumping
the decision is a small ~ step (out of step)
this is a ~, but there is still a long way to go
progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips / out of step with his colleagues
he is ~ (a politician)
walking, running & jumping
out of step with the consumers
step (a step forward) the company seems ~ (autos)
strep forward out of step with the nation's
they are trying to take things a ~ his priorities are ~ (president)
big step forward out of the step with the times
this is an opportunity to take a ~ he may be ~, but… (songwriter)
bold step forward out of step with the values
the commission has taken a ~ he is ~ of the modern Democratic Party (Joe Biden 2019)
tremendous step forward out of step with the voters

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 his views are ~ (politics) step back from the brink
they must ~ (rioters battle soldiers)
out of step with the (state's) values
his views are ~ (politician) avoidance & separation: walking, running & jumping
out-of-step, against-the-grain, different-drummer stepchild (weakness)
~ types
stepchild position
unanimity & consensus: walking, running & jumping the ~ of intelligence officers...
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: walking, running &
jumping relationship / strength & weakness: family / person
worth & lack of worth: family / person
step (baby steps, etc.) person: family
toddler steps towards equality step down (verb)
we have made some ~, and then we fall back
step down
take baby steps protestors are calling on the King to ~
on the ridge leading to the Hillary Step I could only ~
stepping down as the chief executive officer
progress & lack of progress: baby / walking, running & she is ~
jumping
steps down as the coach
step (watch one’s step) Klinsmann ~ of Germany (World Cup soccer)
watch their step steps down as (Cuban) leader
foreigners must ~ (Egyptian nationalism) Castro ~ (headline)
danger: walking, running & jumping dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb / walking,
running & jumping
step aside (verb)
step in (verb)
step aside for a younger man
it is better that he ~ (boss) step in
the grownups must ~ and clean up the mess (finance)
dismissal, removal & resignation: walking, running &
the president could ~ to fire people (politics)
jumping / verb
step up and step in
step away (verb) I am begging parents to ~ (school shootings)
stepped away from boxing involvement: verb / walking, running & jumping
he ~ because of the politics of the sport (Quartey)
step forward (verb)
step away from them
I didn’t want to ~ (a film directors speaks of themes) step forward
victims are reluctant to ~ in these cases (harassment)
dismissal, removal & resignation: walking, running &
jumping / verb resistance, opposition & defeat: walking, running & jumping

step back (perspective) stepmother (cruelty)

step back heartless stepmother
it's a good time to ~ and think about the future (NASA) the EU is a ~ trying to drive Greece out of the family
it’s important to ~ and see the big picture relationship: family
context: position / verb
stepping stone
perception, perspective & point of view: picture / position /
verb stepping stone
step back (sequence) she characterized the deal as a "~" (to peace)

step back stepping stone to get

we are going to ~ now to explore another issue migrants see Italy as a ~ them to France

sequence: walking, running & jumping / verb
step back (step back from something)
step back
they plan to ~ as senior members of the Royal Family
stepping stone on (South Sudan's) path
the polls are an important ~ to nationhood (2010)
stepping stone event
this is seen as a ~ ahead of next year’s event (COP25)

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important stepping stone Reaganomics on steroids
the negotiations are an ~ on the road to peace Trump’s policy is ~
saw the job as a stepping stone Pizzagate on steroids
she ~ (modeling) the theory is kind of a ~ (conspiracy)
saw it as a stepping stone put it on steroids
Shackleton ~ (job with RSGS) racism didn’t start with him, but he ~ (politics)
help & assistance: bridge / journeys & trips / river increase & decrease / power / strength & weakness: health
division & connection: bridge / journeys & trips / river & medicine
step up (increase) stew (mixture)
stepped up their courtship stew of chemicals
both India and China have ~ of Africa workers breathed a ~ (9/11)
stepped up their drills stew of (caustic political) commentary
the marines have ~, a Pentagon adviser said the documentary film is a ~
stepping up enforcement stew of (energizing) contradictions
officials are ~ of anti-discrimination laws in education it is a ~ (Game of Thrones)
stepped up our game stew of (inhaled) particles
we’ve ~ since 2016 (protecting US elections) the burning ~ was composed of many things (9/11)
stepped up (naval) patrols stew of religion, politics and (anti-immigrant) feeling
Italy and Libya have ~ to reduce the flow of migrants the case involved a ~ (attempt to build mosque)
step up the tempo stew of (disappointed) separatists and Islamists
NASA believes it can ~ of launchings (shuttle) the country is a seething ~
increase & decrease: electricity / verb chemical stew
step up (rise to the occasion) sewers are ~s

step up toxic stew

great leaders ~ and take responsibility the broken well produced a ~ of gas and chemicals
be a patriot, ~, do the right thing (Covid mask wearing) mixture: food & drink
stepped up to help steward (role)
his colleagues ~ him (sick wife)
stewards of the Earth
step up to their challenge we are ~
who among you will ~
stewards of the environment
step up to the plate native people as ~
parents have to ~ (having "sex talk" with teen kids)
stewards of the land
step up and step in native residents are better ~ than newcomers
I am begging parents to ~ (school shootings)
help & assistance: boat / person / plane / train
step up and deal with it
we saw law enforcement ~ (Austin serial bomber) stick (stick by / with somebody)
step up or let down stick by him
you can ~ your colleagues we will ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / responsibility: attachment: materials & substances / verb
walking, running & jumping / verb allegiance, support & betrayal: materials & substances /
verb
steroids (on steroids)
stick (adhere to, follow)
AI on steroids
Amazon can deliver in two days because of ~ stick to the evidence
people in traditional medicine said he did not ~
hang-glider on steroids
they are a ~ (hypersonic weapons) stick to our plan
let's ~…

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stuck to that principle stifling (adjective)
and he ~ (Abraham Lincoln)
stifling
stick to the rules the byzantine regulations are ~
leaders tell citizens to ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
oppression: breathing
stuck to my story
and I ~ (interviewed by FBI) stigma (noun)
sticking to a (proven) strategy discrimination and stigma
he was ~ (Tour de France) the ~ they could face (coronavirus patients)
stick to its (newly aggressive) strategy prejudice and stigma
how long the US can ~ (in Iraq) why do heroin addicts face so much ~
stick to Islamic values and traditions shame and stigma
she urged women to ~ (Saudi royal) he wants to remove ~ around hoarding
stick with their given names characterization: fire / mark
many immigrants ~ (Takero, Quirino, etc.)
stigmatize (verb)
stick with the rules
he must ~ of the game stigmatize the mentally ill
people still ~
attachment: materials & substances / verb ♦ In the 1600s in England, a thief would be stigmatized, or branded, with
stick (persist) the letter T.

characterization: fire / mark / verb

stick
the allegations of child abuse didn't ~ (messy divorce) stillborn (adjective)
there is uncertainty whether the recovery will ~
the deal might not ~ (diplomacy) stillborn effort
he documents a ~ to develop new antiviral agents
stuck
growth & development: baby / birth / death & life
he threw polices at the wall and saw what ~ (FDR)
survival, persistence & endurance: baby / birth / death &
stuck with me life
it has ~ ever since
it was something that has ~ (bad memories from prison)
sting (noun)
sticks to you take the sting out of giving and getting
it is stunning, and it ~ (the movie A face in the Crowd) five tips to ~ advice
feeling, emotion & effect: insect / sensation
sticks in your mind
it ~ forever (a combat memory) stinging (adjective)
attachment: materials & substances / verb stinging accusations
survival, persistence & endurance: materials & substances his ~ about EU institutions ring true
/ verb
stinging article
sticky (a sticky situation, etc.) she wrote a ~ criticizing…
sticky situation stinging blow
even the most independent women face ~s the jury's decision was a ~
get sticky stinging criticism
getting involved in the rumor mill at work can ~ officials unleashed ~ at the Fed
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
stinging defeat
situation: materials & substances it was a ~ for the Democrats (elections)
stifle (verb) stinging rebuke
stifled her mother the elections were a ~ to the Democrats
his father ~ the Vatican delivered a ~ to American nuns
his comments are a ~ of Obama (diplomacy)
oppression: breathing / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: insect / sensation

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stink (verb) resemblance: cooking / verb

stinks
stir up (verb)
this situation ~ stir up controversy
stank he tries to ~ (college Republican)
their football team ~ (an NFL team) stirred up a critical storm
stink to high heaven the novel ~ (Thani Al-Suwaidi)
this thing’s gonna ~ (political impeachment) stir up gossip
stinks a mile away this will ~
the prejudice ~ (partisanship) stir up indignation
corruption / flaws & lack of flaws: smell / verb we hope to ~ and stimulate action (MSF)

stink (raise a stink) stir up (Democratic) turnout

they sent leaders across the country to ~
raising a huge big stink
creation & transformation / initiation: cooking / verb
I’m ~ because it’s wrong
raising a stink about the article
stitch together (verb)
no one is ~ stitched the dispatches together into a story
conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: smell / verb he ~ (a journalist)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: smell / verb stitched together a community
stir (effect) we have ~ of nations
creation & transformation: cloth / verb
stir in the (national news) media
it created a ~ stock (worth)
stir among the (general) public stock
the issue has caused little ~ his ~ is surely set to soar (boxer after fight)
huge stir his ~ was high in the early weeks of the season (a coach)
a gay student who ran for homecoming queen caused a ~ his ~ has fallen so much (boxer loses championship)

caused a stir stock has risen

the antiwar statements of a few Oscar winners ~
causing such a stir
why Beto O’Rourke is ~ in 2020 race
created a stir
it ~ in the national news media
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: cooking
his ~ steadily in the West Wing (vice-president)
his ~ even though he lost tonight (a boxer)
worth & lack of worth: money
stoic (adjective)
stoic (Norwegian immigrant) farmers
he grew up in a family descended from ~

stir (verb) remained stoic

he ~ as the verdict was announced
stirred passions across North Africa
feeling, emotion & effect: allusion / sensation
the unrest in Tunisia has ~ (2011)
character & personality: allusion / sensation
stirs the drink
he's the straw that ~ in Congress
stoke (verb)
stirred fears stoke (racial) animosity
the attacks ~ that… the flag issue has helped to ~

stirred the (public) imagination stoke a debate

the killer's ability to avoid capture has ~ the incident seemed likely to ~ about…

initiation: cooking / verb stoked (furious) discussion

the issue has ~ at the Website
stir up (resemblance)
stoke the fire
stirred up a (great) dust increasing his punishment will only ~
all of the activity ~ above the village (powwow)
stoking the (racial) fires

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 he is ~ (a politician) stomach for tackling
politicians have no ~ the issue (immigration)
stoked the fires
the issue has ~ of sectarian violence heart and stomach
his ~ for boxing are no longer there
stoked hysteria
the media have ~ (public health) have the stomach
do the American people ~ for what's ahead (war)
stoked (local) outrage
the company's policies have ~ (mining) eagerness & reluctance: food & drink / stomach
stoked protests stomach (turn one’s stomach)
the acquittal of the soldiers ~
turned my stomach
stoke (racial) resentment I saw some stuff that ~ (combat in Iraq)
the right is trying to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: stomach / verb
stokes resentment acceptance & rejection: stomach / verb
she ~ of elites (a politician)
stone (throw stones, etc.)
stoking their wrath
the state media have been ~ stone throwing
it's time to call a halt to all the ~
initiation: fire / verb
increase & decrease: fire / verb casting stones
if all you’re doing is ~, you probably won’t get that far
stoked (increased)
throw stones
stoked, fueled, and manipulated people in glass houses should not ~
hatred can be ~ (Bosnia)
accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land
increase & decrease / initiation: fire
stone (turn over every stone, etc.)
stomach (accept)
no stone
stomach being ~ has been left unturned (a criminal investigation)
I can no longer ~ a part of this (computer engineer quits)
difficulty, easiness & effort: ground, terrain & land / verb
hard to stomach searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / verb
it's ~ (sudden death of young athlete) pursuit, capture & escape: ground, terrain & land / verb
acceptance & rejection: food & drink / stomach / verb Stone Age
consumption: food & drink / stomach / verb
take society back to the Stone Age
stomach (food) they want to ~ (suppression of media)
stomach growth & development: history
an army marches on its ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
past & present / time: history
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
stone-faced (adjective)
stomach (eagerness)
stone-faced
stomach to plunge into endless war he was relatively ~ at the hearing (charged with murder)
the American people don’t have the ~
appearance: face / materials & substances
stomach for battle feeling, emotion & effect: face / materials & substances
an Iraqi Army unit showed little ~ concealment & lack of concealment: face / materials &
stomach for the (entitlement) fight substances
the president clearly has no ~ stone-hearted
stomach for what's ahead stone-hearted (m)
it's not clear that the American people have the ~ (war) this ~ world
stomach for boxing heart: materials & substances
his heart and ~ are no longer there empathy & lack of empathy: heart
stomach for fighting
he has no ~

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stone's throw storm (by storm)
stone's throw from the JFK airport by storm
a ~ is a Portuguese neighborhood she took Hollywood ~
she has taken the music world ~ (Lizzo)
proximity: arm
♦ “The fire from the walls never checked the soldiers of the 3rd division
stonewall (verb) for a moment—they reached them in perfect order, and, rearing their
ladders, began to escalade; but for that the foe were fully prepared.
Enormous beams of timber, huge stones, loaded shell, cold shot
stonewalled the Swiss launched from the hand, grenades, and missiles of every kind, were
the CIA ~ (investigation) rained upon their devoted heads, crushing to death all who planted foot
on the foremost ladders; while a murderous discharge of musketry dealt
stonewalling destruction on the centre and rear of the columns...[O]ur intrepid soldiers
he was ~ very successfully (expert witness at trial) sill strove to reach the walls. By one ladder at last they were won.”
(Badajoz, 1812, from British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant.)
the White House is ~ so aggressively
amount & effect / force: storm
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure / wall / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: infrastructure / wall / verb storm (Desert Storm, etc.)
stoop (behavior) Storm King
the USS ~ was commissioned in 1943 (a ship)
stoop to that
why would you ~ (behavior) Storm King (m)
I won’t call him names, I won’t ~ (politics) 14 firefighters died on ~ Mountain (Colorado)
stoop to his level Desert Storm
don't ~ he participated in direct-action missions during ~
stoop to that level proper name: storm
it is not necessary to ~ (racial insults)
storm (weather the storm)
behavior: direction / height / verb
weather the storm
stop (stop at nothing) it remains to be seen if he can ~ (a politician)
stop at nothing weather this (economic) storm
he will ~ to silence the truth cities need help to ~
they are so desperate to win they will ~
they will ~ to destroy the president (politics) survival, persistence & endurance: boat / storm / verb

stops at nothing storm (in the storm)

Candi Station ~ to create
in the gathering storm
behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: distance / verb the hospital is rudderless ~ (deficits)
stop (pull out all the stops) conflict: storm

pulled out all the stops storm (eye / center of the storm)
we ~ (investigation of child abduction)
in the eye of the storm
♦ This idiom relates to a pipe organ. the man ~ is its cofounder, Julian Assange (Wikileaks)
commitment & determination: music / verb at the center of the storm
difficulty, easiness & effort: music / verb ~ is Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Holland)
restraint & lack of restraint: music / verb
at the center of a (diplomatic and political) storm
storm (verb) he was ~
stormed the (park) gates century & periphery / conflict: storm
the kids ~
storm (perfect storm)
stormed back to win
the team ~ (sports) perfect storm of challenges
the team is trying to weather a ~ (sports)
stormed the barricades
he ~s (to hold church accountable) perfect storm of events
a ~ caused the die-off (of dolphins in the Gulf)
amount & effect / force: storm / verb
perfect storm of risks
the world economy faces a ~

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perfect storm of screwups storm is gathering
he called the death a ~ (Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in jail) a ~ (US lack of innovation, competitiveness)
perfect storm of depression, concussion, overtraining provoked a storm
her father described a ~ (daughter commits suicide) the article ~
fiscal perfect storm quiet the storm
states have sailed into a ~ (debt) the league issued a statement to ~ (controversy)
looking at the perfect storm rode out the storm
we are ~ (allergies and allergy season) the punch hurt him, but he ~ (boxing)
amount & effect: storm set off a (political) storm
her decision has ~ in the Netherlands
storm (amount and effect)
weathered (all sorts of) storms
storm of accusations the Catholic Church has ~ across the centuries
a ~ of sexual abuse (Catholic Church)
conflict: storm
storm of controversy
the ~ that has blown up around him over… storm (calm before the storm)
storm of criticism calm before the storm
the ~ helped prompt NASCAR to… this is likely to be the ~ (lull in computer hacking)
the president returned home to a ~ this is still the ~ (pandemic cases)
storm of protest activity / development: storm
the decision produced a ~ (government)
storm (immune-system storm, etc.)
storm in a teacup
this might sound like a ~ but... (Oxford prof harassed) cytokine storm
the virus can ignite a ~ (cytokine release syndrome)
Twitter storm
I was right in the middle of the ~ (a writer) immune-system storm
an ~, anaphylactic shock, which can be fatal
literary, legal and cultural storm
resemblance: storm
she is causing a ~ in France (tell-all book)
unleashed a storm stormy
congressmen ~ of patriotic rage stormy marriage
♦ We can speak of a tweetstorm, a great number of tweets in a short his ~ to…
period of time.

amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind

stormy relations
the Shinnecocks have long had ~ with local authorities
storm (conflict)
stormy relationship
Gathering Storm she divorced and began a ~ with…
"Rising above the ~" decries our loss of competitiveness he has had a ~ with management (network host)
♦ The hardy sailor comes from stormy seas.
passing storm
this may be just a ~ (politics) flaws & lack of flaws: storm

diplomatic storm story (horror story)

the Prime Minister's stance triggered a ~
horror story
economic storm we’ve all heard ~s (bad landlords)
cities need help to weather this ~
"horror stories" about methamphetamine
political storm the press is full of ~
her decision has set off a ~ in the Netherlands
the report has caused a ~ in Rwanda (genocide) horror stories about family breakdown
they are waiting for the ~ to pass over (NRA / shootings) all the ~

worst of the storm restaurant horror story

the ~ is over (employment rises from historic lows) ~s are on the rise

storm was brewing health-care horror story

outside, the ~ (protests against the government) a~

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managed-care horror story character & personality: direction
another ~ sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: direction
resemblance: books & reading straight (the straight and narrow)
flaws & lack of flaws: books & reading
walked the straight and narrow
story (war story) he has ~ for 14 years (defense asks for bail at trial)
their war stories behavior / character & personality: direction
their podcast focuses on ~ (two heroin junkies)
straight arrow (person)
recounts his war stories
as he ~ (about the film industry) straight arrow
she didn't drink or do drugs, she was a ~
experience: books & reading / military ♦ A straight arrow is a person who is proper and conventional.
storybook (storybook romance, etc.) behavior / character & personality: direction / person
storybook moment straighten out (verb)
it was a ~ (glass-carriage royal wedding)
straighten out the (financial) mess
storybook romance the act appointed a trustee to ~
baby, won't you be my sweetheart, we could share a ~
amelioration & renewal: direction / rope / verb
storybook season
it's been a ~ for us (a basketball coach) straightforward
storybook victory straightforward approach
the validity of the ~ was questioned (sports) her ~ startles many (on pediatric safety)
Carroll's rah-rah style and Stoop's more ~ vary sharply
resemblance: books & reading we take a ~ to business (honesty, integrity)
flaws & lack of flaws / superlative: books & reading
straightforward style
straddle (connect) others liked his ~ (a coach)
straddles the line between news and entertainment honest, truthful, straightforward, ethical (m)
he ~ (TV personality) you can't always expect ~ behavior from recruiters
straddled the worlds character & personality: direction
he ~ of mainstream and alternative medicine
straight shooter (speech)
division & connection: leg / line / standing, sitting & lying /
verb straight shooter
I’m a ~, very candid
straddle (configuration)
sincerity, insincerity & honesty: direction / person / speech
straddles the border speech: direction / person / weapon
the community library ~ (between US and Canada)
straight-talking
straddles West Texas and Southeast New Mexico
the vast Permian that ~ (oil) straight-talking outsider
he was a ~
fictive position: horse / leg / standing, sitting & lying / verb
configuration: horse / leg / line / standing, sitting & lying / sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: direction / speech
verb speech: direction

straight (honest) strain (type)

straight story strain of Islam
give us the ~ on how common they are… Wahhabism, the rigid and puritanical ~

morally straight strains of Islam

I want somebody physically fit, culturally astute, ~ (SOF) with radical ~ percolating through Europe (prisons)

set some people straight strain of (Sunni) Islam

he ~ the mainstream, Turkish-influenced ~ (Balkans)

set the record straight radical strain

I wish to ~ with ~s of Islam percolating through Europe (prisons)

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rigid and puritanical strain psychotropic drugs are a ~ (the mentally ill)
Wahhabism, the ~ of Islam
intellectual straitjacket
taxonomy & classification: health & medicine I began to realize my faith was an ~
strain (verb) absolutist and dogmatic straitjacket
strained power grids they are confined in an ~ (Supreme Court justices)
the heat wave ~ escape the straitjacket
work & duty: burden / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb he could never ~ of the church
failure, accident & impairment: burden / skin, muscle, free the museum of the straitjacket
nerves & bone / verb the museum is trying to ~ of ethnicity (MoMA)
strain (pressure) puts nations into a straitjacket
strains of (military) life targets ~
the unique ~ (problems) broken free from a straitjacket
strain on our relationship he has ~ of his own making (a leader)
it put a ~ (husband into motorcycle club) constraint & lack of constraint: mental health
strains among the (Western) allies strand (noun)
intervention could create ~
strands of Christianity
flaws & lack of flaws: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
the focus of the day differs within the ~ (Epiphany)
strained strands of thought
strained these comments represent two ~
his relationship with his parents was ~ taxonomy & classification: cloth
the supply chain is ~ (Clorox wipes / pandemic)
strand (connection)
strained by demand
logistical elements can be ~ for ammo, etc. strand
the crisis ruined every ~ that knitted the country together
strained relations
the ~ between our two nations (US / France) four strands
there are ~ to the novel
strained relationship
he wanted to improve his ~ with his father division & connection: cloth

strained social compact strand (strand of hair, etc.)

an already ~ will grow yet more frayed
strand of hair
badly strained needles that are smaller than the diameter of a ~
relations were ~ in March (between 2 countries)
strands of hair
relations are (more) strained she collects ~ (of famous people)
~ than ever (between talent and the studios)
strands of lights
flaws & lack of flaws: skin, muscle, nerves & bone people decorate their houses with ~ (holidays)
strait (dire straits, etc.) strands of razor ribbon
there are five ~ on the inner fence
dire financial straits
contrary to the report, the company was not in ~ miles-long strand
longlines—~s with hundreds of baited hooks
situation: boat / breadth / container / sea
danger: boat / breadth / container / sea resemblance: cloth
straitjacket (noun) stranded (separated)
straitjacket of stress left stranded
a ~ shut me down (stuttering) his system of critical judgment was ~ on the far shore
policy straitjacket division & connection: ground, terrain & land / island / sea
they put themselves in a ~ (euro zone) society: ground, terrain & land / island / sea
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stranger (no stranger) stratosphere
no stranger to death put his career into the stratosphere
like most climbers, Anker was ~ the song ~ (Michael Jackson's Thriller)
no stranger to (difficult legal) disputes extent & scope: atmosphere
the judge was ~
stratospheric
no stranger to (catastrophic) storms
the state is ~ (Louisiana and hurricanes, etc.) stratospheric
such profits are ~, well over the average (academic
no stranger to war publishers)
Jaffna is ~ (Sri Lanka)
stratospheric reaches
no stranger to wealth the ~ of the entertainment world
her family was ~
stratospheric rise
experience: person her ~ was brought low by personal tragedies (actor)
strangle (verb) went stratospheric
she ~ in America (Miriam Makeba)
strangling Iraq
the embargo is ~ extent & scope: atmosphere / direction
increase & decrease: atmosphere / direction
strangle companies
I've seen government bureaucracy ~ (a politician) straw (the last straw)
strangle the experiment in its cradle last straw
if nobody watches, it will ~ (TV show) the ~ was the hike in the price of electricity (riots)
destruction / oppression: breathing / verb last straw scenario
all these things have created this ~ (vote to censure Saudis)
strangled
♦ This probably refers to the straw that broke the camel’s back. An
inconsequential event, after a series of indignities, causes an extreme
strangled in its cradle reaction.
Bolshevism must be ~ (Winston Churchill / Russia)
development: weight
strangle by poverty
they are ~ (Gazans) straw man (noun)
destruction / oppression: breathing "straw man" issues
Ryan assails Obama for ~ (politics)
stranglehold
speech / subterfuge: farming & agriculture
stranglehold on America
the monopolies had a ~ stray (behavior)
stranglehold on the transport strayed
Iraq has a ~ of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan women whose husbands have ~ (been unfaithful)

virtual stranglehold stray (so far) from the limits

a ~ on… kids will disobey, but they won't ~ you set

break their stranglehold behavior: animal / direction / verb

he set out to ~ (a ruler versus elites) failure, accident & impairment: animal / direction / verb

had a stranglehold stray (direction)

the monopolies ~ on America
strayed into the (restricted) airspace
oppression: breathing the small aircraft inadvertently ~
strangulation stray out of sector
strangulation of Iraq navigation problems can cause units to ~ (military)
the ~ (embargo, etc.) strayed from its (intended) mission
destruction / oppression: breathing Wall Street has ~ (to raise money, versus betting)
stray from the path
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stray (too far) from (Saudi Arabia's) path stream in
but Qatar does not ~ light would ~ through the windows as she…
strays from its route streams in
we can disable a truck by remote control if it ~ another picture ~, this one of a Chinese teen (Internet)
stray from tradition movement: water / verb
the younger generation has begun to ~
stream (amount & effect)
stray from the tenets and the values
black magic encourages people to ~ of Islam stream of casualties
the attacks are causing a steady ~
strayed off course
it appeared the sub had not ~ (hit seamount) stream of contributions
fundraisers and a steady ~
stray even the slightest
his refusal to ~ from the Code of Conduct stream of customers
a steady ~ (an electronics-repair shop)
stray too far
but Qatar does not ~ from Saudi Arabia's path stream of pilgrims
a ~ jammed the Via della Counciliazione (Vatican)
refusal to stray
his ~ even the slightest from the Code of Conduct stream of preachers
the issue brought a ~ to the mike
failure, accident & impairment: animal / direction / verb
stream of reports
streak (winning streak) a steady ~ that Israel has been providing

on a (real) winning streak stream of residents

Republicans have been ~ a ~ headed out of town (huge Colorado wildfire)
success & failure: line stream of text
one long, continuous ~ (e-book)
stream (tears stream, etc.)
stream of tips
streamed down her face police are following up on the steady ~
tears ~
stream of traffic
streamed down his face a constant ~ (city / vehicles)
blood ~ (a boxer)
steady stream
resemblance: water / verb police are following up on the ~ of tips
stream (direct) the attacks are causing a ~ of casualties
a ~ of customers (an electronics-repair shop)
stream video
stream (of jihadists into the country) has been cut
what hardware is recommended to ~ on broadband
the ~ to a trickle
stream, burn, beam, buy or subscribe
endless stream
should you ~ (Internet)
he saw an ~ of wounded and dead (Vietnam War)
transmission: water / verb
amount & effect / movement: water
stream (move) stream (resemblance)
streamed to the polls
streams of excrement
Iraqis ~ (election)
the route to her hut is a path stinking with ~ (Kabul)
streamed into Sydney
stream of fire
sex workers who have ~ (for the Olympics)
he continued his deadly ~ until… (battle)
streamed into the Good Shepherd Chapel
streams of lava
people of all walks of life ~ (to honor Mychal Judge)
the volcano sent ~ down the mountain
stream through town
stream of urine
about 15,000 tourists ~ hoping… (Churchill / bears)
stopping the ~ is hard for many people (specimen)
stream (in) through the windows
urinary stream
light would ~ as she…
difficulty initiating the ~ (medical)

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jet stream streaming (streaming media)
the Everest peak is in the ~
the ~, a speeding river of high-altitude air streaming media
that river of wind, called the ~ ~ delivers audio & video over the Internet
the ~ veered far south
the ~ blows at around 30-36,000 feet streaming media for video conferences & meetings
the ~ wanders between 30° and 60° in both hemispheres use ~
commercial airlines often hitch a ride in the ~ (eastward) streaming media advertisement
the Germans first discovered the ~ in the 1930s a ~ plays before the video
high-altitude winds of the ~ (climate, weather)
resemblance: water
streaming-media division
the Microsoft Corp. ~ division
stream (bloodstream, etc.)
streaming-media player
arrival stream ever improving ~s
a new runway will allow O'Hare three independent ~s streaming-media traffic
bloodstream ~ is of growing concern
a blood clot can break loose and travel through the ~ transmission: water
funding stream streamline (speed up)
you've got to put together all of these ~s
streamline the (permitting and approval) process
mail stream we must also ~ (for building infrastructure)
introduce new technology into the ~ (post office)
the Postal Service is adjusting to a new type of ~ speed / timeliness & lack of timeliness: shape / verb
the anthrax letters entered the ~ from a mailbox
street (society)
revenue stream
another ~ is needed for public schools (state lottery) street
ecommerce is tomorrow's ~ the ~ is not afraid of governments any more (protest)
online advertising is yesterday's ~
Arab street
cable TV's dual ~s: subscribers plus advertisers
the ~ reacts to rumors
wastestream the ~ has risen up (Egyptian protests)
the elimination of mercury from hospital ~s Iran's leaders play to the ~
the ~ sympathizes with the Palestinians
waste stream
food waste in the residential ~ (recycling) mood on the street
the ~ should be watched (protests in Egypt)
reporting streams
the quantity of intelligence from multiple ~ (terrorism) society: infrastructure

independent (arrival) streams street (cloud street, etc.)

a new runway will allow O'Hare three ~
cloud street
multiple (reporting) streams ~s can indicate thermals (hang gliding)
the quantity of intelligence from ~ (terrorism) ~s are rows of cumulous clouds

branching system / route: river / water resemblance: infrastructure

streamed (digital) street (two-way street)

streamed into the kiosks two-way street
the music is ~ via the Internet trust is a ~

transmission: water social interaction: direction / infrastructure

streaming (digital) stretch (verb)

streaming technology stretch (limited) resources
as ~ improves the costs will ~ (defense budget)

download or streaming flaws & lack of flaws: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
Walk Away Renee .mp3 is available for ~ failure, accident & impairment: skin, muscle, nerves &
bone / verb
transmission: water

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stretch (extent) creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb

stretches from Hollywood to the halls of academe

strike (forces of nature)
the scandal ~ (admissions scandal) strike Mexico
extent & scope: materials & substances / verb the hurricane was expected to ~ early Tuesday (Yucatán)

stride (in stride) struck with a (13.9-foot) storm tide

Hurricane Audrey ~ (1957)
taking things in stride
most people are ~ (terrorism fears and alerts) struck Monday
the storm ~ with little warning… (tornado)
took the high water in stride
residents ~ (a flood) struck at 1:34 p.m.
the quake ~ local time (Greece)
equilibrium & stability: walking, running & jumping
struck a church
stride (progress) a tornado ~ just as the minister said, "Be prepared..."
great stride forward struck an (oil storage) tank
the bill is a ~ lightning ~ and set it on fire
made giant strides struck (two of the) trees
the city has made ~ in the last decade lightning ~
made great strides earthquake struck
Blacks have made ~ in all areas (desegregation) a powerful ~ off the Solomon Islands, causing a tsunami
a powerful ~ here Monday night (Afghanistan)
made (giant) strides in the last decade
the city has ~ in the last decade lightning struck
~ two of the trees
made (great) strides in all areas they were under a tree when ~, killing them...
Blacks have ~ (desegregation)
monsoon (in 1942) struck
progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping the ~ on the 13th of May (Burma)
stride (hit one’s stride) quake struck
hit its stride the ~ at 1:34 p.m. local time (Greece)
it has ~ and just keeps on gaining momentum (movie series) storm struck
hit his stride the ~ Monday with little warning (tornado)
he seemed to ~ when he talked about... (politics) tornado struck
movement / starting, going, continuing & ending: verb / a ~ without any warning siren being sounded
walking, running & jumping warnings were delivered 11.5 minutes before a ~

stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.) tsunamis strike

catastrophic ~ less often (than major earthquakes)
knock them off stride typhoon struck
dealing with something just before kickoff didn’t ~ (team)
the ~ the coast at 3:50 p.m. in Fujian Province
disruption / equilibrium & stability / failure, accident &
landslide struck
impairment: horse / movement / verb / walking, running &
the ~ late Saturday in Olongapo city
jumping
rainstorm struck
strike (affect) a freak desert ~ (Moltsog Els / Mongolia)
strike you force: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb
so how did the two events ~ (politics) occurrence: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / storm / verb
effect: force / hitting, slamming & lashing / sensation strike (tragedy, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: force / hitting, slamming &
lashing / sensation catastrophe struck
then, ~ (accident)
strike (strike a deal, etc.)
disaster strikes
struck a deal his parents have told him what to do if a ~
in 1994, we ~

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disaster struck control & lack of control: puppet / verb
~ and the men found themselves drifting... (fishermen)
string (sequence)
tragedy struck
~ motor racing hard in 1999 string of murders
he was guilty of a ~
occurrence: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing / verb
sequence: rope
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / hitting, slamming & lashing
/ verb string (attachment)
strike down (verb) with strings attached
struck down the law "free" credit reports often come ~
a judge ~ with no strings attached
dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb there are few "free" deals ~

strike out (verb) no-strings-attached (m)

we were both looking for ~ sex
strike out ~ handouts sap incentive (welfare)
if you ~ at the source, work the edges (an investigation)
involvement: rope
struck out
I ~ (failed to accomplish something)
strip (verb)
struck out stripped him of his security clearance
law enforcement had ~ (child murder) the government ~

failure, accident & impairment / success & failure: baseball stripped him of command
/ sports & games / verb the Navy ~ of the aircraft carrier

strike out (start) strip unions of their (bargaining) rights

he wants to ~ (politics)
striking out on her own
taking & removing: clothing & accessories / verb
she is ~ with a solo album
dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories /
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips / verb
movement / verb strip (strip something down)
striking (adjective) strip it down to its core
find it striking if we ~ (music)
I ~ that… analysis, interpretation & explanation / substance & lack of
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force substance: clothing & accessories / verb

string (pull strings) stripe (earn one’s stripes, etc.)

pull strings earn your stripes
I can't ~ and make them perform (a teacher) you've got to ~ (stock-car racing)

pull the strings achievement, recognition & praise: military

politicians ~ and make the policies experience: military
he believes insiders ~ (the so-called deep state) stripe (of all stripes)
many believe malevolent powers ~ (conspiracy theories)
pull strings to get politicians of all stripes
~ say they want to lower prescription-drug costs
he had his father ~ him out of the draft
taxonomy & classification: cloth
pull strings from behind the scenes
they will ~ (politicians) strip-mine (verb)
pulled strings in high places strip-mine public assets
she ~ to get her access to… they ~ for their private interests (politicians)
tried to pull strings taking & removing: crime / mining / verb
he ~ to secure an officer's commission
♦ “The Americans are the ones pulling the strings, and Moreno their
puppet dancing to the tune of money.” (Kristinn Hrafnsson of Wikileaks.)

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stripped strongman (power)
stripped of his titles “strongman” image
he was ~ (for doping) his ~ many not win him votes (Narendra Modi)
dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories strongman leader
he is a ~ in the mold of Erdogan and Putin (Narendra Modi)
stroke (stroke of midnight, etc.)
military strongman
stroke of half-time Khalifa Haftar is Libya’s ~
he cut the lead to one on the ~ (soccer)
character & personality: circus / military / person
time: clock power: government
stroll (stroll to success, etc.) person: circus / government
struck (affected)
stroll to victory
Manchester City looked like they would ~ when... struck by how long
attainment / difficulty, easiness & effort: movement / verb I was ~ it took him
/ walking, running & jumping effect / feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / hitting,
slamming & lashing / sensation
strong (language, etc.)
struck down
strong language
there might also be ~ used in the videos you are about to see struck down by the lower courts
strength & weakness: speech the travel ban was ~ but upheld by the Supreme Court
speech: force dismissal, removal & resignation: direction
strong-arm (verb) stuck (adjective)
strong-armed subjects stuck
he ~ to get them to lie (a prosecutor) without any other job prospects, he is ~
strong-arm him into joining stuck with (obsolete) equipment
his strict father tried to ~ the family’s business they are ~ (Philippine military)
strong-armed members into voting stuck in a (forgotten) corner
the leadership ~ with the president Siberians no longer feel ~ of the globe
coercion & motivation: arm / crime / verb / violence stuck in a (vicious) cycle
stronghold (noun) she's ~ (eating to relieve depression)
stuck in the doldrums
stronghold of apartheid sympathy
the economy is ~
the Limpopo Province is a ~
stuck in the past
stronghold in (eastern) Saudi Arabia
we can’t be ~, we have to move forward (Middle East)
Qatif, a Shiite ~
stuck in place
stronghold for tigers
animals can move, but trees are ~
India is the world’s greatest ~
stuck in the trailers
Ibo stronghold
the refugees may be ~ for years (Katrina)
Nigeria with its Yoruba heartland, ~s and Hausa north
stuck in the (Vienna) airport
Shiite stronghold
most of his gear got ~ (climber)
Qatif, a ~ in eastern Saudi Arabia
stuck in a civil war
salmon stronghold
the Central African Republic has been ~ (2009)
Kamchatka, one of the last ~s on earth
stuck between adolescence and adulthood
lost control of (some of) its former strongholds
he is ~ (a young snowboarder)
the party ~ (Mexico)
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military stuck between its past and its future
Haiti is ~
stuck between a rock and a hard place

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 I’m ~ (too poor to improve situation) string of stumbles
her ~ changed that calculus~ (that she could win easily)
stuck between the underground and the mainstream
he is ~ (a young snowboarder) suffered a stumble
his campaign ~ before it began, when he... (politics)
stuck between his unit and the enemy
he was ~ (a moral issue) equilibrium & stability / failure, accident & impairment /
flaws & lack of flaws: walking, running & jumping
stuck in aging schools
children ~ without air conditioning stumble (stumble across / on / upon)
feel stuck stumbled across (skeletal) remains
Siberians no longer ~ in a forgotten corner of the globe a game agent ~ (human)
get stuck stumbled across (an amazing) break
we all ~ in bad beauty habits (cosmetics) we ~ (surfers)
you don't have to ~ in that cycle (a gang)
stumbled across something
got stuck but then she ~ that would change her life (chat rooms)
most of his gear ~ in the Vienna airport (climber)
stumbled on a (major meth) lab
obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress: authorities ~
ground, terrain & land / movement
situation: container / movement stumbled on her story
he ~ when he… (a journalist)
stud (noun)
stumbled on a (new) way
stud he ~ to do it
he thinks he’s a real ~ with the women
stumbled upon a (major) cache
character & personality / sex: animal / horse police ~ of weapons
study (noun) searching & discovery: walking, running & jumping / verb
fictive meeting & seeing: walking, running & jumping / verb
study in contrasts
he is, in many ways, a ~ stumble (stumble into a situation)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: school & education stumbled into a civil war
study (quick study) Tajikistan quickly ~
involvement: walking, running & jumping / verb
quick study
he’s a ~, but he has a lot to learn stumble (stumble over one's words)
ability & lack of ability: school & education stumbling over my words
stumble (verb) I tried to explain, but I was ~
speech: verb / walking, running & jumping
stumbled offensively flaws & lack of flaws: speech / verb / walking, running &
they have ~ (sports team) jumping
stumbled out of the gate stumbling block
her campaign ~ but has since found its footing
stumbling block in the negotiations
economy is stumbling the issue proved to be a major ~
the ~
major stumbling block
strategy stumbled the issue proved to be a ~ in the negotiations
that ~ when the group rejected…
proved a stumbling block
talks have stumbled immune-enhanced disease ~ in developing a vaccine
~ repeatedly over efforts to… (climate change)
obstacle & impedance: walking, running & jumping
equilibrium & stability / failure, accident & impairment:
progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping
verb / walking, running & jumping
stun (verb)
stumble (noun)
stunned the (Cardiff City) Stadium into silence
stumbles on the road Azerbaijan’s goal ~ (soccer)
there have been some ~ to reform

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stunned authorities entire houses floated by ~ (flash flood)
some of the incidents have ~ (youth violence)
stunned mourners
stunned the nation ~ gathered (after Kurt Cobain's suicide)
the crime ~ (Central Park "wilding")
stunned reporter
stunned visitors the ~ kept repeating, "Oh, my goodness…"
the death ~ of the community (animal attack)
stunned silence
stunned (U.S.) delegates there was a brief, ~ (birders see rare bird)
the vote ~
stunned survivors
stunned France he gathered the ~ into a defensive perimeter (combat)
when Senegal ~, 1-0 (soccer)
stunned travelers
stunned Norfolk the airport was thronged by ~ (after Bali bombing)
the killings ~
stunned courtroom
stunned many Russians no one in the ~ seemed prepared for…
the death toll ~ (military crash)
stunned and helpless (m)
feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation / verb they watched in ~ awe (flash flood)
stung (feeling) stunned and hurt
her teammates were ~ (racist chants at sports event)
stung by their breakup
he was ~ (relationship) truly stunned
I was ~ (UN decision to allow genocide to continue)
remains stung
she ~ by how she is being portrayed in the press feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / sensation

feeling, emotion & effect: insect / sensation / verb stunning (adjective)

stunned (feeling)
stunned
the mountaineering world was ~ (by Tomaz Humar)
I stood there, ~ (kayaker after near-death experience)
doctors were ~ (new epidemic disease)
stunning news
his arrest was ~ in the NHL (hockey)
he summoned his staff and delivered the ~
stunning performance
his ~ in the Alps and the Pyrenees (Tour de France)

stunned to discover stunning twist

he was not the only one ~ they were drug traffickers it was a ~

stunned to hear stunning victory

he was ~ that… he won a ~ Monday night (elections)
she was ~ him say... (pedophile)
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / sensation
stunned to learn stunt (noun)
he was ~ about the Air Force's use of amphetamines
stunned at the number political stunt
they were ~ of jihadists heading overseas the mayor called it a ~ (action by federal government)
♦ In 2020, the illusionist David Blaine soared four miles above the
stunned by Cameroon Arizona desert while holding on to 52 helium-filled balloons.
Argentina was ~ 1-0 (soccer) performance: theater
stunned by the ferocity stunted
commanders were ~ of the ambush (Afghanistan)
stunted as a force
stunned by the hostility
we must not let the Internet be ~ for invention
she was ~ (gender discrimination)
corruption / growth & development: size
stunned by the (general's) murder
he is still ~ stuttering (adjective)
stunned by what I saw stuttering career
I was ~ (effects of windstorm) she has since endured a ~ (MMA)
stunned bystanders failure, accident & impairment: speech

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progress & lack of progress: speech he would give a sober assessment, he would not ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: speech
sugarcoat history
succumb (verb) lawmakers should not ~ or try to rewrite it (Armenians)
succumbed to his injuries sugarcoat that
he was taken to Montefiore Medical Center where he ~ what she did was a crime, there is no way to ~
succumb to their injuries appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
unfortunately one patient did ~ in the trauma bay (shooting) / sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / subterfuge:
materials & substances / taste / verb
succumbed to their injuries
two others ~ at the hospital (cliff at beach collapses) sugarcoating (noun)
♦ This has the sense of lying down to a superior force.
sugarcoating
euphemism: death & life / verb no ~, no cheerleading, just the truth (a sports report)
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying /
verb appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
/ sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / subterfuge: taste
sucked in / into (involved)
suggest (indicate)
get sucked in
do we want to ~ here even further (Middle East) suggest
what it does ~ is that…
get sucked into the (Libyan) quagmire
Egypt might ~ suggest that
we don't have any evidence to ~… (investigation)
get sucked into the (Fortnite) vortex
kids who ~ suggest about how
what does this ~ this position is viewed by the president
involvement: verb / water
suggest one bacterium over another
suck up (verb) the character of the sputum may ~
suck up information suggest (overt political) bias
the F-35 can ~ and pass it to other aircraft these cases ~ at the Department of Justice
suck up all of the political oxygen suggest another diagnosis
impeachment going forward is ~ in Congress these symptoms are uncharacteristic and should ~
♦ Or, hoover up...
suggests fracture
absorption & immersion: verb / water gingival bleeding at base of tooth ~
suffocate (verb) suggest the possibility
certain clues ~ of a struggle
suffocate
the economy will ~ without new-jobs creation suggest violence
pattern injuries ~
suffocate every (natural) instinct
her parents tried to ~ in her (sex) suggest abuse or battering
oppression: breathing / verb contusions that are circular or linear ~

suffocated suggested poisoning

his symptoms ~
suffocated by this deluge advisory suggested
the coral reefs are slowly ~ of refuse (trash, nets, plastic)
the ~ climbers descend… (bad weather)
destruction: breathing
analysis has suggested
suffocating matched cohort ~ a lower mortality rate in…

suffocating analyses suggest

the feeling of isolation is ~ (an island off of Chile) similar ~ that whales evolved from land animals

feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: breathing data suggest

the ~ that mothers who smoke… (study)
sugarcoat (verb) new census ~ that there are far more…
~ that insignificant contact with bats may…
sugarcoat recent ~ that captopril may play a unique role in…

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edema (also) suggests surveys suggest
the peripheral ~ deep vein thrombosis recent ~ that 36% of under-29-year-olds in Britain…
national ~ that 94% of parents acknowledge…
estimates suggest
government ~ the strike has cost over… symptoms suggest
contraindicated in children whose ~ Reye syndrome
evidence suggests
that idea is not quite right, ~ theory suggests
anecdotal ~ that most users are males under 40 this ~ that elder abuse is caused by…
a growing body of ~ that even brief bedrest is…
but some new ~ this one might be different common sense suggests
the overwhelming ~ that we eat too much salt ~ that at some point…

experience suggests vital signs may suggest

his own ~ that a typical corporate network suffers… the ~ sepsis even if fever is absent

findings suggest testing suggested

the following physical ~ a focal infection shuttle ~ that the wings were vulnerable…
the ~ that… evidence to suggest
forecasts suggest there is no ~ that he informed school officials…
the administration's own economic ~ that… (jobs) nothing to suggest
history (of vaginal discharge) suggests there was ~ the action was in any way related to…
a ~ that… (ED) reasons to suggest
injuries suggest there are plenty of ~ that…
pattern ~ violence (ED) fair to suggest
models (of ARDS) suggest it isn't ~ that the Central Asians are…
adult and infant animal ~ that… strongly suggests
profile had suggested the evidence ~ that…
an FBI ~ the kidnapper is a predator, and possibly… strongly suggest
profile (also) suggested pink frothy sputum and dyspnea ~ pulmonary edema
the ~ that the killer… (FBI-created profile) evidence / fictive communication: speech / verb
recommendations suggest analysis, interpretation & explanation: speech / verb
recent ~ treatment for 60 days with… (anthrax) suggestion (evidence)
reconstruction (of this crash) suggests suggestion of foul play
as a ~, some accidents may be "normal" (plane crash) there was no ~
reports suggested evidence: speech
preliminary ~ rough seas overwhelmed the boat
suicide (career suicide, etc.)
research suggests
but new ~ that even… suicide by a thousand cuts
the company is committing ~ (failing)
researchers suggested
some ~ that the study might have understated… career suicide
they have decided to risk ~
scores suggested he's committing ~ (prosecutor refused to drop case)
and test ~ that 70% of Fremont's students didn't…
commercial suicide
signs suggest not to use the engine would have been ~ (Boeing)
nearly all ~ Armstrong is ready (Tour de France)
political suicide
statistics suggested investigating our own agency would be ~
that risk was, ~, far higher than… (shuttle) it’s ~ for the Democrats... (politics)
studies suggest committed (political) suicide
some ~ that prolonged bedrest… he ~ by announcing that…
although ~ a greater prevalence in developed nations
♦ The Yangtze River Bridge (Nanjing); the Golden Gate Bridge (San
current ~ that four or five times a week is best; Francisco); the Pancevo Bridge (Belgrade); two main bridges over the
molecular ~ that SIV entered chimpanzees long after… Han River (Seoul); the Aurora Bridge (Seattle); the Aokigahara Forest
other ~ that 3-10% of elders are abused or neglected (on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji)... (Suicide magnets.)

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♦ In Dante’s The Inferno, the souls of suicides are encased within trees the ~ on the dirty energy of the past
and vegetation in the Forest of the Suicides. “[The violent spirit] falls into
the wood, and landing there, / wherever fortune flings it, it strikes root, / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day / sun
and there it sprouts...” (From the great translation by John Ciardi.)

destruction: death & life

sunk in
suit (follow suit) sunk in
it’s over, and that hasn’t ~ yet
follow suit comprehension & incomprehension: water
states feel pressure to ~ (gambling policy)
absorption & immersion: water
uniformity & consensus: cards / verb
sunlight (concealment)
suite (suite of tools, etc.)
sunlight
suite of (terrorism) statutes behind closed doors, without any ~ whatsoever (hearings)
there are a ~ in the federal criminal code
sunlight of (open) debate
suite of tools he exposed them to the disinfecting ~
the rover has a ~ (Mars Science Lab)
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / sun
robust suite attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / sun
the MQ-9 has a ~ of visual sensors for targeting sunny (adjective)
amount / group, set & collection: infrastructure
sunny side
suitor (noun) look on the ~ (advice to parent of toddler with problem)

a lot of suitors sunny smile

but there are a ~… Sri Lanka / China, etc.) a ~ seemed the antidote to adversity
person: love, courtship & marriage danceable, sunny (m)
pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage / the group wrote ~ lyrics
person
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / sun
sully (verb) sunset (ride into the sunset)
sullied my reputation
the incident ~
riding into the sunset
after tomorrow, I’m going to be ~ (vote)
♦ This verb has its origin in the soil.
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: day / film /
accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land / verb
horse / sun
summit (at the summit)
Super Bowl
at the summit of her achievement
the work stands ~ as an artist Super Bowl of spirit competitions
the annual Cheerleading Worlds—the ~
at the summit of his fame
he turned his back on Hollywood ~ Super Bowl of the canines
the ~ (Westminster Dog Show)
at the summit of his power
he died ~ Superbowl of church suppers
the ~ (Wild Game Supper in Bradford, Vt.)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height /
mountains & hills akin to the Super Bowl
in the mountainous nations, the Hahnenkamm is ~ (skiing)
sun (currency and obsolescence)
superlative: epithet / football / sports & games
moment in the sun superhighway
he had his ~ (rock star)
I think they have had their ~ (team in World Cup) superhighway
the road to stardom hasn't been a ~ for her (actor)
new day in the sun
the research is having a ~ (on attention) shipping superhighway
the Strait of Malacca is a ~
sun has set
the ~ on the Kennedy era information superhighway
popular culture now rides on the ~
sun is setting

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 he mines the ~ supple and durable (m)
the railroad was the original ~ radio is a ~ technology
route: infrastructure ability & lack of ability / constraint & lack of constraint:
supernova (achievement) materials & substances / movement
surefire (a surefire investment, etc.)
tech supernova
she was a ~ who said she had an amazing invention surefire investment
(Elizabeth Holmes) I thought it was a ~
pitching supernova surefire recipe
Dwight Gooden was a ~ this is a ~ to ruin the economy (politics)
achievement, recognition & praise / growth & development surefire replacement
/ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / superlative: the team has no ~ for either player (sports)
astronomy / light & dark / star
surefire solution
supernova (attention) there is no ~ for this
went supernova surefire technique
the conflict ~ in the pages of the New York Times another ~ is to…
attention, scrutiny & promotion: astronomy / light & dark / surefire way
star it's a ~ to make money
no one has yet found a ~ to do that
super-spreader
seems surefire
super spreaders a scene that ~ in rehearsal can fall flat
“~” perpetuate conspiracy theories on social media
flaws & lack of flaws: weapon
transmission: health & medicine certainty & uncertainty: weapon
supine (adjective) sure-footed (adjective)
supine relationship sure-footed
he embodies his party’s rather ~ to this president (politics) he came off as defensive, not so ~ (a politician)
supine and silent flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / walking,
Congress has been ~ running & jumping
dominance & submission: standing, sitting & lying surf (computers)
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying
surf the Internet
supinely she likes to ~
accepted supinely ♦ Hitting a log the size of a telephone pole (Teahupoo); broken femur,
neck, nose, burst eardrum, knee dislocation, getting your thigh ripped
physicians ~ this crucial flaw in Galen’s material (anatomy) open by a surfboard fin; being stripped of your flotation vest, rash guard
and trunks in the whitewater and left naked... (Just a few of the many
dominance & submission: standing, sitting & lying surfing hazards.)
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying ♦ “For the storm to be right here, it should be a lot better.” (A
supple (adjective) disappointed surfer in North Carolina, remarking on the smallish waves
generated by Hurricane Earl.)

supple ♦ “They provide themselves with a thin board, on these they swim off
shore to meet the Surf... [They] manage so as to get just before it or
artificial intelligence can be as ~ as a human's rather on the Slant or declivity of the Surf & thus they lie...laying hold of
the fore part of the board which receives the force of the water on its
supple intelligence under side, & by that means keeps before the wave which drives it along
her ~ distinguished her (a political advisor) with an incredible Swiftness to the shore... We saw with astonishment
young boys & Girls about 9 or ten playing amid such tempestuous
supple sensitivity Waves that the hardiest of our seamen would have trembled to face...”
(David Samwell describing the scene at Kealakekua Bay, January 22,
he performs the songs with ~ (Sinatra) 1779. Just don’t upset the locals!)
supple voice ♦ “Eddie Aikau, Shane Dorian, Andy Irons, Bruce Irons, Kelly Slater,
Sunny Garcia... (The great Makua Rothman listing just some of his
her ~ can caress and shock (a singer) influences. “Eddy would go!”)
his ~ constantly transforms itself
♦ 2009, 2004, 1998, 1983, 1974, and the Big One in 1969... (Years for
supple (pop-jazz) voice legendary surf on the North Shore of Oahu.)
she has a ~ computers: sports & games / verb

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surface (verb) numbers surging
why are the ~ (for testing accommodations)
surface
increase & decrease: tide / water / verb
the truth may never ~ (rumors in the news)
surfaced on (several) gossip blogs
surge (intransitive verb / effect)
the video clip ~ last week surged across the Americas
surfaced in Canada the disease ~ (dengue fever / 2019)
they disappeared and then ~ surging across the southern border
eventually surface migrants are ~
the truth will ~ (disappearance of college coed) amount & effect: tide / verb / water
evidence has surfaced movement: tide / verb / water
no new ~ in the case surge (transitive verb)
name surfaced surged their (national) resources
his ~ during the investigation (terrorist) the ATF ~ (serial bombings in Austin, Texas)
appearance & disappearance: verb / water directing: tide / verb / water
surface (on the surface) surgery (noun)
on the surface drastic surgery
~, it looks bad ~ seems the only answer, amputate before infection spreads
appearance & reality: water (soccer club)

surface (under the surface) radical surgery

France is resisting such ~ (austerity)
under the surface
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
but ~, the sectarian divisions remain (Lebanon)
bubbling (just) under the surface
surrender (verb)
conflict is ~ surrender their seats to (pregnant) women
appearance & reality: water some refuse to ~ (New Yorkers)
concealment & lack of concealment: water surrendered his (medical) license
surface (scratch the surface) he has ~ and can no longer practice

scratch the surface surrender (unlicensed) firearms

these findings just ~ the Interior Ministry appealed to citizens to ~

scratches the surface surrendered its artistic freedom

even this huge number barely ~ (microbes in gut) criticism the opera house had ~

extent & scope: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb possession: military / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
surface (bring to the surface)
survivor (person)
brought the (bitter) rift to the surface
the incident ~ (between military and government) political survivor
she is a shrewd ~ (German Chancellor)
appearance & disappearance: verb / water
resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: person
concealment & lack of concealment: verb / water
person: death & life
surge (noun)
suspended
surge in violence
there has been a ~ (Chicago gang violence) suspended between modernity and the Middle Ages
Casablanca is ~
amount & effect / movement: tide / water
configuration: pendulum
surge (intransitive verb / increase) division & connection: pendulum
membership surged suspended animation
gang ~
entered suspended animation

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 the Democratic primary season ~ (pandemic) the company’s promises would be ~ by most of the
technology press
stuck in suspended animation
his campaign is ~ (shut down by pandemic) acceptance & rejection: stomach / throat
consumption: food & drink
activity: death & life
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life swamp (verb)
sustenance (noun) swamp Tibet with (Chinese) migrants
our main concern is that the railway will ~ (Qinghai-Tibet)
kind of sustenance
words were a ~ (NBA speech) swamped the (entire) industry
the economic downturn ~ (journalism and newspapers)
consumption: food & drink
amount & effect: boat / verb / water / wave
Svengali (allusion) movement: boat / verb / water / wave
Svengali effect swamp (fever swamp)
he’s got this ~ on people (suicide bombers)
fever swamp of the alt-right
character & personality / subterfuge: allusion this is sort of the ~ (books of a conspiracy theorist)
allusion: books & reading
online fever swamps
swallow (accept) they dredge up wild beliefs from ~ (a podcast)
♦ “This game has all the qualities of a neglected pond, turgid, stagnant
swallow and honking.” (A disgruntled fan, about a Champions League final.)
take as much sovereignty as you can ~ (Yeltsin)
a "conflict" is easier to ~ than a war environment: ground, terrain & land / swamp / water
corruption: ground, terrain & land / swamp / water
swallowed his story hook, line and sinker fantasy & reality: health & medicine
I ~ (army recruiter)
swamp (drain the swamp)
hard to swallow
the results of such a study are ~ drain the swamp
♦ "If it means swallowing some humble pie, and it means eating some of he promised to ~ of Congress
your words, I can't think of a more excellent diet." (Prime Minister David Twitter tries to ~ (trolls)
Cameron, on his coalition government formed with the Liberal
Democrats.) “drain the swamp” strategy
consumption: food & drink / stomach / throat / verb the Trump’s campaign ~
acceptance & rejection: food & drink / stomach / throat / corruption: ground, terrain & land / swamp / verb / water
verb amelioration & renewal: ground, terrain & land / swamp /
swallow (disappearance) verb / water

swallowed him up
swamped
the streets ~ real quick (Detroit crime) swamped by criticism
the sea just ~, queer... (Moby Dick) BP has been ~ as the oil leak gushes (in Gulf of Mexico)
swallowed (two unoccupied) cars swamped with patients
a sinkhole ~ in Seattle (broken main) the VA is ~ with hearing problems
swallow huts get swamped
sand dunes threatened to ~ (desertification in Niger) you can ~ on every single issue (government)
swallowed them amount & effect: boat / water
always the jungle rose and ~ (villages, civilizations)
swan (black swan)
sinkhole swallowed
a ~ a sewer-repair truck (Portland); black swan of this event
a ~ two unoccupied cars in Seattle (broken water main) we’ve got this ~ where we had to... (pandemic)
appearance & disappearance: bodily reaction / verb black-swan candidate
consumption / resemblance: bodily reaction / verb Trump is a one of a kind, a ~ (said in 2016)
swallowed “black swan” events
the unexpected ~ posed challenges (election campaign)
swallowed whole ~ are rare but unpredictable

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black swan event
a US default is such a ~ that it has never happened before
“Black Swan” possibilities
the reports identifies some ~ that could disrupt...
“Black Swan” theory
the ~ of risk (economics and disasters)
fifty other black swans
we’re lucky we haven’t seen ~ (markets stable / pandemic)
beware the black swan
you must ~ (a highly unlikely unpredictable event)
♦ “Black swan” events that hurt Bernie Sanders in his bid to be the
Democratic nominee for president in 2019-2020 included: (1) his heart
attack (2) Trump’s impeachment trial, which meant Sanders had to take
time off from campaigning and (3) the coronavirus pandemic that made it
impossible for him to hold large rallies of his supporters.
♦ You observe 5,000 white swans. You conclude, “All swans are white.”
Then Captain Cook goes to Australia, and he notices black swans.” (A
problem with observation and inductive reasoning.)
fate, fortune & chance: animal / bird / color / sky
occurrence: animal / bird / color / sky
appearance & disappearance: animal / bird / color / sky
swan song
swan song
it was the restaurant's ~ (celebration of bankruptcy)
starting, going, continuing & ending: allusion / theater
swarm (verb)
swarming
lawyers are ~
swarm around foreigners
children and grown men ~ (Cox's Bazar)
swarms with pilgrims
during the week before Christmas Lalibela ~ (Ethiopia)
swarming the city
security guards are ~ (Olympics)
swarmed the playground
the children ~ (opening ceremony)
♦ In a delightful “Talk of the Town” article in The New Yorker, Michael
Schulman points out that New Yorkers “swarm” for things like “flash
mobs, Occupy Wall Street, the cronut line.“ His article is about actual
swarms and how New York City’s finest deal with them. (“Law and Order:
Bee Cops,” September 17, 2018.)
activity / behavior: animal / insect / verb
amount & effect: animal / insect / verb
swarm (noun)
"swarm tactics"
~ will be used to overrun the enemy (Iraqi Freedom)
swarm of (citizen) complaints
the noise has prompted a ~
swarm of earthquakes
authorities recorded a ~ (Taal Volcano erupts)
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swarms of particles
the comet sheds ~ as it nears the sun (Leonids)
swarms of protestors
the meetings of the World Bank have drawn ~
swarms of shoppers
the nation's malls opened to ~ (holiday season)
swarm of tornadoes
a ~ and powerful thunderstorms belted the area
a devastating ~ left four people dead (Texas)
“swarm” of tremors
a ~ were felt last year (earthquakes in Surrey)
♦ The wonderful science writer Carol Kaesuk Yoon has reported that in
1875 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts formed the largest recorded
locust swarm in recorded history, 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide…
Just twenty-eight years later, the Rocky Mountain locust was extinct. The
last live locust was collected in 1902, and today the only way scientists
can study them is to examine the carcasses of those locusts blown off
course and preserved in glaciers.
activity / behavior / amount & effect: animal / insect
sweat (feeling)
made to sweat
the US side was ~ by the French (close US soccer victory)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction
sweat (work)
blood, sweat and tears
he gave the franchise 20 years of his ~ (Kobe Bryant)
breaking a sweat
nobody is ~ over this work (progress bars on devices)
work & duty: bodily reaction / sign, signal, symbol
difficulty, easiness & effort: bodily reaction / sign, signal,
symbol
sweeping
sweeping change
the report called for ~ (shuttle safety)
there is not yet a groundswell of support for ~
sweeping curve
the ~ directly upstream of the falls (river)
sweeping impact
the ~ of fire on the sagebrush plains
sweeping (U.N.) resolution
a ~ against terrorist financing
extent & scope: movement / pendulum
sweepstakes (win the sweepstakes)
temperamental sweepstakes
if you are impervious to self-doubt, you have won the ~
won the (temperamental) sweepstakes
if you are impervious to self-doubt, you have ~
success & failure: gambling
sweet (personality) swelled to (more than) 1 million
the population ~ (Everglades alligators)
sweet dreams
you hug her and kiss her and wish her ~ swelled by (another) 1 million
the capital of 1.3 million had ~ (Kabul)
sweet personality
her ~ has made her a lot of friends (exchange student) swelled beyond (official) estimates
struggling to help a group that has ~( immigrants)
sweet-charactered (m)
a suitable and ~ girl population swelled
the ~ to more than 1 million (Everglades alligators)
sweet-faced (m)
a TV show filled with ~ young men numbers swelled
as their ~ to 437,000 (adjuncts)
sweet-tempered (m)
a ~ boy ranks swell
their ~ out of sympathy (radicals)
cute, sophisticated and sweet
fashion to make her feel ~ (adolescents) staff swells
its ~ to 400 with the approach of summer
character & personality: taste
increase & decrease: health & medicine / size / verb
sweetheart (vocative)
swept away (emotion)
sweetheart
hey, ~ swept away
he's ~ (drummer on a giant elk-skin drum)
vocative: heart / taste
feeling, emotion & effect: river / sea / water
sweetheart (other)
swept away (removal)
sweetheart
baby, won't you be my ~ swept away
the old order was ~ (Russian revolution)
sweetheart deal
dismissal, removal & resignation: river / sea / water
China for so many years has had a ~ (politics)
destruction: river / sea / water
America’s sweetheart swim (verb)
in 2012, Taylor Swift was unequivocally ~
high school sweetheart swim or sink
she wed ~ Bobby we are going to ~ together (revitalizing Detroit / 2010)
survival, persistence & endurance: water / verb
high-school sweetheart
they had been ~s swing (take a swing)
kiss of my sweetheart took a swing at BP
the tender ~ on my cheek the President ~ (oil slick)
attraction & repulsion / heart: person / taste got in one more swing
person: heart the Sander’s campaign ~ against his opponent (politics)
sweet spot conflict: boxing / verb
looking for a sweet spot swing (in full swing)
a happy medium, something in between, they are ~
in full swing
flaw & lack of flaws: taste
the economic recovery is ~
swell (verb) the fire season is ~
the coronavirus crisis is ~
swollen in South Carolina
activity / extent & scope: movement / pendulum
welfare rolls have ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / pendulum
swelled enrollment from 1,500 to 2,100 swing (swing around)
a marketing push that has ~ (school)
swelled to (nearly) 8,000 swung around
by the 1940s, the number of fire lookouts had ~ this thing has ~ (losing boxer wins round)

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reversal: pendulum / movement sword (at swords' points)
development: direction / movement
swing (development) at swords' points
they are ~
swing state conflict: sword
Iowa is a ~
sword (fall on one's sword)
development: movement / pendulum
swirl (verb) fell on his sword
he ~ right away (admitted guilt)
swirl fall on our swords
new questions ~ over the downing of the plane we don't need to ~ for this principle (practicality)
swirling judgment / responsibility: sword / verb
questions are ~, “What happened” (murder of woman)
sword (double-edged sword)
swirled around his death
conspiracy theories ~ (Adrian Lamo) double-edged sword of biotechnology
the ~ (germ warfare)
swirl around him
allegations continue to ~ (cheating, etc.) effect / feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword
swirling for two years sword (two-edged sword)
these allegations have been ~ (politics)
two-edged sword
swirled for decades it’s a ~ (injuries during football practices)
rumors have ~ (assassination) freedom of choice can be a ~ (too many choices)

continue to swirl feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword

questions ~ around Boeing after two deadly air crashes sword (fate)
continues to swirl
the mystery ~ about exactly what happened (crime) sword
the whole agency has a ~ hanging over it (INS)
activity / initiation: movement / verb / water
fate, fortune & chance: blade / sword
swoon (verb)
Sword of Damocles
swooning over the (new) products
retailers are ~ (trade fair) Sword of Damocles
it’s a ~, and it’s hanging over our head
swoon over the (artistic) renderings there’s a ~ hanging over lawmakers for the next 3 weeks
architects still ~ (an eco-city) (reform)

swoon for him fate, fortune & chance: allusion / blade / sword
Romney will never get voters to ~ (election) sword (violence)
caused critics to swoon
the band has ~
sword
the pen is mightier than the ~
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / verb he who lives by the ~, dies by the sword
feeling, emotion & effect: love, courtship & marriage / verb
violence: sword
sword (cross swords)
swordfish
crossed swords with the (US) administration on Iraq
he ~ (an Egyptian leader) swordfish
tuna, ~, and marlin are almost gone (overfishing)
crossed swords with rights campaigners
proper name / resemblance: sword
he ~ (a country's leader)
cross swords over this
symphony (noun)
did you ever ~ (become antagonistic) symphony of frogs
conflict: sword / verb the sound of thunder competes with a ~ (Yucatán)
symphony of croaking, grunting, barking, chirping,
we listened to a spectacular ~ and squeaking (rain forest)

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sound: music table (off the table)
resemblance: music / sound
symptom (noun) off the table
freedom of speech is ~
symptom of changing times take it off the table
another ~ there are good reasons not to ~ (to not use a chemical)
symptom of a (much wider) pathology dismissal, removal & resignation: table
he is a ~ infecting the entire system (Chinese politics) position, policy & negotiation: table
evidence: health & medicine table (set the table)
synch (in synch) set the table for you
in synch with the president’s I’ll be with you for 3 hours to ~ (MMA pre-show)
his hawkish ideas are ~ development / sequence: food & drink / table
unanimity & consensus: tools & technology table (turn the tables)
system (circulatory system) turned the tables
circulatory system of the global economy China ~ and expressed its own complaints (diplomacy)
companies like Maersk underpin the ~ (NotPetya worm) turn the tables
branching system: blood the book is her way to ~ and have the final word (tell-all)
turned the tables on her tutor
T she ~
reversal: table / verb
table (on the table) position, policy & negotiation: table / verb
table (inclusivity)
on the table
is the offer still ~ (employment) seat at the table
all options are going to be ~ (diplomatic and military) by the ‘80s, the drive was on to claim a ~ (minority poets)
all of this needs to be ~ and part of the discussion the defense industry should have a ~, but not own the table
what kind of deal might be ~ (litigation)
everything is ~ (response to virus) table has been extended
the ~ but is still within establishment walls (poetry)
position, policy & negotiation: table
inclusion & exclusion: table
table (under the table)
table (Table Mountain, etc.)
pay employees under the table
some employers ~ to escape taxes Table Bay
~ was named after Table Mountain (Cape Town)
subterfuge: direction / table
Table Island
table (bring something to the table) ~ has a flat top
brings a lot to the table Table Mountain
she ~ (employee) ~ overlooks Cape Town (South Africa)
worth & lack of worth: table / verb proper name / shape: table
table (bring everything to the table) taboo
brought everything to the table taboo of his era
I ~ (the boxer Bobby Czyz) he married a white woman, the ultimate ~ (boxer)
commitment & determination: table / verb taboos against homosexuality
table (come back to the table) the ~

come back to the table taboo against use

so is your company ready to ~ (negotiate)
position, policy & negotiation: table / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: table / verb
a longstanding ~ of nuclear weapons except…
taboo in India
public displays of affection remain largely ~

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taboo in Turkey direction: boat / verb
the subject is still ~ (Armenian genocide)
tack (noun)
taboos about (sexual) behavior
strong ~… (in conservative Muslim areas) backward tack
I am embarrassed by the ~ of this administration
taboo practice
~s tend to grow in popularity different tack
she took a ~ for her next project
taboo site
direction: boat
block access to ~s (Internet)
taboo subject tackle (verb)
he found humor in ~s (comedian Richard Pryor) tackle its (drug) gangs
he addressed such ~s as race and sexuality (Pryor) Mexico needs to ~
taboo topic tackle that issue
raising taxes is a ~ (Republicans) the administration will ~
taboo and mysterious tackle it
people are attracted because it's so ~ (a sex act) soccer must face up to this problem and ~ (fan racism)
longstanding taboo tackle our problems
a ~ against use of nuclear weapons except… we need to ~ in a practical way (Obama)
cultural taboo tackle (big-ticket) problems
~s and scientific advancement (autopsies) scientists and engineers used to ~
rape is a ~ in Sudan
few carry it out because of strong ~s (suicide / Korea) action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: football / sports & games / verb / walking,
moral taboos
running & jumping
the ~ associated with germ weapons
social taboo
tail (chase one's tail)
homosexuality is considered a ~… (US high schools) chasing our tails
she challenged a ~ (Egyptian refused abortion) we're just ~
strong taboos progress & lack of progress: animal / dog / direction / verb
~ about sexual behavior (in conservative Muslim areas)
tail (turn tail)
ultimate taboo
he married a white woman, the ~ of his era (boxer) turned tail on the issue
for many people, anal sex is the ~ he has ~ (a politician)
a bit of a taboo dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat
asking somebody what they earn is ~ (in US) / reversal: animal / dog / verb
carries a taboo tail (tail between one’s legs)
voodoo still ~ (New Orleans)
with his tail between his legs
challenged a (social) taboo he left the company ~
she ~ (refused an abortion and filed a paternity suit) he will come home ~
♦ “This is a total tail between the legs kind of getting out of town and
considered taboo leave the field to others.” (A pundit talking about US withdrawal from
women work, often alongside men, once ~ (Algeria) parts of Syria.)
♦ Captain James Cook may have introduced this word to the English ♦ “If a dog can’t bark, it licks.” (An insult.)
language following his visit to Tonga. The Tongan word tabu or tapu
means not allowed, forbidden. dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / reversal / superiority & inferiority: animal / dog

tack (verb) tail (orientation)

tacked to the center logistical tail
he has charted a new course and ~ (politician) a ~ stretching hundreds of miles (war)

change tack orientation: animal / direction

he decided to reverse these strikes, to ~ (military decision) resemblance: animal

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tail end (the finish of something) taint of (any serious) crime
the ~ can blight a family (Japan)
tail end of my career
corruption / evidence: materials & substances
I'm at the ~ but… (boxer touting next fight)
tail end of summer
taint (verb)
local restrictions are being lifted in time for the ~ (COVID) tainted his data
tail end of the week his drug company financing ~ (doctor)
temperatures should start to dip by the ~ taint (a doctor's or researcher's) judgment
starting, going, continuing & ending: animal drug company ties can ~

tailor (verb) taint his legacy

the revelations ~ (informant for FBI)
tailors its coverage to support
corruption: materials & substances / verb
it ~ Hamas (TV network)
tailor drills to fit
tainted
~ the situation and terrain you will encounter (military) tainted
tailor METT-TC to fit the election was ~ (missing absentee ballots)
creative leaders ~ each situation (military) tainted by faulty methodology
adapting: clothing & accessories / verb scientists say his studies are ~ (autism)
amelioration & renewal: clothing & accessories / verb tainted by (government lawyers') misconduct
tailspin (into a tailspin) the verdict was ~

sent her into a tailspin tainted by partisanship

the news ~ (light sentence for her stalker) the process was ~ from start to finish (impeachment trial)

throws the project into a tailspin tainted by torture

the vote ~ he though evidence was ~ (military lawyer)

decline: movement / plane evidence was tainted

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement / he thought ~ by torture (military lawyer)
plane corruption: materials & substances
tailspin (in a tailspin) take (refuse to take)
CNN is in a tailspin take it
~ (losing viewers) I'm not going to ~ (abuse from boss)
decline: movement / plane
take it any more
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement / I can't ~
plane
tailwind (noun) take this lying down
don't think I'll ~
economic tailwind we weren’t going to ~ (Tiger Bay)
the president is riding an ~ take the allegations lying down
♦ “The president is riding an economic tailwind. The president is riding he was not about to ~
that tailwind very well... Any president as a pilot would be riding this
tailwind, but for some reason this president can’t seem to stay long acceptance & rejection / resistance, opposition & defeat:
enough [chuckling] in the jet stream to ride the tailwind that he has in the
economy. He goes off on tangent after tangent and doesn’t seem able to
verb
ride the economic boom that he’s sitting under because he just can’t
maintain the discipline to do that. He does not ride the tailwind that he
take (take something / endurance)
has.” (ABC News Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd, Sunday, May 5,
2018.) took it on the chin
he ~ (arrested criminal refuses to snitch)
force / help & assistance: plane / wind
progress & lack of progress: plane / wind took a lot of shit from those bastards
taint (noun) I ~ but I warriored through
survival, persistence & endurance: verb
taint of a bankruptcy
the ~ can be poisonous

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take (take somebody somewhere)
takes us
the question is where that then ~ (boxing)
take us where
the investigation will ~ it takes us
take us through
~ what the response has been so far (radio interview)
took me to new heights
he ~ (sex)
take you to intriguing and frightening places
his collection of stories will ~ (Stephen King)
directing: journeys & trips / verb
fictive transportation: journeys & trips / verb
development: journeys & trips / verb
take (analysis)
their take
~ of what happened was more sympathetic than mine
analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving,
bringing & returning
takeaway (noun)
taken down a who’s who
the fallout has ~ of the rich and connected (universities)
take them down
videos are shared before Facebook and YouTube can ~
curtailment / destruction: direction / verb
accusation & criticism: direction / sports & games / verb /
wrestling
takedown (noun)
takedown of the marketplace
300 have been arrested following the ~ (dark-web porn)
literary takedown
I love a good ~ (fact-checking, plagiarism, etc.)
curtailment / destruction: direction
accusation & criticism: direction / sports & games /
wrestling
take in (comprehend)
take it (all) in
he seemed to ~ (understand what I was saying)
comprehension & incomprehension: container / giving,
receiving, bringing & returning / verb

takeaways of this study take off (verb)

one of the biggest ~ is that...
take off
takeaway thoughts I think it's going to ~ great (a new directory)
are you left with any preliminary big ~ about what this
taken off
means
none of these websites have ~ and caught fire (filtering)
big takeaway
took off
so give me the ~, what did you find (a new poll)
for some reason it ~, it exploded (Plague of Justinian)
big top-line takeaway
take off all over the country
the ~ is what we already know (NPR political pundit)
his business is starting to ~ (Novosibirsk)
biggest and most important takeaway took off in a big way
what was the ~ from the report
his business ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving,
sales (of luxury cars) have taken off
bringing & returning
~ (in China)
take away (a message, etc.) make e-reading take off
take away a Windows-compatible system will ~
the message I hope people ~ is... growth & development / increase & decrease / initiation:
analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving, flying & falling / plane / verb
bringing & returning / verb take on (verb)
take down (kill) take on the big banks
take down the shooter she has pledged to ~ (a candidate)
officers on patrol managed to ~ (killed him) took on the powerful politicians
euphemism: death & life / direction / verb she was a political gadfly who ~ (Molly Ivins)

take down (verb) take on President Trump

a growing list of Democrats hope to ~ (election)
took down a predator
resistance, opposition & defeat: verb
we ~ and put him behind bars (Hollywood mogul)

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talent scout (and spotter, etc.) talk (talk over somebody)
talent spotter for Iranian intelligence talked over each other and the moderators
she began working with a so-called ~ (American) the candidates often ~ (electoral debate)
searching & discovery: person / theater dominance & submission: direction / speech

talisman (noun) talker (slick talker)

Arsenal’s talisman slick talker
~ Aubameyang worked his Wembley magic once again he is a ~
amelioration & renewal: magic sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech
speech: person
talk (money talks, etc.)
tame (verb)
talk to us
we developed sensors to listen to the volcano ~ tame a (schoolyard) bully
how to ~
money talks
whether we like it or not, ~ tame the deficit
♦ “This time he let his tennis do the talking...” (Nick Kyrgios vs. Rafael
we need to ~
Nadal.)
tame a (rabies) outbreak
fictive communication: speech / verb the authorities are trying to ~
talk (trash talk) tame a (great) river
it's impossible to ~ (floods)
trash talk (v)
they don't have to ~, they talk with their feet (NFL) tame her urge
she can't ~ to go shopping
trash talk (n)
the ~ escalated to violence tamed the Wild West
Google has ~ of copyright infringement
trash talking
months of ~ and hype preceded the boxing match amelioration & renewal / behavior / control & lack of
♦ In Smithsonian (June 2011) there is a page showing a pretty, smiling control: animal / verb
tame (adjective)
young woman sitting behind a pile of trash consisting of empty plastic
bottles. The page is titled “TRASH TALK” and points the reader to an
article on sustainable development.
renders the munition tame
speech: waste high heat ~ (mustard agent)
insult: speech / waste
attenuation: animal
talk (sweet talk)
tangent (on a tangent)
sweet talk
just don't believe the ~ (from bar girls) went off on a tangent
he ~ (conversation)
speech: taste
speech: geometry
talk (talk somebody through something)
tangle (noun)
talk us through this
~, why... (explain) tangle of alliances
the US stepped into this minefield, this ~ (northern Syria)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: speech / verb
complexity / involvement: cloth / rope
talk (talk the talk)
tangled
talks the talk
he can ~ but he can’t walk the walk tangled in lawsuits
she and the company are ~
let my legs do the talking
I will just let my ~ (female runner vs. Nike kerfuffle) complexity / involvement: cloth / rope
♦ This is connected to (or binomial with) “walk the walk.” tank (empty the tank, etc.)
commitment & determination: speech / verb
empty the tank
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech / verb
he must ~ now and go for it (a boxing match)

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commitment & determination: engine tar (tar and feather, etc.)
tap (verb)
tar all liberals
tap this anger they used her essay to ~ (culture wars)
he wants to ~, feed it and nurture it (politics)
tar people’s reputations
tap your creativity reporters ~ based on past poor decisions (cancel culture)
we want to ~
tar Trump as an anti-Semite
tap the talent many liberal American Jews have tried to ~
the agency wants to ~s of people who…
tarred his challenger as soft
tapped the vein he ~ on crime (George HW Bush)
he has ~ of popular outrage over… (politician)
tarring Trump with the same brush
tap, feed and nurture she is ~ that Trump used to tar Obama
he wants to ~ this anger (politician appeals to base) accusation & criticism / punishment & recrimination /
access & lack of access: water / verb oppression / speech: history / verb / violence
tap (noun) target (verb)
taps turned off target them towards children
the ~ (money for refinancing loans) the government will stockpile flu shots and ~
access & lack of access: water target the behaviors
rewards should ~ you would like to encourage
tap (on tap)
target: weapon / verb
on tap
is there currently any legislation ~ that addresses this target (noun)
on tap for tomorrow target
heavy rain is ~ (weather forecast) every policeman is a ~

on tap for the South targets of anger

more heavy rain ~ family, friends and the health team are often ~ (the dying)
future: container / water target of a bully
being the ~ is not pleasant
tap into (verb)
target of (barracks) humor
tapped into people's distrust his innocence makes him the ~ (soldiers)
his ideas ~ of government (vaccinations)
target of an investigation
tap into funding he was the ~ by the commission (corruption)
the president will ~ from other government agencies
targets of jealousy
tap into (new) markets Native American athletes risk becoming the ~
we are seeking to ~
targets of a (domestic-terrorism) probe
tap into the reservoir ~ by the FBI
the militants can ~ of submerged hatred towards the West
targets of revenge
tapped into a (long-standing millenarianism) tradition judges sometimes become ~
he ~ (Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Rebellion)
target of the (war's) supporters
access & lack of access: water / verb the interview made Arnett a ~ (Iraq War)
tapestry (noun) target of prejudice or (physical) harm
racial tapestry fear of becoming a ~ (gays in sports)
the loosely woven seams of America’s ~ target of (would-be) illegal immigrants
melting pot, a (beautiful) tapestry, or a salad bowl Melilla is a major ~ (Morocco)
is the United States a ~ targets of bullying
mixture / identity & nature: carpets & rugs / cloth students who are ~ (grade 6-10)
targets of (last week's) rioting

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 the ~ included… potential targets
companies that are ~ for reparations lawsuits (US)
target of kidnappings and killings
the family has been the ~ (Colombia) visible target
he made himself a ~ (arrested)
target on his back
he’s going to have a ~ (political debate) become targets
he had a ~, and his opponents took dead aim (politics) judges sometimes ~ of revenge
target on your back indicated the target
when you’re leading the pack, everyone can see the ~ a yellow arrow ~ (BASE jump / landing zone)
targets for (violent) individuals zoom in on targets
government agencies are often ~ the cameras can ~ 3 miles away (Newark / police)
target for (future human) exploration target: weapon
asteroids are a tempting ~
target (moving target)
targets for (violent) perpetrators
the elderly are easy ~ moving target
it’s a ~ (trying to calculate loss due to plane groundings)
targets for poachers
panhandler bears become easy ~ success & failure / target: weapon

targets for (negative) stereotypes target (hit the target)

they are easy ~ (Irish Travelers)
hit all its targets
targets for (reparations) lawsuits the company has ~
companies that are potential ~ (US) success & failure: target / verb / weapon
target audience target (miss the target, etc.)
the ~
fell short of its (enlistment) target
target date
the Navy fell short of its ~
fund the project to completion by the ~ of 2030
miss its (earnings) target
target demographic
the company announced it would ~
its ~ of Jews in their twenties
missing its teacher recruitment targets
target disease
the government is ~
tetanus is one of the ~s of the WHO (neonatal)
success & failure: target / verb / weapon
target genes
he's focusing on ~ for schizophrenia target (easy target)
target populations easy (takeover) targets
~ such as school-age children (public health) smaller companies are ~
target pressure easy target
pop-off valves set to the ~ (hyperbaric chamber) the elderly are ~ for violent perpetrators
panhandler bears become ~s for poachers
tempting target
they look at you as an ~ (young men in prison)
~s for future human exploration (asteroids)
difficulty, easiness & effort: target / weapon
earnings target
protection & lack of protection: target / weapon
the company announced it would miss its ~
target date
enlistment target
the Navy fell short of its ~ target date of 2030
fund the project to completion by the ~
takeover target
smaller companies are easy ~ timeliness & lack of timeliness: target / weapon
main target targeted
their ~s were…(looters following eruption)
targeted (radiation) treatment
numerical target a ~ (for breast cancer)
we are not setting ~s for what they should buy
target: weapon

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tarnish (verb) taste (taste of freedom, etc.)
tarnishes the badge taste of what
this ~ we all wear proudly on our chests (bad cop) get a ~ Native Americans went through… (smallpox)
tarnished the image taste of (hostile) fire
many lawyers believed that he ~ of the profession they were getting their first ~ (marines)
tarnished the country's image taste of freedom
the government has ~ abroad I wanted a ~
tarnished his reputation taste of home
his massive accumulation of wealth ~ (politician) the meal provided a ~ (Thanksgiving overseas)
tarnishes his reputation taste of (cowboy) life
admitting to drug use ~ (an athlete) Americans seeking a ~
tarnished his victory taste of regret
allegations of fraud ~ (elections) the bitter ~ (bad decisions)
attenuation / corruption / failure, accident & impairment: taste of (business) success
light & dark / verb a~
tarnished taste of winter
western North Carolina gets ~ (snow showers, cold)
tarnished by allegations
his legacy is ~ he… (a boxer) taste of acting
he got his first ~ when he was twelve years old
tarnished by (doping) scandals
it is the latest black mark on a sport that has been ~ taste of (local) Fijian culture
we got our ~
tarnished reputation
this little film cleans the ~ of romantic comedies bitter taste
the ~ of regret (bad decisions)
jury pool had been tarnished
his lawyer argued the ~ by the extensive press coverage first taste
he got his ~ of acting when he was twelve years old
reputation is (forever) tarnished
now his ~ (a professional athlete) got our (first) taste
we ~ of local Fijian culture
attenuation / corruption / failure, accident & impairment:
light & dark seeking a taste
Americans ~ of cowboy life
taste (taste freedom, etc.)
wanted a taste
taste abuse I ~ of freedom
she may also ~ (women who work abroad)
amount / consumption / experience: food & drink / taste
taste defeat
it’s seven and a half years since he had to ~ (a boxer)
taste (taste for violence, etc.)
tasted defeat taste for it
he has ~ before (a boxer) you have to have a real ~ (a culinary occupation)

taste a freedom taste for violence

a woman may ~ from familial duties (abroad) women have developed a ~ (books, films)
♦ Revenge tastes sweet. / Revenge is a dish best served cold. taste for flashy cars
♦ “At the entrance to the restaurant, sits the Moor Mohammed. / Who he displayed a ~ and elaborate mansions
asks, “What would you like to eat?” (A Spanish Civil War song. The
dishes he serves include exploding hand grenades.) taste for rice beer
♦ “Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew elephants have developed a ~ (Guwahati)
barbed wire in Flanders?” (Winston Churchill, in a letter of advice to
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. The alternative turned out to be taste for fighting
Gallipoli.)
I've always had a ~ (a gang member)
consumption / experience: food & drink / taste / verb
consumer tastes
a new trend in ~

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movie tastes judgment: food & drink / taste
software to track ~ (Blockbuster)
taste (a bad taste, etc.)
higher-priced tastes
they seemed to have more money and ~ (Tulane) bitter taste
the ~ of regret (bad decisions)
acquiring a taste
nomads are ~ for the settled life (Saudi Arabia) sour taste
this has left a ~ (bad sportsmanship)
displayed a taste
he ~ for flashy cars and big mansions erased the (sour-milk) taste
helped by a bullpen that ~ of Friday's loss…
developed a taste
elephants have ~ for rice beer (Guwahati); leaves a bad taste in one's mouth
he ~ for akpeteshie, palm-wine moonshine (Ghana) but this ~ especially if…

had a taste consumption / corruption / feeling, emotion & effect /

I've always ~ for fighting (a gang member) flaws & lack of flaws: food & drink / taste

lost its taste tatters (in tatters)

England has not ~ for the fight (boxing)
left in tatters
lose her taste the party has been ~
she seemed to ~ for the game (injured athlete) he risked seeing his career ~

cater to all tastes condition & status / failure, accident & impairment / flaws
Sydney can ~ (sex) & lack of flaws: cloth / clothing & accessories

consumption / enthusiasm: food & drink / taste taxing (adjective)

wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink / taste
taxing
taste (in good taste, etc.) the job was extremely ~
in good taste difficulty, easiness & effort: money
I think it is ~ (athletes' fashions)
T-bone (verb)
judgment: food & drink / taste
T-boned me
taste (judgment) a semi-truck ran through a stop sign and ~
taste in décor T-boned my mother's car
weight, wardrobe and ~ (hot-button issues for women) the teen ran a stop sign and ~
taste in music failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions /
if you're unsure about his ~… (dating advice) letters & characters / shape
taste in popular culture T-boned
African-American girlfriends influenced Mankiller's ~
T-boned by a drunk
tastemaker I was ~ on Christmas (in a car)
her authority as a ~
T-boned by a dump truck
expensive taste five years ago, I was ~
she was style conscious and had ~
failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions /
personal taste letters & characters / shape
placement is a matter of ~ and preference (piercing)
teacup (person)
events for every taste
there are ~… (concerts, contests / Sturgis biker rally) teacup
he's a ~ (emotionally fragile student)
judgment and taste ♦ A similar term to teacup is snowflake. In the old days, such people
he revealed questionable ~ were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy; a wallflower. The
modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion).
cultivate a (less conformist) taste
give her the courage to ~ (teens) character & personality: hardness & softness / person
strength & weakness: hardness & softness / person
shown much taste
nor has McKenzie ~ in new repertory (A.B.T.)

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teacup (storm in a teacup) war ~ (a Serb in Kosovo)

storm in a teacup tear the social fabric apart

the stress of collapsing economies can ~
he described the rumors as a ~
destruction: verb
importance & significance: size
teak (wood) tear up (verb)
teak-tough tear up the treaty
the president wants to ~
Baranchyk, a ~ operator, didn’t fall (the boxer)
destruction: verb
strength & weakness: materials & substances / tree
tea leaves tease out (verb)
political tea leaves tease that out
let’s ~ (talk radio)
the governor is going to read the ~ and make a decision
fate, fortune & chance / future: magic tease out what
well, let’s try to ~ that might mean (talk radio)
team (dream team)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth / verb
dream team of civic leaders tectonic (adjective)
he has put together a ~ (a promoter)
dream team of lawyers tectonic plates
the ~ of French politics have shifted (Marine Le Pen)
he had resources to throw at a ~ (Jeffrey Epstein)
known as the Dream Team tectonic (paradigm) shift
this is an enormous, ~
they were members of the Simpson legal defence, ~ (trial)
amount & effect / bases / extent & scope: earth & world /
superlative: epithet / sports & games
earthquake / ground, terrain & land
group, set & collection / epithet: sports & games
team up (verb) teddy bear
team up teddy bear
fans ~ to bully and harass people online he's a ~
♦ *The phrase relates to a cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt sparing the life
unanimity & consensus: sports & games / verb of a bear cub while hunting.

teapot (internet teapot, etc.) character & personality: hardness & softness

internet teapots tee off (start)

the tempest of these controversies remains confined to ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: food & drink / heating
water / sound
tear (crying)
teed off an advertising boycott
the tapes have ~ (politics)
starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games / verb
initiation: sports & games / verb

a lot of tears tee off on (verb)

that conversation with them, there were ~ (about race)
tee off on him
there have been ~, a lot of questions (upset teens)
it was another chance for his rivals to ~ (politics)
people are very moved, there are ~ (a movie)
teed off on senators
a lot of pain, a lot of tears, a lot of grief
he ~ who walked out of his testimony
that’s ~ (Cuomo speech about the pandemic)
speech: sports & games
blood, sweat and tears
accusation & criticism: hitting, slamming & lashing / sports
he gave the franchise 20 years of his ~ (Kobe Bryant)
& games
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / sign, signal, teeter (verb)
symbol
teetering on the brink
tear apart (verb) the factory is ~ of insolvency
tore apart her (tidy) life the country is ~ of default (Greece / economy)
the world was ~ of war

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teeters on the edge teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
the air travel network ~ of collapse
sink my teeth into
teetered on the edge I wanted a role that I could really ~ (actor)
his campaign ~ of electoral abyss, but it is scrambling back
sinks her teeth into a case
fate, fortune & chance: equilibrium & stability / verb
she’s a pit bull, she ~ and doesn’t let go
teeth (in / into the teeth of) sink my teeth into something
in the teeth of these (challenging) times I’m a pit bull, I ~ and don’t let go (crime investigator)
but ~ (politics, economy) attachment: animal / dog / teeth
into the teeth of a storm teething
the ship sailed ~ they knew was coming (Viking Sky)
teething issues
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / danger: animal there are always new ~ (very young airplanes)
/ teeth
teething problems
teeth (take the teeth out) the COVID-19 detecting apps face ~
taken the teeth out of the law growth & development: baby / teeth
they have ~ (no mechanism for enforcement)
telescope (noun)
attenuation / force / strength & weakness: animal / teeth /
verb end of the telescope
you can look at this from either ~ (worker vs. CEO)
teeth (to the teeth)
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
armed to the teeth
they are ~
tell (data can tell us something, etc.)
extent & scope: teeth tell
a skin test is the only way to ~ if you have TB infection
teeth (force)
tells everyone
teeth a tie ~, “I respect you, my job, and myself” (an opinion)
the regulations must have enough ~ (enforcement)
told me
teeth of the defense my experience has ~ that...
he ran right into the ~ (football game)
tell a very different story
lack teeth the facts ~ (a murder investigation)
the so-called reforms ~ and will do little
tell us
force / strength & weakness: animal / teeth what did the data ~ at the time (investigation)
teeth (kick in the teeth) tell us everything
the next couple of weeks will probably ~ we need to know
kick in the teeth
it's been a real ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation / evidence / fictive
communication: speech / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: foot / teeth
teeth (gnash one’s teeth) tell-all (book)
tell-all
gnashing their teeth his book is not a ~ (military figure)
Democrats are ~ (over third-party candidacy)
concealment & lack of concealment: verb to noun
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / teeth / verb
restraint & lack of restraint: verb to noun
teeth (cut one’s teeth) telling
cut her teeth (in politics in the 1980s) interning telling
she ~ for Wilma Mankiller the terms used were ~ (G-20 negotiations)
growth & development: baby / teeth
telling sign
that's a ~ (beaten boxer clinches)
evidence: speech

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temperature (raise / lower the political tenor
there’s an undeniable ~ to the debate
temperature)
evidence / perception, perspective & point of view: sound
lower the temperature
I want to ~ in America, not raise it (Joe Biden) tent (fold one's tent)
bring down the temperature fold our tents
the way you bring order is to ~ (protests) we don't ~ and run… (prosecutors vs. appeals)

raise the temperature of public debate fold its tents

questions over rights ~ (gay students) many think the football program should quietly ~

raise the temperature of the debate coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: tent / verb
this will ~ (impeachment) commitment & determination: tent / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: tent / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb
tent (inclusivity)
tempest (noun)
big tent
tempest Mr Sanders said his campaign was a ‘a ~’
this ~ has already swept away governments (economy)
bigger tent
tempest of these controversies a narrow definition of bluegrass versus a ~ (inclusion)
the ~ remains confined to a handful of internet teapots fighting for the Methodist Church to become a ~ (gays)
storm in a teacup big-tent philosophy
this might sound like a ~ but... (Oxford prof harassed) we no long want to espouse a ~ (political party)
international tempest big-tent-theology
the report caused an ~ the Methodist Church has always been a ~ church
amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind inside the tent
tempestuous (adjective) they were glad to be back “~” (consulted by government)
outside the tent
mutually tempestuous
better to observe him there than have him ~ (government)
their relationship was ~
flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
inside or outside the tent
does she want him ~ (government)
temple (noun)
drawn into the tent
temple of my profession we want people to get ~ of conservation (Joel Sartore)
that job took me into the ~ (journalist / New York Times)
expand-the-tent
reverence: religion he maintains his base strategy versus an ~ strategy (politics)
♦ “Bring everyone in and shut no one out, take no one for granted, write
tendril (resemblance) nobody off. So I’m for everyone.” (The politician Beto O’Rourke.)

tendrils of mist inclusion & exclusion: tent / society

~ were wrapping across the top of Lhotse (Everest) acceptance & rejection: tent / society
dark little tendrils tentacle (noun)
gray-green clouds dropped virga in ~ (mountains)
tentacles (all) through Central America
resemblance: plant he had ~ (a drug kingpin)
tendril (growth) tentacles in California, Arizona, Chicago
he had ~ (“El Chapo” Guzman)
tendrils of (international) terror
efforts to find the ~ in the US network's tentacles
the ~ reached far (human-organ trafficking)
branching system / extent & scope: plant
growth & development: plant extend its tentacles
tenor (noun) Indians helped imperialism ~ (East Africa)
extent & scope / predation: animal / arm
tenor of this conversation
I am distressed and disappointed with the ~

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tentpole (movies, etc.) terrain (area)
Tentpole Age terrain
we are in the ~ (movies) they have shown themselves adept at navigating the ~
tentpole events native terrain
~ are cultural, trending and popular (Super Bowl, etc.) his ~ is modern Britain (a filmmaker)
tent pole movies changing terrain
adult dramatic fare performs less well than branded ~ the deal highlights the ~ as investors adjust
tent-pole movies master much terrain
~ can run to $300 million or more in total costs a contemporary musician must ~
tentpoles and their multiple offshoots area / environment: ground, terrain & land
superhero ~ have a corporate stranglehold on film culture
terrain (dangerous terrain, etc.)
two-hour-plus tentpoles
the film is short compared to today’s ~ dangerous terrain
management is stepping into ~ (NPR fires Juan Williams)
summer tentpole
what more could you want from a ~ difficult terrain
the Midwest, with its job losses, is ~ for Democrats
typical tentpole she explores ~, including her husband’s death (a writer)
the daily cost for filming was on part with a ~
rocky terrain
make only tent poles she adeptly negotiated the ~ of the NYC publishing world
a climate of fear pushes studios to ~ (G. Clooney)
danger / flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
♦ “Phoenix and Phillips are satisfied that they’ve slipped something that
feels like auteur cinema under a tentpole usually reserved for blow-‘em-
up teenage fare...” (The great Vanity Fair article about Joaquin Phoenix
terrain (known and unknown terrain)
by Joe Hagan.)
familiar terrain
♦ “Everyone on the Slate Culture gabfest has suddenly started using [the
word tentpole] this month, and now the NYTimes too.” (Liz Schenck the farther you travel from the ~ of the legacy world
Phillips at the Merriam-Webster website.)
new terrain
basis / branching system: tent the Emmys have entered ~ (backstage Webcasts)
tepid (adjective) area / certainty & uncertainty: direction / ground, terrain &
land / journeys & trips / map
tepid
support for the proposed center is ~ territory (known and unknown
reaction to the president's speech was ~ at best territory)
public support for it is decidedly ~ (impeachment)
tepid about her candidacy familiar territory
they are heading into ~, an important division game (sports)
many members of Congress were ~
tepid response uncharted territory
we're in ~ in terms of predicting his recovery… (coma)
performers who get a ~ say they died on stage
sending public opinion into ~
tepid support
the proposed change won his ~
unknown territory
he was at 62, ~ for a man who'd never won (golf)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
area / certainty & uncertainty: direction / ground, terrain &
terminated (murdered) land / journeys & trips / map

terminated territory (come with the territory, etc.)

he should have been ~ long ago (a terrorist)
come with its territory
euphemism: death & life his book avoids the pitfalls that ~ (a biography)
these things ~ (internet abuse of diplomat)
termite (noun)
comes with the territory
termites getting blamed ~ (a basketball coach)
he has referred to them as ~ who need to be wiped out this ~ when you work in a hospital (long hours)
insult / violence: animal / insect goes with the territory

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 some people are skeptical, but that ~ (diplomacy) help & assistance: speech / verb to noun
presence & absence: ground, terrain & land thaw (verb)
fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
thaw
territory (assigned area) the freeze began to ~ when… (relations)
home territory amelioration & renewal: snow & ice / temperature / verb
cell-phone users outside their ~s
thaw (noun)
outside their (home) territories
cell-phone users ~ thaw in relations
the border will reopen after a ~ (Burma and Thailand)
area: ground, terrain & land the 2 leaders promised a ~ (Saudi / Iran)
territory (stake out territory) amelioration & renewal: snow & ice / temperature
stake out new territory theater (performance)
as Microsoft tries to ~
negotiation theater
possession: ground, terrain & land it looks serious, but it might just be ~ (trade talks)
territory (area) diplomatic theater
it provided ~ of the most electrifying kind (UN)
vast territory
the ~ between the extremes has been bridged (book political theater
retailing) get out your popcorn, get ready for ~ today (hearing)
the vote was a bit of ~
area / environment: ground, terrain & land
the candidate debate reprised a piece of ~
test (test of time) ♦ “All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players; /
They have their exits and their entrances...” (Shakespeare, As You Like
stands the test of time It.)
what ~ (our favorite books) performance: theater
stood the test of time theater (appearance)
standards of honor that have ~
their marriage has ~ (arranged) theater and hot air
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: survival, many thought him all ~ (national leader)
persistence & endurance: school & education appearance & reality: theater
test (stress test) theater of the absurd
stress test theater of the absurd
banks must take a ~ (check finances in case of crisis) call this what this is, which is a ~ (politics)
condition & status: health & medicine fantasy & reality / feeling, emotion & effect: theater
test (smell test) theatrics (noun)
pass the smell test cheap "theatrics"
this is problematic, it doesn’t ~ (Catholic misconduct) the ~ (politics)
evidence / suspicion: smell performance: theater
tethered there (there is no there there, etc.)
tethered to their computers there’s no there there
doctors and nurses are ~ (criticism of healthcare) ~ (articles of impeachment)
attachment: rope there is there there or not
there hasn’t been any inquiry into whether ~
thanks (noun)
♦ For an excellent article about this, see “Why Gertrude Stein’s ‘No
There There’ Is Everywhere” by Ben Zimmer, Wall Street Journal, Feb 2,
thanks to (two) headers 2018.
the Dutch reached the semis ~ in the second half (soccer)
substance & lack of substance: place
thanks to TikTok presence & absence: place
the song’s massive blowup is partially ~

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there (there for me, etc.) character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect:
sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
there for me
the community was ~ (in time of grief) thin (size)
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle razor-thin
the election was decided by a ~ margin
there (destination)
size: breadth / fatness & thinness
not there yet
we’re ~ (resolution of trauma) thin (substance)
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement / thin
prep, adv, adj, particle the add-on could work, but the evidence is ~ (IVF)

there (out there, etc.) thin on whether

the evidence has been ~ convalescent plasma can help
out there on their own
extent & scope: breadth
nobody wanted to go first, to be ~ (me too movement)
substance & lack of substance: breadth
presence & absence: ground, terrain & land
thin (thin on the ground, etc.)
thermometer (noun)
thin on the ground
thermometer British artists were ~ (awards show)
a feeling, a ~, a temperature reading of what is happening (a police officers are ~ (looting in Minneapolis)
poll)
amount / presence & absence: breadth
measurement: temperature / tools & technology
thing (prior reference)
Thermopylae
Reagan-Gorbachev thing
series of Thermopylaes the ~ ultimately fell apart (relationship)
white blood cells rush to an endless ~ to man the pass
importance & significance: object
allusion: military
resistance, opposition & defeat: allusion / military
thing (a matter)
thick (in the thick of things) a thing
this was before Columbine, we didn’t even know that was a
in the thick of things ~ (wearing a trench coat to high school)
she was right ~ (government response to Katrina)
a thing for me
involvement: ground, terrain & land I was black, which wasn’t ~ when I was little (immigrant)
thicket (noun) a thing for years
hang on, hasn’t “post viral fatigue” been ~
thicket of bureaucracy
they have created a ~ (a government agency) f***ing thing
we’ll talk about this, this car turns into a ~, man (podcast)
dense thicket
Netflix is trying to navigate a ~ of challenges importance & significance: object

regulatory thicket thing (fad, etc.)

the government wants to set up a ~
thing
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land today is bubble wrap appreciation day, yes, it’s a ~ (ABC)
I didn’t know that was a ~
thick-skinned (adjective) is that really a ~
thick-skinned ‘in thing’
I'm ~ so it doesn't bother me not long ago Osaka was the latest ~ to blow in (vs. Gauff)
tough and thick-skinned ♦ This echoes the old cliché, “The next big thing...”
New Yorkers are thought to be ~ ♦ If something is “having a moment,” then it is a “thing.” “X” is having a
moment.” “Really? I didn’t know that was a thing.”
tough, thick-skinned (m)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: object
he is known as a ~ leader
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: object

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thing (the next big thing) thorn (noun)
the next big thing thorn of terrorism
he is tipped to be ~ in basketball (Zion Williamson) the ~ has been removed today (death of al-Zarqawi)
Next Big Thing thorn in (Polish-Soviet) relations
the suckers who want to get in on the ~ (stocks) the massacre has been a ~ for decades (Katyn Forests)
♦ An echo of this is “X is the new Y,” for example, “Data is the new oil,” or
“ Orange is the new black,” which reprises “Pink is the new black.” thorn in our side
Another example is “orange is the new grey for Bangladesh beards,” Samarra has been a little bit of a ~ (military)
referring to the use of henna. Yet another example is an advertisement
for audiobooks that goes, “Listening is the new reading.” thorn in Mr. Bush's side
he is a ~ (Al Gore)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: object
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: object thorn in Austria’s side
thing (one's thing) Bavaria was particularly to prove a ~
♦ You don’t harvest grapes from planting thorns. (Arab proverb.)
my thing
affliction: plant / sensation
hockey is ~
enthusiasm: object
thorny (adjective)
thin-skinned (adjective) thorny issue
~s remain a source of tension (diplomacy)
thin-skinned
he is ~, prone to ill-advised eruptions thorny problem
he was abnormally ~ when it came to criticism curbing online hatred is a ~ (in the US)
writers can be ~ thorny topic
thin-skinned about criticism the president tackled the ~ of immigration
he is ~ affliction: plant / sensation
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect: flaws & lack of flaws: plant / sensation
sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone thrash (verb)
thirst (noun) thrashed Saudi Arabia
thirst for energy Russia ~ (World Cup soccer)
Canada helps quench America's ~ (oil exports) conflict / feeling, emotion & effect: hitting, slamming &
thirst for knowledge lashing / verb / violence / whip
his collection hinted at his ~ thrashed
thirst for revenge thrashed
the suicide bombers are driven by a ~ they waved their flags in defiance as their team was ~
a ~, religious zeal and dreams of glory (suicide bombers)
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect: hitting, slamming &
thirst for oil and gas lashing / verb / violence / whip
China has a bottomless ~ (Xinjiang Province)
thread (connection)
thirst for the vulgar and obscene
our ~ seems unquenchable (US) thread
the ~ connecting doctrine and tactics is training
America's thirst
Canada helps quench ~ for energy (oil exports) common thread
we found a ~ between the two accidents
ever-increasing thirst
in some places, suicides seem to have root causes or ~s
the world's ~ for oil
bottomless thirst narrative thread
the ~ can get lost (procedure and Congressional hearings)
China has a ~ for oil and gas (Xinjiang Province)
quench (America's) thirst vivid threads
several ~ run through their narratives (stories of grief)
Canada helps ~ for energy (oil exports)
consumption / wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink knits together many threads
the story ~ of Muslim grievances (suicide bomber)
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thread (investigation) money / condition & status / sufficiency, insufficiency &
excess: cloth / clothing & accessories
thread
so now there was a ~, and we started pulling on it (murder) threshold (cross the threshold)
threads to this thing crossed the threshold into a new dimension
there are so many ~ (Kent State killings) Sputnik ~

dangling thread crossed a threshold to extinction

the tapes were a ~ to connect us back to 1965 (murder trial) lizards have already ~ (global warming)

followed the thread portal: doors & thresholds / verb

we ~ and began to unravel the case (tapes of old trial) threshold (below the threshold)
we ~ and unraveled a strange and illuminating story (tapes)
live below the (poverty) threshold
pulled on this thread 75 percent of adults ~ of $1 a day (World Bank)
we ~ to take us back to 1965 (old tapes of trial)
measurement: doors & thresholds
pulled on the thread
we ~ and realized it was woven into the fabric of life then threshold (on the threshold)
searching & discovery: cloth on the threshold of their futures
analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth they were literally ~ (guy kills his girlfriend)
thread (verb) proximity: doors & thresholds
threaded itself into the fabric threshold (portal)
the gang has ~ of the village
threshold to the grave
division & connection: cloth / verb nursing homes are viewed as the ~
thread (a trail can thread, etc.) portal: doors & thresholds
thread the Alpine mountains and valleys threshold (measurement)
hiking trails ~ (Switzerland)
threshold for lead poisoning
fictive motion: cloth / verb lead levels in their blood were four times the ~
thread (by a thread) threshold of old age
typically 60 or 65 years is considered the ~
hanging on by a thread
we were ~ (money problems and bills) threshold of $1 a day
75 percent live below the World Bank's poverty ~
hanging on to my job by a thread
I'm ~ epidemic threshold
the number of weekly cases exceeded the ~ of 237
hang by a thread
their hopes of advancing ~ (tournament) panic threshold
their ~ is higher... (solo sailors don't panic easily)
hanging by a thread
his career is ~ poverty threshold
♦ Atropos was the Greek goddess of fate and destiny who cut the thread 75 percent live below the World Bank's ~ of $1 a day
of people’s lives, thus ending them. In Dante’s Inferno, Friar Alberigo
explains that “So privileged is this rim / of Ptolomea, that often souls fall below the threshold
to it / before dark Atropos has cut their thread.” (Translated by John help keep tensions between nations ~ of conflict
Ciardi. The friar continued to live above, but his body was inhabited by a
demon. We’ve all met people like that!)
low (pain) threshold
♦ In 1970 the German born Karl Wallenda walked across the Tallulah if you have a ~, don't get a tattoo at the base of your spine
Gorge in northern Georgia (the US state, not the country) on a high wire.
He performed 2 handstands—one in honor of the US troops in
Vietnam—as 30,000 men, women and children looked on. When he
lower threshold
reached the end of the walk, his wife handed the 65-year-old Wallenda a a ~ for admission should be considered (the elderly)
martini.
four times the threshold
fate, fortune & chance: cloth lead levels in their blood were ~ for lead poisoning
threadbare (adjective) threshold is reached
salt added to water will dissolve until a ~
almost threadbare
his campaign is ~ (presidential election) exceeds a threshold

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 if the level ~ set by the system… Vulcan's Throne
~ is a cinder cone volcano (Grand Canyon)
lower the (seizure) threshold
the drugs ~ and should be used cautiously Great White Throne
the ~ is in Zion National park, Utah
measurement: doors & thresholds
proper name: royalty
thrive (verb)
throne (power)
thrived at the company
he ~ contenders to the throne
there are many ~ (to replace sick leader)
thrive under (enormous) pressure
some people are able to ~ (jobs) power behind the (home-video) throne
he is a ~ (DVD producer)
thrives on sensationalism
the media ~ power: royalty
growth & development: plant / verb throne (in line for the throne)
throat (resemblance) in line for the throne
she is ~ (a fashion designer)
shredder throat
insert paper into the ~ (paper shredder) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
insert paper into the (shredder) throat throne (pretender to the throne)
~ (paper shredder)
pretender to the throne of (champion) Jack Dempsey
resemblance / shape: throat he is the French heavyweight ~
throat (ram something down the throat) chief pretender to the throne
he reigns as king, or at least ~ (sportswriter of a horse)
ram the reform down our throats
the government tried to ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
consumption / oppression: throat / verb throne (primacy)
throat (predation) challenger to their throne
the Celtics rebuffed a ~ (sports)
been at each other’s throats
they had just ten days previously ~ contender for Nadal's throne
he has established himself as a ~ (tennis)
going for your throat
this isn't a joke, she's ~ perch atop the throne
he may soon lose his ~ (a baseball pitcher)
conflict: animal / predation / throat
throat (Devil’s Throat, etc.) regained his throne
Humpty Dumpty has ~ (the egg as a healthy product)
Devil’s Throat yielded the throne
~ is a must (Iguazu Falls) the old guard has ~ (world soccer)
proper name: throat
knocked off the throne
throat (jump down someone’s throat) he has been ~ (a tennis player)

she jumped down my throat primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
~ when I told her... throughout (time)
accusation & criticism / speech: throat / verb
throughout the day
throne (Blondie's Throne, etc.) ~ of 24 June 1807...

Blondie's Throne time: place / prep, adv, adj, particle

~ is a flowstone (Marvel Cave, Missouri) throw (throw oneself into something)
Devils Throne
~ is a summit in Idaho
threw herself into piano lessons
she ~
Vulcans Throne
~ is a summit in Mohave County, Arizona
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 she ~ the space (art gallery) stockholders turned ~
absorption & immersion / commitment & determination: judgment: gesture / hand / sign, signal, symbol / thumb
involvement: throwing, putting & planting / verb / water
thumbs-up
throwback (noun)
thumbs-up
throwback to the past the spectacle gets a ~
when he talks about crime, it can sound like a ~
thumbs-up from a podcast host
throwback to an earlier time he got a ~ with 7 million subscribers (a politician)
he is a ~
thumbs-up reviews
throwback to the 1890s the technology is getting largely ~ (computers)
Dawson City is a ~ judgment: gesture / hand / sign, signal, symbol / thumb
vaudeville throwback achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / hand / sign,
a U.S.O. tour is a raunchy ~ (US military) signal, symbol
past & present: direction thunder (sound)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
thunder of ice
thrown out (dismissed) the ~ going out (spring ice-out)

thrown out of court muffled thunder

he is seeing to get the criminal case ~ the ~ of their horses' hooves
dismissal, removal & resignation: arm drowned out by the thunder
throwing, putting & planting: arm informed voices were ~ of the partisan lynch mob
thrown out (cast) resemblance / sound: lightning / storm

thrown out in the heat of passion thunder (steal thunder, etc.)

threats are often ~
steal our thunder
throwing, putting & planting: arm it will ~ (a double wedding)
throw out (verb) steal much thunder
it was a tough weekend for a tennis player to ~
threw out the (rape) conviction
the court ~ of… stolen so much of baseball's thunder
the NFL has ~ (viewership and interest)
threw him out
her father ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / storm

dismissal, removal & resignation: arm / verb thunder (speech)

throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
thundered that
thrust (verb) he ~ God was the answer (a rally)

thrust him into the (national) spotlight resemblance / speech: sound / storm / verb
his heroics ~ thunderbolt (noun)
thrust into the spotlight
I was ~ (Miss USA and the Haiti earthquake)
hurled thunderbolts
he ~ at his own party (a politician)
throwing, putting and planting: mechanism / verb
accusation & criticism: storm
thumb (under the thumb) thunderclap (noun)
under the thumb of a Stalinist regime
the people of Basra are ~
thunderclap
the new analysis served as a ~
under her father's thumb
back ~
legal thunderclap
a~
oppression: hand / thumb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / storm
thumbs-down
thumbs-down on the proposal

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thunderstruck (adjective) swept away in a tidal wave
their aboriginal rights were ~ of development
thunderstruck
amount & effect: sea / wave
we were ~ (by Arctic fox’s epic trek)
thunderstruck by what
tidal wave (other)
he was ~ he heard tidal wave of calls
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / lightning / sound / a ~ to 911 (due to prevalence of cellphones)
storm tidal wave of (criminal) charges
thunderous (adjective) the ~ and civil lawsuits (priest abuse)
tidal wave of (Muslim) immigrants
thunderous explosion
the ~ arrive from India (Karachi)
~s shook buildings (war)
resemblance / sound: storm tidal wave of data and information
computers are creating a ~
ticket (noun)
propaganda tidal wave
ticket to obscurity the shameless ~ of the mainstream media (culture wars)
historically the vice presidency has been a ~
face a tidal wave
ticket to success parents ~ of pressure (from kids for sexualized products)
the Internet can be your ~ (online degrees) amount & effect: sea / wave
ticket to the top tide (on a tide)
it’s your ~ (a job offer)
on a tide of discontent
ticket to transition
he was swept into office ~
trainers are the ~ (military trainers to Afghans)
on a tide of (anti-Washington) sentiment
ticket out of poverty
state lawmakers are capitalizing ~
it was her ~ (new career as technical writer)
on a tide of (military) success
see boxing as a ticket
he was elected ~
many Indian girls ~ to a middle-class life (India)
on a tide of goodwill and emotion
seized the golden ticket
the team is riding ~ (Iraqi national soccer team)
they have ~ (viruses that hop to humans)
amount & effect: sea / tide
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ticket
cost & benefit: ticket tide (turn the tide, etc.)
tick on (verb) tide is turning
the ~ in the war
time ticks on
the ~ against insurgents in the province
Brazil are starting to lose hope as the ~ (World Cup soccer)
starting, going, continuing & ending / time: clock / tide turning
is the ~ towards impeachment for President Trump
movement / sound / verb
tick-tock (noun) turned the tide
in 1943, the Allies ~ (war in Europe)
tick-tock of events turn this tide back
tell us how this all happened, what the ~ was we must do whatever we can to ~ (CIA and communism)
tick tick tick turned the tide in the fight
~, the escalation of this crisis continues countries that have successfully ~ against HIV
♦ “Is there any info about how this all happened, what the tick-tock of
events was?” (Heard on National Public Radio.) turned the tide of battle
starting, going, continuing & ending / time: clock / Capt. Rubio's singularly heroic act ~
movement / sound turned the tide of the war
tidal wave (in a tidal wave) the Russians had ~ (Kursk, 1943)
successfully turned the tide
in a tidal wave of development countries that have ~ in the fight against HIV
their aboriginal rights were swept away ~

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development / reversal: sea / tide / verb the rising ~ in America
tide (buck the tide) swelling tide
a ~ of migrants is moving into South Africa
buck the tide
he was an iconoclast, willing to ~ (doctor) democratic tide
there is a rising ~ in the region (for reform)
resistance, opposition & defeat: sea / tide / verb
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sea / tide / verb tide is running against him
the political ~
tide (rising tide)
swelled the (pilgrim) tide
rising tide a growing population ~ (the Middle Ages)
~ of Arab and Islam bashing in America
the ~ of Internet retail mania swept up by the tide
on Wall Street, though, a ~ lifts many boats they have been ~ of domestic technology
prescription drugs are being linked to a ~ of problems
he claims free trade is a ~ that will lift all boats swept away on a tide
the ~ of gentrification (Miami Beach and sea-level rise) agrarian England was ~ of industrialization

amount & effect / increase & decrease: sea / tide / water / amount & effect / movement: sea / tide / water
wave tie (verb)
tide (stem the tide, etc.) tied him to the gang
police ~
slow the tide
what needs to be done to ~ of immigration division & connection: rope / verb
resist the tide tied
few politicians have done more to ~ of progress
tied to his job
stem the tide of junk mail he is ~
we must ~
attachment / division & connection: rope
stem the tide of divorce
measures to ~ tier (hierarchy)
stem the tide of foreclosures top tier
little can be done to ~ he is in the ~ of Hollywood directors

stem the tide of questions top tier candidate

he had struggled to ~ (minister forced to resign) this looked like the rally of a ~ (presidential candidate)

stem the tide of suicide third-tier cities

how can we ~ (doctors) writers are popping up in ~ (China)

stem the tide of scandals third- or fourth-tier (m)

the NCAA wants to ~ (sports) the ~ cities of China are no longer cultural wastelands
amelioration & renewal: sea / tide / verb hierarchy: direction / position

tide (other) tie together (verb)

tide of filth tie the two crashes together
publication of the letters drenched him in a ~ (a writer) the FAA was waiting to ~

tide of immigration division & connection: rope / verb

what needs to be done to slow the ~
tide of migrants
a swelling ~ is moving into South Africa (Zimbabweans)
tide of optimism
a new ~ was already sweeping across our land
tide of tourism
the ~ cannot be stemmed (the Arctic)
tide of (Arab and Islam) bashing
tiger (noun)
tiger
Pakistan couldn't get down from the ~ it rode
tribal tiger
it takes temerity to want to ride the ~ in Yemen
♦ “He who rides the tiger can never dismount.”
♦ "Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And
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♦ “To have a tiger by the tail” or to “ride a tiger” is similar in meaning to
“hold a wolf by the ears.” tight-lipped (adjective)
♦ “The majority of tigers are bagged with the aid of elephants... / The call
of a tigress in search of a mate cannot be described in words.” (Man-
tight-lipped about any leads
Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett, Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, police have been ~
Preface by Lord Linlithgow (Viceroy of India 1936-1943). It is a
wonderful account of hunting actual man-eating tigers.) tight-lipped about the plan
♦ "Tigers are gods, who protect ginseng from men." (Dersu Uzala by V. they remained ~
K. Arseniev.)
concealment & lack of concealment: gesture / speech
♦ "To the Lord Tiger who dwelleth in the Forest and the Mountains. In
ancient days, in the time of the Khan dynasty, He saved the state. Today speech: mouth
his Spirit brings happiness to man." (An inscription at a shrine in the
Sihoté Alin mountains, noticed by Dersu Uzala and V. K. Arseniev.) tightrope (fate)
♦ “There are always a few tigers roaming about Singapore, and they kill
on an average a Chinaman every day, principally those who work in the
tightropes in politics
gambir plantations, which are always made in newly-cleared jungle...” it’s one of the hardest ~ to walk now (abortion issue)
(The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.)
♦ From sitting down, a tiger is able to leap forward 33 feet. (According to
diplomatic tightrope
the BBC.) the US is walking a ~
control & lack of control / danger: animal / tiger walk this tightrope
they have to ~ of how much change they can change
tight (money) ♦ In 1970 the German-born Karl Wallenda walked across the Tallulah
Gorge in northern Georgia (the US state, not the country) on a high wire.
tight He performed 2 handstands—one in honor of the US troops in
things are rather ~ (lack of money to pay bills) Vietnam—as 30,000 men, women and children looked on. When he
wages are stagnant, jobs scarce, and credit ~ reached the end of the walk, his wife handed the 65-year-old Wallenda a
martini.
money: sensation
fate, fortune & chance: circus
amount: money
difficulty, easiness & effort: circus
tight (relationship)
time (buy time, etc.)
tight with her family
even friends who were ~ began to shun her buying time
so basically we were ~ (astronauts face death)
division & connection / feeling, emotion & effect /
relationship / social interaction: distance / proximity buy some time
the Strategic National Stockpile can ~ (pandemic supplies)
tighten (tighten control, etc.)
time: consumption / money / verb
tightening its control action, inaction & delay: money / verb
China is ~ of vital minerals time (steal time, etc.)
tightened controls
steal time
Germany ~ over livestock feed (dioxin scare)
I had to ~ away from the daily grind (to go climbing)
tighten (immigration) laws time: consumption / money / verb
many campaigned to ~ (elections)
possession: crime / verb
tighten oversight time (time has passed)
we must ~ of the industry
time has passed
tighten lending
it’s a tradition whose ~
banks continue to ~
increase & decrease: pressure / verb time may have (already) passed
it’s a gimmick whose ~ (augmented reality phone app)
tight-knit future / past & present / time: direction / movement / verb
tight-knit community primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
the ~ movement / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
tight-knit network movement / verb
a ~ of family and clan protected him (Saddam)
time (passage of time)
division & connection / relationship: cloth
passage of time
the curve relates forgetting to the ~
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time (borrowed time) time: consumption / verb
timeliness & lack of timeliness: consumption / verb
borrowed time action, inaction & delay: verb
he was living on ~
time (lose time, etc.)
time: consumption / money
losing time
time (take your time, etc.) come on, we’re ~
♦ “Space we can recover, time never... I may lose a battle, but I shall
take your time never lose a minute.” (Attributed to Napoleon.)
don’t hurry, ~
time: consumption / verb
time: consumption / speed timeliness & lack of timeliness: consumption / verb
time (take time, etc.) action, inaction & delay: consumption / verb
time (use time)
take time
this will ~ use that last minute
time: amount / consumption he wanted to ~ to score again (NFL football)

time (long time / short time) use their time

candidates must decide how best to ~
long time he studies how people ~ (a sociologist)
Biden has been around a ~ and has a lot of baggage
use their time on the job
I’ve been on the Doncic bandwagon for a ~ (basketball)
the surprising ways Americans ~
short time use their time wisely
he arrived a ~ later
prosecutor want to make sure they ~
time: amount / distance
time: consumption / verb
time (run out of time) time (the time can arrive or come, etc.)
running out of time the time has arrived
we're ~ (press conference)
~ to take a stand
in the new academic world, she's ~ (adjunct)
my greatest fear is ~ (a filmmaker) the time has come
~ to finish retreating, not one step back
time is running out
~ (negotiations) my time will come
♦ “Time was now Scott’s most precious commodity, and time was ~ (a defeated boxer, looking to his future)
running out.” (The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford. It tells the
story of Scott and Amundsen in Antarctica.) new day has come
a ~ (political optimism)
time: consumption / verb
timeliness & lack of timeliness: consumption / verb come and gone
time (time left) a year has ~ since we heard the news about Billy Joe
future / past & present / time: direction / movement / verb
sixty-four seconds left
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / timeliness &
there were ~ on the clock (a football game)
lack of timeliness: direction / movement / verb
time: consumption time (it’s time, etc.)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: consumption
time (make time) time
if you have things to do, now is the ~ (hurricane)
making time to be here
thank you for ~ it’s (about) time
~ we started tackling this
time: money / verb
it’s time to pay
time (waste time) ~ student athletes (universities)
wasting (too much) time timeliness & lack of timeliness: prep, adv, adj, particle
we are ~
time (space of time)
run the clock down
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 how had Napoleon in so short a ~ been able to... we only have a ~ (to prosecute rape cases)
time: place timeliness & lack of timeliness: window
time (time will tell) time (ahead of his time, etc.)
only time will tell ahead of his times
that old journalist canard, ~ (what will happen in the future) he was ~ (a comedian)
future: speech ahead of her time
fictive communication: speech Betty Davis was ~ (the Funk and R&B singer)
time (in time / future) she in many ways was so far ~ (Carson McCullers)
ahead of its time
realize that in time the environmentalism was ~ (in an author’s writings)
he will come to ~ the anti-consumerism was ~ (Travis McGee character)
future / time: container ♦ “Ahead of his time” and “before his time” have the same meaning!

time (past time) future / time: prep, adv, adj, particle / position
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: prep, adv, adj,
past time for Americans to set aside myths particle / position
it’s ~ about the Civil War and its aftermath
time (before her time, etc.)
past time to stop them
coaches are killing kids and it’s ~ (heat stroke, etc.) before his time
it makes you feel that Kaufman was slightly ~ (a 1980s TV
past time to confront the realities pilot that was turned down)
it’s ~ (Civil War) ♦ “Ahead of his time” and “before his time” have the same meaning!
timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / prep, adv, adj, past & present / time: prep, adv, adj, particle / position
particle primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: prep, adv, adj,
time (at the time, etc.) particle / position

at the time time (a man of his time, etc.)

this was normal ~ man of his time
time: place / prep, adv, adj, particle he definitely was a ~ (a writer who objectified women)
of course, he was a ~, slavery was a fact of life
time (over time) he was very much a ~ (supported eugenics)
his misogyny and racism were hardly unusual for a ~
over the last few decades
~, Ketchikan has moved from timber to tourism women of that time
Black ~ just knew they would have to forge on
over time
memories dim ~ (criminal cases) identity & nature / time: history
~, the trail went cold (murder investigation)
time (in our time, etc.)
time: distance / prep, adv, adj, particle
in our time
time (time off) ~ the printed best seller speedily reaches across space
took some time off time: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
I ~ when I got sick past & present: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
time: consumption time bomb (person)
time (dead time) time bomb of rage
he was a ticking ~ (member of a hate group)
dead time
being aware of waiting is the most painful kind of ~ character & personality: explosion / weapon
time: death & life / movement time bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.)
time (window of time) time bomb
the company's debt load is a ~ waiting to go off
narrow window of time
the ship had a ~ to take out a ballistic missile time bomb inside your body
you could have a ticking ~ (pancreatic cancer)
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privacy time bomb time machine
it's a ticking ~ (compiling lists of Web searches)
time machine
ticking time bomb you're in a ~ as you go up the bay (an ecologist)
Hillary Clinton called Sudan a ~
it’s a ~ (San Onofre nuclear-power plant waste) future / past & present / time: mechanism

environmental time bomb time warp

Central and Eastern Europe our littered with ~s
Soviet time warp
latent time bomb Abkhazia is living in a ~ (frozen in time)
a computer command set off the ~ (Mars glitch)
past & present / time: movement
psychological time bomb tinderbox (resemblance)
reflex-quick killing can be a ~ (the Army)
viral time bombs tinderbox
hundreds could be ~ (coronavirus pandemic) the whole forest is a ~ (wildfires)

zoonotic time bombs turned (much of) the state into a tinderbox
wet markets are ~ (avian flu, SARS, COVID-19, etc.) California’s severe drought and extreme weather have ~
resemblance: fire
made his writings a time bomb
the printing press ~ (Lorenzo Valla) tinderbox (violence, etc.)
binding ourselves to a time-bomb tinderbox
we are ~ (one-year timeline to bring referendum into law) the city is a ~ (trouble in Jerusalem)
♦ “You never really want to have any situation described as a ticking time the country is a ~ just waiting for a match (Bulgaria)
bomb.”
volatile tinderbox
danger / initiation / situation: explosion / weapon
in that ~ of a time, Kennedy led with a steady hand
time capsule (noun) initiation: fire
time capsule tin ear (noun)
it's a ~ (an historic building)
showed her tin ear
time capsule of the Chicago of the 1920s she again showed her ~ (political)
it’s a ~ (The Green Mill Jazz Club)
flaws & lack of flaws: ear / music / speech
time capsule of the era
the TV show is a ~ tin-eared (adjective)
time-capsule of manners tin-eared (political) lines
the book is a ~ he still spouts ~ (politics)
time capsule to archaeologists flaws & lack of flaws: ear / music / speech
the site offers a ~
tinker (verb)
time capsule to another era
the stories offer a ~ tinkering with the rules
they are ~
time-capsule charm
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
the building has ~
cinematic time capsule tip (tip one’s hand)
the film is a ~
tips his hand
Soviet time capsule under pressure from his audience, the candidate sometimes ~
the state is a ~ (Abkhazia) concealment & lack of concealment: cards / gambling /
get out of the time capsule sports & games
wake up, ~
tire (kick the tires)
past & present / time: container
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: container kicking the tires, and looking under the hood
Microsoft is ~ of Tik-Tok (possible merger)
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tired (adjective) on your toes
you’ve got to be ~ (a paramedic)
tired of the finger-pointing
parents are ~ (school issues) keep them on their toes
he will ~ (the debate moderator)
feeling, emotion & effect: sleep
readiness & preparedness: foot / toe / standing, sitting &
tit-for-tat (adjective) lying
tit-for-tat relation toe (step on toes)
this ~ is deteriorating (China-US conflict)
♦ This seems to relate to “a blow for a tap,” in other words, reciprocation
stepped on a lot of toes
for getting hit by hitting back. he ~ with his stories (murdered journalist)
conflict / revenge / social interaction: hitting, slamming & stepping on a few toes
lashing we’ll be ~, that’s for sure (Millennium magazine)

Titan (Tennessee Titans, etc.) stepped on the toes of old theories and beliefs
his discoveries ~ (Pasteur)
Titans ♦ “It was ticklish business. Powerful economic toes in the shoes of
the ~ brushed aside their hosts (NFL football) pseudo-science had to be stamped on.” (Men Against Death by Paul De
Kruif. From the chapter “Death in Milk” about Alice Evans and her work
proper name: creature on undulant fever.)

titan (noun) disruption / feeling, emotion & effect: foot / sensation / toe
/ verb / walking, running & jumping
titan of the Surrealist movement
this ~ strode on stage (Salvador Dali on Dick Cavett show) toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
Hollywood titan dipping its toes into digital apps
the ~ forced his way into her apartment and raped her Mattel is ~
economic titan dipping a toe into public life
Asia's ~s, China and Japan… they are ~ (two sons of celebrity start YouTube channel)
global titans dipping his toe in the (church-as-business) waters
the Quakers had become ~ of the whaling industry perhaps Kanye West is ~
size: allusion / creature experimentation / involvement: foot / toe / verb / water
achievement, recognition & praise / importance &
significance: allusion / creature / size
toehold (noun)
today (the present) toehold within the city
Grbavica gave the Serbs a ~ (war in Bosnia)
today
he is just as committed ~ as he was yesterday and the day toehold on a computer
before automated tools get hackers a ~

today’s crime political toehold

~ is the foundation of tomorrow’s virtue (a Nazi)
today’s economy
it’s tough to stay alive in ~ (a business)
today’s potatoes
they are the ancestors of ~ (Peruvian wild potatoes)
women have been unable to gain a ~ (Massachusetts)
♦ “Julius Caesar had been expanding into Gaul and even putting a toe
into Britain.”
presence & absence: foot / mountains & hills / toe
survival, persistence & endurance: foot / mountains & hills
/ toe

today’s tech world toe-to-toe (go toe-to-toe, etc.)

~ worships at the altar of disruption
go toe to toe
today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow the two warriors ~ (Deadliest Warrior TV show)
we are well prepared ~ (German response to pandemic)
go toe-to-toe with the US military
past & present / time: day they certainly can’t ~, but...
toe (on one's toes) conflict: boxing / toe / verb

on their toes
at this point, everybody is ~

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toilet (in the toilet) tomorrow (future)
in the toilet tomorrow
morale is ~ (military) ~ is already here
dominant industries today will give way to new industries ~
failure, accident & impairment / decline: direction /
infrastructure tomorrows
“I’d trade all my ~, for that one single yesterday”
toll (take a toll, etc.)
tomorrow’s revenue stream
exact a (terrible emotional) toll ecommerce is ~
stuttering can ~
tomorrow’s virtue
takes its toll today’s crime is the foundation of ~ (a Nazi)
not getting enough sleep day after day ~
better tomorrow
taking its toll dreams of a ~ for our kids
the buildup to war, too, was ~
today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow
took its toll we are well prepared ~ (German response to pandemic)
the heat and humidity ~ (heat-related deaths)
building a (better) tomorrow
took their toll we are ~
years of graffiti "missions" ~ (arrests, etc.)
future / time: day
cost & benefit: money / verb
ton (amount)
toll (other)
ton of attention
toll of the war Charlottesville did bring a ~ to these groups (protest)
he wrote a report on the psychological ~ (on soldiers)
ton of confusion
toll on the (entire) family the briefings have led to a ~ about what is really going on
their condition can take a ~ (autistic kids)
ton of football
toll on musicians' bodies we've got a ~ for you (TV)
hours of practice take their ~
ton of detail
toll on lives and places we’ve heard vague reports, but there’s not a ~
war's ~ (Cambodia)
amount: weight
war’s toll
the ~ on lives and places (Cambodia) tone-deaf (adjective)
actual (annual) toll tone-deaf
the ~ might be 10,000 (vs. reported) (mine deaths) his response to the accusation was ~

emotional toll tone deaf to the problems

stuttering can exact a terrible ~ she is ~ that average women face (an executive)

heavy toll tone deaf and ignorant

rebel resistance was taking a ~ she was accused of being ~ to racial sensitivities
the US raid, while brief, inflicted a ~
flaws & lack of flaws: ear / music / speech
huge toll consciousness & awareness: ear / music / speech
my job took a ~ (presidential advisor) tone down (verb)
human toll
toning down his rhetoric
the ~ was high
he is ~
psychological toll attenuation: prep, adv, adj, particle / sound / speech / verb
he wrote a report on the ~ of the war
the ordeal had taken a profound ~ (climbing accident) tongue (danger)
unseen toll tongue
researchers confront the ~ of their work (extremism) your ~ is your horse, protect it and it will protect you
cost & benefit: money keep the ~ in your mouth a prisoner

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punishment of his tongue tongue-lashings from the coach
what a man suffers in life is the ~ (Turkey) ~ (basketball)
♦ “A bridle for the tongue is a necessity ....”
tongue-lashing from Kathy
♦ “One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.” (The I took a ~ (wife)
novelist Victoria Wolff.)
♦ “You can trap an ox by his horns and a man by his words.” speech: tongue / violence / whip
(Madagascar.) accusation & criticism: tongue / violence / whip
♦ “The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet tall.”
(Japanese.) tongue twister
♦ “Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is right.” (Ethiopia.)
tongue twister
♦ “The walls have ears.”
do you know a ~
♦ “Who gossips to you, will gossip of you.” (Turkish.)
♦ She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The sixth sick sheik's sheep's
♦ “Gossiping and lying go together.” sick.
♦ “A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.” (Turkish.)
difficulty, easiness & effort: speech / tongue
♦ “Speech is silver, silence is gold.”
tongue-twisting
danger: speech / tongue
tongue (language) tongue-twisting name
the ~ eosiniphilic esophagitis
foreign tongue difficulty, easiness & effort: speech / tongue
he was speaking in a ~
language / speech: tongue
tonic (effect)
tongue (hold one's tongue) tonic
military victory is anticipated as the ~ that will…
hold your tongue
tonic for the country
I would advise you to ~
the team's revival has been a ~ that needs it (World Cup)
held his tongue
tonic for the sport
he has largely ~, but on Friday he let loose (politics)
her arrival proved a ~ (Danica Patrick)
held his tongue about the actions feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
Obama has largely ~ of his successor but...
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
unable to hold her tongue tool (help)
she is ~
speech: tongue / verb tool to combat
it remains the principal ~ street homelessness
control & lack of control: speech / tongue
tongue (bite one's tongue) tool to educate
Senior Step is a ~ older amputees (magazine)
bitten my tongue
tool to save
I have ~ despite feeling I should say something
it's the best ~ lives in avalanches (air bags)
speech: tongue / verb
tool of repression
tongue (lose one's tongue) the Iraqi military was a ~ (Kurds)

lost your tongue tool in the toolbox

have you ~ antibody tests are a ~ that will have some value
functioning: speech / tongue tools in our toolbox
speech: tongue / verb I'd like to see more ~ (interrogations of terrorists)
tongue (slip of the tongue) tool for (AIDS) prevention
the classroom as a ~
slips of the tongue
~ are entirely normal in kids tool for law enforcement
the antiterrorism law is an essential ~
failure, accident & impairment: speech / tongue
tools for (consumer) advertising
tongue-lashing magazines are ~
tongue lashing tool for analyzing
the older player gave her a ~ (teen golfer)

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 Microstran, an advanced ~ structures (software) basic tool
education is the most ~ for helping you with diabetes
tools for evaluating
their arsenal of ~ applicants (colleges) biometric tools
~ (fingerprinting, facial recognition, iris scans)
tool for measuring
the CATCS, a new ~ student cynicism (college) diagnostic tool
the CAT scan, a ~ used in hospitals worldwide
tools menu
on the ~, click mail merge (computers) essential tool
the antiterrorism law is an ~ for law enforcement
assessment tool
the CATCS, a new ~ for measuring student cynicism indispensable tool
the typewriter was once an ~ in the writer's life
communications tool
e-mail is a ~, not an information tool (hoaxes) political tool
forswore the use of violence as a ~
hacker tools
Web sites specializing in ~ powerful tool
password systems give merchants ~s
information tool the technology can be a ~ to help doctors (MRI)
e-mail is a communications tool, not an ~ (hoaxes)
principal tool
management tool it remains the ~ to combat street homelessness
wilderness bonding as a ~
psychiatric tool
research tool brain imaging has been oversold as a ~ (psychiatry)
the M.R.I. and PET are crucial ~s (brain)
standard (teaching) tool
cancer-research tool adopted as a ~
the virus became a widely used ~
subtle (marketing) tool
performance evaluation tool a ~ to get out the message
the job description may also be a ~
arsenal of tools
high tech tool their ~ for evaluating applicants (colleges)
~s that could help in the war on terrorism
arsenal of (fire-fighting) tools
learning tool a growing ~
computers are kid's toys and ~s
creator of a (Web publishing) tool
marketing tool Dave Winer, ~ called… (computers)
a subtle ~ to get out the message
wine has become a ~ as well (restaurants) repository of (Sybase) tools
a non-commercial ~
recruiting tool
the parachutists are deployed as a ~ access to ("cracking") tools
al Qaeda has ~ (cyberwarfare)
screening tool
there is a need for better ~s for depression bonding as a (management) tool
wilderness ~
teaching tool
adopted as a standard ~; as a ~ he had a chart made violence as a (political) tool
forswore the use of ~
depression screening tool
a nine question ~ (public health) develop tools
~ for addressing stereotypes when you hear them
fire-fighting tools
a growing arsenal of ~ (wildfires) oversold as a (psychiatric) tool
brain imaging has been ~
advanced tool
♦ "That's not to say it can do everything, but it is a tool with profound
Microstran, an ~ for analyzing structures (software) benefits, a great tool." (Dr. James A. Brink, on the importance of CAT
scanners.)
widely used (cancer-research) tool
the virus became a ~ help & assistance: tools & technology
additional tools toolbox (noun)
~ to augment deadly force (nonlethal means)
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 antibody tests are a ~ that will have some value initiation: teeth
tools in our toolbox top (blow one's top)
I'd like to see more ~ (interrogations of terrorists)
blew his top
management toolbox he ~ in front of a group of colleagues
there are a whole host of tools that are in that ~ (wildfires)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb / volcano
alternatives & choices: tools & technology
amount / group, set & collection: tools & technology top (hierarchy)
toolkit (noun) top Republican
~ backpedals on tax pledge
teacher’s toolkit
the techniques and strategies in a ~ top (tech) companies
the company has catapulted into the ranks of ~
alternatives & choices: tools & technology
amount / group, set & collection: tools & technology top four
Manchester United is lurking on the margins of the ~
toolshed (noun)
top of the food chain
in the toolshed women at the very ~ at the studios (executives)
this is another tool ~ to fight that fight (a political app)
top of the (root server) hierarchy
alternatives & choices: tools & technology at the ~ is the “A” root server
amount / group, set & collection: tools & technology
top of the (corporate) ladder
tooth (a tooth for a tooth) arrogance and ego at the ~
tooth for a tooth top of the pyramid
an eye for an eye, a ~ the people at the ~ know exactly what they are doing
revenge: Bible / religion / teeth top-down chain of command
tooth and nail (adverb) older workers are used to a ~ (business)
top priority
tooth and nail
his ~ is to improve team chemistry (sports)
she fought him, ~
they fought ~ to keep the evidence out (trial) At The Top
the opinion piece was entitled, “The Rot ~” (corruption)
fighting (the effort) tooth and nail
the industry is ~ (regulation) on top
the people are ~ nowadays (Doctor Zhivago)
fight tooth and nail for her power
society is like a layer cake, with the upper class ~
she has to ~ (the opera character Carmen)
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal to the top
it’s your ticket ~ (a job offer)
conflict / predation: animal
toothless (adjective) finished on top
San Jose ~ last season (soccer)
toothless resolution
go out on top
this is yet another ~ from the Security Council (UN)
like any other boxer, he wants to ~
scorned as toothless
motivated to be on top
the regulatory agency is widely ~
he was ~ (Jeremy Lusk)
attenuation / force / strength & weakness / substance &
take him to the top
lack of substance: animal / teeth
he hoped his right hand would ~ (a boxer)
toothpaste (put the toothpaste back in made it (back) to the top
the tube) he ~ (a troubled boxer)

put (all) that toothpaste back in the tube hierarchy: direction / position
it’s very hard to ~ (morality) top (excellence)
putting that toothpaste back in the tube
there’s no ~ (history of disputes between athletes on team) top (talent) incubator
the art gallery has emerged as a ~ (Damascus)

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top student ♦ “It’s the biggest myth in the history of myths.” (John Madden, the
bombastic sports broadcaster, reacting to comments about something
a ~, a star athlete, and a caring girlfriend that he had allegedly done. Sports broadcasters are well known for being
bombastic, flamboyant, and for their hyperbole. A great example is the
top talent wonderful Steven A. Smith, who is always worth listening to.)
ENA is an incubator for France’s ~
behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: direction
top tier
he is in the ~ of Hollywood directors top dog (hierarchy)
this looked like the rally of a ~ candidate (for president)
top dog
he is vaulting into the ~ of TV interviewers
there was no doubt he was the ~ (young Federal lawyer)
top-grade top dogs
this is ~ political dirt
they are ~ in the history of the sport (college basketball)
at the top of his game hierarchy: animal / direction / dog / person / position
he is ~
superiority & inferiority: animal / direction / dog / person /
he was ~ when he was shot and killed (a comic)
position
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / position topography (noun)
top (dominance)
favorable political topography
came out on top this is a ~ for us (the Republican senate)
it was a crappy situation, but we ~ (Rangers) area: ground, terrain & land
dominance & submission: animal / direction / position topple (verb)
superiority & inferiority: animal / direction / position
top (on top / control) topple the government
he was charged with attempting to ~ by force and conspiracy
on top of this toppled the government
we are ~ (an emergency)
his self-immolation started the riots that ~ (Tunisia)
get on top of this toppled (entrenched) leaders
we need to ~ (pandemic)
the protests have ~ in Egypt and Tunisia
getting on top of this virus topple the regime
we are nowhere near ~ (pandemic)
they wish to ~ (rebels)
stay on top of a project destruction / dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption
he will ~ until it is done
/ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
control & lack of control: direction / position equilibrium & stability / ruins / verb
top (on top of / at the same time) torch (carry a torch)
on top of the (ongoing) battle carry the torch for the political allies
the 500-year flood comes ~ with the coronavirus pandemic judges should not ~
time: position / prep, adv, adj, particle representation: fire / verb
sequence: position / prep, adv, adj, particle
torch (other)
top (over the top)
torch
over the top the ~ has been passed (from the Kennedys to O’Rourke)
are school proms ~ (US)
some of the criticism has been ~ (Scottish soccer) torch of (Syrian contemporary art)
55% of people thought the response was ~ (swine flu) for a long time the ~ was carried by Mustafa Ali
only 12% thought the response to Covid-19 was ~ political torch
♦ The meaning is excessive and exaggerated, like hyperbole. Merriam- he passed the ~ his vice president (Clinton to Gore)
Webster gives first use of this meaning to1984. Many websites claim the
phrase relates to World War I soldiers going over the top of trenches. carry on the family’s singular political torch
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping, there is no one to ~ (Kennedys)
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first representation: fire / sign, signal, symbol
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday, transmission: fire / sign, signal, symbol
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torchbearer (person) torpedoed their season
the loss ~ (football)
last torchbearer ♦ An international investigation came to the conclusion that North Korea
her generation is perhaps its ~s (Anglo-Indians in India) torpedoed the South Korean warship Cheonan, killing 46 sailors. During
the Falklands War, the submarine HMS Conqueror torpedoed and sank
representation: fire / person the ARA General Belgrano.

torn (divided) destruction: boat / sea / verb

torn between past and present torpedo (noun)

Turkey, ~
torpedo
torn between modernity and traditionalism it was the ~ than sank the prosecution's case (forensics)
Turkey, ~
fired a torpedo
torn between the statements and the lack of evidence he has ~ that has blown a hole in the White House
both juries were ~ destruction: boat / sea
torn between two career directions torpor (noun)
are you ~
torpor and schlock
torn between admiration and annoyance he came back from years of ~ (Elvis Presley)
he was ~
activity: health & medicine
torn over whether
I'm ~ I should… torrent (noun)
conflict-torn torrent of abuse
~ areas such as Kosovo and the Palestinian territories his remarks unleashed a ~
violence-torn torrent of data
~ East Timor genomics has released a ~
war-torn (m) torrent of criticism
drilling for oil in this ~ area (Colombia) the decision provoked a ~
this poor, hungry, ~ backwater
torrent of (irate and obscene) e-mails
division & connection: destruction he awoke to a ~
tornado (Tartan Tornado, etc.) torrent of fury
in the play's scorching final scene, she unleashes a ~ at…
Tartan Tornado
the win went to the ~ (Scot boxer Josh Taylor) torrent of information
epithet: storm filtering, organizing, and customizing this ~ (Web)
amount & effect / movement: water
tornado (force)
tortoise (tortoise and hare, etc.)
beautiful tornado
Girl Power was the most ~ that ever hit your town (Lizzo) tortoise-versus-hare
force: storm the history of AI has been a ~ contest between...
competition: allusion / animal
torn up
torture (afflict)
torn up about it
I was kind of ~ tortured me for months
my daughter ~ (potty training)
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction
torpedo (verb) tortured him
the rumors ~
torpedoed a (main EU) initiative cancer ~
the tariffs have ~ (Kosovo / Serbia) the weeks ~, as he knew people were dying

torpedoing morale torturing us

the overhaul of the system is ~ (education) hunger was now ~ (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev)
♦ “Traveling is a form of torture.” (Arabic.)
torpedoes her plea
that ~ for self-defense affliction: violence / verb

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torture (affliction) nobody in the mainstream media will ~
division & connection: finger / verb
mental torture
avoidance & separation: finger / verb
it was a form of ~ (soldiers talking about great meals)
became torture
touch (verb / emotion)
her work life ~ (Me Too movement) touched everyone
puts his body through the torture the loss ~ (children die in house fire)
he ~ required to prepare... (a boxer) touched many lives
affliction: violence throughout his life, he ~

tortured feeling, emotion & effect: finger / verb

tortured about his sexuality

touch (lose touch)
a man ~ (closeted gay Republican politician) lost touch with her
tortured by bad weather officials said they had ~
this is an area that has been ~ (spring tornadoes) loses touch with reality
tortured emotions he ~ (a schizophrenic)
such ~ (towards sex) lost touch with firefighters
tortured path fire officials ~ trying to... (poor communications)
it's been a long ~ for the project (space) lost touch with their father
tortured childhood they ~ and Native heritage (Laguna Pueblo)
he cries when he recalls his ~ (homosexual) division & connection: finger / verb
tortured, difficult and painful touch (connection)
relations are often ~ (politics)
touch with reality
legal torture he loses ~ (a schizophrenic)
the way we feel is that we are going through ~ (family)
human touch
affliction: violence
the ~ comes naturally (a lawyer)
torturous division & connection: finger
slow, torturous (m) touching (adjective)
a ~ death by drowning, hypothermia suffocation (sub)
touching story
feeling, emotion & effect: violence
this was the most ~ I've ever heard
toss back (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: finger
tossed political gerrymandering back to the states touchstone
the Supreme Court has ~
touchstone of a generation
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ball / verb
it was the ~ (Woodstock Music Festival / US)
toss out (verb) touchstones of (medical) progress
tossed his suit out of court vaccines and antibiotics are seen as ~ (vs. diagnostic test)
a judge ~ touchstone in (American) culture
dismissal, removal & resignation: arm / verb her case became a ~ (Terri Schiavo)
throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb touchstone in German Holocaust studies
totem pole the book became a ~ (by H. G. Adler)

low on the totem pole touchstone for a set

Flint was apparently ~ (in a company) the painting is a ~ of ideals ("Kindred Spirits")

hierarchy: direction / position "touchstone" (1960) book

Harper Lee's ~ ("To Kill a Mockingbird")
touch (nobody will touch this, etc.)
holiday touchstone
touch this "It's a Wonderful Life" is now a ~ (film)

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cultural touchstone resistance, opposition & defeat: boxing / verb
"American Psycho" has become a ~ (US / a book)
it is a ~ (dominoes / Latinos / NYC)
towering (towering figure, etc.)
her fourth book is a ~ (Eat, Pray, Love) towering figure
emotional touchstone Jacky Robinson was a ~ in American sports
Jerusalem is an ~ for many people in the Middle East he was a ~ who rose above party politics (McCain)
Ike was one of the ~s of the 20th century (Eisenhower)
♦ A touchstone was a dark stone such as slate used to determine, or
assay, the purity of a precious metal, like gold. It is similar in meaning importance & significance: size / height / infrastructure
nowadays to litmus test. The word seems to relate to authenticity,
genuineness, or shared experience. toxic (adjective)
representation: mark
toxic
touchy (adjective) the modern culture of the prom has become ~ (critics)

touchy subject toxic atmosphere

abortion is a ~ for some radio programmers political leaders have contributed to a ~ (politics)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves toxic doctrine
& bone the ~ of racial superiority (Nazis)

touchy (personality) toxic environment

it has been a ~ for 8 years (actor on a TV show)
touchy about his baldness
he’s ~ toxic (political) environment
incumbent politicians are at risk in the ~
character & personality: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves &
bone toxic (online) environment
Facebook creates a ~ by doing nothing (fake news)
tough-minded
toxic (work) environment
tough-minded employees complained that he created a ~ (a boss)
he is ~ and not afraid to take risks (commander)
toxic person
nimble, tough-minded and effective she is a ~
we need government that is ~
toxic relationship
mind: materials & substances their ~ ended in murder
tout (person) toxic political warfare
this will pour fuel on the fire of ~
tout for the educational-technology industry
he is a ~ feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
destruction: materials & substances
attention, scrutiny & promotion / message: person
speech: person / sex track (on track)
tout (verb) on track to jump
the number of Wi-Fi cards sold is ~ 75 percent
tout the wonders
Mexican officials ~ of Mexico (tourism) on track to meet
the services are ~ reserve manpower goals (military)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / message: verb
on track for a shot
towel (throw in the towel) a win would keep him ~ at the title (boxer)
thrown in the towel on an academic track
she would be disappointed that he has ~ so quickly he is ~ (vs. vocational program) (high school)
threw in the towel on adding on the right track
he ~ a citizenship question (on the census) we are ~ (making progress towards our goal)
ready to throw in the towel back on track
she's not ~ we are ~ (making progress)
♦ “A lot of people say he quit... But you don’t know the pain what he was they will get ~ today with a new bill (politics)
experiencing. I dunno, I’ve not been in that position. His eye socket was
smashed up... It’s things like that when it’s through injury, I don’t think still on track
people got a place to call people quitters...” (The great boxer Josh Taylor
on BBC’s 5 Live Boxing with Costello & Bunce.)
US policy there is ~ (Central Asia)

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organized and on track curtailment: journeys & trips / movement / verb / walking,
keep your job search ~ running & jumping
stay on track track (stopped in one’s tracks)
your script should help you ~ (job interviews)
got stopped in its tracks
keep your job search (organized and) on track the idea ~ (opening a liaison office)
how to ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: walking, running &
get back on track jumping
treatment options to help you ~ (depression)
it is possible to ~ (debt in economy) track (off the beaten track)
get us (back) on track off the beaten track
I've got a solution that will ~ the whirlpools are ~
get our economy (back) on track go off the beaten track
to help ~ he doesn't hesitate to ~
direction / progress & lack of progress: train isolation & remoteness: journeys & trips
track (fast track) track (direction)
on a fast track to a vote career track
the resolution is ~ on the floor of the senate I didn't take the traditional ~
haste / speed: train traditional (career) track
I didn't take the ~
track (across the tracks, etc.)
take the (traditional career) track
lives across the tracks I didn't ~
the horror genre ~ in the literary community
direction: train
division & connection: train
track down (verb)
track (cover one's tracks, etc.)
track down John Sergeant
cover your tracks I decided I would ~ and ask him what…
you didn't ~ very well, you were easy to find
track down a (caller's) location
cover his tracks in order to ~… (police)
people wondered if he disappeared to ~ (crime suspect)
his aides were trying to ~ (a politician) track down his (work) phone
it took some effort to ~
cover his (digital) tracks
he failed to ~ (an Internet hacker) tracked down the relatives
Moroccan officials ~ of the man (terrorist)
covered their tracks
whoever did it was very careful and ~ (unsolved murder) tracked down the (first) vehicle
authorities ~, a Subaru Outback…
covered his tracks well
he had assimilated into the upper class and ~ (England) track down victims
early efforts to ~ turned up… (identity theft)
hide their tracks
they used Iranian access hoping it would ~ (hackers) track down water
how hard it can be to ~ in the Mojave
throw people off the track
this story was a false narrative to ~ track down (dog-friendly) cafes and hotels
♦ “TOR drags branches behind your digital footsteps so people can’t tell ~ (a Web site)
where you’re going or where you’ve been.”
track down (high-school) girlfriends
subterfuge: hunting / verb they ~… (NFL background checks)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
concealment & lack of concealment: hunting / verb track down the financing
our efforts to ~ of al Qaeda
track (stop something in its tracks)
tracked down this sickness
stopped the (FBI) investigation in its tracks Evans ~ lurking in the milk supply (undulant fever)
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tracked him down at a (corner) dice game animals fitted with ~ collars
she ~
countertracking (m)
effort to track down backtracking, doglegging or other ~ methods (military)
it took some ~ his work phone
acquisition and tracking (m)
searching & discovery: hunting / verb frequencies of enemy ~ systems
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
tracked (followed)
track record (good)
tracked all over campus
students are ~ (security systems) track record of accomplishments
years of experience and a ~ (resume)
tracked at factories, office parks, stadiums
people are ~ (security systems) track record in improving
he has a ~ schools (election)
tracked through the system
parts must be ~ (military logistics) track record for success
he's got a ~
information should be tracked
this ~ in the TOC and the CTCP (military) skills, achievements and track record
your ~ (job hunting)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting ♦ This usage refers to a runner's time.

tracker (person) achievement, recognition & praise: sports & games

history: sports & games
tracker app
check out our ~ to see the progress of your delivery track record (bad)
♦ “He read the signs like a map.” (A “Shadow Wolves” tracker.)
track record of these methods
♦ “Bedouin have a remarkable ability to find their way across the desert.
There is an Arab saying that a Murra (Al Murrah) tribesman can be taken
given the ~... (poor)
on a 3-day journey across trackless country, blindfolded, and then told to
bury a coin in the sand at night. A decade later he will be able to return track record of getting the big issues wrong
and locate his coin.” (George B. Cressey.) he has a ~, time after time (Federal Reserve candidate)
♦ “Tigers, lynxes, bears, wolverines, wapiti, deer, roe, pig, all are resident
in this rich taiga. / Dersu strode on in silence, serenely seeing everything.
flaws & lack of flaws: sports & games
I was reveling in the view, but he looked at a twig broken off at the height history: sports & games
of a man’s arm, and from the way it was hanging knew the direction in
which the man had been going. From the freshness of the fracture he traction (gain / build / get traction)
judged the time that had elapsed. Whenever I passed by a particularly
obvious track, Dersu would chuckle, wag his head, and say: / ‘H’m! Just build traction
like small boy. Go walk, wag head; have eyes, no-can look-see.’ / As we
went, I trod upon a thorn...” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)
her campaign is starting to ~ (politics)
♦ “The reconstruction of jungle events from signs on the ground has gain traction
always held great interest for me.” (Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim
Corbett, Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, Preface by Lord Linlithgow
rumors ~ in an atmosphere of uncertainty
(Viceroy of India 1936-1943). It is a wonderful account of hunting actual
man-eating tigers.) gained (significant) traction with customers
none of their products ~ (a company)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / person
person: hunting gaining traction
an effort to establish industrywide safety standards is ~
tracking
getting traction
tracking of immigrants the economic recovery was finally ~
the need for the government to improve its ~
struggled to gain traction
tracking information her campaign has ~ (elections)
for ~, visit us at... (post office)
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / verb
tracking number progress & lack of progress: movement / verb
~ 844553785371 (Federal Express) force: movement / verb
eye-tracking (m) trade (verb)
usability experts may use ~ software
traded some ideas
missile-tracking (m) we ~ on how we could work collectively (diplomacy)
Russia has constructed a large, ~ radar
possession: money / verb
radio tracking (m)

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tragedy (noun) their effort to ~ failed (runaway mom)
subterfuge: hunting / verb
act of the tragedy
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
the first ~ has been enacted (war)
trail (digital trail, etc.)
farce and tragedy
man walks a narrow line in nature between ~ (Antarctic) trail of deceit
this industry has left a ~ (tobacco)
ended in tragedy
the hostage drama ~ when… trail of devastation
deadly tornadoes leave a ~ in Florida (newspaper)
follow tragedy with farce
this will undermine them, you will ~ (politics) trail of (secret) settlements
there is a paper ~ (NBC and sex abuse)
look at the tragedy from a new angle
these conclusions help us ~ data trail
♦ When Marx wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, they followed the ~ to his computer (criminal)
the second time as farce,” he was specifically comparing Napoleon
Bonaparte to his nephew, Napoleon III, the ruler Victor Hugo referred to digital trail
as Napoleon the Little.
investigators are going through a ~ of text messages
♦ War; violence; catastrophe; sacrifice; betrayal; justice; retribution;
horror; suffering; madness; power; fallen kings; family curses; destiny; money trail
fate; cycles of carnage; invisible gods pulling strings; dark patterns and they are following the ~
connections; secret flaws; “the sins of the fathers and the sufferings of
the children”; the devastating relationship of the present to the past;
public rites; mourning; dark solace...” (Elements of Greek drama and
paper trail
tragedy mentioned in “JFK, Tragedy, Myth” in Ecstasy and Terror: From officials follow extensive ~s
the Greeks to Game of Thrones by the wonderful classicist and essay there is a ~ that exonerates him (State Department)
writer Daniel Mendelsohn.)
evidence / pursuit, capture & escape / searching &
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
discovery: hunting
traffic light (noun) trail (campaign trail, etc.)
“traffic light” regime
campaign trail
operators should observe a ~ (fracking / England)
the 2000 presidential ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sign, signal,
comeback trail
symbol
they are on the ~ after serious injuries (skiers)
trail (blaze a trail) the genre is on the ~ (hard rock music)
route: journeys & trips
blazed the trail for many young film makers
he ~ (Samuel L. Jackson on death of John Singleton) trail (trail of tears)
blazed a trail between Greeks and Turks trail of tears
they have ~ with their music the training can be a ~ (PJs / military)
blazed a trail into the workplace ♦ The Trail of Tears refers to the removal of the Cherokee Indians from
the Southeast to Oklahoma.
women like her ~
difficulty, easiness & effort / feeling, emotion & effect /
blazed his own trail
survival, persistence & endurance: history / journeys & trips
he ~
importance & significance: journeys & trips / verb trailblazer (person)
trail (follow) trailblazer
she was a ~
trailed him
the accusations have ~ for years (of sexual misconduct) trailblazer for (African-American) directors
the allegations that ~ finally caught up to him Singleton was considered a ~ in the 1990s

pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb importance & significance: journeys & trips / person
person: journeys & trips
trail (throw somebody off the trail, etc.)
trailblazing
trail went cold
over time, the ~ (murder investigation) trailblazing research
~ in capital punishment
throw the police off their trail
importance & significance: journeys & trips

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train (failure) impeachment train
is an ~ beginning to chug out of the station (politics)
wheels are coming off the train
the ~ in the mortgage business get off the (hype) train
he is hype, and the sooner people ~ the sooner... (boxing)
failure, accident & impairment: train
halted the (Johnny Walker hype) train
train (legal train, etc.) he ~ with a first round TKO (MMA)
legal train attention, scrutiny & promotion: train
the ~ chugs forward, unperturbed…
train (in one's train / at a later time)
operation: mechanism / train
in their train
train (train is pulling into the station, the Chinese arrived with disease ~ (eastern Siberia)
etc.) sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep,
adv, adj, particle / train
train is pulling into the station
the ~, he will be acquitted (impeachment trial) train (get on the Trump train, etc.)
♦ Dan Harris, ABC presenter: “Are there potentially any twists that could
come at the end to derail the march towards acquittal?” Melissa Murray, get on the Trump train
NYU Law Professor: “I think it would take an absolute political tornado to Republicans must ~ or else
derail this, this train is pulling into the station, the president is likely to be
acquitted as it were on Wednesday.”
got on the Trump train
starting, going, continuing & ending: train when he ultimately ~, he stuck to it (politics)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: train boarded the Trump Train
train (train has left the station, etc.) many of the events took place before he ~ (politics)
♦ “Nine out of the last eleven times in Democratic party politics, the
train has left the station person who has won Iowa has gone on to win the nomination... They’ll
that ~, I can’t see stopping that (active-shooter drills) first have a job uniting the party. And then, further down the track,
Donald Trump will be waiting. The Democrats have a fight on their
train has (already) left the station hands, a brutal one.” (BBC’s North America editor John Sopol reporting
from Iowa on BBC Newshour. What is interesting is that his comments
that ~ are accompanied by train horns and crossing-track warning signals, at
first faint, then rising to a crescendo. This is a rare case of the use of a
train was leaving the station without him metaphor with sound effects.)
he realized the ~ (merger plans)
allegiance, support & betrayal: train
miss the train unanimity & consensus: train
it’s important we don’t ~
trajectory (noun)
♦ “Your dad loved her very much. It there was one other cat in this world
that could have loved her and treated her as well as your dad, then it
was me. But, unfortunately, for yours truly, that train has sailed.” (Austin
trajectory
Powers to Vanessa Kensington from the film Austin Powers: he started out on another ~ entirely (career)
International Man of Mystery.)
trajectory of the war
timeliness & lack of timeliness: train / verb he helped formulate the strategy that reset the ~
train (future) stalled trajectory
she got depressed at the ~ of her once-promising career
train has been coming down the tracks
this ~ for the past 10 years (change in government) epidemic’s trajectory
future / time: direction / movement / train a trial could have slowed the opioid ~

train (runaway train) life's (natural) trajectory

sport compresses ~ of ascent, apogee and decline
runaway train of drug addiction alter the trajectory
data show the ~ has slowed down
the caucus could ~ of the race (US election)
control & lack of control / force: train
set the trajectory
train (hype train, etc.) the right college will ~ for the rest of your child’s life

campaign train reset the trajectory

seats on Joe Biden’s ~ are starting to fill up (endorsers) he helped formulate the strategy that ~ of the war

hype train shifted the trajectory

the ~ was derailed (for Y.A. book, by sensitivity readers) new information has ~ their probe (police)

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development: journeys & trips / flying & falling / physics / Article 7 ~ (UN convention against landmines)
shape
transparency and accountability
trample (verb) the need for financial ~ (PLO)

trample on his rights financial transparency

that doesn't allow you to ~ the need for ~ and accountability (PLO)

destruction / oppression: animal / foot / verb lacks transparency

the process ~
trampled ♦ “I know... one of the best things that the prison system is good at doing
is hiding behind the walls.” (Paul Taylor, “the man who started the
trampled underfoot Strangeways Prison riot.” The riot occurred in Manchester, England, in
the rights of victims were effectively ~ (clergy sex abuse) 1990.)

destruction: animal / foot concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark

transactional (adjective) transparent (adjective)

transactional comprehensive, transparent and independent
he is totally ~, without honor, courage, integrity the investigation should be ~ (plane crash)

transactional exchange free and transparent (m)

this was a ~ of sex for information (a journalist) ensuring ~ elections (Kosovo)

transactional marriage concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark

she has a ~ with her husband (tabloid) transplant (noun)
transactional terms
the president largely sees foreign policy in ~
Atlanta’s transplants
creating a hometown atmosphere for ~ (sports bars)
transactional word growth & development / migration: plant
“cancel” is a very ~ (cancel culture)
dismissal, removal & resignation: plant
transactional or transformative trap (in a trap)
it can be ~ (a pundit on national election)
tactical, transactional, impulsive in a trap
I’m ~, I can’t get out of it
his approach is ~ (not strategic)
situation: container / hunting
magic moment or a transaction
pursuit, capture & escape: container / hunting
was their engagement a ~ (a tabloid story)
♦ “Democracy was never meant to be transactional, ‘You give me your trap (noun)
vote, I make everything better.’” It requires an active and informed
citizenry.” (Barak Obama, 2020.) trap
position, policy and negotiation: money his proposal is not a solution but a ~ (diplomacy)

translate (verb) speed trap

the State Police set up ~s to catch speeders
translate words into reality
trap is set
the failure to ~… (diplomacy)
the ~ (a stratagem to catch a criminal)
translate the language of science into terms
trap is sprung
he can ~ people understand
at the right opportunity, the ~ (politics)
translate into votes
fallen into a trap
endorsements don't always ~ (politics)
the Bush administration has ~ (by invading Iraq)
translate into (operational) safety
fallen for the trap
design safety does not necessarily ~ (factories)
many online personals users have ~ (scam)
creation & transformation: speech / verb ♦ Falling into a pattern is falling into a trap." (Ex-FBI profiler, speaking of
the Washington, D.C.-area sniper.)
transparency (noun)
danger / pursuit, capture & escape / subterfuge: hunting
transparency in (government) procurement
~ (part of WTO agenda) trap (Chinese finger trap)
Transparency measures Chinese finger trap

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 engaging with Trump is like a ~ (Joe Biden) travesty (noun)
♦ Trying hard to remove your fingers only makes the trap tighter.
Sometimes, if you are in a jam, it is better to relax. travesty
situation: container / pressure voters will not forget this ~ (Wisconsin)
it was a ~, going nowhere (DOD program in Vietnam)
trapdoor (computers) feeling, emotion & effect: theater
trap door trawl (verb)
‘~s’ allow outsiders access to the system (computers)
computer: doors & thresholds trawled through (400,000) documents
the panel ~ (investigation)
concealment & lack of concealment: doors & thresholds
subterfuge: doors & thresholds trawled (daily) through (student) websites
trapped police ~ run by Muslim student groups at Yale

trapped in a (sadomasochist) love affair trawl through his communication records and social
he was ~ with a former RAF pilot media history
FBI investigators were able to ~
trapped in the battle
searching & discovery: boat / fish / verb
~ between his warring parents
pursuit, capture & escape: boat / fish / verb
trapped as a (permanent) adjunct
you could end up ~ forever (colleges)
tread (tread carefully, etc.)
trapped by dogma treading a (delicate) line
don't be ~ (Steve Jobs / Apple Computer) the government is ~ between…

feels trapped tread heavily

she ~ (in a small town) you ~, but you speak the truth

got trapped tread lightly

they ~ in a cycle of drug-taking (prostitutes) we have to ~ here (a murder investigation)

end up trapped tread carefully

you could ~ as a permanent adjunct forever (colleges) they need to ~
I’d advise you to ~ (an investigation)
involvement / situation: hunting
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting treading carefully
Republicans up for election are ~ during the pandemic
trash (noun)
danger: walking, running & jumping / verb
trash talk
the ~ escalated to violence
treadmill (noun)
trailer trash treadmill
she went from ~ to rich as sin and back the ~ isn’t likely to stop anytime soon (language change)

white trash treadmill of daily radio

Mama persuaded us we were special, not just ~ get off the ~ and see what’s next

full of trash minimum-wage treadmill

the Internet was ~ that threatened to follow me for life she discusses how people can get off the ~

piece of trash economic treadmill

the book is a filthy ~ ("Lolita" by VN) many are caught on an ~ with no hope of getting ahead

worth & lack of worth: waste step off the (industry’s promotional) treadmill
by 2010 he was ready to ~ (a country singer)
traverse (verb)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
traverse the two worlds work & duty: mechanism
he is trying to ~ (rural and urban / a comic)
treasure (verb)
♦ In 1963, in one of the great feats of mountaineering, Tom Hornbein and
Willi Unsoeld climbed Mount Everest by the West Ridge and descended
by the South Col. It was the first ascent of the West Ridge, and the first
treasure our loved ones
traverse of Mount Everest. it’s also a time to ~ and to take stock... (pandemic)
division & connection: journeys & trips / verb read, treasure and want to share

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 books that people ~ with their children treasure trove of (pilfered) military items
a~
worth & lack of worth: money / verb
treasure (money) treasure trove for a historian
these materials were a ~
treasure and blood stunning trove
how much more can we give in ~ (foreign wars) scientists have discovered a ~ of fossils (Qingjiang biota)
blood and treasure geological treasure trove
we have wasted an enormous amount of ~ in Afghanistan obtaining rocks from the mantle layer would provide a ~
it’s a complete waste in terms of ~ (Afghanistan)
President Johnson reflected on the cost in ~ (Vietnam War) acting on a trove of information
we need to pull out and save American ~ (Afghanistan) intelligence agencies are ~ found during…
money: sign, signal, symbol amount / group, set & collection / searching & discovery /
sign, signal, symbol: money worth & lack of worth: money
treasure (worth) treat (in for a treat)
national treasure in for a treat
National Public Radio is a ~ you are ~
worth & lack of worth: money experience: food & drink
treasured (worth) tree (resemblance)
treasured novel boot tree
it is arguably America’s most ~ (To Kill a Mockingbird) ~s can prevent wrinkles and cracking (leather boots)
worth & lack of worth: money resemblance: tree
treasure house tremor (noun)
treasure house of the writings created tremors
the library is a ~ at the core of the Western tradition the article ~ throughout Silicon Valley
amount: money amount & effect / effect / evidence / initiation: earthquake
group, set & collection / worth & lack of worth: money / volcano
treasure trove (and trove) trench (in the trenches)
trove of documents
in the trenches
a ~ was published by WikiLeaks
he spent 34 years ~ (a teacher)
treasure trove of information the game is won ~ (football)
a ~ from a data recorder (space shuttle)
in the dating trenches
trove of information friends of mine ~ have similar tales of woe (ghosted)
intelligence agencies are acting on a ~
soldiers discovered the tape among a ~
went into the trenches
I ~ with him (a boxer about a tough bout)
treasure-trove of (fossilized) jellyfish ♦ The Chiffon Trenches is a memoir by Andre Leon Talley, a fashion
a ~ discovered in Wisconsin journalist who has had a long relationship with Vogue magazine.
♦ “Take it from me, when you’re in the trenches, you want Joe Biden right
trove of material there next to you.” (US representative Conor Lamb, Pennsylvania, 2020.
the new ~ was being sifted for fresh clues (terrorism) Lamb was a Marine lawyer who, according to his Wikipedia entry,
“prosecuted cases of rape and sexual assault” at a Marine base on
treasure trove of (grand, poetic) rhetoric Okinawa.)
the black church has always been a ~ ♦ “Arriving draftees were shipped up in cattle cars and marched over
duckboard to their new homes in the earth, where everything revolved
trove of (bowling) treasure around the trench—you had a trench knife, a trench cane, a rod-shaped
trench periscope and, if you were unlucky, trench food, trench mouth, or
the Webers' home is a ~ trench fever.” (The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester.)

treasure trove of trivia ♦ “There’s almost as many men drowned as killed: when they’re
wounded they fall into the water.” (World War I trench warfare in late
he has compiled a ~ about every president December on the Western Front.)
treasure trove of plant life ♦ “When we dug bunkers we saw how the dead lay in layers one above
the other.” (The Storm of Steel by Lieutenant Ernst Junger, quoted in
the Appalachians are a ~ The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.)

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experience / place: military the so-called ~ south of Baghdad
trench (other) India-Japan-Australia triangle
China sits at the center of the ~ (trade)
update from the trenches
~, keep red-pilling (a QAnon site) Sunni triangle
the so-called ~ (Iraq)
experience / place: military
coral triangle
triage (verb) the ~ exhibits astonishing marine biodiversity
triage between (bad and worse) options three-and-a-half-acre triangle
they have been forced to ~ (flooding) a~
judgment: health & medicine / verb area: shape
triage (noun) triangle (Ilemi Triangle, etc.)
triage in flight delays Afar Triangle
there is no ~ (US airports) the ~ is also known as the Danakil Depression
triage mode Golden Triangle
aging forces democracies into ~ a mountainous region known as the ~ (Mexico drugs)
the ~ (Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar)
fiscal triage
they have resorted to ~ (government) Iron Triangle
the ~ was a Viet Minh stronghold (Vietnam War)
political triage
Democrats plan ~ to retain the House (election funding) Ilemi Triangle
the ~ is contested by Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
strategy of triage
Democrats have begun a ~ (elections) Yigra triangle
the dispute centers on the ~ (Eritrea and Ethiopia)
doing triage
the 250-square-mile piece of rocky land known as the ~
Theranos was ~ (troubled corporation)
proper name / shape: geometry
judgment: health & medicine
proper name: shape
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: health &
medicine triangle (fire triangle, etc.)
trial (show trial) fire triangle
the ~ is fuel, oxygen and heat (wildfires)
“show trial”
the investigation is a ~ (politics) relationship: geometry / shape / sign, signal, symbol
show trial sign, signal, symbol: geometry / shape
we don’t see the need for a ~ (political gaffe) triangle (love triangle, etc.)
she was betrayed and subjected to a ~ (Edith Cavell)
love triangle
appearance & reality / performance: theater she attacked her romantic rival in the ~
judgment / oppression: justice the play portrays a ~
trial (trial by fire) apex of a romantic triangle
she was the ~
faced a trial by fire
she ~ (politics) relationship: geometry / sign, signal, symbol
experience / survival, persistence & endurance: fire sign, signal, symbol: geometry

trial balloon tribe (group)

trial balloon girl's "tribe"

his office floated a flurry of ~s (baseball)
experimentation: atmosphere / balloon
attention, scrutiny & promotion: atmosphere / balloon
triangle (area)
he must play up to the ~ (her friends / teen dating)
"gathering of the tribe"
many refer to it as a ~ (Masters / surfing)
group, set & collection: person

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tributary (noun) trigger (noun)
numerous tributaries triggers of asthma
the main river of human lineage was split into ~ ~ include allergens, infections, exercise, anxiety, reflux
(Denisovans, etc.)
trigger for abuse
branching system / taxonomy & classification: river low income or stress may be a ~ (spousal abuse)
tribute (pay tribute) trigger for the accident
the failure of the heat shielding may have been a ~
payed tribute to its fallen detective
the NYPD ~ (killed in line of duty) trigger for conflict
water can be a ~ (world's rivers)
achievement, recognition & praise / obligation: money
allergy trigger
trickle (noun) asthma and the effect of pets or other ~s
trickle of information heartburn trigger
the ~ handed out so far (by police) there are many ~s (food, cigarettes, drugs, etc.)
trickle of (surrendering) soldiers memory triggers
a ~ became a flood ~ lurk in wait all around (war and suffering)
trickle, flow, gush (m) viral trigger
we had a theory called, "~" (to rescue hostages) identifying a potential ~ is helpful, but... (AFM)
slowed to a trickle pets or other (allergy) triggers
the outpouring of generosity has ~ (aid) asthma and the effect of ~
the export of Libyan oil has ~
♦ “Memory triggers lurk in wait all around—a particular outdoor tap or fire
the flow has ~ (migrants) hydrant, the drone of an aeroplane or the squeak of sled runners, the
smell of jointer’s glue or just the sight of untrodden snow on a city
cut to a trickle pavement. One man never puts up a New Year’s tree, because it
the stream of jihadists into the country has been ~ reminds him of the one underneath which his father lay dying of hunger;
others always detour round particular streets or bridges. For Grechina,
amount & effect / movement: water one day in 1978, it was the smell of a bonfire, drifting in at her window.
Having for years given the conventional version of the siege in talks to
trickle (trickle in / out) students, she sat down at her desk and wept and wrote for two days and
nights, releasing a torrent of long-pent-up grief and anger.” (Leningrad by
the great writer Anna Reid.)
trickling in
foreign tourists are ~ (Wakhan) initiation: weapon
trickle in at inflated prices trigger (pull the trigger)
items ~ (Kisangani)
pull the trigger
trickle out nobody wanted to ~ and do a deal (publishing houses)
yesterday, the news started to ~ (politics) they have been a little slower to ~ (cancel sports season)
movement: water / verb action, inaction & delay / initiation: verb / weapon
trigger (verb) trim (verb)
triggered my decision trim money from the (defense) budget
what ~ was… he proposed to ~
triggered a firestorm trim (state) spending
he ~ of controversy (a politician's remarks) he has been able to ~ (politician)
triggered outrage dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / knife / verb
the online book ~
trinity (Holy Trinity)
trigger a panic
the government does not want to ~ (epidemic) holy trinity of the Asian spice trade
pepper, clove, and nutmeg were the original ~
trigger a (regional) war
he is willing to ~ (Assad) importance & significance: number / religion

trigger fear and chaos trip up (verb)

their aim is to ~ (political assassins)
trip up the president
initiation: weapon / verb this could ~

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equilibrium & stability: verb / walking, running & jumping ~s ask stupid questions and see who rises to the bait
disruption / failure, accident & impairment: equilibrium & ~s provoke strangers online
stability / verb / walking, running & jumping ~s love a vicious group hunt
~s push peoples' buttons
tripwire (initiation) ~s have caused people to commit suicide
~s posted flashing images to a Web site for epileptics
tripwire event
the Sopranos was the ~ that set off the golden age of TV Web Troll
initiation: explosion / military / weapon Prolific ~ Arrested (headline)
♦ In the old days, trolls lurked under bridges or in dark forests and caught
tripwire (danger) and ate unsuspecting people. Nowadays, trolls are provocateurs who
lurk online. They identify a person they consider to be a "blowhard" or
legal tripwires "full of it" and provoke and attack him. While the person who is attacked
goes nuts, the trolls sit back and laugh!
she avoided ~ (Supreme Court confirmation hearing)
♦ “I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs. That’s when I computer: creature
knew I was screwed.” (Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, aka “Iron Mike” person: creature
and “Gunny,” just before getting blown up by a trap while investigating an
IED in Ramadi. Incredibly, he was not too badly wounded. A photo of him troll (Troll Wall, etc.)
“flipping off” whoever detonated the trap became famous on the Internet.
Snopes status: True.)
Troll Wall
danger: explosion / military / weapon the ~ is the tallest rock face in Europe (Norway)

triumvirate (noun) proper name: creature

triumvirate of the great mountains trophy (trophy boyfriend, etc.)

the ~ would be Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat (Joe Simpson) trophy boyfriend
♦ The First Triumvirate in 60 B.C. consisted of Julius Caesar, Pompey, Asian boyfriends are the next "~s"
and Crassus.

importance & significance: allusion / history trophy girlfriend

she's found herself a young, hot ~
Trojan horse (computers) achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: sign,
viruses, worms and Trojan Horses signal, symbol / sports & games
~ (computers) sign, signal, symbol: sports & games
computer: Iliad & Odyssey trotted out
Trojan Horse (subterfuge) trotted out
it’s a charge that is often ~ (sportswashing)
Trojan Horses of the 21st century
cargo containers are the ~ (terrorism) attention, scrutiny & promotion: animal / horse

Trojan Horse in our midst trouble (in trouble)

the INS may be a ~ (editorial in state paper)
in trouble
Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party the magazine is ~ (libel)
Huawei has been accused of being a ~
situation: container
♦ Dante put Ulysses in hell for being an evil counselor. Ulysses
convinced Achilles to sign up for the war, breaking his mother’s heart, troubled
and causing his girlfriend, Deidamia, with whom he had had a child, to
commit suicide. He stole the sacred statue of Pallas, on which the
security of Troy depended, from the Palladium. And, of course, he came
troubled company
up with the ruse of the Wooden Horse. According to Dante, Ulysses the ~ is in bankruptcy
never made it home to Ithaca to be reunited with his old dog. Instead, he
sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic and headed south. condition & status: mental health
His ship went down in a storm near Tristan da Cunha.
trough (noun)
subterfuge: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
in a trough
troll (verb) we're ~ (technology seems to have slowed down)
trolling for votes peaks and troughs
he is a cynical politician ~ the regional patterns of ~ could change (rising sea levels)
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb decline / progress & lack of progress: shape
troll (computers)
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trounce (verb) trumpet (verb)
trounced Bush trumpeted the drug
John Major backed the wrong horse, Clinton ~ he ~ as a potential treatment
feeling, emotion & effect: hitting, slamming & lashing / verb trumpeting its own product
conflict: hitting, slamming & lashing / verb the company is ~
trounced trumpeting their victory
conservative groups were ~ (court)
trounced 4-0 at Everton on Sunday
they were ~ (Manchester United) attention, scrutiny & promotion: military / sound / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: hitting, slamming & lashing trunk (branching system)
conflict: hitting, slamming & lashing
trunk road
trove (see treasure trove) we drove along France's old ~ (N7)
truce (noun) Grand Trunk Road
I drove along the ~ to the Khyber Pass
call a truce
♦ Route Nationale 7 has been called France's Route 66. It links Paris to
let's ~ (interpersonal problem) the Cote d'Azur. Like Route 66, it has been superseded by expressways,
but still preserves its charm and history.
reached a (shaky) truce
they have ~ in their trade dispute branching system: tree
conflict / reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, truth (tell one’s truth, etc.)
going, continuing & ending: military
tell your truth
truck (control) what does it mean to be a woman and to ~ (music)

my truck sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech

this is ~, and in my truck we go by my rules tsunami (noun)
♦ This is like the person who said, “You’re either on the bus or not on the
bus, and I’m driving the bus.” tsunami of cases
allegiance, support & betrayal: mechanism Germany hopes to avoid the ~ seen in Italy (pandemic)
unanimity & consensus: mechanism tsunami of lawsuits
control & lack of control: mechanism the company faces a ~ (opioid epidemic)
truckload (amount) tsunami of fake news
truckloads of money Brazilian voters faced a ~ before the election
they have spent ~ (Manchester United) disinformation, partisan news, and social media’s ~
♦ Bucketful, truckload, container ship-load... tsunami of traffic
allegiance, support & betrayal: mechanism the Web site experienced a ~ (celebrity gossip)
unanimity & consensus: mechanism tsunami warning
control & lack of control: mechanism Democrats face a ~ (elections)
Trump (Trump of the Tropics, etc.) digital tsunami
it will be a challenge to keep up with the ~ (power)
Trump of the Tropics
he is often called the ~ (unpredictable, brash leader) electoral tsunami
we will see an ~ on Nov. 2 (elections)
British Trump
Boris Johnson has been described as the ~ refugee tsunami
behavior: epithet the world has not seen a ~ like this since World War II

trumpet (blow one’s own trumpet) steroid tsunami

the ~ nearly washed out Major League Baseball
blow her own trumpet
green tsunami
she was unashamed to ~ (the great Nancy Hargreaves)
voters turned out for her in a "~" (Brazil)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / verb
slow-motion tsunami
all we can do is watch this ~ (elections)

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survive the (economic) tsunami but it all ~ when… (a happy life)
companies are struggling to ~ (downturn)
failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / ruins / verb
amount & effect: sea / tsunami / wave destruction: infrastructure / ruins / verb
tube (go down the tubes) tumor (noun)
goes down the tubes cancerous tumor
this is what happens when a corporation ~ he described the country as a ~ (leader)
failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / verb affliction: health & medicine
destruction: infrastructure / verb growth & development: health & medicine
tucked tumult (disruption)
tucked between Australia and Fiji political tumult
Vanuatu, ~ the ~ of the 1960s
configuration: cloth conflict / disruption / resistance, opposition & defeat:
sound
tug of war
tune (in tune, etc.)
tug-of-war
it’s a ~ which ideology will control the party in tune with his teammates
on Thursday he was ~ (soccer game)
tug-of-war over the house
a post-divorce ~ in tune with the views
he is not ~ of his constituents (a politician)
tug-of-war between the airlines and FAA
part of a familiar ~ in tune with (Bush's) view
he is more ~ of North Korea (a leader)
tug of war between the aircraft and the crew
the false reading created a ~ (MCAS / airline disasters) dance to the tune
many politicians ~ of the latest opinion poll or tweet
tug of war between Congress and the administration
the ~ over (border wall) funding took a new turn today unanimity & consensus: music

post-divorce tug-of-war tune (out of tune)

a ~ over the house
out of tune with the needs
constitutional tug-of-war education is ~ of the economy
the ~ between Moscow and the regions
unanimity & consensus: music
legal tug-of-war
he has been the subject of a long ~ between…
tune (different tune)
conflict: sports & games singing a different tune
but he is ~
tumble (decline)
unanimity & consensus: music
Dow tumbled
the ~ more than 500 points (2008 financial crisis)
tune (change one's tune)
prices have tumbled changed his tune
gas ~ in May he ~ and confessed to doping (Tour de France)

decline / failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb / changed their tune
walking, running & jumping it doesn't mean the bad guys have ~ (Baghdad)

tumble (take a tumble) reversal: music / verb

tune (change in tune)
took a tumble
the financial markets ~ today change in tune
decline / failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb / this is a ~ (US will leave troops in Syria after all)
walking, running & jumping reversal: music / verb
tumble down (verb) tune (dance to the tune)
came tumbling down dances to the tune of a different drummer

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 she says her state “~” (South Carolina) tunnel vision thing
it was just kind of like a ~ (rescuer didn’t hear screams of
unanimity & consensus: music / verb
bystanders)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: music / verb
tune (and tune up) tunnel vision versus an open mind
~ (criminal investigations)
tune up for the World Cup ♦ "He's got target fixation." (A military pilot.)
friendly matches will help them to ~ (soccer)
perception, perspective & point of view: infrastructure
tune up my (50-something) brain turbocharge (verb)
I want to ~ (brain exercises)
tune up your relationship turbocharged this (global social-media) ecosystem
need to ~ (advice) the alt-right has ~ of hatred
increase & decrease / power / speed / strength &
tune up the vaccine
we can use new genetic information to ~ (pertussis) weakness: engine / verb

amelioration & renewal / readiness & preparedness: turbulence

engine / mechanism / music / verb political turbulence
tuned (stay tuned) the ~ in the Palestinian Authority
conflict: air / atmosphere / water
stay tuned
he urges people to ~ (to an ongoing issue) turbulent (turbulent childhood, etc.)
stay tuned to find out turbulent relationship
~ (a politically motivated lawsuit) they had a ~
consciousness & awareness: radio / verb turbulent childhood
attention, scrutiny & promotion: radio / verb he emerged from a ~ emotionally brittle
development: radio / verb
flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere / water
tune-up (noun)
turf (control)
tune-up for the playoffs
the game was a good ~ (sports) enemy turf
treading on ~
in need of a tuneup
the program is badly ~ (state monitoring of pollution) home turf
bring it to his ~
getting a tune up
the painting is ~ (restoration of old master) area / control & lack of control: ground, terrain & land
readiness & preparedness: engine / mechanism / music turf (turf war, etc.)
amelioration & renewal: engine / mechanism / music
turf battles
tunnel (resemblance) ~ likely to ensue (federal agencies)
tunnel of (mature) rhododendron turf wars between the C.I.A. and F.B.I.
a long arched ~ ~ (9/11)
resemblance: infrastructure alcohol turf war
tunnel (light at the end of the tunnel) allegations of an ~ (Saudi Arabia)
absurd turf wars
light at the end of the tunnel a series of ~ between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. (9/11)
sometimes it doesn't seem like there's a ~ (troubles)
bloody turf wars
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: infrastructure
the gang endured ~s
tunnel vision fights over turf
tunnel vision ~ for distributing the drugs (gangs)
a kind of ~ dominates his perspective series of (absurd) turf wars
tension tends to induce instant ~ a ~ between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. (9/11)
I had ~ (an athlete who drove, shot, scored, won game)
detectives are looking at all angles to avoid getting ~ competition / conflict: ground, terrain & land

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turn (transform) the march ~
turned fatal
turns from a hobby into an obsession his good deed ~ when…
it ~ after a while (yo-yoing)
turn tragic
turn him from a criminal into a martyr a relatively minor mistake can ~ (climbing)
the Arabs will ~
turned from bad to worse
turns into real action the situation in Somalia has ~
it will be a long process before the talk ~
creation & transformation: direction / verb
turn into (physical) confrontations
verbal confrontations that ~ (police) turn (turn to something, etc.)
turned into a love affair turn
their friendship ~ I didn't know which way to ~
turned into something more turned to the Internet to get
it ~ (a relationship) she ~ information on how to...
turned him into an advocate turn to plastic surgery to look
his accident ~ for spinal cord research (Reeve) they ~ young
turned (former) foes into allies turned to Sununu to strike back
he has ~ (leader of Mexican drug cartel) he ~ (politics)
turned the telegraph into an antique turn to Crazy Horse for answers
the telephone ~ I~
turns a poem into a companion turn to God for forgiveness
memorization ~ (Billy Collins) we must constantly ~
turns any meal into a feast turn to traditional healers for help
a good piece of fry bread ~ 8 in 10 South Africans ~ (sangomas)
turns global into globalization turn to (school) officials for help
the kind of intercourse that ~ (Silk Road) young lesbians will not ~ when...
turned Yakutat into a (surfing) hotspot turns to the I.M.F. for a loan
they have ~ (Alaska) the next time it ~
turn the discussion into a lecture turning to Islam
don't ~ (advice to teachers) they are ~
turned Patteson into a (Christian) martyr turns to Allah
the murder ~ (Melanesia) if a person sincerely ~, seeking His help...
turned his (difficult) childhood into music turned to his allies
50 Cent ~ (rapper) Zhou ~ in the local police (labor problems)
turned the dream into a nightmare turn to anybody
the loans have ~ (home ownership) when there's no one else to listen to you, you'll ~ (gay)
turn a cult activity into a mainstream sport turn to drugs
he helped ~ (surfing) youth who ~ in an effort to escape their circumstances
turned to grief turned to drugs
but euphoria ~… (all miners but one actually dead) they ~ as a way of dealing with isolation and... (gay
students)
turned to panic
fear ~ (1918 flu pandemic) turn to faith
to cope with combat, soldiers often ~
turns to trust
distrust ~ when people get to know you turned to poetry
he ~, his source of solace in times of difficulty
turned it to his advantage
he ~ turning to sources
Western scientists are ~ they once disparaged...
turned angry

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turned to sports the case ~ when… (murder)
they ~ to boost sagging morale (soldiers in war zone)
took a grim turn
turn to terrorism his troubled life ~ when he was shot... (bipolar)
enemies who cannot compete conventionally often ~
taken a new turn
turned to the (Wyoming) can-do spirit the investigation has ~
but talk at the meeting ~
took a romantic turn
turned to the Adult Friend Finder their friendship ~
he ~ dating service...
took a sharp turn
turn to traditional healers his uncertain health ~ for the worse
8 in 10 South Africans ~ for help (sangomas);
undocumented workers ~ (Mexicans in US)
took a sour turn
the day ~ when… (fight at park)
no one (there for me) to turn to
there was ~
took a tragic turn
events ~ (student party)
alternatives & choices / help & assistance: direction
took an unexpected turn
turn (turn against / on something) the case ~ (murder trial)

turned on her taken an ugly turn

her friends ~ things have ~ (awkward moment)

turned on each other path took an (unexpected) turn

two of the main rebel factions have ~ (Darfur) her life's ~ (serious injury)

turned on him development: direction / journeys & trips / verb

the public quickly ~ (Richard Jewell) turn (development)
turn on the president
he won’t ~
turn of events
parishioners expressed their sadness over the ~ (abuse)
turned on us
the tools we use have ~ (technology)
turns of events
stunned by ~ you never saw coming
turned (ruthlessly) against e-mail
Mr. Ferriss ~ (author of "The 4-Hour Workweek)
plot turn
~s, notable scenes, acting performances
turned against the war
he was a Vietnam veteran who later ~
upturn
our management team is focusing on the ~ (business)
♦ "The enraged elephant then turned on the tourists, charging the
crowd." 180-degree turn
♦ "The performing elephant turned on its handler and then charged…" a ~ of public opinion
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / direction / verb twists and turns
turn (take a turn) the plot has many ~ (movie)
his career has taken many ~
taken a turn development: direction / journeys & trips
the case for the missing teen has ~
turn (wrong turn)
took a turn for the better
their marriage ~ wrong turns
our luck ~… like a lot of historical ~, LGBTQ means well (the term)
took a turn for the worse wrong turns and dead ends
at nightfall, Jason ~ (injured Ranger / combat) the series had some ~ (a TV show)
her condition has taken a ~
failure, accident & impairment: direction / movement /
took a dark turn journeys & trips
their relationship ~ (boyfriend murders girlfriend)
turnabout (reversal)
took a devastating turn
and then the case ~ (missing woman found murdered) turnabout
for the computer industry this is a ~
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turnabout reflects turned down his (zoning) request
the ~ a recognition that… (diplomacy) Ann Arbor officials ~
reversal: direction / trips & journeys turned down an (athletic) scholarship
he ~ from Villanova because…
turn around (verb)
turn down (extra) work
turned around CBS pilots invoked their contract right to ~
he ~ (an executive)
turn this offer down
turn around the economy few ~ ("john" school instead of court)
he will help Republicans ~
turned them down twice
turned (Manchester United’s) fortunes around school officials ~ (students request gay club)
he has ~ (the manager)
acceptance & rejection: direction / verb
turn his life around
he is trying to ~ (a troubled athlete) turned down
turn things around turned down for a job
we can ~ if you are ~ because of credit problems…
turn this thing around no one is turned down
we're going to ~ (improve schools) get a degree without tests, ~ (diploma mill)
amelioration & renewal / reversal: direction / verb get turned down
so many things that are very good ~ (screenplays)
turnaround
acceptance & rejection: direction
turnaround plan
the ~ has not worked (hospital in debt) turned off
abrupt turnaround turned off by (e-tailers') customer service
the decline in his fortunes represents an ~ since autumn consumers are ~
dramatic turnaround feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
in another ~ (football coach's fortunes)
turned on
reversal: direction
turned on by her
turn back (verb) I was ~
turn back really turned on
we can't ~ now… (plan) I was ~ by him
we've gone too far to ~ now (politics)
we are in this fight for our lives, and we will not ~ feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
(candidate) turned up (discovered)
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / verb
turned up by the FBI
turn down (verb) based on information ~

turn down clients searching & discovery: direction / ground, terrain & land
they were not allowed to ~ (sex slaves) turn in (give)
turn down an invitation turn in (uninspiring, half-hearted) performances
never ~ to go out… (dating) boxers content to ~ (vs. Ward and Gatti)
turn down an offer turned in a performance
it's tempting to verbally ~ and skip writing a letter if the US team ~ that was better than... (soccer)
turned down the part giving, receiving, bringing & returning: direction / verb
he ~ (in a film)
turning point (noun)
turned down the (immigrants') requests
Italy has ~ for political asylum turning point in World War II
the battle of El Alamein was a ~
turned down their requests
Germany ~ for political asylum turning point in the battle

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 a ~ against entertainment violence the next months did not ~ Scott had hoped
turning point of her career turn out to be easy
it was the ~ that second goal didn't ~
turning point in my life turned out to be flawed
this was the ~ the studies ~ (education)
turning point in the history of the world turns out to be true
it was a major ~ (gas attack at Ypres in 1915) it's a rare event when an Army rumor ~
major turning point turn out as advertised
it was a ~ in the history of the world (gas attack at Ypres) in Russia, things rarely ~ (Siberian adventure)
marked the turning point turned out OK
the battle ~ my child ~ and I spanked him…
development: direction / mechanism turn out best
importance & significance: mechanism things ~ for people who make the best of things
turn-off (disgust) turn out well
when you make a decision and it doesn't ~ (regret)
turn-off for (most) women they can turn out to be heroes if things ~ (doctors)
a lack of humor is a major ~
turned out a lot worse
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
the swim could have ~ considering… (kayaking)
turn on (verb) development: direction / verb
turns me on turn out (rally)
it ~ (risk of getting caught / adolescent lesbian)
turn out in force
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / verb
activists will ~ to back those who stood up… (gays)
turn-on turned out in (record) numbers
turn-on for men rural voters ~ to vote out…
the pursuit of revenge is a ~ (brain studies) turned out in (far greater) numbers
major turn-on demonstrators ~ than predicted
her scent is a ~ turn out in droves
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism democrats predicted minority voters would ~

turn out (create) turn out for revival

thousands ~, river baptisms (Cane River, NC)
turn out 10 times the amount
super labs ~ of drugs (methamphetamine) fans turn out
only a few thousand ~ at RFK to watch (women's soccer)
creation & transformation: direction / manufacturing / verb
appearance & disappearance: direction / verb
turn out (develop)
turnout (people)
turned out
I was surprised by how it ~ turnout at the polls
it makes sense the way it ~ the election is expected to hang on ~

turn out that voter turnout

it may ~ some anxiety disorders are caused by… ~ was less than 20 percent
there was a surge in ~ (Iraq election)
turns out that
it ~ his girlfriend has already seen a lawyer low turnout
the election was marred by ~
turn out to be the case
that didn't ~ surge in (voter) turnout
there was a ~ (Iraq election)
turn out to be nothing
it may ~ stir up (Democratic) turnout
they sent leaders across the country to ~
turn out (quite) the way
appearance & disappearance: direction

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turnover (work) now prominent foreigners ~ (Afghanistan)

turnover rate virus has turned up

the dreaded West Nile ~ in New York City again...
nursing aides and their high ~ rate
staff turnover body turned up
her ~ four days later with the corpse of...
~ has been high (English school in Qatar)
teacher turnover nothing turned up
but ~ (search for missing woman)
~ has also been high
nursing staff turnover something turns up
if ~, you're terminated (criminal background checks)
~ has been harmful
appearance & disappearance: ground / verb
high turnover
a teaching corps marked by ~ (middle school / NYC) turn up (discover)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction turned up anything
turn up (increase) we never ~ in that case (a detective)

turned up the heat turned up the drugs

a search of the car ~ (busted)
then he really ~ by starting a Web site accusing...
turning up the volume turned up (other) evidence
their inquiries ~ (murder investigation)
the democratic candidates are ~ against the president
increase & decrease: mechanism / verb turned up (39) incidents
a computer check ~ over 15 years (crime)
turn up (appear)
turns up (unanticipated) information
turned up at (local) parades sometimes an investigation ~
he ~ (a politician)
turn up problems
turn up at (gun) shows renovation at the high school did ~ with asbestos
blowguns also ~
turned up proof
turned up in (Robert's) bedroom intelligence services had never ~ of wrongdoing
the knives later ~, bearing traces of blood
failed to turn up
turn up in dormitories, co-ops, bookstores the schools ~ evidence of hazards (mystery rash)
Flugennock posters ~
investigation turned up
turn up in a few days an ~ no criminal activity...
it'll ~ (a lost shoe)
search (of her apartment) turned up
turn up within a few weeks a ~ her packed luggage, jewelry...
most are found or ~ (the missing)
search (of the car) turned up
turn up during (road) construction a ~ drugs (busted)
old bombs ~ (Germany) searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / verb
turned up for the pig roast tweak (noun)
around 2,000 people ~ (Indonesian Papua)
turn up next small tweaks
the administration has made ~ to regulation and policy
where it might ~ (anthrax)
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / tools & technology
turned up next
the school rash ~ in northern Virginia twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
turned up well armed twilight of his (political) career
Belgian troops ~ and ready to perform (UN force) now the 78-year-old senator is approaching the ~
turned up dead in the twilight of the Soviet Union
one more gangbanger who ~ beside a ditch; they came of age ~ (a generation)
Lina disappeared in 2000 and ~
in the twilight of his career
turn up (here) regularly now, ~ (a minister)

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in the twilight of democracy Twin Rocks
we are ~ (authoritarianism) we sailed around ~ (Kemps Bay, the Bahamas)
in the twilight of the republic Twin Peaks
we are in the ~ (US) I hiked to ~ (Australia)
into the twilight of his career Twin Lakes
Federer is well ~ (the great tennis player) she has a cabin on ~ (Ontario)
decline: day / light & dark proper name: family
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day / light &
dark
twist (twist the truth, etc.)
twilight (in a legal twilight, etc.) twisted the facts
the magazine ~
legal twilight
the ruling leaves her in a ~ (immigrant) twist the truth
his lawyers tried to ~ during the trial
twilight zone
the school has been caught in the ~ of “orphan” academies corruption: direction / verb
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech / direction /
certainty & uncertainty / situation: light & dark verb
Twilight Zone twist (noun)
Twilight Zone twist in the case
the latest accusation is from the ~ it was a sad ~
fantasy & reality: allusion latest twist
he will speak about the ~ (diplomacy)
twin (two) EFPs are the ~ in a lethal game of measure, countermeasure
twin failures sad twist
the ~ of 1999 forced NASA to… (Mars missions) it was a ~ in the case
twin (suicide) bombings stunning twist
Istanbul suffered ~ (terrorism) it was a ~
amount: family twists and turns
twin (relationship) the plot has many ~ (movie)

twin masters twist and turn

bow to their ~: the ratings and advertisers (network TV) he has covered every ~ in the story (a reporter)
development: direction
twin threats
~ face Russia's polar bears—global warming and poaching twisted (corruption)
South's (familiar) twins twisted for (political) gain
the ~, temperature and humidity in Washington, anything can be ~
deadly twin twisted into a web
TB has become AIDS’ ~ his death has been ~ of disinformation and paranoia
evil twin twisted logic
September is the ~ of spring fever genocide followed a ~
familiar twins this is an example of ~
the South's ~, temperature and humidity twisted psychology
scientific twins the trial has been a showcase of ~ (murder)
forecast and evolution were ~ (FitzRoy and Darwin) perverted, twisted (m)
division & connection / relationship: family he is a man with a ~ mind

twin (the Twins, etc.) twisted world

she lives in a ~
the Twins
we visited ~ (Marshall Islands) mentally twisted
he is ~ (animal abuser)

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numbers are twisted ugly detail
do I have to spell it out in every ~
corruption: direction
ugly divorce
twisted (character) the UK and the EU are having an ~
twisted killer ugly picture
he is a ~ she painted an ~ of him as a drug user (trial)
twisted soul ugly sister
he is a ~ eugenics and its ~, eugenic euthanasia (Nazis)
strange, twisted (m) ugly specter
it takes a ~ person do what she did the deal raises the ~ of conflict of interest
character & personality: direction ugly turn
twitch (quick-twitch) things have taken an ~

quick-twitch media ugly underside

a ~, desperate to get it out, amplified flaws in the reporting the ~ of America’s most popular sport (football)

control & lack of control: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
twitter-lashing (noun)
twitter-lashing by President Trump
this ~ towards the Kochs
speech: violence / whip
accusation & criticism: violence / whip
two point zero, two point oh (2.0)
JCPOA 2.0
there needs to be a ~ (a new nuclear deal)
Johnny Appleseed (of Agriculture) 2.0
she is the ~ (brings together entrepreneurs, investors)
get ugly
late at night, the protests ~ (street protests)
♦ “Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it’s
not the beer cans that are ugly; it’s the highway that is ugly.” (Edward
Abbey, author of the Monkey Wrench Gang and a Godfather of Earth
First.)
♦ “This sofa is ugly. The other sofa is beautiful.” (The American
Language Course, Defense Language Institute—ALC / DLI.)
flaws & lack of flaws: eye
ulcer (noun)
Napoleon’s “Spanish ulcer”
the Peninsular War was ~
affliction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone

NAFTA 2.0 umbrella (protection)

it’s ~, a modest tweak, an updating (USMCA) air defense umbrella
Globalization 1.0 air cover or an ~ is necessary
how Vikings launched ~ the passes lay outside the Egyptians' ~ (Sinai / 1973)

progress & lack of progress: number protective umbrella

computer: number the Saudis did not want a U.S. ~

tyrant (noun) nuclear umbrella

the US could extend its ~ to Israel, Egypt, and the Gulf
household tyrant ♦ Umbrellas were originally designed as sun shades for protection
he was a terrible ~ against the sun.

oppression / power: government / history protection & lack of protection: umbrella

umbrella (under an umbrella)
U under the Taliban's umbrella
it is one of the main groups fighting ~
ugly (adjective)
under the social studies umbrella
ugly blemish disciplines ~
the Charlottesville tragedy was “an ~” on the US (2017)
work under the U.N. umbrella
ugly byproduct 7,000 de-miners are at ~ (Afghanistan)
domestic violence is an ~ of the culture of machismo cover: umbrella
ugly cousin
sarcasm is anger’s ~

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umbrella (other) we're in ~ in terms of predicting his recovery… (coma)
sending public opinion into ~
umbrella agencies
uncharted water
get in touch with the ~ below…
the NCAA is wading into ~
umbrella term
uncharted waters
"transgender" is an ~ to describe people who…
this was ~ for us (youthful sex)
cover: umbrella
uncharted (legal) waters
un (undo this hurt, etc.) the charges have led the country into ~ (soldiers)

undo this hurt uncharted wilderness

~, unbreak my heart... (Toni Braxton) new routes into the ~ of the 21-century economy
reversal: affix certainty & uncertainty / direction: ground, terrain & land /
journeys & trips / map / sea
unblemished
unclear (adjective)
unblemished record
he came to Glasgow with the title and an ~ (boxer) unclear
facts are scarce and sources are ~ (news rumors)
flaws & lack of flaws: mark it’s very ~ what happened (school shooting)
unbridled certainty & uncertainty: light & dark
unbridled ambition comprehension & lack of comprehension: light & dark
Qatar has leveraged its oil wealth and ~ perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark
he is a man of ~ uncork (verb)
unbridled authority uncorked a declamation
state’s attorneys don’t have ~ to appoint special prosecutors he ~ on why America is no longer the greatest (TV show)
unbridled capitalism uncorked (long-suppressed) public opinion
~ undermines traditional social relations the riots have ~
unbridled enthusiasm initiation: bottle / pressure
he has the ~ of his party (a politician)
there are problems with ~ uncover (verb)
unbridled expression uncover
the Internet allows ~ she would be surprised at the information she would ~
unbridled greed uncovered (more) bodies from a canal
our ~ caused the economic crisis rescue efforts ~ (Nigeria)
good for the company for saying no to ~ (a publisher)
uncovered crimes
unbridled (economic) growth investigators dug into actions and ~
pollution has been one of the downsides of China's ~
uncover explosives
unbridled imagination troops conduct raids to carry out arrests and ~
musicians admired him for his ~ (a fellow musician)
uncover the (true) extent
unbridled optimism he worked to ~ of bullying (schools)
people praised his ~ in the face of his illness
uncovered an (unnerving) fact
unbridled optimist he ~ (scientist / about influenza)
she is an ~
uncovered evidence
unbridled passion scientists digging south of Denver say they have ~ of....
he has energy, enthusiasm and ~ of what's possible well, we've ~ that points in a different direction (crime)
restraint & lack of restraint: horse uncover any links
constraint & lack of constraint: horse as federal agents work to ~ to terrorists
control & lack of control: horse
uncovered a (solid) motive
uncharted (adjective) the investigation has not yet ~ (rap-star shooting)
uncharted territory uncovered a plot

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 police ~ to blow up commercial jetliners (terrorists) constant undercurrent
the quest for identity is a ~ in the Middle East
uncovered the (Sept. 11) plot
the FBI mishandled info that could have ~ concealment & lack of concealment / force: river
uncovered a (growing muti-smuggling) racket undercut (verb)
a newspaper has ~ (Swaziland)
undercut her
uncovered (one or two more of the) terrorists she stood her ground and didn’t let the defense ~ (trial)
we could have ~... (9/11)
failure, accident & impairment: mining / verb
police uncovered
~ thousands (tapes by militant Islamists) underdog (competition)
investigations can uncover underdog
~ things that result in lawsuits we don't consider ourselves ~s (basketball team)
we're the ~s (sports team)
appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of he is an ~ (politics)
concealment / searching & discovery: ground, terrain &
land / verb underdog candidates
~ gulped much-needed political oxygen (TV debate)
under (hierarchy)
underdog potential
under him who has that ~ (NCAA tournament)
but because I was ~... (a company)
front-runners and underdogs
hierarchy: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle / position ~ loved him (a race car driver)
underbelly (soft underbelly, etc.) consider ourselves underdogs
we don't ~ (member of a basketball team)
soft underbelly ♦ The underdog has nothing to lose and everything to gain. (Boxing.)
Liverpool knew where the ~ lay (victory against City)
competition / strength & weakness / superiority &
protection & lack of protection: animal / orientation /
inferiority: animal / dog / position
stomach
underdog (hierarchy)
underbelly (concealment)
underdog
underbelly of globalization she was an ~ some cheered for (Anna Nicole)
this is the ~ (toxic dumping in third world)
underdog story
Glasgow’s (dark) underbelly it's an ~ set during the Depression (a film)
~ of vulnerability and danger (murdered prostitutes) people love an ~ (footballer Jamie Vardy)
corrupt underbelly hierarchy: animal / dog / position
did he know too much about boxing’s ~ (Sonny Listen)
underground (noun)
dark underbelly
the ~ of just how far parents are willing to go (college underground church
admissions scandal) millions of Chinese Catholics worship in ~s
grim underbelly underground (extremist) group
ballet has a ~ the ~ Army of God
seedy underbelly underground magazine
Hollywood’s ~, the casting couch... an ~ about dog fighting (illegal in US)
violent underbelly underground market
this city is beautiful with a very real and very ~ (cop) drugs available on the ~
orientation: stomach underground (anti-slavery) movement
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment an ~
/ flaws & lack of flaws: orientation / stomach
underground music
undercurrent (noun) acid-house was ~
undercurrent of extremism underground churches and sects
there is a serious ~ (in a country) the spread of ~

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underground and the mainstream underlying explanation
he is stuck between the ~ (Shaun White in 2010) no one challenged the ~ for the sudden death
cyber underground underlying factors
the ~ was abuzz with rumors the ~ that contributed to the disaster (NASA)
drives it underground underlying felony
cracking down on sex trafficking just ~ armed robbery was the ~ in the murders
drive sex offenders underground underlying infrastructure
Iowa's residency rules ~ a deep flaw in the ~ (Microsoft security flaw)
concealment & lack of concealment / environment / underlying injuries
society: direction the diagnosis of ~
underground railroad underlying issues
~ include emotional immaturity, feelings of inferiority
underground railroad
an ~ to get workers across the border (from Mexico) underlying message
understand their ~ (autistic behaviors)
resistance, opposition & defeat: history
underlying principle
underhanded (or underhand) a world in which modesty is the ~ (Muslim girl)
underhand tactics underlying (Buddhist) principles
his side was subjected to ~ (sports) a draft constitution based on ~ (Bhutan)
underhanded tricks underlying (psychological) problems
protect yourself from ~
underlying question
underhand ways imaging research has not answered the ~ (psychiatry)
she employs ~ to get ahead
underlying theme
covert & underhanded CBS stuck to the ~ of the report (expose)
racism can be ~ (versus in your face)
underlying unity
subterfuge: direction / hand our quest for some elusive ~
underlie (verb) underlying medical condition
regardless of their ~
underlie the (chronic) inflammation
allergic symptoms may ~ bases: direction / ground, terrain & land
relationship: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
underlie the insurgency
we must address the problems that ~ undermine (verb)
underlie mating games undermine assumptions
she is testing out the social skills that ~ (a teen girl) the finding, if upheld, would ~ that... (migration)
♦ Geological basins and basement rocks underlie the Nullarbor Plain.
(Geology.) undermine cohesion
disparities in compensation ~ among troops
bases: direction / ground, terrain & land / verb
undermined confidence
underline (attention) fear has ~ in the food supply (avian flu)
double underline undermines (investor) confidence
we need to ~ the conclusion (of a report) corruption ~ in new ventures
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters / verb undermine cooperation
underlying (adjective) selfish, exploitative people quickly ~

underlying causes undermine (U.S.) credibility

deliberate lies ~ (foreign policy)
an understanding of the ~
underlying concept undermine the (Eritrean) government
Sudan's government tried to ~ (1990s)
the approach and its ~s
underlying condition undermined the law
religious fanaticism has ~ (Pakistan)
does not help the ~

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undermine morale underway
inefficient distribution of mail can ~ (military)
underway
undermine relationships an economic recovery is ~
you can ~ with insecurity and jealousy efforts ~ to develop job opportunities for those…
undermines their (own academic) reputation underway in Azerbaijan
reviewers may react harshly to research that ~ the alphabet reform ~
undermine security underway on the dam
they use terrorism to sow fear and ~ construction is ~
undermine (global) security already underway
a missile-defense system will ~ a disaster accelerates economic changes that are ~
undermined (fundamental) values an improvement plan is ~
popular culture has ~ currently underway
undermines his sex drive a second, larger study is ~ (rehab therapy)
his performance anxiety ~ now underway
undermined his self-confidence an NIH-sponsored double-blind study is ~ to evaluate…
the rejections ~ (job hunting) well underway
threatens to undermine construction is ~ on the dam
lawlessness ~ investor confidence buzz was underway
failure, accident & impairment: mining / verb the water cooler ~ (Olympic controversy)

underneath (basis) coup was underway

one of the rogue officers denied a ~ (Philippines)
underneath the bravado
~ there is fear work is underway
construction ~ on Ethiopia's huge Gibe III dam
appearance & reality / bases / relationship: direction /
prep, adv, adj, particle trials are underway
randomized controlled ~ (medicine)
underscore (attention)
gets underway
underscores the need the next big federal trial ~ next month (opioid suits)
the report ~ for better data
got underway
underscore the pressure-cooker atmosphere as the trial ~, prosecutors knew they had an uphill climb
the accusations ~ in the region starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
♦ "Soldiers who die are taken to a holding area, where they are made to
do manual labor to underscore the point that dying is never fun." (Military underworld (noun)
training.)

attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters / verb
underside (noun)
underside of the miracle
but the ~ is… (booming economy but problems)
ugly underside
the ~ of America’s most popular sport (football)
orientation: stomach
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
/ flaws & lack of flaws: orientation / stomach
underwater (adjective)
$20.5 billion underwater
the federal flood insurance program is currently ~
survival, persistence & endurance: water
underworld figures
the bar is a favorite for ~ (crime)
Kyrgyzstan's (powerful criminal) underworld
the government may be trying to rein in ~
♦ “The signs were there that it could flow over from the underworld to the
upper world, and now that has happened.” (Wouter Loumans, author of
Mocro Mafia.”)
concealment & lack of concealment / environment:
direction / earth & world / society
center & periphery: direction / society
society: center & periphery / direction
undoing (destruction)
its (final) undoing
this summer’s warmth has been ~ (ice-shelf breaks up)
your undoing
you are going down a road that will be ~

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laid the groundwork for his own undoing the mystery is ~ (missing plane)
he had ~
still unfolding
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: cloth / rope the story is ~
unearth (verb) crisis unfolds
as the coronavirus ~...
unearth documents
the unit can ~ erased from hard drives (police) events will unfold
agility requires an ability to visualize how ~ (military)
unearthed evidence
FBI investigators ~ to show his involvement in IS watched their own drama unfold
the podcast claimed it had ~ that corroborated his alibi passengers ~ on satellite TV sets (JetBlue Flight 292)
he also ~ of contact between... (politics)
development: cloth / verb
♦ Workmen recently unearthed a 500-pound World War II bomb at
Portsmouth Naval Base. It was detonated by bomb-disposal experts. unfolding (developing)
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining / unfolding in Japan
verb
a catastrophe has been ~ (nuclear problem)
unearthed
unfolding disaster
unearthed experiment a Greek chorus comments on the ~
a recently ~ prompted US authorities to apologize
still-unfolding (m)
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining a chapter in the ~ story

unfathomable (adjective) development: cloth

unfathomable unfolding (opening)

this murder is so senseless, it's ~ unfolding blossoms
unfathomable to him the ~ of the fruit trees
the decision was ~ (business) resemblance: cloth
unfathomable stupidity unglued
he survived due to the ~s of the regime (W.W. II)
came unglued
heartbreaking and unfathomable she ~ in the courtroom
his murder was ~ (a rapper)
control & lack of control / failure, accident & impairment /
seem unfathomable feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
falsely admitting to a crime may ~ to many
comprehension & incomprehension: sea / depth / water
unhealthy (condition)
unfettered something unhealthy at Manchester United
there is ~
unfettered condition & status: health & medicine
they can buy weapons ~ (in US)
unhinged (adjective)
unfettered access
she has ~ to files (an investigator) unhinged
the church will give ~ to documents (sex abuse) he seemed like a guy who was ~
unfettered press become so unhinged that...
people paid attention to their increasingly ~ (change) liberal activists and social justice warriors have ~
constraint & lack of constraint: crime fantasy & reality: doors & thresholds
unfold (discover) euphemism: mental health
unicorn (epithet)
unfolding details
investigators are rapidly ~ of the plot (terrorism) unicorns of the sea
searching & discovery: cloth / verb narwhals are the “~”
epithet: creature
unfold (develop)
unfolding in chapters

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unicorn (rarity) unleashed a storm
congressmen ~ of patriotic rage
tech “Unicorns”
Blipper was one of the UK’s ~ unleashed (heavy) rain and (strong) winds
thunderstorms ~ across parts of the Midwest
♦ A tech unicorn is a start-up worth $1 billion or more.

worth & lack of worth: creature unleashes a torrent

in the play's final scene, she unleashes a ~ of fury at…
computer: creature
universe unleashed a wave
they ~ of protest
surfer's (turquoise) universe
unleashed a bloodbath
the ~ (tubes, barrels, pipelines, etc.)
the bombing of the Mosque of the Gold Dome ~
yachting universe
unleashed a whirlwind
Cape Horn is regarded as the Mount Everest of the ~
the dictator's ouster ~ of pent-up civic forces (Suharto)
basketball universe
unleash a civil war
Indiana is the center of the ~
then Mr. Taylor returned to Liberia to ~
board-sport universe constraint & lack of constraint / initiation: dog / verb
in the ~
unleashed
academic universe
more settled fields in the ~ (vs. black studies) unleashed against (the area's) Muslims
the repression ~ (Xinjiang)
center of the (basketball) universe
Indiana is the ~ unleashed by (fanatical) terrorists
♦ -Verse has become a suffix, for example, the Twitterverse. the violence ~
environment: astronomy unleashed by (emotional) trauma
unleash (verb) hysteria as a nervous-system disorder ~
genie (of racial hatred) has been unleashed
unleashed a ($350 million) campaign to persuade the ~ (Ivory Coast)
Microsoft ~... (ad)
constraint & lack of constraint / initiation: dog
unleash (even more) oil into the Gulf
it could ~ (a plan to stop oil spill) unlock (verb)
unleashed a (powerful) shot from 20 meters unlocks the mystery
he ~ (soccer) this could be the key that ~
unleashed a (mortar) barrage amelioration & renewal / concealment & lack of
the Wa ~ and the Thais responded with... concealment / searching & discovery: key / verb
unleashed his blows unmaking (destruction)
Tyson charged up to Lewis and ~... (boxing)
making and unmaking
unleashed the demons the book describes her ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
WWI ~ of political disorder, extremism, and cruelty
destruction: manufacturing
unleashed feelings
Donald Trump ~ that were not expressed publicly before unmask (verb)
unleash a flood unmask this individual
Tibetans fear the rail line will ~ of Han immigrants Republicans are trying to ~ (a whistleblower)
defeat of the bill will ~ of negative advertising (politics) concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
unleashes forces / verb
war ~ that cannot be predicted or controlled
unpack (verb)
unleashed its fury
the massive storm ~ (tornadoes) unpacking (implicit racial) bias
for two decades she has been ~
unleashed (additional rocket) salvos
Palestinians have ~ (from Gaza) unpack the idea
the way I ~ is that…

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unpack that unraveled the mystery
let me ~... satellites have ~ of Mars' geological patterns ("spiders")
♦ This is similar to unpick, which literally means to remove sewing
stitches.
searching & discovery: cloth / verb
amelioration & renewal: rope / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation: container / verb
unraveled
unpick (verb)
unraveled
unpick one or two of those things there are mysteries yet to be ~ (crop circles)
let’s ~ (discussion of Hapsburg Monarchy on BBC)
searching & discovery: cloth
unpick this chain of events
we sought to ~ in our film
unsavory (adjective)
unpicking the mechanics of hatred unsavory connections
in this series I’ll be ~ (a history of hate) he has ~ (a tribal leader)
♦ This literally means to remove sewing stitches. unsavory means
analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth / verb he became rich through ~

unpolished unsavory methods

he is known for his ~ (politician)
unpolished charm
the movie's ~ dissolves into predictability
unsavory past
he is a loose cannon with an ~ (politician)
♦ It is good to know there is an opposite for lapidary.
unsavory reality
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
using a famous last name is an ~ of power and politics
unravel (fail) unsavory reputation
unraveled at an accelerating pace he has an ~
those norms have ~ unsavory side
unraveling in Iraq he showed his ~
with no criminal or psychiatric history, he had started ~ illegal or unsavory
started unraveling he engaged in practices that were ~ (businessman)
with no criminal or psychiatric history, he had ~ in Iraq ♦ Something may taste or smell savory. Stews and goulashes can have
a savory smell. Savory is related to palatable.
harmony (of Russia's nationalities) is unraveling
consumption / corruption / feeling, emotion & effect /
the enforced ~
flaws & lack of flaws: food & drink / taste
life began to unravel
her ~ when… unscathed (adjective)
case (against him) may be unravelling left the debate unscathed
the ~ his main rival ~ (politics)

meeting (quickly) unraveled affliction: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars
the ~ (diplomacy) unseat (verb)
norms unraveled unseats our idea
those ~, replaced by an ethos of "anything goes"
this idea ~ that lesbianism equals female masculinity
pact unraveled dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / failure,
the power-sharing ~ (Sierra Leone)
accident & impairment: equilibrium & stability / horse /
failure, accident & impairment: cloth / rope / verb verb
unravel (unravel a mystery, etc.) unstable (adjective)
unravel the case unstable
we followed the thread and began to ~ (tapes of old trial) the regime is ~
looking for a clue that would ~
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability
unravel the mystery
they are trying to ~ of tornadoes (storm chasers)

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unshackle (verb) unveiled its (welfare) reforms
the government ~
unshackle itself from the past
inauguration: clothing & accessories / verb
hopefully, the sport can ~ (cycling and doping)
constraint & lack of constraint: crime / verb unwavering (adjective)
unspool (verb) unwavering
his support is ~
unspool what
fans and music critics have been trying to ~ it all means total and unwavering
our amazing veterans deserve our ~ support
unspool the history
commitment & determination: equilibrium & stability /
he joins us to ~ that led up to...
movement
unspool the (song’s multiple) layers
to help us ~ of meaning... unwind (verb)
unspool his role unwind
investigators are working to ~ in the affair (politics) he watched TV and tried to ~ after work
crime documentaries have become my default way to ~
unspool the (sordid) story how does he ~ (Anthony Fauci, a workaholic)
we ~ and talk with survivor families
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
unspool slowly feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / verb
the reasons for her alienation ~ (a book)
up (increase / verb)
unspool as Iraq did
the great fear is that Afghanistan could ~ up our game
we need to ~
development: cloth / film / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth / film / verb up their game
companies need to ~ in cybersecurity
unsung (praise)
upped the tariffs
unsung hero the Trump administration has ~
the ~ for me was... (a championship soccer game)
increase & decrease: direction / verb
achievement, recognition & praise: music
up (go up)
untangle (verb)
go up
untangled the history from the mythology the number would ~ (coronavirus cases)
we ~ to get the true story of what happened (podcast)
gone up by two-thirds
amelioration & renewal: cloth / verb my income has ~
analysis & interpretation: cloth / verb
increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle /
untouchable (person) verb
untouchables of academia up (higher)
it's a caste system, and we are the ~ (an adjunct)
up
acceptance & rejection / hierarchy: society
employment is ~
society: person suicide rates are ~
person: society
increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
unvarnished (adjective)
up (time is finished, etc.)
unvarnished advice
he had some ~ for him time is up
my ~
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment:
materials & substances primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / timeliness &
lack of timeliness: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
unveil (make public)
up (up to now, etc.)
unveiled a new approach
the government ~ to… led up to the French Revolution

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 in the years that ~... political upheavals
♦ This is an instance of up-down metaphors for time and contrasts with the last few years have seen a series of ~ (England)
down (down through the centuries). The French Revolution was certainly
an upheaval! Time seems to come down from the past and then up to disruption / effect / feeling, emotion & effect: earthquake /
the present. Perhaps this reflects a cyclical view of time, or simply a hilly equilibrium & stability / ground, terrain & land
topography.
equilibrium & stability: earthquake / ground, terrain & land
past & present / time: direction / height / history /
mountains & hills / prep, adv, adj, particle
uphill (difficult)
up (feeling) uphill battle
passage of the monumental law was an ~
up education on overfishing is an ~ (sharks, etc.)
keep your hopes ~
uphill climb
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle as the trial got underway, prosecutors knew they had an ~
up (ups and downs) uphill fight
it will be an ~ (to win an election)
ups and downs
there's going to be a lot of ~ in the months to come uphill struggle
~ are simply a part of life (self-compassion) a difficult and ~
she had her ~ (an athlete)
difficult and uphill (m)
development: direction a ~ struggle
up (up for something) difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / mountains & hills /
walking, running & jumping
up for the challenge
people wonder if he is ~ (running for president) uppercutting
♦ You can be down for something or up for something with the same
meaning! English is crazy.
upper-cutting guests with a sharp line of questioning
she was known for her tough interviewing style, ~
allegiance, support & betrayal / commitment &
determination: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle conflict: boxing

upbeat (adjective) upright (upright man, etc.)

remained upbeat upright man
she ~, taking the positives out of the day’s events he was an ~ of starchy integrity (law and government)

feeling, emotion & effect: direction behavior / character & personality: direction / height

upend (verb) uprising (resistance)

upend the (financial) industry wave of (democratic) uprisings
looming challenges will ~ a ~ is transforming the Islamic world
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction
upended (entire) industries
Amazon, Netflix and Uber ~ (technology) uproar (controversy)
upended the (presidential) race political uproar
he ~ this week by picking… the politics of mother's milk has created a ~
upended the game table uproar (eventually) died down
he ~ of politics in 2016 the ~ (dismissal of coach)
disruption: direction / equilibrium & stability / verb caused an uproar
upheaval (disruption) the sanitized edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' has ~

upheaval provoked uproar

the miners' action has opened the floodgates to more ~ the case has ~ (guns versus domestic violence)

upheaval of Ruiz’s shock win sparked an uproar

a few weeks of calm after the ~ over Joshua (boxing) his dismissal ~ on campus (popular coach Bobby Knight)
her transgender talk ~ (a Canadian feminist)
great upheavals the sisters’ case ~ (abuse)
periods that precede ~ such as Europe on the eve of 1914
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 what ~ was an incendiary post at a Website modern women are ~ (juggling various duties)
♦ “At sunrise, Sunday morning, May 3, 1863, the battle opened with
terrific cannonading. Simultaneously commenced the bursting shells and
difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / orientation / river
the harsh, crashing sound of musketry, reminding one of a dreadful orientation: direction / orientation / river
storm, the coming of mighty, angry winds, driving the dark and
threatening clouds, sweeping everything material in their path, the rolling upsurge (noun)
reverberations of great thunder-bolts that seem to give fitting expression
to the thoughts of an offended God.” (The Battle of Chancellorsville. upsurge in (volcanic) activity
From Memoirs of Chaplain Life by W. Corby.)
there is no suggestion the ~ is related
amount & effect / conflict: sound
increase & decrease: direction
uprooted uptick (noun)
uprooted from rebel-held east Aleppo uptick in attacks
thousands have been ~
there has been an ~ (war)
dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / tree
dramatic uptick
upside (noun) there has been a ~ in the time it takes...

upside increase & decrease: direction

the ~ is things could be worse upturn (noun)
has an upside upturn in exports
the financial system has an ~
there has been an ~
depression ~
upturn in the market
have an upside the company will profit from any ~
the predicament could ~
flaws & lack of flaws: direction / orientation
economic upturn
there are hopes for an ~ in the spring or summer
upside down
sharp upturn
upside down the political unrest has caused a ~ in oil prices
I wasn’t expecting this, my whole world is ~ (health) upturn is under way
turned upside down experts believe an ~ (economy)
then her life ~ (World War II) derail this (vulnerable economic) upturn
turned our lives upside down a conflict with Iran could yet ~ (in US)
his illness ~ signal an upturn
turn the system upside down the numbers ~ in the economy
the proposed new tests will ~ (education) increase & decrease: direction
turning the town upside down usher in (verb)
the mystery is ~ (missing children)
disruption: direction / equilibrium & stability
usher in a new age
the Republicans seek to ~ of limited government
upstage (verb)
ushered in the Age
upstaged them on their home snow the Age of Columbus ~ of Copernicus (celestial navigation)
he ~ (an Olympic skier) usher in a more socially conservative approach
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / verb democrats warn Trump’s choice will ~ to abortion
orientation: direction / theater / verb usher in change
upstanding (adjective) much blood has been shed to ~

upstanding member ushered in a second sexual revolution

he is an ~ of the community the digital revolution has ~

character & personality: direction / height usher in the sixties

behavior: direction / height he helped to ~ with a new style of journalism (Tom Wolfe)
upstream (swim upstream) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: doors &
thresholds / theater / verb
swimming upstream

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usurp (verb) progress & lack of progress / shape: mountains & hills

usurp the (congressional) power

vandal (noun)
his plan will ~ of the purse (politics) army of vandals
control & lack of control / possession / taking & removing: Rome's art heritage is under attack by an ~
crime / royalty / verb destruction: allusion / history / person
U-turn (noun) vanguard (in the vanguard)
U-turn on (school) reform in the vanguard of (iceboat) design
scholar's ~ shakes up debate the company is ~
scholar's U-turn driving force: military
~ on school reform shakes up debate
vanguard (other)
made a U-turn
they ~ and admitted it was their fault (shot down plane) vanguard of change
young people are acknowledged as the ~
forced into a U-turn
the government was ~ (French labor strike) acknowledged as the vanguard
young people are ~ of change
reversal / shape: letters & characters
♦ Palsars serve in the vanguard of the Israeli military forces.

driving force: military

V vanishing (disappearance)
vacuum (noun) vanishing plants
save the genetic legacy of ~ (seed vault on Svalbard)
vacuum of power
there is a ~ developing in the Middle East vanishing species
he’s a ~ (moderate Republican)
policy vacuum
there was a ~ in Washington (government) appearance & disappearance: death & life
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life
presence & absence: air / atmosphere
vantage point (from a vantage point)
valence (attraction)
from our vantage point
hateful valence it's difficult to believe ~ (now)
the ~ of that gesture is an open question (okay sign)
from the vantage point of the victims
attraction & repulsion: chemistry ~, justice was not done
Valhalla (noun) perception, perspective & point of view: position
Valhalla of men varsity (noun)
they have earned their places in the ~ against death (microbe
hunters) varsity
this is not the JV team, this is the ~ (a gang)
superlative: allusion / place / religion
importance & significance / sanctioning, authority & non- experience / group, set & collection: sports & games
conformity: religion vaudeville (noun)
valley (Silicon Valley, etc.)
vaudeville series
Crypto Valley 18th-century Europe saw a ~ of priority disputes (science)
the canton of Zug is now known as ~ (Switzerland)
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
Silicon Valley vault (verb)
she was the golden girl of ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
proper name: mountains & hills vaulting into the top tier
he is ~ of TV interviewers
valley (noun)
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping
peaks and valleys progress & lack of progress: verb / walking, running &
it's a long season, you're going to have ~ jumping

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vegetable (consciousness) tapping that vein of American sentiment
he is ~ (nativism and anti-immigrants)
vegetable
access & lack of access / identity & nature: blood
if she makes it she'll probably be a ~ (head injuries)
♦ Cabbage is sometimes used with this meaning. vein (in that vein, etc.)
consciousness & awareness: fruits & vegetables in that vein
veil (covering) ~, the campaign released an online ad on Monday…
in a similar vein
veil of (glowing) clouds
~, what do you think is the greatest failure…
an hour after sunset a ~ appears (noctilucent)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mining
veil of (limestone) dust
a slab resting on the dirt floor under a ~ vein (source)
cover / resemblance: clothing & accessories vein of pain
veil (under a veil) there's a pretty deep ~ that runs through these songs
rich vein
under the veil of darkness
Lukaku is enjoying a ~ of form (the soccer player)
the rustlers steal cattle ~ (Dakota)
source: mining
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
veil (concealment) vein (ice in one's veins, etc.)
ice in his veins
veil of mystery
he has ~
the desert "wears a ~" (Edward Abbey)
courses through their veins
veil of secrecy
partisan rage ~ (Democrats)
sky watchers have pierced the ~ (spaceplane)
the ~ was finally lifted over the weekend… running through his veins
he has aviation fuel ~ (a pilot)
parted the veil
US officials have ~ of secrecy to reveal… character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect: blood /
temperature
pierced the veil
sky watchers have ~ of secrecy (spaceplane) velvet (Velvet Revolution)
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories Velvet Revolution
veiled the ~ ended communist rule (Czechoslovakia / 1989)
conflict: cloth / hardness & softness
veiled in secrecy
how money was disbursed was ~ (US aid to Pakistan) vendetta (noun)
veiled references vendetta against him
the song has ~ to the shooting (rap feuds) he believes the group has a ~
veiled threats political vendetta
direct or ~ of harm he has called the case a ~ (convicted politician)
thinly veiled (m) revenge / conflict: violence
~ contempt
reporters used ~ racist terms—gorilla, beast (Liston) veneer (appearance)
not-so-veiled (m) democratic veneer
a ~ reference to his homosexuality despite a ~, the government retains oppressive control
direct or veiled (m) religious veneer
~ threats of harm they offer a ~ but they are ruthless and corrupt
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories appearance & reality / extent & scope / substance & lack
of substance / subterfuge: breadth / materials &
vein (tap a vein)
substances
tapped the vein
he has ~ of popular outrage over… (politician)

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venerate (verb) vent their anger with stones
they ~ (angry Palestinian kids)
venerate Ronald Reagan
Republicans ~ vent for a while
take her someplace calm and let her ~ (crying kid)
venerated him
amelioration & renewal: pressure / verb / volcano
everyone ~ (an Ethiopian leader who died)
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure / verb / volcano
venerates its pathfinders and pacesetters throwing, putting & planting: pressure / verb / volcano
jazz ~ (its elders)
verdict (noun)
importance & significance: religion / verb
reverence: religion / verb verdict on how
what was the ~ she did (a politician’s speech)
Venice (Venice of the North, etc.)
verdict is (still) out on that
Venice of the Middle East the ~ (a policy)
Basra was once called the ~ (for its canals)
judgment: justice
Venice of the North verge (on the verge)
St. Petersburg, the ~
Venice of the East on the verge of being sent
Alappuzha is a city on the Arabian Sea, often called “the ~” she is ~ to jail

epithet: canal on the verge of a catastrophe

the country is ~ (China / AIDS)
venom (noun)
on the verge of collapse
social venom the provincial government is ~ (Iraq)
they are sowing hatred and ~ (politics)
on the verge of combat
rhetoric, the venom, the demagoguery troops ~
after witnessing the inflamed ~
on the verge of elimination
spewed venom now the Jazz are ~ (NBA playoffs)
she ~ (neurotic woman)
on the verge of eradication
accusation & criticism / feeling, emotion & effect / speech: the disease had been ~ (polio)
animal / snake
on the verge of extinction
venomous (adjective) some languages are ~ (few speakers left);
to others we are the "noble savages" ~ (Canada)
venomous bluefin tuna are ~ in the Mediterranean
the debate is becoming increasingly ~
on the verge of orgasm
venomous creatures she was ~
women were these ~ (a teen girl bullied by other girls)
on the verge of sex
accusation & criticism / feeling, emotion & effect / speech: being ~ and discovering you've got no birth control
animal / snake
on the verge of tears
vent (verb) he seemed ~ as the verdict was read
vent about the issues on the verge of war
he wanted to do more than just ~ (a terrorist) with the US ~ with Iraq
vented their anger on the verge of a (nervous) breakdown
voters ~ by voting him out of office I'm ~
vented their disdain on the verge of overrunning
fans ~ through chants when they again seemed ~ the small force
vent frustration on the verge of passing out
it offers her a safe place to ~ (New Teacher Institute) 14-year-olds vomiting, ~ (high-school dance)
vented frustration on the verge of losing consciousness
the president ~ with his own party he doesn't inhale until ~ (drowning)

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proximity: ground, terrain & land
verge (to the verge)
to the verge of war
Kashmir has pushed them to the ~ (Pakistan and India)
pushed them to the verge
Kashmir has ~ of war (Pakistan and India)
proximity: ground, terrain & land
vest (play something close to the vest,
people of good will can ~
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / relationship /
sequence: shape
victim (fall victim to something)
fell victim to a (common human) failing
he ~ (padding his resume)
fall victim to the (cheap) hashish
the young easily ~ (Arab immigrants in France)

etc.) fall victim to the stress

but there are ways to not ~ (sports psychology)
keep that evidence very close to the vest
we tried to ~ but it was leaked (police)
fell victim to accident or illness
whether someone simply ~ (vs. crime)
plays that close to his vest
as to whether he is a socialist, he ~ (a politician)
falling victim to black magicians
more and more hapless people have been ~ (in the UAE)
concealment & lack of concealment: cards / gambling /
hand / sports & games
fallen victim to human trafficking
thousands of Moldovan women have ~
veteran (noun)
fell victim to a rush to judgment
crafty veteran she ~ by police following the murder
he is a ~ of Middle East negotiating predation: animal / verb
experience: military Vietnam (epithet)
veteran (adjective)
Egypt’s Vietnam
veteran roster Nasser lamented war in Yemen had become ~ (1967)
the US must add young blood to its ~ (women's soccer) Britain’s Vietnam
experience: military “the War in Afghanistan, ~” (Daily Mail, 2006)

viable (adjective) Sri Lanka’s Vietnam

the fight against the Tamils was ~
viable campaign
most do not think he can mount a ~ (election) “Nasser’s Vietnam”
the North Yemen Civil War was widely described as ~
viable challenger ♦ In Vietnam the Vietnam War is called the American War.
it is doubtful there will be a ~ to the President (election)
epithet: history / military
viable solution conflict: epithet
there is still no ~ in sight
view (verb)
stay viable
rural schools are working to ~ view stress as a challenge
some workers ~ rather than a burden
survival, persistence & endurance: baby / birth / death &
life view drownings as avoidable accidents
juries tend to ~
viability (political viability, etc.)
view drugs as part of their social lives
political viability they ~ (young people)
many like his ideas, but his ~ has been questioned
view it as their main job
survival, persistence & endurance: baby / birth / death & high school is demanding, and kids need to ~
life
view the computer as another toy
vicious circle a tot under age 3 will ~ at his disposal
vicious circle view this as a case of doping
it's in the nature of ~s that they're hard to stop we don't ~ (competitive bicycling)
reverse a vicious circle view the other members as competition

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 people often ~ for jobs (networking) view of sin, marriage and human nature
a more tolerant ~ (adultery)
view the problem as (pretty) serious
I~ views on children
we both have the same ~
view things through an ethnic lens
he refused to ~ (Afghan military man) views on the issue
her ~ changed (Ann Landers / divorce)
view conflict through a theological lens
he does not ~ (Middle East) view on (social) issues
the mainstream Saudi ~ (women in sports, etc.)
view both with skepticism
we should ~ (explanations and prophecies) views on race
whatever his ~
view him with deep suspicion
views on politics and religion
view these programs skeptically his complex ~
many judges ~ (for batterers)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / verb
views on intelligence and genetics
he holds controversial ~
view (in view) views on how
in view of the changes indigenous peoples have ~ the land should be utilized
~ e-commerce is bringing, can book stores survive views on whether
in view of yesterday's action he called in to offer his ~ Arab nationalism was dead
~, what's your position on that… views on Islam
in view of lack of concealment the mosque attracted worshippers with militant ~
CAS is more important in desert warfare ~ view on Wall Street
perception, perspective & point of view: eye the consensus ~ is…

view (in somebody's view) views on stoning

she tried to avoid stating her ~ (Iranian official)
in the view of (tobacco) critics
~, label warnings are not enough views and opinions
we encourage individuals to express their ~
in the view of specialists
~, the situation… President's view
what's the ~ on that (press question)
in the view of the Special Representative
~, there is no doubt… (UN) administration's view
what is the ~ how the talks stand right now
in Morison's view
~ there is a 1-in-5,000 chance that… outsider's view
an ~
in his view
~, the Cherokee culture is in danger because… consensus view
the ~ on Wall Street is…
in my view
~, interpretation has an important role to play in… establishment view
the BBC tended to take an ~
in your view
which of the five Central Asian nations, ~, can we trust… minority view
the Hippocratic Oath represented the ~
perception, perspective & point of view: eye
mainstream (Saudi) view
view (opinion) the ~ on social issues (women in sports, etc.)
view that anti-establishment view
scientists challenged the ~… prison terms strengthen ~s
view of abortion opposing views
whenever I asked what the local ~ was… to justify their ~s....
view of the (Jack the Ripper) story accepted views
a revisionist ~ his studies were controversial and challenged ~

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distorted view worshippers with (militant) views
the media has presented a ~ of the case the mosque attracted ~ on Islam
widely held view view (on the issue) changed
the books debunk the ~ that… her ~ (Ann Landers / divorce)
Saudi view views evolved
the mainstream ~ on social issues (women and sports) yet she was not rigid, and her ~ (Ann Landers)
Western and Arab views view is echoed
the difference in perspective between the ~ of Hezbollah his ~ by many Central Asians... (a university professor's)
complex views debunk the (widely held) view
his ~ on politics and religion the books ~ that…
controversial views express their views
he holds ~ on intelligence and genetics we encourage individuals to ~ and opinions
conventional view heard a different view
scientists said their findings challenged the ~ that… I ~ from Dr. Muhammad al-Musfir
different views make your views known
there were a number of ~ on this ~ (elections, democracy)
dim view denounced the view as hypocritical
lawmakers took a ~ of people who… he ~
local view perception, perspective & point of view: eye
whenever I asked what the ~ of abortion was…
view (perspective)
militant views
the mosque attracted worshippers with ~ on Islam helicopter view
sometimes you have to take the ~
optimistic view
whites hold a more ~ than minorities about race relations warped views
he denigrates ideas that don’t dovetail with his ~
pessimistic view
those holding this ~ long view
India has always taken the ~
racist views
~ have influenced his decisions (politics) strategic view
they are taking the ~ (terrorists chose not to fight)
revisionist view
a ~ of the Jack the Ripper story bird’s-eye view
drones give commanders a ~ of the battlefield
same views you get a ~ from a plane
we both have the ~ on children
fisheye view
strong views a ~ from Spirit's navigation camera shows… (Mars)
this article includes some ~
indigenous peoples have ~ about the land wider-angle view
if you take a ~, what comes in focus is... (historian)
tolerant view
a more ~ of sin, marriage and human nature (adultery) point of view
(see point of view)
unpopular views
speakers with ~ colors his views
his vegetarianism ~ of certain countries
politically correct views
Abraham-Santos had all the appropriate ~ taking the strategic view
they are ~ (terrorists chose not to fight, wait US out)
more optimistic view
whites generally hold a ~ about race relations perception, perspective & point of view: eye / position

number of (different) views view (out of view)

there were a ~ on this dropped out of (public) view
speakers with (unpopular) views he ~ (politician)

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appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny & gambling virgin
promotion / consciousness & awareness: eye we're ~s (two young women at Las Vegas)
view (attention) experience: love, courtship & marriage / sex

public view virulent (adjective)

wall off some things from ~
virulent form
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye our social ailments include a ~ of stupidity (elections)
viewed (perceived) virulent hatred
they espouse a ~
viewed as apostasy
conversions from Islam are ~ (Egypt) virulent opposition
the statement provoked ~ from the Communists
viewed (by many Estonians) as a symbol
the monument is ~ of... (USSR) transmission: health & medicine

viewed as a tradition virus (computers)

the practice is ~ (polygamy / eastern Turkey)
computer virus
viewed as the will of God a ~ is spreading
in the Philippines, pain is ~ computer: biology / health & medicine
viewed with suspicion vise (pressure)
Mormonism is ~ by Christian conservatives (politics)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye vise is closing
a ~ on Saddam's regime (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
vigilante (person)
caught in the (same) vise
online vigilantes middle-class teenagers ~ (police interrogation)
~ unearthed his parents’ address and threatened his family
held in a vice
person / society: justice / person / violence the citadel of Ulm was now ~ on three sides (Napoleon)
behavior / oppression: history / justice / person / society /
violence
put Baghdad in a vise
troops attacking from the north and south would ~
vintage (similar vintage, etc.)
pressure / situation: tools & technology
similar vintage oppression: pressure
imperialists who were themselves of a ~ to Churchill vision (noun)
taxonomy & classification: food & drink
vision of an editor
viral (computers) the power of a writer and the ~

viral video vision of the founder

what to release in an age of ~ (reporting school massacre) staying true to the ~ (J.C. Penney)
he's watching a ~ of a drunk cat (party)
vision of the future
go viral his dark, sadistic and medieval ~ (al-Zarqawi)
she saw a video of herself ~ on YouTube (a celebrity)
vision of the world and the universe
gone viral the Maya, Toltec and Iztec ~ (Chichen Itza)
in a TV interview that has ~...
vision for space travel
went viral his most lasting legacy is his ~ (Von Braun)
the pictures ~ on the Internet
America's vision
computer / transmission: health & medicine ~ of personal reinvention and hope (vs. Europe)
virgin (noun) Maya, Toltec and Iztec vision
the ~ of the world and the universe (Chichen Itza)
virgin market
the Arab markets are a ~ for local TV (Afghanistan) television
village elders say ~ is a particularly disturbing force
virgin wilderness
Kekexili, the last ~ of China... (Mountain Patrol Kekexili) medieval vision
his dark, sadistic and ~ of the future (al-Zarqawi)

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dream, fantasy, or vision I was in no reason to ~
the only way to keep a ~ intact or rosy is never…
sound like the voice of reason
voices and visions he is beginning to ~
she claims ~ led her to drown her five children
welcomed as a voice of reason
pursues his vision he was ~
Wangurri clan Elder Timothy Buthimang ~
message: speech
takes vision voice (representation)
it ~ to involve the common good (versus profit)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye voice
the poor and the powerless don't have a ~
future: eye
they want to make sure their ~s are heard
visionary (adjective)
voice of millennials
visionary plan he positioned himself as the ~ (candidate)
he had a ~ to digitalize the library's collection
no voice
perception, perspective & point of view: eye populations that have ~ (MSF)
future: eye
Voice of the Mountains
visionary (person) the ~ (the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper)

tech visionary voice of the people

~s have, unfortunately, made the future come true the ~ will be heard
perception, perspective & point of view: eye voice for the needy
future: eye / person colleagues praised him as a ~ (a politician)
vitriol (noun) leading voice
she has become a ~ for action on climate change (Thunberg)
anti-American vitriol
Iran's leaders escalated their ~ have a voice
I sympathize with the poor don't have a ~
accusation & criticism / feeling, emotion & effect / speech:
materials & substances given voice
she has ~ to the aching despair many feel (politician)
vivisection (noun) ♦ "Hip-hop is a voice for people who don't have another voice."
vivisection of Michael Bloomberg representation: speech
her strongest effort was her ~ (election debate)
voice (message)
speech: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
accusation & criticism: health & medicine / skin, muscle, anti-immigration voice
nerves & bone he's the leading ~ in town (Arkansas town)
voice (one voice, etc.) Himalayan voices
here the ~ called me (Tomaz Humar in Slovenia)
one voice united
this could work if we are ~ on this problem additional voice
there's room and a need for an ~ (new newspaper)
spoke with one voice
7 expert witnesses ~ that it was not an accident (trial) inner voice
just follow your ~
speak with a single voice on this issue
we must ~ voices are heard
they want to make sure their ~
speak with one voice on this issue
Democrats don’t ~ (impeachment) raise my voice
I started thinking and I had to ~ (about AIDS)
speaking with one voice on the topic
they seem very much to be ~ make our voices heard
if we make a stand, if we ~ (athletes)
unanimity & consensus: speech
make their voices heard
voice (voice of reason) protestors are using the delay to ~
listen to the voice of reason message: speech

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void (noun) a ~ has built up inside him (Shiite in Baghdad)
amount & effect / pressure: volcano
fill the void
nobody will be able to ~ (death of politician) volley (noun)
presence & absence: air / atmosphere volley of questions
volatile when she does speak, it is often in a ~
speech: weapon
volatile atmosphere
it's a ~ (national outrage over child abuse by clergy) volume (turn up the volume, etc.)
volatile behavior turning up the volume
despite his ~ on the court (basketball) the democratic candidates are ~ against the president
volatile border accusation & criticism / conflict: sound
fighting along the ~ (Kashmir)
voracious (adjective)
volatile crises
he was sent in to defuse ~ (FBI hostage negotiator) voracious reader
a ~, he donated 20,000 books... (PM Gladstone)
volatile markets
shaky banks, ~... consumption: food & drink

volatile relationship voraciously

they had a ~
voraciously interested
volatile temper he was a farmer, but ~ in the news...
she has a ~
voraciously follow
volatile Persian Gulf those who ~ this stuff... (politics)
ease China's reliance on a ~ for its energy needs
read voraciously
volatile West Africa she ~ as a child in Nigeria
its reputation as an oasis of peace in ~ (Ivory Coast) I ~ in prison

volatile Horn of Africa consumption: food & drink

terrorists in the ~… (Somalia, Eritrea) vote (vote with one's feet, etc.)
extremely volatile
their marriage was ~
voted with their feet
fans ~ (Newcastle United fans give up on team)
highly volatile
we live in ~ times (English politics in 2019)
voting with their feet
the population is ~ (refugees leave camps)
politically volatile the result sees Texas parents ~ (home schooling)
the tiny nation is among the most ~ in the Gulf
vote with their wallets
tense and volatile people ~ (support of bistros in France)
Basra remained ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
allegiance, support & betrayal: walking, running & jumping
prices will be volatile / verb
~ for the foreseeable future
vote (noun)
initiation: explosion / fire
vote of confidence
volcanic (adjective) he has my ~
volcanic temper got my vote
his ~ led to his firing (a coach) he's ~ for the most improved player
feeling, emotion & effect: volcano allegiance, support & betrayal: government
volcano (pressure) vow (verb)
volcano vowed to find
it’s a ~ and its now starting to erupt (a scandal) he ~ a solution to the problem
volcano of revenge commitment & determination: religion

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vulture (behavior) ♦ “We’re seeing them close the wagon so to speak...” (Michele Steele,
ESPN, on NPR.)

vultures protection & lack of protection: history / military / verb

critics are ~ whose gnawing at the entrails... conflict: history / verb
vultures of the abyss wagon (hitch one’s wagon to something)
hagfish are the ~, feeding on carcasses of dead fish
hitched his wagon to Donald Trump
Vulture Club he ~ and saw his life unravel
he's a member of the "~" (journalists who follow conflict)
hitched our wagons to (a variety of) warlords
vulture fund we ~ (US in Afghanistan)
agreement was reached with two ~ (Liberian debt relief)
allegiance, support & betrayal: history / horse / verb
vultures are (already) circling
the ~ on the web (gossip about Chancellor’s health) wail (sirens, etc.)
♦ “In this great city (Calcutta)...vast areas were dark with ruin and black sirens wailed
with the wings of vultures that hovered impartially over the Hindu and
Muslim dead...” (Halfway to Freedom by Margaret Bourke-White.) ~ on the campus (school shooting)
♦ “The deceased was an eleven-year-old girl who had died from a resemblance / warning: sound
ruptured liver after being thrown from a horse. A priest in an apron laid
the corpse on a stone and began cutting away. Now standing, now wail (verb)
squatting, he wielded hatchet and knives with practiced hands... [The]
birds swarmed to their dinner table. The feast began... This was the sky
burial... To Tibetans this is natural and right.” (An eyewitness account by wail and moan
the great photojournalist Kazuyoshi Momachi of a sky burial, from his they’ll ~ and write outraged editorials...
wonderful book Pilgrimage.)
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition
♦ In the film Mountain Patrol: Kekexili, the reporter Ga Yu and Ritai first
notice one another and lock eyes at the sky burial for a patrolman & defeat: sound / verb
murdered by poachers. It is an unforgettable moment in a great film.
♦ “Towers of Silence, such as this one in Chilpyk, Uzbekistan, are where
waiting game
Zoroastrians would leave the bodies of the dead to be consumed by
birds.” waiting game
♦ “We have an unusual method of disposal of the dead. The Parsi corpse for us, it's a ~ (police investigation of serial killings)
is exposed to the rays of the sun and the corpse is consumed or
devoured by birds of prey: vultures, kites and crows.” (Khojeste Mistree, played a waiting game with the weather
a Parsi in Mumbai.) they ~ (military operation)
behavior: animal / bird / person action, inaction & delay / strategy: sports & games
death & life: bird / sign, signal, symbol
wake (resemblance)

W wakes
while man sleeps, the jungle ~ (animal activity)

wade (wade in / into) activity / resemblance: sleep / verb

waded into war wake (in the wake of / at a later time)

lessons from the last time Cairo ~ in Yemen (1960s) in the wake of disaster
waded into (treacherous political) waters how strong we can be ~ (terrorism)
he has ~ (taking sides in controversy) in the wake of (terrorist) hijackings
involvement: water / verb new security measures ~

wagon (circle the wagons) in the wake of the invasion

the potential for chaos ~ (Iraq)
circle the wagons
they ~ in a time of crisis (universities, church) in the wake of (another) (accounting) scandal
they began to ~ trying to protect the vice president ~ hitting a US giant

"circle-the-wagons mentality" backfired in the wake of a (sleet) storm

the ~ in Mid-December, ~

wagons were circled in the wake of Sept. 11

the ~ (opposition to desegregation in Mississippi) flag-waving ~
♦ NO WAKE ZONE (A sign directed at boaters in a channel.)
close ranks, (they) circle the wagons
the groups ~ (bands, sororities, fraternities / hazing)

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sequence / time: boat / direction / movement / position / could you ~ (speak about what happened before)
prep, adv, adj, particle / water
past & present / time: direction / journeys & trips /
wake up (verb) movement / verb / walking, running & jumping

wake up walk (crawl, walk, run)

people are starting to ~ (a public-health issue)
crawl, walk, run (m)
woke up instruction should follow a ~ sequence (military)
an Arab nation ~, and said enough (Tunisia / 2011)
sequence: walking, running & jumping
woken up walk (slow-walk)
I was one of the sleeping majority, but now I have ~
wake up to the dangers slow-walked to confirm
West African states have begun to ~ of the drug trade they ~ the test, it took them a month... (horse’s doping test)

people have woken up slow-walked his investigation

the Baluch ~ (Brahamdagh, a rebel leader) NBC ~ and then shut it down (Ronan Farrow)
♦ “Democrats accuse him of slow-rolling requests for the whistleblower’s
consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb complaint or just blocking it altogether.” (Politics.)

walk (walk the walk) action, inaction & delay: verb / walking, running & jumping
speed: verb / walking, running & jumping
walk the walk
I want her and other actresses to ~ (vs lip service / Me Too) walk (walk away from something)
walked the walk walk away
you knew he ~ (a biker outlaw) mining companies ~ without paying for cleanups (gold)
♦ This is connected to (or binomial with) “talk the talk.” walked away
commitment & determination: walking, running & jumping / he spoke to the BBC about why he ~ (quit Royal Ballet)
verb his sponsors all ~ (sportsman and racial slur)

walk (walk somebody through walked away from a (potential) deal

the president ~ (negotiations)
something)
walk away from it
walk me through why why didn't you just ~ (a scam)
~ somebody would be afraid to participate (census)
walk away from the European Union
walk me through what should the United Kingdom ~
but first ~ you have heard from people about...
allegiance, support & betrayal / avoidance & separation /
walk us through what coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb /
can you ~ police are doing right now (breaking news) walking, running & jumping
so can you just ~ the president is saying now...
walk (walk on by)
walk us through (exactly) what
~ happened here (tell us what happened) walk on by
~, the tears and sadness you gave me (Dionne Warrick)
walk us through the data
so ~, what did you find (talk radio) avoidance & separation: walking, running & jumping / verb

walk us through that moment walk back (noun)

can you ~ that you found out... (TV interview)
walk back
walk us through the procedure let’s talk about the ~ (reversal)
could you ~ (explain)
reversal: walking, running & jumping
walk us through the results
and here to ~ is our lead political editor (new poll)
walk back (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: walking, running & walk back his (previous) comments
jumping / verb he tried to ~ (a politician)

walk (walk somebody back) walked back his earlier statement

the witness ~
walk us back a bit
walked back from earlier pledges

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 he has ~ to overturn reforms some heretics argue that deep learning is ~ (AI)
walked the advisor’s assertion back run into a (brick) wall
his campaign manager ~ law enforcement has ~
walk that back ran into a (stone) wall
I don’t know how you ~ (statement by official) President Obama ~ of Republican opposition
reversal: walking, running & jumping / verb run into (stone) walls
journalists have ~ with the administration
walkover (noun)
ran up against a wall
walkover biographers ~ of privacy
the campaign won't be a ~
the war won't be a ~ progress & lack of progress / obstacles & impedance:
crashes & collisions / movement / verb / wall
difficulty, easiness & effort: walking, running & jumping
wall (wall of flames, etc.)
wall (brick wall)
wall of flames
electoral brick wall fleeing a ~ (wildfire firefighters)
in 2016 Sanders hit an ~ after New Hampshire (primaries)
wall of water
run into a brick wall the dam failure sent a ~ downstream
law enforcement has ~ the ~ destroyed everything in its path (tsunami)
hit a brick wall a ~ that can move onshore (storm surge / hurricane)
this new bill is expected to ~ in the Senate (politics) resemblance: wall
obstacles & impedance: wall wall (constraint)
wall (obstacle) walls come down
wall of (Republican) opposition this is where the ~ (Las Vegas partying)
President Obama ran into a stone ~ constraint & lack of constraint: wall
wall of privacy wall (ricochet off the wall)
biographers ran up against a ~
ricocheting off the wall
wall of silence she's going to be ~ (surprised / upset / unhappy)
breaking down the famous "blue ~" (NYC police)
behavior: movement / verb
brick wall
law enforcement has run into a ~ wall (the walls have ears)
this new bill is expected to hit a ~ in the Senate (politics)
wall
paywall the ~s have ears
advocates of open access bemoan the ~ (academic articles)
surveillance: wall
stone wall
President Obama ran into a ~ of opposition
wall (walls close in)
bureaucratic wall walls may be closing in on him
it felt like I had hit a ~ the ~ (manhunt)

cultural walls pressure: wall / verb

the ~ that keep the rest of the world out (reservation) wall (wall-to-wall)
broke the wall wall-to-wall coverage
she ~ of silence on the issue (protection rackets) despite the ~ that his previous trial had generated...
set up (high) walls extent & scope: wall
kings ~ of etiquette to keep the world out
wallet (money)
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure / wall
division & connection: infrastructure / wall implications on your wallets
wall (hit a wall, etc.) what is the ~
worried about their wallets
hitting a wall

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 they're more ~ than moral issues waltz to victory
a tough fight might allow the opposition to ~ (politics)
open their wallets
they have inspired millions to ~ (aid to Haiti) difficulty, easiness & effort: movement / music / verb
attainment: movement / music / verb
watch their wallets
retirees need to ~ (US) waltz in (verb)
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol waltz (right) in
wallow (verb) we shouldn’t let them just ~ (terrorists return to England)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: music / verb
wallows in nostalgia
the show ~ wand (magic wand)
wallow in self-pity had a magic wand
my job means that I can’t ~ it I ~, I would change...
♦ “Sambur (Sambar) and other game used this pool as a drinking place
and wallow.” (Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.)
amelioration & renewal: magic
♦ “He found a mud hole, let out a tremendous cry, and rolled and wane (on the wane)
wallowed.” (An elk during rut.)

absorption & immersion / involvement: animal / verb on the wane

his once promising ability is ~ (athlete)
behavior: animal / verb
summer is ~ and autumn on the way
Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.) tolerance is ~ and extremism is thriving
support for the climate bill is ~
Wall Street of the South empathy is ~
Charlotte, North Carolina, the ~ (Bank of America) America's power and influence is ~
Wall Street of fish decline: astronomy / moon
Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market was the ~ (set prices, etc.) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy /
moon
Black Wall Street
the Greenwood area of Tulsa was referred to as the ~ wane (verb)
money: epithet / place wanes a bit
epithet: money my new-found euphoria ~ (for new hobby)
Walter Mitty career waned
his ~ after his “Airwolf” heyday (actor)
Walter Mitty of the war
Juan Pujol Garcia was the ~ (British double agent) epidemic is (now) waning
the cholera ~, having run its natural, devastating course
Walter Mittys with Everest dreams
~ need to keep in mind... (climbing) influence (in Iraq) is waning
♦ “Not so fast! You’re driving too fast! What are you driving so fast for? the American's ~
You were up to fifty-five. You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You
were up to fifty-five. You’re tensed up again. It’s one of your days. I wish popularity has waned
you’d let Dr. Renshaw look you over... Remember to get those
overshoes while I’m having my hair done.” (The harridan Mrs. Mitty.
since then, however, its ~... (barbiturate abuse)
From the short story.)
sense of urgency wanes
fantasy & reality: allusion / person people forget and the ~... (wildfires)
allusion: books & reading
starts to wane
waltz (last waltz) the fight's urgency ~.(pit bulls)

last waltz tendency (for the effect) to wane

and so, there was a ~ (dinner at bankrupt restaurant) there is a ~ after... (a medication)
starting, going, continuing & ending: music waxed and waned
their grip on the area ~ (Chinese in Xinjiang)
waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
decline / development / increase & decrease / primacy,
waltz to gold currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy / moon /
US men ~ in basketball verb
waltzed to re-election
he should have ~ but is now in a fight (politics)

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war (at war) the banana ~ over imports
war against doctors
at war with her (nagging) fears the D.E.A.'s ~ (drugs-for-sex cases)
her hopes were ~ (health of child)
war against the environment
conflict: military
the ~ is also a war against traditional people
war (flame war) war against traditional people
flame war the war against the environment is also a ~
spam, ~s, dumb jokes… war against cybercafes
burst into flame wars Beijing declares ~
Web sites ~ war (with the European Union) over imports
sparked a flame war the banana ~
he ~ by writing that… (Internet) war over (union) representation
computer: fire / military sparked a labor ~

war (conflict) war between the two

it's not a ~ (sales and marketing)
war
this is ~ (attempts to repeal the death tax) war between consumers and record labels
the file-sharing ~ (burning)
war to make the Internet safe
the ~ was lost long ago war between theorists and engineers
the ~ (over artificial intelligence)
war of attrition
he turns football into a ~ wars among (Ecstasy) dealers
turf ~
war of (racially charged) slurs
they fought a ~ (high schoolers) war chant
fans and players intoned their ~ (football)
war of words
an interesting ~ develops between… (politics) war-simulation (m)
the arrests provoked a ~ between the two countries a ~ game (console game)

war of insults and namecalling war stories

a virtual ~ between Turks and Greeks on YouTube as he recounts his ~ (about the film industry)

war on Islam war-gaming

what he called the West's ~ civilian ~ spread…

war on their bosses "banana war"

Corps officials quietly declared ~, skipping meetings the ~ with the European Union over imports

war on cancer banana war

Richard Nixon began America's ~ the ~ has been the world's longest running trade dispute

War on Drugs culture war

the ~ "~s" that have wracked universities

war on meth drug war

in 2003 Thailand launched an all-out ~ (Yaba) Colombia's ~
the ~ became a bipartisan effort
war on piracy
~ bears fruit (pirated music, software in Dubai) gang war
this was the beginning of a full-blown ~ (LA)
War on Poverty
the 1960s produced the ~ labor war
a ~ over union representation
war on poverty
finding a drug for black hypertension is cheaper than a ~ price war
fierce ~s have reduced profits
war on smallpox a ~ broke out (illegal drugs)
Dr. Donald A. Henderson led the successful ~
race war
war with the European Union preparing for a ~

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taxi war conflict: military
the ~s are a national problem in South Africa (rival cartels)
war chest
trade war
sanctions could set off a ~ war chest
his ~ is below the poverty line (a politician)
one-man war
he was waged a ~ against the bill (government) war chest of $200,000
armed with a ~ that they'd raised…
all-out war
it had become an ~ (Egypt and US issue) war chest and grassroots army
his ~ make him an unstoppable juggernaut (politics)
reading wars
the so-called ~—the battle over the best method campaign war chest
he has a much larger ~
file-sharing war
money: military / sign, signal, symbol
the ~ between consumers and record labels (burning)
bidding war warehouse (neglect)
a ~ had begun for exclusive photo rights Dickensian warehouses
full-blown (gang) war it's orphanages became famous as ~ (Romania)
this was the beginning of a ~ (LA) environment: infrastructure / mental health / warehouse
diplomatic war
he has won the ~
warehouse (amount)

"virtual war" viral warehouses

monkeys are ~
a ~ of insults and namecalling between Turks and Greeks
amount: infrastructure / warehouse
public opinion war
they would lose the ~ (educational vouchers) warehousing (data)
12-round war data warehousing
a ~ that was one of the year's best fights (boxing) ~ and consumer information
in the midst of a (culture) war data-warehousing (m)
America is ~ he develops ~ software
language of war computer: infrastructure / warehouse
its language is the ~ (US football)
warfare (noun)
war broke out
a price ~ (illegal drugs) warfare against Democrats
there is likely to be a session of trench ~ (politics)
war continues and escalates
the ~ (Internet popup ads) trench warfare
this has become political ~ (politics)
declared war
Corps officials quietly ~ on their bosses conflict: military

declares war warm (verb)

Beijing ~ against cybercafes
warmed up to California
launched an (all-out) war in time, he ~
in 2003 Thailand ~ on meth (Yaba)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb
lose the (public opinion) war acceptance & rejection: temperature / verb
they would ~ (educational vouchers) warm (adjective)
set off a (trade) war
by imposing sanctions, the administration could ~
warm
the relationship between them has never been ~ (politics)
sparked a (flame) war
he ~ by writing that… (Internet)
warm heart
he praised her for her ~ can concern for others
wage war
communities in this state ~ on their youth
warm reception
we got a ~ everywhere we went

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warm welcome back on the warpath
they gave us a ~ nativists are ~
warm 28-year-old gone on the warpath
she is a ~ with big brown eyes they have ~
warm and receptive conflict: history / violence
the audience was ~ (for a folksinger)
warren (noun)
warm and sympathetic
voters perceive her as ~ warren of rooms
inside, beyond the entrance hall, lay a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
warren of step stairs and cramped corridors
warmed-up the ship is a ~ (Polarstern)
getting warmed-up rabbit warren
I'm just ~ the building is a ~ of cubicles (Merriam-Webster)
♦ Warrens were built for rabbits and were traditionally surrounded by a
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / temperature moat, as rabbits don’t like to swim and avoid water. Warrens are also
readiness & preparedness: engine / temperature associated with prairie dogs, people living in slums, and office workers in
cubicles. The raising of rabbits for fur and meat is called cuniculture,
warmhearted (adjective) from the Latin word for rabbit, cuniculus.

warmhearted person complexity: animal / infrastructure

she is a ~ warrior (ironic)
character & personality / heart: temperature
armchair warriors
warmly I have zero tolerance for ~ (a veteran)

greeted us warmly keyboard warriors

he ~ some brave ~ on here tonight (BBC HYS boxing)
they are ~ having a pop at people (twitter)
received us warmly
♦ “Some brave keyboard warriors on here tonight.” (Sarcastic comment
she ~ on BBC HYS boxing.)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature appearance & reality: military / person
warmth warrior (noun)
support, encouragement, and warmth Warrior Girls
she provides ~ "~" is about the injury epidemic of young female athletes
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature heart of a (true) warrior
warn (a sign can warn, etc.) battered and bloodied, but showing the ~ (boxing)
person: military
sign warns
a road ~, “Watch for children and dogs” character & personality / commitment & determination /
courage & lack of courage / survival, persistence &
signs warn endurance: military / person
~ visitors to stay clear of the falls warrior through (verb)
sign warned
a ~, “Danger Do Not Enter Steep Drops” (cliffs)
warriored through
the cut was serious, but he ~, so much heart (Tyson Fury)
fictive communication: speech / verb
character & personality / commitment & determination /
war of nerves courage & lack of courage: military / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: military / verb
war of nerves
how soldiers cope with the ~ (waiting for combat) war zone
conflict: skin, muscle, nerves & bone mean war zone
Twitter is a ~
warpath (on the warpath)
♦ “I mean, I’ve been in the Twitter war zone for a while, it takes a lot to
phase me at this point. You can’t take it personally, none of these people
on the warpath with Wall Street actually know you. It’s like if you’re fighting a war and there’s some
his finer days were as attorney general ~ opposing soldier that shoots at you, it’s not like they hate you. They don’t
even know you. So, just think of it like that. They’re firing bullets,

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whatever, but they don’t know you, so don’t take it personally.” (Elon
Musk talking to Joe Rogan.) watchdog (noun)
conflict / environment: military watchdog
every industry needs a ~
washboard (bumpy)
watchdog organization
washboard road a national ~
driving down a ~
public's watchdog
shape: clothing & accessories the media is supposed to be the ~
washed-up (adjective) drug industry watchdog
washed up his self-appointed role as the ~
at age 50, I found myself ~ surveillance / warning: animal / dog
decline / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: sea / protection & lack of protection: animal / dog
water / wave water (deep water)
wash in (verb) found himself in deep water
he ~ (a boxer during match)
washed into Germany
millions of migrants have ~ involvement / situation: water
migration / movement: verb / water / wave water (blow something out of the water)
wash up (verb) blows your theory out of the water
this ~
washed (back) up
when was the next time the picture ~ in your life blew Phelps out of the water
Lochte ~ (Olympics)
washed up
his dishonesty had finally ~ at his brother’s feet blown out of the water
that theory was ~ (criminal trial)
appearance & disappearance / coming, arriving, staying,
leaving & returning: sea / verb / water / wave destruction: boat / military / sea / verb
waste (lay waste) water (keep one's head above water)
lay waste to the myths keep our heads above water
it is time to ~ of Soviet propaganda (Katyn) we are struggling to ~ (financial woes)
destruction: military / ruins / verb situation / survival, persistence & endurance: verb / water
wasteland (environment) water (tread water)
cultural wastelands treading water
the third- or fourth-tier cities are no longer ~ (China) the middle class is still ~, and trying not to drown
emotional wasteland survival, persistence & endurance: water / verb
in this ~, new romance bloomed (divorce)
water (hold water)
environment: ground, terrain & land
hold water
watch (on one's watch) the theory doesn’t ~
the idea you can add adversity to the SAT doesn’t really ~
on my watch
not ~ flaws & lack of flaws: water / verb
it will not happen ~ (constitutional sheriff)
water (throw cold water on)
on his watch
Bush was haunted by a replay of 9/11 ~ threw cold water on the idea
he ~ that... (an investigation)
happened on your watch
eagerness & reluctance: temperature / verb / water
these problems ~ (investigation)
enthusiasm: temperature / verb / water
responsibility: military
waterboarding (noun)
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 the country is being subjected to a ~ (austerity) treacherous (political) waters
he has waded into ~
affliction / coercion & motivation / oppression: violence
water cooler (digital water cooler, etc.) perilous and uncharted waters
we are entering ~ here (Bolivian politics)
water cooler buzz danger: boat / sea / water
the ~ was underway (Olympic controversy)
waters (muddy the waters)
digital water cooler
the Website is a sort of ~ for the tech industry muddy the waters about salt and health
the Salt Institute has done nothing but ~
computer / gossip: place
water down (verb) muddy the (legal) waters
the case did nothing but ~
water down the program certainty & uncertainty / comprehension &
the government wants to ~ incomprehension / perception, perspective & point of view:
attenuation: verb / water light & dark / verb / water
strength & weakness: verb / water waters (test the waters)
watered down
testing the waters
get watered down they are ~
most reform bills ~ (US)
experimentation: verb / water
attenuation / strength & weakness: water
watershed (noun)
Waterloo
watershed
Waterloo for Mr. Brown the death of Tom Simpson was a ~ (athletes doping)
the debates could be a ~ (politics)
watershed event
Obama's Waterloo it was a ~ for the company
the Republicans hope to turn health care into ~
watershed moment
mayor's Waterloo the arrival of the drones will be a ~ (war)
failure to clear snow can be a ~ (Chicago, etc.) the affair was a ~ for British Muslims (Rushdie book)
this is a ~ for China to lead (pandemic)
epithet: history / military the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at a ~
allusion: military
resistance, opposition & defeat / success & failure: allusion watershed in (American) politics
/ history / military the 1968 presidential election was a ~
waters (uncharted waters, etc.) watershed in that (fractious) relationship
this day could be a ~ between fans (Liverpool / Man U)
uncertain waters
Egypt has sailed into freer but more ~ historic watershed
the violence was a ~ (Sri Lanka / 1983)
uncharted water
♦ “This is a watershed. This is a Rubicon. And I’m worried this could be
the NCAA is wading into ~ just a starter. More draconian bans in the name of the law could be
lurking around the corner.” (Pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo,
uncharted waters speaking to AFP, about the attempt by Hong Kong authorities to ban the
we’re in ~ here, or very little charted waters (legal issue) wearing of masks by the authorities.)
♦ “A couple of days later we came to the watershed. Both ascent and
uncharted (legal) waters descent were steep. On the far side we came on to a path at once, which
the charges have led the country into ~ (soldiers) brought us to the cabin of a Chinese sable-trapper... Towards evening
that day we managed to reach the Noro. / The upper reaches of the Noro
area: journeys & trips / map / sea are regarded as the most remote and wildest parts of Ussuria.” (Dersu
Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)
certainty & uncertainty: journeys & trips / map / sea
waters (dangerous waters, etc.) development / direction / division & connection /
importance & significance / source: mountains & hills /
dangerous waters river
you are in ~, Mr. Starbuck (Moby Dick)
watertight (adjective)
rough waters
UN climate talks hit ~ legally watertight
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flaws & lack of flaws: water effect / feeling, emotion & effect: sea / water / wave
wave (Wave Rock, etc.) wave (blast wave, etc.)
Wave Rock blast radius
natural wonders like ~ in western Australia its ~ was the entire world (NotPetya worm)
proper name: sea / water / wave effect / force: explosion
wave (shape) wave (in a wave)
waves of (wind-hardened) snow in a wave of dissention
~ called "sastrugi" (Antarctic) the team dissolved ~, losing all 3 matches (soccer)
stony wave in a wave of kidnappings
Half Dome looms over Yosemite Valley like a ~ dozens of foreigners have been abducted ~ (Iraq)
shape: sea / water / wave in the (first) wave of infections
hospital workers infected ~ (SARS)
wave (crest of a wave)
in a (weeklong) wave of violence
crest of a wave of public popularity more than 100 were killed ~
he was on the ~ (a politician)
♦ Never turn your back on the sea. (Good advice.) in the first wave
♦ Rag-doll wipeouts on massive faces; getting sucked / swept over the
hospital workers infected ~ of infections (SARS)
falls; getting nailed by your surfboard or somebody else’s; getting struck
square on the head by the lip of a wave; traveling 500 yards underwater in a great wave
(Teahupoo); taking a five-wave set on the head; three-wave hold-downs; engulfed ~ of hate and anger (mob)
getting blown off a Jet Ski; colliding with an upside-down Jet Ski; getting
rammed in the groin by a Jet Ski; Jet Skis cavitating in foam... (just a few in a weeklong wave
of the hazards of surfing.) more than 100 were killed ~ of violence
♦ "If you want to ride the ultimate wave, you have to be willing to pay the
ultimate price." (Mark Foo.) dissolved in a wave
force: height / sea / sports & games / water / wave the team ~ of dissension, losing all 3 matches (soccer)

wave (wave of the future, etc.) abducted in a wave

dozens of foreigners have been ~ of kidnappings (Iraq)
wave of the future engulfed in a (great) wave
online banking is the ~
~ of hate and anger (mob)
next big wave infected in the (first) wave
the ~ was cloud computing
hospital workers ~ of infections (SARS)
catch the wave amount & effect: sea / water / wave
some companies were too big to ~
wave (amount and effect)
riding on a new artistic wave
he is ~ which has captured the public’s imagination wave
this ~ is going to build and grow (flexible workplace)
take advantage of this wave
Pablo was perfectly positioned to ~ (cocaine) wave of (neo-Nazi) activity
development: force / sea / water / wave we must combat a ~

wave (effect) wave of (cigarette) advertising

the new ~
waves are washing wave of (new) applications
the ~ over other parts of the region (Ethiopia-Eritrea peace)
a ~ for accommodations (SAT disability)
♦ Audi Cornish: Looking back at the way that the virus moved across the
U.S., early on we heard about different waves. Is this actually a good wave of arrests
way to think about it? / Will Stone: A wave does not quite capture it,
because the pandemic has not crashed across the country all at once
this summer, there was a further ~ in Saudi Arabia
and then gone away. This is how Dr. Roger Shapiro at Harvard
describes the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. / Dr. Robert Shapiro: A better wave of (Palestinian) attacks
way of thinking about it is a wave that went into a pool and in that pool a ~ killed five Israelis
it’s sloshing around. Wherever it hasn’t been yet, it’s gonna go, to places
where it has already been, it could go back.” / Will Stone: So what we wave of (HIV-positive) babies
have now is this constant reservoir of disease splashing around, infecting a ~ still to be born
people at different times in different places.” (“Tracing The Course Of
The U.S. Pandemic,” All Things Considered, October 9, 2020.)
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 the new ~ the ~ and civil lawsuits (church sex abuse)
wave of criticism wave of (corporate) divestitures
the slow response has brought a ~ the next ~ and spin-offs
wave of emigration wave of car bombs
the ~ that followed (the fall of Soviet Union) a ~ against westerners (Saudi Arabia)
wave of emotions wave of kidnappings
the resignations set off a ~ from sadness to relief victims of a ~ (Lebanon)
wave of euphoria waves of killing and ethnic cleansing
the South Korean ~ (World Cup) subjected to ~ (Hutu-Tutsi)
wave of explosions Republican wave
a ~ marred Algeria's independence celebration a ~ swamped them (elections)
wave of fury attack wave
the nominee list set off a ~ the main ~
waves of grief crime wave
the wreck is sending ~ across the mountains unassimilated immigrants have set off ~s in Europe
waves of immigrants enemy wave
the cold war's end has brought ~ slowed the on-coming ~ with machine gun fire
~ who have crossed the sea to live in France
heat wave
wave of immigration a killer ~ claimed an estimated 10,000 lives (France)
the latest ~ threatens to change…
a ~ that has changed schools and neighborhoods immigration wave
he came here as part of a ~ from Uzbekistan (to Israel) the US is in an ~ that rivals the start of 20th century

waves of immigration murder wave

the ~ to the US over the past 20 years a ~ engulfed the U.S. around 1960

wave of (national) indignation technology wave

a~ you're riding on a ~ that's going to crash

wave of popularity on-coming (enemy) wave

she had been riding an even bigger ~ when... slowed the ~ with machine gun fire

wave of pride fast-rolling wave

his success has set off a ~ (Japanese ballplayer) setting in motion a ~ of sympathy (psychogenic illness)

wave of self-criticism orchestrated wave

a ~ swept the press ~s of arrivals and departures (airport)

wave of (reported) sightings first wave

a ~ in 1993 (UFOs) he was part of the ~ of immigrants from Laos (Hmong)

wave of sympathy second wave

setting in motion a fast-rolling ~ (psychogenic illness) this is the ~ of climate-change suits against oil companies

wave of (national) unity further wave

the ~ following 9/11 this summer, there was a ~ of arrests in Saudi Arabia

wave of unrest great wave

the ~ has toppled two presidents (Middle East) engulfed in a ~ of hate and anger (mob)

wave of (democratic) uprisings human wave (m)

a ~ is transforming the Islamic world the determined enemy launched ~ assaults (war)

wave of (sectarian) vengeance latest wave

a ~ is sweeping the capital (Baghdad) the ~ of immigration threatens to change… (France)

waves of arrivals and departures main (attack) wave

orchestrated ~ (busy airport) the ~ (military)

wave of (criminal) charges new wave

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 the ~ of commercial space cameras the city has been ~
the ~ of cigarette advertising
give up or waver
New Wave are we going to ~ when things get tough (a protest)
the French ~, especially Truffaut and Goddard
commitment & determination: equilibrium & stability /
next wave movement / verb
the ~ will be "semantic web" applications
wavelength (on the same wavelength)
previous waves
~ of US immigrants on the same wavelength
his two most threatening players are clearly ~ (soccer)
successive wave
each ~ of (U.S.) strikes (military) on the same wavelength as his teammates
he has not been ~ (a soccer striker)
consequences of a wave
one of the many ~ of immigration (schools) unanimity & consensus: tools & technology

victims of a wave wax (wax and wane)

~ of kidnappings (Lebanon)
wax and wane
wave has spread separation anxiety tends to ~ (toddlers)
the revolution ~ from Egypt to Libya
waxed and waned
wave (of self-criticism) swept anti-American protests have ~ in South Korea
a ~ the press
waxes and wanes
wave (of sectarian vengeance) is sweeping her apparent awareness ~ (GHB rape on video)
a ~ the capital (Baghdad) ♦ It's always a treat to see a very young moon, such as one that is 24
hours old or less. It takes clear skies and good eyesight or binoculars.
wave (of immigration) threatens
the latest ~ to change… development / increase & decrease / primacy, currency,
decline & obsolescence: astronomy / moon / verb
brought a wave
the slow response has ~ of criticism way (along the way)
combat a wave along the way
we must ~ of neo-Nazi activity so many friends we've lost ~
~, the Dali Lama prevented… (history)
wave has crested (and the waters receded)
the ~ to reveal a changed landscape (refugee tsunami) course: journeys & trips

riding an (even bigger) wave way (in harm's way)

she had been ~ of popularity when...
in harm's way
rode that wave people and homes are ~ (wildfire)
two years later she ~ of attention to a seat in the US Senate
go in harm's way
sending waves I intend to ~ (combat)
the wreck is ~ of grief across the mountains
puts volunteers in harm's way
set off a wave the Peace Corp commonly ~
the resignations ~ of emotions from sadness to relief
danger / situation: route
the nominee list ~ of fury
his success has ~ of pride (Japanese ballplayer in US) way (out of harm's way)
subjected to waves out of harm's way
~ of killing and ethnic cleansing (Hutu-Tutsi) I directed myself toward river right, ~ (kayaking)
♦ Rogue waves, also known as freak or monster waves, have sunk ships
and snatched people from coastlines. dragged him out of harm's way
♦ When the wave height reaches three quarters of the water depth, the he ~ (combat)
wave breaks.
danger / situation: route
amount & effect: sea / water / wave
movement: sea / water / wave way (know one’s way around)
waver (verb) knows his way around the European Union
he ~ (a British politician)
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direction / knowledge & intelligence: ground, terrain & land went out of his way to meet
/ journeys & trips the President ~ with opposition leaders
way (out of the way / remote) gone out of his way to woo
he has ~ friends in the other party
geographically out of the way Gates has ~ to woo Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Siberia may be ~, but…
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / verb
isolation & remoteness: journeys & trips
way (way out / escape)
way (in the way)
way out
unwanted, in the way, and useless there is simply no other ~ (a Palestinian State)
some old people feel ~
way out of the abyss
get in the way he worked his ~ of crime and hopelessness
don't let anger or prejudice ~ of peace
the Washington Democrats are the ones who ~ way out of the (poor) neighborhood
the Army was a ~
gets in the way
all this stuff ~ of instruction (adolescent problems) way out of a (dire) situation
she sought a ~
gets in his own way
the president constantly ~ on these things (by his tweets) way out of (criminal) trouble
you can often buy your ~ (police corruption)
stand in your way
let nothing ~ (dreams) way out for the UAW
I don’t see a real ~ (corruption probe of union)
stands in her way
she will hurt anyone who ~ easy way out
teens will take the ~ (cheating)
stood in her way I took the ~ (didn't graduate from high school)
she didn't care who ~
only way out
stand in the way she saw suicide as her ~
just a few contract details ~ (boxing)
if you want to quit, I won't ~ no way out
there was ~ (hopelessness)
stand in their way
and nothing is going to ~ buy your way out
you can often ~ of trouble (corruption)
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips dig his way out
he found a way to ~ of his problems
way (get out of the way)
find some way out
get out of my way we must try to ~ of it (world economies)
people were smart enough to ~ and let me handle it
♦ Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
found a way out
he ~ of his own wreckage with the therapist's help
obstacles & impedance: walking, running & jumping / verb
lie her way out
way (out of the way / obstacles) she tried to ~ of it, but she got caught
out of the way look for a way out
Americans praise Indian enemies once they are ~ teen suspects often ~ (false confessions)
got their jitters out of the way looked for a way out
our guys finally ~ (sports) and so he ~ (of a bad situation)
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips sought a way out
way (go out of one's way) she ~ of a dire situation
take the (easy) way out
go out of their way teens will ~ (cheating)
moray eels do not ~ to attack humans
worked his way out
go out of the way to explain he ~ of the abyss of crime and hopelessness
they don't ~

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saw suicide as her (only) way out the push-up bra may be finally ~ (decline of Victoria’s
she ~ Secret)
♦ "Oh, wait, it's upside-down." (A member of a group of people navigating
a corn maze, referring to their map of the maze.)
going the way of the phone booth
street-corner mailboxes are ~ (email)
pursuit, capture & escape / situation: container
going the way of the rotary dial
way (get one's way) common courtesy is ~
gets its way go the way of the rotary-dialed phone
as an arm of the Kremlin, Gazprom usually ~ residential white-page phone books may ~
get her way primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: journeys & trips
she schemes and plans and manipulates to ~ / verb
wants, needs, hopes & goals: verb way (go a long way)
way (autumn is on the way, etc.) go a long way
American dollars ~ in Canada
autumn is on the way
summer is on the wane and ~ goes a long way
a little humiliation ~ (resistance)
future / time: direction / movement / prep, adv, adj,
particle go a long way towards improving
this will ~ things
way (on the way out)
cost & benefit / extent & scope: distance
on its way out
the fastest way down is ~ (firehouse poles) way (lead the way)
gun control is ~ (US attempts to regulate guns)
leading the way
on their way out the Democrats are ~ on this (vote of disapproval)
the network anchor and evening news are ~
direction / driving force: journeys & trips / verb
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: journeys & trips
way (lose one's way)
way (give way to something)
lost our way
giving way to diesel we've ~
by the nineteen-seventies, steam was ~ (India / trains) we have all ~ from time to time
gives way to knowledge lost its way
what happens when innocence ~ Manchester United has ~ (2018-19)
gives way to the new direction: journeys & trips / verb
the old order ~ failure, accident & impedance: journeys & trips / verb
give way to the lit stage way (the wrong way)
the fading daylight began to ~ (concert)
going the wrong way
gave way to a (gentler) slope we're ~
the steep shale ~ of snow (South Col) direction: journeys & trips
give way to new industries way (find one's way)
dominant industries of today will ~ tomorrow
find my way
gave way to palaces and villas it was easy to ~ (a difficult job)
during the Renaissance, castles ~ (Italy)
find our way
gives way to clear-cutting but we'll ~ (out of a problem)
selective logging often ~ (Amazon)
find his own way
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / sequence: I'm not trying to force the boy, I know he will ~
journeys & trips / verb
finding our way
way (go the way of something) we are ~ (how to teach during pandemic)
going the way of the corset direction: journeys & trips / verb

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way (pave the way) direction: journeys & trips

pave the way for the (surfing) boom

way (every step of the way)
Hoffman helped ~ every step of the way
pave the way for (new) drugs they've helped us ~
the landmark discovery could ~ to beat viruses her mother had approved the relationship ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips
paves the way for gays
the bill ~ to serve openly in the military way (all the way)
paved the way for an recovery all the way
the government program ~ (economy) a suit won’t get them ~ they need to go to stop the president
paved the way for (better) relations success & failure / attainment: journeys & trips
the treaty has ~ between the two countries
way (route)
paved the way for the rise
repeal of the Fairness Doctrine ~ of Fox News way to (anyone's) heart
the quickest ~ is with an MCL gift card
paved the way for an (economic) comeback
the government program ~ quickest way
the ~ to anyone's heart is with an MCL gift card
amelioration & renewal: journeys & trips / verb
route: journeys & trips
way (come a long way, etc.)
wayside (fallen by the wayside, etc.)
long way to climb
the people of Africa have a ~ fallen by the wayside
the US has ~ (competitive weightlifting)
long way to go
we've got a ~, but we've had some success primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / success &
there is still a ~ (a legal process) failure / survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips
Liverpool looks good, but there is still a ~ (soccer season)
weak (fragile)
long way towards meeting
we've come a ~ that goal fragile and weak
the caretaker government is ~
long way from throwing
we're a ~ in the towel flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness: materials &
substances
come a long way
we've ~ towards meeting that goal weak-minded (adjective)
the city has ~ (Warsaw / improvement)
the field has ~ but still has far to go (AI) weak-minded man
he was a ~
go a long way
mind: materials & substances
she will ~ (a young singer)
gone a long way
wealth (amount)
we have ~ wealth of (forensic) evidence
have a long way police have a ~
the people of Africa ~ to climb wealth of experience
progress & lack of progress: distance / journeys & trips / he's bringing a ~ into the classroom
movement wealth of (allosaurus) fossils
way (a long way off) the area is known for its ~ (Jurassic Monument in Utah)
wealth of information
a long way off
the flight data recorder provided a ~ (crash)
the 2024 election is ~
future / time: distance wealth of (company) information
the ~ held by the government
way (direction)
wealth of materials
gone the other way he uncovered a ~ (sunken boat)
events could have ~

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wealth of (educational) options help & assistance: weapon / military
giving parents a ~
weapon (secret weapon)
wealth of talent
the team has a ~ secret weapon of diplomacy
cultural exchanges are the ~
wealth of titles
producing a ~ (publishing houses) secret weapon for Nokia
better developer tools could be a ~
wealth of information, perspective, opportunities
we provide you with a ~ (ad for Fidelity Wealth) secret weapon in fighting
women are his ~ lawlessness
amount / worth & lack of worth: money
campaign's secret weapon
wean (verb) she has been the ~ (politician's wife)
wean itself off coal group's secret weapon
the US cannot ~ quickly technology has been the group's ~
wean countries off coal virus's secret weapon
the European Commission seeks to ~ evolution is a ~
wean yourself off cigarettes unleashed a secret weapon
it's a bad idea to ~ with smokeless tobacco supporters of reform have ~ (clerical support)
wean himself off heroin concealment & lack of concealment / strength &
he was able to ~ with the help of his family weakness: weapon
wean the nation off fossil fuels weaponization (noun)
we must ~
weaponization of social media
wean ourselves off of fossil fuels the ~ to influence elections and sow discord
we must ~ (energy independence)
creation & transformation: weapon
wean itself from ad revenues
the magazine wants to ~ (vs. subscriptions, online fees) weaponize (verb)
wean the US from (messy and expensive) heating oil weaponize children
while federal officials try to ~, Main remains addicted the Democrats are happy to ~ (immigration)

wean the planet from the burning weaponize the virus

we must ~ of fossil fuels
dependency / growth & development: baby / verb
weapon (help)
weapons of the weak
~ include foot-dragging and feigned ignorance
weapon in solving
seamless teamwork can be a potent ~ disease outbreaks
weapon against prejudice
black and gay comedians have wielded jokes as a ~
political weapon
Sadat gained diplomatic leverage using oil as a ~ (1973)
potent weapon
teamwork can be a ~ in solving disease outbreaks
♦ “So it was that in these three days at Breslau this Koch put a sword
Excalibur into the hands of men, with which to begin the fight against
their enemies the microbes, their fight against lurking death; so it was
that he began to change the whole business of doctors from a foolish
hocus-pocus with pills and leeches into an intelligent fight where science
instead of superstition was the weapon.” (Microbe Hunters by Paul De
Kruif. The 34-year-old Koch exhibited the anthrax bacillus at the
university.)
they are trying to ~ politically (Democrats)
♦ “Weaponization: Metaphorical Ubiquity and the Contemporary
Rejection of Politics” by Greggor Mattson, an associate professor of
Sociology at Oberlin College, is a close and fascinating look of
“metaphor emergence from coinage to conventionality” and asks the
fascinating question, “What work does a metaphor perform if it can be
applied to everything?”
♦ “Every drill sergeant trying to soldierize, trying to build a soldier, out of
every young man and woman who comes through our doors...” (Retired
Major General Paul Eaton.)
creation & transformation: verb / weapon
wear on (verb)
winter wears on
as the ~, he tries to act like everything is normal
starting, going, continuing & ending / time: verb
weary (condition)
weary of war
the public is ~ (US)
condition & status: health & medicine
feeling, emotion & effect: sleep

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weather (survive) a thick ~

weather their (financial) crisis web of bribery

a ~, kickbacks, theft and conspiracy (war contracts)
the extra income allowed them to ~
weather this (economic) storm thick web
a ~ of lawsuits
cities need help to ~
weathered (all sorts of) storms caught up in a web
~ of drug addiction and crime
the Catholic Church has ~ across the centuries
involvement: animal / cloth / insect / movement / spider
survival, persistence & endurance: storm / verb
weather (environment) web (situation)

weather web of (drug) addiction and crime

caught up in a ~
it’s as good as an example as any given the ~
situation: animal / container / insect / spider
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate
weather vane (noun) web (spider web, etc.)
political weathervane spider web of mountain biking trails
there is a ~ (in a state park)
she’s a ~, shifting with the winds
shape: animal / insect / spider
direction: air / weather & climate / wind
weave (creation) web (spin a web)

weaves a tale of first contract spinning a web

they are accused of ~ of lies (murder)
she ~ (author)
creation & transformation: cloth / verb twisted into a web
his death has been ~ of disinformation and paranoia
weave (a trail can weave, etc.)
creation & transformation: animal / insect / spider
trail weaved subterfuge: animal / insect / spider
the ~ downhill... (mountain biking) wedded
fictive motion: cloth / verb
wedded to the past
weave (move) FitzRoy was a pioneer, but he was also ~

weaves in and out of (Indian) stereotypes attachment / division & connection / relationship: love,
he ~ (Native American writer) courtship & marriage

weave to his right wedge (edge of the wedge)

Tyson would take a short step and ~ (boxer)
thin edge of the wedge
movement: cloth / direction / verb politicians fear this is the ~ (sending a few troops)
weave (mixture) driving force: tools & technology / wedge

weave of information wedge (drive a wedge, etc.)

the Web's tangled ~ and misinformation (hoaxes)
drive a wedge between Muslims, Christians
tangled weave a sinister attempt to ~
the Web's ~ of information and misinformation ♦ A British negotiator being interviewed on NPR about sanctions against
a country used the verb wedge-drive: “They will see this an opportunity
mixture: cloth to wedge-drive between the EU and the United States’ allies in Europe.”

weave together (verb) division & connection: tools & technology / wedge / verb

weave together what wedged

I wanted to ~ life is like in the city (a book)
wedged between the DRC and Republic of Congo
division & connection: cloth / verb Cabinda is ~ (enclave of Angola)
web (entanglement) wedged between Switzerland and Austria
Liechtenstein, ~
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wedged between Ukraine and Romania weary but optimistic, he ~ of success (a rapper)
Moldova is ~
weighs response
wedged between the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman India ~ after Kashmir attack
the UAE, ~
weigh the risks
configuration: wedge your doctor can help you ~ and potential benefits
weed (in the weeds) weigh the value
registrars must ~ of transfer credits
get in the weeds
it’s not my job to ~ (lack of knowledge of details) weigh the pros and cons
you must ~ (job offers)
dive into the weeds
he would ~ and explore the most detailed elements weighed the pros and cons
~ of joining in the condemnation
perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain &
land weigh the successes and inadequacies
they ~ of the criminal-justice-dominated approach
weed out (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: scale / verb / weight
weed out bad products judgment: scale / verb / weight
her agent helps ~ (a social-media influencer)
weigh (weigh heavily)
weed out the rebels
we will ~, but they are dug in weighed heavily
Beijing's opposition ~
weed out the slackers
it's time to ~ who aren't pulling their weight weighs heavily on the city
the bank's decline ~
weeds out (struggling) soldiers
the course ~ (Green Berets) weighing heavily on their conscience
the events must be ~ (a hit and run)
dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / farming &
agriculture / verb weighed heavily on my mind
those experiences ~ (wildfires)
weigh (analyze) the decision ~

weigh the merits against the risks weighed heavily on her mind
we ~ (the press and the publishing of secrets) the bombings ~ (Northern Ireland)

weighed whether weighing (quite) heavily on the players

parents ~ to send their kids to school or… (sniper) the responsibility was ~

weigh the benefits affliction: burden / verb / weight

commanders must ~ of a rigid versus a flexible plan oppression: burden / verb / weight
weighing bids weigh (oppress)
the Coast Guard is ~ from three companies (for boats)
weigh (down) on me
weigh the credibility it's all starting to ~ (pressure)
they must ~ or various threats (police)
weighs on you
weigh all the evidence it ~ like a ton of bricks (harassment / gay students)
a decision-maker will ~
weighed on my conscience
weigh the merits it ~ (terrorism)
we ~ of publishing against the risks (press / secrets)
weigh on your conscience
weighing the offer if you have any sense of decency it will ~ so much (terror)
she is ~ (of employment)
weighing on her mind
weigh my options that's still ~ as she sits… (no classes for adjunct)
I have to ~
let grief weigh him down
weighed plans he didn't ~
Rumsfeld ~ to deploy up to 200,000 troops in the Gulf
affliction: burden / verb / weight
weighed the price oppression: burden / verb / weight

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weighed down power: weight / verb
weight (punch above one's weight, etc.)
weighed down by debts and deficits
the nation is ~ fight above our weight
affliction: burden / weight we're going to have to ~ (politics)
oppression: burden / weight punches above its weight
weigh in (verb) Hungary ~ in math, it has produced many mathematicians
power: boxing / verb / weight
weighing in
substance & lack of substance: boxing / verb / weight
now his mother is ~ (expressing her opinion)
weight (oppression)
weigh in on (major strategic) decisions
he will still ~ (executive takes sick leave) feel the weight
they ~ every day (White House scandal)
weighing in on the issue
women are ~ oppression: burden / weight
weigh in (more heavily) on the issue weight (substance)
Congress has begun to ~ of…
weight of the data
weighed in on the (newspaper's) Web site the ~ would suggest that… (inconsistent studies)
hundreds of readers ~
weight of the tragedy
weighed in with concerns as the full ~ fell over the neighborhood (AIDS)
groups ~ about the FBI's use of…
weight with listeners
weighed in with a national study her apology didn't carry much ~ (a singer)
JAMA ~ asserting that…
weight and attention
weighed in against the project these fears are given too much ~ (of AI)
Sen. Barbara Boxer ~
♦ Boxers weigh in before a fight.
full weight
as the ~ of the tragedy fell over the neighborhood (AIDS)
involvement: boxing / sports & games / verb / weight
great weight
weight (under the weight) his words and opinions carry ~
under the weight of so many laws moral weight
the people are ~ his being a Catholic helped give ~ to his speech
caved in under the weight carry (much) weight
the regime finally ~ of its impossible contradictions her apology didn't ~ with listeners (a singer)
oppression: burden / weight gives more weight
affliction: burden / weight the ranking system ~ to selectivity than efficacy
weight (pull one's weight) substance & lack of substance: weight

pulling their weight weighted

we need to weed out the slackers who aren't ~
weighted variables
work & duty: burden / verb / weight his methodology relies on 7 ~ (college rankings)
weight (put / throw one's weight behind weighted equally
something) the three criteria were all ~ (a rating survey)
substance & lack of substance: weight
throw its weight behind the (democracy) movement
the US did not ~ (diplomacy) weighty (substance)
throwing their weight behind the opposition weighty decision
they are ~ (an organization) it was a ~
put all of their weight behind trying what to do was a ~ (war)
the government ~ to prevent us from publishing weighty issue
allegiance, support & betrayal: weight / verb Congress has taken up a series of ~s

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weighty step ♦ In 1989, Paul Stedman Cullen tried to kill the Treaty Oak in Austin,
Texas. Thousands of kids addressed letters to the Treaty Oak, hoping it
renouncing one's citizenship is a ~ would get well.

weighty topic condition & status: health & medicine

she writes about ~s
well-being
weighty (literary) works
he was known for filming ~ (Joseph Strick) Boeing’s well-being
Renton is very dependent on ~ (the Washington States town)
importance & significance: weight
substance & lack of substance: weight condition & status: health & medicine

welcome (welcome news, etc.) wellspring

welcome news wellspring of pride
the new economic data is ~ a ~ in the gym (Sequoyah High's women's basketball)

feeling, emotion & effect: exclamation / house / speech wellsprings of our society
sacrifice and self-reliance are the ~
welcome (verb)
source: water
welcomes change
the Democratic Party ~, not as an enemy but as an ally west (go west)
welcomed the Confucius Institute ‘goes west’
many universities have ~ with open arms a one-pounder ~ (destroyed by tank in WW I)

welcome an investigation gone west

we ~ in ten days McCray had ~ to join McClintic (both died circa
1920)
acceptance & rejection: house / speech / verb
♦ This expression seems to have gone out of favor.
welcome: exclamation / house / speech / verb
failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
welcome (noun)
West Point (epithet)
wore out his welcome
the talented but troubled diva ~ (football player) Thailand’s West Point
Chulachomklao Military Academy is considered to be ~
acceptance & rejection: house / speech
welcome: house Australian West Point
he studied counterinsurgency at Duntroon, the ~
well (source)
epithet: military / school & education
well of outrage
the ~ is bottomless (fundamentalists) whale (White Whale)
well of (wifely) goodwill and loyalty focus on that White Whale
her ~, which had overflowed for so long, was drained dry if he continues to focus on that ~, it’s going to bring him
down (politics)
deep well
there is still a ~ of resistance to a woman president wants, needs, hopes & goals: allusion / animal
he has a ~ of institutional knowledge (foreign policy) allusion: books & reading
well was poisoned wheel (grease the wheels)
the ~ between them even before... (bad relations)
grease the wheels
well that never runs dry the government is trying to ~ of growth (economy)
it is the ~ (excitement for heavyweight boxing division) flattery and civility ~ of all human dealings
poison the well amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
establish a false persona, then ~ of information (Facebook) social interaction: mechanism / verb
amount / source: water wheel (training wheels)
well (health) remove the training wheels
we're going to ~
get well
♦ The Vice President of the US, Joe Biden, explained the 2012
we’re sorry this happened, ~ soon (Treaty Oak in Austin) withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan as removing the training wheels
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dependency / help & assistance: mechanism the ~ turn slowly
wheel (wheels are falling off, etc.) wheels of justice
the ~ must now turn (Hillsborough disaster / soccer)
Wheels Are Falling Off the ~ in Atlanta move slowly
City fans responded to chants of “Ole’s At The Wheel” with
“The ~” operation: government / justice / mechanism

wheels are coming off wheel (wheels turn slowly, etc.)

the ~ the train in the mortgage business
wheels (of justice) operate slowly
wheels are (well and truly) off at Manchester United the ~ (grand-jury investigation)
well, the ~ (disgruntled fan)
wheels (of government) turn slowly
♦ “Nurses are the linchpins of hospitals, and when we lose them the
wheels of medicine fall off.”
the ~

failure, accident & impairment: mechanism wheels (many feel) turn (too) slowly
condition & status: mechanism a justice system whose ~

wheel (spin one's wheels) operation / speed: mechanism

spinning our wheels

wheel (asleep at the wheel)
we're in a rut and are ~ (financial reform) asleep at the wheel
spinning our wheels in Iraq and Afghanistan several Republican incumbents have been ~ (election)
we're just ~ many states have been ~ (girls marrying too young in US)
the World Health Organization was ~ (response to epidemic)
spinning our wheels on too many important issues
consciousness & awareness: mechanism
we’ve been ~ (government politics)
control & lack of control: mechanism
just spinning our wheels wheel (spin of the wheel, etc.)
we're ~, hoping to get out of the ditch
condition & status / progress & lack of progress / starting, turn of the wheel, the spin of the wheel
going, continuing & ending: mechanism / movement federal judges are assigned the case by the ~
fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
wheel (hamster wheel)
wheelhouse (noun)
hamster wheel of social media
we spend our time on this ~ and our newsfeeds in my wheelhouse
♦ The Rat Race is for Rats! (A bumper sticker.) it's not exactly ~
♦ Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. (A bumper sticker.)
in his wheelhouse
progress & lack of progress: direction / mechanism / the issue is scientific and technical, not really ~ (politician)
movement
in the executive branch’s wheelhouse
wheel (wheel of fate or fortune, etc.) things that are clearly in the ~ (rules, regulations)
♦ In three of these cases, the phrase is pre-modified by an adverb. then
wheels of fate by a possessive adjective.
the ~ had started to turn, and for me there was no way out
experience: boat
but the ~ had started to turn (Reba McEntire / “Fancy”)
♦ “No mortal power may stay her spinning wheel. / The nations rise and wheezing (condition)
fall by her decree. / She passes, and things pass... / ...Season by season
/ her changes change her changes endlessly.” (Dante’s Purgatory, wheezing businesses
translated by John Ciardi. In medieval times she was known as Dame
Fortune, to the Romans she was Fortuna, to the Greeks she was Tyche. a landscape dominated by abandoned street fronts and ~
Today she might be referred to as Lady Luck.)
condition & status: breathing / health & medicine
♦ “A lady doesn’t leave her escort: / It isn’t fair, it isn’t nice. / A lady
doesn’t wander all over the room / And blow on some other guy’s dice.”
(Frank Sinatra sings “Luck Be A Lady.”)
whet (whet the appetite)
fate, fortune & chance: mechanism whet audiences' appetites for films
movie trailers ~
wheel (wheels of justice, etc.)
whet people's appetite for spending
wheels of capital museums try to ~
they want us to keep oiling the big ~ (US)
whet the appetites of fans
wheels of government the ad campaign is designed to ~ (TV)

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whet the appetites of investors whipped the snow into a frenzy
the company's performance will not ~ the winds ~ (ground blizzard)
whet appetites for a rematch resemblance: whip
their fight ~ (boxing)
whip (movement)
increase & decrease: blade / knife
whipped around
whiff (noun) she ~ and said...
whiff of anxiety movement: verb / whip
there's a ~ in the Asian air (about China)
whip hand (noun)
whiff of bias
journalists must be free of any ~ whip hand in the bidding process
Tahiti had the ~ (a surfing competition)
whiff of corruption
the organization is tainted by the ~ has the whip hand
Iran ~ (in the Gulf)
whiff of incompetence
the government's handling of the crisis has the ~ coercion & motivation: hand / verb / violence / whip
oppression: hand / verb / violence / whip
whiff of insurrection
the ~ is in the air (street protests) whiplash (noun)
whiff of opportunism legal whiplash
behind his good intentions is a ~ the ~ voters are experiencing this year (rules go to court)

whiff of scandal movement: direction / whip

only one ~ has tainted the casino (Cherokee)
whiff of (Western) supremacy
some critics detect a ~ in his book
evidence: smell
whipping boy (person)
whipping boy
China is used as a ~ in the campaign (politics)
♦ The whipping boy was punished in the prince's stead at school.

whiner (person) punishment & recrimination: person / royalty / whip

person: royalty / whip
hand wringers, worriers and whiners
~ (foreign policy) whirlpool (in a whirlpool)
character & personality: animal / person / sound in a whirlpool of thought and bewilderment
they were lost ~ (Bedouins)
whining
stuck in a whirlpool
whining we are ~ of violence and extremism
her ~ is rubbing fans the wrong way (auto racer)
amount & effect: sea / water
sound / speech: animal
whirlpool (other)
whip (violence)
whirlpool of (religious) violence and extremism
whipped them into shape his murder laid bare the ~
it took a while, but I ~ (a coach)
entering the whirlpool
coercion & motivation / directing / oppression: verb / the film was made as the Greek economy was ~
violence / whip
amount & effect: sea / water
whip (crack the whip)
whirlwind (noun)
crack the whip
he taught his deputy how to ~ (politician) whirlwind of attention
he has been at the center of a ~ (Nobel Prize)
cracking the whip on them
he is ~ (President against BP for oil spill) whirlwind of controversy
a ~ surrounds him
coercion & motivation: verb / violence / whip
oppression: verb / violence / whip whirlwind of (pent-up) civic forces
the dictator's ouster unleashed a ~
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whirlwind of impeachment enquiry sound: speech
Kurt Volker caught up in ~ resemblance: sound
whirlwind existence whistle (blow the whistle)
she lived at a totally different pace from her husband’s ~
blow the whistle on corruption
whirlwind romance ~, bribery, or abuse
they got married after a ~
blow the whistle on them
whirlwind relationship maybe they were afraid he might ~
they had a ~ and got married
warning: sound / verb
whirlwind visit
he made a ~ to Afghanistan (Obama)
whistle (dog whistle)
whirlwind 12 months dog whistle
it has been a ~ since he returned to the sport (a boxer) it’s not even a ~, it’s so blatant (anti-Latin sentiment)

multitasking whirlwind dog whistles

she was a ~ (sports, school, etc.) these are ~, Islamophobic tactics (politics)

released the whirlwind dog whistle from a losing politician

you have ~ and you will pay the price (politics) this is a desperate ~ (politics)

unleashed a whirlwind dog-whistle comment

the dictator's ouster ~ of pent-up civic forces (Suharto) some people are calling that a ~ against Muslims

reap the whirlwind dog whistles and race

he who sows the wind shall ~ (Bible)
♦ In the US, people speak of dust devils. Dust whirlwinds are called
zawabi in Arabic. In Australia, a whirlwind is called a willy willy.
♦ "Just on the stroke of seven o'clock we heard a shrill whistling in the
north-east, and, two or three minutes later, down came a black buran.
Shagdur set out to return to his own sleeping-place. Half an hour
later…he [re-] appeared at the opening of the yurt. He had lost his way,
although his sleeping-place was only 15 paces from mine…It was pitch
dark [and] impossible for any man to stand. Shagdur had been on his
hands and knees the whole time. Only those who have been out in such
a storm can form any conception of what it is like. You get bewildered,
and want to keep going, without knowing where…and it affects the brain.
Next morning, the effects of this grim desert tempest were very easy to
see; the sand was heaped up all round my yurt, and there were little
mounds on the sheltered side of the camels." (A windstorm on the salt
desert of Lop Nur in Xinjiang. From Central Asia and Tibet by Sven
Hedin.)
amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
activity: air / atmosphere / storm / wind
he used ~ in his campaign (a president)
racist dog whistles
he is launching his election campaign with ~
♦ “The nature of a dog whistle is that I can’t definitively prove what was in
somebody’s mind or heart when they said it, but the echoes are very
strong.” (Andrew Marantz, author of Antisocial: Online Extremists,
Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.)
♦ In the US, a white politician claimed a black politician would “monkey
things up.” The black politician replied, “He’s not using a (racist dog)
whistle, he’s using a bullhorn.”
message / speech: sound
whistleblower (noun)
whistle-blower
he’s a ~
a ~ has filed a complaint

whirlwind (ride the whirlwind, etc.) whistleblower complaint

the charges, contained in a ~ (against FAA)
riding the whirlwind
he's ~ drawn criticism from whistle-blowers
the company has ~
control & lack of control: atmosphere / storm / wind
message / warning: person / sound
whisker (come within a whisker, etc.)
white (White Sea, etc.)
got within a whisker of the South Pole
he ~ in 1909 (Shackleton) White Nile
the Blue Nile and the ~ come together in Khartoum
passed by a whisker
the referendum ~ (Switzerland) White Sea
the Solovetsky Islands are in the ~
proximity: hair
White Volta
whisper (sound) the ~ is a tributary of the Volta River
whisper of a (distant) waterfall proper name: color
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white elephant whittling (whittling down)
white elephant task of whittling down
in English a ~ is simply a useless extravagance he will leave the ~ the embassy to his successor (in Iraq)
Glasgow’s £10m ~ (Glasgow Science Centre tower)
decline: blade / knife
sports cathedral or white elephant dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / knife
is the Tokyo Olympic stadium a ~
wild (behavior)
vanity project, a white elephant
the rail link between London and Birmingham is a ~ wild beast
those ~s shot you in the back (said at funeral)
worth & lack of worth: animal / color
wild celebration
white knight the victory set off a ~ at the finish line (Olympics)
white knight wild child
they needed a ~ to save the hospital he was always mature for his age, he wasn't a ~
help & assistance: Middle Ages / person wild look
whitewash (noun) she burst through the door, a ~ in her eyes
wild melee
whitewash a ~ broke out (soccer riot in Kabul)
it’s a ~, they’re brushing it under the carpet (PS752)
wild (tailgate) parties
whitewash of justice the ~ outside Arrowhead Stadium
the mayor and police Superintendent railed against it as a ~
wild rampage
branded a whitewash dozens of teenage boys set off on a ~ (Central Park)
a public inquiry was ~ by victims’ families
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
wild revelry
feasting accompanied by ~ (Mardi Gras)
/ subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances
wild side
whitewash (verb) I love to show my ~ every now and then (sex)
whitewashed its review wild streak
UKA ~ and turned a blind eye to the concerns (doping) he must have brought out some ~ in me
textbooks whitewash wild youth
a number of ~ Japan's wartime conduct (in Japan) whether to remember his ~ or forget it
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment wild rite of passage
/ subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances / Las Vegas becomes a ~ for new 21-year-olds (booze)
verb
wild and crazy
whitewash (Hollywood, etc.) he was ~, young and dumb
whitewashes the role wild and crazy (m)
the film completely ~ south Asians played in WWI the NFL has its ~ side
♦ Merriam-Webster only added this sense in September 2019. The 2019
film The Aeronauts with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne is a good wild and reckless
example of a film that does not whitewash. Himesh Patel plays John I was at times ~ (gang member)
Trew. Most of the crowd scenes are enlivened with black and oriental
faces. This is what you would expect in cosmopolitan England of the crazy and wild
1860s. it was ~ (wedding in non-traditional location)
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
Gone Wild
/ subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances / the creator of the "Girls ~" video series (spring break)
verb
went wild
whittled the 100,000 fans at the Camp Nou stadium ~ (soccer)
whittled away drives scientists wild
his control has been ~ (a ruler facing protests) this is the kind of thing that ~ (political interference)
decline: blade / knife behavior / feeling, emotion & effect / restraint & lack of
dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / knife restraint: animal

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wild (control) voice in the wilderness of (intellectual) life
Chomsky is an important ~ in America
wild ending
society: ground, terrain & land
in a ~ to the regular season (basketball)
dismissal, removal & resignation: society
wild guess acceptance & rejection: society
the '~' is that 100,000…
wilderness (in / into the wilderness)
wild hunch
she acted on a ~ (an inventor) in (history’s) wilderness
his spell ~ is at an end (Alfred Russel Wallace)
wild rumor
another ~ going around was… in the (international) wilderness
he spent 3 years ~ (player left off national team)
wild shot
he flung up a ~ that missed horribly (basketball) in the (musical) wilderness
she managed to record her album after a painful period ~
wild swings
protect consumers from ~ in energy prices 30 years in the wilderness
maybe ~ is long enough (Liverpool fail to win EPL)
wild (conspiracy) theories
his death became the subject of ~ wondering in the wilderness
formerly in charge of the city, now ~ (a leader)
control & lack of control: animal
restraint & lack of restraint: animal spent 30 months in the wilderness
he was suspended from the sport and ~ (a boxer)
wild (run wild)
led him into the political wilderness
run wild his campaign ~ (against self-government for India)
I will not ~ when my teacher is away
isolation & remoteness / society: ground, terrain & land
“running wild” in care homes acceptance & rejection /dismissal, removal & resignation /
coronavirus is ~ for elderly people inclusion & exclusion: society

let their imaginations run wild wilderness (society)

painters in the 18th Century ~ in the ruins (Piranesi, etc.)
wilderness years
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack the play was written during his ~ (while struggling)
of restraint: animal / verb
society: ground, terrain & land
wildcard (computers) acceptance & rejection / dismissal, removal & resignation /
inclusion & exclusion: society
wildcard
you can fine-tune a search by using ~s (computers) wilderness (area)
wildcard character uncharted wilderness
type the ~ and other text in the Find What box new routes into the ~ of the 21-century economy

word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags online wilderness

~ (searching) international students are often in an ~ (universities)

computers: cards area: ground, terrain & land / journeys & trips

wild card (person) wild West

wild card Wild West
Saddam Hussein is a ~ this is the ~, there's a lot of things to figure out (venture)
it’s like the ~, there are no rules (Instagram)
behavior: cards / person it really is a ~ in terms of facial recognition (no rules, limits)
character & personality: cards / person
wild west
wilderness (voice in the wilderness) it's the ~ with automatic weapons (Afghanistan)
voice in the wilderness “Wild West” of unregulated tests
I am a ~, but history will vindicate me (politics) the current ~ is creating confusion (antibody tests)
some voices in the wilderness in a Wild West
there are ~ calling for a digital Geneva Convention we are left ~ of antibody testing (unregulated)

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tamed the Wild West wind (dangle in the wind)
Google has ~ of copyright infringement
left dangling in the wind
behavior / control & lack of control / environment: history
the prosecutor was ~ (not supported by others)
wilt (verb) allegiance, support & betrayal: atmosphere / verb / wind
wilt in the face of threats wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
we will not ~
wind is at their back
wilted in the second half unions feel like the ~
the team ~
put wind in Biden’s sail
wilted in the heat these results will ~ (primary election victory)
the city's residents ~
force / help & assistance / progress & lack of progress:
wilted in theaters boat / wind
the film ~
wind (wind of change, etc.)
wilted under cross-examination
he ~ (convicted) wind of change
but the ~ is blowing (rural areas)
wilted under pressure
there is a ~ blowing (state politics)
the offense ~ (sports)
new wind
wilted under his successor
~s were whipping on the political stage (history)
the investigation ~
political winds
wilted sales
anticipate the ~ blowing in Washington
the sweltering heat ~ (retail)
the shifting ~ on campuses these days (Title IX)
efforts have wilted
buffeted by the (political) winds
legislative ~ (climate action)
the Hmong were ~ that blew through Vietnam
stocks (also) wilted
winds have changed
European ~ (downturn)
the political ~ (more people support gun control)
decline / resemblance: plant / verb ♦ Arabian horse are called "drinkers of the wind" because of their flaring
nostrils.
wind (get / catch wind of something)
force / driving force: atmosphere / wind
caught wind of this
she first ~ in March (press investigation)
wind (wind its way)
gotten wind of an attack winding their way through the courts
a few days earlier, US intelligence had ~ their cases are ~ (migrants)

got wind of some improprieties complexity / fictive motion: direction / verb

he ~ (fraud) progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips /
movement / verb
get wind of the war movement: river / snake
the Israelis did not ~ (1973)
wind back (verb)
♦ "There’s something dead up the branch." (A Southern Appalachians
expression for something suspicious.)
wind back to the spring
evidence: smell / verb / wind to understand, ~ of 2014

wind (throw something to the wind) past & present / time: clock / mechanism / verb

threw caution to the wind wind down (verb)

I just ~ and went for it winding down
throwing civil liberties to the wind the murder trial is ~
we are ~ the party was ~ anyway

dismissal, removal & resignation: atmosphere / verb / wind wound down

restraint & lack of restraint: atmosphere / verb / wind as 2010 ~…
starting, going, continuing & ending / time: clock /
mechanism / verb

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wind down (relax)
wind down
after a performance, it takes him a long time to ~
he took a sleeping pill to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / verb
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
windfall (noun)
windfall of $1.7 billion
higher commodity prices contributed to a ~ (BHP)
oil windfall
elites use their ~ to ensconce themselves in power
financial windfall
rising oil prices have brought them a ~
political windfall
she accused him of seeking a ~ from the aid package
♦ You can collect dead limbs that the wind has blown down and use
them to start a fire. Or, you can collect fruit that the wind has blown down
and eat it. A windfall "falls into your lap" and is an unanticipated benefit.
difficulty, easiness & effort: tree / wind
launch window
we don't think we can make the ~ for March (NASA)
the ~ for Wednesday's mission opens at 0900 (space)
the ~ runs for 3 hours and 22 minutes (space)
summit window
weather forecasts show a potential ~ (Everest)
more and more are climbing during the same good ~s
weather window
Nasa had a ~ of 65 minutes to launch
everyone is trying to reach the summit in the same 12-hour ~
climbers wait for the right ~ for the summit climb (Everest)
clear-weather window
the first feasible ~ was 19 and 20 May (Mount Everest)
legal window
the eight-year ~ when a suit could be filed
narrow window
the ship had a ~ of time to take out a ballistic missile
small window
the ~ between the end of the night and beginning of the day
(birdsong)

window (window of opportunity) 15-minute windows

the ~ between the guard's rounds (prison suicide)
window of opportunity eight-year (legal) window
there was a little, little ~ (to win an Olympic medal)
the ~ when a suit could be filed
small window of opportunity lookback window
there is a ~ for the motor system (peak performance)
the ~ lasts a year (suspension of state of limitations / abuse)
window of opportunity to solve window would close
the ~ the crimes is closing (passage of time)
there was a risk the weather ~ (Mount Everest)
window of opportunity is closing make the (launch) window
the US’s ~ fast (diplomacy)
we don't think we can ~ for March (NASA)
window of opportunity could slam shut target / timeliness & lack of timeliness: window
the ~ (stopping AIDS in India)
window (window to the West, etc.)
missed our window of opportunity
we've ~ window to the capital
the Gare du Nord acts as a ~ (needs renovation)
target / timeliness & lack of timeliness: window
window (launch window, etc.) window to the West
'Dallas' in Finnish was our ~ (a 37-year-old Estonian)
window window to the world
the ~ for doing a deal is small and closing
the computer screen is his ~ (homeless man)
people don’t realize how close or narrow that ~ is (climate
change) window on relations
the leaked cables are a ~ with the world (diplomacy)
window of time
we only have a small ~ (to prosecute rape cases) "window on the West"
St. Petersburg was Russia's ~ (Peter the Great)
window of good weather
the climbers had been waiting for a ~ window on a nervous planet
the Diplomatic Security Daily is a ~
windows between the (guard's) rounds
the 15-minute ~ (prison suicide) window into the dark corners
conspiracy theories are a ~ of our political soul
application window
a second ~ will be opened (computer) window into his mind
his letters to his wife were a ~ (a politician)

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 this statement is a ~ (politician's gaffe about rape) division: bird
windows into (other) worlds wing (building)
they were ~ and landscapes (museum dioramas)
amputee wing
window onto the wonders Ward 57, the ~ at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
his narrow focus opens a larger ~ of natural science
branching system: bird
world's window
the ~ to Thailand (the Bangkok Post) wing (under one's wing)
illuminating window took her under his wing
the case is an ~ into the pitfalls of capital punishment Clark Terry noticed Reeves' abilities and ~ (jazz)

opens a window he took me under his wing

she ~ on Cape Verde's music (a singer) ~ (a film mentor)

portal: window took the teacher under his wing

he ~ (mentor / first-year teacher)
window (out the window)
took Tommy under his wing
window so Andy ~ (Shawshank Redemption)
gender goes out the ~ (female sports broadcaster)
got you under our wing
went out the window we have ~ (support)
his game plan ~ (a boxer)
the idea this was terrorism got shot down and ~ help & assistance: animal / bird

throw that gut feeling out the window wing (in the wings)
~ (a defense lawyer during final argument)
in the wings
thrown the law out the window there are extremists ~
the judge has ~
waiting in the wings
dismissal, removal & resignation: window many fine musicians are ~
appearance & disappearance: window readiness & preparedness: theater
window (Overton window) center & periphery: theater

Overton window wing (clip / stretch one's wings)

the ~ is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse
stretch my wings
acceptance & rejection: allusion / window my fans have allowed me to ~
window dressing clipped his wings
his bosses had ~ (cop assigned to desk)
window dressing
I was ~ (hired to fix problems, but ignored) constraint & lack of constraint: bird / verb
this was a farce, ~ (the Savoy plebiscite) wink (noun)
window-dressing public relations wink
he took a ~ stand on the coronavirus crisis (EU official)
there’s a bit of a ~, it’s a joke (subtitle of book)
substance & lack of substance: window there’s a bit of a ~, we’re all in on it (subtitle of book)
wing (wing it) subterfuge: eye / gesture

winging it winner (noun)

the president is just kind of ~ (pardons)
winner
haste / readiness & preparedness: bird I don't think there are any ~s (politics)
wing (division) competition / success & failure: sports & games

right wing winnow (verb)

in the US, the ~ is adamantly opposed to abortion
winnows (preparatory) information
"political" and "military" wings his staff ~ to a concise packet
no difference between ~ (terrorists) searching & discovery: farming & agriculture / verb / wheat

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worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / verb / wheat the anti-Communist ~ and early '50s
win over (verb) "witch-hunt" on Wikileaks
Assange urges the US to end its ~
win over Brexiteers
can she ~ (English Prime Minister) "witch-hunt" against Wikileaks
Assange has urged the US to renounce its ~
win over Hispanics
they are trying to ~ (politics) witch hunt tactics
I will not be subjected to your ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: sports & games / verb
celebrity witch-hunt
winter (decline) police denied a ~ (sex offenses against boys)
in the winter of my life Democratic witch hunt
now ~, it was a great honor to... (explorer Don Walsh) this is a ~, everyone knows it (politics)
A.I. winter political witch hunt
the seventies proved to be the so-called “~” the administration claims this is just a ~
winter has (finally) come anti-Communist witch hunts
~ to Game of Thrones (final two episodes) the ~ of the late 1940s and early '50s
♦ “I salute Victor Vescovo and his outstanding team for the successful
completion of their historic explorations into the Mariana Trench. Six end witch-hunt
decades ago, Jacques Piccard and I were the first to visit that deepest ~, Assange urges US (on Wikileaks)
place in the world’s oceans. Now in the winter of my life, it was a great
honour to be invited on this expedition to a place of my youth.” (“Mariana
Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag” by Rebecca Morelle,
renounce its "witch-hunt"
BBC, May 13, 2019.) Assange has urged the US to ~
decline / growth & development: season oppression: allusion / creature / history / justice / violence
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: season judgment: justice
winter (resemblance) with (support)
winter sleep with you
nature is awakening from its ~ I am ~
resemblance: season with him all the way
I am ~ (politics)
winter (nuclear winter, etc.)
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle
impact winter
debris from a comet strike could produce an ~ with (no longer with us)
nuclear winter no longer with us
a full-blown nuclear war would be followed by a ~ unfortunately, he was found in a pond and he is ~ (body)
destruction: season euphemism: death & life / prep, adv, adj, particle
wire (down to the wire) withdrawal (feeling)
going down to the wire going through withdrawal
business leaders are furious because the new change is ~ sports fans are ~ because of coronavirus lockdowns
(Brexit)
feeling, emotion & effect: addiction / health & medicine
timeliness & lack of timeliness: horse / sports & games enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine
witch (noun) wither (verb)
witch withered
she's a ~ (disliked or feared woman) his faith in the government ~
character & personality: creature wither in our (education) system
children ~ (rote learning)
witch hunt
decline: plant / verb
witch hunt
the campaign has sparked a ~ (for pedophiles) withering (adjective)
witch hunts of the late 1940s withering barrage

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 their report came under a ~ of criticism (education) flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability
withering criticism wobbly (commitment)
he has faced ~
went wobbly
withering questioning he ~ but she stiffened his spine (politics)
he faced ~ from upset lawmakers (Boeing exec)
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying
feeling, emotion & effect: plant commitment & determination: equilibrium & stability /
witness (verb) movement
woke (adjective)
witnessed two cataclysmic events
the 15th century ~ super woke
fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb she’s like ~, you know, she’s like policing me
♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR,
wizard (person) Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term
woke has had its day and should be retired.
math wizard consciousness & awareness: sleep
only gifted ~s understand it (Poincare Conjecture)
wolf (predation)
dot-com wizard
~s becoming billionaires wolf
a ~ can wear scrubs or doctor’s clothing or be a woman
marketing wizard
a ~ who hopes he had found the path to riches wolves in here
there are a lot of ~ who will prey on the sheep (prison)
financial wizard
he is regarded as a ~ and bankruptcy expert ♦ If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you. (Saudi Arabia.)
♦ Man is a wolf to man. (Russia.)
ability & lack of ability: creature / magic / person
♦ He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
person: creature / magic
♦ “We are holding a wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor
wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.) safely let him go.” (Similar to holding a tiger by the tail, or riding a tiger.)
♦ "Forgive me. I was raised by wolves." (A bumper sticker seen in
Wizard of Menlo Park Asheville, North Carolina.)
Edison was known as "The ~"
behavior / danger / predation: animal / wolf
ability & lack of ability: creature / epithet
wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
epithet: creature / magic
Wizard of Oz wolf in sheep’s clothing
we’ve all heard of a ~ (district attorney)
Wizard of Oz defense two Middle East scholars portray him as a ~
he is using the ~ (pay no attention to that man behind...) a ~, Huckle fooled people into believing... (a pedophile)
subterfuge: allusion / cloth / film appearance & reality / predation / subterfuge: animal /
clothing & accessories / wolf
wizardry (noun)
wolf (cry wolf)
high-tech wizardry
the new weapon is a bit of ~ cry wolf
we certainly don't want to ~
technological wizardry
in an age of ~... warning: allusion / animal / verb / wolf
knowledge & intelligence: creature / magic wolf (throw somebody to the wolves)
ability & lack of ability: creature / magic
throw him to the wolves
wobbly (condition) I'm not going to ~
wobbly on policy threw me to the wolves
we have seen her sometimes ~ (politics) my bosses ~
wobbly state allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / verb / violence /
City Opera has been in a ~ since 2008 wolf
looking (slightly) wobbly
it was perceived Britain was in decline and ~ (history)

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wolf (thrown to the wolves) we are not in any way ~ (hurricane)
firefighters are not ~ yet (wildfires)
thrown to the wolves we’re not ~ yet (Iran crisis)
they are about to get ~ (Me To movement) we’re making progress but we’re not ~ yet (pandemic)
♦ “Every time I enter a forest which stretches for several miles I have an
thrown to the (financial) wolves involuntary feeling of something like humility. Such a primitive forest is a
the city will be ~ (bankruptcy) kind of elemental force, and it is not to be wondered that even the
aborigines, these simple nomads of the forest, before crossing its
threshold which separates it from the inhabited world, first utter prayers
thrown to the wolves and blamed to their gods and beg protection against the evil spirits which haunt the
somebody who could be ~ for what happened (stockholders) wooded wastes.” (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
♦ “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray / from the straight road and
effectively thrown to the wolves woke to find myself / alone in a dark wood...” Dante’s The Inferno,
we were ~ (Antifa and counter protesters, no police) translated by John Ciardi.)
♦ “If they don’t [restructure]... the city will be thrown to the financial ♦ “You can only go halfway into the darkest forest, then you are coming
wolves... Everyone will want their scrap of what money is left.” (Detroit.) out the other side.” (Chinese.)

allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / violence / wolf danger / obstacles & impedance / survival, persistence &
wolf down (food) endurance: forest / journeys & trips
woods (neck of the woods)
wolfed down his meal
he ~ neck of the woods
behavior: animal / food & drink / verb / wolf someone from our ~ (Western North Carolina)

woo (verb) happening in your neck of the woods

here's what's ~ (national TV weather report)
wooed doctors with free trips
the company aggressively ~ to seminars
make its way to our neck of the woods
the storm will ~ (weather report / North Carolina)
woo the masses with (new) spending area / location: forest
he could attempt to ~ (a politician)
word (the last word)
woo students to enroll
they’re still trying to ~ (universities during pandemic) the last word
woos far-right voters it’s phase 1, so this might not be ~
Sarkozy ~ after losing narrowly (elections) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going,
attraction & repulsion / pursuit, capture & escape: love, continuing & ending: books & reading / writing & spelling
courtship & marriage / verb workhorse (noun)
woodwork (come out of the woodwork, workhorse
etc.) he's a ~

came out of the woodwork workhorse of an airplane

they ~ for whatever reason (people falsely confessing) the 767 is a ~ (flying since 1981, also used for cargo)

coming out of the woodwork workhorses of the aviation world

people are ~ (survivors of wildfire thought dead) the 737 and A320 are the ~

come streaming out of the woodwork strength & weakness / work & duty: animal / horse
first dull Super Bowl in years and the whingers ~ workings (noun)
appearance & disappearance: animal / house / insect
inner workings
wooed she started to get involved in the ~ of the party
they are like black boxes whose ~ are mysterious (brains)
wooed to aerial skiing by the US Ski Team
she was ~ inner workings of the party
she started to get involved in the ~ (DNC)
attraction & repulsion / pursuit, capture & escaped: love,
courtship & marriage bases / operation: mechanism

woods (out of the woods) world (exploration)

out of the woods totally different world
she was not ~ after the operation (transplant) I was taken by the ~ down there (caving)

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♦ "I was taken by the totally different world down there. I began to go feeling, emotion & effect: earth & world
caving every weekend." (David Bunnell.)
♦ "Under the earth's crust there exists such an enormously great world, world (Disney World, etc.)
in absolute darkness, that we can with some justice speak of a new
continent." (Alfred Bogli.) World of Warcraft
♦ "You can't really say very much, if anything at all, about below the he spent a lot of time online playing ~
surface." (David E. Smith, chief of NASA's Laboratory for Terrestrial
Physics.) Disney World (m)
♦ "After the Roc Noir, I had the feeling of closing a door behind me. I was live entertainment in all four ~ parks
entering another world. I was far from the world of the living. I had never
had this feeling on any other mountain." (Jean-Christophe Lafaille on the proper name: earth & world
east ridge of Annapurna in 2002.)
♦ "The deep sea is full of surprises. We may find species unlike any seen world (in the world)
before. The Cayman Trough may be like Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Lost
World.'" (From the Web site of Britain's National Oceanography Center.) in the (fickle) world of (New York) restaurants
he did what he could to survive ~
area: earth & world
in the (staid) world of sumo
world (on top of the world) a rare event ~
on top of the world in the (tempestuous) world of boxing
he was ~ again (happy) nothing is impossible ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / earth & world
in the world of (horse) racing
world (fantasy) he is a force ~

dream world in the world of mountain biking

it was her ~ North Shore riding is legendary ~ (BC)

live in a fantasy world in the (murky) world of the (Japanese) bar trade
people think I ~ foreign women working ~
you can't ~ in today's world
lived in a make-believe world it is risky, ~, to go to work (workplace violence)
I ~ that afforded me great comfort (abused) in the design world
retreated into a fantasy world people ~ think…
she ~ (9-year-old, father jailed) in the bowling world
fantasy & reality: earth & world ~, he is perceived as a…

world (the whole world, etc.) in the surfing world

there have been a number of movies set ~
whole world
the anger broke out into the open for the ~ to see in a simulated world
influencing events and characters ~ (computers)
whole world of gossip and innuendo
there is a whole ~ out there to explore in the academic world
a debate that's currently going on ~
extent & scope: earth & world
in the ancient world
world (a world of difference, etc.) the temple, a pilgrimage site ~
world of difference in both worlds
listening can make a ~ unlike some relatives, he lives ~ (Hispanic in US school)
world of good in their own world
it did me a ~ they're ~ (females having party-within-party at party)
extent & scope: earth & world in different worlds
experimentalists and theorists live ~s
world (meant the world to me, etc.)
in a perfect world
means the world to them ~ we would be able to…
it ~ (care packages to military abroad)
in the non-Indian world
meant the world to me ~ (Native Americans)
she ~ (a kind person)
Archie blessed the ground, it just ~ (an online powwow) force in the world

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 he is a ~ of horse racing the ~ uses nautical miles (vs. statute miles)
live in (different) worlds blog world
experimentalists and theorists ~ some restaurants have embraced the ~ (instant marketing)
set in the (surfing) world business world
there have been a number of movies ~ does the ~ really need Harvard
the world of Washington and the ~
survive in the (fickle) world the ~ he inhabits
he did what he could to ~ of New York restaurants
chess world
environment: earth & world
young Soviet-trained players dazzled the ~
world (particular) entertainment world
world of (midtown) Manhattan the stratospheric reaches of the ~
the ~ hockey world
world of Washington the news of his arrest shocked the ~
the ~ and the business world magazine world
world of ghosts the New York ~
the ~ that blankets Southeast Asia (fortunetellers, etc.) rave world
world of (branded) goods he opened the door to the ~ for us
the competitive ~ spirit world
world of (academic) medicine long journeys to the ~ (Inuit)
the publish-or-perish ~ West African Islam maintains ties to the African ~

world of (dive) travel twilight world

the ~ the ~ of street life and women for hire

world of tomorrow plant, animal and insect worlds

fixed aircraft will still exist in the ~ (military) how electrification has affected the ~

world of black magic and voodoo dog show world

a bizarre ~ (muti murders) Mick is the Michael Jordan of the ~ (a blue terrier)

world of street life music-business world

the twilight ~ and girls for hire the ~ of midtown Manhattan

world of cyberdrugstores high-tech world

the new ~ he's striking alliances throughout the ~

world of boxing celebrity-mad world

welcome to the ~ (a Web site) a~

world of (extreme) kayaking 3-D world

the ~ players roam around a ~

world of haves and have-nots online world

a Dickensian ~ the ~ has its perils (pro-ana, suicide sites, etc.)

world of rock and roll boxing world

the sex-and-drug-filled ~ Foreman astounded the ~ by returning to the ring

today's world collecting world

~ offers us more choices but, ironically, less satisfaction the ~ (artifacts of pop culture)

nomad's world sportscasting world

the Tibetan Plateau is a ~ (over 13,000 feet) open up the ~ for women

art world sex-and-drug-filled world

the ~ the ~ of rock and roll

art-world (m) Muslim world

a comment on ~ politics the Kaaba is literally the center of the ~

aviation world Arab world

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 the anger and humiliation emanating from the ~ opened the door to the (rave) world
he is a folk hero in much of the ~ (Muntader al-Zaidi) he ~ for us
Islamic world environment: earth & world
the Jews who came to Israel from the ~
the troubled ~ world (into a world)
when Baghdad was capital of the ~ (9th century);
stroll into another world
Iran wants to be a leader in the ~
Wright Creek Trailhead— ~
Dickensian world environment: earth & world
a ~ of haves and have-nots
world (lost world)
academic world
the close-knit Polish ~ celebrate that lost world
the sentences sent a chill through the ~ (China) I’m going to ~ (rock journalism)
following the war and his return to the ~
the ~ has started a self-examination primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: earth & world
past & present / time: earth & world
avian world
the ~ is known for its great migrations (tern, albatross) worm (can of worms)
bizarre world open up a can of worms
a ~ of black magic and voodoo (muti murders) an investigation will ~

different world initiation: creature

it was a ~ when he started (coaching) worm (computers )
literary world
worm
the ~ of Belfast
he took an existing ~ and tweaked it (a variant)
natural world
worm's code
people and the ~ are on a collision course
it required only a few changes to the original ~
new world
worms and pop-ups
the ~ of cyberdrugstores
spam, spyware, viruses, ~ (Internet)
tribal worlds
Code Red worm
the mountains shelter ~ lost in time (Caucasus)
protect themselves from the ~ (computers)
virtual worlds
Slammer worm
computer games that create ~ onscreen
the ~ that downed corporate networks in January
leave-me-alone world
network worm
she retreats into her own ~ (athlete on game day)
the ~ struck many corporations and compromised data
Michael Jordan of the dog-show world
Internet worm
Mick is the ~ (a blue terrier)
a new ~, "Goner," spread across the globe via e-mail
reaches of the (entertainment) world
e-mail worm
the stratospheric ~ of the ~
the ~ can send itself to all addresses in Outlook
lives in both worlds the ~ attempts to shut down anti-virus products
unlike some relatives, he ~ (Hispanic in US school)
authors of (viruses and) worms
opened up a (whole new) world ~ and viruses (computers)
it ~ (radio)
viruses and worms
open up the (sportscasting) world authors of ~ (computers)
~ for women computer: animal
see the world worm's-eye (adjective)
people who from a different perspective ~ (autism)
worm's-eye charm
shocked the (hockey) world
the book has a ~ (about a lowly adjunct)
the news of his arrest ~
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / ground,
maintains ties to the (African) spirit world
terrain & land / height / insect / position
West African Islam ~

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worship (verb) emotional wounds
people use drugs or sex to medicate ~
worship Snowbird Creek
trout fishing devotees ~ (Graham County, NC) invisible wound
soldiers suffer from ~s (combat)
enthusiasm / importance & significance / reverence:
religion / verb old wounds
talking with me opened ~ (World War II vets)
worth
open wound
worth it this is an ~ in Swedish society (murder of Olof Palme)
it's not ~ because it is still an open case it is an ~ (manhunt)

cost & benefit: money racial wounds

wound (self-inflicted wound)
unforced error and a self-inflicted wound
he described it as an ~
left him with self-inflicted wounds
the pandemic has ~ (a politician)
failure, accident & impairment: military / weapon
wound (salt in a wound)
salt on the wounds
it’s ~ of the family (a tragic family accident)
pouring salt on their wounds
the arrest is only ~ (a tragic family accident)
rubs salt in the wounds
it ~ to find that...
rub salt into Saints’ wound
to ~, Liverpool immediately scored (YNWA)
rub (some kind of) salt in the wound
does that ~ that... (injustice on top of injustice)
affliction: sensation / materials & substances
wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
wounds of Vietnam
healing the ~ (dissent vs. service)
wounds of the past
cold cases rip open the ~ (crime investigations)
wounds of war
and with the ~ all but healed... (US / Vietnam)
help heal old ~
invisible and visible wounds
the center addresses both the ~ of the war
carry those wounds into adulthood
those who ~ (sexual abuse)
heal (old racial) wounds
help ~
heal the wounds
a ceremony of reconciliation meant to ~ (Nez Perce War)
licking their wounds
a lot of stock market investors are ~
open (old) wounds
these pictures will ~ (prisoner abuse repeated)
reopen (old) wounds
trials would ~ (Bloody Sunday)
reopen (these old) wounds
why ~ (historic civil rights crimes)
♦ "A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not." (A Turkish
proverb.)
♦ "You've got to open the wound and clean it before it can heal. It's as if
we've had this open gash on the arm for 40 years and have done nothing
but put a bandage on it." (James E. Prince III, on the arraignment of
Edgar Ray Killen for the murders of 3 civil-rights workers 40 years early
in Mississippi.)
♦ “An unfortunate man, especially horribly and hideously mutilated, was
being carried on a stretcher. The bottom of an exploded shell, which had
split his face open, turning his tongue and teeth into a bloody gruel, but
without killing him, was lodged between his jawbones in place of his torn-
out cheek... / (God, God, take him, don’t make me doubt Your
existence!)...” (Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. The interior
monologue belongs to Lara, who was serving as a nurse while trying to
determine her husband’s fate.)

wounds of the war affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine /
the center addresses both the invisible and visible ~ mark / wounds & scars

war wounds wound (tightly wound)

the ~ are still raw (between Japan and its neighbors)
tightly wound
childhood wound he was bright, hardworking, but he seemed ~
real healing of our ~s character & personality: mechanism
long-standing wounds feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
the report could heal ~ (Hillsborough disaster) wounded (adjective)
deep wounds
wounded
the racist taunts opened ~ (Indonesian West Papua)
the only candidate he trails is ~, perhaps mortally so

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fatally wounded takes the wraps off a (top-secret) mission
the campaign is ~ (politics / election) the book ~
remains (badly) wounded inauguration: cloth / verb
the economy ~ concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / verb
condition & status: health & medicine wraparound
woven wraparound porch
on the west side of its ~ porch
woven into the fabric
cheating is ~ of accepted conduct wraparound (double) deck
Arab Americans are deeply ~ of America its ~ of stands
Mexico is deeply ~ of the US economy
wraparound (NASCAR) sunglasses
woven through the fabric they've got ~ and mullets
their legacy is ~ of our nation today (WW II generation)
configuration: cloth
division & connection: cloth
wrapped (covered)
wow (verb)
wrapped with (thick) clouds
wowing audiences the upper mountain was ~ (Everest)
he has been ~ for decades (a singer) ♦ "The living glow of the desert dawn wrapped a blue turban around the
mountain's lofty peak." (Ibrahim al-Koni.)
wow him
I did everything I could to ~ (an actor about his director) cover / resemblance: cloth

feeling, emotion & effect: exclamation / verb wrapped (wrapped up in something)

wow (noun) wrapped up in the sex trade
middle-class kids also get ~
stop at wow
his curiosity tended to ~ without getting to why (interview) wrapped up in being
my identity had been ~ an athlete
feeling, emotion & effect: exclamation
get wrapped up in the sex trade
wrangling middle-class kids also ~
backstage wrangling involvement: cloth
after weeks of ~, the Party has decided…
wrap up (verb)
legal wrangling
after years of ~, however, he is now a free man wrap up within a few weeks
the work might ~ (investigation)
conflict: horse
wrap up in 2020
wrap (under wraps) the construction project was expected to ~
kept the book under wraps wrap up in May or June
government pressure ~ that investigation is expected to ~ (government)
kept his debt under wraps wraps on April 15
he ~ (financial infidelity) the session ~ (state legislature)
keep it under wraps wrapped up the case
if they know something, they ~ (cops) we ~ (an investigation)
keep their wedding under wraps wrap up a deal
the couple tried to ~ is that possible that this week they could ~
kept under wraps wrap up the demonstration
terms of the agreement were ~ activists agreed to ~ if the police…
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth wrapped up his report
wrap (take the wraps off something) he ~ on the president's address by… (newscaster)
wraps up today's show
took the wraps off its (latest) project that ~, thanks to everyone…
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reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth / verb destruction: ruins
starting, going, continuing & ending: cloth / verb
wrecking ball (noun)
wreck (verb)
wrecking-ball agenda
wrecked his career they have a ~ that is rooted in nationalism (politics)
a throwing problem ~ (catcher can't throw to pitcher)
5ft 10in wrecking ball
wrecking the markets there was nowhere to hide against the ~ (Mike Tyson vs.
his wildly irresponsible comments are ~ (politics) Frank Bruno)
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: crashes & anti-globalist wrecking ball
collisions / ruins / verb she has done much to protect the UN from Trump’s ~
wreck (train wreck) taken a wrecking ball to reform
they have ~ (Supreme Court)
train wreck
that interview with those NALF women was a real ~ destruction / force: tools & technology
he is a ~ waiting to happen (job) wrench (throw a wrench into something)
fiscal train wreck
a ~ looms ahead (deficit government spending)
throw a wrench into (contract) talks
the investigation could really ~ (union)
extent of the train wreck
the diplomats don't fully comprehend the ~ (UN)
throw a wrench into the works
this could ~
headed for a train wreck
we are ~ (a politician about budget proposal)
throw a wrench in the works
does this ~ (negotiations)
destruction: crashes & collisions / train
destruction / disruption / functioning: mechanism / verb
failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions / train
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb
wreck (person) wrenching (adjective)
wreck
emotionally, he was a ~
wrenching climax
the novel reaches a ~
coke-sniffing wreck feeling, emotion & effect sensation
he was a ~
wrestle (verb)
nervous wreck
I was a ~ at the job interview wrestling over her emotions
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: crashes & she is ~ (a celebrity)
collisions / person / ruins wrestles over whether
feeling, emotion & effect: crashes & collisions / destruction he ~ he should have moved to Atlanta
/ ruins
wrestle with
wreckage (noun) that's one of the issues we have to ~ (terrorism)
wreckage of misfortune wrestle with (tough) decisions
money to salvage a decent life from the ~ as you ~
social wreckage wrestling with these issues
she describes the ~ of her bipolar episodes the government is ~ (info in wartime)
salvage a (decent) life from the wreckage wrestle with its (economic) problems
money to ~ of misfortune Uzbekistan is now free to ~
found a way out of his own wreckage wrestle with changing
he ~ with the therapist's help they ~ the system
destruction: ruins ♦ In "A Photographer's Pilgrimage," the great Kazuyoshi Nomachi has
wonderful pictures and text relating to the actual annual wrestling
wrecked matches in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan. A victor might win a
wife.
wrecked by (phone) hacking confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sports & games
her life was ~ / verb / wrestling

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wring (wring something from / out of punishment & recrimination: hand

something) write (write out / off)

wring concessions from banks write you out
the government hopes to ~ don’t let anybody ~ (dwarf plays basketball)

wring a (big) profit from his restaurant wrote him off

he hopes to ~ people ~, said had no heart, he quit (a boxer)

wring art out of the rubble wrote me off

in Kosovo, artists ~ my last fight everybody ~ (a boxer)

wring (more) water from (existing) supplies dismissal, removal & resignation: writing & spelling
conservation can ~ writing (writing on the wall)
wring (pay) concessions from the union
the city wants to ~
the writing on the wall for his campaign
with ~, he announced his withdrawal (election)
creation & transformation: pressure / verb
fate, fortune & chance: Bible / religion / writing & spelling
taking & removing: pressure / verb
future / time: religion / writing & spelling
wringer (through the wringer) written (written on it, etc.)
social-media wringer
Y.A. titles that passed through the ~ (books)
written all over it
the attack has Iran ~
put contestants through the wringer
they ~ (a quiz show)
written all over this
this has got upset ~
put the FAA through the wringer evidence: writing & spelling
the congressman ~ (congressional hearings)
written (fate)
put his (approval) rating through the wringer
the government shutdown ~ (politics) written
it was ~ (said by a Muslim)
gone through the wringer
she has ~ with assorted investigations (a politician) fate, fortune & chance: religion / writing & spelling
future / time: religion / writing & spelling
put through the wringer
a black comedy about a weakling being ~
he has been ~ this week and deserves it (a sports doper)
accusation & criticism / affliction / oppression: clothing &
Y
accessories / mechanism / pressure yardstick (noun)
wrinkle (noun) yardstick to measure
we need to know the actual distance so we have a ~
another wrinkle
~ in the trans-Atlantic relationship concerns Moscow yardstick for measuring
the real ~ probability is "How surprised should we be?"
some wrinkles
there are some ~ to be ironed out China's yardstick
India measures its economic development against ~
iron out wrinkles
they still need to ~ in their new contract celestial yardstick
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth certain stars could serve as ~s to measure distances

wrist (slap on the wrist) most important yardstick

it is the ~ of their skill and achievement (birders' lists)
slap on the wrist
view money as a yardstick
he needs more than just a ~ (justice / sentencing)
I ~ for how much I've accomplished (versus greed)
slap on the wrist for a pedophile
use it as a yardstick
a ~ (title of article)
once you have an initial bracket, ~ for correction (artillery)
financial slap on the wrist
serve as (celestial) yardsticks
the FTC’s fine will be more than just a ~ (on Facebook)
certain stars could ~ to measure larger distances

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measurement: tools & technology yesteryear
yawn (verb) standards of yesteryear
yawn (wide) open can Russia maintain the ~ (Soyuz rocket malfunction)
the ship's hatches ~ (container ship full of cocoa) past & present / time: day
resemblance: bodily reaction / verb young (adjective)
yawn (noun) young aircraft
big yawn very ~ also carry a high risk (of crashing)
high school quickly became a ~ (bored teen) young country
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction Macedonia is a ~

yawning (adjective) young moon

a ~, just 24 hours old (astronomy)
yawning chasm
the ~ between city and countryside (China) young storm
a ~ of this type is called a tropical depression (hurricane)
yawning deficit
government spending is to blame for the ~ young, thin
the ~ sea ice (Polarstern)
yawning gap
growth & development: baby / death & life
the ~ is now wider (cultural and economic inequality)
yawning inequality Young Turk
widespread poverty and ~ no Young Turk
extent & scope: bodily reaction Churchill was ~ daringly challenging received orthodoxy
♦ “The very first cell is in fact said to have been formed by army medical
year (year has come and gone) students as early as 1889—and though its members were by no means
all military, nearly all were from the young officer class. They were not, in
year has come and gone these early stages, dedicated to the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire; all
they wanted was reform, and in particular westernisation. They
a ~ since we heard the news about Billy Joe remained, nonetheless, a potentially dangerous threat, and as time went
on gave ever-increasing anxiety to Abdul-Hamid’s secret police.” (The
future / past & present / time: movement / verb Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by the great historian John
yellow (Yellow Sea, etc.) Julius Norwich.)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: allusion / history

Yellow River resistance, opposition & defeat: allusion / history
the ~ is known as the cradle of Chinese civilization
yo-yo (up and down)
Yellow Sea
the ~ lies between China and the Korean Peninsula yo-yo dieting
~ is not good
proper name: color
yo-yo team
yesterday (the past) why the Tigers are such a ~ (Bangladeshi cricket)
one single yesterday ♦ The World Yo-Yo Championship is held each year and has its own
website.
“I’d trade all my tomorrows, for that ~” (Pink)
♦ “Figure 7.13. (a) The modern yo-yo, basic version, which gives every
yesterday and the day before indication of being the same as the (b) 480 BCE version from ancient
Greece.” (Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We
he is just as committed today as he was ~ (anti-terrorism) Make Things Move by Steven Vogel.)
happened yesterday movement: direction / sports & games
it has the feeling that it just ~ (9/11) increase & decrease: direction / movement / sports &
past & present / time: day games

yesterday (I need it yesterday, etc.) yoke (under the yoke)

under the yoke of corruption
yesterday
the people have suffered for too long ~
this should have happened ~
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day under a yoke of hatred
~, prejudice and bigotry (Armenians in 1915)
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yoke (from the yoke) the band has tried to capture the ~ (music)

from the yoke of (Arab) domination zenith comes

the ~ on July 12 (Protestant marching in N. Ireland)
we must liberate them ~ (Darfur)
free themselves from the yoke passed its zenith
liberal democracy has ~ (opinion)
they seek to ~ of the federal government
rescued them from the yoke reached its zenith
opera ~ during the romantic period
we ~ of dictatorship
achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency,
oppression: animal
decline & obsolescence: astronomy / height / sun
yoke (other)
zero (place and time, etc.)
take up the yoke
more people must ~ of responsibility ground zero
Miami is ~ for climate change
threw off the yoke
they ~ of British colonial rule patient zero
~, the first documented patient... (epidemiology)
throwing off the yoke
South American leaders are ~ of US imperialism ‘year zeros’
1485 is taken by historians to be one of the great ~ of history
♦ The three types of yokes are: the head yoke, the neck yoke, and the
withers yoke. India has the largest number of working oxen or cattle in importance & significance: number
the world.

oppression: animal zero in on (verb)

Yugoslavia (separation) zeroing in on his location
police are ~
Asian Yugoslavia
target: weapon / verb
Indonesia could have become an ~ (after Suharto)
division & connection: allusion / history zig-zag (verb)
zig-zag
people ~ to avoid one another (social distancing / pandemic)
Z shape: letters & characters
zenith (at the zenith) movement: direction / letters & characters / verb
zig-zag (noun)
at its zenith
the fall marathon season is ~ zig-zag economy
Portugal then was ~ (history) Britain’s ~ (ups and downs)
at the zenith of influence zig-zag line
he is ~ in Washington drivers are baffled by a double yellow ~ in the busy road
achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency, zig-zag lines
decline & obsolescence: astronomy / height / sun the yellow ~ mean stopping or waiting is prohibited
zenith (during the zenith) “zig-zag” path
the ~ connects Highcliffe Castle with the beach (Dorset)
during its (commercial) zenith
the division sold millions ~ (cars) shape: letters & characters
achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency, zip (verb)
decline & obsolescence: astronomy / height / sun
zipped through (many) witnesses
zenith (other) we ~ today (a trial)

zenith of (judicial) restraint speed: sound / verb

the decision is the ~ zombie (computers)
zenith of wealth and power
Djenne and Timbuktu reached their ~ in the 16th century zombie
computers recruited as ~s need to be on when called
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zombie attack activity: death & life
~s have tried to block access to Web sites
zoo (environment)
zombie computer
the user of a ~ is unaware it has been commandeered zoo
~s can be used for denial-of-service attacks it's a kind of ~ (social scene at Newport mansion)
one case involves as many as 300,000 ~s environment: animal / zoo
the use of ~s to launch attacks is not new
zoo (group)
zombie network
those seeking to create ~s, known as botnets zoo of (subatomic) particles
the Standard Model includes a ~ (physics)
army of zombies
they band these computers together into an ~ (botnets) group, set & collection: animal / zoo

ranks of zombies zoom out (verb)

hundreds of thousands of computers belong to the ~
zoom out
computer: creature I think we have to ~ and see some of the context here
zombie (control) perception, perspective & point of view: film / position /
verb
zombie satellites
~ are no longer under human control
~ have failed to some degree
beacons can still operate on ~
♦ Similar to ghost ships that drift with no control.

control & lack of control: creature

zombie (behavior)
mindless zombies
we are becoming ~ (reliance on smart phones, etc.)
♦ “I decided to call it Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency
Syndrome. So ataxic, meaning you don’t walk that well. And
neurodegenerative means your brain stops working so you degenerate
neurologically. Satiety is the sense that you’re full and that’s not working,
so it’s deficient. (Dr. Steven Schlozman of the Harvard Medical School, a
lover of zombie movies.)

behavior / consciousness & awareness: creature

zone (combat zone)
combat zone of massage parlors
the seedy, neon-drenched ~
conflict / environment: military
zone (target zone)
"target zone" for your heart rate
exercising in a ~
target: weapon
zone (red zone, etc.)
red zone
that area is considered a ~, where you should not go
danger: color / sign, signal, symbol
sign, signal, symbol: color
zone (dead zone, etc.)
dead zone
the courthouse was a ~, as far as communication went

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The thesaurus / categories
ABILITY & LACK OF ABILITY (1)
• blade: edge (lose one’s edge)
• books & reading: illiterate (adj)
• circus: acrobat (person), acrobatic (adj)
• creature: genie (knowledge), wizard (person), wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.), wizardry (n)
• depth: depth (out of one’s depth)
• epithet: wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)
• fatness & thinness: lean (size)
• gift: gift (gift for languages, etc.), gifted
• health & medicine: basket case, fit (adj), fitness (ability), handicapped
• knife: edge (lose one’s edge)
• magic: genie (knowledge), wizard (person), wizardry (n)
• materials & substances: brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.), flexible (adj), flexible (character), inflexible
(character), rigid (constraint), rigid (character), supple (adj)
• mechanism: brilliant (technology), dumb (technology), smart (technology)
• movement: agile (adj), agility (n), clumsy (adj), flexible (adj), flexible (character), footwork (n), handicapped,
inflexible (character), nimble (adj), rigid (constraint), rigid (character), supple (adj)
• music: chops (expertise)
• nose: nose (ability)
• person: black belt (person), genie (knowledge), wizard (person)
• school & education: IQ (ability), study (quick study)
• speech: fluent (ability)
• sports & games: black belt (person)
• water: depth (out of one's depth)
ABSORPTION & IMMERSION (1)
• air: permeate (v)
• animal: lap up (v), sponge (n), wallow (v)
• breathing: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), inhale (v), live (live and breathe)
• burial: bury (bury oneself in something, etc.)
• death & life: live (live and breathe)
• food & drink: drink in (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), imbibe (v), imbibed, ingest (v),
lap up (v)
• sleep: eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
• smell: permeate (v)
• throwing, putting & planting: throw (throw oneself into something)
• tongue: lap up (v)
• verb: absorb (a country, etc.), absorb (books, culture, etc.), absorb (punishment, etc.), bury (bury oneself in
something, etc.), dive in (v), drink in (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), etc.), end (go off
the deep end), imbibe (v), immerse (v), ingest (v), inhale (v), lap up (v), live (live and breathe), marinate (v),
permeate (v), sink in (v), soak up (v), steep (v), suck up (v), throw (throw oneself into something), wallow (v)
• water: absorb (a country, etc.), absorb (books, culture, etc.), absorb (punishment, etc.), absorbed, immerse (v),
bathing (forest bathing, etc.), dive in (v), end (go off the deep end), immersed, immersion, marinate (v), sink in
(v), soak up (v), soaked, sponge (n), steep (v), steeped, suck up (v), sunk in, throw (throw oneself into
something)

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ACCEPTANCE & REJECTION (1) (see also inclusion & exclusion)
• allusion: window (Overton window)
• arm: arm (open arms), embrace (v), embraced
• back: back (turn one's back)
• bodily reaction: choke (v), retch (v)
• breathing: choke (v)
• color: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• container: in (inclusion), left out (excluded), out (exclusion)
• direction: turn down (v)
• doors & thresholds: shut out (adj), shut out (v)
• fish: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• food & drink: choke (v), go down (digestion), hook (hook, line and sinker), Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid,
etc.), retch (v), stomach (accept), swallow (accept)
• gesture: embrace (v)
• health & medicine: leper (person), quarantine (v)
• house: welcome (v), welcome (n)
• love, courtship & marriage: spurn (v), spurned
• mark: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• money: buy (buy into something), buy (accept), buy-in (n)
• person: heretic (person), hermit (person), leper (person), non-person, outcast (person), pariah (n)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: in (inclusion), out (exclusion)
• religion: heretic (person)
• sheep: fold (to / into the fold)
• snow & ice: freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded)
• society: banished, banishment (n), blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted, exile (in exile), exile (n), exiled,
freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded), leper (person), non-person, ostracized (society), outcast (person), shun (v),
shunned, tent (inclusivity), untouchable (person), wilderness (voice in the wilderness), wilderness (in / into the
wilderness), wilderness (society)
• speech: welcome (v), welcome (n)
• stomach: retch (v), stomach (accept), stomach (turn one’s stomach), swallow (accept), swallowed
• temperature: cold shoulder, freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded), warm (v)
• tent: tent (inclusivity)
• throat: choke (v), swallow (accept), swallowed
• throwing, putting & planting: outcast (person)
• verb: back (turn one’s back), blackball (v), buy (accept), choke (v), embrace (v), freeze out (v), go down
(digestion), quarantine (v), retch (v), shun (v), shut out (v), spurn (v), stomach (accept), stomach (turn one’s
stomach), swallow (accept), take (refuse to take), turn down (v), warm (v), welcome (v)
• window: window (Overton window)
ACCESS & LACK OF ACCESS (1)
• astronomy: black hole
• blood: vein (tap a vein)
• bottle: bottle up (v), lid (keep the lid on something)
• color: black box (n), black hole, black site (national security)
• container: bottle up (v), lid (keep the lid on something), open up (access)
• doors & thresholds: camel (camel’s nose in the tent, etc.), door (access), foot (foot in the door), gatekeeper
(person), shut out (v), shut out (adj)
• foot: foot (foot in the door)
• gate: gate (society), gatekeeper (person)

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• ground, terrain & land: lie (lie open)
• light & dark: black hole, black site (national security)
• person: gatekeeper (person)
• society: gatekeeper (person)
• standing, sitting & lying: lie (lie open)
• tools & technology: black box (n)
• verb: bottle up (v), lid (keep the lid on something), open up (access), shut out (v), tap (v), tap into (v)
• water: tap (v), tap (n), tap into (v)
ACCESS & LACK OF ACCESS (2)
• constraint & lack of constraint: open (open marriage, etc.)
• mind: close-minded (adj), mind (open mind), open-minded, openness (n)
• restraint & lack of restraint: open (open marriage, etc.)
ACCUSATION & CRITICISM (1) (see also punishment & recrimination)
• allusion: jeremiad (bitter lament)
• animal: savage (v), venom (n), venomous (adj)
• arm: elbow (sharp elbows, etc.)
• Bible: jeremiad (bitter lament)
• blade: hatchet job (n)
• boat: broadside (n), shot (shot across the bow)
• boxing: come (come out swinging), jab (n), pummel (v), punching bag (n)
• cooking: grill (v), grilled, skewer (v), skewered
• creature: demonization (n), demonize (v), demonized
• crime: drive-by (conflict), hatchet job (n), hit (mob hit, etc.), hot seat (n)
• death & life: hit (mob hit, etc.)
• direction: come down on (v), take down (v), takedown (n)
• electricity: hot seat (n)
• explosion: blast (criticize), incoming (criticism)
• family: scold (v)
• finger: finger (accusation), finger (point a finger), finger-pointing, finger-wagging
• fire: grilled
• fist: bash (v), bashing (n), beaten (beaten up), pummel (v)
• force: blast (criticize), lay (lay into), slam (v)
• gesture: elbow (sharp elbows, etc.), finger (accusation), finger (point a finger), finger-pointing, finger-wagging
• ground, terrain & land: dirt (political dirt, etc.), mud (drag something through the mud), mud (dragged through
the mud), mudslinging (n), stone (throw stones, etc.), sully (v)
• health & medicine: eviscerate (v), eviscerated, lacerate (v), vivisection (n)
• history: tar and feather, etc.)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: bash (v), bashing (n), slam (v), tee off on (v)
• hunting: go (go after somebody / attack)
• justice: firing squad
• light & dark: shade (throw shade)
• materials & substances: vitriol (n)
• mechanism: wringer (through the wringer)
• military: ammunition (n), attack (under attack, etc.), blast (criticize), broadside (n), fire (criticism), fire (under
fire), fire (draw fire, etc.), fire (fire back), firing squad, flak (criticism), fusillade (n), incoming (criticism), salvo
(n), snipe (v), sniping (n)
• pile: pile-on (n)
• predation: savage (v)

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• pressure: wringer (through the wringer)
• religion: jeremiad (bitter lament), crucified, crucify (v)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: eviscerate (v), eviscerated, lacerate (v), vivisection (n)
• snake: venom (n), venomous (adj)
• sound: boo (n), rail (v), volume (turn up the volume, etc.)
• speech: assassination (character assassination), call out (v), callout (criticism), pilloried, pillory (v), potshot (n),
rail (v)
• sports & games: cheap shot, game (blame game, etc.), pile-on (n), take down (v), takedown (n), tee off on (v)
• storm: thunderbolt (n)
• temperature: heat (criticism), hot seat (n)
• throat: throat (jump down someone’s throat)
• tongue: tongue-lashing
• verb: bash (v), blast (criticize), call out (v), come down on (v), crucify (v), demonize (v), eviscerate (v), finger
(point a finger), go (go after somebody / attack), grill (v), lacerate (v), lambast (v), lash out (v), lay (lay into),
mud (drag something through the mud), pillory (v), pummel (v), rail (v), scold (v), shade (throw shade), skewer
(v), slam (v), snipe (v), sully (v), take down (v), tar (tar and feather, etc.), throat (jump down someone’s throat)
• violence: assassination (character assassination), bash (v), bashing (n), beaten (beaten up), cheap shot, crucified,
crucify (v), hatchet job (n), lash out (v), pillory (v), pilloried, pummel (v), savage (v), slam (v), tar (tar and
feather, etc.), tongue-lashing, twitter-lashing (n)
• weapon: ammunition (n), attack (under attack, etc.), attack (n), blast (criticize), broadside (noun), cheap shot,
fire (criticism), fire (under fire), fire (draw fire, etc.), fire (fire back), flak (criticism), fusillade (n), gun
(criticism), gun (with guns blazing), hatchet job (n), incoming (criticism), potshot (n), salvo (n), shot
(criticism), shot (shot across the bow), snipe (v), sniping (n)
• whip: lambast (v), lash out (v), tongue-lashing, twitter-lashing (n)
• wrestling: take down (v), takedown (n)
ACHIEVEMENT, RECOGNITION & PRAISE (1) (see also superlative)
• allusion: laurels (praise), Matilda effect, titan (n)
• apple: apple (Golden Apple / education)
• astronomy: star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement), star (five stars, etc.), supernova (achievement),
zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during the zenith), zenith (other)
• back: back (pat on the back / verb), back (pat on the back / noun)
• basketball: Michael Jordan (epithet)
• boxing: Muhammad Ali (epithet)
• creature: giant (achievement), titan (n)
• day: heyday (n)
• direction: apex (achievement), elevate (v), elevation (n), rise (achievement), rise (achieve), rising (rising star,
etc.), summit (at the summit), top (excellence)
• dog: head (pat on the head)
• epithet: Baryshnikov (Baryshnikov of football, etc.), dean (person), Elvis (Afghanistan’s Elvis, etc.), Michael
Jordan (epithet), Muhammad Ali (epithet), Napoleon (of surgery, etc.), Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.), Oscars
(Oscars of surfing, etc.), Pele (Pele of Saudi Arabia, etc.), Springsteen (epithet)
• family: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son
• film: Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.)
• gesture: applaud (v), back (pat on the back / verb), back (pat on the back / noun), cap (tip one’s cap), hat (take
off one’s hat to somebody, etc.), head (pat on the head), nod (acknowledge), nod (acknowledgement), salute
(v), thumbs-up
• government: Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: height (at the height), heights (to new heights, etc.), heights (other)

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• hair: scalp (n)
• hand: thumbs-up
• hat: cap (tip one’s cap), hat (take off one’s hat to somebody, etc.)
• head: head (pat on the head)
• height: elevate (v), elevation (n), height (at the height), heights (to new heights, etc.), lofty (adj), pinnacle
(achievement), rise (achievement), rise (achieve), rising (rising star, etc.), summit (at the summit), zenith (at the
zenith), zenith (during the zenith), zenith (other)
• history: belt (notch in a belt), laurels (praise), scalp (n)
• horse: spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.)
• infrastructure: milestone (n), pinnacle (achievement)
• journeys & trips: milestone (n)
• light & dark: leading light (person), luminary (person), star (achievement), supernova (achievement)
• mark: belt (notch in a belt)
• military: badge (badge of honor), coup (achievement), medal (n), Napoleon (of surgery, etc.), salute (v), spur
(earn one’s spurs, etc.), stripe (earn one’s stripes, etc.)
• money: earn (v), tribute (pay tribute)
• mountains & hills: peak (at the peak), summit (at the summit)
• music: praise (sing someone’s praises), unsung (praise)
• person: boy (blue-eyed boy), dean (person), favorite son, golden (golden girl, boy), leading light (person),
luminary (person), star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement)
• picture: masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, etc.)
• position: top (excellence)
• royalty: coronation (n)
• school & education: dean (person)
• sign, signal, symbol: apple (Golden Apple / education), badge (badge of honor), laurels (praise), medal (n), star
(five stars, etc.), thumbs-up, trophy (trophy boyfriend, etc.)
• size: giant (achievement), titan (n)
• sound: applaud (v), cheer (n), hurrah (and hoorah, etc.)
• speech: ode (praise)
• sports & games: lap (victory lap), Michael Jordan (epithet), Muhammad Ali (epithet), track record (good),
trophy (trophy boyfriend, etc.)
• star: star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement), star (five stars, etc.), supernova (achievement)
• sun: zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during the zenith), zenith (other)
• theater: gallery (cheering gallery)
• tree: laurels (praise)
• verb: applaud (v), earn (v), elevate (v), hat (take off one’s hat to somebody, etc.), nod (acknowledge), praise
(sing someone’s praises), rise (achieve), salute (v)
• violence: belt (notch in a belt), coup (achievement), scalp (n)
ACTION, INACTION & DELAY (1) (see also confronting, dealing with & ignoring
things)
• allusion: Gordian knot
• ball: ball (ball in somebody’s court), roll (slow-roll)
• clock: clock (run the clock, etc.)
• consumption: time (lose time, etc.)
• foot: feet (drag one's feet), foot-dragging
• football: clock (run the clock, etc.), tackle (v)
• gesture: hand (throw up one's hands), shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders), shrug (gesture)
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• ground, terrain & land: dust (collect dust)
• hand: hand (throw up one’s hands), hand (sit on one’s hands), handle (deal with), handled, handwringing (n),
hold (on hold), holdup (n)
• journeys & trips: can (kick the can down the road), road (push something down the road)
• justice: stay (stay of execution)
• mechanism: button (push a button / action), button (pause button), pause (n)
• military: stand down (v)
• money: time (buy time, etc.)
• movement: can (kick the can down the road), feet (drag one’s feet), hand (sit on one’s hands), inertia (n), move
(take action), road (push something down the road), roll (slow-roll), sit (sit on one’s hands), slow (adj), stand by
(v)
• plane: pattern (holding pattern)
• religion: limbo (in limbo), purgatory (n)
• rope: Gordian knot
• shoulder: shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders), shrug (gesture)
• sleep: nap (noun)
• snow & ice: ice (put on ice / delayed)
• speech: performative (speech)
• sports & games: ball (ball in somebody’s court), clock (run the clock, etc.), gun (jump the gun), tackle (v),
waiting game
• standing, sitting & lying: sit (sit on something), sit (sit on one’s hands), sit by (v), sit out (v), stand by (v), stand
down (v)
• temperature: ice (put on ice)
• tools & technology: needle (move the needle, etc.)
• verb: button (push a button / action), can (kick the can down the road), clock (run the clock, etc.), feet (drag
one’s feet), hand (sit on one’s hands), gun (jump the gun), hand (throw up one’s hands), handle (deal with),
move (take action), needle (move the needle, etc.), put off (v), road (push something down the road), roll (slow-
roll), shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders), sit (sit on something), sit (sit on one’s hands), sit by (v), sit out (v),
stand by (v), stand down (v), tackle (v), time (waste time), time (buy time, etc.), time (lose time, etc.), trigger
(pull the trigger), walk (slow-walk)
• walking, running & jumping: can (kick the can down the road), road (push something down the road), tackle
(v), walk (slow-walk)
• weapon: draw (late / early on the draw), trigger (pull the trigger)
ACTIVITY (1)
• air: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), whirlwind (n)
• alcohol: ferment (n)
• animal: abuzz (activity), bee (busy as a bee), crawl (activity), fly (activity), frenzy (feeding frenzy), gaggle
(press gaggle, etc.), hibernation (in hibernation), hibernation (other), hornet’s nest, hum (n), roar (activity),
swarm (v), swarm (n)
• atmosphere: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), whirlwind (n)
• bird: fly (activity), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• bubble: bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj)
• chemistry: ferment (n)
• creature: ghost town
• death & life: alive (activity), alive (come alive), dead (activity), hibernation (in hibernation), hibernation
(other), life (spring to life), suspended animation, zone (dead zone, etc.)
• engine: overdrive (in / into overdrive)
• explosion: boom (jade boom, etc.), boom (increase), burst (activity), bust (oil bust, etc.)

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• fire: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), burning (slow-burning), smolder (v)
• flying & falling: flurry (activity), fly (activity)
• force: rage (v), raging (adj)
• health & medicine: comatose (adj), convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), febrile (adj), fevered (adj), feverish
(adj), feverishly, fever pitch (n), frenzied (adj), frenzy (other), lethargic (adj), spasm (n), spasmodic (adj), torpor
(n)
• heating water: boil (initiation), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj), percolate (v), simmer
(v), simmering (activity)
• history: gold rush
• insect: abuzz (activity), bee (busy as a bee), beehive (activity), buzz (activity), crawl (activity), hive (n),
hornet's nest, hum (n), swarm (v), swarm (n)
• light & dark: alight (activity), light up (activity)
• mechanism: comatose (adj), gear (in full gear), gear (kick into gear, etc.), hum (hum along), hum (n),
hyperdrive (into hyperdrive), neutral (in neutral), overdrive (in / into overdrive)
• mental health: frenzied (adj), frenzy (other), rage (v), raging (adj)
• mining: bonanza (n), gold rush
• money: bonanza (n), gold rush
• movement: convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), feverish (adj), feverishly, hop (v), rage (v), raging (adj),
rush (oil rush, etc.), spasm (n), swing (in full swing), swirl (v)
• pendulum: swing (in full swing)
• predation: frenzy (feeding frenzy)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: bubble up (v)
• rain: flurry (activity)
• sleep: awaken (nature, etc.), comatose (adj), hibernation (in hibernation), hibernation (other), restlessness,
sleepy (activity), wake (resemblance)
• snow & ice: freeze (v), freeze (activity), frozen (activity)
• speech: chatter (signals intelligence)
• sound: abuzz, boom (increase), buzz (activity), chatter (signals intelligence), hum (n), hum (hum along), noise
(worthlessness), noisy (data, etc.), quiet (adj), roar (activity), static (n)
• sports & games: scrum (reporters)
• standing, sitting & lying: lie (lie low)
• storm: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), storm (calm before the storm), whirlwind (n)
• temperature: boil (initiation), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj), cold (cold case, etc.),
cool (cool off / activity), febrile (adj), fevered (adj), feverish (adj), feverishly, fever pitch, frozen (activity), heat
up (v), hot (adj), hotspot (place), lukewarm (activity), percolate (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity)
• verb: boom (increase), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), convulse (v), cool (cool off / activity), crawl
(activity), dart (dart about), fly (activity), freeze (v), heat up (v), hop (v), hum (hum along), lie (lie low), life
(spring to life), light up (activity), percolate (v), rage (v), simmer (v), scramble (v), swirl (v), smolder (v),
swarm (v), wake (resemblance)
• walking, running & jumping: hop (v), scramble (v)
• water: boil (initiation), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble (activity), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj), percolate
(v), simmer (v), simmering (activity), swirl (v)
• weapon: dart (dart about)
• wind: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), whirlwind (n)
ADAPTING (1)
• allusion: procrustean (adj)
• clothing & accessories: one-size-fits-all, tailor (v)
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ADDICTION (2) (see also health & medicine)
• behavior: addictive (adj)
• condition & status: clean (addiction)
• consciousness & awareness: opiate (n)
• dependency: addicted (dependency), addiction (dependency)
• enthusiasm: addict (chess addict, etc.), addicted (enthusiasm), addiction (enthusiasm), addictive (adj), crave
(fans crave the bout, etc.), fix (n), habit (enthusiasm), high (enthusiasm), hooked, junkie (person), withdrawal
(feeling)
• fantasy & reality: pipe dream, rabbit hole (fantasy)
• feeling, emotion & effect: addictive (adj), narcotic, withdrawal (feeling)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: overdose (n)
ADMIRATION & CONTEMPT (1)
• direction: below (behavior), beneath (behavior), look (look down on something), look (look up to somebody),
low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad / noun), nose (look down one’s nose)
• doors & thresholds: doormat (person)
• eye: look (look up to somebody), look (look down on something), nose (look down one’s nose)
• gesture: look (look down on something), nose (look down one’s nose)
• height: high (high art, etc.), look (look up to somebody), look down (look down on somebody), low (base, bad /
adjective), low (base, bad / noun), nose (look down one’s nose), pedestal (on a pedestal), pedestaled
• nose: nose (look down one’s nose)
• person: doormat (person)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: below (behavior), beneath (behavior)
• statue: pedestaled
• verb: look (look up to somebody), look (look down on something)
AFFIX (2)
• failure, accident & impairment: mis (misbehave, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: over (overheated, etc.)
• reversal: un (undo this hurt, etc.)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: over (overheated, etc.)
• superiority & inferiority: out (outpace, etc.)
AFFLICTION (1)
• allusion: albatross (n), Frankenstein (product), fury (creature), monster (create a monster), Pandora’s box (open
a Pandora’s box, etc.)
• animal: albatross (n), back (get off my back, etc.), backbiter (person), bird-dog (v), dog (afflict), dogged
(hounded), eat (destroy), gadfly (person), gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.), heel (nip at somebody’s
heels), hounded (dogged), leech (person), parasite (person), pest (person), pester (v), riddled
• atmosphere: fallout (effect)
• back: back (get off my back, etc.), backbiter (person)
• bird: albatross
• blade: cut (a thousand cuts)
• bodily reaction: choke (v)
• breathing: choke (v)
• burden: bear (a weight, etc.), burden (v), burden (n), heavy (oppression), weigh (weigh heavily), weigh
(oppress), weighed down, weight (oppression), weight (under the weight)
• clothing & accessories: shoe (a stone in the shoe)
• cooking: skewer (v), skewered

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• creature: bedevil (v), bedeviled, bogeyman (and boogeyman), demon (affliction), Frankenstein (product), fury
(creature), genie (initiation), ghost (memory), gremlin (n), haunt (v), haunted, monster (create a monster),
monster (affliction), Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), specter (n)
• dog: bird-dog (v), dog (afflict), dogged (hounded), heel (nip at somebody’s heels), hounded (dogged)
• fist: smitten (afflicted)
• food & drink: choke (v), eat (destroy)
• health & medicine: boil (affliction), cancer (n), cancerous (adj), convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), disease
(affliction), epidemic, fester (v), gall (v), growth (cancerous, etc.), headache (n), hives (n), infection
(corruption), malignant (adj), metastasize (v), neck (pain in the neck), pain (economic pain, etc.), pain (pain in
the neck, etc.), pathology (n), patient zero, plague (v), plague (n), plagued, rash (affliction), scar (v), scar
(psychological scars, etc.), scarred (afflicted), scarring, scathing (adj), sore (affliction), sickness (n), spasm (n),
spasmodic (adj), tumor (n), ulcer (n), unscathed (adj), wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: smitten (afflicted)
• hole: riddled
• horse: gadfly (person), pester (v), saddle (a burr in the saddle)
• hunting: bird-dog (v), follow (afflict), hounded (dogged)
• insect: gadfly (person), infest (v), infested, pest (person), pester (v), riddled
• knife: cut (a thousand cuts)
• magic: cursed
• mark: scar (v), scar (psychological scars, etc.), scarred (afflicted), scarring, scathing (adj), unscathed (adj),
wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
• materials & substances: wound salt in a wound)
• mechanism: put (put somebody through something), wringer (through the wringer)
• movement: convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), spasm (n), spasmodic (adj)
• neck: neck (pain in the neck), pain (pain in the neck, etc.)
• nuclear energy: fallout (effect)
• person: backbiter (person), gadfly (person), leech (person), pain (pain in the neck, etc.), parasite (person), pest
(person)
• plant: bane (n), thorn (n), thorny (adj)
• predation: backbiter (person), eat (destroy), heel (nip at somebody’s heels)
• pressure: wringer (through the wringer)
• religion: bedevil (v), bedeviled, cursed, fury (creature), Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.)
• sensation: gall (v), gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.), irritant (n), irritated, needle (v), neck (pain in the
neck), pain (pain in the neck, etc.), pinch (pinch of hunger, etc.), prick (v), saddle (a burr in the saddle), shoe (a
stone in the shoe), thorn (n), thorny (adj), wound (salt in a wound)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: boil (affliction), ulcer (n)
• teeth: gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.)
• throat: choke (v)
• verb: bear (a weight, etc.), bedevil (v), burden (v), choke (v), convulse (v), dog (afflict), eat (destroy), fester (v),
follow (afflict), gall (v), gnaw (v), haunt (v), heel (nip at somebody’s heels), infest (v), needle (v), Pandora’s
box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), pester (v), plague (v), prick (v), scar (v), skewer (v), torture (afflict), weigh
(weigh heavily), weigh (oppress)
• violence: scourge (n), torture (afflict), torture (affliction), tortured, waterboarding (n)
• weapon: shrapnel (n), smitten (afflicted)
• weight: bear (a weight, etc.), burden (v), burden (n), heavy (oppression), weigh (weigh heavily), weigh
(oppress), weighed down, weight (oppression), weight (under the weight)
• whip: scourge (n)
• wolf: heel (nip at somebody’s heels)

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• wounds & scars: scar (v), scar (psychological scars, etc.), scarred (afflicted), scarring, scathing (adj), unscathed
(adj), wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
AIR (2) (see also atmosphere; sky; wind)
• absorption & immersion: permeate (v)
• activity: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), whirlwind (n)
• amelioration & renewal: air (breath of fresh air), air (clear the air)
• amount & effect: cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hurricane (n), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind
(n)
• appearance: air (air of authority, etc.), aura (n)
• appearance & disappearance: air (into thin air), air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.), ether (into the
ether), nowhere (out of nowhere, etc.), sky (a clear blue sky, etc.)
• attenuation: deflate (pressure)
• certainty & uncertainty: air (up in the air)
• concealment & lack of concealment: air (expose)
• conflict: turbulence
• corruption: miasma (n)
• destruction: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• direction: weather vane (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: filter (v)
• environment: air (environment), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere
(atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate (work climate, etc.), weather (environment)
• failure, accident & impairment: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: sky (the sky can fall)
• feeling, emotion & effect: air (breath of fresh air), air (air of authority, etc.), air (anger in the air, etc.),
atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.), aura (n), climate (work climate,
etc.), deflate (emotion), deflated, pump up (v), pumped (feeling)
• flaws & lack of flaws: airtight (adj), overinflated (adj), tempestuous (adj), turbulent (turbulent childhood, etc.)
• force: downdraft (n)
• growth & development: oxygen (fuel)
• identity & nature: air (environment)
• increase & decrease: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated, overinflated (adj), oxygen (fuel), pump
up (v)
• initiation: oxygen (fuel)
• origin: air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• presence & absence: vacuum (n), void (n)
• speech: air (hot air), empty (empty words, etc.), hollow (hollow promises, etc.), long-winded (speech)
• substance & lack of substance: air (hot air), empty (empty words, etc.), gas (substance), hollow (hollow
promises, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: oxygen (life)
ALCOHOL (2)
• activity: ferment (n)
• behavior: binge (on a binge), binge (other), drunk (adj), inebriate (v)
• concealment & lack of concealment: bootleg (adj), bootlegger
• consciousness & awareness: black out (v)
• control & lack of control: drunk (adj)
• feeling, emotion & effect: drunk (adj), hangover, intoxicate (v), intoxicated, intoxicating, sober (v), sober (adj),
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• mixture: cocktail (n)

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• restraint & lack of restraint: binge (on a binge), binge (other), drunk (adj), inebriate (v)
ALLEGIANCE, SUPPORT & BETRAYAL (1) (see also help & assistance)
(sanctioning, authority & non-conformity; unanimity & consensus)
• allusion: believer (true believer)
• animal: horse (switch horses), horse (back the wrong horse), rat (snitch), shark (thrown to the sharks), turn (turn
against / on something), wolf (throw somebody to the wolves), wolf (thrown to the wolves)
• arm: embrace (v), embraced, pull (pull for someone)
• atmosphere: hang (hang somebody out to dry), hung (hung out to dry), wind (dangle in the wind)
• back: back (support / verb), back (behind somebody's back), backed, backing (support), backstabber (person),
backstabbing (n)
• baseball: bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.)
• Bible: Judas (betrayal)
• blade: cutthroat (competition)
• boat: board (on board), mutinous (adj), mutiny (n), overboard (throw somebody overboard), ship (abandon /
jump ship)
• boxing: corner (in one's corner)
• bullet: bullet (take a bullet for somebody)
• burden: pull (pull for someone)
• cards: in (all in)
• carpets & rugs: rug (pull the rug out)
• clothing & accessories: hang (hang somebody out to dry), hung (hung out to dry)
• container: out (want out)
• corner: corner (in one’s corner)
• direction: back (support / verb), bring around (v), down (down for something), get along (v), go along (v), side
(on one’s side / time), side (on one’s side / person), turn (turn against / on something), up (up for something)
• epithet: Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.)
• fence: fence (on the fence, etc.), fence (straddle the fence), fence (fence-straddling)
• flags & banners: banner (under the banner), banner (behind the banner), banner (banner of Islam, etc.), rally (v)
• food & drink: egg (put all one’s eggs in a basket, etc.), Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.)
• gambling: horse (back the wrong horse), in (all in)
• gesture: embrace (v)
• government: vote (n)
• heart: heart (allegiance), heart (change of heart)
• history: fealty (n), Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.), wagon (hitch one’s wagon to something)
• horse: horse (switch horses), horse (back the wrong horse), wagon (hitch one’s wagon to something)
• infrastructure: prop (n), prop up (v)
• journeys & trips: get along (v), go along (v)
• knife: backstabber (person), backstabbing (n), cutthroat (competition), stab (stab somebody in the back)
• line: rank (close ranks), rank (break ranks)
• love, courtship & marriage: bed (jump into bed with someone), infidelity (n)
• materials & substances: stick (stick by / with somebody)
• mechanism: bus (allegiance), truck (control)
• Middle Ages: fealty (n)
• military: AWOL, desert (v), insurrection, post (abandon one’s post), rally (v), rank (close ranks), rank (break
ranks), Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.)
• mining: prop (n), prop up (v)
• money: buy (buy into something), buy-in (n), sell out (v)
• movement: get along (v), go along (v)

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• person: rat (snitch)
• position: back (support / verb), backed, backing (support), beside (support), side (on one’s side / time), side (on
one’s side / person)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: against (opposition), behind (support), beside (support), down (down for something), for
(support), in (all in), out (want out), there (there for me, etc.), up (up for something), with (support)
• rat: rat (snitch)
• religion: faith (n), Judas (betrayal), recant (v)
• royalty: fealty (n)
• shark: shark (thrown to the sharks)
• shoulder: shoulder (stand shoulder to shoulder, etc.)
• society: get along (v)
• sports & games: bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.), win over (v)
• standing, sitting & lying: lean towards (v), shoulder (stand shoulder to shoulder, etc.), stand (stand behind
something, etc.), stand by / with someone (support), stand up (stand up for something)
• temperature: lukewarm (feeling)
• train: board (on board), train (get on the Trump train, etc.)
• verb: back (support / verb), bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.), bed (jump into bed with someone), bring around
(v), bullet (take a bullet for somebody), bus (throw somebody under the bus), desert (v), embrace (v), fence
(straddle the fence), get along (v), go along (v), hang (hang somebody out to dry), horse (switch horses), horse
(back the wrong horse), jump (leave), lean towards (v), overboard (thro somebody overboard), post (abandon
one’s post), prop up (v), pull (pull for someone), rally (v), rank (close ranks), rank (break ranks), recant (v), rug
(pull the rug out), sell out (v), shoulder (stand shoulder to shoulder, etc.), stab (stab somebody in the back),
stand (stand behind something, etc.), stand by / with someone (support), stand up (stand up for something),
stick (stick by / with somebody), turn (turn against / on something), vote (vote with one’s feet, etc.), wagon
(hitch one’s wagon to something), walk (walk away from something), weight (put / throw one’s weight behind
something), win over (v), wind (dangle in the wind), wolf (throw somebody to the wolves)
• violence: bus (throw somebody under the bus), cutthroat (competition), overboard (throw somebody
overboard), wolf (throw somebody to the wolves), wolf (thrown to the wolves)
• walking, running & jumping: highway (my way or the highway), jump (leave), step (every step of the way),
vote (vote with one’s feet, etc.), walk (walk away from something)
• weapon: bullet (take a bullet for somebody)
• weight: weight (put / throw one's weight behind something)
• wind: wind (dangle in the wind)
• wolf: wolf (throw somebody to the wolves), wolf (thrown to the wolves)
ALLUSION (1)
• books & reading: Arthurian (adj), Big Brother, Brobdingnagian (adj), Cinderella, curiouser and curiouser,
Dantesque (adj), Darwinian, Dickensian (adj), Frankenstein (product), gargantuan (size), Goldilocks
(Goldilocks zone, etc.), Great Gatsby, Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), Kafkaesque (adj), Kipling (the Canadian
Kipling, etc.), Lady Macbeth (epithet), Lawrence (T.E.), Lilliputian (adj), Lord of the Flies, Machiavelli
(epithet), monster (create a monster), nineteen eighty four (and 1984), Orwellian (adj), Panglossian, Pollyanna,
Pollyannaish, profile (profile in courage), Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole (fantasy), Robin
Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Romeo and Juliet (epithet), Shakespeare (epithet), Shakespearean (adj), Sherlock
Holmes, Svengali (allusion), Walter Mitty, whale (White Whale)
• destruction: Phoenix (myth)
• fire: Phoenix (myth)
• military: angel (Angel of the Battlefield), bridge (a bridge too far, etc.), cold war, Gallipoli, Geneva
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 nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.), Pyrrhic victory, Stalingrad
(epithet), Thermopylae, Waterloo
• sea: King Canute
• tide: King Canute
ALLUSION (2)
• acceptance & rejection: window (Overton window)
• accusation & criticism: jeremiad (bitter lament)
• achievement, recognition & praise: laurels (praise), Matilda effect, titan (n)
• action, inaction & delay: Gordian knot
• adapting: procrustean (adj)
• affliction: albatross (n), Frankenstein (product), fury (creature), monster (create a monster), Pandora’s box
(open a Pandora’s box, etc.)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: believer (true believer)
• alternatives & choices: cornucopia (variety), Hobson’s choice, Scylla and Charybdis
• amelioration & renewal: Lazarus (Bible), panacea (n)
• amount: cornucopia (variety)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: Rosetta Stone
• appearance: Adonis (handsome)
• appearance & reality: chalice (poisoned chalice)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: Barnum, it (it girl, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: pied piper, siren (siren call / song), siren (other)
• behavior: Lady Macbeth (epithet), Lord of the Flies, Machiavelli (epithet)
• Bible: Lazarus (Bible)
• biodiversity: Noah’s Ark
• certainty & uncertainty: Bermuda Triangle
• character & personality: Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish (adj), stoic (adj),
Svengali (allusion)
• coercion & motivation: hector (v)
• commitment & determination: believer (true believer), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), shield (on one’s
shield)
• competition: Darwinian, race (arms race)
• complexity: Gordian knot, labyrinth (n)
• comprehension & incomprehension: Delphic (adj), eureka (moment, etc.), Rosetta Stone
• conflict: cold war, Gandhi (Gandhi of the Balkans, etc.), Gandhian, Lawrence (T.E.)
• consciousness & awareness: frog (frog in boiling water), road (road to Damascus)
• constraint & lack of constraint: envelope (push the envelope)
• control & lack of control: King Canute, Lady Macbeth (epithet)
• cost & benefit: Pyrrhic victory
• creation & transformation: muse (person), Phoenix (myth)
• danger: kryptonite (n), Scylla and Charybdis
• dependency: banana republic
• destruction: Armageddon, heart (stake through the heart, etc.), holocaust, kiss of death, kryptonite (n), Phoenix
(myth), vandal (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: Gallipoli, herculean (adj), Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, promethean (adj),
Sisyphean (adj)
• direction: breadcrumb (evidence)
• disruption: Bolshevik, Jacobin
• division & connection: iron curtain, Maginot Line, Paradise Lost (allusion), Yugoslavia (separation)

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• environment: Dantesque (adj), Dickensian (adj), frog (frog in boiling water), never-never land, Promised Land
• evidence: breadcrumb (evidence)
• fantasy & reality: Arthurian (adj), Black Mirror, curiouser and curiouser, El Dorado, Groundhog Day (film),
heffalump (creature), Kafkaesque (adj), never-never land, Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole
(fantasy), Star Wars (film), Twilight Zone, Walter Mitty
• fate, fortune & chance: chalice (poisoned chalice), devil (deal with the devil), Faustian (adj), kiss of death,
midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), Sword of Damocles
• feeling, emotion & effect: stoic (adj)
• flaws & lack of flaws: Goldilocks (Goldilocks zone, etc.)
• group, set & collection: cornucopia (variety)
• help & assistance: Marshall Plan
• identity & nature: believer (true believer)
• importance & significance: titan (n), triumvirate (n)
• initiation: Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), ship (launched a thousand ships)
• judgment: draconian (adj), nemesis (n), Solomonic (adj)
• knowledge & intelligence: Einstein (intelligence)
• message: Cassandra, jeremiad (bitter lament), messenger (shoot the messenger)
• migration: Lazarus (Emma Lazarus)
• money: Great Gatsby, Midas (Midas touch)
• oppression: Big Brother, Cinderella, draconian (adj), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.), inquisition (n), Lord
of the Flies, McCarthy, McCarthyite, nineteen eighty four (and 1984), Orwellian (adj), pitchfork (oppression),
procrustean (adj), reign of terror / fear, etc., witch hunt
• origin: Phoenix (myth)
• past & present: ancien regime
• perception, perspective & point of view: Rashomon (point of view), Rorschach (test)
• predation: Darwinian
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: ancien regime, it (it girl, etc.), old guard
• product: Frankenstein (product)
• proper name: Frankenstein (Frankenstein Cliff, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: Achilles’ heel (n)
• punishment & recrimination: nemesis (n)
• relationship: muse (person)
• repetition: Groundhog Day (film)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: Pyrrhic victory, Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.), Thermopylae, Waterloo,
Young Turk
• restraint & lack of restraint: bridge (a bridge too far, etc.), envelope (push the envelope)
• revenge: nemesis (n)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: promethean (adj), shibboleth (n), Young Turk
• searching & discovery: El Dorado, grail (holy grail), rabbit hole (exploration), rainbow (searching and
discovery), Sherlock Holmes
• sex: Casanova
• situation: Dantesque (adj), frog (frog in boiling water)
• size: behemoth (n), Brobdingnagian, colossal (adj), David and Goliath, etc., gargantuan (size), Goliath (Bible),
jumbo (large), Krakatoan (adj), leviathan, Lilliputian (adj), Olympian (size), Pharaonic (adj), spartan (adj), titan
(n)
• speech: gaslight (v), gaslighting (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: swan song
• strength & weakness: Achilles’ heel (n), David and Goliath, etc., Goliath (Bible)
• substance & lack of substance: clothes (the emperor has no clothes)

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• subterfuge: breadcrumb (v), breadcrumbed, breadcrumbing, curtain (The Wizard of Oz), gaslight (v),
gaslighting (n), Machiavellian (adj), nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor,
etc.), Svengali (allusion), Trojan Horse (subterfuge), Wizard of Oz
• success & failure: Cinderella, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo
• superlative: Homeric (adj), Mount Rushmore, Olympus (Mount Olympus), pantheon (n), Promised Land,
Valhalla (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: Lazarus (Bible), Phoenix (myth)
• taking & removing: Robin Hood
• time: ancien regime
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.)
• transmission: Johnny Appleseed
• unanimity & consensus: procrustean (adj)
• violence: Lord of the Flies
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: El Dorado, grail (holy grail), whale (White Whale)
• warning: wolf (cry wolf)
• worth & lack of worth: fool’s errand
ALTERNATIVES & CHOICES (1)
• allusion: cornucopia (variety), Hobson’s choice, Scylla and Charybdis
• color: palette (n)
• direction: turn (turn to something, etc.)
• food & drink: buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), menu (computer), menu (other), smorgasbord (n)
• hand: hand (on the one / other hand)
• Iliad & Odyssey: Scylla and Charybdis
• journeys & trips: crossroad (at a crossroad), crossroad (other), fork (a fork in the road, etc.), path (alternatives
and choices), road (fork in the road, etc.)
• nuclear energy: option (nuclear option)
• tools & technology: toolbox (n), toolkit (n), toolshed (n)
AMELIORATION & RENEWAL (1)
• air: air (breath of fresh air), air (clear the air)
• allusion: Lazarus (Bible), panacea (n)
• animal: tame (v)
• atmosphere: air (clear the air), air (breath of fresh air)
• baby: newborn
• ball: rebound (on the rebound)
• Bible: Lazarus (Bible)
• birth: newborn, rebirth (n), reborn, renaissance (n)
• blade: hack (fix), hack (a fix), hacking (fixing), hone (v), sharpen (v)
• boat: bailout (n), bail out (save), damage control, salvage (v), ship (right the ship, etc.)
• breathing: breathing space (and breathing room), life (breathe life)
• bridge: bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-building), bridge-building
• bullet: bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.)
• burden: get out (get out from under)
• burial: ghost (bury the ghost)
• cloth: iron out (v), patch (and patch up), patched, untangle (v)
• clothing & accessories: tailor (v)
• cows & cattle: beef up (v)
• creature: exorcise (v), ghost (bury the ghost)

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• death & life: alive (come alive), Fountain of Youth, invigorate (v), Lazarus (Bible), life (give life), life (bring to
life), life (breathe life), newborn, reinvigorate (v), resurrect (v), resurrection (n), resuscitate (v), revive (v)
• destruction: piece (pick up the pieces)
• direction: feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.), straighten out (v), turn around (v)
• document: lease (lease on life)
• doors & thresholds: open (after lockdown, etc.)
• electricity: battery (recharge one's batteries)
• engine: tune (and tune up), tune-up (n)
• equilibrium & stability: counterbalance (v), counterbalance (n), counterweight (n), right (right a wrong, etc.),
stabilize (v)
• explosion: defuse (v)
• face: facelift
• fence: fence (mend fences)
• fire: ashes (from the ashes), burn off (v)
• food & drink: beef up (v), fresh (fresh evidence, etc.), spice up (v)
• foot: feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.)
• fountain: Fountain of Youth
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: bring back (restore)
• ground, terrain & land: swamp (drain the swamp)
• history: renaissance (n)
• hardness & softness: cushion (v), cushion (n), smooth (v), soften (speech)
• health & medicine: anodyne (adj), antidote (n), balm (n), Band-Aid (n), bromide (n), cure (n), cure (v), cure-all,
disinfect (v), disinfectant (n), heal (v), invigorate (v), lance (v), life (breathe life), mend (on the mend), nostrum
(n), panacea (n), pill (miracle pill), prescription (n), reinvigorate (v), remedy (v), remedy (n), resuscitate (v),
revive (v), salve (n), shot (shot in the arm, etc.), soothe (sensation), surgery (n), tonic (effect)
• house: house (a house in order), house (clean house)
• hygiene: act (clean up one’s act), clean (come clean), clean (v), clean up (improve), disinfect (v), disinfectant
(n), house (clean house), order (get something in order, etc.)
• infrastructure: bolster (v), bolstered, buttress (v), put (put something back together), prop (n), prop up, rebuild
(v), scaffolding, shore up, smooth (smooth the road, etc.)
• journeys & trips: path (clear a path), smooth (smooth the road, etc.), way (pave the way)
• key: unlock (v)
• knife: hone (v), sharpen (v)
• light & dark: clear up (v), polish (v)
• magic: bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.), dust (fairy dust, etc.), magic (magic bullet, etc.), talisman (n), wand
(magic wand)
• meat: beef up (v)
• mechanism: fix (v), lubricant (social lubricant, etc.), mend (on the mend), mend (v), put (put something back
together), repair (v), repair (n), tinker (v), tune (and tune up), tune-up (n), tweak (n), unwind (v), wheel (grease
the wheels), wind down (relax)
• manufacturing: recycle (v), salvage (v)
• mental health: pull (pull yourself together, etc.)
• military: damage control
• mining: buttress (v), prop (n), prop up (v), shore up (v)
• music: fine-tune (v), tune (and tune up), tune-up (n)
• orientation: right (right a wrong, etc.)
• pressure: decompression (n), outlet (n), steam (blow / let off steam), steam (take the steam out, etc.), vent (v)
• religion: dead (rise from the dead), exorcise (v), Lazarus (Bible), panacea (n), resurrect (v), resurrection (n)
• river: bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-building), bridge-building

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• rope: straighten out (v), unravel (unravel a mystery, etc.)
• scale: counterbalance (v)
• sea: tide (stem the tide, etc.)
• sensation: smooth (v), soothe (sensation)
• snow & ice: ice (break the ice), thaw (v), thaw (n)
• sports & games: playing field (level the playing field)
• standing, sitting & lying: crutch (n), feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.)
• swamp: swamp (drain the swamp)
• temperature: ice (break the ice), thaw (v), thaw (n)
• tide: tide (stem the tide, etc.)
• tools & technology: calibrate (adjust), calibrated (adjusted), plug (v), plugged (fixed), tweak (n)
• verb: act (clean up one’s act), air (clear the air), bail out (save), bailed out, battery (recharge one’s batteries),
beef up (v), bolster (v), bridge (v), bring back (restore), burn off (v), buttress (v), calibrate (adjust), clean (v),
clean (come clean), clean up (improve), clear up (v), counterbalance (v), cure (v), cushion (v), dead (rise from
the dead), defuse (v), disinfect (v), exorcise (v), fence (mend fences), fine-tune (v), fix (v), get out (get out from
under), ghost (bury the ghost), hack (fix), heal (v), hone (v), house (clean house), ice (break the ice), invigorate
(v), iron out (v), lance (v), life (give life), life (bring to life), life (breathe life), lift (amelioration), lighten
(lighten things up, etc.), mend (v), patch (and patch up), path (clear a path), piece (pick up the pieces), playing
field (level the playing field), plug (v), polish (v), prop up (v), pull (pull yourself together, etc.), put (put
something back together), rebuild (v), recycle (v), reinvigorate (v), remedy (v), repair (v), resurrect (v),
resuscitate (v), revive (v), right (right a wrong, etc.), salvage (v), scaffold (v), sharpen (v), ship (right the ship,
etc.), shore up (v), smooth (v), soothe (sensation), stabilize (v), steam (blow / let off steam), steam (take the
steam out, etc.), straighten out (v), swamp (drain the swamp), tame (v), tide (stem the tide, etc.), tinker (v), tune
(and tune up), turn around (v), unlock (v), untangle (v), unwind (v), vent (v), wheel (grease the wheels), wind
down (relax)
• volcano: vent (v)
• water: Fountain of Youth, plug (v), plugged (fixed)
• weapon: bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.)
• weight: get out (get out from under), lift (amelioration), lighten (lighten things up, etc.), tailor (v), thaw (v), way
(page the way)
• wind: air (breath of fresh air)
AMOUNT (1)
• allusion: cornucopia (variety)
• animal: drove (herd or flock), lion’s share
• atmosphere: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• blade: sliver (piece)
• boat: flotilla (flotilla of icebergs, etc.), raft (amount)
• boundary: boundless
• breadth: thin (thin on the ground, etc.)
• container: bag (collection), bottomless (adj), brim (v), full (adj), package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• cloth: shred (shred of hope, etc.)
• clothing & accessories: laundry (laundry list)
• color: palette (n)
• crime: mob (group)
• dam: reservoir (amount)
• depth: bottomless (adj)
• direction: bottomless (adj)
• distance: few and far between

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• ear: earful (amount)
• epithet: Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia of coal, etc.)
• family: twin (two)
• fire: spark (spark of hope, etc.)
• food & drink: bellyful (amount), buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), crumb (amount), fed up, helping (amount),
lion’s share, menu (other), morsel (amount), scrap (n), smorgasbord (n), taste (taste of freedom, etc.)
• forest: forest (a forest of cranes, etc.)
• hand: handful (amount)
• health & medicine: dose (amount), rash (affliction)
• history: horde (people)
• hygiene: laundry (laundry list)
• infrastructure: suite (suite of tools, etc.), warehouse (amount)
• knife: slice (piece), sliver (piece)
• light & dark: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.), scintilla (scintilla of doubt, etc.), shadow
(beyond a shadow of a doubt, etc.)
• lion: lion's share
• military: army (a large group), arsenal (amount), battery (amount), host (host of questions, etc.), legion (n)
• mining: nugget (n)
• mountains & hills: mountain (amount)
• money: catalogue (list), rich (plentiful), tight (money), treasure house, treasure trove (and trove), wealth
(amount)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: full (adj)
• pile: backlog (amount), pile (pile of money, etc.)
• religion: litany (n)
• river: reservoir (amount)
• sea: abundance (amount), sea (amount)
• size: grain (grain of truth)
• snow & ice: iceberg (the tip of the iceberg)
• speech: earful (amount)
• stomach: bellyful (amount), crumb (amount), fed up, morsel (amount)
• taste: taste (taste of freedom, etc.)
• theater: repertoire (n)
• tools & technology: toolbox (n), toolkit (n), toolshed (n)
• verb: brim (v)
• warehouse: warehouse (amount)
• water: abundance (amount), aquifer (n), drop (drop in the bucket), reservoir (amount), well (source)
• wave: abundance (amount)
• weapon: arsenal (amount), battery (amount), quiver (n)
• weight: groan (amount), heavy (amount), ounce (amount), pound (amount), ton (amount)
AMOUNT (2)
• time: last (time / verb), time (take time, etc.), time (long time / short time)
AMOUNT & EFFECT (1)
• air: cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hurricane (n), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind (n)
• animal: swarm (v), swarm (n)
• atmosphere: cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hurricane (n), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind (n)
• boat: swamp (v), swamped
• breathing: smother (amount & effect)
• dam: floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other)

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• earth & world: tectonic (adj)
• earthquake: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), seismic (adj), seismically, tectonic (adj), tremor (n)
• equilibrium & stability: earthquake (effect)
• explosion: blast (criticize), blockbuster (n), bomb (drop a bomb), bombard (v), bombarded, bombardment (n),
bombshell (n), firebomb (n)
• fire: conflagration (n), fire (n), fire (flash fire), firestorm (n)
• flood: deluge (n), deluged, flood (flood of refugees, etc.), flood (amount), flooded, floodgate (open the
floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other), floodwaters, inundate (v), inundated
• flying & falling: flurry (activity)
• fortification: besiege (v), besieged, siege (under siege), siege (other)
• ground, terrain & land: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), landslide (in a landslide), landslide (by a
landslide), landslide (other), tectonic (adj)
• health & medicine: epidemic, plague (n), rash (affliction)
• history: gold rush
• insect: swarm (v), swarm (n)
• military: barrage (n), besiege (v), besieged, blitz (campaign), bombard (v), bombarded, bombardment (n),
bombshell (n), invade (v), invasion (n), onslaught (n), siege (under siege), siege (other)
• mining: bonanza (n), gold rush
• money: bonanza (n), gold rush
• mountains & hills: landslide (in a landslide), landslide (by a landslide), landslide (other)
• music: chorus (chorus of critics, etc.), crescendo (n)
• pile: heap (v), heaped
• rain: flurry (activity), rain (amount & effect), rain (rain down), shower (v)
• religion: juggernaut
• river: flood (amount), flood (flood of refugees, etc.), flooded, floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates),
floodgate (other), floodwaters, Niagara (the river and falls), river (amount and effect)
• sea: change (sea change), floodtide (n), groundswell (n), maelstrom (in a maelstrom), maelstrom (other), tidal
wave (in a tidal wave), tidal wave (other), tide (rising tide), tide (on a tide), tide (other), tsunami, wave (in a
wave), wave (amount and effect), whirlpool (in a whirlpool), whirlpool (other)
• snow & ice: avalanche (n), blizzard (n), hail (in a hail), hail (n)
• sound: bombshell (n), crescendo (n), drip (and drip-drip, etc.), Krakatoan (adj), uproar (controversy)
• speech: chorus (chorus of critics, etc.)
• storm: blizzard (n), cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hail (n), hail (in a hail), hurricane (n), nature (force of nature),
storm (v), storm (by storm), storm (perfect storm), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind (n)
• tide: floodtide (n), surge (n), surge (intransitive verb / effect), tide (rising tide), tide (on a tide), tide (other)
• tsunami: tsunami
• verb: blast (criticize), besiege (v), bombard (v), erupt (v), flood (amount), gush (v), heap (v), inundate (v),
invade (v), pour (in, into, out, etc.), rain (amount and effect), rain (rain down), shower (v), smother (amount and
effect), spill (amount and effect), storm (v), surge (intransitive verb / effect), swamp (v), swarm (v)
• volcano: erupt (v), eruption, Krakatoan (adj), tremor (n), volcano (pressure)
• water: awash, cascade (n), clogged, deluge (n), deluged, drenched, drip (and drip-drop, etc.), flood (amount),
flood (flood of refugees, etc.), flooded, floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other),
floodtide (n), floodwaters, gush (v), inundate (v), inundated, Niagara (the river and falls), outpouring, pour (in,
into, out, etc.), river (amount and effect), spill (amount and effect), stream (amount & effect), surge (n), surge
(intransitive verb / effect), swamp (v), swamped, tide (rising tide), tide (other), torrent (n), trickle (n), wave (in a
wave), wave (amount and effect), whirlpool (in a whirlpool), whirlpool (other)
• wave: groundswell (n), swamp (v), tidal wave (in a tidal wave), tidal wave (other), tide (rising tide), tsunami,
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• weapon: barrage (n), blast (criticize), blitz (campaign), blockbuster (n), bomb (drop a bomb), bombard (v),
bombarded, bombardment (n), firebomb (n)
• wind: cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hurricane (n), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind (n)
ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION & EXPLANATION (1) (see also context; picture)
• allusion: Rosetta Stone
• books & reading: misread (v), read (read something in something), read (analyze)
• chemistry: distill (v), essence
• cloth: pick apart (analyze), tease out (v), thread (investigation), unpick (v), unspool (v), untangle (v)
• clothing & accessories: strip (strip something down)
• color: black box (n)
• container: unpack (v)
• day: day (at the end of the day)
• death & life: autopsy (analysis), dissect (v), post-mortem (analysis)
• direction: bottom (get to the bottom of something), drill (analysis), follow (it follows that, etc.)
• engine: hood (look under the hood, etc.)
• eye: look (analysis), look (look into something), microscope (under a microscope)
• film: unspool (v)
• food & drink: chew over (v), nutshell (in a nutshell)
• fruits & vegetables: layer (analysis), onion (n), peel (peel back the layers, etc.)
• geometry: angle (from an angle)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: come away with (v), take (analysis), takeaway (n), take away (a
message, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: contour (n), dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), drill (drill down, etc.), lay of the land
• head: head (reason)
• health & medicine: autopsy (analysis), diagnosis (n), dissect (v), misdiagnose (v), post-mortem (analysis)
• heating water: boil (boil down to something)
• history: Rosetta Stone
• hunting: find (discover), follow (the facts, etc.)
• infrastructure: deconstruct (v), deconstruction (n), frame (characterize)
• journeys & trips: arrive at (an answer, etc.), come to (come to an answer, etc.), explore (analyze), follow
(argument), get (get somewhere), go on (explain), reach (reach an answer, etc.)
• letters & characters: spelled out, spell out (v)
• light & dark: illuminate (v), illuminating (adj), light (shed light), lighthouse (illumination), opacity (n), opaque
(adj)
• mechanism: break down (explain), sort out (analyze), tire (kick the tires)
• military: interrogate (v), interrogated, interrogation (questioning)
• mining: dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), drill (analysis), layer (analysis)
• money: bottom line
• movement: arrive at (an answer, etc.), come to (come to an answer, etc.), follow (argument), follow (it follows
that, etc.), reach (reach an answer, etc.)
• number: add up (v), arithmetic, calculus, equation (n)
• picture: backdrop (against a backdrop), dot (connect the dots), illustration (n), mosaic (n), picture (in the big
picture), picture (big picture), picture (view), portrait (view), puzzle (problem)
• plant: root (root cause)
• puzzle: fall (fall into place), puzzle (problem), put (put something together), piece (missing pieces), piece
together (v)
• religion: navel gazing (omphaloskepsis), soul-searching
• scale: weigh (analyze)

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• school & education: blank (fill in the blanks), study (n)
• sound: chatter (signals intelligence), noise (worthlessness), noisy (data, etc.), signal (signal and noise), static (n)
• speech: chatter (signals intelligence), parse (v), suggest (indicate), talk (talk somebody through something), tell
(data can tell us something, etc.)
• stomach: gut (n)
• surveying: baseline (n)
• temperature: boil (boil down to something)
• tools & technology: black box (n), microscope (under a microscope)
• tree: root (root cause)
• verb: arrive at (an answer, etc.), boil (boil down to something), break down (explain), chase down (v), chew
over (v), come away with (v), come to (come to an answer, etc.), deconstruct (v), dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in
/ into), dissect (v), dot (connect the dots), drill (analysis), explore (analyze), follow (argument), follow (the
facts, etc.), follow (it follows that, etc.), get (get somewhere), go on (explain), illuminate (v), interrogate (v),
light (shed light), look (analysis), look (look into something), make (make of something), misdiagnose (v),
misread (v), parse (v), peel (peel back the layers, etc.), pick apart (analyze), piece together (v), put (put
something together), read (read something in something), reach (reach an answer, etc.), read (analyze), spell out
(v), strip (strip something down), suggest (indicate), take away (a message, etc.), talk (talk somebody through
something), tease out (v), tell (data can tell us something, etc.), unpack (v), unpick (v), unspool (v), untangle
(v), walk (walk somebody through something), weigh (analyze)
• walking, running & jumping: chase down (v), walk (walk somebody through something)
• waste: garbage (data)
• water: boil (boil down to something), dive (deep dive)
• weight: weigh (analyze)
• writing & spelling: spelled out, spell out (v)
ANIMAL (2) (see also bird; cat; cows & cattle; dog; fish; fox; frog; horse; insect;
lion; rat; sheep; snake; tiger; wolf) (predation)
• absorption & immersion: lap up (v), sponge (n), wallow (v)
• activity: abuzz (activity), bee (busy as a bee), crawl (activity), fly (activity), frenzy (feeding frenzy), gaggle
(press gaggle, etc.), hibernation (in hibernation), hibernation (other), hornet’s nest, hum (n), roar (activity),
swarm (v), swarm (n)
• accusation & criticism: savage (v), venom (n), venomous (adj)
• affliction: albatross (n), back (get off my back, etc.), backbiter (person), bird-dog (v), dog (afflict), dogged
(hounded), eat (destroy), gadfly (person), gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.), heel (nip at somebody’s
heels), hounded (dogged), leech (person), parasite (person), pest (person), pester (v), riddled
• allegiance, support & betrayal: horse (switch horses), horse (back the wrong horse), rat (snitch), shark (thrown
to the sharks), turn (turn against / on something), wolf (throw somebody to the wolves), wolf (thrown to the
wolves)
• amelioration & renewal: tame (v)
• amount: drove (herd or flock), lion’s share
• amount & effect: swarm (v), swarm (n)
• appearance: ruffled (feathers)
• appearance & disappearance: blue whale, ground (go to ground), swan (black swan), woodwork (come out of
the woodwork, etc.)
• appearance & reality: chameleon (change), wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• area: stomping grounds
• assembling: call (cattle call), round up (assemble)
• attachment: pit bull (dog), teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: chest (beat one’s chest), low (lie low), trotted out

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• attenuation: defang (v), tame (adj), teeth (take the teeth out), toothless (adj)
• avoidance & separation: duck (avoid)
• behavior: backbiting, bask (v), bloodthirsty (adj), drove (herd or flock), fierce (adj), flock (v), frenzy (feeding
frenzy), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), herd (herd mentality, etc.), hog (v), prey (prey on something), prowl (on the
prowl), rabid (behavior), rabidly, savage (v), sheep (consciousness), stampede (n), stray (behavior), swarm (v),
swarm (n), tame (v), vulture (behavior), wallow (v), wild (behavior), wild (run wild), wolf (animal), wolf down
(food)
• branching system: multipronged, prong (river), prong (part)
• character & personality: black sheep, bloodthirsty (adj), creature (creature of habit, etc.), donkey (insult), feisty
(adj), gadfly (person), grub (character), jackass, leech (person), maverick (person), mule-headed, pack rat
(person), rogue (n), shark (predation), snake (insult), stud (n), whiner (person)
• coercion & motivation: dog (attack dog), goad (v), herd (ride herd), herded, pit bull (dog)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: roar back (v)
• commitment & determination: dogged (determined), pit bull (dog)
• competition: dog-eat-dog, game (game of cat and mouse, etc.), jockey (v), law (law of the jungle, etc.), pack
(competition), rat race, underdog (competition)
• complexity: warren (n)
• computer: worm (computers)
• concealment & lack of concealment: burrow (burrow into), ground (go to ground), mole (n)
• condition & status: dead (dead in the water)
• configuration: dovetail (v), nestled, perch (v), perched, riddled, sardined
• conflict: back (get off my back, etc.), back (get one’s back up, etc.), backbiting, back down (v), bearbaiting,
blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), blood sport (n), chest (beat one’s chest), claw
(v), dogfight (n), growl (v), hackles (raise hackles), head (butt heads), head-on, head-to-head, horn (lock horns),
hornet’s nest, jugular (go for the jugular), pit (bear pit), roll over (v), scratch (scratch and claw), snake pit,
throat (predation), tooth and nail (adverb)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: duck (avoid), sand (stick one’s head in the sand), teeth (in / into
the teeth of)
• consciousness & awareness: frog (frog in boiling water), sheep
• constraint & lack of constraint: cage (a gilded cage), hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled, leash (on a leash), muzzle
(v), rein (free rein), shackle (n), wild (run wild)
• consumption: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), lap up (v), meat (fresh meat)
• content: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• control & lack of control: harness (v), herd (v), herd (ride herd), horse (hold your horses), leash (on a leash),
rein (rein in), rein (reins of power, etc.), reined in, rogue, runaway (control), run away (v), tame (v), tiger (n),
wild (control)
• courage & lack of courage: chicken-hearted, chicken (chicken out), lion (courage)
• creation & transformation: breed (create), breeding ground, chameleon (change), spawn (v), spawned, web
(spin a web)
• danger: hornet’s nest, sitting duck, snake pit, teeth (in / into the teeth of), tiger (n), wolf (predation)
• decline: breed (dying breed, etc.)
• destruction: carcass (n), devour (destroy), eat (destroy), ferocious (adj), gored, nibble (nibble at, etc.), sheep
(predation), snake (cut off the head of the snake, etc.), trample (v), trampled
• difficulty, easiness & effort: beaver (v), scratch (scratch and claw)
• directing: drive (v), goad (v), herd (v), herd (ride herd), herded, husband (v), shepherd (v)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: cull (n), cull (v), factory (glue factory), pasture (put something out to
pasture), pasture (put out to pasture), perch (knock something off its perch)
• dominance & submission: back down (v), ground (hold / stand one’s ground), lapdog (n), poodle (n), tail (turn
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• eagerness & reluctance: chops (lick one’s chops), horse (hold your horses), pounce (v)
• empathy & lack of empathy: ruthless (sun, etc.)
• enthusiasm: bookworm (person), hound (autograph hound, etc.), pet (pet cause, etc.), rat (lab rat, etc.)
• environment: frog (frog in boiling water), hornet’s nest, snake pit, zoo (environment)
• epithet: lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.)
• evidence: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave), fishy (something smells fishy, etc.), rat (smell a rat)
• experience: cub (n), greenhorn (person), rodeo (first rodeo)
• experimentation: guinea pig
• extent & scope: octopus (n), tentacle (n)
• failure, accident & impairment: astray (direction), belly-up (adj), stray (behavior), stray (direction)
• fantasy & reality: rabbit hole (fantasy)
• fate, fortune & chance: blue whale, jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.), snake (snake-bit), swan (black swan)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bask (v), biting (adj), bristle (emotional arousal), devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive,
etc., eggshell (walking on eggshells), feather (ruffle feathers), gnaw (v), hackles (raise hackles), ruffled
(feathers), venom (n), venomous (adj), wild (behavior)
• fictive motion: snake (a trail can snake, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: riddled
• force: bear (a bear of an epidemic, etc.), beast (power), bull (bull in a china shop), paper tiger, teeth (force),
teeth (take the teeth out), toothless (adj)
• functioning: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• gossip: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• group, set & collection: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), herd (herd immunity, etc.), pack (group), stable (n), zoo
(group)
• growth & development: fledgling, lamb (n)
• help & assistance: mother (den mother, etc.), mother hen, wing (under one’s wing)
• hierarchy: apex (apex animal, etc.), food chain, lion (position), pecking order, top dog (hierarchy), underdog
(hierarchy)
• idea: sacred cow
• identity & nature: animal (political animal, etc.), breed (type), creature (creature of habit, etc.)
• importance & significance: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• insult: animal (insult), beast (insult), dog (insult), donkey (insult), grub (character), jackass (n), monkey (insult),
pig (insult), snake (insult), termite (n)
• involvement: wallow (v), web (entanglement)
• isolation & remoteness: carapace (protection), shell (protection)
• judgment: chicken (come home to roost), kangaroo court
• money: nest egg
• movement: canter (v), duck (v), fishtail (v), flock (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), leapfrog (v), lurk (v),
pounce (v), prowl (on the prowl), snake (a trail can snake, etc.), stalk (v), stampede (n)
• occurrence: blue whale, swan (black swan)
• oppression: back (get off my back, etc.), cage (jail, prison), goad (v), kangaroo court, lighten (v), scapegoat (n),
shackle (n), trample (v), yoke (under the yoke), yoke (from the yoke), yoke (other)
• orientation: nose (orientation), tail (orientation)
• past & present: breed (dying breed, etc.), dinosaur (n), dodo (n), fossil (n)
• perception: bird’s-eye (bird’s-eye view)
• performance: dog-and-pony show (n)
• person: gadfly (person), greenhorn (person), leech (person), lion (courage), shark (predation), snake (insult)
• place: nest (empty nest)
• power: beast (power), fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n), oats (feel one’s oats)

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• predation: apex (apex animal, etc.), blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), circle
(predation), coyote (predation), dog-eat-dog, ferocious (adj), food chain, hawk (n), hawkish (adj), heel (nip at
somebody’s heels), jugular (go for the jugular), law (law of the jungle, etc.), loan shark, lone wolf (person), lurk
(v), lurking, octopus (n), pounce (v), predation (n), predator (people), predatory (adj), prey (prey on something),
prey (fall prey to something), prey (other), prowl (on the prowl), shark (predation), sheep (predation), stalk (v),
tentacle (n), tooth and nail (adv), victim (fall victim to something), wolf (predation), wolf (wolf in sheep’s
clothing)
• presence & absence: elephant (elephant in the room, etc.), fly (fly on the wall), gorilla (800-pound gorilla)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: breed (dying breed, etc.), dinosaur (n), dodo (n), fossil (n), pasture
(put something out to pasture), pasture (put out to pasture), species (vanishing species)
• progress & lack of progress: leapfrog (v), tail (chase one’s tail)
• proper name: horn (Horn of Africa, etc.), Predator (UAV)
• protection & lack of protection: bristle (with security, etc.), carapace (protection), ground (go to ground),
hedgehog (protection), holed up, hole up (v), shell (protection), sitting duck, underbelly (soft underbelly, etc.),
watchdog (n)
• punishment & recrimination: blood (out for blood), doghouse (in the doghouse), scapegoat (n)
• pursuit, capture & escape: bird-dog (v), dragnet (n), dragnet (cast a dragnet), expedition (fishing expedition),
game (game of cat and mouse, etc.), hounded (dogged), ground (go to ground), land (land a job, etc.), low (lie
low), poach (v), poached, stalk (v)
• relationship: breed (create), pet (pet cause, etc.)
• resemblance: bite (resemblance), carcass (n), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), snake (a trail can snake, etc.), tail
(orientation)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: back (get one’s back up, etc.), back down (v), buck (v), ground (give ground),
ground (hold / stand one’s ground), howl (n), howl (v), roll over (v), scream (scream for action, etc.), squeal
(protest), stare down (v), stare-down (n), tail (turn tail), tail (tail between one’s legs), tooth and nail (adv)
• responsibility: chicken (come home to roost)
• restraint & lack of restraint: animal (party animal, etc.), wild (behavior), wild (control), wild (run wild)
• reversal: chicken (come home to roost), come back (to bite, haunt, etc.), tail (turn tail), tail (tail between one’s
legs)
• route: alley (Bat Alley, etc.)
• sacrifice: lamb (sacrificial lamb), scapegoat (n)
• sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: black sheep, buck (v), maverick (person), rogue (n), sacred cow
• searching & discovery: expedition (fishing expedition), feeler (put out feelers, etc.), ferret (ferret out)
• sex: stud (n)
• shape: dogleg (shape), horn (shape), plume (shape), web (spider web, etc.)
• situation: doghouse (in the doghouse), frog (frog in boiling water), web (situation)
• size: beast (power), elephant (elephant in the room, etc.), fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), jumbo
(large), mammoth (size), minnow, mouse (size)
• society: lone wolf (person), rogue (n)
• sound: bark (v), gallop (sound), growl (v), howl (n), howl (v), roar (n), scream (scream for action, etc.), snarl
(speech), squeal (protest), whining
• speech: badger (v), bark (v), growl (v), howl (n), howl (v), savage (v), scream (scream for action, etc.), snarl
(speech), squeal (protest), venom (n), venomous (adj), whining
• speed: breakneck (adj), canter (v), fly (activity), gallop (v), gallop (movement), galloping (speed), sluggish
(adj), snail (at a snail’s pace), snail (snail’s pace / other)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: tail end (the finish of something)
• strength & weakness: defang (v), eggshell (n), fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), lion (the Lion of
Panjshir, etc.), minnow (n), oats (feel one’s oats), paper tiger, sheep (predation), teeth (force), teeth (take the
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• substance & lack of substance: bark (more bark than bite, etc.), paper tiger, toothless (adj)
• subterfuge: burrow (burrow into), fox (n), mole (n), outfox (v), slink (slink in, etc.), web (spin a web), wolf
(wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• success & failure: dog (dog won’t hunt)
• superiority & inferiority: horse (high horse), tail (tail between one’s legs), top (dominance), top dog (hierarchy),
underdog (competition)
• surveillance: eagle eye, fly (fly on the wall), watchdog (n)
• suspicion: fishy (something smells fishy, etc.), rat (smell a rat)
• taking & removing: fleeced, poach (v), poached
• taxonomy & classification: animal (different animal), beast (different beast, etc.), breed (type), creature
(creature of habit, etc.), fish (different kettle of fish), species (type)
• time: dinosaur (n), dodo (n), fossil (n)
• transmission: slink (slink in, etc.)
• transportation: cart (cart off), drag, haul (v), hauled in, hauled off, mule (drug mule, etc.)
• uniformity & consensus: herd (herd mentality, etc.)
• violence: dove (n), hawk (n), hawkish (adj), pit bull (dog), termite (n)
• vocative: pet (vocative)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: whale (White Whale)
• warning: watchdog (n), wolf (cry wolf)
• wolf: wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• work & duty: beaver (v), harness (in harness), rat race, workhorse (n)
• worth & lack of worth: cow (cash cow), white elephant
ANTIQUES (2)
• past & present: antique (adj), antique (n), museum (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antique (adj), antique (n), museum (n)
• time: antique (adj), antique (n), museum (n)
APPEAL (1)
• military: call (call to arms), cry (rallying cry)
• sound: call (call to arms)
• speech: call (appeal), call for (appeal), cry (cry for help), cry (v), cry out (v)
• verb: call for (appeal), cry out (v)
APPEARANCE (1) (see also resemblance)
• air: air (air of authority, etc.), aura (n)
• allusion: Adonis (handsome)
• animal: ruffled (feathers)
• atmosphere: air (air of authority, etc.), aura (n)
• baby: baby (baby face, etc.)
• bird: ruffled (feathers)
• books & reading: book (books and covers)
• cards: poker-faced (adj)
• creature: angel (appearance), angel (angel-faced), cherubic (adj)
• eye: eye (for the eyes), eye (eye candy), eyesore (n), feast (feast for the eyes)
• face: baby (baby face, etc.), face (appearance), game (game face), poker-faced (adj), stone-faced (adj)
• food & drink: feast (feast for the eyes, etc.)
• gambling: poker-faced (adj)
• health & medicine: eyesore (n)
• infrastructure: street (cloud street, etc.)

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• light & dark: gloss (appearance)
• materials & substances: gloss (appearance), stone-faced (adj)
• moon: moonscape (n)
• religion: angel (appearance), angel (angel-faced), cherubic (adj)
• sports & games: game (game face)
APPEARANCE & DISAPPEARANCE (1) (see also occurrence; presence &
absence; searching & discovery)
• air: air (into thin air), air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.), ether (into the ether), nowhere (out of
nowhere, etc.), sky (a clear blue sky, etc.)
• animal: blue whale, ground (go to ground), swan (black swan), woodwork (come out of the woodwork, etc.)
• atmosphere: air (into thin air), air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.), ether (into the ether), nowhere
(out of nowhere, etc.), sky (a clear blue sky)
• baseball: left field (out of left field)
• bird: swan (black swan)
• boat: dredge up (v)
• bodily reaction: swallow (disappearance)
• bubble: bubble up (v)
• burial: exhume (v)
• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• color: blue (out of the blue, etc.), blue whale, swan (black swan)
• creature: ghost (verb), ghost (ghost ship, etc.), phantom
• death & life: exhume (v), lose (extinction), vanishing (disappearance)
• direction: arise (v), come (development), come forward (v), come up (appear), fall (fall of the radar screen,
etc.), pop up (v), turn out (rally), turnout
• eye: peek (v), view (out of view)
• face: face (in the face of)
• farming & agriculture: crop up (v)
• fox: ground (go to ground)
• ground, terrain & land: dig up (v), ground (go to ground), turn up (appear), uncover (v)
• head: head (rear its head, etc.)
• heating water: bubble up (v)
• hole: ground (go to ground)
• house: woodwork (come out of the woodwork, etc.)
• hunting: ground (go to ground)
• insect: woodwork (come out of the woodwork, etc.)
• light & dark: fade (v), fade away, light (come to light), light (bring something to light), light (see the light)
• lightning: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• mining: dig up (v)
• movement: come (development), go away (v)
• picture: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), foreground (v)
• plane: parachute (v)
• plant: budding, crop up (v), emerge (v), emerging (adj), mushroom (v), pop up (v), spring up (v), sprout (v)
• position: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: bubble up (v), come up (appear), crop up (v), dredge up (v), pop up (v), show up (v),
spring up (v)
• sea: blue whale, wash up (v)
• sky: air (into thin air), air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.), ether (into the ether), nowhere (out of
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• snow & ice: melt away
• sports & games: left field (out of left field)
• temperature: bubble up (v)
• theater: curtain call
• tools & technology: radar (drop off the radar)
• verb: arise (v), background (fade into the background), bubble up (v), come (development), come forward (v),
come up (appear), crop up (v), dig up (v), dissolve (v), dissolve (break up), dissolve (fade away), dredge up (v),
dry up (v), emerge (v), evaporate (v), exhume (v), fade (v), fade away (v), fall (fall off the radar screen, etc.),
ghost (verb), go away (v), ground (go to ground), head (rear its head, etc.), light (come to light), light (bring
something to light), light (see the light), lose (extinction), melt (v), melt away (v), mushroom (v), pop up (v),
radar (drop off the radar), resurface (v), show up (v), spring up (v), sprout (v), surface (v), surface (bring to the
surface), swallow (disappearance), turn out (rally), turn up (appear), uncover (v), wash up (v)
• water: bubble up (v), dissolve (v), dissolve (break up), dissolve (fade away), dry up (v), emerge (v), emerging
(adj), evaporate (v), resurface (v), surface (v), surface (bring to the surface), wash up (v)
• wave: wash up (v)
• window: window (out the window)
APPEARANCE & REALITY (1) (see also concealment & lack of concealment)
• allusion: chalice (poisoned chalice)
• animal: chameleon (change), wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• books & reading: book (books and covers)
• breadth: veneer (appearance)
• clothing & accessories: dressed (dressed up, etc.), dress up (v), fashion (n), naked (unadorned), nakedly, wolf
(wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• direction: underneath (basis)
• eye: eye (appearance and reality), see (see through something)
• face: face (brave face, etc.), mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v)
• food & drink: chalice (poisoned chalice)
• ground, terrain & land: fool’s gold
• hygiene: artwash (v), sportswash (v), sportswashing (n)
• infrastructure: astroturf (n), astroturfer (n), astroturfing, facade (n), paint (coat of paint), whitewash (n),
whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• light & dark: gloss (appearance)
• materials & substances: gilded (other), gloss (appearance), lipstick (appearance), paint (coat of paint), sugarcoat
(v), unvarnished (adj), veneer (appearance), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• military: warrior (ironic)
• mining: fool’s gold
• orientation: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• person: warrior (ironic)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: underneath (basis)
• snow & ice: iceberg (the tip of the iceberg)
• stomach: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• taste: sugarcoat (v), sugarcoating (n)
• theater: theater (appearance), trial (show trial)
• verb: artwash (v), mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v), see (see through something),
sportswash (v), sugarcoat (v), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• verb to noun: look (a bad look, etc.)
• water: surface (on the surface), surface (under the surface)
• wolf: wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)

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APPLE (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: apple (Golden Apple / education)
• character & personality: apple (bad / rotten apple)
• corruption: apple (bad / rotten apple)
• perception, perspective & point of view: apple (proverb)
• product: apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, etc.)
• relationship: apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, etc.)
• transmission: Johnny Appleseed
AREA (1) (see also environment; location; place)
• animal: stomping grounds
• center & periphery: corner (in remote corners, etc.), corner (other)
• corner: corner (in remote corners, etc.)
• direction: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory)
• earth & world: sphere (in the sphere), world (exploration)
• forest: woods (neck of the woods)
• ground, terrain & land: area (territory), borderland (n), contour (n), ecosystem (n), fiefdom (control), ground
(area), landscape (n), lay of the land, terrain (known and unknown terrain), terrain (area), territory (area),
territory (assigned area), topography (n), turf (control), wilderness (area)
• health & medicine: alley (Cancer Alley, etc.)
• house: neighborhood (area)
• journeys & trips: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), waters
(uncharted waters, etc.), wilderness (area)
• map: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), waters (uncharted waters,
etc.)
• Middle Ages: fiefdom (control)
• military: alley (Ambush Alley, etc.), no man’s land (danger)
• place: place (area)
• royalty: kingdom (control), realm (area)
• shape: beak (area), belt (area), corridor (area), horn, neck (area), panhandle (area), triangle (area)
• sea: waters (uncharted waters, etc.)
• space: space (environment)
• storm: alley (Cyclone Alley, etc.)
• weather & climate: alley (Cyclone Alley, etc.)
ARM (2)
• acceptance & rejection: arm (open arms), embrace (v), embraced
• accusation & criticism: elbow (sharp elbows, etc.)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: embrace (v), embraced, pull (pull for someone)
• attachment: embrace (v), embraced
• attainment: push (a number), reach (beyond reach), reach (within reach)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: push (promote)
• attraction & repulsion: embrace (v), embraced
• avoidance & separation: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), push (push somebody away, etc.)
• behavior: overreach (v), overreach (n), pushy (people)
• character & personality: pushy (people)
• coercion & motivation: arm (twist arms, etc.), arm (long arm), arm-twisting, dangle (v), nudge (n), push
(coercion and motivation), pushed around, pushy (people), shove (n), strong-arm (v)
• commitment & determination: pushing (keep on pushing, etc.)
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• configuration: hug (configuration)
• constraint & lack of constraint: hold back (obstacle), overreach (v), overreach (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: push (summit push, etc.), pushover (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: cast aside (v), pushed out, throw out (v), toss out (v)
• division: arm (arm of an organization)
• division & connection: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), embrace (v), embraced, reach out (v)
• extent & scope: arm (long arm), far-reaching, octopus (n), reach (extent and scope), tentacle (n)
• feeling, emotion & effect: hold back (restraint)
• force: elbow (force), nudge (n), push (force), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• importance & significance: arm (right arm)
• obstacles & impedance: hold back (obstacle)
• predation: octopus (n), tentacle (n)
• proper name: elbow (Elbow Lake, etc.)
• proximity: reach (beyond reach), reach (within reach), stone's throw
• resistance, opposition & defeat: push (push against, etc.), pushback (n), push back (v)
• restraint & lack of restraint: hold back (restraint), overreach (v), overreach (n)
• searching & discovery: feeler (put out feelers, etc.)
• throwing, putting & planting: cast (cast doubt), cast (light), cast (other), hurl (v), thrown out (cast), throw out
(v), toss out (v)
• unanimity & consensus: pull together (v)
• welcome: arm (open arms), embrace (v)
• work & duty: pull together (v)
ASSEMBLING (1) (see also group, set & collection)
• animal: call (cattle call), round up (assemble)
• flags & banners: rally (v)
• military: draft (v), muster (muster courage, etc.), rally (v)
• theater: call (cattle call)
• verb: draft (v), muster (muster courage, etc.), rally (v), round up (assemble)
ASTRONOMY (2) (see also moon; star; sun)
• access & lack of access: black hole
• achievement, recognition & praise: star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement), star (five stars, etc.),
supernova (achievement), zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during the zenith), zenith (other)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: big bang (in a big bang), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), outshine (v), supernova
(attention)
• attraction & repulsion: center of gravity, drawn in, drawn into, orbit (n), pull (tidal pull), pull (attraction),
revolve (revolve around something), satellite (n)
• bases: center of gravity, orbit (n), revolve (revolve around something)
• character & personality: eye (stars in the eyes)
• concealment & lack of concealment: black hole
• configuration: constellation (n), orbit (n)
• consciousness & awareness: black hole
• decline: eclipse (v), eclipse (n), nadir (at the nadir), nadir (since the nadir), nadir (other), star (decline), wane
(on the wane), wane (v)
• development: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• direction: lodestar (n), lodestone (n)
• division & connection: cusp (on the cusp), orbit (n)
• environment: firmament (n), universe
• extent & scope: light year (light years away, etc.)

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• fate, fortune & chance: star (fate), star-crossed (adj)
• group, set & collection: constellation (n), galaxy (n)
• growth & development: apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), supernova (achievement)
• importance & significance: planet (n)
• increase & decrease: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• involvement: drawn in, orbit (n)
• isolation & remoteness: black hole
• judgment: star (five stars, etc.)
• origin: big bang (“Big Bang” of country music, etc.)
• person: star (rock star), star (person)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), nadir (at
the nadir), nadir (since the nadir), nadir (other), outshine (v), star (achievement), star (decline), supernova
(achievement), wane (on the wane), wane (v), wax (wax and wane), zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during the
zenith), zenith (other)
• proper name: star (Silver Star, etc.)
• proximity: cusp (on the cusp), light year (light years away, etc.), orbit (n)
• relationship: orbit (n), pull (tidal pull), pull (attraction), satellite (n)
• shape: star (shape)
• size: astronomical (adj)
• speed: hyperdrive (into hyperdrive), meteoric (adj), meteorically (adverb)
• success & failure: star-crossed (adj)
• superiority & inferiority: eclipse (v), eclipse (n), outshine (v)
• superlative: star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement), stellar (adj), supernova (achievement)
ATMOSPHERE (2) (see also air; sky; wind)
• activity: cyclone (n), hurricane (n), whirlwind (n)
• affliction: fallout (effect)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: hang (hang somebody out to dry), hung (hung out to dry), wind (dangle in the
wind)
• amelioration & renewal: air (clear the air), air (breath of fresh air)
• amount: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• amount & effect: cyclone (n), downdraft (n), hurricane (n), storm (amount and effect), tempest (n), whirlwind
(n)
• appearance: air (air of authority, etc.), aura (n)
• appearance & disappearance: air (into thin air), air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.), ether (into the
ether), nowhere (out of nowhere, etc.), sky (a clear blue sky, etc.)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: flagpole (run something up the flagpole), trial balloon
• behavior: bask (v)
• biodiversity: lung (atmosphere)
• certainty & uncertainty: air (up in the air)
• concealment & lack of concealment: air (expose)
• conflict: turbulence
• consciousness & awareness: cloud (consciousness), cloud (v), clouded, cloudy (consciousness), drift
(consciousness)
• control & lack of control: drift (control), whirlwind (ride the whirlwind, etc.)
• corruption: miasma (n)
• destruction: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• direction: drift (control)
• dismissal: wind (throw something to the wind)

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• division & connection: drift (drift apart)
• driving force: wind (wind of change, etc.)
• effect: fallout (effect)
• environment: air (environment), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere
(atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate (work climate, etc.), weather (environment)
• evidence: cloud (sign), glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• experimentation: flagpole (run something up the flagpole), float (a plan, etc.), floated, trial balloon
• extent & scope: sky-high, stratosphere, stratospheric
• failure, accident & impairment: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: sky (the sky can fall)
• feeling, emotion & effect: afterglow (in the afterglow), afterglow (other), air (breath of fresh air), air (air of
authority, etc.), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of
trust, etc.), aura (n), bask (v), climate (work climate, etc.), cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud
(dark cloud, etc.), deflate (emotion), deflated, fallout (effect), pump up (v), pumped (feeling)
• flaws & lack of flaws: airtight (adj), overinflated (adj), tempestuous (adj), turbulent (turbulent childhood, etc.)
• force: downdraft (n), wind (wind of change, etc.)
• growth & development: oxygen (fuel)
• identity & nature: air (environment)
• increase & decrease: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated, overinflated (adj), oxygen (fuel), pump
up (v), stratospheric
• initiation: oxygen (fuel)
• journeys & trips: skyway
• mixture: rainbow (mixture)
• movement: drift (move)
• obstacles & impedance: headwind (n)
• oppression: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), cloud (cast a cloud)
• origin: air (out of thing air), blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• presence & absence: vacuum (n), void (n)
• proper name: rainbow (Rainbow Falls, etc.)
• resemblance: cloud (resemblance), rainbow (color)
• restraint & lack of restraint: wind (throw something to the wind)
• searching & discovery: rainbow (searching and discovery)
• size: skyscraper
• speech: air (hot air), empty (empty words, etc.), hollow (hollow promises, etc.), long-winded (adj)
• substance & lack of substance: air (hot air), empty (empty words, etc.), gas (substance), gravity (n), hollow
(hollow promises, etc.)
ATTACHMENT (1)
• animal: pit bull (dog), teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
• arm: embrace (v), embraced
• cloth: entwined, pin (attach), pinned, pinned (pinned down)
• cooking: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• dog: pit bull (dog), teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
• doors & thresholds: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• gesture: embrace (v)
• ground, terrain & land: embedded
• hand: cling (v), clingy (adj)
• infrastructure: built in
• love, courtship & marriage: married, wedded

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• magic: spellbinding (adj), spellbound (adj)
• materials & substances: adhere (adhere to something), attached (attributed), attachment (n), glued, stick (stick
by / with somebody), stick (adhere to, follow), stick (persist)
• movement: come along (v)
• rope: bind (connect), entwined, tethered, tied
• teeth: pit bull (dog), teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
• tools & technology: riveted
• verb: adhere (adhere to something), bind (connect), cling (v), come along (v), embrace (v), pin (attach), stick
(stick by / with somebody), stick (adhere to, follow), stick (persist)
ATTAINMENT (1)
• arm: push (a number), reach (beyond reach), reach (within reach)
• boat: sail (sail to victory, etc.)
• finger: finger (slip through one's fingers)
• food & drink: cakewalk (dance)
• hand: empty-handed, finger (slip through one’s fingers), grasp (in one's grasp), grasp (out of one’s grasp), grasp
(attainment), palm (in the palm of one's hand)
• infrastructure: milestone (n)
• journeys & trips: get (get somewhere), milestone (n), reach (a place on a journey), way (all the way)
• line: line (finish line)
• mountains & hills: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• movement: coast (coast to victory), reach (secure), reach (a place on a journey), sail (sail to victory, etc.), stroll
(stroll to success, etc.), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• music: waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• number: approach (a number, etc.), hit (hit $30, etc.), notch (a number), push (a number), reach (a number)
• sports & games: line (finish line)
• verb: coast (coast to victory), finger (slip through one’s fingers), get (get somewhere), hit (hit $30, etc.), meet
(attain), notch (a number), push (a number), reach (secure), reach (a number), reach (a place on a journey), sail
(sail to victory, etc.), stroll (stroll to success, etc.), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• walking, running & jumping: stroll (stroll to success, etc.)
ATTEMPT (1)
• direction: go for it, etc.
• hand: hand (try one's hand)
• knife: stab (attempt)
• movement: go for it, etc., go (have a go at something)
• sound: crack (attempt)
• verb: go for it, etc., hand (try one’s hand)
• weapon: shot (attempt), shot (best shot)
ATTENTION, SCRUTINY & PROMOTION (1)
• allusion: Barnum, it (it girl, etc.)
• animal: chest (beat one’s chest), low (lie low), trotted out
• arm: push (promote)
• astronomy: big bang (in a big bang), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), outshine (v), supernova (attention)
• atmosphere: flagpole (run something up the flagpole), trial balloon
• ball: ball (take one’s eye off the ball)
• balloon: trial balloon
• bell: ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.)
• boat: showboat (v)

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• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center)
• circus: Barnum, circus (media circus, etc.)
• container: showcase (v), showcase (n)
• crime: steal (steal the show, etc.)
• direction: front (front and center), raise (attention), skyrocket (to attention, etc.)
• doors & thresholds: door (behind closed doors)
• ear: ear (have somebody's ear), ear (attention)
• exclamation: exclamation point
• explosion: blockbuster (n), blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun), bomb (drop a bomb),
bombshell (n), burst on / onto the scene, etc., dynamite (n), explode (onto the scene, etc.), firebomb (n),
Krakatoan (adj)
• eye: eye (public eye), eye (attention), eyeball (attention), eyeball (eyeball-popping), eye-catching, focus (v),
focus (n), look (analysis), look (look into something), microscope (under a microscope), view (out of view),
view (attention)
• film: it (it girl, etc.), marquee (attention), screen (split screen)
• finger: point out (v)
• fire: blaze (in a blaze of glory), flare (n)
• flags & banners: flag (raise a flag, etc.), flagpole (run something up the flagpole)
• food & drink: teapot (internet teapot, etc.)
• game: ball (related to attention)
• gesture: chest (beat one’s chest), eyeball (eyeball-popping), head (turn heads)
• hand: grabbing (attention-grabbing)
• head: head (turn heads)
• heating water: teapot (internet teapot, etc.)
• height: loom (loom large, etc.), low (lie low), profile (low profile), profile (high profile), profile (attention),
raise (attention), relief (in bold relief)
• horse: trotted out
• house: house (hype house)
• hunting: catchy (attention), low (lie low)
• letters & characters: asterisk (attention), exclamation point, footnote (n), full stop, punctuate (v), underline
(attention), underscore (attention)
• light & dark: blaze (in a blaze of glory), dim (overshadow), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), flare (n), glare (attention),
highlight (v), light (shine a light), limelight (in the limelight), outshine (v), overshadow (v), penumbra (n),
shadow (attention), spotlight (in / under the spotlight), spotlight (into the spotlight), spotlight (out of the
spotlight), spotlight (shine a spotlight), spotlight (steal the spotlight), spotlight (other), sunlight (concealment),
supernova (attention)
• map: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• military: blitz (campaign), bombshell (n), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n), drum up (v), dynamite
(n), trumpet (v)
• mixture: blend in (v)
• money: sell (promote)
• moon: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
• music: bandwagon (n), fanfare (attention)
• nose: nose (attention)
• object: it (it girl, etc.), moment (have a moment / attention), new (orange is the new black, etc.), thing (fad,
etc.), thing (the next big thing)
• person: Barnum, cheerleader (person), name-check (v), pusher (drug pusher, etc.), showman (person), tout
(person)
• picture: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), foreground (v), photobomb (v)

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• plane: barnstorm (v)
• position: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: drum up (v), play down (v)
• radio: tuned (stay tuned)
• rocket: skyrocket (to attention, etc.)
• royalty: herald (v), herald (n)
• school & education: cheerlead (v), cheerleader (person)
• shadow: dim (overshadow), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), overshadow (v), penumbra (n), shadow (attention)
• sign, signal, symbol: eyeball (attention)
• sky: skyrocket (to attention, etc.)
• smell: stink (raise a stink)
• sound: bang (with a bang), bell (bells and whistles), big bang (in a big bang), blaring (headlines, etc.), bomb
(drop a bomb), bombshell (n), buzz (attention), din (attention), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n), drum
up (v), dynamite (n), hailed, noise (attention), ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.), shout
(v), shout-out (n), teapot (internet teapot, etc.), thunder (steal thunder, etc.), thunderclap (n), trumpet (blow
one’s own trumpet), trumpet (v)
• speech: pitch (promote)
• sports & games: ball (take one's eye off the ball)
• standing, sitting & lying: low (lie low), stand out (attention), standout (n)
• star: supernova (attention)
• storm: thunder (steal thunder, etc.), thunderclap (n)
• sun: eclipse (v), eclipse (n), sunlight (concealment)
• theater: backstage (adj), downplay (v), limelight (in the limelight), marquee (attention), photobomb (v),
platform (n), play down (v), scene (behind the scenes), show (steal the show), showboat (v), showman (person),
stage (center stage), stage (attention), spotlight (in / under the spotlight), spotlight (into the spotlight), spotlight
(out of the spotlight), spotlight (shine a spotlight), spotlight (steal the spotlight), spotlight (other), upstage (v)
• tools & technology: lens (through a lens), lens (other), magnifying glass (under a magnifying glass),
microscope (under a microscope), radar (on the radar), radar (below / under the radar), radar (drop off the
radar), radar (under the radar screen), radar (radar screen)
• train: bell (bells and whistles), express (Biden express, etc.), train (hype train, etc.)
• verb: background (fade into the background), ball (take one’s eye off the ball), barnstorm (v), blend in (v), blow
up (attention / verb), burst on / onto the scene, etc., cheerlead (v), dim (overshadow), downplay (v), drum (beat
/ bang the drum), drum up (v), eclipse (v), explode (onto the scene, etc.), flag (raise a flag, etc.), focus (v),
herald (v), herald (n), highlight (v), jump out (v), light (shine a light), look (analysis), look (look into
something), loom (loom large, etc.), low (lie low), map (drop off the map, etc.), name-check (v), outshine (v),
overshadow (v), photobomb (v), pitch (promote), play down (v), point out (v), punctuate (v), push (promote),
radar (drop off the radar), raise (attention), ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.), sell
(promote), shout (v), show (steal the show), showboat (v), showcase (v), skyrocket (to attention, etc.), spotlight
(shine a spotlight), spotlight (steal the spotlight), stand out (attention), steal (steal the show, etc.), stink (raise a
stink), tout (v), trumpet (blow one’s own trumpet), trumpet (v), tuned (stay tuned), underline (attention),
underscore (attention), upstage (verb)
• walking, running & jumping: jump out (v)
• water: splash (effect)
• weapon: blitz (campaign), blockbuster (n), bomb (drop a bomb), bombshell (n), dynamite (n), firebomb (n),
photobomb (v)
• writing & spelling: signature (signature issue, etc.)
ATTENUATION (1)
• air: deflate (pressure)

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• animal: defang (v), tame (adj), teeth (take the teeth out), toothless (adj)
• center & periphery: marginalized
• hardness & softness: cushion (v), soften (v)
• health & medicine: atrophy (v), impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), neuter (v), potency (strength), potent
(adj)
• light & dark: shadow (devitalized), tarnish (v), tarnished
• mechanism: damper (n)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: tone down (v)
• pressure: deflate (pressure)
• shadow: shadow (devitalized)
• skin, muscle & bone: atrophy (v)
• snake: defang (v)
• sound: tone down (v)
• speech: tone down (v)
• teeth: teeth (take the teeth out), toothless (adj)
• theater: play down
• tree: hollow out (v)
• verb: dampen (v), defang (v), deflate (pressure), hollow out (v), play down (v), soften (v), tarnish (v), teeth
(take the teeth out), tone down (v), water down (v)
• walking, running & jumping: lame (lame excuse, etc.)
• water: dampen (v), diluted (water), drained (attenuation), water down (v), watered down
ATTRACTION & REPULSION (1)
• allusion: pied piper, siren (siren call / song), siren (other)
• arm: embrace (v), embraced
• astronomy: center of gravity, drawn in, drawn into, orbit (n), pull (tidal pull), pull (attraction), revolve (revolve
around something), satellite (n)
• chemistry: valence (attraction)
• crashes & collisions: hit it off (v)
• electricity: lightning rod
• epithet: pied piper
• fire: flame (attraction), moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• fish: bait (v), bait (n), lure (n), lure (v)
• food & drink: marmite (n)
• gesture: beckon (v), embrace (v)
• hand: beckon (v)
• hunting: bait (v), bait (n), dangle (v), lure (n), lure (v)
• Iliad & Odyssey: siren (siren call), siren (other)
• insect: moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• light & dark: flame (attraction), moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• lightning: lightning rod
• love, courtship & marriage: court (v), courtship (n), darling (n), flirt (v), seduced, seductive (adj), sexy (adj),
swoon (v), woo (v), wooed
• magic: charm (v), charm (n), charmed (charmed by something, etc.), charming (people), pied piper, spell (under
a spell)
• movement: draw (attract), drawn in, drawn into, drawn to
• person: darling (n), golden (golden girl, boy), sweetheart (other)
• place: mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.), pilgrimage (trip)
• religion: charisma (attraction), mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.), pilgrimage (trip)

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• sea: pull (tidal pull)
• sex: alluring (adj), seduced, seductive (adj), sexy (adj)
• speech: invite (v), invitation (n), inviting
• taste: juicy (adj), sweetheart (other)
• tide: pull (tidal pull)
• tools & technology: magnet (attraction), magnetic (adj) recoil (v)
• verb: beckon (v), charm (v), court (v), dangle (v), draw (attract), draw in (v), embrace (v), flirt (v), hit it off (v),
invite (v), lure (v), recoil (v), revolve (revolve around something), swoon (v), woo (v)
AVOIDANCE & SEPARATION (1) (see also division & connection)
• animal: duck (avoid)
• arm: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), push (push somebody away, etc.)
• bird: duck (avoid)
• blade: parry (v)
• boat: berth (a wide berth), steer (steer clear of something)
• bubble: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• clothing & accessories: skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
• container: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine), out (want out), stay out (v)
• distance: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length)
• dog: bay (at bay)
• electricity: insulated
• finger: touch (nobody will touch this, etc.)
• football: end run (n)
• gesture: shrug off (v)
• hand: hands-on, hands-off
• health & medicine: allergic (adj), allergy (n), quarantine (v)
• horse: shy (shy away)
• insect: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation)
• mechanism: steer (steer clear of something)
• movement: bypass (v), dodge (v), end run (n), go around (v), sidestep (v)
• nuclear energy: radioactive (adj)
• person: hermit (person)
• place: cloistered
• prep, adv, adj, particle: apart (division)
• proximity: distance (v)
• religion: cloistered
• shoulder: shrug off (v)
• sound: bay (at bay)
• sports & games: end run (n)
• sword: parry (v)
• verb: back away (v), bypass (v), cocoon (v), dance (dance around something), dodge (v), duck (avoid), flee (v),
go around (v), out (want out), parry (v), pull back (v), push (push somebody away, etc.), quarantine (v), shrug
off (v), shy (shy away), sidestep (v), skirt (skirt an issue, etc.), stay away (v), stay out (v), steer (steer clear of
something), step back (step back from something), touch (nobody will touch this, etc.), walk (walk away from
something), walk (walk on by)
• walking, running & jumping: back away (v), bypass (v), dance (dance around something), dodge (v), end run
(n), flee (v), go around (v), sidestep (v), step back (step back from something), walk (walk away from
something), walk (walk on by)
• water: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)

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• weapon: parry (v)
AX (2) (see also blade; knife; sword; weapon)
• curtailment: axed (curtailed), cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.)
• destruction: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: ax (n), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), cut
(a person from a team, etc.), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), slash (v), slash-and-burn (adj), trim (v)
• fate, fortune & chance: chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), head (heads will roll,
etc.)
• punishment & recrimination: ax (ax to grind), head (heads will roll, etc.), head (have one’s head handed to
oneself, etc.)
BABY (2) (see also birth)
• amelioration & renewal: newborn
• appearance: baby (baby face, etc.)
• behavior: crybaby (person)
• curtailment: cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
• dependency: babysitter (role), nanny (person), wean (v)
• destruction: cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
• enthusiasm: baby (relationship)
• experience: baby (novice), grownup (person)
• failure, accident & impairment: miscarriage (of justice, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: baby (relationship)
• growth & development: baby (development), baby (younger), crybaby (person), infancy (in infancy), infancy,
infant (n), nascent (beginning), newborn, nourished, nurture (v), nurtured, stillborn (adj), teeth (cut one’s teeth),
teething, wean (v), young (adj)
• origin: cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.)
• person: babysitter (role), crybaby (person), grownup (person), nanny (person)
• progress & lack of progress: step (baby steps, etc.)
• relationship: baby (relationship)
• sign, signal, symbol: cradle (symbol)
• survival, persistence & endurance: stillborn (adj), viable (adj), viability (political viability, etc.)
• vocative: baby (vocative)
BACK (2)
• acceptance & rejection: back (turn one's back)
• achievement, recognition & praise: back (pat on the back / verb), back (pat on the back / noun)
• affliction: back (get off my back, etc.), backbiter (person)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: back (support / verb), back (behind somebody's back), backed, backing
(support), backstabber (person), backstabbing (n)
• bases: backbone (basis), spine (branching)
• behavior: backbiting, backstabber (person), backstabbing (n)
• branching system: backbone (branching system), spine (branching)
• character & personality: backstabber (person)
• conflict: back (get off my back, etc.), back (get one’s back up, etc.), backbiting, back down (v)
• courage & lack of courage: backbone (courage), spine (courage)
• danger: back (watch your back, etc.)
• destruction: back (break the back)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: back (carry something on one’s back), backbreaking (adj)
• dominance & submission: back down (v)

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• person: backstabber (person)
• proper name: backbone (Devil's Backbone, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: back (watch your back, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: back (back to the wall), back (get one’s back up, etc.), back down (v)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: backbone (basis)
• social interaction: back (scratch somebody's back)
• strength & weakness: backbone (courage), spine (courage)
• subterfuge: back (behind somebody’s back)
• survival, persistence & endurance: back (back to the wall)
BALL (2)
• action, inaction & delay: ball (ball in somebody’s court), roll (slow-roll)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: ball (take one’s eye off the ball)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: rebound (rebound headache, etc.)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ball (ball in somebody’s court), toss back (v)
• consciousness & awareness: ball (take one’s eye off the ball)
• failure, accident & impairment: ball (take one’s eye off the ball), ball (drop the ball), caught out, curveball (n),
fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled
• flaws & lack of flaws: roll (on a roll)
• increase & decrease: rebound (numbers)
• movement: bounce (v), ping-pong (v), pinball (v), ping-pong (n), rebound (recover), rebound (v), roll (move),
roll in (v), rolling (moving)
• position, policy & negotiation: ball (ball in somebody’s court)
• progress & lack of progress: roll (v), roll (on a roll)
• resiliency: bounce back (v), rebound (recover), rebound (on the rebound)
• responsibility: ball (ball in somebody’s court)
• social interaction: ball (ball in somebody’s court)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ball (get the ball rolling, etc.), roll (on a roll), roll (v)
BALLOON (2)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: trial balloon
• destruction: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• experimentation: float (a plan, etc.), floated, trial balloon
• failure, accident & impairment: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• increase & decrease: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated
BASES (1)
• astronomy: center of gravity, orbit (n), revolve (revolve around something)
• back: backbone (basis), spine (branching)
• blood: lifeblood
• boat: anchor (n), boat (boat of science, etc.), mainstay, ship (ship of state, etc.)
• center & periphery: core (basis)
• chemistry: essence
• cloth: fabric (fabric of society, etc.)
• death & life: lifeblood
• depth: deep-rooted (adj)
• direction: behind (basis), bottom (get to the bottom of something), underlie, underlying (adj), underneath (basis)
• earth & world: tectonic (adj)
• earthquake: tectonic (adj)
• food & drink: bread and better (livelihood), bread-and-butter (adj), mother (mother's milk)

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• foot: footing (solid footing, etc.), footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: bedrock (n), footing (solid footing, etc.), footing (find one’s footing, etc.), grassroots,
ground (prepare the ground), groundwork, rock (support), tectonic (adj), underlie (v), underlying (adj)
• heart: heart (basis)
• heating water: boil (boil down to something)
• house: edifice (n), foundation
• infrastructure: building block, cornerstone, infrastructure (n), keystone, pillar (basis), plank (n), plumbing (n)
• leg: leg (leg to stand on)
• mechanism: kingpin (person), linchpin, nuts and bolts, workings (n)
• movement: revolve (revolve around something)
• plant: deep-rooted (adj), root (at the root), root (root cause), root (root of the problem, etc.), rooted
• position: behind (basis)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: behind (basis), underneath (basis)
• religion: mythology (n)
• shoulder: shoulder (stand on somebody's shoulders)
• sign, signal, symbol: ship (ship of state, etc.)
• standing, sitting & lying: leg (leg to stand on)
• stomach: guts (insides)
• temperature: boil (boil down to something)
• tent: tentpole (movies, etc.)
• tree: root (at the root), root (root cause), root (root of the problem, etc.), rooted
• verb: boil (boil down to something), ground (prepare the ground), revolve (revolve around something), shoulder
(stand on somebody’s shoulders), underlie (v)
• walking, running & jumping: footing (solid footing, etc.), footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
• water: boil (boil down to something)
BASEBALL (2) (see also sports & games)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.)
• appearance & disappearance: left field (out of left field)
• commitment & determination: home run (swing for a home run, etc.), plate (step up to the plate)
• development: inning (in the first inning), inning (ninth inning)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: home run (swing for a home run, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: curveball (n), error (unforced error), strike out (v)
• help & assistance: backstop (n)
• judgment: call (close call), call (the right call), scorecard (n)
• position, policy & negotiation: hardball (n)
• punishment & recrimination: one-strike-and-you're-out
• responsibility: plate (step up to the plate)
• success & failure: grand slam, home run (success), home run (swing for a home run, etc.), major league
(success), park (hit something out of the park), strike out (v)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: inning (in the first inning), inning (ninth inning)
BASKETBALL (2) (see also sports & games)
• achievement, recognition & praise: Michael Jordan (epithet)
• certainty & uncertainty: layup (n), slam-dunk
• commitment & determination: full-court press
• difficulty, easiness & effort: full-court press, layup (n), slam-dunk
• epithet: Michael Jordan (epithet)

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BEHAVIOR (1) (see also character & personality; identity & nature)
• activity: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• addiction: addictive (adj)
• alcohol: binge (on a binge), binge (other), drunk (adj), inebriate (v)
• allusion: Lady Macbeth (epithet), Lord of the Flies, Machiavelli (epithet)
• animal: backbiting, bask (v), bloodthirsty (adj), drove (herd or flock), fierce (adj), flock (v), frenzy (feeding
frenzy), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), herd (herd mentality, etc.), hog (v), prey (prey on something), prowl (on the
prowl), rabid (behavior), rabidly, savage (v), sheep (consciousness), stampede (n), stray (behavior), swarm (v),
swarm (n), tame (v), vulture (behavior), wallow (v), wild (behavior), wild (run wild), wolf (predation), wolf
down (food)
• arm: overreach (v), overreach (n), pushy (people)
• atmosphere: bask (v)
• baby: crybaby (person)
• back: backbiting, backstabber (person), backstabbing (n)
• bird: flock (v), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), vulture (behavior)
• blade: cutthroat (competition)
• blood: bloodthirsty (adj)
• boat: overboard (behavior), showboat (v)
• boundary: boundary (behavior), bounds (no bounds, etc.), edge (over the edge), guardrail (behavior), limit
(push the limits, etc.), line (out of line), line (over the line), line (cross the line), line (red line), overreach (v),
overreach (n), overstep (v)
• boxing: belt (below the belt), glove (the gloves are off), punch (sucker punch / verb)
• cards: wild card (person)
• circus: clown (v)
• control & lack of control: control (behavior)
• cows & cattle: stampede (n)
• creature: angel (behavior), devil (behavior), zombie (behavior)
• crime: mob (group), riot (run riot), riot (other)
• direction: above (above the fray, etc.), below (behavior), beneath (behavior), descend (v), fall down (v), fray
(above the fray), go (behavior), ground (high ground), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), gutter (out of the gutter),
gutter (gutter politics, etc.), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad / noun), rise (rise above something), road
(the high road), shifty (adj), sink (behavior), standard (higher standard), stoop (behavior), straight (the straight
and narrow), straight arrow (person), stray (behavior), top (over the top), upright (upright man, etc.), upstanding
(adj)
• distance: far (too far), go (behavior), length (go to any lengths, etc.), overreach (v), overreach (n), stop (stop at
nothing)
• dog: rabid (behavior), rabidly
• epithet: Lady Macbeth (epithet), Machiavelli (epithet), Trump (Trump of the Tropics, etc.)
• explosion: self-destructive (adj)
• family: child (spoiled child)
• food & drink: wolf down (food)
• force: pushy (people), rage (v), raging (adj)
• fruits & vegetables: nuts (crazy)
• government: diplomacy (n), diplomatic (adj)
• ground, terrain & land: edge (over the edge), ground (high ground), mud (in the mud)
• head: hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• health & medicine: addictive (adj), delirious (adj), delirium (n), demented, fever (behavior), frenzied (adj),
frenzy (other), rabid (behavior), rabidly, schizophrenic (adj)

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• height: above (above the fray, etc.), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad /
noun), mud (in the mud), rise (rise above something), road (the high road), stoop (behavior), upright (upright
man, etc.), upstanding (adj)
• history: badlands (environment), barbaric (behavior), Caligulan, cowboy (person), vigilante (person), wild West
• horse: stampede (n)
• hunting: hotshot (n)
• hygiene: act (clean up one's act), dirty (behavior)
• infrastructure: guardrail (behavior), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), gutter (out of the gutter), gutter (gutter
politics, etc.)
• insect: descend (descend on), swarm (v), swarm (n)
• justice: vigilante (person)
• knife: backstabber (person), backstabbing (n), cutthroat (competition)
• line: edge (over the edge), line (out of line), line (over the line), line (cross the line), line (red line)
• love, courtship & marriage: infidelity (n)
• manufacturing: mold (n)
• materials & substances: brazen (adj)
• mental health: amok (run amok), bedlam (n), berserk, craze (n), crazed, crazy (behavior), crazy (enthusiasm),
demented, frenzied (adj), frenzy, nuts (crazy), rage (v), raging (adj), schizophrenic (adj)
• military: cannon (loose cannon)
• mining: gold-digging
• mountains & hills: edge (over the edge)
• movement: go (behavior), rage (v), raging (adj), wall (ricochet off the wall)
• person: boy (bad boy), cannon (loose cannon), cowboy (person), child (spoiled child), choirboy (behavior),
hell-raiser (person), hothead (person), hotshot (n), straight arrow (person), vigilante (person), vulture
(behavior), wild card (person)
• plane: autopilot (on autopilot)
• predation: backbiting, bloodthirsty (adj), frenzy (feeding frenzy), savage (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: below (behavior), beneath (behavior)
• religion: choirboy (behavior), halo (n), hell (raise hell), hell-raiser (person), hell-raising, picnic (church picnic),
ritual (n), saint (superlative)
• ruins: self-destructive (adj)
• school & education: fight (food fight), lesson (n), slip (permission slip)
• sheep: flock (v), sheep (consciousness)
• society: mob (society), vigilante (person)
• sports & games: cheap shot, free-for-all (control), scrum (reporters)
• temperature: bask (v), hothead (person)
• theater: dramatic (dramatic child, etc.), showboat (v)
• tools & technology: compass (moral compass)
• train: rail (off the rails)
• verb: act (clean up one’s act), bask (v), clown (v), descend (v), end (go off the deep end), fall down (v), flock
(v), go (behavior), hell (raise hell), hog (v), inebriate (v), limit (push the limits, etc.), line (cross the line),
overreach (v), overstep (v), prey (prey on something), rage (v), rise (rise above something), savage (v),
showboat (v), sink (behavior), stoop (behavior), stop (stop at nothing), stray (behavior), swarm (v), tame (v),
wall (ricochet off the wall), wallow (v), wild (run wild), wolf down (food)
• violence: cheap shot, cutthroat (competition), vigilante (person)
• walking, running & jumping: overstep (v)
• water: end (go off the deep end)
• weapon: cannon (loose cannon), cheap shot, hotshot (n)
• wolf: rabid (behavior), rabidly, wolf (predation), wolf down (food)

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BELL (2)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: bell (ring a bell)
• curtailment: knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• destruction: knell (death knell / destruction)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• reversal: bell (unring a bell)
• shape: bell curve (shape)
• sound: ring out (a shot rang out, etc.)
• speech: ring out (voice)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.)
• warning: bell (alarm bell, etc.)
BIBLE (2) (see also religion)
• accusation & criticism: jeremiad (bitter lament)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: Judas (betrayal)
• amelioration & renewal: Lazarus (Bible)
• biodiversity: Noah's Ark
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: exodus (n)
• consciousness & awareness: road (road to Damascus)
• destruction: Armageddon, kiss of death
• environment: Garden of Eden, Promised Land
• fate, fortune & chance: handwriting (on the wall), kiss of death, writing (writing on the wall)
• flaws & lack of flaws: Garden of Eden
• judgment: Solomonic (adj)
• message: gospel (preach the gospel, etc.), jeremiad (bitter lament), messiah (n), messianic (adj), pulpit (bully
pulpit, etc.), sermon (message)
• past & present: antediluvian (old), Methuselah, relic (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antediluvian (old), Methuselah, relic (n)
• revenge: tooth (a tooth for a tooth)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: Bible (authority)
• searching & discovery: grail (holy grail)
• size: behemoth (n), David and Goliath, etc.), Goliath (Bible), leviathan (n)
• strength & weakness: David and Goliath, etc., Goliath (Bible)
• superlative: Promised Land
• survival, persistence & endurance: Lazarus (Bible)
• time: antediluvian (old), Methuselah, relic (n)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: grail (holy grail)
BIODIVERSITY (1)
• allusion: Noah’s Ark
• atmosphere: lung (atmosphere)
• breathing: lung (atmosphere)
• Bible: Noah's Ark
• epithet: Amazon (epithet), Galapagos (epithet), lung (atmosphere), mother (Mother Nature), Noah’s Ark,
rainforest (epithet), Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.)
• family: mother (Mother Nature)
• ground, terrain & land: biodiversity (n)
• place: Amazon (epithet), Galapagos (epithet), Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.)

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• religion: Noah’s Ark
BIOLOGY (2)
• computer: virus (computers)
• creation & transformation: mutate (v)
• growth & development: embryonic, petri dish
• identity & nature: DNA (in the DNA), DNA (other), gene (in one's genes), gene (other)
• presence & absence: endemic (adj)
BIRD (2) (see also animal)
• activity: fly (activity), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• affliction: albatross (n)
• appearance: ruffled (feathers)
• appearance & disappearance: swan (black swan)
• avoidance & separation: duck (avoid)
• behavior: flock (v), gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), vulture (behavior)
• branching system: wing (building)
• configuration: dovetail (v), nestled, perch (v), perched
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: duck (avoid), sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
• constraint & lack of constraint: fly (constraint), wing (clip / stretch one's wings)
• courage & lack of courage: chicken-hearted, chicken (chicken out)
• creation & transformation: incubator (n)
• danger: sitting duck
• death & life: vulture (behavior)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: perch (knock something off its perch)
• division: wing (division)
• environment: incubator (n)
• evidence: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
• extent & scope: full-fledged (adj)
• fate, fortune & chance: auspicious (adj), swan (black swan)
• feeling, emotion & effect: eggshell (walking on eggshells), feather (ruffle feathers), ruffled (feathers)
• group, set & collection: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• growth & development: fledgling, full-fledged (adj), incubator (n)
• haste: fly (on the fly), wing (wing it)
• heart: chicken-hearted
• help & assistance: mother hen, wing (under one's wing)
• hierarchy: pecking order
• initiation: hatch (v), hatched
• isolation & remoteness: cooped up
• judgment: chicken (come home to roost)
• migration: blow-in (n)
• mixture: cocktail (n)
• money: nest egg
• movement: duck (v), flock (v)
• occurrence: swan (black swan)
• perception, perspective & point of view: bird's eye (bird's-eye view)
• place: nest (empty nest)
• predation: hawk (n), hawkish (adj)
• proper name: beak (Parrot's Beak, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: sitting duck

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• readiness & preparedness: fly (on the fly), wing (wing it)
• relationship: chicken (chicken and egg)
• repetition: parrot (v)
• resemblance: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: face (fly in the face)
• responsibility: chicken (come home to roost)
• reversal: chicken (come home to roost)
• sex: bird (the birds and the bees)
• shape: beak (area), plume (shape)
• speech: crow (v), parrot (v)
• speed: fly (activity)
• strength & weakness: eggshell (n)
• surveillance: eagle eye
• violence: dove (n), hawk (n), hawkish (adj)
BIRTH (2) (see also baby)
• amelioration & renewal: newborn, rebirth (n), reborn, renaissance (n)
• creation & transformation: birth (creation), birthday (creation), birthed (created), born (creation), born-on (adj),
germinate (v), gestate (v), gestation (film, etc.), labor pains, midwife, spawn (v), spawned
• failure, accident & impairment: miscarriage (of justice, etc.)
• growth & development: embryonic, gestate (v), gestation (film, etc.), nascent (beginning), newborn, rebirth (n),
reborn, renaissance (n), stillborn (adj)
• identity & nature: born (born teacher, etc.)
• origin: birthplace (the birthplace of democracy, etc.), cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: rebirth (n), reborn, renaissance (n)
• sign, signal, symbol: cradle (symbol)
• survival, persistence & endurance: stillborn (adj), viable (adj), viability (political viability, etc.)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: gestate (v), gestation (film, etc.)
BLADE (2) (see also ax; knife; sword; weapon)
• ability & lack of ability: edge (lose one’s edge)
• accusation & criticism: hatchet job (n)
• affliction: cut (a thousand cuts)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: cutthroat (competition)
• amelioration & renewal: hack (fix), hack (a fix), hacking (fixing), hone (v), sharpen (v)
• amount: slice (piece), sliver (piece)
• avoidance & separation: parry (v)
• behavior: cutthroat (competition)
• coercion & motivation: hatchet man (person)
• competition: cutthroat (competition)
• computer: hack (break into), hack (fix), hack (a fix), scrape (v)
• conflict: stab (v)
• condition & status: honed, sharp
• creation & transformation: carved out, carve out (v), scissor (genetic scissors, etc.)
• curtailment: axed (curtailed), cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.), cut off (v), cut short (v)
• danger: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• decline: whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• destruction: chopping block (on the chopping block), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), decapitate (v), gut
(destroy), gutted (destroyed), head (heads will roll, etc.), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart)

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• dismissal, removal & resignation: ax (n), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), cut
(a person from a team, etc.), cut off (v), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), scrape (v), shave (removal),
slash (v), trim (v), whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• driving force: cutting edge (on the cutting edge), cutting edge (other)
• effect: sword (double-edged sword)
• fate, fortune & chance: call (close call / danger), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block
(other), head (heads will roll, etc.), shave (removal), sword (fate), Sword of Damocles
• feeling, emotion & effect: cut (cut both ways), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), double-edged (sword), gutted
(feeling), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart), rapier (n), sword (double-edged sword),
sword (two-edged sword)
• flaws & lack of flaws: dull (adj), edge (lose one’s edge)
• functioning: honed, sharp (adj)
• help & assistance: hack (a fix), hacking (fixing)
• increase & decrease: appetite (whet the appetite), sharpen (v), whet (whet the appetite)
• movement: scissor (resemblance)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: cutting edge (on the cutting edge), cutting edge (other)
• protection & lack of protection: hack (break into)
• proximity: edge (at the edge)
• punishment & recrimination: ax (ax to grind), head (heads will roll, etc.), head (have one’s head handed to
oneself, etc.)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: hatchet (bury the hatchet)
• relationship: double-edged (sword)
• resemblance: scissor (resemblance), slice (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: parry (v)
• searching & discovery: scrape (v)
• shape: knife-edged, sickle (shape)
• speech: blunt (speech), cut off (speech), sharp (speech), sharp-tongued
• survival, persistence & endurance: scrape by (v)
• taking & removing: chip away (v), scrape (v)
• verb: hack (get inside)
BLANKET (2)
• configuration: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed
• cover: blanket (v), blanket (cover), blanketed
• extent & scope: blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
BLOOD (2)
• access & lack of access: vein (tap a vein)
• bases: lifeblood
• behavior: bloodthirsty (adj)
• branching system: artery, system (circulatory system)
• character & personality: bloodthirsty (adj), vein (ice in one’s veins, etc.)
• coercion & motivation: nose (bloody nose)
• condition & status: hemorrhage (n), pulse (n)
• conflict: blood (bad blood), blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), bloodbath, blood
sport (n), bloody (conflict), jugular (go for the jugular), pit (bear pit)
• death & life: blood (blood represents life)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: blood (effort)
• division & connection: blood brother (connection)
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• feeling, emotion & effect: blood (in one’s blood), blood (blood runs cold), blood (in cold blood), blush
(embarrassment), livid (adj), mist (red mist), vein (ice in one’s veins, etc.)
• guilt: blood (blood on one's hands, etc.), bloody (guilt), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• identity & nature: blood (in one's blood), blood (identity), vein (tap a vein)
• involvement: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• journeys & trips: artery
• leaking: bleed (v), bleed (n), bleeding, hemorrhage (n)
• measurement: pulse (n)
• predation: blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), jugular (go for the jugular)
• punishment & recrimination: blood (out for blood), nose (bloody nose, etc.)
• relationship: blood brother (connection)
• responsibility: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), bloody (guilt), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• sacrifice: blood (effort)
• sign, signal, symbol: blood (blood represents life)
• violence: bloodbath, mist (red mist)
BOAT (2)
• accusation & criticism: broadside (n), shot (shot across the bow)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: board (on board), mutinous (adj), mutiny (n), overboard (throw somebody
overboard), ship (abandon / jump ship)
• amelioration & renewal: bailout (n), bail out (save), damage control, salvage (v), ship (right the ship, etc.)
• amount: flotilla (flotilla of icebergs, etc.), raft (amount)
• amount & effect: swamp (v), swamped
• appearance & disappearance: dredge up (v)
• attainment: sail (sail to victory, etc.)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: showboat (v)
• avoidance & separation: berth (a wide berth), steer (steer clear of something)
• bases: anchor (n), boat (boat of science, etc.), mainstay, ship (ship of state, etc.)
• behavior: overboard (behavior), showboat (v)
• character & personality: showboat (v)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: ship (abandon / jump ship)
• computer: navigation (cyberspace)
• concealment & lack of concealment: dredge up (v)
• conflict: shot (shot across the bow)
• constraint & lack of constraint: leeway (n)
• control & lack of control: adrift, drift (control), helm (at the helm), helm (other), rudderless, ship (tight ship,
etc.)
• danger: coast (coast is clear), lighthouse (protection), rock (on the rocks), Scylla and Charybdis, shoal (n), strait
(dire straits, etc.), waters (dangerous waters, etc.)
• decline: ship (a sinking ship)
• destruction: founder (v), rock (on the rocks), scupper (v), scuttle (v), scuttled, shipwreck (n), shoal (n), sink
(destroy), torpedo (v), torpedo (n), water (blow something out of the water)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: sail (sail to victory, etc.), sailing (smooth sailing)
• directing: pilot (v), steer (v)
• direction: adrift, chart (v), course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course), drift
(control), jibe (v), lighthouse (protection), navigate (v), navigation, rudderless, sea (at sea), steer (v), tack (v),
tack (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: jettison (v), jettisoned, overboard (throw somebody overboard), ship out
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• disruption: boat (rock the boat)
• division & connection: drift (drift apart)
• empathy & lack of empathy: boat (in the same boat)
• epithet: ship (ship of state, etc.), ship (ship of the desert)
• equilibrium & stability: boat (rock the boat), keel (even keel), ship (right the ship, etc.)
• experience: rope (learn the ropes, etc.), salt (sailor), wheelhouse (n)
• extent & scope: leeway (n), stem (from stem to stern)
• failure, accident & impairment: aground (run aground), founder (v), rock (on the rocks), ship (a sinking ship),
shipwreck (n), shoal (n)
• feeling, emotion & effect: stack (blow one’s stack)
• force: wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
• help & assistance: steward (role), wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
• initiation: ship (launched a thousand ships)
• knowledge & intelligence: rope (learn the ropes, etc.)
• movement: anchored, swamp (v)
• obstacles & impedance: headwind (n), shoal (n)
• person: buccaneer (person), pirate (person)
• progress & lack of progress: adrift, anchored, doldrums (n), headway (n), moored, wind (wind at one’s back,
etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: batten (batten down), harbor (v), harbor (safe harbor), haven (safety),
lighthouse (protection)
• pursuit, capture & escape: trawl (v)
• readiness & preparedness: batten (batten down)
• representation: figurehead (n)
• resemblance: flotilla (flotilla of icebergs, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: mutinous (adj), mutiny (n)
• restraint & lack of restraint: overboard (behavior)
• reversal: aircraft carrier (turn an aircraft carrier), course (reverse course), row (row back), ship (turn the ship,
etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: boat (rock the boat)
• searching & discovery: dredge up (v), trawl (v)
• sequence: wake (in the wake of)
• sign, signal, symbol: ship (ship of state, etc.)
• situation: boat (in the same boat), strait (dire straits, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse
course), embark (embark on something), set sail (v), underway
• superlative: flagship (superlative)
• survival, persistence & endurance: bailout (n), bail out (save), bailed out, batten (batten down), hand (all hands
on deck), lifeline (n), life raft, ride out (v), storm (weather the storm)
• time: wake (in the wake of / at a later time)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: ship (ship has sailed, etc.)
• transportation: ship (ship of the desert)
• unanimity & consensus: board (on board), boat (in the same boat), boat (rock the boat), row (row in the same
direction, etc.)
• warning: shot (shot over the bow, etc.)
BODILY REACTION (2) (see also breathing; gesture)
• acceptance & rejection: choke (v), retch (v)
• affliction: choke (v)

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• appearance & disappearance: swallow (disappearance)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: flinch (v)
• consumption: choke (v), retch (v), swallow (disappearance)
• courage & lack of courage: cower (v), flinch (v)
• creation & transformation: spit out (v)
• danger: sigh (sigh of relief)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: sweat (work)
• eagerness & reluctance: chops (lick one’s chops), drool (v), mouthwatering (adj), salivate (v)
• extent & scope: yawning (adj)
• failure, accident & impairment: hiccup (n)
• fate, fortune & chance: laugh (last laugh)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blush (embarrassment), breath (take a breath, etc.), breath (take one’s breath away),
breathless (adj), breathtaking (adj), eye-roll (dismissal), gasp (very “gasp,” etc.), goosebumps, mouthwatering
(adj), nail (bite one’s nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting (fingernails), retch (v), sigh (sigh of relief), startling (adj),
sweat (feeling), tear (crying), teeth (gnash one’s teeth), yawn (n)
• flaws & lack of flaws: hiccup (n)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: cough up (v)
• hyperbole: retch (v)
• obstacles & impedance: choke (v)
• relationship: sneeze (v)
• resemblance: belch (v), breathe (caves breathe, etc.), spit (spit down), spit (v), swallow (disappearance), yawn
(v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: gasp (last gasp)
• revenge: laugh (last laugh)
• speech: spew (vomit)
• throwing, putting & planting: spew (vomit)
• transmission: sneeze (v)
• work & duty: sweat (work)
BODY (2)
• society: body (body economic, etc.), body politic
BOOKS & READING (2) (see also letters & characters; writing & spelling)
• ability & lack of ability: illiterate (adj)
• allusion: Arthurian (adj), Big Brother, Brobdingnagian (adj), Cinderella, curiouser and curiouser, Dantesque
(adj), Darwinian, Dickensian (adj), Frankenstein (product), gargantuan (size), Goldilocks (Goldilocks zone,
etc.), Great Gatsby, Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), Kafkaesque (adj), Kipling (the Canadian Kipling, etc.), Lady
Macbeth (epithet), Lawrence (T.E.), Lilliputian (adj), Lord of the Flies, Machiavelli (epithet), monster (create a
monster), nineteen eighty four (and 1984), Orwellian (adj), Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish, profile
(profile in courage), Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole (fantasy), Robin Hood, Robinson
Crusoe, Romeo and Juliet (epithet), Shakespeare (epithet), Shakespearean (adj), Sherlock Holmes, Svengali
(allusion), Walter Mitty, whale (White Whale)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: misread (v), read (read something in something), read (analyze)
• appearance: book (books and covers)
• appearance & reality: book (books and covers)
• certainty & uncertainty: open-and-shut (adj)
• character & personality: book (open book), book (by the book), profile (profile in courage)
• constraint & lack of constraint: book (by the book)
• creation & transformation: author (person)
• curtailment: book (close the book)

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• development: book (close the book), book (development), chapter, page (development)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: cancel (v), shelve (v)
• enthusiasm: bookworm (person)
• epithet: Gutenberg, Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.), Kipling (the Canadian Kipling, etc.), pied piper, Shakespeare
(epithet), Shakespearean (adj)
• experience: story (war story)
• fantasy & reality: fairy tale (fantasy), fantasy (fairy tale, etc.)
• fictive communication: read (the sign read don’t enter, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: story (horror story), storybook (storybook romance, etc.)
• judgment: book (books and covers)
• knowledge & intelligence: encyclopedia (n), encyclopedic (adj)
• oppression: nineteen eighty four (and 1984)
• person: author (person), bookworm (person)
• punishment & recrimination: book (throw the book at somebody)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: book (close the book), page (turn the page), slate (a clean slate, etc.),
word (the last word)
• resemblance: fairy tale (happy), fantasy (fairy tale, etc.), story (horror story), storybook (storybook romance,
etc.)
• script: playbook
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: book (open book)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: book (close the book), word (the last word)
• superlative: Shakespeare (epithet), Shakespearean (adj), storybook (storybook romance, etc.)
• unanimity & consensus: page (on the same page)
BOTTLE (2)
• access & lack of access: bottle up (v), lid (keep the lid on something)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bottle up (v)
• initiation: uncork (v)
• obstacles & impedance: bottleneck
• shape: bottleneck (impedance)
BOUNDARY (2) (see also line)
• amount: boundless
• behavior: boundary (behavior), bounds (no bounds, etc.), edge (over the edge), guardrail (behavior), limit (push
the limits, etc.), line (out of line), line (over the line), line (cross the line), line (red line), overreach (v),
overreach (n), overstep (v)
• configuration: bounded
• constraint & lack of constraint: guardrail (behavior), limits (push something to its limits), overreach (v),
overreach (n), overstep (v)
• destruction: edge (push something over the edge)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: limits (push something to its limits)
• division & connection: borderland (n), boundary (division), corner (corner cases, etc.), edge (edge cases, etc.),
fuzzy (adj), intersection (n), line (n), line (division), line (categories)
• extent & scope: boundless (adj), bounds (no bounds, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: line (tread a line, etc.)
• help & assistance: backstop (n)
• possession: claim (stake a claim)
• protection & lack of protection: guardrail (behavior)
• proximity: border (proximity), borderland (n)

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• restraint & lack of restraint: limit (push the limits, etc.), limits (push something to its limits), overreach (v),
overreach (n), overstep (v)
• survival, persistence & endurance: limits (push something to its limits)
BOXING (2) (see also sports & games)
• accusation & criticism: come (come out swinging), jab (n), pummel (v), punching bag (n)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: corner (in one's corner)
• behavior: belt (below the belt), glove (the gloves are off), punch (sucker punch / verb)
• conflict: bare-knuckled (adj), brawl (n), come (come out swinging), glove (the gloves are off), hitter (heavy
hitter), jab (n), rumble (v), spar (v), square off (v), swing (take a swing, etc.), slug (slug something out), toe-to-
toe (go toe-to-toe, etc.), uppercutting
• constraint & lack of constraint: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• curtailment: knock out (v)
• development: round (boxing)
• effect: punch (punch in the gut, etc.)
• epithet: Muhammad Ali (epithet)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blow (body blow, etc.), knockout (knockout voice, etc.), pummeled, punch (punch in
the gut, etc.)
• force: knockout (force), punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.)
• help & assistance: sparring partner (role)
• involvement: weigh in (v)
• power: heavyweight (n), punch (punch above one’s weight, etc.), weight (punch above one’s weight, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: guard (keep one’s guard up)
• readiness & preparedness: guard (keep one’s guard up), punch (beat somebody to the punch), punch (sucker
punch / verb)
• resiliency: punch (roll with the punches)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: come (come out swinging), punch (punch back), towel (throw in the towel)
• restraint & lack of restraint: belt (below the belt), glove (the gloves are off), punch (pull a punch), punch
(sucker punch / verb)
• sequence: blow-by-blow (a blow-by-blow account, etc.), punch (beat somebody to the punch)
• situation: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• speech: blow-by-blow (a blow-by-blow account, etc.), come (come out swinging), jab (n), punch (pull a punch)
• strength & weakness: glass jaw
• substance & lack of substance: heavyweight (n), lightweight (n), punch (punch above one’s weight, etc.),
weight (punch above one's weight, etc.)
• subterfuge: punch (sucker punch / verb)
• survival, persistence & endurance: punch (roll with the punches), rope (on the ropes)
• time: round (boxing)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: round (boxing)
• violence: bare-knuckled (adj), glove (the gloves are off)
BRANCHING SYSTEM (1) (see also division; taxonomy & classification)
• animal: multipronged, prong (river), prong (part)
• back: backbone (branching system), spine (branching)
• bird: wing (building)
• blood: artery, system (circulatory system)
• family: family tree
• horn: multipronged, prong (part)
• horse: spur (shape)
• mechanism: hub (branching system)

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• plant: offshoot, tendril (growth)
• river: confluence (n), feed (feed into), prong (river), stream (bloodstream, etc.), tributary (n)
• tent: tentpole (movies, etc.)
• tree: branch (taxonomy), branch out (v), family tree, trunk (branching system)
• verb: feed (feed into)
• water: stream (bloodstream, etc.)
BREADTH (2) (see also fatness & thinness)
• amount: thin (thin on the ground, etc.)
• appearance & reality: veneer (appearance)
• danger: strait (dire straits, etc.)
• extent & scope: thin (substance), skin-deep, veneer (appearance)
• mind: narrow-minded (adj), narrowness (n)
• presence & absence: thin (thin on the ground, etc.)
• size: narrow (breadth), razor (razor-thin), slim (small), thin (size)
• situation: strait (dire straits, etc.)
• substance & lack of substance: thin (substance), skin-deep, veneer (appearance)
• subterfuge: veneer (appearance)
BREATHING (2) (see also bodily reaction; gesture) (throat)
• absorption & immersion: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), inhale (v), live (live and breathe)
• acceptance & rejection: choke (v)
• affliction: choke (v)
• amelioration & renewal: breathing space (and breathing room), life (breathe life)
• amount & effect: smother (amount & effect)
• biodiversity: lung (atmosphere)
• commitment & determination: eat (eat and breathe, etc.)
• condition & status: wheezing (condition)
• consumption: choke (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), inhale (v), live (live and breathe)
• cover: smother (cover)
• danger: exhale (v), sigh (sigh of relief)
• destruction: strangle (v), strangled, strangulation, suffocated
• dismissal, removal & resignation: blow off (v)
• enthusiasm: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), live (live and breathe)
• fate, fortune & chance: breath (hold one's breath)
• feeling, emotion & effect: breath (take a breath, etc.), breath (take one’s breath away), breathless (adj),
breathtaking (adj), exhale (v), gasp (very “gasp,” etc.), sigh (sigh of relief), suffocating
• identity & nature: live (live and breathe)
• obstacles & impedance: choke (v), choked, chokepoint
• oppression: smother (oppress), stifle (v), stifling (adj), strangle (v), strangled, stranglehold, strangulation,
strangled, suffocate (v), suffocating
• resemblance: breathe (caves breathe, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: gasp (last gasp)
• success & failure: choke (fail)
• survival, persistence & endurance: life (breathe life), oxygen (life)
BRIDGE (2)
• amelioration & renewal: bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-building), bridge-building
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bridge (burn one’s bridges)
• confronting, dealing with & avoiding things: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)

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• division & connection: bridge (n), bridge (air bridge, etc.), bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-
building), bridge-building, stepping stone
• future: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• help & assistance: stepping stone
• past & present: bridge (water under the bridge)
• presence & absence: bridgehead (n)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: bridge (water under the bridge)
• route: bridge (air bridge, etc.)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: bridge (a bridge to sell)
• survival, persistence & endurance: bridgehead (n)
• time: bridge (water under the bridge), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• timeliness & lack of timelessness: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• transportation: bridge (air bridge, etc.)
BUBBLE (2)
• activity: bubble (v), bubble (activity), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj)
• appearance & disappearance: bubble up (v)
• avoidance & separation: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• initiation: bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj)
• isolation & remoteness: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• protection & lack of protection: bubble (quarantine)
• substance & lack of substance: bubble (activity)
BULLET (2) (see also weapon) (military)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: bullet (take a bullet for somebody)
• amelioration & renewal: bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.)
• commitment & determination: bullet (take a bullet for somebody), bullet (bite the bullet)
• fate, fortune & chance: bullet (dodge a bullet)
• flaws & lack of flaws: bulletproof (adj)
• shape: bullet (shape)
• speed: bullet (velocity)
• survival, persistence & endurance: bullet (bite the bullet)
BURDEN (2) (see also weight)
• affliction: bear (a weight, etc.), burden (v), burden (n), heavy (oppression), weigh (weigh heavily), weigh
(oppress), weighed down, weight (oppression), weight (under the weight)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: pull (pull for someone)
• amelioration & renewal: get out (get out from under)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: back (carry something on one’s back), drag (v)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: pull out (v)
• eagerness & reluctance: drag (drag somebody into something)
• failure, accident & impairment: strain (v)
• flaws & lack of flaws: overload (n), overloaded
• history: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
• involvement: drag (drag somebody into something)
• obstacles & impedance: drag (drag on the economy, etc.)
• oppression: baggage (n), bear (a weight, etc.), burden (v), burden (n), freighted, get out (get out from under),
heavy (oppression), loaded, overload (n), overloaded, weigh (weigh heavily), weigh (oppress), weighed down,
weight (oppression), weight (under the weight)
• resiliency: carry on (v)

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• starting, going, continuing & ending: carry on (v), drag on (v), pull out (v)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: overload (n), overloaded
• survival, persistence & endurance: carry on (v)
• time: drag on (v), haul (long haul)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: drag on (v)
• unanimity & consensus: pull together (v)
• work & duty: lifting (heavy lifting), load (work), pull together (v), strain (v), weight (pull one's weight)
BURIAL (2)
• absorption & immersion: bury (bury oneself in something, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: ghost (bury the ghost)
• appearance & disappearance: exhume (v)
• concealment & lack of concealment: bury (conceal), exhume (v)
• curtailment: bury (kill), knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• destruction: bury (kill), coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.), epitaph (n), eulogy (n), funeral (one's funeral), grave (dig
one's grave), graveyard (destruction), knell (death knell / destruction)
• euphemism: place (resting place)
• fate, fortune & chance: coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.), funeral (one’s funeral), grave (dig one’s grave)
• feeling, emotion & effect: funereal (adj), lament (v), pall (cast a pall)
• involvement: buried (buried in debt, etc.)
• oppression: pall (cast a pall)
• place: grave (place), graveyard (place), place (resting place)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: ghost (bury the ghost), put (put something to rest)
• searching & discovery: exhume (v)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: grave (end point)
CAMPAIGN (1)
• Middle Ages: crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role)
• military: blitz (campaign)
• person: crusader (role)
• religion: crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role)
• sound: drum (beat / bang the drum)
• weapon: blitz (campaign)
CANAL (2)
• epithet: Venice (Venice of the North, etc.)
• shape: canal (birth canal, etc.)
• transportation: canal (birth canal, etc.)
CARDS (2) (see also gambling; sports & games)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: in (all in)
• appearance: poker-faced (adj)
• behavior: wild card (person)
• certainty & uncertainty: bet (all bets are off)
• character & personality: card (hold one's cards close), wild card (person)
• commitment & determination: double down (v), in (all in)
• computer: wildcard (computers)
• concealment & lack of concealment: card (cards on the table), hold (close held, etc.), poker-faced (adj), tip (tip
one’s hand), vest (play something close to the vest, etc.)
• curtailment: fold (v)

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• dismissal, removal & resignation: discard (v), fold (v)
• disruption: deck (re-shuffle the deck)
• failure, accident & impairment: hand (overplay one’s hand), overplay (v)
• fate, fortune & chance: bet (all bets are off), card (in the cards), card (dealt cards), deck (deck is stacked), draw
(luck of the draw), hand (dealt a hand), odds (fate)
• feeling, emotion & effect: poker-faced (adj)
• position, policy & negotiation: bluff (v), bluff (n)
• power: hand (strengthen one’s hand)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: fold (v)
• restraint & lack of restraint: hand (overplay one’s hand)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: bluff (v), bluff (n), card (cards on the table)
• strategy: bluff (v), bluff (n), card (guilt card, etc.), card (play one's cards), move (chess move, etc.), poker
(game)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: fold (v)
• strength & weakness: ace (n), bluff (v), bluff (n), card (strong card), card (trump card), card (hold all the cards)
• substance & lack of substance: house of cards
• subterfuge: aboveboard (adj), bluff (v), bluff (n)
• success & failure: hand (hot hand)
• unanimity & consensus: suit (follow suit)
CARPETS & RUGS (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: rug (pull the rug out)
• concealment & lack of concealment: carpet (under the carpet, etc.), rug (under the rug)
• configuration: carpet (v), carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.), carpeted
• cover: carpet (v), carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.), carpeted
• identity & nature: tapestry (n)
• mixture: tapestry (n)
• resemblance: carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.), carpeted
• welcome: mat (welcome mat), red carpet (treatment)
CAT (2) (see also animal)
• competition: game (game of cat and mouse, etc.)
• decline: cat (dead cat bounce)
• money: fat cat
• pursuit, capture & escape: cat (cat and mouse / noun), cat (cat-and-mouse / adjective), game (game of cat and
mouse, etc.)
• repetition: copycat (n)
CENTER & PERIPHERY (1)
• cloth: fringe (edge), fringe (versus mainstream), fringe (on the fringe)
• direction: background (fade into the background), fringe (on the fringe), fringe (versus mainstream), foreground
(n), netherworld (n), underworld (n)
• earthquake: epicenter (n)
• ground, terrain & land: coast (n)
• heart: heart (center), heartland (n), heartwood
• mechanism: hub (center)
• picture: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• position: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center), middle-of-the-road,
middle-of-the-roader
• river: backwater (n), mainstream (society)

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• society: fringe (on the fringe), fringe (versus mainstream), mainstream (society), netherworld (n), underworld
(n)
• sports & games: sideline (on the sideline), sideline (involvement), sidelined (adj)
• storm: storm (eye / center of the storm)
• theater: stage (attention), stage (center stage), wings (in the wings)
CENTER & PERIPHERY (2)
• appearance & disappearance: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• area: corner (in remote corners, etc.), corner (area)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center)
• attenuation: marginalized
• bases: core (basis)
• importance & significance: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), background
(fade into the background), burner (front burner), centerpiece, central (adj), foreground (n), sideshow (n)
• involvement: sideline (on the sideline), sideline (involvement)
• perception, perspective & point of view: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• power: inner circle (n), insider (person), outsider (person)
• priority: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), burner (front burner)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: outlier (n)
• society: center (society), fit in (v), fringe (on the fringes), fringe (versus mainstream), inner circle (n), insider
(person), mainstream (society), margin (on the margins), netherworld (n), outlier (n), outsider (person),
underworld (n)
• situation: middle (in the middle)
• strength & weakness: marginalized
• superiority & inferiority: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), burner (front
burner)
CERTAINTY & UNCERTAINTY (1)
• air: air (up in the air)
• allusion: Bermuda Triangle
• atmosphere: air (up in the air)
• basketball: layup (n), slam-dunk
• books & reading: open-and-shut (adj)
• cards: bet (all bets are off)
• cloud: cloudy (certainty)
• color: gray (gray area)
• container: bag (in the bag)
• direction: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory)
• gambling: bet (all bets are off)
• ground, terrain & land: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (in uncharted territory), uncharted (adj)
• hand: grab (up for grabs)
• history: Bermuda Triangle
• horse: hands down (certainty)
• journeys & trips: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), uncharted
(adj), waters (uncharted waters, etc.)
• justice: jury (the jury is out)
• letters & characters: question mark
• light & dark: clear (crystal clear), clear (unambiguous), cloudy (certainty), murky (adj), open-and-shut (adj),
shadow (beyond a shadow of a doubt, etc.), twilight (in a legal twilight, etc.), unclear (adj), waters (muddy the
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• map: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), uncharted (adj), waters
(uncharted waters, etc.)
• money: deal (done deal)
• picture: sketchy (adj)
• religion: limbo (in limbo)
• sea: uncharted (adj), waters (uncharted waters, etc.)
• shadow: shadow (beyond a shadow of a doubt, etc.)
• sports & games: bet (all bets are off), game (guessing game), layup (n), slam-dunk
• verb: waters (muddy the waters)
• water: murky (adj), waters (muddy the waters)
• weapon: surefire (a surefire investment, etc.)
CHAIN (2)
• configuration: chain (configuration)
• constraint & lack of constraint: chain (oppression)
• hierarchy: chain of command
• oppression: chain (oppression)
• sequence: chain (chain of events), chain (other), chain reaction
• strength & weakness: link (weak link)
CHARACTER & PERSONALITY (1) (see also behavior; identity & nature)
• allusion: Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish (adj), stoic (adj), Svengali (allusion)
• animal: black sheep, bloodthirsty (adj), creature (creature of habit, etc.), donkey (insult), feisty (adj), gadfly
(person), grub (character), jackass, leech (person), maverick (person), mule-headed, pack rat (person), rogue
(n), shark (predation), snake (insult), stud (n), whiner (person)
• arm: pushy (people)
• astronomy: eye (stars in the eyes)
• back: backstabber (person)
• blood: bloodthirsty (adj), vein (ice in one’s veins, etc.)
• boat: showboat (v)
• books & reading: book (open book), book (by the book), profile (profile in courage)
• cards: card (hold one's cards close), wild card (person)
• circus: clown (person), strongman (power)
• cloth: cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.)
• color: black sheep, colorful (politician, etc.), plain (plain people, etc.)
• conflict: mercenary
• cows & cattle: maverick (person)
• creature: angel (behavior), creature (creature of habit, etc.), devil (behavior), sphinx (n), witch (n)
• direction: buoyant (personality), crooked (adj), high-minded (adj), shifty (adj), straight (honest), straight (the
straight and narrow), straightforward, straight arrow, twisted (character), upright (upright man, etc.), upstanding
(adj)
• dog: feisty (adj), hot dog (person)
• earth & world: down to earth (adj), earthiness (character), eye (stars in one’s eyes)
• electricity: incandescent (character), live wire (person)
• engine: driven (adj)
• equilibrium & stability: levelheaded
• explosion: grenade (n), self-destructive (v), time bomb (person)
• eye: eye (stars in one’s eyes)
• feeling, emotion & effect: irritating
• fire: fiery (character), fire (through the fire, etc.), incandescent (character)

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• food & drink: bitter (personality), sour (personality), sweet (personality)
• force: pushy (people)
• fruits & vegetables: apple (bad / rotten apple), nut (person)
• gambling: card (hold one’s cards close)
• gesture: handwringer (person)
• ground, terrain & land: ground (both feet on the ground)
• hand: clingy (adj), handwringer (person)
• hardness & softness: hard (character), hard-nosed, snowflake (person), teacup (person), teddy bear
• head: coolheaded (adj), hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• health & medicine: incurable (adj)
• heart: bighearted, good-hearted, hard-hearted (adj), heart (young at heart, etc.), kind-hearted, soft-hearted
• height: cavalier (adj), upright (upright man, etc.), upstanding (adj)
• history: Caligulan, carpetbagger (person), cowboy (person)
• horse: cavalier (adj), gadfly (person), hard-charging (adj), maverick (person), stud (noun)
• hunting: hotshot (n)
• hygiene: mess (person)
• insect: butterfly (social butterfly), gadfly (person), grub (character)
• journeys & trips: easygoing (adj)
• knife: backstabber (person)
• light & dark: brilliant (superlative), incandescent (character), light (shining light), light up (a room, etc.),
scintillating (adj)
• love, courtship & marriage: odd couple
• magic: charming
• materials & substances: clay (n), flexible (character), hard (character), inflexible (character), made of
(character), mercurial (adj), putty (n), rigid (character), smooth (character)
• mechanism: wound (tightly wound)
• mental health: Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), nut (person)
• military: cannon (loose cannon), strongman (power), warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• mining: gold digger (person)
• money: mercenary
• mouth: loudmouth (person)
• movement: flexible (character) / inflexible (character)
• nose: hard-nosed (adj)
• person: cannon (loose cannon), carpetbagger (person), clown (person), cowboy (person), dandelion (character),
diva (person), firebrand (person), gadfly (person), gold digger (person), handwringer (person), hot dog (person),
hothead (person), Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), killjoy (person), leech (person), live wire (person), mercenary
(person), nut (person), orchid (character), shrinking violet (person), snake (insult), snowflake (person), straight
arrow (person), strongman (power), teacup (person), warrior (n), whiner (person), wild card (person)
• plant: dandelion (character), orchid (character), shrinking violet (person)
• religion: angel (behavior), devil (behavior), evil (non-human), public-spirited
• ruins: self-destructive (adj)
• sensation: abrasive (adj), irritating, nerveless (adj), sensitive (feelings), smooth (character), stoic (adj), thick-
skinned (adj), thin-skinned (adj), touchy (personality)
• shark: shark (predation)
• sheep: black sheep
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: nerveless (adj), sensitive (feelings), thick-skinned (adj), thin-skinned (adj), touchy
(personality)
• snake: snake (insult)
• snow & ice: snowflake (person)

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• sound: whiner (person)
• speech: loudmouth (person)
• sports & games: card (hold one’s cards close)
• statue: sphinx (n)
• storm: nature (force of nature)
• taste: bitter (personality); flavor (regional flavor, etc.), sour (personality); sweet (personality)
• temperature: cold (feeling), coolheaded (adj), fiery (character), firebrand (person), hot dog (person), hothead
(person), hotheaded (adj), incandescent (character), vein (ice in one’s veins, etc.), warmhearted (adj)
• theater: diva (person), drama (drama queen, etc.), dramatic (dramatic child, etc.), showboat (v)
• verb: card (hold one’s cards close), light up (a room, etc.), warrior through (v)
• water: buoyant (personality)
• weapon: time bomb (person), cannon (loose cannon), hotshot (n)
CHARACTERIZATION (1)
• clothing & accessories: cameo (n)
• color: mark (black mark)
• container: box (labeling)
• creature: demonization (n), demonize (v), demonized
• fire: brand (v), stigma (n), stigmatize (v)
• infrastructure: frame (characterize)
• manufacturing: cast (characterize), cast (characterized), recast (v)
• mark: brand (v), mark (black mark), stigma (n), stigmatize (v)
• picture: cameo (n), illustrate (v), illustration (n), paint (characterize), picture (view), portrait (view), profile,
snapshot
• product: label (n), labeled
• religion: christen (v)
• verb: brand (v), cast (characterize), christen (v), demonize (v), illustrate (v), paint (characterize), recast (v),
stigmatize (v)
CHEMISTRY (2)
• activity: ferment (n)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: distill (v), essence
• attraction & repulsion: valence (attraction)
• bases: essence
• evidence: litmus test
• experimentation: experiment (n), litmus test
• feeling, emotion & effect: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, caustic (adj), corrosive (adj)
• flaws & lack of flaws: rust (functioning), rusty (adj)
• functioning: chemistry, rust (functioning), rusty (adj)
• growth & development: oxygen (fuel)
• increase & decrease: oxygen (fuel)
• initiation: catalyst (n), oxygen (fuel)
• mixture: chemistry
• resemblance: rust (resemblance)
• speech: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, caustic (adj), caustically
CHESS (2) (see also sports & games)
• control & lack of control: check (in check)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: board (off the board)
• euphemism: board (off the board)

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• power: pawn (n)
• presence & absence: board (off the board)
• progress & lack of progress: stalemate (n)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: checkmate (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: endgame (n)
• strategy: chess (chess game), chessboard (n), endgame (n), gambit (n), game (chess game), move (chess move,
etc.)
• strength & weakness: pawn (n)
CIRCUS (2)
• ability & lack of ability: acrobat (person), acrobatic (adj)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: Barnum, circus (media circus, etc.)
• behavior: clown (v)
• character & personality: clown (person), strongman (power)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: acrobat (person), acrobatics (n), hoop (jump through hoops, etc.), tightrope (fate)
• directing: ringmaster (person)
• fate, fortune & chance: tightrope (fate)
• importance & significance: sideshow (n)
• insult: clown (person)
• obstacles & impedance: hoop (jump through hoops, etc.)
• performance: circus (media circus, etc.), freak show (n)
• person: acrobat (person), clown (person), ringmaster (role), strongman (power)
• protection & lack of protection: safety net
• resemblance: circus (media circus, etc.)
CITY (2) (see place)
CLOCK (2)
• action, inaction & delay: clock (run the clock, etc.)
• competition: clock (race with the clock)
• fate, fortune & chance: midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.)
• past & present: clock (turn back the clock), wind back (v)
• shape: hourglass (shape)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: tick on (v), tick-tock (n), wind down (v)
• time: clock (turn back the clock), clock (types), clock (race with the clock), clock (clock winds down, etc.),
clock (clock is ticking, etc.), clock (reset the clock), clock (run the clock, etc.), stroke (stroke of midnight, etc.),
tick on (v), tick-tock (n), wind back (v), wind down (v)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock (race with the clock), clock (clock winds down, etc.), clock (clock is
ticking, etc.), clock (reset the clock), hourglass (time), midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.)
CLOTH (2) (see also clothing & accessories)
• amelioration & renewal: iron out (v), patch (and patch up), patched, untangle (v)
• amount: shred (shred of hope, etc.)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: pick apart (analyze), tease out (v), thread (investigation), unpick (v),
unspool (v), untangle (v)
• attachment: entwined, pin (attach), pinned, pinned (pinned down)
• avoidance & separation: skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
• basis: fabric (fabric of society)
• center & periphery: fringe (edge), fringe (versus mainstream), fringe (on the fringe)
• character & personality: cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.)
• complexity: skein (entanglement), tangle (n), tangled

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• concealment & lack of concealment: bare (lay bare), bare (laid bare), bare (v), cloak (conceal), cloak (under a
cloak), cloak (in a cloak), cloak (other), cloaked (concealed), come out (v), cover (under cover), covered up,
cover up (v), coverup (n), curtain (pull back the curtain and pull the curtain back), shrouded (concealment),
wrap (under wraps), wrap (take the wraps off something)
• condition & status: tatters (in tatters), threadbare (adj)
• configuration: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed, fringe (configuration), fringed,
laced (adj), shrouded (covered, tucked, wraparound
• conflict: velvet (Velvet Revolution)
• cover: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed, shroud (n), shrouded (covered),
wrapped (covered)
• creation & transformation: embroider (v), patch (patch together), patchwork (n), stitch together (v), weave
(creation)
• destruction: shred (v), undoing (destruction)
• development: unfold (develop), unfolding (developing), unspool (v)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: needle (thread the needle)
• division & connection: entwined, intertwined, interwoven, knit (knit together), seamless, seamlessly, strand
(connection), thread (connection), thread (v), tight-knit, weave together (v), woven
• environment: fabric (fabric of society, etc.)
• extent & scope: blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: thread (by a thread)
• failure, accident & impairment: fray (v), frayed, tatters (in tatters), undoing (destruction), unravel (fail)
• feeling, emotion & effect: pall (cast a pall)
• fictive motion: weave (a trail can weave, etc.), thread (a trail can thread, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: fray (v), frayed, ragged (adj), seamless (adj), tatters (in tatters), wrinkle (n)
• identity & nature: cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.), dyed-in-the-wool, tapestry (n)
• inauguration: wrap (take the wraps off something)
• involvement: entwined, skein (entanglement), tangle (n), tangled, web (entanglement), wrapped (wrapped up in
something)
• mixture: lace (v), tapestry (n), weave (mixture)
• money: threadbare (adj)
• movement: weave (move)
• oppression: pall (cast a pall)
• proper name: needle (the Needles, etc.), ribbon (Ribbon Reef, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: curtain (curtain wall, etc.)
• relationship: entwined, tight-knit
• resemblance: strand (strand of hair, etc.), unfolding (opening), wrapped (covered)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: done and dusted, sewn (sewn up), wrap up (v)
• searching & discovery: thread (investigation), unfold (discover), unravel (unravel a mystery, etc.), unraveled
• shape: needle (shape)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: done and dusted, wrap up (v)
• subterfuge: covered up, cover up (v), coverup (n), curtain (The Wizard of Oz), Wizard of Oz
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: threadbare (adj)
• taxonomy & classification: cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.), strand (n), stripe (of all stripes)
CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES (2) (see also cloth)
• adapting: one-size-fits-all, tailor (v)
• affliction: shoe (a stone in the shoe)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: hang (hang somebody out to dry), hung (hung out to dry)
• amelioration & renewal: tailor (v)

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• amount: laundry (laundry list)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: strip (strip something down)
• appearance & reality: dressed (dressed up, etc.), dress up (v), fashion (n), naked (unadorned), nakedly, wolf
(wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• characterization: cameo (n)
• concealment & lack of concealment: bare (lay bare), bare (laid bare), bare (v), cloak (conceal), cloak (under a
cloak), cloak (in a cloak), cloak (other), cloaked (concealed), dirty laundry, dress up (v), fig leaf, launder (v),
lay (lay bare), naked (unadorned), nakedly, sleeve (on one’s sleeve), sleeve (up one’s sleeve), unmask (v), veil
(concealment), veil (under a veil), veiled
• condition & status: tatters (in tatters), threadbare (adj)
• configuration: cloaked (covered), necklace (n), skirt (configuration)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
• cover: cloaked (covered), veil (covering)
• creation & transformation: cobble together (v)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: boot (get the boot), boot out (v)
• empathy & lack of empathy: shoe (in somebody's shoes)
• experience: belt (under one's belt), hat (old hat)
• failure, accident & impairment: clotheslined, shirt (lose one’s shirt), tatters (in tatters)
• fate, fortune & chance: shoe (a shoe can drop or fall)
• feeling, emotion & effect: pearl (clutch one’s pearls), shoe (a stone in the shoe)
• flaws & lack of flaws: ragged (adj), tatters (in tatters)
• help & assistance: eye (naked eye)
• hyperbole: pants (scare the pants off somebody)
• inauguration: unveil (make public)
• money: shoestring (n), threadbare (adj)
• oppression: boot (oppression), wringer (through the wringer)
• perception, perspective & point of view: shoe (in somebody’s shoes)
• predation: wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: fashion (out of fashion), hat (old hat)
• protection & lack of protection: naked (protection)
• readiness & preparedness: pants (caught with one's pants down)
• removal: strip (v), stripped
• representation: mantle (n)
• resemblance: veil (covering)
• reversal: shoe (the shoe is on the other foot)
• role: pants (big girl pants, etc.), hat (role)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mantle (n)
• searching & discovery: search (digital strip search, etc.)
• sex: pants (get in somebody's pants)
• shape: washboard (bumpy)
• sign, signal, symbol: badge (badge of honor), hat (role), medal (n)
• size: seam (burst at the seams)
• substance & lack of substance: clothes (the emperor has no clothes), dress up (v), fashion (n), fig leaf, naked
(substance), strip (strip something down)
• subterfuge: cloak-and-dagger, dressed (dressed up, etc.), launder (v), sleeve (up one’s sleeve), wolf (wolf in
sheep’s clothing)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: shoestring (n), threadbare (adj)
• taking & removing: strip (v)

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• work & duty: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
CLOUD (2)
• certainty & uncertainty: cloudy (certainty)
• consciousness & awareness: cloud (v), cloud (consciousness), clouded, cloudy (consciousness)
• evidence: cloud (sign)
• feeling, emotion & effect: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.)
• oppression: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.)
• resemblance: cloud (resemblance)
COERCION & MOTIVATION (1)
• allusion: hector (v)
• animal: dog (attack dog), goad (v), herd (ride herd), herded, pit bull (dog)
• arm: arm (twist arms, etc.), arm (long arm), arm-twisting, dangle (v), nudge (n), push (coercion and
motivation), pushed around, pushy (people), shove (n), strong-arm (v)
• blade: hatchet man (person)
• blood: nose (bloody nose, etc.)
• courtship & marriage: marriage (shotgun marriage)
• crime: kneecap (v), kneecapped, strong-arm (v)
• dog: dog (attack dog), pit bull (dog)
• finger: prod (v)
• fire: feet (hold somebody's feet to the fire), fire (light a fire under somebody), fire (hold somebody's feet to the
fire), fire up (v), grill (v), grilled
• force: pushed around, pushy (people)
• fruits & vegetables: carrot (reward), carrot-and-stick
• gesture: nudge (n), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• hand: hand (force someone’s hand), squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), squeeze
(pressure), squeezed (oppressed), whip hand (n)
• head: head (hold something over one’s head)
• history: hatchet man (person)
• horse: spur (v)
• Iliad & Odyssey: hector (v)
• knee: kneecap (v), kneecapped
• nose: nose (bloody nose, etc.)
• nuclear energy: option (nuclear option)
• person: bully (person), bully (v), hatchet man (n)
• plant: carrot (reward), carrot-and-stick
• pressure: clampdown (n), press (v), pressure (under pressure), pressured, screw (tighten / loosen the screws),
squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), squeeze (pressure), squeezed (oppressed)
• school & education: bullied, bully (v), bully (person)
• sign, signal, symbol: nose (bloody nose, etc.)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), squeeze (pressure),
squeezed (oppressed)
• speech: cudgel (n), goad (v)
• standing, sitting & lying: lean on (coercion)
• temperature: heat (turn up the heat, etc.)
• tools & technology: screw (tighten / loosen the screws)
• train: railroad (v), railroaded
• verb: arm (twist arms, etc.), bully (v), crack down (v), dangle (v), feet (hold somebody’s feet to the fire), fire
(hold somebody’s feet to the fire), fire (light a fire under somebody), fire up (v), goad (v), grill (v), gun (hold a

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 gun to one’s head, etc.), hand (force someone’s hand), head (hold something over one’s head), hector (v), herd
(ride herd), kneecap (v), lean on (coercion), press (v), prod (v), push (coercion and motivation), railroad (v),
screw (tighten / loosen the screws), spur (v), squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), strong-
arm (v), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand (n)
• violence: arm-twisting, billy club, crackdown (n), crack down (v), cudgel (n), feet (hold somebody’s feet to the
fire), fire (hold somebody’s feet to the fire), fire (light a fire under somebody), goad (v), hatchet man (person),
kneecap (v), kneecapped, strong-arm (v), waterboarding (n), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand
(n)
• weapon: billy club, cudgel (n), gun (hold a gun to one’s head, etc.), hatchet man (person)
• whip: crackdown (n), crack down (v), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand (n)
COLOR (2)
• acceptance & rejection: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• access & lack of access: black box (n), black hole, black site (national security)
• alternatives & choices: palette (n)
• amount: palette (n)
• appearance & disappearance: blue (out of the blue, etc.), blue whale, swan (black swan)
• certainty & uncertainty: gray (gray area)
• character & personality: black sheep, colorful (politician, etc.), plain (plain people, etc.)
• characterization: mark (black mark)
• concealment & lack of concealment: black box (n), black hole, black site (national security)
• consciousness & awareness: black hole, black out (v), black site (national security)
• constraint & lack of constraint: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• danger: zone (red zone, etc.)
• experience: greenhorn (person)
• fate, fortune & chance: blue (out of the blue, etc.), blue whale, swan (black swan)
• feeling, emotion & effect: black (feeling), blue (feeling), blues (the blues), bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj),
dog (black dog / mental health), green (green with envy), livid (adj), mist (red mist)
• flaws & lack of flaws: black eye
• group, set & collection: palette (n)
• identity & nature: blue (politics), red (politics)
• isolation & remoteness: black hole, black site (national security)
• occurrence: blue whale, swan (black swan)
• oppression: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• origin: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• person: greenhorn (person)
• proper name: black (Black Sea, etc.), rainbow (Rainbow Falls, etc.), red (Red Sea, etc.), white (White Sea, etc.),
yellow (Yellow Sea, etc.)
• readiness & preparedness: red alert (on red alert)
• reputation: black eye, mark (black mark)
• resemblance: rainbow (color)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: black sheep, green light (n), green light (v), green-lighted (and green-
lit)
• sign, signal, symbol: green light (n), green light (v), green-lighted (and green-lit), red flag, zone (red zone, etc.)
• violence: mist (red mist)
• warning: red flag
• worth & lack of worth: white elephant

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COMING, ARRIVING, STAYING, LEAVING & RETURNING (1) (see also starting,
going, continuing & ending)
• animal: roar back (v)
• ball: rebound (rebound headache, etc.)
• bell: ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.)
• Bible: exodus (n)
• boat: ship (abandon / jump ship)
• bridge: bridge (burn one’s bridges)
• day: day (day has arrived, etc.), sunset (ride into the sunset)
• direction: circle back (return), come back (resiliency), comeback (n), day (day has arrived, etc.), go (come and
go), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has passed), turnover (work)
• doors & thresholds: exit (n), revolving door, usher in (v)
• engine: parked (movement)
• explosion: burst on / onto the scene, etc.
• film: sunset (ride into the sunset)
• foot: footstep (retrace one's footsteps)
• government: vote (vote with one's feet)
• head: head (rear its head, etc.)
• horse: cavalcade (n), sunset (ride into the sunset)
• infrastructure: ramp (off-ram)
• insect: descend (descend on)
• journeys & trips: back (no way back, etc.), circle back (return), get (get somewhere), reach (the news reached
him, etc.)
• light & dark: fade away (v)
• mechanism: parked (movement)
• military: last hurrah
• movement: circle back (return), conga line, day (day has arrived, etc.), footstep (retrace one’s footsteps), go
(come and go), go away (v), hover (other), linger (v), lingering, loiter (v), parade (n), parked (movement), reach
(the news reached him, etc.), remain (v), return (v), return (n), revolving door, time (time has passed), time (the
time can arrive or come, etc.)
• music: waltz in (v)
• plane: bail out (leave), land (arrive / plane), parachute (drop in), parachute (golden parachute), parachute (v),
parachuted
• prep, adv, adj, particle: back (return)
• religion: exodus (n)
• river: bridge (burn one’s bridges)
• royalty: herald (v), herald (n)
• sea: wash up (v)
• sound: last hurrah, ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.), roar back (v)
• sports & games: carrousel (n), merry-go-round, musical chairs
• sun: sunset (ride into the sunset)
• table: table (come back to the table)
• tent: tent (fold one's tent)
• theater: bow out (v), curtain call, encore, exit (n), usher in (v)
• verb: bail out (leave), bow out (v), burst on / onto the scene, etc., circle back (return), come back (resiliency),
come back (to bite, haunt, etc.), day (day has arrived, etc.), descend (descend on), fade away (v), footstep
(retrace one’s footsteps), get (get somewhere), go (come and go), go away (v), head (rear its head, etc.), herald
(v), hit (arrive), hover (other), jump (leave), land (arrive / plane), linger (v), loiter (v), reach (the news reached

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 him, etc.), remain (v), return (v), ring in (the New Year, etc.), ring out (the New Year, etc.), roar back (v), stay
around (v), table (come back to the table), tent (fold one’s tent), time (time has passed), time (the time can
arrive or come, etc.), usher in (v), walk (walk away from something), waltz in (v), wash up (v)
• walking, running & jumping: jump (leave), parade (n)
• water: bridge (burn one’s bridges), wash up (v)
• wave: wash up (v)
• weapon: boomerang (n)
COMMITMENT & DETERMINATION (1)
• allusion: believer (true believer), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), shield (on one’s shield)
• animal: dogged (determined), pit bull (dog)
• arm: pushing (keep on pushing, etc.)
• baseball: home run (swing for a home run, etc.), plate (step up to the plate)
• basketball: full-court press
• breathing: eat (eat and breathe, etc.)
• bullet: bullet (take a bullet for somebody), bullet (bite the bullet)
• cards: double down (v), in (all in)
• container: out (all out, etc.)
• death & life: live (live and die / commitment)
• direction: down (down for something), go for it, etc., live up to (something), up (up for something)
• dog: dogged (determined), pit bull (dog)
• engine: tank (empty the tank, etc.)
• equilibrium & stability: waver (v), unwavering (adj), wobbly (commitment)
• eye: blind (disregarding evidence, logic), blindly
• face: game (game face)
• fire: fire (fire and desire, etc.)
• flags & banners: flag (plant one’s flag)
• food & drink: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), egg (put all one’s eggs in a basket, etc.), Kool-
Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.)
• force: pushing (keep on pushing, etc.)
• gambling: double down (v), in (all in)
• gesture: lean into (lean in / into something)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: bring (bring it), leave it somewhere (commitment)
• ground, terrain & land: flag (plant one’s flag)
• heart: half-hearted, heart (commitment)
• history: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), shield (on one’s shield)
• horse: charge (in, into, etc.)
• journeys & trips: return (point of no return), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• materials & substances: grit (political grit, etc.)
• mechanism: full-on (adj), pedal (pedal to the metal)
• military: charge (in, into, etc.), flag (plant one’s flag), mission (on a mission), mission (other), shield (on one’s
shield), warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• money: buy-in (n), cost (at all costs, etc.), invest (v), investment (n), soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
• movement: budge (v), charge (in, into, etc.), go for it, etc., immovable (adj), leap (leap into action, etc.), waver
(v), unwavering (adj), wobbly (commitment)
• music: stop (pull out all the stops)
• number: percent (one hundred and ten percent)
• person: warrior (n)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: down (down for something), in (all in), out (all out, etc.), up (up for something)

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• religion: born-again, heaven (move heaven and earth), hellbent, vow (v)
• river: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• size: go big (v)
• sleep: eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
• speech: talk (talk the talk)
• sports & games: full-court press, game (game face), home run (swing for a home run, etc.), plate (step up to the
plate)
• standing, sitting & lying: lean into (lean in / into something), stand (stand firm)
• stomach: gut out (v), guts (courage)
• table: table (bring everything to the table)
• tent: tent (fold one’s tent)
• throwing, putting & planting: throw (throw oneself into something)
• verb: all (give something one’s all, etc.), bring (bring it), budge (v), bullet (bite the bullet), charge (in, into,
etc.), double down (v), dive in (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), go big (v), go for it, etc.,
gut out (v), home run (swing for a home run, etc.), invest (v), lean into (lean in / into something), leap (leap into
action, etc.), leave it somewhere (commitment), live up to (something), plate (step up to the plate), soul (sell
one’s soul to the devil, etc.), stand (stand firm), stop (pull out all the stops), table (bring everything to the table),
talk (talk the talk), tent (fold one’s tent), throw (throw oneself into something), walk (walk the walk), warrior
through (v), waver (v)
• walking, running & jumping: leap (leap into action, etc.), leap (leap of faith, etc.), walk (walk the walk)
• water: dive in (v), throw (throw oneself into something)
• weapon: bullet (take a bullet for somebody), bullet (bite the bullet)
COMPARISON & CONTRAST (1)
• film: screen (split screen)
• hand: hand (on the one / other hand)
COMPETITION (1) (see also hierarchy; society; superiority & inferiority)
• allusion: Darwinian, race (arms race)
• animal: dog-eat-dog, game (game of cat and mouse, etc.), jockey (v), law (law of the jungle, etc.), pack
(competition), rat race, underdog (competition)
• blade: cutthroat (competition)
• cat: game (game of cat and mouse, etc.)
• clock: clock (race with the clock)
• direction: ahead (competition), behind (competition), dust (leave somebody in the dust), front (in front /
competition), outrun (v), slipstream (in a slipstream)
• dog: dog-eat-dog, pack (competition), underdog (competition)
• football: football (conflict)
• ground, terrain & land: turf (turf war, etc.)
• government: race (elections)
• ground, terrain & land: jungle (competition)
• history: race (arms race)
• horse: dead heat, jockey (v), neck and neck (adj)
• hunting: game (game of cat and mouse, etc.)
• journeys & trips: fall behind (progress), keep up (progress), lag (progress), pass (progress)
• jungle: jungle (competition), law (law of the jungle, etc.)
• knife: cutthroat (competition)
• military: race (arms race)
• money: marketplace (n)

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• movement: ahead (competition), behind (competition), catch up (catch up to something), fall behind (progress),
keep up (progress), lag (progress), race (competition), race (hurry)
• neck: neck and neck (adj)
• person: front-runner (n), pace-setter (n)
• position: ahead (competition), behind (competition), front (in front / competition), outrun (v), underdog
(competition)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: ahead (competition), behind (competition)
• rat: rat race
• sports & games: ahead (competition), behind (competition), catch up (catch up to something), contest (n), dust
(leave somebody in the dust), fall behind (progress), football (conflict), front (in front / competition), front-
runner (n), game (game of cat and mouse, etc.), keep up (progress), lose out (v), outrun (v), pace-setter (n),
pacesetting (adj), playing field (uneven playing field, etc.), playing field (level the playing field), race (politics),
race (arms race), race (competition), race (race against time, the clock, etc.), right (bragging rights), winner (n)
• verb: catch up (catch up to something), fall behind (progress), front (in front / competition), jockey (v), keep up
(progress), lag (progress), lose out (v), outrun (v), pass (progress), playing field (level the playing field), race
(hurry)
• violence: cutthroat (competition)
• walking, running & jumping: ahead (competition), behind (competition), catch up (catch up to something), fall
behind (progress), front (in front / competition), front-runner (n), jump (get the jump), keep up (progress), lag
(progress), outpace (v), outrun (v), pace-setter (n), pacesetting (adj), race (arms race), race (politics), race
(competition), race (hurry), race (race against time, the clock, etc.), step (a step ahead / competition)
• weapon: duel (n), dueling (adj)
• wolf: pack (competition)
COMPLEXITY (1)
• allusion: Gordian knot, labyrinth (n)
• animal: warren (n)
• cloth: skein (entanglement), tangle (n), tangled
• direction: wind (wind its way)
• ground, terrain & land: morass (n)
• history: baroque (adj), byzantine
• infrastructure: labyrinth (n), maze (terrain), maze (structures), maze (bureaucracy, etc.), warren (n)
• mechanism: part (moving parts)
• music: note (one note)
• rope: Gordian knot, tangle (n), tangled
• verb: wind (wind its way)
COMPREHENSION & INCOMPREHENSION (1) (see also consciousness &
awareness)
• allusion: Delphic (adjective), eureka (moment, etc.), Rosetta Stone
• arm: arm (get one’s arms around something)
• container: take in (comprehend)
• day: dawn (v)
• depth: fathom (v), unfathomable (adj)
• electricity: lightning bolt (comprehension)
• exclamation: Aha! (Aha! moment), eureka (moment, etc.)
• eye: eye (comprehension), eye (roll one’s eyes), see (comprehension)
• fist: hit (comprehension)
• food & drink: digest (v), digestible (adj)
• force: hit (comprehension)

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• gesture: eye (roll one’s eyes), head (scratch one's head), head (shake one's head), head-scratching
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: get (understand), take in (comprehend)
• hand: grasp (comprehend)
• head: head (scratch one’s head), head (shake one’s head), head (go over one's head / comprehension), head (get
one’s head around something, etc.), head-scratching
• history: Latin (Latin of Korea, etc.), Rosetta Stone
• journeys & trips: follow (argument)
• light & dark: clear (crystal clear), clear (perception), clear (unambiguous), dawn (v), illuminate (v), illuminating
(adj), light bulb (and bulb), lighthouse (illumination), murky (adj), opacity (n), opaque (adj), waters (muddy the
waters)
• lightning: lightning bolt (comprehension)
• mind: mind (wrap / get one’s mind around something, etc.)
• movement: follow (argument)
• picture: puzzle (problem)
• puzzle: puzzle (problem), puzzling
• religion: Delphic (adj)
• sea: fathom (v), unfathomable (adj)
• speech: Aha! (Aha! moment), joke (you must be joking, etc.)
• storm: lightning bolt (comprehension)
• verb: arm (get one’s arms around something), dawn (v), digest (v), eye (roll one’s eyes), follow (argument), get
(understand), grasp (comprehend), head (scratch one’s head), head (shake one’s head), head (go over one’s
head / comprehension), head (get one’s head around something, etc.), hit (comprehension), illuminate (v), mind
(wrap / get one’s mind around something, etc.), see (comprehension), sink in (v), take in (comprehend), waters
(muddy the waters)
• water: murky (adj), sink in (v), sunk in, unfathomable (adj), waters (muddy the waters)
COMPUTER (1)
• animal: worm (computers)
• blade: hack (break into), hack (fix), hack (a fix), scrape (v)
• biology: virus (computers)
• boat: navigation (cyberspace)
• cards: wildcard (computers)
• container: locker (n)
• creature: troll (computers), unicorn (rarity), zombie (computers)
• doors & thresholds: trapdoor (computers)
• earth & world: blogosphere (in the blogosphere), blogosphere (other)
• explosion: bomb (code bomb)
• farming & agriculture: harvest (data, etc.)
• fire: firewall (computers), war (flame war)
• food & drink: menu
• force: hit (computer)
• health & medicine: disinfect (v), infect (computers), quarantine (v), viral (computers), virus (computers)
• Iliad & Odyssey: Trojan horse (computers)
• infrastructure: warehousing (data)
• knife: scrape (v)
• light & dark: darknet
• military: war (flame war)
• number: two point zero, two point oh (2.0)

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• place: alley (Silicon Alley), blogosphere (in the blogosphere), blogosphere (other), water cooler (digital water
cooler, etc.)
• plant: root (root server)
• puppet: puppet (sockpuppet / internet)
• sports & games: surf (computers)
• tree: hole (tree hole)
• verb: disinfect (v), hack (break into), hack (fix), harvest (data, etc.), infect (computers), quarantine (v), scrape
(v), surf (computers)
• warehouse: warehousing (data)
• weapon: bomb (code bomb)
CONCEALMENT & LACK OF CONCEALMENT (1) (see also appearance & reality)
• air: air (expose)
• alcohol: bootleg (adj), bootlegger
• animal: burrow (burrow into), ground (go to ground), mole (n)
• astronomy: black hole
• atmosphere: air (expose)
• boat: dredge up (verb)
• burial: bury (conceal), exhume (v)
• cards: card (cards on the table), hold (close held, etc.), poker-faced (adj), tip (tip one’s hand), vest (play
something close to the vest, etc.)
• carpets & rugs: carpet (under the carpet, etc.), rug (under the rug)
• cloth: bare (lay bare), bare (laid bare), bare (v), cloak (conceal), cloak (under a cloak), cloak (in a cloak), cloak
(other), cloaked (concealed), come out (v), cover (under cover), covered up, cover up (v), coverup (n), curtain
(pull back the curtain and pull the curtain back), shrouded (concealment), wrap (under wraps), wrap (take the
wraps off something)
• clothing & accessories: bare (lay bare), bare (laid bare), bare (v), cloak (conceal), cloak (under a cloak), cloak
(in a cloak), cloak (other), cloaked (concealed), dirty laundry, dress up (v), fig leaf, launder (v), lay (lay bare),
naked (unadorned), nakedly, sleeve (on one’s sleeve), sleeve (up one’s sleeve), unmask (v), veil (concealment),
veil (under a veil), veiled
• color: black box (n), black hole, black site (national security)
• container: out (reveal)
• creature: ghostwriter (n)
• death & life: exhume (v)
• direction: basement (concealment), hide (hide behind something), netherworld, underground (n), underworld
(n)
• doors & thresholds: door (behind closed doors), trapdoor (computers)
• earth & world: underworld (n)
• eye: hidden, see (see through something)
• face: mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v), poker-faced (adj), stone-faced (adj)
• fire: smoke out (v), smokescreen (concealment)
• fox: ground (go to ground)
• gambling: card (cards on the table), hold (close held, etc.), poker-faced (adj), tip (tip one’s hand), vest (play
something close to the vest, etc.)
• gesture: tight-lipped (adj)
• ground, terrain & land: bury (conceal), buried (concealment), dig up (v), ground (go to ground), open (in / into
the open), uncover (v)
• hand: hold (close held, etc.), vest (play something close to the vest, etc.)
• hole: ground (go to ground)

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• house: basement (concealment), closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
• hunting: Easter egg, footstep (conceal one’s footsteps, etc.), ground (go to ground), track (cover one’s tracks,
etc.)
• hygiene: artwash (v), clean (come clean), dirty laundry, launder (v), sanitize (v), sanitized, sanitizing, scrub
(remove), sportswash (v), sportswashing (n)
• infrastructure: astroturf (n), astroturfer (n), astroturfing, ceiling (glass ceiling), facade (n), paint (coat of paint),
whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• key: lock (lock something away), lock (under lock and key), unlock (v)
• light & dark: black hole, black site (national security), bury (conceal), clarity (adj), day (the light of day), gloss
(appearance), gloss over (v), light (shed light), shadow (concealment), shadowy, sunlight (concealment),
transparency (n), transparent (adj)
• love, courtship and marriage: infidelity (n)
• magic: sleight of hand
• materials & substances: gloss (appearance), lipstick (appearance), paint (coat of paint), stone-faced (adj),
sugarcoat (v), unvarnished (adj), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• military: camouflage (v), camouflage (concealment), smokescreen (concealment)
• mining: dig up (v)
• mixture: blend in (v)
• orientation: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: dredge up (v)
• puppet (sockpuppet / internet)
• religion: soul (bare one’s soul)
• river: undercurrent (n)
• shadow: shadow (concealment), shadowy
• skeleton: skeleton (skeleton in the closet)
• society: underworld (n)
• speech: tight-lipped (adj)
• sports & games: card (cards on the table), hold (close held, etc.), tip (tip one’s hand), vest (play something close
to the vest, etc.)
• standing, sitting & lying: sit (sit on something)
• stomach: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• sun: sunlight (concealment)
• taste: sugarcoat (v), sugarcoating (n)
• theater: backstage (adj), behind-the-scenes, curtain (pull back the curtain and pull the curtain back), scene
(behind the scenes)
• tools & technology: black box (n)
• tree: hole (tree hole)
• verb: artwash (v), bare (lay bare), bare (v), betray (v), blend in (v), bury (conceal), camouflage (v), clean (come
clean), cloak (conceal), come out (v), cover up (v), dig up (v), dredge up (v), erase (v), gloss over (v), ground
(go to ground), exhume (v), hide (hide behind something), launder (v), lay (lay bare), light (shed light), lock
(lock something away), mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v), out (reveal), reveal (v),
sanitize (v), scrub (remove), see (see through something), sit (sit on something), smoke out (v), sportswash (v),
sugarcoat (v), surface (bring to the surface), track (cover one’s tracks, etc.), uncover (v), unlock (v), unmask
(v), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.), wrap (take the wraps off something)
• verb to noun: air (expose), reveal (big reveal, etc.), tell-all (book)
• water: surface (under the surface), surface (bring to the surface)
• weapon: weapon (secret weapon)
• writing & spelling: erase (v), erased

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CONDITION & STATUS (1)
• animal: dead (dead in the water)
• blade: honed, sharp
• blood: hemorrhage (n), pulse (n)
• breathing: wheezing (condition)
• cloth: tatters (in tatters), threadbare (adj)
• clothing & accessories: tatters (in tatters), threadbare (adj)
• death & life: alive (status), alive (alive and well), dead (status), dead (dead on arrival), dead (dead in the water),
flatline (v), last rites (n), life support (on life support), live (alive / non-human), moribund (adj)
• direction: down (functioning), knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• engine: sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• fish: dead (dead in the water)
• health & medicine: ailing (adj), anemic (adj), atrophy (v), basket case, bill of health, brain death (n), clean
(addiction), comatose (adj), dead (dead on arrival), diseased, exhausted (adj), exhaustion (n), fatigue (n), fit
(adj), handicapped, health (in good / bad health), health (condition), healthy (condition), hemorrhage (n),
hurting, last rites (n), life support (on life support), malaise (decline), moribund (adj), prognosis (n), robust
(adj), sclerotic (adj), shape (condition), sick (condition), sluggish (adj), test (stress test), unhealthy (condition),
weary (condition), well (health), well-being, wheezing (condition), wounded (adj)
• hygiene: clean (addiction)
• journeys & trips: go (progress)
• knee: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• knife: honed, sharp
• materials & substances: breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking point (to the breaking point), breaking
point (other)
• mechanism: broken (failure), comatose (adj), down (functioning), gear (in full gear), hum (hum along), neutral
(in neutral), speed (up to speed), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (wheels are falling off, etc.),
wheel (spin one’s wheels)
• mental health: troubled
• military: AWOL, missing in action (MIA)
• movement: go (progress), handicapped, limp (v), ongoing (investigation, etc.), sluggish (adj), speed (up to
speed), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (spin one’s wheels)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: down (functioning)
• religion: last rites (n)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: atrophy (v)
• sleep: comatose (adj)
• sound: hum (hum along), sputter (v)
• standing, sitting & lying: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• verb: flatline (v), go (progress), hum (hum along), knee (bring to one’s knees), limp (v), sputter (v), stall (v)
• walking, running & jumping: limp (v)
CONFIGURATION (1)
• animal: dovetail (v), nestled, perch (v), perched, riddled, sardined
• arm: hug (configuration)
• astronomy: constellation (n), orbit (n)
• bird: dovetail (v), nestled, perch (v), perched
• blanket: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed
• boundary: bounded
• carpets & rugs: carpet (v), carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.), carpeted
• chain: chain (configuration)

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• cloth: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed, fringe (configuration), fringed, laced
(adj), shrouded (covered), tucked, wraparound
• clothing & accessories: cloaked (covered), necklace (n), skirt (configuration)
• cooking: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• container: package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• doors & thresholds: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• farming & agriculture: sown (mine-sown, etc.)
• fish: sardined
• flying & falling: hover (numbers)
• food & drink: pancake (v), pancake (n), pancaked, sandwiched, spaghetti (snarl)
• hole: riddled
• horse: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• house: neighbor (v), neighbor (n), neighboring (adj)
• infrastructure: built, built in, built-in
• insect: riddled
• island: archipelago (n)
• key: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• leg: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• letters & characters: punctuate (configuration)
• light & dark: shadow (rain shadow, etc.)
• line: straddle (configuration)
• mark: dot (v), dotted (arrangement), speckled (configuration)
• materials & substances: marbled
• pendulum: suspended
• person: neighbor (n)
• plant: sown (mine-sown, etc.)
• pressure: sardined, squeeze (fit), squeezed (fitted)
• rain: sprinkle (v), sprinkled (configuration)
• sea: archipelago (n), pearl (string of pearls)
• shadow: shadow (rain shadow, etc.)
• shape: ringed (circled)
• sports & games: jigsaw puzzle (n)
• standing, sitting & lying: astride (position), sprawling (adj), straddle (configuration)
• verb: blanket (v), dot (v), dovetail (v), hover (numbers), hug (configuration), neighbor (v), pancake (v), perch
(v), punctuate (v), skirt (configuration), sprinkle (v), squeeze (fit), straddle (configuration)
• weapon: scattershot (adj)
• wedge: wedged
• waste: littered
CONFLICT (1) (see also resistance, opposition & defeat)
• air: turbulence
• allusion: cold war, Gandhi (Gandhi of the Balkans, etc.), Gandhian, Lawrence (T.E.)
• animal: back (get off my back, etc.), back (get one’s back up, etc.), backbiting, back down (v), bearbaiting,
blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), blood sport (n), chest (beat one’s chest), claw
(v), dogfight (n), growl (v), hackles (raise hackles), head (butt heads), head-on, head-to-head, horn (lock horns),
hornet’s nest, jugular (go for the jugular), pit (bear pit), roll over (v), scratch (scratch and claw), snake pit,
throat (predation), tooth and nail (adverb)
• atmosphere: turbulence
• back: back (get off my back, etc.), back (get one’s back up, etc.), backbiting, back down (v)

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• blade: stab (v)
• blood: blood (bad blood), blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), bloodbath, blood
sport (n), bloody (conflict), jugular (go for the jugular), pit (bear pit)
• boat: shot (shot across the bow)
• boxing: bare-knuckled (adj), brawl (n), come (come out swinging), glove (the gloves are off), hitter (heavy
hitter), jab (n), rumble (v), spar (v), square off (v), swing (take a swing, etc.), slug (slug something out), toe-to-
toe (go toe-to-toe, etc.), uppercutting
• character & personality: mercenary
• cloth: velvet (Velvet Revolution)
• crashes & collisions: collide (v), collision (n), course (on a collision course)
• crime: drive-by (conflict), hit (mob hit, etc.)
• death & life: hit (mob hit, etc.)
• direction: side (conflict)
• dog: back (get one’s back up, etc.), dogfight (n), hackles (raise hackles), roll over (v)
• epithet: Gandhi (Gandhi of the Balkans, etc.), Lawrence (T.E.), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet)
• explosion: blowup (conflict), fireworks (conflict)
• eye: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• face: face (conflict), face (in one’s face)
• farming & agriculture: slash-and-burn (adj)
• film: match (death match)
• fire: fire (conflict), flame (conflict), scorched-earth, slash-and-burn (adj)
• fist: bare-knuckled (adj), hitter (heavy hitter)
• football: football (conflict)
• fortification: battering ram, parapet (n), siege (under siege)
• gesture: blink (America will not blink, etc.), chest (beat one’s chest)
• ground, terrain & land: last-ditch (adj), turf (turf war, etc.)
• hair: hackles (raise hackles)
• hardness & softness: velvet (Velvet Revolution)
• head: head (butt heads), head-on, head-to-head, horn (lock horns)
• history: arena (in / inside the arena), cold war, gladiator (n), joust (v), jousting (conflict), match (death match),
Stalingrad (epithet), wagon (circle the wagons), warpath (on the warpath)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: brawl (n), thrash (v), thrashed, trounce (v), trounced, tit-for-tat (adj)
• hole: pit (bear pit), snake pit
• horn: head (butt heads), head-on, head-to-head, horn (lock horns)
• horse: wrangling
• infrastructure: arena (in / inside the arena)
• insect: hornet’s nest
• love, courtship & marriage: honeymoon (n)
• Middle Ages: gauntlet (lay down a gauntlet, etc.), joust (v), jousting (conflict)
• military: ally (n), attack (under attack, etc.), battering ram, battle (v), battle (n), battle cry, battleground
(conflict), ceasefire (n), combat (v), embattled, enemy (conflict), force (show of force), fray (above the fray),
fray (conflict), front (conflict), last-ditch (adj), line (battle lines, etc.), outgunned, rebellion (n), scorched-earth,
siege (under siege), skirmish (n), Stalingrad (epithet), truce (n), war (at war), war (conflict), warfare (n), war
zone, zone (combat zone)
• person: black belt (person), enemy (conflict), fighter (street fighter), gladiator (n)
• physics: friction (conflict)
• predation: backbiting, blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), blood sport (n), jugular (go for the jugular), pit
(bear pit), throat (predation)
• pressure: blowup (conflict)

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• religion: picnic (church picnic)
• school & education: fight (food fight)
• shape: vicious circle
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: war of nerves
• smell: stink (raise a stink)
• snake: snake pit
• sound: bewail (v), clamor (v), clash (n), clash (v), din (attention), fireworks (conflict), growl (v), moan (v),
noisy (debate, etc.), noise (attention), outcry (n), quiet (adj), tumult (disruption), uproar (controversy), volume
(turn up the volume, etc.), wail (v)
• speech: conversation (national conversation, etc.), fireworks (conflict)
• sports & games: arena (in / inside the arena), beat (defeat), black belt (person), blood sport (n), football
(conflict), hitter (heavy hitter), match (death match), pit (bear pit), rumble (v), tug of war
• standing, sitting & lying: back down (v), standoff (n)
• storm: storm (eye / center of the storm), storm (in the storm), storm (conflict)
• sword: sword (cross swords), sword (at swords’ points)
• temperature: cold war
• throat: jugular (go for the jugular), throat (predation)
• toe: toe-to-toe (go toe-to-toe, etc.)
• verb: back (get one’s back up, etc.), back down (v), barb (trade barbs, etc.), battle (v), beat (defeat), bewail (v),
blink (America will not blink, etc.), blood (smell blood), clash (v), claw (v), collide (v), combat (v), fight (v),
fire (a question, etc.), gauntlet (lay down a gauntlet, etc.), growl (v), hackles (raise hackles), head (butt heads),
horn (lock horns), joust (v), jugular (go for the jugular), moan (v), roll over (v), rumble (v), scratch (scratch and
claw), slug (slug something out), spar (v), square off (v), stink (raise a stink), swing (take a swing, etc.), sword
(cross swords), toe-to-toe (go toe-to-toe, etc.), thrash (v), trounce (v), wagon (circle the wagons), wail (v)
• violence: bearbaiting, bloodbath, blood sport (n), feud (n), fighter (street fighter), gladiator (n), pit (bear pit),
thrash (v), thrashed, vendetta (n), warpath (on the warpath)
• water: turbulence
• weapon: arm (up in arms), attack (under attack, etc.), barb (trade barbs, etc.), blowup (conflict), crossfire (n),
duel (n), dueling (adj), fire (a question, etc.), outduel (v), outgunned, shoot-out (n), shot (opening shot), shot
(parting shot), shot (warning shot)
• whip: thrash (v), thrashed
CONFRONTING, DEALING WITH & IGNORING THINGS (1) (see also action,
inaction & delay)
• animal: duck (avoid), sand (stick one’s head in the sand), teeth (in / into the teeth of)
• ball: ball (ball in somebody’s court), toss back (v)
• bird: duck (avoid), sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
• bodily reaction: flinch (v)
• bridge: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• clothing & accessories: skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
• desert: sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
• direction: come forward (v), face up (face up to something), man up (v), retreat (withdraw), rise (rise to the
challenge, etc.)
• ear: ear (turn a deaf ear), dear (fall on deaf ears)
• eye: blind (noticing, understanding, judging), blind spot, blink (America will not blink, etc.), eye (turn a blind
eye), look (look the other way), stare (stare at defeat, etc.)
• face: face (look something in the face), face (face facts, etc.), face (face anger, etc.), face (in the face of), face
(in one’s face), face up (face up to something)
• football: punt (v), punt (n), tackle (v)

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• gesture: blink (America will not blink, etc.), lean in (v), shrug (gesture)
• hand: go (let something go), grip (come to grips), hand (take matters into one's hands), handle (deal with),
handled, handling
• head: head-on
• health & medicine: triage (n)
• height: rise (rise to the challenge, etc.)
• horse: shy (shy away)
• journeys & trips: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), can (kick the can down the road), go
(not go there), road (go down that road, etc.), road (push something down the road)
• light & dark: gloss over (v)
• military: retreat (withdraw)
• movement: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), can (kick the can down the road), go (not go
there), hand (sit on one’s hands), road (go down that road, etc.)
• orientation: head-on
• river: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• shoulder: shrug (gesture)
• speech: address (v)
• sports & games: ball (ball in somebody’s court), field (v), grapple (v), tackle (v), wrestle (v)
• standing, sitting & lying: lean in (v), sit (sit on one’s hands), sit by (v)
• teeth: teeth (in / into the teeth of)
• verb: address (v), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), blink (America will not blink, etc.),
can (kick the can down the road), come forward (v), dance (dance around something), duck (avoid), eye (turn a
blind eye), face (look something in the face), face (face facts, etc.), face (face anger, etc.), face up (face up to
something), flinch (v), gloss over (v), go (let something go), grapple (v), grip (come to grips), hand (take
matters into one’s hands), hand (sit on one’s hands), handle (deal with), lean in (v), look (look the other way),
meet (meet the moment, etc.), put up with (v), punt (v), rise (rise to the challenge, etc.), road (push something
down the road), shy (shy away), sit (sit on one’s hands), sit by (v), skirt (skirt an issue, etc.), stare (stare at
defeat, etc.), step up (rise to the occasion), tackle (v), toss back (v), wrestle (v)
• walking, running & jumping: can (kick the can down the road), dance (dance around something), road (push
something down the road), step up (rise to the occasion), tackle (v)
• wrestling: grapple (v), wrestle (v)
CONSCIOUSNESS & AWARENESS (1) (see also comprehension &
incomprehension)
• addiction: opiate (n)
• alcohol: black out (v)
• allusion: frog (frog in boiling water), road (road to Damascus)
• animal: frog (frog in boiling water), sheep (consciousness)
• astronomy: black hole
• atmosphere: cloud (v), cloud (consciousness), clouded, cloudy (consciousness), drift (consciousness)
• ball: ball (take one’s eye off the ball)
• bell: bell (ring a bell)
• Bible: road (road to Damascus)
• cloud: cloud (v), cloud (consciousness), clouded, cloudy (consciousness)
• color: black hole, black out (v), black site (national security)
• creature: giant (sleeping giant), zombie (behavior)
• day: dawn (v)
• direction: come (see something coming), fall (fall into a coma, etc.), sink (sink into a coma, etc.)
• ear: deaf (adj), ear (fall on deaf ears), tone-deaf (adj)

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• exclamation: Aha! (Aha! moment)
• eye: blind (noticing, understanding, judging), blinded, blinder (n), blindsided, blind spot, clear-eyed (adj), come
(see something coming), envision (envision the future, etc.), eye (open eyes, etc.), eye (closed eyes, etc.), eye-
opening, eye-opener, eye-opening, see (see something coming), see (see through something), sight (lose sight),
view (out of view)
• face: slap (awareness)
• fog: fog (fog of war, etc.), fog (mental fog, etc.), foggy (adj)
• frog: frog (frog in boiling water)
• fruits & vegetables: vegetable (consciousness)
• gesture: slap (awareness)
• ground, terrain & land: open (in / into the open)
• hand: hand (the right hand vs. the left hand)
• head: head (clear head)
• health & medicine: amnesia (n), comatose (adj), conscious (aware), dead (brain dead), opiate (n)
• horse: blinder (n), blinkered (adj)
• journeys & trips: road (road to Damascus)
• light & dark: black hole, black site (national security), dark (in the dark), dawn (v), haze (perception), light
(come to light), light (bring something to light), light bulb (and bulb), opaque (adj)
• map: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• mechanism: comatose (adj), wheel (asleep at the wheel)
• mirror: mirror (n)
• movement: drift (consciousness), come (see something coming), see (see something coming)
• music: tone-deaf (adj)
• nose: nose (under somebody's nose)
• plane: autopilot (on autopilot), blind (flying blind)
• proximity: nose (under somebody’s nose)
• radio: tune (stayed tuned)
• religion: road (road to Damascus)
• sensation: daze (in a daze), numb (adj), slap (awareness)
• sheep: sheep (consciousness)
• size: giant (sleeping giant)
• sleep: arouse (v), asleep (adj), asleep (at the switch, etc.), awake (adj), awaken (awareness), awakening, call
(wake-up call), comatose (adj), giant (sleeping giant), nap (n), sleeping (consciousness), sleepwalk (v), slumber
(n), wake up (v), woke (adj)
• snow & ice: blizzard (consciousness)
• sound: bell (ring a bell)
• speech: Aha! (“Aha” moment), tone-deaf (adj)
• sports & games: ball (take one’s eye off the ball), game (get one's head into the game)
• temperature: frog (frog in boiling water)
• tools & technology: antenna (n), radar (on the radar), radar (below / under the radar), radar (drop off the radar),
radar (under the radar screen), radar (radar screen)
• train: asleep (asleep at the switch)
• verb: arouse (v), awaken (awareness), ball (take one’s eye off the ball), bell (ring a bell), black out (v), cloud
(verb), come (see something coming), dawn (v), drift (consciousness), envision (envision the future, etc.), fall
(fall into a coma, etc.), keep up (awareness), light (come to light), light (bring something to light), map (drop
off the map, etc.), radar (drop off the radar), see (see something coming), see (see through something), sight
(lose sight), sink (sink into a coma, etc.), slap (awareness), sleepwalk (v), tuned (stay tuned), wake up (v)
• verb to noun: know (in the know)
• walking, running & jumping: keep up (awareness), sleepwalk (v)

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• warning: wake-up call
• water: frog (frog in boiling water)
• weather: blizzard (consciousness), fog (fog of war, etc.), fog (mental fog, etc.), foggy (adj)
CONSTRAINT & LACK OF CONSTRAINT (1) (see also control & lack of control;
restraint & lack of restraint)
• access & lack of access: open (open marriage, etc.)
• allusion: envelope (push the envelope)
• animal: cage (a gilded cage), hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled, leash (on a leash), muzzle (v), rein (free rein),
shackle (n), wild (run wild)
• arm: hold back (obstacle), overreach (v), overreach (n)
• bird: fly (constraint), wing (clip / stretch one's wings)
• boat: leeway (n)
• books & reading: book (by the book)
• boundary: guardrail (behavior), limits (push something to its limits), overreach (v), overreach (n), overstep (v)
• boxing: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• chain: chain (oppression)
• color: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• container: box (in / out / outside the box), boxed in (v), corner (in a tight corner, etc.), open-minded (adj),
openness (n), pent-up (constrained), room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.)
• corner: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• crime: Geneva Convention, handcuff (v), handcuffed, hostage, manacle (n), prisoner (constraint), riot (run riot),
riot (other), shackle (n), unfettered, unshackle (v)
• dam: dam (psychological dam, etc.), floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other)
• distance: overreach (v), overreach (n)
• dog: leash (on a leash), unleash (v), unleashed
• doors & thresholds: lockdown (n)
• flood: floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other)
• flying & falling: fly (constraint)
• ground, terrain & land: room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.)
• hand: hand (hands are tied, etc.), handcuff (v), handcuffed
• health & medicine: hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled
• history: Geneva Convention
• horse: rein (free rein), unbridled
• infrastructure: ceiling (glass ceiling), ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.), guardrail (behavior)
• justice: Geneva Convention
• key: lockdown (n)
• leg: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• line: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• manufacturing: mold (fit a mold)
• map: latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
• materials & substances: elastic (adj), flexible (adj), rigid (constraint), supple (adj)
• mental health: straitjacket (n)
• money: budget (attention budget, etc.)
• movement: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.), flexible (adj), hamstrung,
handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled, jump (rivers can jump their banks), jump (transmission), rigid (constraint),
spot (tight spot, etc.), supple (adj)
• picture: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• plane: envelope (push the envelope)

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• river: dam (psychological dam, etc.), floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other)
• rope: bind (constraint), bind (constrain), binding (adj), bound (constraint), hand (hands are tied, etc.), loose (get
looser, etc.), slack (n)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: hidebound
• snow & ice: ice (put on ice)
• space: room (opportunity), room (space)
• speech: gag (n), muffled
• sports & games: box (box somebody into a corner)
• temperature: ice (put on ice)
• verb: bind (constrain), box (box somebody into a corner), color (color outside the lines, etc.), envelope (push
the envelope), fly (constraint), hand (hands are tied, etc.), handcuff (v), hobble (v), hold back (obstacle),
hostage (held hostage), jump (rivers can jump their banks), jump (lines), jump (transmission), limits (push
something to its limits), muzzle (v), overreach (v), overstep (v), unleash (v), unshackle (v), wild (run wild),
wing (clip / stretch one’s wings)
• walking, running & jumping: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled, jump (rivers can jump their banks), jump (lines),
overstep (v)
• wall: wall (constraint)
• walking, running & jumping: hobble (v), hobbled, jump (rivers can jump their banks), jump (transmission),
jump (lines)
• water: dam (psychological dam, etc.), floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other), spigot
(open / close, etc.)
CONSUMPTION (1)
• animal: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), lap up (v), meat (fresh meat)
• bodily reaction: choke (v), retch (v), swallow (disappearance)
• breathing: choke (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), inhale (v), live (live and breathe)
• death & life: live (live and breathe)
• farming & agriculture: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• fire: burn through (v)
• fish: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• food & drink: appetite (appetite for fur, etc.), bellyful (amount), chew (v), choke (v), consume (consumption),
devour (devour the classics, etc.), diet (n), digest (v), digestible (adj), drink in (v), eat (consume), eat (eat and
breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), fed up, feed (fuel), feed (supply), feed (satisfy), feed (feed on / off / into
something), food (food for thought), gobble up (v), go down (digestion), glutton (person), gorge (gorge on),
hook (hook, line and sinker), hungry (adj), imbibe (v), imbibed, ingest (v), insatiable (adj), Kool-Aid (drink the
Kool-Aid, etc.), lap up (v), palatable (adj), ravenous (adj), ravenously, retch (v), stomach (accept), sustenance
(n), swallow (accept), swallowed, taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste (taste of freedom, etc.), taste (taste for
violence, etc.), taste (a bad taste, etc.), thirst (n), unsavory (adj), voracious (adj), voraciously
• health & medicine: pill (bitter pill, etc.)
• meat: hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.), meat (fresh meat), meat (piece of meat)
• military: cannon fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.), meat (fresh meat)
• person: glutton (person)
• plant: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• predation: meat (fresh meat)
• sleep: eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
• speech: saccharine (adj)
• stomach: bellyful (amount), fed up, retch (v), stomach (accept), swallow (accept)
• taste: palatable (adj), saccharine (adj), taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• throat: choke (v), swallow (accept), throat (ram something down the throat)

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• tongue: lap up (v)
• verb: burn through (v), chew (v), choke (v), consume (consumption), devour (devour the classics, etc.), digest
(v), eat (consume), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), feed (fuel), feed (supply), gobble up (v),
go down (digestion), gorge (gorge on), imbibe (v), inhale (v), lap up (v), live (live and breathe), retch (v), run
out (v), stomach (accept), swallow (accept), swallow (disappearance), throat (ram something down the throat)
• walking, running & jumping: run out (v)
CONSUMPTION (2)
• action, inaction & delay: time (lose time, etc.)
• time: run out (of time), spare (a minute to spare, etc.), spend (time), time (borrowed time), time (buy time, etc.),
time (steal time, etc.), time (run out of time), time (time left), time (waste time), time (use time), time (time off),
time (take your time), time (take time, etc.), time (lose time)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: time (run out of time), time (waste time), time (time left), time (lose time)
CONTAINER (2)
• acceptance & rejection: in (inclusion), left out (excluded), out (exclusion)
• access & lack of access: bottle up (v), lid (keep the lid on something), open up (access)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: out (want out)
• amount: bag (collection), bottomless (adj), brim (v), full (adj), package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: unpack (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: showcase (v), showcase (n)
• avoidance & separation: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine), out (want out), stay out (v)
• certainty & uncertainty: bag (in the bag)
• characterization: box (labeling)
• commitment & determination: out (all out, etc.)
• comprehension & incomprehension: take in (comprehend)
• computer: locker (n)
• concealment & lack of concealment: out (reveal)
• configuration: package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• constraint & lack of constraint: box (in / out / outside the box), boxed in (v), corner (in a tight corner, etc.),
open-minded (adj), openness (n), pent up (constrained), room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.)
• danger: strait (dire straits, etc.)
• death & life: life (container)
• enthusiasm: into (be into something)
• environment: cauldron (n), crucible (n)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bottle up (v), drained (feeling), emptiness (depression), empty (depression), hold
(hold something in), inside (emotions), open up (emotions, speech, etc.), pent-up (constrained), place (in a place
/ feelings), spill out (speech, emotions, etc.)
• future: future (in the future), hold (the future can hold something), tap (on tap), time (in time / future)
• group, set & collection: bag (collection), package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• heart: heart (container)
• idea: box (in / out / outside the box)
• identity & nature: melting pot (n)
• inclusion & exclusion: in (inclusion), left out (excluded), out (exclusion)
• involvement: get (get into something), hole (situation), in (in deep, etc.), into (involvement)
• isolation & remoteness: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• mind: close-minded (adj), mind (container), mind (open mind), open-minded
• mixture: melting pot (n)
• money: coffer (n)
• past & present: moment (in this moment, etc.), past (in the past), time (in our time, etc.), time capsule

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• possession: lap (fall into the lap, etc.)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: time capsule
• protection & lack of protection: bubble (quarantine)
• pursuit, capture & escape: exit (n), get out (escape), trap (in a trap), way (way out / escape)
• responsibility: lap (in the lap of)
• situation: bind (in a bind), corner (in a tight corner, etc.), drawn in, drawn into, exit (n), get out (escape), hole
(situation), in (situation), jam (situation), lap (lap of luxury), limbo (in limbo), out (want out), place (in a place /
feelings), place (situation), room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.), stay out (v), stuck (adj), trap (in a trap),
trap (Chinese finger trap), trouble (in trouble), way (way out / escape)
• speech: open up (emotions, speech, etc.), spill out (speech, emotions, etc.)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: brim (v)
• taxonomy & classification: basket (category), bucket (category)
• time: future (in the future), hold (the future can hold something), moment (in this moment, etc.), past (in the
past), time (in our time, etc.), time (in time / future), time capsule (n)
CONTENT (1)
• animal: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• farming & agriculture: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.), hay (make hay, etc.)
• food & drink: filling (content), food (food for thought)
• ground, terrain & land: dirt (political dirt, etc.)
• manufacturing: mill (grist for the mill), mill (gossip / rumor mill)
• plant: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.), hay (make hay, etc.)
• wheat: grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
CONTEXT (1) (see also analysis, interpretation & explanation; picture)
• picture: backdrop (against a backdrop), picture (in the big picture)
• position: step back (perspective)
• theater: backdrop (against a backdrop)
• verb: step back (perspective)
CONTROL & LACK OF CONTROL (1) (see also constraint & lack of constraint;
restraint & lack of restraint)
• alcohol: drunk (adj)
• allusion: King Canute, Lady Macbeth (epithet)
• animal: harness (v), herd (v), herd (ride herd), horse (hold your horses), leash (on a leash), rein (rein in), rein
(reins of power, etc.), reined in, rogue, runaway (control), run away (v), tame (v), tiger (n), wild (control)
• arm: arm (get one’s arms around something)
• atmosphere: drift (control), whirlwind (ride the whirlwind, etc.)
• boat: adrift, drift (control), helm (at the helm), helm (other), rudderless, ship (tight ship, etc.)
• chess: check (in check)
• creature: zombie (control)
• crime: captive (held captive, etc.), hijack (v), hijacked, usurp (v)
• direction: adrift, hand (upper hand), helm (at the helm), helm (other), top (on top / control)
• dog: leash (on a leash)
• doors & thresholds: gatekeeper (person)
• electricity: circuit breaker (n)
• engine: seat (in the driver’s seat)
• epithet: Lady Macbeth (epithet)
• force: rage (v), raging (adj)
• gate: gatekeeper (person)

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• ground, terrain & land: turf (control)
• hand: grip (in the grip), grip (control), hand (get out of hand), hand (upper hand), hand (in hand), hand
(control), handle (get a handle on something), handle (deal with), handled, handling, hands-off, hands-on
• head: head (keep / lose one’s head), hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• history: badlands (environment), cowboy (person), wild West
• horse: corral (v), harness (v), horse (hold your horses), rein (rein in), rein (reins of power, etc.), reined in,
runaway (control), run away (v), saddle (in the saddle), unbridled
• justice: police (v)
• magic: hypnotize (v)
• materials & substances: putty (n), unglued
• mechanism: brake (control), lever (levers of power, etc.), steering wheel, wheel (asleep at the wheel)
• mental health: amok (run amok), berserk, crazy (behavior), rage (v), raging (adj)
• Middle Ages: fiefdom (control)
• military: cannon (loose cannon), no man’s land (danger), no man’s land (regulatory, etc.)
• movement: brake (control), carried away, check (in check), rage (v), raging (adj), spin (out of control), spiral
(out of control)
• person: cannon (loose cannon), chaperon (person), cowboy (person), gatekeeper (person), hothead (person),
hotheaded (adj), police (thought police, etc.)
• plane: spin (spin out of control), spiral (spiral out of control, etc.)
• puppet: puppet (control), puppeteer (n), string (pull strings)
• purses & wallets: pocket (in the pocket)
• religion: god (play god, etc.)
• royalty: kingdom (control), ruled, usurp (v)
• sea: King Canute
• society: gatekeeper (person)
• sex: passion (enthusiasm), passionate, passionately
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: knee-jerk (adj), reflex (n), twitch (quick-twitch)
• sleep: asleep (at the switch, etc.)
• speech: tongue (hold one’s tongue)
• sports & games: check (in check), free-for-all (control)
• storm: whirlwind (ride the whirlwind, etc.)
• temperature: hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• theater: puppet (control)
• tide: King Canute
• tiger: tiger (n)
• tongue: tongue (hold one’s tongue)
• tools & technology: circuit breaker (n)
• train: train (runaway train)
• verb: arm (get one’s arms around something), corral (v), hand (get out of hand), handle (get a handle on
something), handle (deal with), harness (v), head (keep / lose one’s head), herd (v), herd (ride herd), hijack (v),
horse (hold your horses), lurch (v), police (v), rage (v), rein (rein in), run away (v), shot (call the shots), spin
(spin out of control), spiral (spiral out of control, etc.), string (pull strings), tame (v), usurp (v)
• walking, running & jumping: highway (my way or the highway), lurch (v), runaway (control), run away (v)
• water: fluid (adj)
• weapon: cannon (loose cannon), shot (call the shots)
• wind: drift (control), whirlwind (ride the whirlwind, etc.)
CONTROL & LACK OF CONTROL (2)
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• fate, fortune & chance: control (out of one's control)
• feeling, emotion & effect: control (in control)
• restraint & lack of restraint: control (out of control), control (in control), control (under control)
COOKING (2) (see also food & drink; fruits & vegetables; meat; taste)
• accusation & criticism: grill (v), grilled, skewer (v), skewered
• affliction: skewer (v), skewered
• attachment: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• configuration: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• creation & transformation: concoct (v), cook up (v), cooked up, kitchen (creation), stir up (v)
• effect: stir (effect)
• epithet: oven (the Oven, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: frying pan
• feeling, emotion & effect: stir (effect)
• flaws & lack of flaws: half-baked (adj)
• identity & nature: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• initiation: stir (v), stir up (v)
• relationship: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• resemblance: stir up (resemblance)
• speech: mince (v), roast (v), skewer (v), skewered
CORNER (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: corner (in one’s corner)
• area: corner (in remote corners, etc.)
• constraint & lack of constraint: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• development: corner (turn the corner)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: corner (cut corners)
• future: corner (spring is just around the corner)
• movement: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• progress & lack of progress: corner (turn the corner)
• proximity: corner (spring is just around the corner)
• situation: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• time: corner (spring is just around the corner)
CORRUPTION (1)
• air: miasma (n)
• apple: apple (bad / rotten apple)
• atmosphere: miasma (n)
• direction: twist (twist the truth, etc.), twisted (corruption)
• environment: cesspool
• food & drink: apple (bad / rotten apple), curdle (v), fresh (fresh evidence, etc.), rot (v), rot (n), rotten (adj), sour
(adj), sour (v), spoil (v), spoiled (adj), stale (adj), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• ground, terrain & land: swamp (fever swamp), swamp (drain the swamp)
• health & medicine: contagion (n), corrupting, corruption (n), fester (v), ill (ills of society, etc.), infect (corrupt),
infected, infection (corruption), malignant (adj), sickness (n)
• hygiene: filthy (corruption)
• light & dark: shady (adj), tarnish (v), tarnished
• materials & substances: contaminate (v), contaminated, contamination, poison (v), taint (n), taint (v), tainted
• plant: blight (v), blight (n), blighted
• shadow: shady (adj)

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• size: stunted
• smell: cesspit (n), cesspool (n), miasma (n), noxious (adj), stink (v)
• swamp: swamp (fever swamp), swamp (drain the swamp)
• taste: sour (v), sour (adj), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• verb: blight (v), contaminate (v), curdle (corruption), fester (v), infect (corrupt), poison (v), pollute (v), rot (v),
sour (v), spoil (v), stink (v), swamp (drain the swamp), taint (v), tarnish (v), twist (twist the truth, etc.)
• water: pollute (v), polluted, swamp (fever swamp), swamp (drain the swamp)
COST & BENEFIT (1) (see also worth & lack of worth)
• allusion: Pyrrhic victory
• distance: mileage, way (go a long way)
• explosion: boom (jade boom, etc.), bust (oil bust, etc.)
• food & drink: gravy (n), gravy train, jar (cookie jar), meal ticket
• gift: gift (benefit)
• government: jar (cookie jar)
• history: gold rush, Pyrrhic victory
• letters & characters: box (tick all the boxes, etc.), plus (benefit)
• magic: curse (n)
• military: Pyrrhic victory
• mining: bonanza (n), gold rush
• money: afford (v), bonanza (n), bottom line, capital (money), cash in (v), cost (v), cost (at a cost), cost (at all
costs, etc.), costly (adj), dividend (pay dividends), expense (at the expense), gold rush, pay (benefit), pay (pay a
price), pay off, payoff, price (n), price tag, prize (n), prized, profit (v), reward (v), reward (n), rewarding, spend
(energy, etc.), toll (take a toll, etc.), toll (other), worth
• religion: blessed, blessing (benefit), curse (n), graced, miracle (other)
• scale: outweigh (cost and benefit)
• sound: bang (bang for the buck)
• ticket: meal ticket, pass (free pass), ticket (n)
• train: gravy train
• verb: afford (v), cash in (v), cost (v), outweigh (cost and benefit), pay (benefit), pay (pay a price), pay off (v),
profit (v), reward (v), spend (spend energy, etc.), toll (take a toll, etc.)
• weight: outweigh (cost and benefit)
COUNTRY (see place)
COURAGE & LACK OF COURAGE (1)
• animal: chicken-hearted, chicken (chicken out), lion (courage)
• back: backbone (courage), spine (courage)
• bird: chicken-hearted, chicken (chicken out)
• bodily reaction: cower (v), flinch (v)
• heart: chicken-hearted, faint-hearted (the faint-hearted)
• lion: lion (courage)
• military: warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• person: lion (courage), warrior (n)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: nerve (courage)
• stomach: gut out (v), guts (courage)
• verb: brave (v), chicken (chicken out), cower (v), flinch (v), gut out (v), pants (scare the pants off somebody),
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COURSE (1) (see also direction; route)
• direction: direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), direction (a new direction, etc.), direction (course / on a
course), direction (purpose)
• infrastructure: road (road from / to something), road (along / on the road)
• journeys & trips: detour (n), direction (course / on a course), direction (purpose), journey (in one’s journey),
journey (on a journey), journey (n), passage (n), path (on the path), path (on a path), path (down a path), path
(path of peace, etc.), path (path to / toward something), road (road from / to something), road (along / on the
road), road (long road), route (course), way (along the way)
COVER (1)
• blanket: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed
• breathing: smother (cover)
• carpets & rugs: carpet (v), carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.), carpeted
• cloth: blanket (v), blanket (under a blanket), blanket (cover), blanketed, shroud (n), shrouded (covered),
wrapped (covered)
• clothing & accessories: cloaked (covered), veil (covering)
• umbrella: umbrella (under an umbrella), umbrella (other)
• verb: blanket (v), carpet (v), smother (cover)
COWS & CATTLE (2) (see also animal)
• amelioration: beef up (v)
• behavior: stampede (n)
• character & personality: maverick (person)
• creation & transformation: calve (v), calving
• force: bull (bull in a china shop)
• idea: sacred cow
• movement: stampede (n)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sacred cow
• strength & weakness: beef up (v)
• taking & removing: milk (v)
• worth & lack of worth: cow (cash cow)
CRASHES & COLLISIONS (2)
• attraction & repulsion: hit it off (v)
• conflict: collide (v), collision (n), course (on a collision course)
• destruction: crash (crash and burn), crash (car crash), shipwreck (n), wreck (v), wreck (train wreck), wreck
(person)
• failure, accident & impairment: crash (population crash, etc.), crash (car crash), crash-land (v), shipwreck (n),
T-bone (v), T-boned, wreck (v), wreck (train wreck), wreck (person)
• feeling, emotion & effect: wreck (person)
• functioning: crash (population crash, etc.)
• haste: crash (crash course, etc.)
• obstacles & impedance: run (run into something), wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• progress & lack of progress: wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• relationship: knock-on (effect, etc.)
CREATION & TRANSFORMATION (1)
• allusion: muse (person), Phoenix (myth)
• animal: breed (create), breeding ground, chameleon (change), spawn (v), spawned, web (spin a web)
• biology: mutate (v)
• bird: incubator (n)

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• birth: birth (creation), birthday (creation), birthed (created), born (creation), born-on (adj), germinate (v),
gestate (v), gestation (film, etc.), labor pains, midwife, spawn (v), spawned
• blade: carved out, carve out (v), scissor (genetic scissors, etc.)
• bodily reaction: spit out (v)
• books & reading: author (person)
• cloth: embroider (v), patch (patch together), patchwork (n), stitch together (v), weave (creation)
• clothing & accessories: cobble together (v)
• cooking: concoct (v), cook up (v), cooked up, kitchen (creation), stir up (v)
• cows & cattle: calve (v), calving
• direction: turn (transform), turn out (create)
• epithet: Edison (Thomas Alva), father (father of India, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.),
Gutenberg, mother (mother of invention, etc.)
• family: brainchild, father (father of India, etc.), mother (mother of invention, etc.)
• farming & agriculture: hothouse (n), nursery (n), plant (create), seed (n), sow (v)
• finger: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• fire: ashes (from the ashes), Phoenix (myth)
• fish: spawn (v), spawned
• food & drink: hash out (v)
• gesture: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• glacier: calve (v), calving
• hammer: hammer out (v), hammered out
• hand: shape (v), shaped, reshape (v)
• head: brainchild
• health & medicine: doctored
• infrastructure: architect (v), architect (creator), architected, build (create), drawing board (on the drawing
board), drawing board (other), engineered, engineering (n)
• insect: web (spin a web)
• knife: carved out, carve out (v)
• magic: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• manufacturing: byproduct (n), churn out (v), fabricate (v), fabricated, fabrication, factory (creation), forge (v),
forged, grind out (v), hammered out, hammer out (v), machine (publicity machine, etc.), making (creation), mill
(n), mold (v), product (n), reshape (v), shape (v), shaped, strike (strike a deal, etc.), turn out (create)
• materials & substances: clay (n), putty (n)
• mechanism: machine (publicity machine, etc.)
• military: drum up (v)
• money: coin (v), coined, minted
• mouth: spit out (v)
• movement: spin-off (n)
• nuclear energy: breeder reactor (n)
• person: architect (creator), author (person), midwife (person), muse (person)
• picture: masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, etc.)
• plant: germinate (v), hothouse (n), kernel (n), nursery (n), planted (create), seed (n), shoot (plant), sow (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: cook up (v), drum up (v), make up (v)
• pressure: squeeze (squeeze something from / out of something), wring (wring something from / out of
something)
• religion: born-again, muse (person)
• sea: change (sea change)
• snow & ice: calve (v), calving
• sound: drum up (v)

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• speech: translate (v)
• spider: web (spin a web)
• tools & technology: churn out (v), grind out (v), scissor (genetic scissors, etc.)
• verb: architect (v), breed (create), build (create), calve (v), carve out (v), churn out (v), cobble together (v), coin
(v), concoct (v), cook up (v), drum up (v), edit (v), embroider (v), excite (v), fabricate (v), forge (v), germinate
(v), gestate (v), grind out (v), hammer out (verb), hash out (v), make up (v), mold (v), mutate (v), patch (patch
together), plant (create), recast (v), reshape (v), shape (v), sow (v), spawn (v), spit out (v), squeeze (squeeze
something from / out of something), stitch together (v), strike (strike a deal, etc.), translate (v), turn (transform),
turn out (create), weaponize (v), weave (creation), wring (wring something from / out of something)
• weapon: weaponization (n), weaponize (v)
• writing & spelling: edit (v), edited (genes, etc.), editing (n), rewritten (changed)
CREATURE (2)
• ability & lack of ability: genie (knowledge), wizard (person), wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.), wizardry (n)
• affliction: Frankenstein (product), monster (create a monster), Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.)
• accusation & criticism: demonization (n), demonize (v), demonized
• achievement, recognition & praise: giant (achievement), titan (n)
• activity: ghost town
• affliction: bedevil (v), bedeviled, bogeyman (and boogeyman), demon (affliction), fury (creature), genie
(initiation), ghost (memory), gremlin (n), haunt (v), haunted, monster (affliction), specter (n)
• amelioration & renewal: exorcise (v), ghost (bury the ghost)
• appearance: angel (appearance), angel (angel-faced), cherubic (adj)
• appearance & disappearance: ghost (verb), ghost (ghost ship, etc.), phantom
• behavior: angel (behavior), devil (behavior), zombie (behavior)
• character & personality: angel, creature (creature of habit, etc.), devil (behavior), sphinx (n), witch (n)
• characterization: demonization (n), demonize (v), demonized
• computer: troll (computers), unicorn (rarity), zombie (computers)
• concealment & lack of concealment: ghostwriter (n)
• consciousness & awareness: giant (sleeping giant), zombie (behavior)
• control & lack of control: zombie (control)
• destruction: heart (stake through the heart, etc.)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: exorcise (v)
• epithet: unicorn (epithet), wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: demonic (adj), haunting (adj), spook (v), spooked
• fantasy & reality: ghost (fantasy and delusion), heffalump (creature), phantom
• help & assistance: angel (guardian angel), angel (trail angel, etc.)
• identity & nature: creature (creature of habit, etc.)
• importance & significance: giant (achievement), titan (n)
• initiation: genie (initiation), Pandora's box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), worm (can of worms)
• knowledge & intelligence: genie (knowledge), wizardry (n)
• oppression: pitchfork (oppression)
• person: genie (knowledge), troll (computers), wizard (person)
• power: giant (sleeping giant)
• presence & absence: ghost town, phantom
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: ghost (ghost signs, etc.)
• product: Frankenstein (product)
• proper name: angel (Guardian Angels, etc.), devil (Devil's Falls, etc.), dragon (Dragon's Jaw, etc.), elf (Elves
Chamber, etc.), fairy (Fairy Bridge, etc.), Frankenstein (Frankenstein Cliff, etc.), giant (Giants Causeway, etc.),
monster (Monster.com, etc.), Titan (Tennessee Titans, etc.), troll (Troll Wall, etc.)

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• oppression: pitchfork (oppression), witch hunt
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: bury (bury the ghosts, etc.), exorcise (v), ghost (bury the ghost), haunt
(v)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ghost (ghost children, etc.)
• shape: angel (snow angel), dragon (Dragon’s Jaw, etc.)
• size: behemoth (n), giant (size), leviathan (n), monster (size), titan (n)
• society: ghost (ghost children, etc.)
• subterfuge: ghostwriter (n)
• superlative: angel (superlative)
• taxonomy & classification: creature (creature of habit, etc.)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: creature comfort
• worth & lack of worth: unicorn (rarity)
CRIME (2)
• accusation & criticism: drive-by (conflict), hatchet job (n), hit (mob hit, etc.), hot seat (n)
• amount: mob (group)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: steal (steal the show, etc.)
• behavior: mob (group), riot (run riot), riot (other)
• coercion & motivation: kneecap (v), kneecapped, strong-arm (v)
• conflict: drive-by (conflict), hit (mob hit, etc.)
• constraint & lack of constraint: Geneva Convention, handcuff (v), handcuffed, hostage, manacle (n), prisoner
(constraint), riot (run riot), riot (other), shackle (n), unfettered, unshackle (v)
• control & lack of control: hijack (v), usurp (v)
• crime: poach (v)
• destruction: murderous (adj)
• group, set & collection: mafia (group), mob (group)
• person: buccaneer (person), pirate (person), police (thought police, etc.)
• possession: captive (held captive, etc.), hijack (v), hijacked, loot (v), time (steal time, etc.), usurp (v)
• resemblance: riot (riot of color, etc.)
• taking & removing: buccaneer (person), captive (held captive, etc.), hijack (v), hijacked, loot (v), piracy (n),
pirate (person), plunder (v), plundered, poach (v), poached, rob (v), robbed, robbery (n), Robin Hood, steal
(steal the show, etc.), steal (steal customers, etc.), steal (steal dreams, etc.), strip-mine (v), usurp (v)
CURTAILMENT (1) (see also dismissal, removal & resignation; starting, going,
continuing & ending)
• ax: axed (curtailed), cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.)
• baby: cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
• bell: knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• blade: axed (curtailed), cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.), cut off (v), cut short (v)
• books & reading: book (close the book)
• boxing: knock out (v)
• burial: bury (kill), knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• cards: fold (v)
• death & life: bury (kill), kill (v), kill off (v), knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• direction: take down (v)
• doors & thresholds: door (closure), lockdown (n)
• electricity: circuit breaker (n)
• farming & agriculture: cut short (v)
• fire: snuff (v)
• fist: knock out (v)

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• hand: break off (v)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: knock out (v)
• infrastructure: dismantle (v), plug (pull the plug)
• journeys & trips: track (stop something in its tracks)
• key: lockdown (n)
• knife: cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.), cut off (v), cut short (v)
• mechanism: shut down (v), shut off (v)
• movement: track (stop something in its tracks)
• plant: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.)
• sound: knell (death knell / obsolescence), silent (fall silent)
• sports & games: sidelined (adj)
• tools & technology: circuit breaker (n)
• tree: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.)
• verb: book (close the book), break off (v), bury (kill), cut (cut the budget, etc.), cut off (v), dismantle (v),
dissolve (terminate), fold (v), kill (v), kill off (v), plug (pull the plug), root (tear something out by the roots,
etc.), shut down (v), shut off (v), snuff (v), take down (v), track (stop something in its tracks)
• walking, running & jumping: track (stop something in its tracks)
• water: dissolve (terminate), dissolved (ended), plug (pull the plug)
• window: shuttered (adj)
DAM (2)
• amount: reservoir (amount)
• amount & effect: floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgates (other)
• constraint & lack of constraint: dam (psychological dam, etc.), floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates),
floodgate (other)
• driving force: powerhouse (n)
• obstacles & impedance: dam (psychological dam, etc.)
• power: powerhouse (n)
• source: reservoir (source)
• strength & weakness: powerhouse (n)
DANGER (1)
• allusion: kryptonite (n), Scylla and Charybdis
• animal: hornet’s nest, sitting duck, snake pit, teeth (in / into the teeth of), tiger (n), wolf (predation)
• back: back (watch your back, etc.)
• bird: sitting duck
• blade: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• boat: coast (coast is clear), lighthouse (protection), rock (on the rocks), Scylla and Charybdis, shoal (n), strait
(dire straits, etc.), waters (dangerous waters, etc.)
• bodily reaction: sigh (sigh of relief)
• breadth: strait (dire straits, etc.)
• breathing: exhale (v), sigh (sigh of relief)
• color: zone (red zone, etc.)
• container: strait (dire straits, etc.)
• direction: back (watch your back, etc.)
• electricity: rail (third rail)
• epithet: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• explosion: bomb (danger), booby trap, booby-trapped, landmine, minefield, powder keg, time bomb (ticking
time bomb, etc.), tripwire (danger)
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• forest: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
• ground, terrain & land: edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), jungle (competition), precipice (at the precipice),
precipice (other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope), terrain (dangerous terrain, etc.)
• hair: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• hole: pitfall (n)
• hunting: pitfall (n), sitting duck, trap (n)
• Iliad & Odyssey: Scylla and Charybdis
• insect: hornet’s nest
• journeys & trips: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
• jungle: jungle (competition)
• military: bomb (danger), booby trap, booby-trapped, landmine, line of fire, milk run (n), minefield, no man’s
land (danger), powder keg, tripwire (danger)
• mountains & hills: edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), Mount Everest (and Everest), precipice (at the precipice),
precipice (other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• place: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• position: back (watch your back, etc.)
• route: way (in harm’s way), way (out of harm’s way)
• sea: coast (coast is clear), lighthouse (protection), rock (on the rocks), shoal (n), strait (dire straits, etc.), Scylla
and Charybdis, waters (dangerous waters, etc.)
• sign, signal, symbol: zone (red zone, etc.)
• snake: snake pit
• speech: tongue (danger)
• teeth: teeth (in / into the teeth of)
• tiger: tiger (n)
• tongue: tongue (danger)
• train: rail (third rail)
• verb: back (watch your back, etc.), exhale (v), tread (tread carefully, etc.)
• walking, running & jumping: landmine, minefield, pitfall (n), step (watch one’s step), tread (tread carefully,
etc.)
• water: waters (dangerous waters, etc.)
• weapon: bomb (danger), booby trap, booby-trapped, kryptonite (n), landmine, line of fire, minefield, powder
keg, time bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.), tripwire (danger)
• wolf: wolf (predation)
DAY (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: heyday (n)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: day (at the end of the day)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: day (day has arrived, etc.), sunset (ride into the sunset)
• comprehension & lack of comprehension: dawn (v)
• death & life: night (death)
• decline: evening (decline), twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
• fantasy & reality: Groundhog Day (film)
• fate, fortune & chance: midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.), noon (high noon)
• feeling, emotion & effect: day (dark day)
• future: day (a new day), day (day has arrived, etc.), day (day after tomorrow), tomorrow (future)
• growth & development: day (early days), evening (decline)
• past & present: day (back in the day), day (days of yore), day (of one's day / of the day), day (these days), day
(those days), day (in the old days, etc.), day (old days), day (day has arrived, etc.), day (modern day), hour (of

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 one’s hour / of the hour), moment (for this moment), old (of old), today (the present), yesterday (the past),
yesteryear
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day (in the old days, etc.), day (old days), day (back in the day),
day (days of yore), day (of one’s day / of the day), day (those days), day (have one's day), day (glory days, etc.),
day (modern day), evening (decline), heyday (n), hour (of one’s hour / of the hour), latest (the latest / most
recent), moment (have a moment / attention), sun (currency and obsolescence), twilight (in / into the twilight,
etc.)
• proximity: eve (on the eve)
• repetition: Groundhog Day (film)
• sign, signal, symbol: night (death)
• speed: overnight
• starting, going, continuing & ending: dawn (from / since the dawn), dawn (n), day (a new day), day (early
days), day (call it a day)
• superlative: Christmas
• time: day (a new day), day (day has arrived, etc.), day (in the old days, etc.), day (old days), day (back in the
day), day (days of yore), day (day after tomorrow), day (of one’s day / of the day), day (these days), day (those
days), hour (of one’s hour / of the hour), moment (for this moment), old (of old), today (the present), tomorrow
(future), yesterday (the past), yesteryear
• timeliness and lack of timeliness: day (early / late in the day), day (early days), early (timeliness), eve (on the
eve), late (timeliness), midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.), morning (early in the morning), noon (high
noon), yesterday (I need it yesterday, etc.)
DEATH & LIFE (1)
• bird: vulture (behavior)
• blood: blood (blood represents life)
• container: life (container)
• day: night (death)
• direction: fallen (dead), fallen (the fallen)
• epithet: killer (silent killer, etc.)
• heart: heartbeat (n), heart (beating heart)
• infrastructure: life (life is a building)
• justice: capital punishment, death (death sentence), death warrant
• movement: gone (dead), passing (death)
• sign, signal, symbol: blood (blood represents life), cradle (symbol), night (death), vulture (behavior)
• sound: heartbeat (n), heart (beating heart)
DEATH & LIFE (2)
• absorption & immersion: live (live and breathe)
• accusation & criticism: hit (mob hit, etc.)
• activity: alive (activity), alive (come alive), dead (activity), hibernation (in hibernation), hibernation (other), life
(spring to life), suspended animation, zone (dead zone, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: alive (come alive), Fountain of Youth, invigorate (v), Lazarus (Bible), life (give life),
life (bring to life), life (breathe life), newborn, reinvigorate (v), resurrect (v), resurrection (n), resuscitate (v),
revive (v)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: autopsy (analysis), dissect (v), post-mortem (analysis)
• appearance & disappearance: exhume (v), lose (extinction), vanishing (disappearance)
• bases: lifeblood
• commitment & determination: live (live and die / commitment)
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• condition & status: alive (status), alive (alive and well), dead (status), dead (dead on arrival), dead (dead on
arrival), flatline (v), last rites (n), life support (on life support), live (alive / non-human), moribund (adj)
• conflict: hit (mob hit, etc.)
• consumption: live (live and breathe)
• curtailment: bury (kill), kill (v), kill off (v), knell (death knell / obsolescence)
• decline: death (decline), die down (v), doomed, dying (dying industry, etc.), life support (on life support)
• destruction: bury (kill), coup de grace (deathblow), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), deadly (adj), deathblow (n),
death warrant, fatal (adj), epitaph (n), eulogy (n), fatally (fatally wounded, etc.), funeral (one’s funeral), grave
(dig one’s grave), graveyard (destruction), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heart (stake through the heart, etc.),
kill (v), killed, kill off (v), kiss of death, knell (death knell / destruction), knife (knife in the heart), martyrdom
(n), mortal (adj), mortally (mortally wounded, etc.), murderous (adj), suicide (career suicide, etc.)
• enthusiasm: live (live and breathe)
• epithet: graveyard (graveyard of the Turks, etc.), killer (silent killer, etc.)
• euphemism: claim (kill), demise (death), dust (bite the dust), fallen (the fallen), feet (feet first), gone (dead),
leave (death), lose (through death), lost (death), neutralize (kill), pass away (v), passing (death), place (resting
place), remove (kill), succumb (v), take down (kill), terminated (murdered), with (no longer with us)
• failure, accident & impairment: belly-up (adj), casualty (n)
• fate, fortune & chance: death (cheat death), death warrant, doomed, funeral (one’s funeral), grave (dig one’s
grave), kiss of death, live (live and die / fate), noose (fate)
• feeling, emotion & effect: dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), deadening (effect), funereal (adj), heart (knife in the
heart, etc.), killjoy (person), knife (knife in the heart)
• foot: feet (feet first)
• functioning: dead (functioning)
• growth & development: adolescence (n), age (come of age), baby (development), boy (big boy, etc.), brought
up, career (n), crisis (mid-life crisis), crybaby (person), girl (big girl, etc.), grow (develop), grownup (person),
grow up (grow up together, etc.), infancy (in infancy), infancy (other), infant (n), life (begin life), life span (n),
mature (v), maturity, newborn, pants (big girl pants, etc.), raised (reared), reared (raised), stillborn (adj)
• help & assistance: rescue (v), rescue (n)
• hyperbole: death (to death), die (hyperbole)
• identity & nature: live (live and breathe)
• initiation: life (spring to life)
• neck: neck (save one’s neck)
• person: survivor (person)
• place: grave (place), graveyard (place), live (location)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: doomed, dying (dying industry, etc.), knell (death knell /
obsolescence), live on (v), living (adj), vanishing (disappearance)
• relationship: grow up (grow up together, etc.)
• searching & discovery: exhume (v)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: alive (status), die (non-human), die out (end), dying (dying industry, etc.),
grave (end point), life (begin life), life (spring to life), life (things), live (alive / non-human), live on (v),
suspended animation
• substance & lack of substance: flesh and blood, life (bring to life)
• success & failure: crush (verb / accomplishment), kill (verb / accomplishment), killer (killer story, etc.)
• superlative: killer (killer story, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: alive (keep something alive), die (non-human), Lazarus (Bible), life
(survival), life (give life), life (breathe life), life (life of its own), lifeline (n), life raft, live (live with something),
live on (v), rescue (v), rescue (n), resurrection (n), resuscitate (v), revive (v), save (v), shelf life, stillborn (adj),
viable (adj), viability (political viability, etc.)
• time: time (dead time)

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DECLINE (1) (see also increase & decrease)
• animal: breed (dying breed, etc.)
• astronomy: eclipse (v), eclipse (n), nadir (at the nadir), nadir (since the nadir), nadir (other), star (decline), wane
(on the wane), wane (v)
• blade: whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• boat: ship (a sinking ship)
• cat: cat (dead cat bounce)
• day: evening (decline), twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
• death & life: death (decline), die down (v), doomed, dying (dying industry, etc.), life support (on life support)
• direction: basement (basement price, etc.), bottom (hit bottom), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), crater (v), descend
(v), descent (decline), dip (v), dip (n), direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), dive (n), down (go down),
down (decline), downfall (n), downhill (go downhill, etc.), downturn (n), fall (fall ill, etc.), fall (n), fall
(numbers), fall (money), fall (fall on / upon), fall (fall into chaos, etc.), fall off (v), falloff (n), free-fall (in free-
fall), free-fall (n), gutter (in the gutter / decline), gutter (end up in the gutter), gutter (gutter politics, etc.), knee
(bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees), low (decline), nadir (at the nadir), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive
(noun / decline), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), race (race to the bottom), rock-
bottom (adj), sag (v), sink (decline), slide (slide to perdition, etc.), slide (v), slip (v), slump (v), south (go south,
etc.), spiral (spiral downward, etc.), spiral (in a spiral), spiral (into a spiral), spiral (on a downward spiral),
spiral (downward spiral, etc.), spiral (other), tumble (decline), tumble (take a tumble)
• erosion: crumble (v), erode, eroding, erosion (n)
• fire: burn out (v), burnout (n), die (die down)
• flying & falling: crater (v), free-fall (in free-fall), free-fall (n), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive (noun /
decline), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), spiral (spiral downward, etc.), spiral (in a
spiral), spiral (into a spiral), spiral (on a downward spiral), spiral (downward spiral, etc.), spiral (other)
• ground, terrain & land: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), rock-bottom (adj)
• health & medicine: life support (on life support)
• history: dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other)
• infrastructure: gutter (in the gutter / decline), gutter (end up in the gutter), gutter (gutter politics, etc.)
• journeys & trips: direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.)
• knife: whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• ground, terrain & land: precipitous (adj), sinkhole (n)
• knee: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• light & dark: dim (decline), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), fade (v), star (decline), twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
• mechanism: grind (grind down)
• moon: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
• mountains & hills: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), downhill (go downhill, etc.), hill (over the hill), precipitous (adj)
• movement: slide (slide to perdition, etc.), slide (v), stagnant (adj), stagnate (v) tailspin (in a tailspin)
• plane: crater (v), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive (noun / decline), tailspin (into a tailspin), tailspin (in a
tailspin)
• plant: shrivel (v), wilt (v), wither (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: down (go down), down (decline)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: fall (n)
• ruins: crumble (v)
• sea: ebb (decline), ebb (at a low ebb), ebb (on the ebb), ship (a sinking ship), washed-up (adj)
• season: autumn (in the autumn), winter (decline)
• shadow: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
• shape: trough (n)
• size: shrink (decline), shrivel (v)

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• sports & games: race (race to the bottom)
• standing, sitting & lying: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• star: star (decline)
• sun: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
• tide: ebb (decline), ebb (at a low ebb), ebb (on the ebb)
• verb: burn out (v), crater (v), crumble (v), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), descend (v), die down (v), dim (decline),
dip (v), down (go down), ebb (decline), eclipse (v), erode (v), fade (v), fall (fall ill, etc.), fall (numbers), fall
(money), fall (fall into chaos, etc.), fall off (v), grind (grind down), knee (bring to one’s knees), nosedive (verb /
decline), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), shrink (decline), shrivel (v), sink (decline),
slide (v), slip (v), slump (v), south (go south, etc.), spiral (spiral downward, etc.), stagnate (v), tumble (decline),
tumble (take a tumble), wane (v), wilt (v)
• walking, running & jumping: race (race to the bottom), tumble (decline), tumble (take a tumble)
• water: stagnant (adj), stagnate (v), washed-up (adjective), sag (v)
• wave: washed-up (adj)
DEPENDENCY (1)
• addiction: addicted (dependency), addiction (dependency)
• allusion: banana republic
• baby: babysitter (role), nanny (person), wean (v)
• family: babysitter (role), nanny (person)
• health & medicine: addicted (dependency), addiction (dependency)
• history: banana republic
• mechanism: wheel (training wheels)
• person: babysitter (role), nanny (person), slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
• riding: ride (ride on something)
• standing, sitting & lying: crutch (n), lean on (support)
• verb: lean on (support), ride (ride on something), wean (v)
DEPTH (2)
• ability & lack of ability: depth (out of one’s depth)
• amount: bottomless (adj)
• bases: deep-rooted (adj)
• comprehension & incomprehension: fathom (v), unfathomable (adj)
• experience: depth (out of one’s depth)
• extent & scope: bottom (no bottom), bottomless (adj), deep (extent & scope), deepen (v), depth (extent),
shallow (adj), sound (measure)
• involvement: deep (in deep), end (deep end)
• measurement: sound (measure)
• situation: deep (in deep)
• substance & lack of substance: deep (extent and scope), depth (substance), shallow (adj)
• time: depth (depths of winter, etc.)
DESERT (2)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
• environment: desert (environment), oasis (environment), sand (political sands, etc.)
• epithet: ship (ship of the desert)
• proper name: oasis (Oasis of the Seas, etc.)
• resemblance: desert (environment)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: desert (food desert, etc.)

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DESTRUCTION (1) (see also failure, accident & impairment)
• air: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• allusion: Armageddon, heart (stake through the heart, etc.), kiss of death, kryptonite (n), holocaust, Phoenix
(myth), vandal (n)
• animal: carcass (n), devour (destroy), eat (destroy), ferocious (adj), gored, nibble (nibble at, etc.), sheep
(predation), snake (cut off the head of the snake, etc.), trample (v), trampled
• atmosphere: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• ax: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• baby: cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
• back: back (break the back)
• balloon: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• bell: knell (death knell / destruction)
• Bible: Armageddon, kiss of death
• blade: chopping block (on the chopping block), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), decapitate (v), gut (destroy),
gutted (destroyed), head (heads will roll, etc.), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart)
• boat: founder (v), rock (on the rocks), scupper (v), scuttle (v), scuttled, shipwreck (n), shoal (n), sink (destroy),
torpedo (v), torpedo (n), water (blow something out of the water)
• boundary: edge (push something over the edge)
• breathing: strangle (v), strangled, strangulation, suffocated
• burial: bury (kill), coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.), epitaph (n), eulogy (n), funeral (one's funeral), grave (dig
one's grave), graveyard (destruction), knell (death knell / destruction)
• cloth: shred (v), undoing (destruction)
• crashes & collisions: crash (crash and burn), crash (car crash), shipwreck (n), wreck (v), wreck (train wreck),
wreck (person)
• creature: heart (stake through the heart, etc.)
• crime: murderous (adj)
• death & life: bury (kill), coup de grace (deathblow), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), deadly (adj), deathblow (n),
death warrant, epitaph (n), eulogy (n), fatal (adj), fatally (fatally wounded, etc.), funeral (one’s funeral), grave
(dig one’s grave), graveyard (destruction), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heart (stake through the heart, etc.),
kill (v), killed, kill off (v), kiss of death, knell (death knell / destruction), knife (knife in the heart), martyrdom
(n), mortal (adj), mortally (mortally wounded, etc.), murderous (adj), suicide (career suicide, etc.)
• direction: bring down (v), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), crash (crash down), downfall (n), fell (v), take down (v),
takedown (n), topple (v)
• epithet: cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.), graveyard (graveyard of the Turks, etc.), killer (silent killer, etc.),
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• equilibrium & stability: topple (v)
• erosion: crumble (v), disintegrate (v), disintegration
• explosion: atomic bomb, blast (destroy), blasted apart, blow up (destroy / disrupt), explode (destroy), implode
(v), Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Krakatoan (adj), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.), self-
destructive (adj)
• farming & agriculture: slash-and-burn (adj)
• fire: ashes, consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), crash (crash and burn), extinguish (v), flame (in flames),
Phoenix (myth), scorched-earth, slash-and-burn (adj), snuff (v)
• fist: pound (pound targets, etc.)
• flying & falling: crash (crash and burn), shot down (and shot down in flames)
• food & drink: cannibalize (v), cannibalized, consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), devour (destroy),
devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive, etc., nibble (nibble at, etc.)
• foot: stamp out (v), trample (v), trampled

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• ground, terrain & land: abyss (n), cliff (glass cliff), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (push something over the
edge)
• hand: crush (destroy)
• head: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), snake (cut off the
head of the snake, etc.)
• health & medicine: dismember (v), dismembered, eviscerate (v), eviscerated, fatal (adj), fatally (fatally
wounded, etc.), lacerate (v), mortal (adj), mortally (mortally wounded, etc.), pill (poison pill)
• heart: heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heart (stake through the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart)
• history: Chernobyl, holocaust, vandal (n)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: pound (pound targets, etc.)
• hole: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• horse: founder (v)
• house: roof (a roof can cave in)
• hunting: gut (destroy), gutted (destroyed)
• infrastructure: buckle (give way), collapse (n), crash (crash down), drain (go down the drain, etc.), pipe (go
down the pipes), ruin (verb), ruin (in ruins), ruin (road to ruin), ruined, tube (go down the tubes), tumble down
(v)
• justice: death (death sentence), death warrant
• knife: dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), gut (destroy), gutted (destroyed), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), knife
(knife in the heart)
• line: edge (push something over the edge)
• manufacturing: unmaking (destruction)
• materials & substances: meltdown (failure), poison (n), poison (v), radioactive (adj), shatter (destroy), shattered,
shattering (adj), toxic (adj)
• mechanism: break (destroy / disrupt)), break down (destroy)
• military: attacked, damage (collateral damage), sabotage (v), sabotage (n), sabotaged, scorched-earth, shot
down (and shot down in flames), waste (lay waste), water (blow something out of the water)
• mountains & hills: abyss (n), cliff (glass cliff), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (push something over the edge),
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• neck: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• nuclear energy: atomic bomb, Chernobyl, meltdown (failure), radioactive (adj)
• person: cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.), cannibalize (v), vandal (n), wreck (person)
• physics: implode (v)
• place: Chernobyl
• plane: crash (crash and burn), shot down (and shot down in flames)
• plant: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v)
• predation: consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), devour (destroy), devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive, etc.,
nibble (nibble at, etc.)
• religion: kiss of death, martyrdom (n)
• river: swept away (removal)
• roof: roof (a roof can cave in)
• rope: undoing (destruction)
• ruins: bring down (v), buckle (give way), collapse (n), crash (crash down), crumble (v), damage (collateral
damage), damage (n), debris, destruction (n), flatten (v), roof (a roof can cave in), rubble (in the rubble), rubble
(other), ruin (v), ruin (financial ruin, etc.), ruin (in ruins), ruin (road to ruin), ruined, self-destructive (adj),
smash (smashed the record, etc.), topple (v), tumble down (v), waste (lay waste), wreck (v), wreck (persons),
wreckage (n), wrecked
• sea: founder (v), rock (on the rocks), scupper (v), scuttle (v), scuttled, shoal (n), sink (destroy), swept away
(removal), torpedo (v), torpedo (n), water (blow something out of the water)

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• season: winter (nuclear winter, etc.)
• sheep: sheep (predation)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: dismember (v), eviscerate (v), eviscerated, lacerate (v)
• snake: snake (cut off the head of the snake, etc.)
• sound: knell (death knell / destruction)
• stomach: gut (destroy), gutted (destroyed)
• tools & technology: bulldoze (v), bulldozer (n), buzz saw (n), chainsaw (n), rake (destroy), sledgehammer (n),
steamroll (v), steamrolled, wrecking ball (n)
• train: wreck (train wreck)
• tree: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v)
• verb: back (break the back), blast (destroy), blow up (destroy / disrupt), break (destroy / disrupt), brink down
(v), buckle (give way), break down (destroy), bury (kill), bulldoze (v), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), consume
(destroy), crash (crash and burn), crash (crash down), crumble (v), crush (destroy), decapitate (v), devour
(destroy), disintegrate (v), dismember (v), drain (go down the drain), eat (destroy), eviscerate (v), extinguish
(v), fell (v), flatten (v), grave (dig one’s grave), gut (destroy), implode (v), kill (v), kill off (v), lacerate (v),
nibble (nibble at, etc.), pipe (go down the pipes), poison (v), pound (pound targets, etc.), puncture (v), root (tear
something out by the roots, etc.), rake (destroy), root out (v), ruin (v), sabotage (v), scupper (v), scuttle (v),
shatter (destroy), shred (v), sink (destroy), smash (smashed the record, etc.), snuff (v), squash (v), stamp out (v),
steamroll (v), strangle (v), take down (v), tear apart (v), tear up (v), topple (v), torpedo (v), trample (v), tube (go
down the tubes), waste (lay waste), water (blow something out of the water), wreck (v), wrench (throw a
wrench into something)
• violence: coup de grace (deathblow), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), head (heads will roll, etc.), murderous
(adj), pound (pound targets, etc.), rape (v), rape (n)
• volcano: Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• water: swept away (removal)
• weapon: attacked, coup de grace (deathblow), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), deathblow (n), kryptonite (n),
shot down (and shot down in flames)
• weight: squash (v)
• wolf: ferocious (adj)
DESTRUCTION (2)
• allusion: Phoenix (myth)
• amelioration & renewal: piece (pick up the pieces)
• division & connection: amputate (remove), torn (divided)
• feeling, emotion & effect: destroy (emotion), devastated (emotion), devastating (feeling), shatter (emotions),
shattering (adj), torn up, wreck (person)
• resiliency: piece (pick up the pieces)
DEVELOPMENT (1)
• astronomy: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• baseball: inning (in the first inning), inning (ninth inning)
• books & reading: book (close the book), book (development), chapter, page (development)
• boxing: round (boxing)
• cloth: unfold (develop), unfolding (developing), unspool (v)
• corner: corner (turn the corner)
• direction: come (development), come (see something coming), follow (it follows that, etc.), fulcrum (n), go
(development), head (development), inflection (inflection point), lead (one thing leads to another), pivot (n),
pivotal (adj), point (tipping point), roller coaster (development), seesaw (n), swing (swing around), turn (take a
turn), turn (development), turning point (n), turn out (develop), twist (n), ups and downs
• eye: come (see something coming), see (see something coming)

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• film: unspool (v)
• flying & falling: trajectory (n)
• food & drink: appetizer (n), main course, table (set the table)
• force: wave (wave of the future, etc.)
• health & medicine: head (come to a head)
• horse: homestretch (n)
• journeys & trips: course (development), crossroad (at a crossroad), crossroad (other), hegira (and hejira),
odyssey (on an odyssey), odyssey (other), path (a path can turn), reach (a place on a journey), return (point of
no return), road (turn in the road, etc.), saga (n), take (take somebody somewhere), trajectory (n), turn (take a
turn), turn (development)
• mechanism: fulcrum (n), pivotal (adj), point (tipping point), turning point (n)
• moon: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• mountains & hills: watershed (n)
• movement: come (development), come (see something coming), come to (development), follow (it follows that,
etc.), go (go wrong, etc.), go (development), head (development), here (go from here), lead (one thing leads to
another), pendulum (reversal), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), progress (v),
reach (a place on a journey), roller coaster (development), see (see something coming), seesaw (n), stand (stand
still / progress), swing (swing around), swing (development)
• odyssey (on an odyssey), odyssey (other)
• pendulum: pendulum (reversal), swing (development)
• physics: trajectory (n)
• place: here (go from here), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), point (point where),
point (at a point / development)
• radio: tuned (stay tuned)
• religion: hejira (and hejira)
• river: watershed (n)
• rope: play (play / play out)
• route: course (development)
• scale: scale (tip the scales)
• sea: ebb (development), tide (turn the tide, etc.), wave (wave of the future, etc.)
• season: season (time)
• shape: circle (a circle can close), circle (full circle), trajectory (n)
• sports & games: game (game-changer), homestretch (n), inning (in the first inning), inning (ninth inning), roller
coaster (development), round (boxing), seesaw (n)
• standing, sitting & lying: stand (stand still / development)
• storm: storm (calm before the storm)
• table: table (set the table)
• theater: act (development), anticlimax (n), climax (n), finale (n), intermission (n), script (to script), script (off
script), stage (set the stage, etc.)
• tide: ebb (development), tide (turn the tide, etc.)
• verb: come (development), come (see something coming), come to (development), corner (turn the corner),
follow (it follows that, etc.), go (development), head (development), lead (one thing leads to another), play
(play out), progress (v), reach (a place on a journey), scale (tip the scales), see (see something coming), stage
(set the stage, etc.), take (take somebody somewhere), tide (turn the tide, etc.), tuned (stay tuned), turn (take a
turn), turn out (develop), unfold (develop), unspool (v), wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• water: wave (wave of the future, etc.)
• wave: wave (wave of the future, etc.)
• weapon: shot (warning shot), shot (opening shot), shot (parting shot)
• weight: scale (tip the scales), stand (stand still / development), straw (the last straw)

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DIFFICULTY, EASINESS & EFFORT (1) (see also work & duty)
• allusion: Gallipoli, herculean (adj), Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, promethean (adj), Sisyphean (adj)
• animal: beaver (v), scratch (scratch and claw)
• arm: push (summit push, etc.), pushover n)
• back: back (carry something on one’s back), backbreaking (adj)
• baseball: home run (swing for a home run, etc.)
• basketball: full-court press, layup (n), slam-dunk
• blood: blood (effort)
• boat: hand (all hands on deck), sail (sail to victory, etc.), sailing (smooth sailing)
• bodily reaction: sweat (work)
• boundary: limits (push something to its limits)
• burden: back (carry something on one’s back), drag (v)
• circus: acrobat (person), acrobatics (n), hoop (jump through hoops, etc.), juggle (v), juggling, tightrope (fate)
• cloth: needle (thread the needle)
• clothing & accessories: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
• corner: corner (cut corners)
• direction: downhill (easy), hill (difficulty), uphill (difficult), upstream (swim upstream)
• distance: corner (cut corners), length (go to any lengths, etc.), marathon (effort and time), mile (go the extra
mile), shortcut (v), shortcut (n)
• epithet: Gallipoli, Mount Everest (and Everest)
• farming & agriculture: plow (plow on, through, etc.), row (row to hoe)
• finger: finger (lift a finger)
• food & drink: cakewalk (dance), picnic (no picnic), picnic (other)
• force: pushover (n)
• forest: patch (rough patch)
• fruits & vegetables: fruit (low-hanging fruit)
• gesture: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
• ground, terrain & land: last-ditch (adj), rock (turn over every rock, etc.), stone (turn over every stone, etc.)
• hand: finger (lift a finger), hand (have one's hands full), hand (all hands on deck)
• history: Gallipoli, Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, slave (v), trail (trail of tears)
• horse: hands down (easily)
• journeys & trips: corner (cut corners), mile (go the extra mile), patch (rough patch), path (tough / easy path,
etc.), path (clear a path), road (long road), road (tough / easy road, etc.), shortcut (v), shortcut (n), slog (v), slog
(long hard slog, etc.), trail (trail of tears), way (go out of one's way)
• mechanism: gear up (v), grind (grind away, etc.), grind (daily grind, etc.), grinding (grinding poverty, etc.),
grinding (grind down)
• military: battle (uphill battle, etc.), last-ditch (adj), milk run (n)
• money: taxing (adj)
• mountains & hills: downhill (easy), hill (difficulty), mountain (difficulty), Mount Everest (and Everest), uphill
(difficult)
• movement: coast (coast to victory, etc.), drag (v), sail (sail to victory, etc.), shortcut (v), shortcut (n), stroll
(stroll to success, etc.), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• music: stop (pull out all the stops), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• orientation: upstream (swim upstream)
• party: party (garden party)
• person: hand (all hands on deck)
• place: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• religion: heaven (move heaven and earth), promethean (adj)

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• river: current (swim with the current, etc.), upstream (swim upstream)
• sign, signal, symbol: blood (effort), sweat (work)
• snow & ice: sledding (tough sledding)
• sports & games: bar (bar is set high, etc.), full-court press, gymnastics (effort), home run (swing for a home run,
etc.), hoop (jump through hoops, etc.), juggle (v), juggling, layup (n), marathon (effort and time), slam-dunk,
softball (n)
• speech: tongue twister, tongue-twisting
• standing, sitting & lying: bend (bend over backwards)
• target: target (easy target)
• tongue: tongue twister, tongue-twisting
• tree: fruit (low-hanging fruit), windfall (n)
• verb: beaver (v), bend (bend over backwards), coast (coast to victory, etc.), drag (v), finger (lift a finger), gear
up (v), grind (grind away, etc.), grind (grind down), home run (swing for a home run, etc.), hoop (jump through
hoops, etc.), juggle (v), limits (push something to its limits), path (clear a path), plow (plow on, through, etc.),
rock (turn over every rock, etc.), sail (sail to victory, etc.), scramble (v), scratch (scratch and claw), shortcut (v),
stone (turn over every stone, etc.), slave (v), slog (v), stop (pull out all the stops), stroll (stroll to success, etc.),
waltz (waltz to success, etc.), way (go out of one’s way)
• walking, running & jumping: marathon (effort and time), park (walk in the park), scramble (v), slog (v), slog
(long hard slog, etc.), stroll (stroll to success, etc.), uphill (difficult), walkover (n)
• weapon: target (easy target)
• weight: back (carry something on one’s back)
• wind: windfall (n)
DIRECTION (1) (see also course; route)
• air: weather vane (n)
• allusion: breadcrumb (evidence)
• astronomy: lodestar (n), lodestone (n)
• atmosphere: drift (control)
• boat: adrift, chart (v), course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course), drift
(control), jibe (v), lighthouse (protection), navigate (v), navigation, sea (at sea), rudderless, steer (v), tack (v),
tack (n)
• fire: beacon (n)
• foot: footstep (in the footsteps)
• ground, terrain & land: landmark (n), negotiate (terrain, etc.), uncharted (adj), way (know one’s way around)
• infrastructure: lighthouse (protection)
• journeys & trips: beacon (n), bearing (direction), chart (v), course (on course), course (change course, etc.),
course (stay the course), course (reverse course), course (course of action, etc.), crossroad (at a crossroad),
crossroad (other), detour (n), follow (a path, route, road, etc.), footstep (in the footsteps), fork (a fork in the
road, etc.), go (direction), guide (v), guide (person), guide (nonperson), head (development), headed, landmark
(n), lead (one thing leads to another), light (guiding light), lodestar (n), lodestone (n), lost (direction), mislead
(v), misleading (adj), navigate (v), negotiate (terrain, etc.), plot (v), road (turn in the road, etc.), uncharted (adj),
way (lose one's way), way (find one's way), way (direction), way (the wrong way), way (know one’s way
around)
• light & dark: beacon (n), light (guiding light), lighthouse (protection)
• map: course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course), navigate (v), plot (v),
uncharted (adj)
• mechanism: steer (v)
• mountains & hills: watershed (n)

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• movement: approach (a better approach, etc.), follow (a path, route, road, etc.), footstep (in the footsteps), head
(development), lead (one thing leads to another), meander (v), move (direction)
• number: neighborhood (numbers), north (numbers), south (numbers)
• person: guide (person)
• river: meander (v), watershed (n)
• sea: lighthouse (protection), sea (at sea), uncharted (adj)
• shape: corkscrew (v), corkscrew (shape)
• sheep: bellwether
• tools & technology: bearing (direction), compass (moral compass), lodestone (n)
• train: track (direction), track (on track)
• verb: chart (v), corkscrew (v), course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course),
follow (a path, route, road, etc.), go (direction), guide (v), head (development), jibe (v), meander (v), mislead
(v), move (direction), navigate (v), negotiate (terrain, etc.), plot (v), steer (v), tack (v), way (lose one’s way),
way (find one’s way)
• weather & climate: weather vane (noun)
• wind: drift (control), weather vane (n)
DIRECTION (2) (see also height; position)
• acceptance & rejection: turn down (v)
• accusation & criticism: come down on (v), take down (v), takedown (n)
• achievement, recognition & praise: apex (achievement), elevate (v), elevation (n), rise (achievement), rise
(achieve), rising (rising star, etc.), top (excellence)
• admiration & contempt: below (behavior), beneath (behavior), look (look down on something), look (look up to
somebody), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad / noun), nose (look down one’s nose)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: back (support / verb), bring around (v), down (down for something), get along
(v), go along (v), side (on one’s side / time), side (on one’s side / person), turn (turn against / on something), up
(up for something)
• alternatives & choices: turn (turn to something, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.), straighten out (v), turn around (v)
• amount: bottomless (adj)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: bottom (get to the bottom of something), drill (analysis), follow (it
follows that, etc.)
• appearance & disappearance: arise (v), come (development), come forward (v), come up (appear), fall (fall off
the radar screen, etc.), pop up (v), turn out (rally), turnout
• appearance & reality: underneath (basis)
• area: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory)
• attempt: go for it, etc.
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: front (front and center), raise (attention), skyrocket (to attention, etc.)
• bases: behind (basis), bottom (get to the bottom of something), underlie, underlying (adj), underneath (basis)
• behavior: above (above the fray, etc.), below (behavior), beneath (behavior), descend (v), fall down (v), fray
(above the fray), go (behavior), ground (high ground), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), gutter (out of the gutter),
gutter (gutter politics, etc.), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad / noun), rise (rise above something), road
(the high road), shifty (adj), sink (behavior), standard (higher standard), stoop (behavior), straight (the straight
and narrow), straight arrow (person), stray (behavior), top (over the top), upright (upright man, etc.), upstanding
(adj)
• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), fringe (on the fringe), fringe
(versus mainstream), netherworld (n), underworld (n)
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• character & personality: buoyant (personality), crooked (adj), high-minded (adj), shifty (adj), straight (honest),
straight (the straight and narrow), straightforward, straight arrow, twisted (character), upright (upright man,
etc.), upstanding (adj)
• cloth: weave (move)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: circle back (return), come back (resiliency), comeback (n), day
(day has arrived, etc.), go (come and go), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has passed),
turnover (work)
• commitment & determination: down (down for something), go for it, etc., live up to (something), up (up for
something)
• competition: ahead (competition), behind (competition), dust (leave somebody in the dust), front (in front /
competition), outrun (v), slipstream (in a slipstream)
• complexity: wind (wind its way)
• concealment & lack of concealment: basement (concealment), hide (hide behind something), netherworld (n),
underground (n), underworld (n)
• condition & status: down (functioning), knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• conflict: side (conflict)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: come forward (v), face up (face up to something), man up (v),
retreat (withdraw), rise (rise to the challenge, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: come (see something coming), fall (fall into a coma, etc.), sink (sink into a coma,
etc.)
• control & lack of control: adrift, hand (upper hand), helm (at the helm), helm (other), top (on top / control)
• corruption: twist (twist the truth, etc.), twisted (corruption)
• course: direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), direction (a new direction, etc.), direction (course / on a
course), direction (purpose)
• creation & transformation: turn (transform), turn out (create)
• curtailment: take down (v)
• danger: back (watch your back, etc.)
• death & life: fallen (dead), fallen (the fallen)
• decline: basement (basement price, etc.), bottom (hit bottom), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), crater (v), descend (v),
descent (decline), dip (v), dip (n), direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), dive (n), down (go down), down
(decline), downfall (n), downhill (go downhill, etc.), downturn (n), drop, fall (fall ill, etc.), fall (n), fall
(numbers), fall (money), fall (fall on / upon), fall (fall into chaos, etc.), fall off (v), falloff (n), free-fall (in free-
fall), free-fall (n), gutter (in the gutter / decline), gutter (end up in the gutter), gutter (gutter politics, etc.), knee
(bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees), low (decline), nadir (at the nadir), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive
(noun / decline), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), race (race to the bottom), rock-
bottom (adj), sag (v), sink (decline), slide (slide to perdition, etc.), slide (v), slip (v), slump (v), south (go south,
etc.), spiral (spiral downward, etc.), spiral (in a spiral), spiral (into a spiral), spiral (on a downward spiral),
spiral (downward spiral, etc.), spiral (other), tumble (decline), tumble (take a tumble)
• destruction: bring down (v), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), crash (crash down), downfall (n), fell (v), take down (v),
takedown (n), topple (v)
• development: come (development), come (see something coming), follow (it follows that, etc.), fulcrum (n), go
(development), head (development), inflection (inflection point), lead (one thing leads to another), pivot (n),
pivotal (adj), point (tipping point), roller coaster (development), seesaw (n), swing (swing around), turn (take a
turn), turn (development), turning point (n), turn out (develop), twist (n), ups and downs
• difficulty, easiness & effort: downhill (easy), hill (difficulty), uphill (difficult), upstream (swim upstream)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: drop (drop a case, etc.), drop out (v), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned,
step down (v), strike down (v), struck down, topple (v)
• disruption: head (turn something on its head, etc.), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, topple (v), upend
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• division & connection: polarizing (adj), side (conflict)
• dominance & submission: bow (v), hand (upper hand), knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v), talk
(talk over somebody), top (dominance)
• eagerness & reluctance: look (look forward / toward something)
• environment: netherworld (n), underground (n), underworld (n)
• euphemism: take down (kill)
• extent & scope: bottomless (adj), direction (in every direction), roof (through the roof), stratospheric
• failure, accident & impairment: astray (direction), circle (go in circles), direction (the right / wrong direction,
etc.), downhill (go downhill, etc.), fall through (v), let down (fail), sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), sink
(sink into the mud, etc.), south (go south, etc.), stray (behavior), stray (direction), toilet (in the toilet), tumble
(decline), tumble (take a tumble), turn (wrong turn), west (go west)
• fate, fortune & chance: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), rise (rise and fall / verb)
• feeling, emotion & effect: ballistic (go ballistic), buoy (v), buoyant (feeling), buoyant (personality), buoyed,
depression, down (feeling), downhearted, fall (fall into a rage, etc.), fall (an emotion can fall), fall (fall in love),
feeling (sinking feeling), fly (fly into a rage, etc.), head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high), head
(hang one’s head), heart (heart sank), high (on a high), high (emotion), high-spirited, lift (n), lift (v), low
(emotion), raise (feeling), soar (a heart can soar), retreat (withdraw), roller coaster (emotional roller coaster,
etc.), sink (sink into despair, etc.), sinking (sinking feeling, etc.), slide (v), up (feeling), upbeat (adj), world (on
top of the world)
• fictive motion: wind (wind its way)
• fictive transportation: back (take somebody back in time)
• flaws & lack of flaws: downside (n), upside (n)
• force: march (march ahead, etc.)
• functioning: down (functioning)
• future: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), approach (winter is approaching, etc.), approach (the approach of
summer, etc.), approaching, before (we have hard work before us), come (to come), come (see something
coming), come (for a time to come), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming months, etc.), day (day
has arrived, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), forward (the future is forward), forward-looking,
front (the future is in front of us), head (head into the future, etc.), headed, lie (lie ahead), look (look forward /
toward something), near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.), road (come down the road / pike), road (road
ahead, etc.), road (down the road, etc.), time (time has passed), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), train
(future), way (autumn is on the way, etc.)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: turn in (give)
• growth & development: apex (highest point), apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), arise (v), ascent (on the
ascent), ascent (with the ascent), ascent, rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.), rise (on the
rise)
• heart: downhearted, heart (heart sank), soar (a heart can soar)
• help & assistance: ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.), turn (turn to something, etc.)
• hierarchy: basement (hierarchy), bottom (at the bottom), head (go over one’s head / hierarchy), higher-up
(person), ladder (hierarchy), mountain (at the top of the mountain), move (move up), tier (hierarchy), top
(hierarchy), top dog (hierarchy), totem pole, under (hierarchy)
• importance & significance: burner (front burner), back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back
burner), back seat (take a back seat), breakthrough (n), fore (come to the fore), forefront (center), front (front
and center)
• increase & decrease: boost (v), boost (n), ceiling (high point), climb (increase), dial (dial down), dip (v), dip (n),
down (go down), drop (prices dropped, etc.), drop (drop in sales, etc.), elevated, fall off (v), falloff (n), floor
(low point), heighten (v), jack up (v), jump (increase / verb), jump (n), ladder (increase), level (take something
to a higher level), level off (v), nosedive (noun / decrease), pick up (v), pile up (v), plummet (decline /
decrease), plunge (noun / decline), plunge (decline / decrease), rise (prices rose, etc.), rise (on the rise), rocket

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 (increase), roller coaster (development), roof (through the roof), shoot up (v), soar (v), skyrocket (increase), slip
(v), slump (v), spiral (downward or upward), spiraling (increase), stratospheric, up (increase / verb), up (go up),
up (higher), upsurge (n), uptick (n), upturn (n), yo-yo (up and down)
• involvement: get (get into something), leave (leave something alone)
• mind: high-minded (adj)
• movement: bounce (v), ping-pong (v), ping-pong (n), roll (move), roller coaster (development), seesaw (n),
weave (move), whiplash (n), yo-yo (up and down), zig-zag (v)
• obstacles & impedance: hump (n)
• occurrence: fall (on Friday, etc.), fall (night fell, etc.), fall (silence fell, etc.), go down (happen)
• oppression: come down on (v), fall (weight)
• orientation: belly (orientation), floor (pelvic floor, etc.), foot (orientation), head (orientation), nose (orientation),
roof (roof of the mouth, etc.), tail (orientation), upstage (v), upstream (swim upstream)
• past & present: back (back to where), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), back
(back then), backwards (past), behind (in the past), circle back (return), clock (turn back the clock), come (a
time comes along), day (day has arrived, etc.), down (down through the centuries, etc.), go (the time has gone,
etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.), hindsight (with hindsight), look (look back), mirror (in the rear-view
mirror), pass (its time has passed, etc.), present (up to the present), throwback (n), time (time has passed), time
(the time can arrive or come, etc.), up (up to now, etc.), walk (walk somebody back)
• perception, perspective & point of view: forward-looking
• person: guide (person)
• position, policy & negotiation: back (back and forth), give-and-take
• possession: fall (fall into the hands, etc.)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: apex (highest point), apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), ascent (on
the ascent), ascent (with the descent), ascent (other), bottom (hit bottom), bring down (v), downfall (n), fall (fall
from power, etc.), go (come and go), gone (those days are gone, etc.), height (at the height), in (currency), low
(decline), nadir (at the nadir), out (currency), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, plunge (noun / decline),
return (animals, etc.), rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.), rising (upcoming), sink (sink into
obscurity, etc.), throwback (n), time (time has passed), topple (v), up (time is finished, etc.)
• priority: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), back seat (take a back seat), fore
(come to the fore), forefront (center), front (front and center), front burner
• progress & lack of progress: adrift, advance (v), advance (n), ahead (progress), ahead (adv), backwards
(progress), behind (progress), breakthrough (n), circle (go in circles), climb (progress), direction (the right /
wrong direction, etc.), forward (move forward, etc.), left (left behind), look up (v), march (march ahead, etc.),
move (move up), nowhere (go nowhere, etc.), runaround, setback (progress), sidetracked, sideways (go
sideways), step (a step in the right direction), tail (chase one’s tail), wheel (hamster wheel), wind (wind its way)
• protection: back (watch your back, etc.)
• proximity: front (in front / proximity)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: behind (put something behind), bottom (get to the bottom of
something)
• relationship: behind (basis), follow (it follows that, etc.), guide (person), lead (one thing leads to another),
underlying (adj), underneath (basis)
• reputation: high (high regard)
• resiliency: behind (put something behind), comeback (n), come back (resiliency), feet (get back on one’s feet,
etc.), head (keep one's head up), head (hold one’s head high), pick (pick oneself up)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: back (we won’t go back, etc.), backlash (n), bow (v), fall (defeat), knee (bring
to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v), retreat (reverse), step (not one step back), uprising (resistance)
• responsibility: behind (responsibility), fall (devolve), live up to (something), man up (v)
• restraint & lack of restraint: over-the-top (adj), top (over the top)

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• reversal: about-face (in an about-face), about-face, about-turn, backlash (n), backpedal (v), backtrack (reversal),
boomerang (v), climb down (v), course (reverse course), flip (v), flip-flopping (reversal), overturn (v),
overturned, pivot (n), retreat (reverse), row (row back), turnabout (reversal), turn around (v), turnaround
• route: climb (roads, etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ground (high ground), high (on high)
• searching & discovery: bottom (get to the bottom of something), come up with (discovery), turned up
(discovered)
• sequence: after (at a later time), before (at an earlier time), follow (at a later time), following (at a later time),
last (at an earlier time), preceding (at an earlier time), next (at a later time), precede (at an earlier time), train (in
one’s train / at a later time), wake (in the wake of / at a later time)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: crooked (adj), straight (honest), straight shooter (speech), straight-talking,
twist (twist the truth, etc.)
• social interaction: get along (v), go along (v), give-and-take, street (two-way street)
• society: fringe (on the fringe), fringe (versus mainstream), netherworld (n), underground (n), underworld (n)
• speech: straight shooter (speech), straight-talking
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ahead (progress), ahead (go ahead), drop out, level off (v), march (march
ahead, etc.), step down (v)
• subterfuge: aboveboard (adj), shifty (adj), table (under the table), underhanded (or underhand)
• success & failure: fall (fall short), fall down (v), fall through (v), let down (fail), nowhere (go nowhere, etc.),
rise (rise and fall / verb)
• superiority & inferiority: above (above the law, etc.), back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back
burner), back seat (take a back seat), burner (front burner), dust (leave somebody in the dust), fore (come to the
fore), forefront (center), front (front and center), top (dominance), top dog (hierarchy)
• survival, persistence & endurance: buoyed, come back (resiliency), comeback (n), return (animals, etc.), sink
(sink into debt, etc.)
• taxonomy & classification: fall (fall into a category, etc.)
• time: after (at a later time), advance (in advance, etc.), advance (a day can advance, etc.), ahead (the future is
ahead, etc.), approach (winter is approaching, etc.), approaching (adj), back (back to where), back (take
somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), back (back then), backwards (past), before (at an earlier
time), before (we have hard work before us), behind (in the past), clock (turn back the clock), come (to come),
come (a time comes along), come (see something coming), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming
months, etc.), day (day has arrived, etc.), down (down through the centuries, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing
near, etc.), follow (at a later time), following (at a later time), forward (the future is forward), forward-looking,
front (the future is in front of us), go (the time has gone, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.), head (head into
the future, etc.), hindsight (with hindsight), last (at an earlier time), lie (lie ahead), look (look back), look (look
forward / toward something), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), near (v), next (at a later time), pass (its time has
passed, etc.), precede (at an earlier time), preceding (at an earlier time), road (come down the road / pike), road
(road ahead, etc.), road (down the road, etc.), side (on one’s side / time), time (the time can arrive or come,
etc.), time (time has passed), train (future), train (in one’s train / at a later time), up (up to now, etc.), wake (in
the wake of / at a later time), walk (walk somebody back), way (autumn is on the way, etc.), yesterday
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: advance (in advance, etc.), ahead (ahead of schedule, etc.), behind (behind
schedule, etc.), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (past time), up (time finished, etc.)
• unanimity & consensus: get along (v), go along (v)
• warning: heads-up (warning)
DIRECTING (1) (see also supplying)
• animal: drive (v), goad (v), herd (v), herd (ride herd), herded, husband (v), shepherd (v)
• boat: pilot (v), steer (v)
• circus: ringmaster (role)

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• food & drink: feed (direct)
• health & medicine: inject (v), injection (n)
• infrastructure: pipeline (other)
• journeys & trips: guide (v), shepherd (v), take (take somebody somewhere)
• mechanism: steer (v)
• music: orchestrate (v), orchestrated
• person: ringmaster (role)
• pumped: pumped (directed)
• sea: lighthouse (protection)
• sheep: shepherd (v)
• speech: goad (v)
• sports & games: coach (v)
• theater: stage (v), staged (directed)
• tide: surge (transitive verb)
• verb: channel (direct), drive (v), feed (direct), funnel (v), goad (v), guide (v), herd (v), herd (ride herd), husband
(v), inject (v), orchestrate (v), pilot (v), plow (put), pour (put), pump (direct), shepherd (v), steer (v), shot (call
the shots), siphon (v), stage (v), surge (transitive verb), take (take somebody somewhere), whip (violence)
• violence: goad (v), whip (violence)
• water: channel (direct), channeled, drip-fed (v), funnel (direct), infusion (n), pipeline (other), pour (put), pump
(direct), pumped (directed), siphon (v), surge (transitive verb)
• weapon: shot (call the shots)
• whip: whip (violence)
DISMISSAL, REMOVAL & RESIGNATION (1) (see also curtailment; starting,
gong, continuing & ending)
• air: filter (v)
• animal: cull (n), cull (v), factory (glue factory), pasture (put something out to pasture), pasture (put out to
pasture), perch (knock something off its perch)
• arm: cast aside (v), pushed out, throw out (v), toss out (v)
• atmosphere: wind (throw something to the wind)
• ax: ax (n), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), cut (a person from a team, etc.),
decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), slash (v), slash-and-burn (adj), trim (v)
• bird: perch (knock something off its perch)
• blade: ax (n), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), cut (a person from a team, etc.),
cut off (v), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), scrape (v), shave (removal), slash (v), trim (v), whittled,
whittling (whittling down)
• boat: jettison (v), jettisoned, overboard (throw somebody overboard), ship out (remove)
• books & reading: cancel (v), shelve (v)
• breathing: blow off (v)
• burden: pull out (v)
• cards: discard (v), fold (v)
• chess: board (off the board)
• clothing & accessories: boot (get the boot), boot out (v), strip (v), stripped
• creature: exorcise (v)
• direction: drop (drop a case, etc.), drop out (v), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, step down (v), strike
down (v), struck down, topple (v)
• disruption: overturned
• doors & thresholds: door (shown the door, etc.)
• equilibrium & stability: overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, topple (v), unseat (v)

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• farming & agriculture: prune (v), weed out (v), slash-and-burn (adj)
• fire: slash-and-burn (adj)
• foot: kicked off, kicked out, kick out (v)
• force: pushed out
• government: oust (v), ousted (removed)
• hair: shave (removal), shed (v)
• hand: brush aside (v), brush off (v), brush-off
• head: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• health & medicine: amputate (remove)
• horse: factory (glue factory), pasture (put something out to pasture), pasture (put out to pasture), unseat (v)
• hygiene: filter (v), flush (remove), scrub (remove)
• infrastructure: dismantle (v), plug (pull the plug)
• insect: mothball (v)
• knife: cut (a person from a team, etc.), cut off (v), scrape (v), slash (v), trim (v), whittled, whittling (whittling
down)
• leg: kicked off, kicked out, kick out (v)
• manufacturing: factory (glue factory), scrap (v), scrapped
• military: body count, coup (power), drummed out, guard (changing of the guard)
• movement: shake (remove)
• neck: chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll,
etc.)
• person: outcast (person)
• pile: dump (v), dumped
• plane: bail out (leave)
• plant: prune (v), root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v), transplant (n), weed out (v), uprooted
• religion: exorcise (v)
• river: swept away (removal)
• royalty: dethrone (v)
• ruins: topple (v)
• sea: swept away (removal)
• society: banished, banishment (n), exile (in exile), exile (n), exiled, outcast (person), wilderness (voice in the
wilderness), wilderness (in / into the wilderness), wilderness (society)
• sports & games: bench (v), board (off the board), sidelined (adj)
• table: table (off the table)
• theater: bow out (v), curtain (lower the curtain)
• throwing, putting & planting: outcast (person)
• tools & technology: ax (n)
• tree: prune (v), root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v), uprooted
• verb: amputate (remove), bail out (leave), bow out (v), bench (v), blow off (v), boot out (v), brush aside (v),
brush off (v), cancel (v), cast aside (v), cull (v), cut off (v), decapitate (v), dethrone (v), discard (v), dismantle
(v), drop (drop a case, etc.), drop out (v), dump (v), exorcise (v), erase (v), flush (remove), fold (v), jettison (v),
kick out (v), lift (amelioration), mothball (v), oust (v), overboard (throw somebody overboard), overthrow (v),
overturn (v), plug (pull the plug), pull out (v), prune (v), retire (v), root (tear something out by the roots, etc.),
root out (v), scrap (v), scrape (v), scrub (remove), shake (remove), shave (removal), shed (v), shelve (v), ship
out (remove), slash (v), step aside (v), step away (v), step down (v), strike down (v), strip (v), throw out (v),
topple (v), toss out (v), trim (v), unseat (v), weed out (v), wind (throw something to the wind)
• violence: head (heads will roll, etc.), overboard (throw somebody overboard)
• walking, running & jumping: step aside (v), step away (v), step down (v)
• water: dissolve (terminate), filter (v), flush (remove), plug (pull the plug), swept away (removal)

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• weight: lift (amelioration)
• wind: wind (throw something to the wind)
• window: window (out the window)
• work & duty: retire (v)
• writing & spelling: erase (v), erased, write (write out / off)
DISRUPTION (1)
• allusion: Bolshevik, Jacobin
• boat: boat (rock the boat)
• cards: deck (re-shuffle the deck)
• direction: head (turn something on its head, etc.), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, topple (v), upend (v),
upside down
• earthquake: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• equilibrium & stability: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance), destabilizing (adj), earthquake (effect),
head (turn something on its head, etc.), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, rattle (disrupt), reel (v), rock
(v), rocked (disruption), shake (disrupt), shake up (v), shake-up (n), stagger (v), topple (v), trip up (v), unseat
(v), upend (v), upheaval (disruption), upside down
• explosion: blow up (destroy / disrupt), grenade (disruption)
• foot: toe (step on toes)
• ground, terrain & land: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• head: head (turn something on its head, etc.)
• history: Bolshevik, Jacobin, revolution (n), revolutionary (adj), revolutionize (v)
• horse: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), unseat (v)
• house: house (clean house)
• hygiene: house (clean house)
• mechanism: break (destroy / disrupt), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), gum up (v), misbehave (machine),
wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• military: sabotage (v), sabotage (n), sabotaged
• mixture: scramble (disrupt)
• movement: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• ruins: topple (v)
• scale: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance)
• sensation: toe (step on toes)
• sound: rattle (disrupt), tumult (disruption)
• sports & games: game (game-changer)
• toe: toe (step on toes)
• verb: blow up (destroy / disrupt), break (destroy / disrupt), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), gum up (v), head
(turn something on its head, etc.), house (clean house), misbehave (machine), overthrow (v), overturn (v), rattle
(disrupt), reel (v), revolutionize (v), rock (v), roil (v), sabotage (v), scramble (disrupt), shake (disrupt), shake up
(v), stagger (v), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), toe (step on toes), topple (v), trip up (v), unseat (v),
upend (v), wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• violence: Bolshevik, Jacobin
• walking, running & jumping: reel (v), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), toe (step on toes), trip up (v)
• water: roil (v)
DISTANCE (2) (see also proximity)
• amount: few and far between
• avoidance & separation: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length)
• behavior: far (too far), go (behavior), length (go to any lengths, etc.), overreach (v), overreach (n), stop (stop at
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• constraint & lack of constraint: overreach (v), overreach (n)
• cost & benefit: mileage, way (go a long way)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: corner (cut corners), length (go to any lengths, etc.), marathon (effort and time),
mile (go the extra mile), shortcut (v), shortcut (n)
• division & connection: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), close (feeling), distance (n), distant (separation),
tight (relationship)
• extent & scope: distant (a distant second, etc.), far-reaching, length (go to any lengths, etc.), light year (light
years away, etc.), mile (go the extra mile), way (go a long way)
• failure, accident & impairment: far (too far)
• feeling, emotion & effect: close (feeling), tight (relationship)
• future: away (a week away, etc.), close (future), corner (spring is just around the corner), day (day after
tomorrow), distant (future), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), end (no end in sight, etc.), future (in the
distant future), go (a month to go, etc.), horizon (on the horizon), near (near future, etc.), near (v), remote
(future), road (down the road, etc.), run (in / over the long run), sight (in sight), way (a long way off)
• past & present: distant (past), far-off (time), past (in the distant past, etc.), past (distant past, etc.), remote (past)
• progress & lack of progress: far (progress), way (come a long way, etc.)
• proximity: away (a week away, etc.), close (future), corner (spring is just around the corner), light year (light
years away, etc.), near (near future, etc.)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: end (no end in sight, etc.)
• relationship: close (feeling), distant (relationship), tight (relationship)
• restraint & lack of restraint: far (too far), length (go to any lengths, etc.), overreach (v), overreach (n), stop (stop
at nothing)
• social interaction: close (feeling), tight (relationship)
• starting, gong, continuing & ending: end (no end in sight, etc.)
• time: advance (in advance, etc.), away (a week away, etc.), close (future), corner (spring is just around the
corner), day (day after tomorrow), distant (past), distant (future), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), end
(no end in sight, etc.), far-off (time), future (in the distant future), go (a month to go, etc.), haul (long haul),
horizon (on the horizon), long (a long time, etc.), long-run (adj), longtime (adj), marathon (effort and time),
near (near future, etc.), near (v), past (in the distant past, etc.), past (distant past, etc.), remote (past), remote
(future), road (down the road, etc.), run (in / over the long run), running (continuing), short (a short time, etc.),
sight (in sight), time (over time), time (long time / short time), way (a long way off)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: advance (in advance)
DIVISION (1) (see also branching system; taxonomy & classification)
• arm: arm (arm of an organization)
• bird: wing (division)
• family: parent (parent company, etc.)
• military: camp (n)
DIVISION & CONNECTION (1) (see also avoidance & separation)
• allusion: iron curtain, Maginot Line, Paradise Lost (allusion), Yugoslavia (separation)
• arm: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), embrace (v), embraced, reach out (v)
• astronomy: cusp (on the cusp), orbit (n)
• atmosphere: drift (drift apart)
• blood: blood brother (connection)
• boat: drift (drift apart)
• boundary: borderland (n), boundary (division), corner (corner cases, etc.), edge (edge cases, etc.), fuzzy (adj),
intersection (n), line (division), line (categories)
• bridge: bridge (n), bridge (air bridge, etc.), bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-building), bridge-
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• cloth: entwined, intertwined, interwoven, knit (knit together), seamless, seamlessly, strand (connection), thread
(connection), thread (v), tight-knit, weave together (v), woven
• destruction: amputate (remove), torn (divided)
• direction: polarizing (adj), side (conflict)
• distance: arm (open arms), arm (at arm’s length), close (feeling), distance (n), distant (separation), tight
(relationship)
• doors & thresholds: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• earthquake: fault (fault line)
• electricity: insulated, plugged in / into
• family: blood brother (connection), brother (n), brotherhood, kindred (kindred spirits, etc.), kinship (n), mother
(mother ship, etc.), orphan (n), orphaned, parent (relationship), twin (relationship)
• farming & agriculture: silo (academic silos, etc.), siloed
• fence: fence (division)
• finger: touch (lose touch), touch (nobody will touch this, etc.), touch (other)
• fortification: drawbridge (protection), moated
• gate: gate (society)
• geometry: intersection (n)
• gesture: embrace (v)
• ground, terrain & land: balkanization (n), barrier (n), chasm, crack (division), divide (n), fault (fault line),
fissure, gap (n), ground (common ground), ground (middle ground), rift (division), shore (far shore), stranded
(separated)
• hand: hand in hand (go hand in hand, etc.), handshake (n)
• health & medicine: amputate (remove), hip (joined at the hip)
• history: balkanization (n), Ceuta and Melilla, iron curtain, Maginot Line, Yugoslavia (separation)
• infrastructure: wall (obstacle)
• insect: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation)
• island: insular (adj), island (society), island (island of affluence, etc.), shore (far shore), stranded (separated)
• journeys & trips: stepping stone / traverse (v)
• key: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• leg: foot (foot in both worlds, etc.), straddle (connect)
• light & dark: daylight (division)
• line: borderland (n), edge (edge cases, etc.), foot (foot in both worlds, etc.), line (division), line (categories),
straddle (connect)
• love, courtship & marriage: divorce (n), divorce (v), marriage (relationship), marriage (shotgun marriage),
married, wedded
• materials & substances: fractured (separated), split (n), split (v), split (split apart / up, etc.)
• military: drawbridge (protection), Maginot Line
• mechanism: rupture (n)
• mountains & hills: watershed (n)
• number: common denominator
• pendulum: suspended
• physics: atomization (n)
• place: cloistered
• prep, adv, adj, particle: apart (division), between (come between, etc.)
• proximity: close (feeling), daylight (division), distance (n), tight (relationship)
• religion: cloistered, Paradise Lost (allusion), schism (n)
• river: bridge (n), bridge (air bridge, etc.), bridge (v), bridge-building (through bridge-building), bridge-building,
stepping stone, watershed (n)
• rope: bind (connect), entwined, tie (v), tied, tie together (v)

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• school & education: breakout (breakout sessions, etc.)
• sea: gulf (division), insular (adj), island (society), island (island of affluence, etc.), shore (far shore), stranded
(separated)
• sensation: fuzzy (adj)
• shadow: daylight (division)
• snow & ice: ice (break the ice)
• society: caste
• standing, sitting & lying: foot (foot in both worlds, etc.), straddle (connect)
• star: cusp (on the cusp)
• temperature: ice (break the ice)
• tools & technology: connect (v), coupled, disconnect (n), hook up (connect), wedge (drive a wedge, etc.)
• train: track (across the tracks, etc.)
• verb: amputate (remove), bind (connect), bridge (v), cocoon (v), connect (v), drift (drift apart), embrace (v),
hook up (connect), ice (break the ice), knit (knit together), reach out (v), split (v), split (split apart / up, etc.),
straddle (connect), thread (v), tie (v), tie together (v), touch (nobody will touch this, etc.), touch (lose touch),
traverse (v), weave together (v), wedge (drive a wedge, etc.)
• wall: wall (obstacle)
• water: bridge (burn one’s bridges)
• wedge: wedge (drive a wedge, etc.)
• wind: drift (drift apart)
DOCUMENT (2)
• amelioration & renewal: lease (lease on life)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: license (n), passport (n)
DOG (2) (see also animal)
• achievement, recognition & praise: head (pat on the head)
• affliction: bird-dog (v), dog (afflict), dogged (hounded), heel (nip at somebody’s heels), hounded (dogged)
• attachment: pit bull (dog), teeth (sink one’s teeth into something)
• avoidance & separation: bay (at bay)
• behavior: rabid behavior), rabidly
• character & personality: feisty (adj), hot dog (person)
• coercion & motivation: dog (attack dog), pit bull (dog)
• commitment & determination: dogged (determined), pit bull (dog)
• competition: dog-eat-dog, pack (competition), underdog (competition)
• conflict: back (get one’s back up, etc.), dogfight (n), hackles (raise hackles), roll over (v)
• constraint & lack of constraint: leash (on a leash), unleash (v), unleashed
• control & lack of control: leash (on a leash)
• dominance & submission: lapdog (n), poodle (n), tail (turn tail), tail (tail between one’s legs)
• enthusiasm: hound (autograph hound, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bristle (emotional arousal), hackles (raise hackles)
• hierarchy: top dog (hierarchy), underdog (hierarchy)
• initiation: unleash (v), unleashed
• insult: dog (insult)
• predation: dog-eat-dog, heel (nip at somebody’s heels)
• progress & lack of progress: tail (chase one's tail)
• protection & lack of protection: watchdog (n)
• punishment & recrimination: doghouse (in the doghouse)
• pursuit, capture & escape: bird-dog (v), hounded (dogged)

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• resistance, opposition & defeat: back (get one’s back up, etc.), roll over (v), tail (turn tail), tail (tail between
one’s legs)
• reversal: tail (turn tail), tail (tail between one’s legs)
• shape: dogleg (shape)
• situation: doghouse (in the doghouse)
• sound: bark (v)
• speech: bark (v)
• strength & weakness: underdog (competition)
• substance & lack of substance: bark (more bark than bite, etc.)
• superiority & inferiority: tail (tail between one’s legs), top dog (hierarchy), underdog (competition)
• success & failure: dog (dog won’t hunt)
• surveillance: watchdog (n)
• violence: pit bull (dog)
• warning: watchdog (n)
DOMINANCE & SUBMISSION (1) (see also resistance, opposition & defeat;
superiority & inferiority)
• animal: back down (v), ground (hold / stand one’s ground), lapdog (n), poodle (n), tail (turn tail), tail (tail
between one’s legs), top (dominance)
• back: back down (v)
• direction: bow (v), hand (upper hand), knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v), top (dominance), talk
(talk over somebody)
• dog: lapdog (n), poodle (n), tail (turn tail), tail (tail between one’s legs)
• eye: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• gesture: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: ground (hold / stand one’s ground)
• hand: hand (upper hand)
• knee: knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v)
• lap: lapdog (n)
• person: servant (dominated), slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
• position: top (dominance)
• religion: bow (v), kneel (v), kowtow (v)
• speech: talk (talk over somebody)
• standing, sitting & lying: back down (v), bow (v), cower (v), knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v),
supine (adj), supinely
• verb: back down (v), blink (America will not blink, etc.), bow (v), cower (v), knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel
(v), kowtow (v), tail (turn tail)
DOORS & THRESHOLDS (2) (see also gate; house; roof)
• acceptance & rejection: shut out (adj), shut out (v)
• access & lack of access: camel (camel’s nose in the tent, etc.), door (access), foot (foot in the door), gatekeeper
(person), shut out (adj), shut out (v)
• admiration & contempt: doormat (person)
• amelioration & renewal: open (after lockdown, etc.)
• attachment: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• attention, scrutiny and promotion: door (behind closed doors)
• computer: trapdoor (computers)
• concealment & lack of concealment: door (behind closed doors), trapdoor (computers)
• configuration: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• constraint & lack of constraint: lockdown (n)

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• control & lack of control: gatekeeper (person)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: exit (n), revolving door, usher in (v)
• curtailment: door (closure), lockdown (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: door (shown the door, etc.)
• division & connection: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• fantasy & reality: unhinged (adj)
• measurement: threshold (below the threshold), threshold (measurement)
• movement: revolving door
• opportunities & possibilities: door (opportunity), door (hold the door open, etc.), door (leave the door open),
door (get one’s foot in the door), door (close a door, etc.)
• person: doormat (person), gatekeeper (person)
• portal: door (portal), portal (entrance), threshold (cross the threshold), threshold (portal)
• proper name: door (Durdle Door, etc.)
• proximity: door (knock at / on the door), doorstep (on / at the doorstep), threshold (on the threshold)
• responsibility: door (at someone’s door, etc.)
• shape: door (Durdle Door, etc.)
• subterfuge: trapdoor (computers)
DRIVING FORCE (1)
• atmosphere: wind (wind of change, etc.)
• blade: cutting edge (on the cutting edge), cutting edge (other)
• dam: powerhouse (n)
• electricity: powerhouse (n)
• engine: drive (v), engine (driving force), seat (in the driver’s seat)
• fist: fist (armored fist, etc.)
• horse: charge (in, into, etc.), outrider (n)
• journeys & trips: pathbreaking, pathfinder (person), pioneer (person), way (lead the way)
• military: charge (lead the charge), charge (in, into, etc.), march (on the march), march (n), point man (and point
person), vanguard, vanguard (in the vanguard), vanguard (other)
• movement: charge (in, into, etc.), march (on the march), march (n)
• person: pace-setter (n), pathfinder (person), pioneer (person), point man (and point person)
• river: powerhouse (n)
• sports & games: pace-setter (n), pacesetting (adj)
• tools & technology: wedge (edge of the wedge)
• verb: charge (lead the charge), charge (in, into, etc.), drive (v), spearhead (v), way (lead the way)
• walking, running & jumping: march (on the march), march (n), pace-setter (n), pacesetting (adj)
• weapon: spear (tip of the spear), spearhead (v), spearhead (n)
• wedge: wedge (edge of the wedge)
• wind: wind (wind of change, etc.)
EAGERNESS & RELUCTANCE (1)
• animal: chops (lick one’s chops), horse (hold your horses), pounce (v)
• bodily reaction: chops (lick one’s chops), drool (v), mouthwatering (adj), salivate (v)
• burden: drag (drag somebody into something)
• direction: look (look forward / toward something)
• eye: look (look forward / toward something)
• food & drink: drool (v), hungry (adj), mouthwatering (adj), stomach (eagerness)
• foot: feet (cold feet), foot-dragging, heel (dig in one’s heels), kicking and screaming
• gesture: nose (hold one’s nose)
• hand: handwringing (n)

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• heart: faint-hearted (the faint-hearted), heart (eagerness and reluctance)
• heel: heel (dig in one’s heels)
• horse: balk (v), bit (champ at the bit), charge (in, into, etc.), horse (hold your horses)
• hunting: pounce (v)
• insect: itchy (adj)
• journeys & trips: go (not go there), path (beat a path), road (go down that road, etc.)
• leg: kicking and screaming
• love, courtship & marriage: coy (adj), marriage (shotgun marriage), shy (adj)
• military: charge (in, into, etc.)
• mouth: chops (lick one’s chops), salivate (v)
• movement: charge (in, into, etc.), go (not go there), jump (jump at the chance, etc.), leap (leap into action, etc.),
pounce (v), road (go down that road, etc.), spring (spring into action, etc.)
• nose: nose (hold one’s nose)
• sensation: itch (v), itchy (adj)
• sex: slut (enthusiasm)
• smell: nose (hold one’s nose)
• sports & games: gun (jump the gun)
• stomach: stomach (eagerness)
• taste: mouthwatering (adj)
• temperature: cold feet, lukewarm (feeling), water (throw cold water on)
• verb: balk (v), bit (champ at the bit), charge (in, into, etc.), drag (drag somebody into something), drool (v), gun
(jump the gun), heel (dig in one’s heels), horse (hold your horses), itch (v), jump (jump at the chance, etc.), leap
(leap into action, etc.), path (beat a path), pounce (v), salivate (v), spring (spring into action, etc.), water (throw
cold water on)
• walking, running & jumping: jump (jump at the chance, etc.), leap (leap into action, etc.), pounce (v), spring
(spring into action, etc.)
• water: water (throw cold water on)
• weapon: gun-shy (adj)
EAR (2)
• amount: earful (amount)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear (have somebody's ear), ear (attention)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ear (turn a deaf ear), ear (fall on deaf ears)
• consciousness & awareness: deaf (adj), ear (fall on deaf ears), tone-deaf (adj)
• feeling, emotion & effect: ear (music to one’s ears)
• flaws & lack of flaws: tin ear (n), tin-eared (adj), tone-deaf (adj)
• proper name: ear (Ear of the Wind, etc.)
• resemblance: ear (ear of corn, etc.)
• shape: ear (Ear of the Wind, etc.)
• surveillance: ear (surveillance)
EARTH & WORLD (2)
• amount & effect: tectonic (adj)
• area: sphere (in the sphere), world (exploration)
• bases: tectonic (adj)
• character & personality: down to earth (adj), earthiness (character), eye (stars in one’s eyes)
• computer: blogosphere (in the blogosphere), blogosphere (other)
• concealment & lack of concealment: underworld (n)
• environment: netherworld (n), sphere (in the sphere), world (in the world), world (into a world), world
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• experience: horizon (expand one’s horizons)
• extent & scope: earth (to the ends of the earth, etc.), polar (polar opposite, etc.), tectonic (adj), world (a world of
difference, etc.), world (the whole world, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: world (on top of the world), world (meant the world to me, etc.)
• fantasy & reality: world (fantasy)
• past & present: world (lost world)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: world (lost world)
• proper name: world (Disney World, etc.)
• searching & discovery: earth (to the ends of the earth, etc.)
• time: world (lost world)
EARTHQUAKE (2) (see also volcano)
• amount & effect: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), seismic (adj), seismically, tectonic (adj), tremor (n)
• bases: tectonic (adj)
• center & periphery: epicenter (n)
• disruption: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• division & connection: fault (fault line)
• effect: aftershock (n), earthquake (effect), shock wave, tremor (n), upheaval (disruption)
• equilibrium & stability: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), upheaval (disruption)
• evidence: tremor (n)
• extent & scope: earthshaking (adj), seismic (adj), seismically, tectonic (adj)
• feeling, emotion & effect: aftershock (n), earthquake (effect), shock wave, upheaval (disruption)
• initiation: tremor (n)
• location: epicenter (n)
• place: epicenter (n)
EFFECT (1) (see also feeling, emotion & effect)
• atmosphere: fallout (effect)
• blade: sword (double-edged sword)
• boxing: punch (punch in the gut, etc.)
• cooking: stir (effect)
• earthquake: aftershock (n), earthquake (effect), shock wave, tremor (n), upheaval (disruption)
• equilibrium & stability: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• explosion: ground zero, shock wave, wave (blast wave, etc.)
• fist: hit (affect), hit (affected), punch (punch in the gut, etc.), struck (affected)
• force: hit (affect), hit (affected), impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), strike (affect), struck
(affected)
• ground, terrain & land: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: hit (affect), hit (affected), strike (affect), struck (affected)
• house: home (hit home)
• nuclear energy: fallout (effect), ground zero
• mark: mark (effect)
• sea: wave (effect)
• sensation: hit (affect), hit (affected), impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), strike (affect), struck
(affected)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: nerve (strike a nerve, etc.)
• sound: chord (strike a chord), echo (noun / effect), resonate (v), repercussion (n), reverberate (v), reverberation
(n)
• sword: sword (double-edged sword)
• tools & technology: needle (move the needle, etc.)

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• verb: chord (strike a chord), hit (affect), home (hit home), impact (affect), needle (move the needle, etc.),
resonate (v), reverberate (v), reverberation (n)
• violence: punch (punch in the gut, etc.)
• volcano: tremor (n)
• water: ripple (v), ripple (n), splash (effect), wave (effect)
• wave: wave (effect)
ELECTRICITY (2)
• accusation & criticism: hot seat (n)
• amelioration & renewal: battery (recharge one's batteries)
• attraction & repulsion: lightning rod
• avoidance & separation: insulated
• character & personality: incandescent (character), live wire (person)
• comprehension & incomprehension: lightning bolt (comprehension)
• control & lack of control: circuit breaker (n)
• curtailment: circuit breaker (n)
• danger: rail (third rail)
• division & connection: insulated, plugged in / into
• driving force: powerhouse (n)
• failure, accident & impairment: short-circuit (v)
• fate, fortune & chance: blue (out of the blue, etc.), lightning (fate)
• feeling, emotion & effect: amped (feeling), charged (highly charged, etc.), electric (feeling), electrified,
electrify (v), galvanize (v), jolt (n), lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.), shock (v), shock (in shock), shock
(feeling), shocked (adj), shocker (n), shocking (feeling, emotion and effect), thunderstruck (adj)
• increase & decrease: amp up (v), step up (increase)
• initiation: galvanize (v), spark plug
• isolation & remoteness: insulate (v), insulated, insulation (n)
• power: powerhouse (n)
• protection & lack of protection: insulate (v), insulated, insulation (n)
• strength & weakness: amped (strength), powerhouse (n)
• superlative: incandescent (character)
EMPATHY & LACK OF EMPATHY (1)
• animal: ruthless (sun, etc.)
• boat: boat (in the same boat)
• clothing & accessories: shoe (in somebody's shoes)
• feeling, emotion & effect: stone (heart of stone)
• heart: coldhearted (adj), heart (empathy), heartless, stone-hearted
• shoulder: shoulder (a shoulder to cry on)
• temperature: coldhearted (adj), coldly
ENGINE (2) (see also manufacturing; mechanism; tools & technology)
• activity: overdrive (in / into overdrive)
• amelioration & renewal: tune (and tune up), tune-up (n)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: hood (look under the hood, etc.)
• character & personality: driven (adj)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: parked (movement)
• commitment & determination: tank (empty the tank, etc.)
• condition & status: sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• control & lack of control: seat (in the driver’s seat)

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• driving force: drive (v), engine (driving force), seat (in the driver’s seat)
• engine: parked (movement)
• failure, accident & impairment: flameout, flame out (v), gas (run out of gas), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled
(progress)
• feeling, emotion & effect: revved (revved up)
• functioning: sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• haste: gas (take one’s foot off the gas)
• increase & decrease: rev up (v), turbocharge (v)
• initiation: jump-start (v), jump-start (n), kick in (start), kick-start (v)
• movement: parked (movement), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• power: turbocharge (v)
• progress & lack of progress: stall (v), stalled (progress)
• readiness & preparedness: tune (and tune up), tune-up (n), warmed-up
• searching & discovery: hood (look under the hood, etc.)
• speed: downshift (v), gas (take one’s foot off the gas), turbocharge (v)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: downshift (v), flameout, flame out (v), gas (run out of gas), gas (take
one’s foot off the gas), jump-start (v), jump-start (n), kick in (start), kick-start (v), parked (movement), stall (v),
stalled (progress), warmed-up
• strength & weakness: turbocharge (v)
• verb: turbocharge (v)
ENTHUSIASM (1)
• addiction: addict (chess addict, etc.), addicted (enthusiasm), addiction (enthusiasm), addictive (adj), crave (fans
crave the bout, etc.), fix (n), habit (enthusiasm), high (enthusiasm), hooked, junkie (person), withdrawal
(feeling)
• animal: bookworm (person), hound (autograph hound, etc.), pet (pet cause, etc.), rat (lab rat, etc.)
• baby: baby (relationship)
• books & reading: bookworm (person)
• breathing: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), live (live and breathe)
• container: into (be into something)
• death & life: live (live and breathe)
• dog: hound (autograph hound, etc.)
• fish: hooked
• food & drink: crave (fans crave the bout, etc.), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), glutton
(person), taste (taste for violence, etc.)
• health & medicine: addict (chess addict, etc.), addicted (enthusiasm), addiction (enthusiasm), crave (fans crave
the bout, etc.), delirious (adj), delirium (n), disease (enthusiasm), fever (enthusiasm), flu (enthusiasm), infection
(enthusiasm), junkie (person), mad (crazy), madness (enthusiasm), mania (n), maniac (person), rabid
(enthusiasm), withdrawal (feeling)
• hunting: hound (autograph hound, etc.)
• insect: bitten (enthusiasm), bug (enthusiasm), itch (enthusiasm)
• love, courtship & marriage: fall (fall in love), infatuated (enthusiasm), love (in love), love (enthusiasm / noun),
love (enthusiasm / verb), lover (enthusiasm / person), romance (n)
• mental health: craze (n), crazed, crazy (enthusiasm), mad (crazy), madness (enthusiasm), mania (n), maniac
(person), obsessed, rabid (enthusiasm), rage (enthusiasm), rave (v), rave (rave review, etc.)
• object: thing (one's thing)
• person: acolyte (person), addict (chess addict, etc.), bookworm (person), cheerleader (person), devotee (person),
disciple (person), evangelist (person), fanatic (person), glutton (person), hound (autograph hound, etc.), junkie
(person), lover (enthusiasm / person), maniac (person), missionary (person), rat (lab rat, etc.)

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• place: cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.), mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: into (be into something)
• rat: rat (lab rat, etc.)
• religion: acolyte (person), cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.), church (n), devotee (person), disciple (person),
evangelist (person), fanatic (person), mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.), pilgrimage (trip), religion (enthusiasm),
religiously, shrine (reverence), worship (v)
• school & education: cheerlead (v), cheerleader (person)
• sensation: bitten (enthusiasm), itch (enthusiasm)
• sex: passion (enthusiasm), passionate, passionately, slut (enthusiasm)
• sleep: eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
• sound: cheer on (v)
• speech: pitch (promote)
• taste: distaste (n), taste (taste for violence, etc.)
• temperature: water (throw cold water on)
• verb: cheer on (v), crave (fans crave the bout, etc.), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), live (live
and breathe), pitch (promote), rave (v), water (throw cold water on), worship (v)
• water: water (throw cold water on)
ENVIRONMENT (1) (see also area; location; place)
• air: air (environment), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere
(atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate (work climate, etc.), weather (environment)
• allusion: Dantesque (adj), Dickensian (adj), frog (frog in boiling water), never-never land, Promised Land
• animal: frog (frog in boiling water), hornet’s nest, snake pit, zoo (environment)
• astronomy: firmament (n), universe
• atmosphere: air (environment), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere
(atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate (work climate, etc.), weather (environment)
• Bible: Garden of Eden, Promised Land
• bird: incubator (n)
• cloth: fabric (fabric of society, etc.)
• container: cauldron (n), crucible (n)
• desert: desert, oasis (environment), sand (political sands, etc.)
• direction: netherworld (n), underground (n), underworld (n)
• earth & world: netherworld (n), sphere (in the sphere), underworld (n), world (in the world), world (into a
world), world (particular)
• fire: cauldron (n), crucible (n), furnace (n)
• fish: fish (fish out of water), fishbowl (in a fishbowl), fishbowl (other)
• frog: frog (frog in boiling water)
• ground, terrain & land: contour (n), desert (environment), ecosystem (n), jungle (n), landscape (n), lay of the
land, morass (n), oasis (environment), sand (political sands, etc.), swamp (fever swamp), terrain (area), territory
(area), wasteland (environment)
• heating water: cauldron (n)
• history: badlands (environment), wild West
• hole: hellhole, pit (bear pit), snake pit
• hygiene: cesspit (n), cesspool (n)
• infrastructure: warehouse (neglect)
• insect: beehive (activity), hornet’s nest
• island: island (island of affluence, etc.)
• jungle: jungle (competition)
• manufacturing: crucible (n)

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• mental health: bedlam (n), madhouse (place), snake pit, warehouse (neglect)
• military: no man's land (danger), war zone, zone (combat zone)
• pressure: pressure cooker
• religion: Dantesque (adj), Garden of Eden, heaven (environment), hell (living hell, etc.), hell (situation),
hellhole, limbo (in limbo), paradise, Promised Land, purgatory (n)
• school & education: playground
• sea: island (island of affluence, etc.), sea (in a sea), sea (environment)
• snake: snake pit
• society: underworld (n)
• swamp: swamp (fever swamp)
• temperature: cauldron (n), crucible (n), frog (frog in boiling water), furnace (n)
• warehouse: warehouse (neglect)
• water: fishbowl (in a fishbowl), fishbowl (other), frog (frog in boiling water), sea (in a sea), sea (environment),
swamp (fever swamp)
• weather & climate: atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate
(work climate, etc.), microclimate, weather (environment)
• zoo: zoo (environment)
EPITHET (1)
• animal: lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.)
• basketball: Michael Jordan (epithet)
• boat: ship (ship of state, etc.), ship (ship of the desert)
• books & reading: Gutenberg, Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.), Kipling (the Canadian Kipling, etc.), pied piper,
Shakespeare (epithet), Shakespearean (adj)
• boxing: Muhammad Ali (epithet)
• canal: Venice (Venice of the North, etc.)
• cooking: over (the Oven, etc.)
• creature: unicorn (epithet), wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)
• death & life: graveyard (graveyard of the Turks, etc.), killer (silent killer, etc.)
• family: father (father of India, etc.), godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX,
etc.), mother (mother earth, etc.), mother (Mother Nature)
• farming & agriculture: bowl (Vietnam’s rice bowl, etc.), breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket, etc.)
• film: Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.)
• football: Belichick (the racing Bill Belichick, etc.)
• government: Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.)
• health & medicine: Galen (Galen of Islam, etc.), pharmacy (Pharmacy of the World, etc.)
• height: roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
• history: Gallipoli, Lawrence (T.E.), nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor,
etc.), Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet), Waterloo
• house: roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
• Iliad & Odyssey: Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.)
• infrastructure: expressway (expressway to death, etc.)
• insect: mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.)
• island: Ellis Island (epithet)
• journeys & trips: crossroad (epithet), Marco Polo (Muslim Marco Polo, etc.)
• justice: Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.)
• lion: lion (the lion of Panjshir, etc.)
• love, courtship & marriage: bride (Bride of the Red Sea, etc.), Romeo and Juliet (epithet)
• magic: curse (Curse of Caricola, etc.), wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)

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• manufacturing: Detroit (India’s Detroit, etc.), Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.)
• map: Ptolemy (Chinese Ptolemy, etc.)
• materials & substances: gold (black gold, etc.), oil (new oil, etc.)
• military: Alexander (Muslim Alexander, etc.), Caesar (Chinese Caesar, etc.), Gallipoli, general (General
Winter, etc.), Hannibal (American Hannibal, etc.), Lawrence (T.E.), Napoleon (of surgery, etc.), nine-eleven
(Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Patton (the Patton of Asia, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.), Quisling
(Quisling of China, etc.), Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet), Waterloo
(epithet), West Point (epithet)
• mining: gold (black gold, etc.), Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.)
• money: Great Gatsby, Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• mountains & hills: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• music: Mozart (Mozart of Rock, etc.)
• religion: angel (epithet), grail (holy grail), Jerusalem (Jerusalem of the North, etc.), Jew (Jews of the Caribbean,
etc.), miracle (Miracle on the Hudson, etc.), Mormon (Mormons of the Middle East), Pope (Pope of Beaujolais,
etc.), savior (epithet)
• river: Father of Waters (epithet)
• roof: roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
• royalty: king (animals), king (products), king (people), prince (epithet), queen (Queen of Soul, etc.)
• ruins: Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• school & education: Athens (Athens of Asia, etc.), dean (person), Eaton (Eaton of Africa, etc.), Harvard
(epithet), West Point (epithet)
• sea: pearl (Pearl of the Orient, etc.), ship (ship of state, etc.), ship (ship of the desert)
• sports & games: Belichick (the racing Bill Belichick, etc.), curse (Curse of Caricola, etc.), Michael Jordan
(epithet), Miracle (Miracle of Istanbul, etc.), Muhammad Ali (epithet), Pele (Pele of Saudi Arabia, etc.), team
(dream team)
• storm: tornado (Tartan Tornado, etc.)
• temperature: oven (the Oven, etc.)
• train: express (Pineapple Express, etc.)
• volcano: Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• weather & climate: general (General Winter, etc.)
EPITHET (2)
• ability & lack of ability: wizard (Wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)
• achievement, recognition & praise: Baryshnikov (Baryshnikov of football, etc.), Elvis (Afghanistan’s Elvis,
etc.), Michael Jordan (epithet), Muhammad Ali (epithet), Napoleon (of surgery, etc.), Obama (Russia’s Obama,
etc.), Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.), Pele (Pele of Saudi Arabia, etc.), Springsteen (epithet)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.)
• amount: Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia of coal, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: pied piper
• behavior: Lady Macbeth (epithet), Machiavelli (epithet), Trump (Trump of the Tropics, etc.)
• biodiversity: Amazon (epithet), Galapagos (epithet), lung (atmosphere), mother (Mother Nature), Noah’s Ark,
rainforest (epithet), Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.)
• conflict: Lawrence (T.E.), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet)
• control & lack of control: Lady Macbeth (epithet)
• creation & transformation: Edison (Thomas Alva), father (father of India, etc.), Gutenberg, mother (mother of
invention, etc.)
• danger: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• death & life: killer (silent killer, etc.)

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• destruction: cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.), graveyard (graveyard of the Turks, etc.), killer (silent killer, etc.),
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: Gallipoli, Mount Everest (and Everest)
• fate, fortune & chance: miracle (Miracle on the Hudson, etc.)
• isolation & remoteness: hermit (epithet), North Korea (epithet)
• knowledge & intelligence: Florence (Florence on the Elbe, etc.), Leonardo da Vinci
• migration: Ellis Island (epithet), Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.)
• money: Great Gatsby, Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• oppression: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.)
• origin: big bang (“Big Bang” of country music, etc.), birthplace (the birthplace of democracy, etc.), cradle
(cradle of Islam, etc.)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: next (next Steve Jobs, etc.)
• punishment & recrimination: Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.)
• relationship: mother (mother earth, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.)
• route: road (the Silk Road, etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: Mormon (Mormons of the Middle East)
• searching & discovery: Columbus (Chinese Columbus, etc.), grail (holy grail)
• sequence: next (next Steve Jobs, etc.)
• sex: Casanova, Freud (epithet)
• size: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• strength & weakness: lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.), rock (Rock of Chickamauga, etc.)
• subterfuge: nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.)
• superlative: capital (capital of crime, etc.), Carnegie Hall (epithet), Christmas, jewel (jewel of Syria, etc.), king
(products), Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.), Paris (epithet), pearl (Pearl of the Orient, etc.), prince (epithet),
queen (Queen of Soul, etc.), Shakespeare (epithet), Shakespearean (adj), Super Bowl, team (dream team)
• time: Father Time
• transmission: Johnny Appleseed
• transportation: ship (ship of the desert)
• violence: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: grail (holy grail)
• weather & climate: mother (Mother Nature)
• worth & lack of worth: gold (black gold, etc.), oil (new oil, etc.)
EQUILIBRIUM & STABILITY (1)
• boat: boat (rock the boat), keel (even keel), ship (right the ship, etc.)
• earthquake: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), upheaval (disruption)
• foot: footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), footing (find one’s footing, etc.), ground (shaky
ground, etc.), ground (firm ground, etc.), upheaval (disruption)
• horse: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• movement: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• scale: balance (v), balance (out of balance), balance (off balance), balance (work & job, etc.), balance (n),
balanced, balance of power, counterbalance (v), counterbalance (n), counterweight (n), disequilibrium (n),
equilibrium (n)
• verb: balance (v), counterbalance (v), lurch (v), reel (v), ship (right the ship, etc.), stride (knock somebody off
stride, etc.), stumble (v), trip up (v)
• walking, running & jumping: footing (find one’s footing, etc.), lurch (v), reel (v), stride (in stride), stride (knock
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EQUILIBRIUM & STABILITY (2)
• amelioration & renewal: counterbalance (v), counterbalance (n), counterweight (n), right (right a wrong, etc.),
stabilize (v)
• amount & effect: earthquake (effect)
• character & personality: levelheaded
• commitment & determination: waver (v), unwavering (adj), wobbly (commitment)
• destruction: topple (v)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, topple (v), unseat (v)
• disruption: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance), destabilizing (adj), earthquake (effect), head (turn
something on its head, etc.), overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, rattle (disrupt), reel (v), rock (v), rocked
(disruption), shake (disrupt), shake up (v), shake-up (n), stagger (v), topple (v), trip up (v), unseat (v), upend
(v), upheaval (disruption), upside down
• effect: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• failure, accident & impairment: trip up v), unseat (v)
• fate, fortune & chance: balance (in the balance), teeter (v)
• feeling, emotion & effect: destabilizing (adj), dizzying (adj), earthquake (effect), edge (on edge), feet (knock
somebody off their feet), flattened, floored (emotion), head-spinning, rattled (feeling), rock (v), rocked
(disruption), shake (disrupt), shaken (feeling), stagger (v), upheaval (disruption)
• flaws & lack of flaws: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance), balanced, disequilibrium (n), shaky
(equilibrium), solid (adj), sure-footed (adj), unstable (adj), wobbly (condition)
• functioning: stability (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: overthrow (v), overturn (v), overturned, topple (v)
• readiness & preparedness: balance (off balance), brace (v), braced, poised (adj)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: settle down (v)
• reversal: overturn (v), overturned
• strength & weakness: solid (adj)
• substance & lack of substance: solid (adj)
EROSION (2)
• decline: crumble (v), erode, eroding, erosion (n)
• destruction: crumble (v), disintegrate (v), disintegration
• failure, accident & impairment: crumble (v), disintegrate (v), disintegration, erode (v), eroding, erosion (n)
EUPHEMISM (1)
• burial: place (resting place)
• chess: board (off the board)
• death & life: claim (kill), demise (death), fallen (dead), fallen (the fallen), feet (feet first), dust (bite the dust),
gone (dead), leave (death), lose (through death), lost (death), neutralize (kill), pass away (v), passing (death),
place (resting place), remove (kill), succumb (v), take down (v), terminated (murdered), with (no longer with
us)
• direction: take down (kill)
• mental health: dog (black dog / mental health), pieces (go to pieces), unhinged (adj)
• military: cleanup (military)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: with (on longer with us)
• sex: bedroom (sex), bee (the birds and the bees), couch (casting couch)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: skin (save one’s skin)
• speech: conversation (national conversation, etc.)
• sports & games: board (off the board)
• verb: dust (bite the dust), leave (death), lose (through death), neutralize (kill), remove (kill), skin (save one’s
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EVALUATION (see judgment)
EVIDENCE (1) (see also message; suspicion; warning)
• activity: alight
• allusion: breadcrumb (evidence)
• animal: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave), fishy (something smells fishy, etc.), rat (smell a rat)
• atmosphere: cloud (sign), glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• bird: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
• chemistry: litmus test
• cloud: cloud (sign)
• earthquake: tremor (n)
• finger: fingerprint
• fire: fire (evidence), smoke (evidence), smoking gun
• fish: fishy (something smells fishy, etc.)
• health & medicine: symptom (n)
• house: closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
• hunting: trail (digital trail, etc.)
• infrastructure: signpost (n)
• journeys & trips: signpost (n)
• light & dark: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• mark: fingerprint, hallmark
• materials & substances: taint (n)
• mining: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
• object: calling card
• picture: illustrate (v), illustration (n), picture (view), portrait (view), show (v)
• rat: rat (smell a rat)
• sign, signal, symbol: sign (sign of the times, etc.), signal (v), signpost (n)
• skeleton: closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
• sound: chord (evidence), tenor (n)
• smell: rat (smell a rat), smell (evidence), sniff out (v), stench (n), test (smell test), whiff (n), wind (get / catch
wind of something)
• speech: hint (v), hint (n), hint at (v), speak (evidence), suggest (indicate), suggestion (evidence), tell (data can
tell us something, etc.), telling
• verb: betray (v), hint (v), hint at (v), illustrate (v), reveal (v), show (v), sign (v), signal (v), sniff out (v), speak
(evidence), suggest (indicate), tell (data can tell us something, etc.), wind (get / catch wind of something)
• volcano: tremor (n)
• weapon: smoking gun
• wind: wind (get / catch wind of something)
• writing & spelling: sign (v), signature (evidence), written (written on it, etc.)
EXCLAMATION (2)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: exclamation point
• comprehension & incomprehension: Aha! (Aha! moment), eureka (moment, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: Aha! (Aha! moment)
• feeling, emotion & effect: welcome (welcome news, etc.), wow (v), wow (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: farewell (n)
• welcome: welcome (v)
EXPERIENCE (1)
• animal: cub (n), greenhorn (person), rodeo (first rodeo)

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• baby: baby (novice), grownup (person)
• blood: blood (young blood, etc.)
• boat: rope (learn the ropes, etc.), salt (sailor), wheelhouse (n)
• books & reading: story (war story)
• clothing & accessories: belt (under one's belt), hat (old hat)
• color: greenhorn (person)
• depth: depth (out of one’s depth)
• earth & world: horizon (expand one’s horizons)
• education: freshman (adj)
• eye: see (see action, etc.)
• fire: fire (through the fire, etc.), trial (trial by fire)
• food & drink: chew (v), diet (n), medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine), taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste
(taste of freedom, etc.), treat (in for a treat)
• hand: old hand (experience)
• hardness & softness: hardened (battle-hardened, etc.)
• health & medicine: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• horizon: horizon (expand one's horizons)
• horn: greenhorn (person)
• horse: ride (rough ride, etc.), rodeo (first rodeo), spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.)
• house: armchair (armchair traveller, etc.)
• infrastructure: alley (up one’s alley), lane (experience)
• journeys & trips: go through, etc. (endure), road (down a road before)
• love, courtship & marriage: coming out (party, etc.), debutant (n), innocence (n), maiden (adj), virgin (n)
• meat: raw (raw recruit, etc.)
• military: spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.), story (war story), stripe (earn one’s stripes, etc.), trench (in the trenches),
trench (other), veteran (n), veteran (adj)
• movement: go through, etc. (endure), ride (rough ride, etc.), road (down a road before)
• music: chops (expertise)
• person: adult (development), chaperon (person), debutant (n), greenhorn (person), grownup (person), neophyte
(n), stranger (no stranger)
• place: road (down a road before)
• plant: neophyte (n)
• religion: baptism, baptized
• riding: ride (rough ride, etc.)
• rope: rope (learn the ropes, etc.)
• school & education: schooled
• sex: coming out (party, etc.), debutant (n), maiden (adj), virgin (n)
• sky: horizon (expand one’s horizons)
• sports & games: varsity (n)
• taste: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine), salt (sailor), seasoned (adj), taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste
(taste of freedom, etc.)
• verb: chew (v), go through, etc. (endure), see (see action, etc.), taste (taste freedom, etc.)
• water: baptism, baptized, depth (out of one’s depth), feet (get one’s feet wet)
• wolf: cub (n)
EXPERIMENTATION (1)
• animal: guinea pig
• atmosphere: flagpole (run something up the flagpole), float (a plan, etc.), floated, trial balloon
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• chemistry: experiment (n), litmus test
• flags & banners: flagpole (run something up the flagpole)
• foot: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• place: laboratory
• toe: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• verb: float (a plan, etc.), toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.), waters (test the waters)
• water: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.), waters (test the waters)
EXPLOSION (2) (see also military)
• accusation & criticism: blast (criticize), incoming (criticism)
• activity: boom (jade boom, etc.), boom (increase), burst (activity), bust (oil bust, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: defuse (v)
• amount & effect: blast (criticize), blockbuster (n), bomb (drop a bomb), bombard (v), bombarded,
bombardment (n), bombshell (n), firebomb (n)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: blockbuster (n), blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun),
bombshell (n), burst on / onto the scene, etc., dynamite (n), explode (onto the scene, etc.), Krakatoan (adj)
• behavior: self-destructive (adj)
• character & personality: grenade (n), self-destructive (adj), time bomb (person)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: burst on / onto the scene, etc.
• computer: bomb (code bomb)
• conflict: blowup (conflict), fireworks (conflict)
• cost & benefit: boom (jade boom, etc.), bust (oil bust, etc.)
• danger: bomb (danger), booby trap, booby-trapped, landmine, minefield, powder keg, time bomb (ticking time
bomb, etc.), tripwire (danger)
• destruction: atomic bomb, blast (destroy), blasted apart, blow up (destroy / disrupt), explode (destroy), implode
(v), Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Krakatoan (adj), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.), self-
destructive (adj)
• disruption: blow up (destroy / disrupt), grenade (disruption)
• effect: ground zero, shock wave, wave (blast wave, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: dud (n), fizzle (fizzle out)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blockbuster (n), blown away, blow up (emotion), bombshell (n), burst (burst into
tears, etc.), erupt (feeling), explode (emotion), go off (v), outburst (n), Molotov cocktail, set off (feeling and
emotion), shellshocked, shock wave, stack (blow one's stack), steam (v), top (blow one's top)
• flaws & lack of flaws: bombproof
• force: wave (blast wave, etc.)
• growth & development: explode (increase)
• increase & decrease: boom (increase), booming (adj), explode (increase), exploding (adj), explosion (increase),
explosive (increase), blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun)
• initiation: blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun), blow up (emotion), blowup (conflict), burst
(burst into violence, etc.), detonate (v), explode (emotion), explode (initiation), explode (increase), explosion
(violence, etc.), explosive (violence, etc.), fuse (n), go off (v), powder keg, primed (ready), set off (v), time
bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.), tripwire (initiation), volatile
• power: blast (destroy), explosive (power)
• readiness & preparedness: primed (ready)
• resemblance: bomb (roach bomb, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: blowback (n)
• reversal: blowback (n), blow up (blow up in one's face), face (blow up in one's face)
• situation: time bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.)
• sound: explosion (sound)

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• speech: blast (criticize)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: fizzle (fizzle out)
• success & failure: blockbuster (n), bomb (fail), dud (n)
EXTENT & SCOPE (1)
• animal: octopus (n), tentacle (n)
• arm: arm (long arm), far-reaching, octopus (n), reach (extent and scope), tentacle (n)
• astronomy: light year (light years away, etc.)
• atmosphere: sky-high, stratosphere, stratospheric
• bird: full-fledged (adj)
• blanket: blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
• boat: leeway (n), stem (from stem to stern)
• bodily reaction: yawning (adj)
• boundary: boundless (adj), bounds (no bounds, etc.)
• breadth: thin (substance), skin-deep, veneer (appearance)
• cloth: blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
• depth: bottom (no bottom), bottomless (adj), deep (extent and scope), deepen (v), depth (extent), shallow (adj),
sound (measure)
• direction: bottomless (adj), direction (in every direction), roof (through the roof), stratospheric
• distance: distant (a distant second, etc.), far-reaching, length (go to any lengths, etc.), light year (light years
away, etc.), mile (go the extra mile), way (go a long way)
• earth & world: earth (to the ends of the earth, etc.), polar (polar opposite, etc.), tectonic (adj), world (a world of
difference, etc.), world (the whole world, etc.)
• earthquake: earthshaking (adj), seismic, tectonic
• fan: fan out (v)
• fish: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• flood: high-water (high-water mark)
• flying & falling: roof (through the roof)
• food & drink: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• ground, terrain & land: earthshaking (adj), ground (cover ground), tectonic (adj)
• health & medicine: epidemic
• horizon: horizon (extent and scope)
• house: roof (through the roof)
• journeys & trips: ground (cover ground), mile (go the extra mile)
• map: latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
• materials & substances: stretch (extent), veneer (appearance)
• mechanism: full-on (adj) / pedal (pedal to the metal)
• movement: sweeping, swing (in full swing)
• pendulum: sweeping, swing (in full swing)
• plant: tendril (growth)
• roof: roof (through the roof)
• school & education: extracurricular
• sea: high tide
• size: go big (v), small-minded
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: skin-deep, surface (scratch the surface)
• sky: horizon (extent and scope), sky-high
• standing, sitting & lying: sprawling (adj)
• star: light year (light years away, etc.)
• teeth: teeth (to the teeth)

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• theater: dramatic (extent), dramatically
• tide: high tide
• tools & technology: compass (within / outside the compass)
• verb: deepen (v), go big (v), ground (cover ground), sound (measure), surface (scratch the surface)
• wall: wall (wall-to-wall)
• water: bottom (no bottom), deep (extent and scope), deepen (v), depth (extent), shallow (adj), sound (measure),
stretch (extent)
• weapon: scattershot (adj)
EYE (2)
• admiration & contempt: look (look up to somebody), look (look down on something), nose (look down one’s
nose)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: look (analysis), look (look into something), microscope (under a
microscope)
• appearance: eye (for the eyes), eye (eye candy), eyesore (n), feast (feast for the eyes)
• appearance & disappearance: peek (v), view (out of view)
• appearance & reality: eye (appearance and reality), see (see through something)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye (public eye), eye (attention), eyeball (attention), eyeball (eyeball-popping),
eye-catching, focus (v), focus (n), look (analysis), look (look into something), microscope (under a
microscope), view (out of view), view (attention)
• character & personality: eye (stars in one’s eyes)
• commitment & determination: blind (disregarding evidence, logic), blindly
• comprehension & incomprehension: eye (comprehension), eye (roll one’s eyes), see (comprehension)
• concealment & lack of concealment: hidden, see (see through something)
• conflict: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: blind (noticing, understanding, judging), blinded, blindsided, blind spot, blinder
(n), blinkered (adj), clear-eyed (adj), come (see something coming), envision (envision the future, etc.), eye
(open eyes, etc.), eye (closed eyes, etc.), eye-opener, eye-opening, see (see something coming), see (see through
something), sight (lose sight), view (out of view)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: blind (noticing, understanding, judging), blind spot, blink
(America will not blink, etc.), eye (turn a blind eye), look (look the other way), stare (stare at defeat, etc.)
• danger: evil eye
• development: come (see something coming), see (see something coming)
• dominance & submission: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• eagerness & reluctance: look (look forward / toward something)
• experience: see (see action, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: blind (not controlled by intelligence)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blink (America will not blink, etc.), eyeball (eyeball-popping), eyebrow (raise
eyebrows), eye (bat an eye / eyelash), eye-popping, eye-roll (dismissal)
• fictive meeting & seeing: eye (met our eyes, etc.), see (fictive), see (a date can see something, etc.), stare (stare
at defeat, etc.), witness (v)
• flaws & lack of flaws: eyesore (n), black eye, pretty (adj), ugly (adj)
• future: come (see something coming), end (no end in sight, etc.), envision (envision the future, etc.), forward-
looking, horizon (on the horizon), look (look forward / toward something), look like (be like, etc.), myopia (n),
myopic (adj), nearsighted, see (see something coming), see (future), seen (future), seer (person), shortsighted,
sight (in sight), vision (n), visionary (adj), visionary (person)
• involvement: eyeball (up to one's eyeballs)
• message: seer (person)
• past & present: hindsight (with hindsight), look (look back)

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• perception, perspective & point of view: blinded, blinder (n), blind spot, blinkered (adj), eye (perception),
farsighted, fisheye (fisheye view, etc.), forward-looking, myopia (n), myopic (adj), nearsighted, optics (n), see
(perceive), seen (perceived), shortsighted, view (perspective), view (v), view (in view), view (in somebody's
view), view (opinion), viewed (perceived), vision (n), visionary (adj), visionary (person), worm’s-eye (adj)
• progress & lack of progress: look up (v)
• proper name: eye (the Eye of Kuruman, etc.)
• proximity: sight (in sight)
• readiness & preparedness: blindsided
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: end no end in sight, etc.)
• reference: see (refer to)
• reputation: black eye
• resemblance: blink (light), eye (resemblance), peek (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: stare down (v), stare-down (n)
• revenge: eye (an eye for an eye)
• searching & discovery: look (look for), look (look into something)
• shape: eye (the Eye of Kuruman, etc.)
• sight: blind (hard to see, hidden), blind date, blinding, blind side (from the blind side), eye (v), eye (met our
eyes, etc.), eyeball (sight)
• social interaction: see (visit / meet)
• speed: blink (in the blink of an eye)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: end (no end in sight, etc.)
• subterfuge: eye (subterfuge), wink (n)
• surveillance: eagle eye, eye (surveillance)
• time: come (see something coming), dim (the dim past, etc.), end (no end in sight, etc.), envision (envision the
future, etc.), forward-looking, hindsight (with hindsight), horizon (on the horizon), look (look back), look (look
forward / toward something), look like (be like, etc.), myopia (n), see (see something coming), see (future),
seen (future), seer (person), sight (in sight)
• unanimity & consensus: eye (see eye to eye, etc.)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: eye (goal)
FACE (2)
• amelioration & renewal: facelift
• appearance: baby (baby face, etc.), face (appearance), game (game face), poker-faced (adj), stone-faced (adj)
• appearance & disappearance: face (in the face of)
• appearance & reality: face (brave face, etc.), mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v)
• commitment & determination: game (game face)
• concealment & lack of concealment: mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v), poker-faced
(adj), stone-faced (adj)
• conflict: face (conflict), face (in one’s face)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face (look something in the face), face (face facts, etc.), face (face
anger, etc.), face (in the face of), face (in one’s face), face up (face up to something)
• consciousness & awareness: slap (awareness)
• feeling, emotion & effect: poker-faced (adj), stone-faced (adj)
• fictive meeting & seeing: face (face anger, etc.)
• identity & nature: faceless
• insult: face (slap in the face), slap (punish), slap (slap in the face, etc.)
• judgment: frown (v), smile (v)
• representation: face (international face, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: face (in one’s face), face (in the face of)

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• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: frown (v), smile (v)
• sign, signal, symbol: face (smiley face), frown (v), smile (v)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: face (concept)
• social interaction: face (concept), face-saving
• subterfuge: mask (drop the mask, etc.), mask (hide), masquerade (v)
FAILURE, ACCIDENT & IMPAIRMENT (1) (see also destruction)
• affix: mis (misbehave, etc.)
• air: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• animal: astray (direction), belly-up (adj), stray (behavior), stray (direction)
• atmosphere: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• baby: miscarriage (of justice, etc.)
• ball: ball (take one’s eye off the ball), ball (drop the ball), caught out, curveball (n), fumble (v), fumble (n),
fumbled
• balloon: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• baseball: curveball (n), error (unforced error), strike out (v)
• birth: miscarriage (of justice, etc.)
• boat: aground (run aground), founder (v), rock (on the rocks), ship (a sinking ship), shipwreck (n), shoal (n)
• bodily reaction: hiccup (n)
• burden: strain (v)
• cards: hand (overplay one’s hand), overplay (v)
• cloth: fray (v), frayed, tatters (in tatters), undoing (destruction), unravel (fail)
• clothing & accessories: clotheslined, shirt (lose one’s shirt), tatters (in tatters)
• crashes & collisions: crash (population crash, etc.), crash (car crash), crash-land (v), shipwreck (n), T-bone (v),
T-boned, wreck (v), wreck (train wreck), wreck (person)
• death & life: belly-up (adj), casualty (n)
• direction: astray (direction), circle (go in circles), direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), down
(functioning), downhill (go downhill, etc.), fall through (v), let down (fail), sidetracked, sideways (go
sideways), sink (sink into the mud, etc.), south (go south, etc.), stray (behavior), stray (direction), toilet (in the
toilet), tumble (decline), tumble (take a tumble), turn (wrong turn), west (go west)
• distance: far (too far)
• electricity: short-circuit (v)
• engine: flameout, flame out (v), gas (run out of gas), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• equilibrium & stability: trip up (v), unseat (v)
• erosion: crumble (v), disintegrate (v), disintegration, erode (v), eroding, erosion (n)
• explosion: dud (n), fizzle (fizzle out)
• film: dust (bite the dust)
• fire: flame (in flames)
• fish: belly-up (adj)
• foot: shoot (shoot oneself in the foot)
• football: fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled
• fruits & vegetables: banana (n), lemon (n)
• ground, terrain & land: crack (fall through the cracks, etc.)
• hand: fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled
• head: head (come down on one’s head, etc.)
• health & medicine: malpractice (n), miscarriage (of justice, etc.), misdiagnose (v)
• history: Chernobyl
• hole: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• horse: founder (v), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), unseat (v)

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• house: roof (a roof can cave in)
• infrastructure: buckle (give way), collapse (n), drain (go down the drain, etc.), pipe (go down the pipes), pothole
(noun), toilet (in the toilet), tube (go down the tubes), tumble down (v)
• journeys & trips: circle (go in circles), cul-de-sac, dead end, direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), mislead
(v), misleading (adj), pothole (n), sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), turn (wrong turn), way (lose one’s way)
• letters & characters: T-bone (v), T-boned
• light & dark: tarnish (v), tarnished
• materials & substances: breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking point (to the breaking point), breaking
point (other), crack (v), fracture (failure), meltdown (failure), snap (v), split (n), split (v), split (split apart / up,
etc.), unglued
• meat: butcher (v)
• mechanism: break down (functioning), broken (failure), down (functioning), fall apart (v), gear (throw sand in
the gears, etc.), grind (grind down), gum up (v), halt (grind to a halt, etc.), rupture (n), sputter (v), stall (v),
stalled (progress), wheel (wheels are falling off, etc.), wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• military: casualty (n), wound (self-inflicted wound)
• mining: cave in (v), undercut (v), undermine (v)
• mountains & hills: downhill (go downhill, etc.)
• movement: circle (go in circles), falter (v), flounder (v), go (go wrong, etc.), halt (grind to a halt, etc.),
momentum (lose momentum), sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), stall (v), stalled (progress), stride (knock
somebody off stride, etc.), turn (wrong turn)
• nuclear energy: Chernobyl, meltdown (failure)
• person: wreck (person)
• place: Chernobyl
• plane: crash-land (v), flameout, flame out (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: break down (functioning), down (functioning)
• roof: roof (a roof can cave in)
• rope: undoing (destruction), unravel (fail)
• ruins: buckle (give way), collapse (n), crumble (v), roof (a roof can cave in), tumble down (v), wreck (v), wreck
(person)
• sea: founder (v), rock (on the rocks), ship (a sinking ship), shoal (n)
• shape: T-bone (v), T-boned
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: shot (nerves are shot, etc.), strain (v), stretch (v)
• sleep: asleep (at the switch, etc.)
• sound: sputter (v)
• speech: stuttering (adj), tongue (slip of the tongue)
• sports & games: ball (take one’s eye off the ball), ball (drop the ball), baton (drop the baton), belly flop (n),
caught out, curveball (n), error (unforced error), fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled, goal (own goal), miscue (n),
overplay (v), strike out (v)
• target: fall (fall short)
• tongue: tongue (slip of the tongue)
• tools & technology: screw up (v)
• train: derail (v), derailed, rail (off the rails), train (failure), wreck (train wreck)
• verb: aground (run aground), ball (take one’s eye off the ball), ball (drop the ball), betray (fail), break down
(functioning), circle (go in circles), crack (v), crack (fall through the cracks, etc.), buckle (give way), butcher
(v), cave (cave in), crack (v), crash-land (v), crumble (v), derail (v), drain (go down the drain, etc.), erode (v),
fall apart (v), fall down (v), fall through (v), fizzle (fizzle out), flame out (v), flounder (v), founder (v), fray (v),
fumble (v), gas (run out of gas), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), grind (grind down), gum up (v), halt (grind
to a halt, etc.), hand (overplay one’s hand), jump (jump a curb, etc.), let down (fail), misdiagnose (v), mislead
(v), momentum (lose momentum), overplay (v), pipe (go down the pipes), screw up (v), shoot (shoot oneself in

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 the foot), short-circuit (v), sideways (go sideways), sink (sink into the mud, etc.), slip up (fail), split (v), split
(split apart / up, etc.), snap (v), south (go south, etc.), sputter (v), stall (v), strain (v), stray (behavior), stray
(direction), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), strike out (v), stumble (v), tarnish (v), trip up (v), tube (go
down the tubes), tumble (decline), tumble (take a tumble), tumble down (v), undercut (v), undermine (v),
unravel (v), unseat (v), west (go west), wreck (v), wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• verb to noun: fail (a stunning fail, etc.)
• walking, running & jumping: fall down (v), falter (v), flounder (v), jump (jump a curb, etc.), misstep (n), slip up
(fail), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), stumble (v), stumble (n), tumble (decline), tumble (take a
tumble), trip up (v)
• water: belly flop (n)
• weapon: dud (n), misfire (failure), shoot (shoot oneself in the foot), wound (self-inflicted wound)
FAMILY (2)
• accusation & criticism: scold (v)
• achievement, recognition & praise: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son
• amount: twin (two)
• behavior: child (spoiled child)
• biodiversity: mother (Mother Nature)
• branching system: family tree
• creation & transformation: brainchild, father (father of India, etc.), mother (mother of invention, etc.)
• dependency: babysitter (role), nanny (person)
• division: parent (parent company, etc.)
• division & connection: blood brother (connection), brother (n), brotherhood, kindred (kindred spirits, etc.),
kinship (n), mother (mother ship, etc.), orphan (n), orphaned, parent (relationship), twin (relationship)
• epithet: father (father of India, etc.), godfather (God father of Soul, etc.), mother (mother earth, etc.), mother
(Mother Nature)
• feeling, emotion & effect: kindred (kindred spirits, etc.), kinship (n)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• group, set & collection: brotherhood, family (gang / group)
• help & assistance: godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc., mother (den
mother, etc.), mother hen, sister (big sister)
• identity & nature: child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.)
• origin: ancestor (n), background
• person: boy (blue-eyed boy), brother (brother in arms, etc.), cousin (person), father (father of India, etc.),
favorite son, godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.), mother (mother of
invention, etc.), mother (mother ship, etc.), orphan (n), sister (relationship), stepchild (weakness)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: legacy (obsolescence)
• product: daughter (n), offspring
• proper name: mother (Mother Mountain, etc.), sister (the Seven Sisters, etc.), twin (the Twins, etc.)
• relationship: ancestor (n), blood brother (connection), brother (n), brotherhood, cousin (person), daughter (n),
family (group), godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.), hip (joined at the
hip), incestuous (adj), kindred (kindred spirits, etc.), kinship (n), mother (mother ship, etc.), mother (mother
earth, etc.), offspring, orphan (n), orphaned, parent (relationship), relative (relationship), Siamese twins, sibling,
sister (relationship), stepchild (weakness), stepmother (cruelty), twin (relationship)
• reputation: legacy (reputation)
• speech: mother tongue
• strength & weakness: stepchild (weakness)
• superlative: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son, granddaddy, mother (mother of all)

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• taxonomy & classification: family (plants), family (animals), family (viruses), family (products), family
(languages), generation (products, etc.)
• time: Father Time
• transmission: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (obsolescence), legacy (history), legacy (reputation)
• weather & climate: mother (Mother Nature)
• worth & lack of worth: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son, illegitimate (adj), stepchild (weakness)
FAN (2)
• extent & scope: fan out (v)
• movement: fan out (v)
• resemblance: fan (shape)
• shape: fan (shape)
FANTASY & REALITY (1)
• addiction: pipe dream, rabbit hole (fantasy)
• allusion: Arthurian (adj), Black Mirror, curiouser and curiouser, El Dorado, Groundhog Day (film), heffalump
(creature), Kafkaesque (adj), never-never land, Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole (fantasy),
Star Wars (film), Twilight Zone, Walter Mitty
• animal: rabbit hole (fantasy)
• books & reading: fairy tale (fantasy), fantasy (fairy tale, etc.)
• creature: ghost (fantasy and delusion), heffalump (creature), phantom
• day: Groundhog Day (film)
• doors & thresholds: unhinged (adj)
• earth & world: world (fantasy)
• film: Groundhog Day (film), Star Wars (film)
• health & medicine: demented, dream (fever dream), swamp (fever swamp)
• history: Arthurian (adj), El Dorado
• hole: rabbit hole (fantasy)
• magic: magic (versus reality), magical (versus reality), make-believe (n), make-believe (adj)
• mental health: delusion (under a delusion), delusion, demented, fantasy (delusion), pipe dream, rabbit hole
(fantasy)
• person: Arthurian (adj), Kafkaesque, Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole (fantasy), Walter Mitty
• theater: theater of the absurd
FARMING & AGRICULTURE (2) (see also plant; wheat)
• appearance & disappearance: crop up (v)
• computer: harvest (data, etc.)
• configuration: sown (mine-sown, etc.)
• conflict: slash-and-burn (adj)
• consumption: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• content: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.), hay (make hay, etc.)
• creation & transformation: hothouse (n), nursery (n), plant (create), seed (n), sow (v)
• curtailment: cut short (v)
• destruction: slash-and-burn (adj)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: plow (plow on, through, etc.), row (row to hoe)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: prune (v), weed out (v), slash-and-burn (adj)
• division & connection: silo (academic silos, etc.), siloed
• epithet: bowl (Vietnam’s rice bowl, etc.), breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: harrowing (adj)
• gossip: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.)

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• growth & development: cultivate (v), cultivated, drought (in a drought), fallow (adj), fruition (n), ground (fertile
ground), grow (develop), grow (grow the economy, etc.), hotbed (n), hothouse (n), plant (create), rainmaker
(person), seed (n), seed money, soil (fertile soil), sow (v), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell), spell
(throughout a dry spell), spell (dry spell / other)
• importance & significance: ground (break ground), groundbreaking
• isolation & remoteness: silo (academic silos, etc.), siloed
• place: bowl (rice bowl), bowl (salad bowl / agriculture), breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket, etc.)
• product: commodity, crop (n), farm (enterprise), fruit (product), reap (v), harvest (v), harvest (n), harvested
• searching & discovery: glean (v), gleaned, sieve (n), winnow (v)
• speech: straw man (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ground (break ground), plow (plow on, through, etc.)
• subterfuge: straw man (n)
• throwing, putting & planting: plant (put), plow (put), sow (v), sown (planted)
• work & duty: plow (plow on, through, etc.), row (row to hoe)
• worth & lack of worth: chaff (separate the wheat from the chaff), commodity, fruitful (adj), fruitless (adj),
winnow (v)
FATE, FORTUNE & CHANCE (1)
• air: sky (the sky can fall)
• allusion: chalice (poisoned chalice), devil (deal with the devil), Faustian (adj), kiss of death, midnight (two
minutes to midnight, etc.), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), Sword of Damocles
• animal: blue whale, jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.), snake (snake-bit), swan (black swan)
• astronomy: star (fate), star-crossed (adj)
• atmosphere: sky (the sky can fall)
• ax: chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• Bible: handwriting (on the wall), kiss of death, writing (writing on the wall)
• bird: auspicious (adj), swan (black swan)
• blade: call (close call / danger), chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), head (heads
will roll, etc.), shave (close shave), sword (fate), Sword of Damocles
• bodily reaction: laugh (last laugh)
• boundary: line (tread a line, etc.)
• breathing: breath (hold one's breath)
• bullet: bullet (dodge a bullet)
• burial: coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.), funeral (one’s funeral), grave (dig one’s grave)
• cards: bet (all bets are off), card (in the cards), card (dealt cards), deck (deck is stacked), draw (luck of the
draw), hand (dealt a hand), odds (fate)
• circus: tightrope (fate)
• clock: midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.)
• cloth: thread (by a thread)
• clothing & accessories: shoe (a shoe can drop or fall)
• color: blue (out of the blue), blue whale, swan (black swan)
• cooking: frying pan
• control & lack of control: control (out of one's control)
• day: midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.), noon (high noon)
• death & life: death (cheat death), death warrant, doomed, funeral (one’s funeral), grave (dig one’s grave), kiss
of death, live (live and die / fate), noose (fate)
• direction: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), rise (rise and fall / verb)
• electricity: blue (out of the blue, etc.), lightning (fate)
• epithet: miracle (Miracle on the Hudson, etc.)

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• equilibrium & stability: balance (in the balance), teeter (v)
• eye: blind (not controlled by intelligence)
• film: noon (high noon)
• finger: finger (fingers crossed)
• fire: fire (play with fire), frying pan
• food & drink: chalice (poisoned chalice), medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• football: Hail Mary
• gambling: bet (all bets are off), card (in the cards), card (dealt cards), dice (n), die (the die is cast, etc.), draw
(luck of the draw), gamble (n), gamble (v), lot (lot in life, etc.), lottery (win the lottery, etc.), odds (fate),
roulette (n), wheel (spin of the wheel, etc.)
• gesture: finger (fingers crossed)
• ground, terrain & land: brink (on the brink), brink (to the brink), brink (from the brink), brinksmanship (n), cliff
(fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), last-ditch (adj), precipice (at the precipice), precipice
(other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope), territory (come with the territory, etc.)
• hair: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• hand: hand (fate)
• head: chopping block (on the chopping block), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• health & medicine: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• height: rise (rise and fall / verb)
• history: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• justice: death warrant, jury (the jury is out), reprieve (n), stay (stay of execution)
• journeys & trips: path (cross paths), return (point of no return), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• lightning: lightning (fate)
• line: line (tread a line, etc.), line (on the line)
• love, courtship & marriage: flirt (v)
• magic: crystal ball, cursed, magic (trail magic, etc.), tea leaves
• mechanism: wheel (wheel of fate or fortune, etc.)
• military: last-ditch (adj)
• mountains & hills: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), precipice (at the precipice),
precipice (other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• neck: chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), head (heads will roll, etc.), neck (save
one’s neck), neck (fate), neck (stick one’s neck out)
• number: number (number is up, etc.), numbered (days are numbered, etc.)
• predation: jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.)
• religion: auspicious (adj), cursed, devil (deal with the devil), Faustian (adj), god (mountain gods, etc.), Hail
Mary, handwriting (on the wall), karma (fate), kiss of death, miracle (other), miraculous (adj), original sin,
writing (writing on the wall), written (fate)
• river: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• scale: balance (in the balance)
• sea: blue whale
• shape: circle (a circle can close)
• sky: blue (out of the blue, etc.), lightning (fate), sky (the sky can fall), swan (black swan)
• snake: snake (snake-bit)
• snow & ice: ice (on thin ice)
• sound: laugh (last laugh)
• sports & games: bet (all bets are off), card (in the cards), cards (dealt cards), deck (deck is stacked), dice (n), die
(the die is cast, etc.), draw (luck of the draw), gamble (v), gamble (n), game (guessing game), Hail Mary,
roulette (n), wheel (spin of the wheel, etc.)
• star: star (fate), star-crossed (adj)

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• storm: blue (out of the blue, etc.), lightning (fate)
• sun: noon (high noon)
• sword: sword (fate), Sword of Damocles
• taste: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• tree: chip (chips fall, etc.), limb (go out on a limb)
• verb: balance (in the balance), breath (hold one’s breath), bullet (dodge a bullet), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.),
finger (fingers crossed), fire (play with fire), flirt (v), gamble (v), grave (dig one’s grave), head (hold something
over one’s head), limb (go out on a limb), line (tread a line, etc.), path (cross paths), rise (rise and fall / verb),
shoe (a shoe can drop or fall), spell (spell disaster, etc.), teeter (v)
• violence: head (heads will roll, etc.)
• walking, running & jumping: leap (leap of faith, etc.), line (tread a line, etc.)
• weapon: bullet (dodge a bullet), gun (under the gun), long shot, Russian roulette, shot (chance)
• writing & spelling: handwriting (on the wall), spell (spell disaster, etc.), writing (writing on the wall), written
(fate)
FATNESS & THINNESS (2) (see also breadth)
• ability & lack of ability: lean (size)
• flaws & lack of flaws: flabby (adj)
• money: fat cat
• size: bloated (size), lean (size), slender (adj), slim (small)
• strength & weakness: flabby (adj)
• substance & lack of substance: skinny (adj)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: fat (adj), lean (insufficiency)
FEELING, EMOTION & EFFECT (1) (see also effect)
• addiction: addictive (adj), narcotic, withdrawal (feeling)
• air: air (breath of fresh air), air (air of authority, etc.), air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an
atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.), aura (n), climate (work climate, etc.), deflate (emotion),
deflated, pump up (v), pumped (feeling)
• alcohol: drunk (adj), hangover, intoxicate (v), intoxicated, intoxicating, sober (v), sober (adj), sobering (adj)
• allusion: stoic (adj)
• animal: bask (v), biting (adj), bristle (emotional arousal), devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive, etc., eggshell
(walking on eggshells), feather (ruffle feathers), gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.), hackles (raise
hackles), ruffled (feathers), venom (n), venomous (adj), wild (behavior)
• arm: hold back (restraint)
• atmosphere: afterglow (in the afterglow), afterglow (other), air (breath of fresh air), air (air of authority, etc.),
air (anger in the air, etc.), atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.), aura
(n), bask (v), climate (work climate, etc.), cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.),
deflate (emotion), deflated, fallout (effect), pump up (v), pumped (feeling)
• baby: baby (relationship)
• bird: eggshell (walking on eggshells), feather (ruffle feathers), ruffled (feathers)
• blade: cut (cut both ways), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), double-edged (sword), gutted (feeling), heart (knife
in the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart), rapier (n), sword (double-edged sword), sword (two-edged sword)
• blood: blood (in one’s blood), blood (blood runs cold), blood (in cold blood), blush (embarrassment), livid
(adj), mist (red mist), vein (ice in one’s veins, etc.)
• boat: stack (blow one’s stack)
• bodily reaction: blush (embarrassment), breath (take a breath, etc.), breath (take one’s breath away), breathless
(adj), breathtaking (adj), eye-roll (dismissal), gasp (very “gasp,” etc.), goosebumps, mouthwatering (adj), nail
(bite one’s nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting (fingernails), retch (v), sigh (sigh of relief), startling (adj), sweat
(feeling), tear (crying), teeth (gnash one’s teeth), yawn (n)

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• bottle: bottle up (v)
• boxing: blow (body blow, etc.), knockout (knockout voice, etc.), pummeled, punch (punch in the gut, etc.)
• breathing: breath (take a breath, etc.), breath (take one’s breath away), breathless (adj), breathtaking (adj),
exhale (v), gasp (very “gasp,” etc.), sigh (sigh of relief), suffocating
• burial: funereal (adj), lament (v), pall (cast a pall)
• cards: poker-faced (adj)
• chemistry: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, caustic (adj), corrosive (adj)
• cloth: pall (cast a pall)
• clothing & accessories: pearl (clutch one’s pearls), shoe (a stone in the shoe)
• cloud: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.)
• color: black (feeling), bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj), dog (black dog / mental health), blue (feeling), blues
(the blues), green (green with envy), livid (adj), mist (red mist)
• container: bottle up (v), drained (feeling), emptiness (depression), empty (depression), hold (hold something
in), inside (emotions), open up (emotions, speech, etc.), pent-up (constrained), place (in a place / feelings), spill
out (speech, emotions, etc.)
• control & lack of control: control (in control)
• cooking: stir (effect)
• crashes & collisions: wreck (person)
• creature: demonic (adj), haunting (adj), spook (v), spooked
• day: day (dark day)
• death & life: dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), deadening (effect), funereal (adj), heart (knife in the heart, etc.),
killjoy (person), knife (knife in the heart)
• destruction: destroy (emotion), devastated (emotion), devastating (feeling), shatter (emotions), shattering (adj),
torn up, wreck (person)
• direction: ballistic (go ballistic), buoy (v), buoyant (feeling), buoyant (personality), buoyed, depression, down
(feeling), downhearted, fall (fall into a rage, etc.), fall (an emotion can fall), fall (fall in love), feeling (sinking
feeling), fly (fly into a rage, etc.), head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s
head), heart (heart sank), high (on a high), high (emotion), high-spirited, lift (n), lift (v), low (emotion), raise
(feeling), retreat (withdraw), roller coaster (emotional roller coaster, etc.), sink (sink into despair, etc.), sinking
(sinking feeling, etc.), soar (a heart can soar), slide (v), up (feeling), upbeat (adj), world (on top of the world)
• distance: close (feeling), tight (relationship)
• dog: bristle (emotional arousal), hackles (raise hackles)
• ear: ear (music to one’s ears)
• earthquake: aftershock (n), earthquake (effect), shock wave, upheaval (disruption)
• earth & world: world (on top of the world), world (mean the world to me, etc.)
• electricity: amped (feeling), charged (highly charged, etc.), electric (feeling), electrified, electrify (v), galvanize
(v), jolt (n), lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.), shock (v), shock (in shock), shock (feeling), shocked
(adj), shocker (n), shocking (feeling, emotion and effect), thunderstruck (adj)
• engine: revved (revved up)
• equilibrium & stability: destabilizing (adj), dizzying (adj), earthquake (effect), edge (on edge), feet (knock
somebody off their feet), flattened (emotion), floored (emotion), head-spinning, rattled (feeling), rock (v),
rocked (disruption), shake (disrupt), shaken (feeling), stagger (v), upheaval (disruption)
• exclamation: welcome (welcome news, etc.), wow (v), wow (n)
• explosion: blockbuster (n), blown away, blow up (emotion), bombshell (n), burst (burst into tears, etc.), erupt
(feeling), explode (emotion), go off (v), Molotov cocktail, outburst (n), set off (feeling and emotion),
shellshocked, shock wave, stack (blow one's stack), steam (v), top (blow one's top)
• eye: blink (America will not blink, etc.), eye (bat an eye / eyelash), eyeball (eyeball-popping), eyebrow (raise
eyebrows), eye-popping, eye-roll (dismissal)
• face: poker-faced (adj), stone-faced (adj)

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• family: kindred (kindred spirits, etc.), kinship (n)
• farming & agriculture: harrowing (adj)
• finger: nail (bite one’s nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting, touch (verb / emotion), touching (adj)
• fire: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), burned (hurt), burned-out (and burnt-out), burning (burning desire,
etc.), burn out (v), burnout (n), consume (emotions), consumed (emotion), fire (on fire / feeling), fire (fire and
desire, etc.), fired up, firebrand (person), fume (v), hair (hair on fire), incendiary, scorching (adj), searing (adj)
• fist: beating (take a beating, etc.), blow (body blow, etc.), blow (bitter blow, etc.), hit (take a hit, etc.), hit
(affect), hit (affected), hit (affect), knockout (knockout voice, etc.), punch (punch in the gut, etc.), pummeled,
smitten (effect), strike (tragedy, etc.), striking (adj), struck (affected), stunned (feeling), stunning (adj)
• flying & falling: ballistic (go ballistic), fly (fly into a rage, etc.), soar (a heart can soar)
• food & drink: bellyful (amount), bitter (personality), bitter (bitter weather, etc.), bitter (a bitter blow, etc.),
bittersweet (adj), devoured, eaten alive, etc., fed up, mouthwatering (adj), retch (v), savor, sour (v), taste (a bad
taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• foot: kick (kick in the teeth, etc.), teeth (kick in the teeth), toe (step on toes)
• force: crush (love), crushed (feeling), daze (in a daze), devastated (emotion), devastating (feeling), hit (affect),
hit (affected), impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), jolt (n), rage (v), raging (adj), shock (v),
shock (in shock), shock (feeling), shocked (adj), shocking (feeling, emotion and effect), smitten (effect), strike
(affect), striking (adj), struck (affected), stun (v), stunned (feeling), stunning (adj)
• functioning: broken (feeling), broken-hearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heart (broken heart), heart (a broken
heart, etc.), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken, paralyzed (feeling)
• gambling: poker-faced (adj)
• gesture: blush (embarrassment), eye (bat an eye / eyelash), eyeball (eyeball-popping), eyebrow (raise
eyebrows), eye-roll (dismissal), hat (hold on to your hat), head (turn heads), head (keep one’s head up), head
(hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), jaw (jaw-dropper, etc.), jaw (jaw-dropping), nail (bite one’s
nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting (fingernails), shiver (n)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: give (give a start, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• hair: bristle (emotional arousal), hackles (raise hackles), hair (hair on fire), hair-raising
• hand: clingy (adj), crush (confidence, spirit, etc.), gripped, gripping (adj), handwringing (n), hold (hold
something in), possessed, seized (by an emotion)
• hardness & softness: harden (feelings), hardened
• hat: hat (hold on to your hat)
• head: coolheaded (adj), head (keep / lose one’s head), head (turn heads), head (keep one’s head up), head (hold
one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• health & medicine: addictive (adj), anodyne (adj), bromide (n), bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj), crippling,
febrile (adj), heartsick, hurt (feeling and emotion), injury, narcotic, nostrum (n), pain (economic pain, etc.), pain
(emotional), painful (adj), paralyzed (feeling), pill (bitter pill, etc.), shot (shot in the arm, etc.), sick (disgusted),
sick (with anxiety, etc.), soothe (sensation), tonic (effect), withdrawal (feeling), wound (wounds of Vietnam,
etc.)
• heart: broken-hearted, coldhearted (adj), downhearted, heart (miscellaneous), heart (heart sank), heart (a broken
heart, etc.), heart (heavy heart), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heartache (n), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj),
heartfelt, heartsick, heart-stopping, heartthrob, heartwarming (adj), heart-wrenching, heavy-hearted (adj), knife
(knife in the heart), light-hearted (adj), soar (a heart can soar)
• heating water: boiling point, boil over (v), seethe (v)
• height: depression, head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), low
(emotion), point (low point / emotion), raise (feeling)
• history: trail (trail of tears)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: hit (take a hit, etc.), hit (affect), hit (affected), knockout (knockout voice, etc.),
smitten (effect), strike (affect), strike (tragedy, etc.), struck (affected), thrash (v), thrashed, trounce (v), trounced

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• hole: hole (feeling)
• house: home (feel at home), home (hit home), home (close to home), welcome (welcome news, etc.)
• hunting: gutted (feeling)
• insect: butterfly (butterflies in stomach), sting (n), stinging (adj), stung (feeling)
• journeys & trips: follow (follow a feeling or emotion), trail (trail of tears)
• key: lock (lock something away)
• knife: stab (stab of pain, etc.), stabbing (stabbing pain, etc.)
• leg: kick (kick one’s butt, etc.)
• knife: cut (cut both ways), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), gutted (feeling), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), knife
(knife in the heart), stab (sensation)
• leg: kick (kick in the teeth, etc.)
• light & dark: brighten (v), cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), dark (dark mood,
etc.), darken (v), darkness (depression), day (dark day), dazzle (v), dim (feeling), gloom (n), gloomy (adj),
illuminating (adj), scintillating (adj), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow (in / under a shadow), shadow (dark
shadow, etc.), sunny (adj)
• lightning: lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.), thunderstruck (adj)
• love, courtship & marriage: crush (love), honeymoon (n), swoon (v)
• magic: bewitch (v), charm (v), charmed (charmed by something, etc.), enthralling (adj), entranced, magic
(effect), magic (magic moment, etc.), magical (effect), mesmerizing (adj), spell (under a spell), spell (cast a
spell), spellbinding (adj), spellbound (adj)
• mark: bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj), dent (n), mark (effect), wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
• materials & substances: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking
point (to the breaking point), breaking point (other), brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.), caustic (adj), corrosive
(adj), crack (verb / emotion), eggshell (walking on eggshells), fragile (feelings), noxious (adj), poisonous (adj),
shatter (emotions), shattering (adj), snap (v), stone-faced (adj), toxic (adj), unglued, shatter (destroy), vitriol (n)
• mechanism: breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.), break down (feeling), broken (feeling), button (push a
button / emotion), button (panic button), button (hot button), fall apart (emotionally), grinding (grinding
poverty, etc.), heart (a broken heart, etc.), pump up (v), turned off, turned on, turn on (v), turn-off (disgust),
turn-on, wind down (relax), wound (tightly wound)
• mental health: breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.), break down (feeling), brighten (v), darkness (depression),
dog (black dog / mental health), emptiness (depression), empty (depression), mist (red mist), pain (emotional),
possessed, rage (v), raging (adj)
• military: bombshell (n), retreat (withdraw), shellshocked
• movement: carried away, carry (carry me away, etc.), follow (follow a feeling or emotion), pulsating (adj), rage
(v), raging (adj), roller coaster (emotional roller coaster, etc.), send (emotion or effect), slide (v)
• music: blues (the blues), ear (music to one’s ears)
• nuclear energy: fallout (effect), melt down (emotions)
• person: firebrand (person), hothead (person), killjoy (person)
• place: come from (emotion), place (in a place / feelings)
• plant: withering (adj)
• predation: devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive, etc.
• prep, adv, adj, particle: down (feeling), inside (emotions), pump up (v), up (feeling)
• pressure: blow up (emotion), decompression (n), explode (emotion), pressure (under pressure), pressure (n),
pressured, pressure-filled, relax (feeling), steam (v), steam (blow / let off steam), vent (v)
• proximity: close (feeling), cozy (adj), distance (feeling), distant (feeling), tight (relationship)
• pump: pump up (v), pumped (feeling)
• religion: dispirited (adj), godforsaken, hellish (adj), miraculous (adj), paradisiacal (adj), possessed, spirit
(feeling)
• river: run (run deep / high / strong), swept away (emotion)

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• rocket: ballistic (go ballistic)
• rope: pull (pull yourself together, etc.), rope (at the end of one’s rope)
• ruins: destroy (emotion), devastated (emotion), devastating (feeling), wreck (person)
• sea: swept away (emotion), wave (effect)
• sensation: abrasive (adj), biting (adj), blistering, blow (body blow, etc.), blow (bitter blow, etc.), bruise (v),
bruised, bruising (adj), burned (hurt), burned-out (and burnt-out), burning (burning desire, etc.), buzz
(sensation), caustic (adj), corrosive (adj), dizzying (adj), gnaw (v), grate (v), gut-wrenching (adj), hair (hair on
fire), heartache (n), heartfelt, heartthrob, heart-wrenching, hit (affect), hit (affected), hurt (feeling and emotion),
impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), irritant (n), irritated, irritating, irritation, jolt (n), kick (kick
one’s butt, etc.), nerveless adj), nerve-racking, numb (adj), pain (emotional), painful (adj), pinch (pinch of
hunger, etc.), pummeled, raw (adj), rub (rub somebody the wrong way, searing (adj), sensitive (adj), shoe (a
stone in the shoe), smart (v), soothe (sensation), sore (sensation), stab (stab of pain, etc.), stabbing (stabbing
pain, etc.), sting (n), stinging (adj), stoic (adj), strike (affect), struck (affected), stun (v), stunned (feeling),
stunning (adj), stung (feeling), thick-skinned (adj), thin-skinned (adj), toe (step on toes), touchy (adj),
wrenching (adj)
• sex: passion (enthusiasm), passionate, passionately
• shadow: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow
(in / under the shadow), shadow (dark shadow, etc.)
• shape: vicious circle
• sign, signal, symbol: tear (crying)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: blush (embarrassment), crawl (skin can crawl, etc.), nerve (anxiety), nerve (strike
a nerve, etc.), nerveless (adj), nerve-racking, raw (adj), sensitive adj), shiver (n), shot (nerves are shot, etc.),
skin (feeling), skin (jump out of one’s skin), sore (sensation), startling (adj), thick-skinned (adj), thin-skinned
(adj), touchy (adj)
• sky: afterglow (in the afterglow), afterglow (other)
• sleep: nightmare (n), nightmare (worst nightmare), nightmarish (adj), tired (adj), weary (condition)
• smell: noxious (adj)
• snake: venom (n), venomous (adj)
• snow & ice: frosty (adj), ice (break the ice), ice-cold
• sound: alarm (feeling), bang (with a bang), bang (bang for the buck), bombshell (n), buzz (sensation), chord
(strike a chord), din (attention), drip (and drip-drip, etc.), lament (v), moan (v), noise (attention), noisy (debate,
etc.), note (on a note), note (note of caution, etc.), outcry (n), repercussion (n), resonate (v), reverberate (v),
reverberation (n), thunderstruck (adj), wail (v)
• speech: welcome
• sports & games: domino (domino effect, etc.)
• stomach: bellyful (amount), butterfly (butterflies in stomach), fed up, gut (n), gutted (feeling), gut-wrenching
(adj), retch (v), stomach (turn one’s stomach)
• storm: lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.), thunderstruck (adj)
• sun: sunny (adj)
• sword: double-edged (sword), rapier (n), sword (double-edged sword), sword (two-edged sword)
• taste: bitter (personality), bitter (bitter weather, etc.), bittersweet (adj), mouthwatering (adj), saccharine (adj),
savor (v), sour (v), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• teeth: biting (adj), gnaw (v), gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.), teeth (gnash one’s teeth), teeth (kick in the teeth)
• temperature: bask (v), boil (initiation), blood (blood runs cold), blood (in cold blood), blood (blood boils),
boiling point, boil over (v), button (hot button), chill (feeling), chilling (adj), chilly, cold (feeling), coldhearted
(adj), coldly, cool (feeling), cool down (v), coolly (adverb), cool off (v), cozy (adj), febrile (adj), frigid (adj),
frosty (adj), heartwarming (adj), heat (in the heat of passion, etc.), heated (emotion), heatedly, hot
(controversial), hothead (person), hotheaded (adj), hotly, ice (break the ice), ice-cold, incendiary (speech),

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 lukewarm (feeling), overheated (adj), scorching (adj), seethe (v), steam (v), temperature (raise / lower the
temperature), tepid (adj), vein (ice in one's veins, etc.), warm (v), warm (adj), warmly, warmth
• theater: drama (tense drama, etc.), dramatic (the dramatic), dramatic (effect), farce (n), melodrama (n),
melodramatic (adj), theater of the absurd, tragedy (n), travesty (n), vaudeville (n)
• toe: toe (step on toes)
• tongue: acid-tongued
• tools & technology: needle (move the needle, etc.)
• verb: bask (v), beating (take a beating, etc.), blow up (emotion), boil (initiation), boil over (v), bottle up (v),
break down (feeling), breath (take one’s breath away), breath (take a breath, etc.), bristle (emotional arousal),
brighten (v), bruise (v), buoy (v), burn out (v), burst (burst into tears, etc.), button (push a button / emotion),
carry (carry me away, etc.), charm (v), chord (strike a chord), come from (emotion), consume (emotions), cool
down (v), cool off (v), crack (verb / emotion), crawl (skin can crawl, etc.), crush (confidence, spirit, etc.),
dampen (v), darken (v), dazzle (v), deflate (emotion), dim (feeling), dissolve (emotions), drain (an emotion,
etc.), electrify (v), erupt (feeling), excite (v), exhale (v), explode (emotion), eye (bat an eye / eyelash), fall (fall
into a rage, etc.), fall apart (emotionally), fire up (v), fly (fly into a rage, etc.), follow (follow a feeling or
emotion), fume (v), galvanize (v), give (give a start, etc.), gnaw (v), go off (v), grate (v), hackles (raise hackles),
harden (feelings), hat (hold on to your hat), head (keep / lose one’s head), head (keep one’s head up), head (hold
one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), hit (take a hit, etc.), hit (affect), hold (hold something in), hold back
(restraint), home (hit home), home (feel at home), hurt (feeling and emotion), ice (break the ice), impact
(affect), intoxicate (v), kick (kick one’s butt, etc.), kick (kick in the teeth, etc.), lament (v), lift (v), lighten
(lighten things up, etc.), lock (lock something away), melt down (emotions), moan (v), moment (have a moment
/ emotion), nail (bite one’s nails), needle (move the needle, etc.), nerve (strike a nerve, etc.), open up (emotions,
speech, etc.), pall (cast a pall), rage (v), raise (feeling), resonate (v), retch (v), reverberate (v), ripple (v), rock
(v), roil (v), rub (rub somebody the wrong way), savor (v), seethe (v), send (emotion or effect), set off (feeling
and emotion), shake (disrupt), shatter (emotions), shock (v), sink (sink into despair, etc.), skin (jump out of
one’s skin), slide (v), smart (v), snap (v), sober (v), soothe (sensation), sour (v), spell (cast a spell), spill out
(speech, emotions, etc.), spook (v), stack (blow one’s stack), stagger (v), steam (v), steam (blow / let off steam),
stomach (turn one’s stomach), strike (tragedy, etc.), stun (v), stung (feeling), swoon (v), teeth (gnash one’s
teeth), temperature (raise / lower the temperature), toe (step on toes), top (blow one’s top), touch (verb /
emotion), thrash (v), trounce (v), turn on (v), unwind (v), vent (v), wail (v), warm (v), wind down (relax), wow
(v)
• violence: dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), punch (punch in the gut, etc.), thrash (v), thrashed, torturous
• volcano: top (blow one’s top), vent (v), volcanic (adj)
• walking, running & jumping: toe (step on toes)
• water: boil (initiation), boiling point, boil over (v), buoy (v), buoyant (feeling), buoyed, dampen (v), dissolve
(emotions), drain (an emotion, etc.), drained (feeling), drip (and drip-drip, etc.), ripple (n), ripple (v), roil (v),
seethe (v), spill out (speech, emotions, etc.), splash (effect), swept away (emotion), wave (effect)
• wave: wave (effect)
• weapon: blockbuster (n), blown away, blow up (emotion), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), explode (emotion),
shrapnel (n), smitten (effect)
• weather & climate: atmosphere (in / within an atmosphere), atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.), climate
(work climate, etc.)
• weight: heart (heavy heart), heavy (emotion), heavy-hearted (adj), lighten (lighten things up, etc.), light-hearted
(adj)
• whip: thrash (v), thrashed
• wind: hat (hold on to your hat)
• wounds & scars: wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)

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FENCE (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: fence (on the fence, etc.), fence (straddle the fence), fence (fence-straddling)
• amelioration & renewal: fence (mend fences)
• division & connection: fence (division)
• position, policy & negotiation: fence (on the fence, etc.), fence (straddle the fence), fence (fence-straddling)
FICTIVE COMMUNICATION (1)
• books & reading: read (the sign read don’t enter, etc.)
• gesture: beckon (v)
• hand: beckon (v)
• picture: illustrate (v), show (v)
• speech: address (v), answer (n), call for (a recipe can call for something), command (deserve and get), cry (v),
cry out (v), declare (v), demand (v), encouraging (adj), groan (amount), hint (v), hint (n), hint at (v), inform (v),
introduce (v), invitation (n), interrogate (v), interrogated, interrogation (questioning), invite (v), language (of
sports, cars, etc.), listen (listen to something), offer (v), say (a sign can say something, etc.), scream (scream
“premium,” etc.), speak (evidence), speak (speak to something), suggest (indicate), talk (money talks, etc.), tell
(data can tell us something, etc.), time (time will tell), warn (a sign can warn, etc.)
• verb: address (v), beckon (v), betray (v), call for (a recipe can call for something), command (deserve and get),
cry (v), cry out (v), declare (v), groan (amount), hint (v), hint at (v), illustrate (v), inform (v), interrogate (v),
introduce (v), invite (v), offer (offer hope, etc.), read (the sign read don’t enter, etc.), say (a sign can say
something, etc.), scream (scream “premium,” etc.), show (v), speak (evidence), speak (speak to something),
suggest (v), talk (money talks, etc.), tell (data can tell us something, etc.), warn (a sign can warn, etc.)
FICTIVE MEETING & SEEING (1)
• eye: eye (met our eyes, etc.), see (fictive), see (a date can see something, etc.), stare (stare at defeat, etc.),
witness (v)
• face: face (face anger, etc.)
• speech: greet (v), greeted
• verb: brush up against, encounter (difficulties, etc.), face (face anger, etc.), find (a date can find us, etc.), greet
(v), meet (something can meet you), met (met by anger, etc.), see (fictive), see (a date can see something, etc.),
stare (stare at defeat, etc.), stumble (stumble across / on / upon), witness (v)
• walking, running & jumping: stumble (stumble across / on / upon)
FICTIVE MOTION (1) (see also leaking; movement)
• animal: snake (a trail can snake, etc.)
• cloth: thread (a trail can thread, etc.), weave (a train can weave, etc.)
• direction: wind (wind its way)
• river: meander (v)
• snake: snake (a trail can snake, etc.)
• verb: climb (roads, etc.), cross (a bridge can cross), follow (a road can follow, etc.), go (a road can go, etc.),
meander (v), run (a road can run, etc.), snake (a trail can snake, etc.), thread (a trail can thread, etc.), weave (a
trail can weave, etc.), wind (wind its way)
• walking, running & jumping: go (a road can go, etc.), run (a road can run, etc.)
FICTIVE POSITION (1)
• horse: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• leg: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• standing, sitting & lying: astride (position), sit (a house can sit somewhere, etc.), stand (a lamp can stand, etc.),
straddle (configuration)
• verb: sit (a house can sit somewhere, etc.), stand (a lamp can stand, etc.), straddle (configuration)

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FICTIVE POSSESSION (1) (see also possession)
• hand: capture (v), catch (catch the imagination, etc.), claim (take), grab (v), grabbing (attention-grabbing), grip
(in the grip), gripped, gripping (adj), hold (verb / possession), hold (noun / possession), hold (take hold),
possessed, recapture (v), seize (v), seized (by an emotion), snatch (v)
• verb: belong (v), capture (v), catch (catch the imagination, etc.), claim (take), grab (v), hold (verb / possession),
hold (take hold), recapture (v), seize (v), snatch (v)
FICTIVE TRANSPORTATION (1) (see also transportation)
• direction: back (take somebody back in time)
• journeys & trips: take (take somebody somewhere)
• movement: back (take somebody back in time), carried away
• prep, adv, adj, particle: back (take somebody back in time)
• riding: ride (ride on something)
• verb: back (take somebody back in time), bring (v), carry (carry me away, etc.), carry (transport), deliver (v),
send (fictive), send (cause to move), take (take somebody somewhere), ride (ride on something)
FILM (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: unspool (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: it (it girl, etc.), marquee (attention), screen (split screen)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: sunset (ride into the sunset)
• comparison & contrast: screen (split screen)
• conflict: match (death match)
• development: unspool (v)
• failure, accident & impairment: dust (bite the dust)
• fantasy & reality: Groundhog Day (film), Star Wars (film)
• fate, fortune & chance: noon (high noon)
• importance & significance: marquee (attention)
• past & present: rewind (v)
• perception, perspective & point of view: Rashomon (point of view), zoom out (v)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: it (it girl, etc.)
• repetition: Groundhog Day (film)
• resemblance: show (horror show)
• speech: gaslight (v), gaslighting (n)
• subterfuge: curtain (The Wizard of Oz), gaslight (v), gaslighting (n), Wizard of Oz
• superlative: Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.)
• time: rewind (v)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: noon (high noon)
FINGER (2)
• accusation & criticism: finger (accusation), finger (point a finger), finger-pointing, finger-wagging
• attainment: finger (slip through one's fingers)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: point out (v)
• avoidance & separation: touch (nobody will touch this, etc.)
• coercion & motivation: prod (v)
• creation & transformation: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: finger (lift a finger)
• division & connection: touch (nobody will touch this, etc.), touch (lose touch), touch (other)
• evidence: fingerprint
• fate, fortune & chance: finger (fingers crossed)

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• feeling, emotion & effect: nail (bite one’s nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting, touch (verb / emotion), touching (adj)
• help & assistance: finger (lift a finger)
• insult: middle finger (n)
• possession: finger (slip through one’s fingers)
• proximity: fingertip (at one's fingertips)
• speed: finger (in the snap of a finger)
FIRE (2) (see also temperature)
• accusation & criticism: grilled
• activity: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), burning (slow-burning), smolder (v)
• allusion: Phoenix (myth)
• amelioration & renewal: ashes (from the ashes), burn off (v)
• amount: spark (spark of hope, etc.)
• amount & effect: conflagration (n), fire (n), fire (flash fire), firestorm (n)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: blaze (in a blaze of glory), flare (n)
• attraction & repulsion: flame (attraction), moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• character & personality: firebrand (person), fire (through the fire, etc.), incandescent (character)
• characterization: brand (v), stigma (n), stigmatize (v)
• coercion & motivation: feet (hold somebody's feet to the fire), fire (light a fire under somebody), fire (hold
somebody's feet to the fire), fire up (v), grill (v), grilled
• commitment & determination: fire (fire and desire, etc.)
• computer: firewall (computers), war (flame war)
• concealment & lack of concealment: smoke out (v), smokescreen (concealment)
• conflict: fire (conflict), flame (conflict), scorched-earth, slash-and-burn (adj)
• consumption: burn through (v)
• creation & transformation: ashes (from the ashes), Phoenix (myth)
• curtailment: snuff (v)
• decline: burn out (v), burnout (n), die (die down)
• destruction: ashes, consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), crash (crash and burn), extinguish (v), flame (in
flames), Phoenix (myth), scorched-earth, slash-and-burn (adj), snuff (v)
• direction: beacon (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: slash-and-burn (adj)
• environment: cauldron (n), crucible (n), furnace (n)
• evidence: fire (evidence), smoke (evidence), smoking gun
• experience: fire (through the fire, etc.), trial (trial by fire)
• failure, accident & impairment: flame (in flames)
• fate, fortune & chance: fire (play with fire), frying pan
• feeling, emotion & effect: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), burned (hurt), burned-out (and burnt-out),
burning (burning desire, etc.), burn out (v), burnout (n), consume (emotions), consumed (emotion), fire (on fire
/ feeling), fire (fire and desire, etc.), fired up, firebrand, fume (v), hair (hair on fire), incendiary, scorching (adj),
searing (adj)
• growth & development: oxygen (fuel)
• identity & nature: melting pot (n)
• impression: burned (impressed), seared
• increase & decrease: accelerant (n), fan (v), fire (fuel on the fire, etc.), flare-up (n), fuel (v), fuel (n), fuel (pour
fuel on something, etc.), fueled, gas (pour gas on something, etc.), inflame (v), inflammatory (adj), kindle (v),
oil (pour oil), oxygen (fuel), stoke (v), stoked (increased)
• initiation: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), combustible (adj), fan (v), fiery (character), fiery (speech), fire
(catch fire), flare (v), flare up (v), flare-up (n), flashpoint, fuel (v), fuel (n), fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.),

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 fueled, gas (pour gas on something, etc.), ignite (v), incendiary (speech), incendiary (other), inflame (v),
inflammatory (adj), kindle, oxygen (fuel), re-ignite, rekindle, spark (v), spark (n), stoke (v), stoked (increased),
tinderbox (violence, etc.), volatile
• message: flare (n)
• mixture: melting pot (n)
• origin: ashes (from the ashes), Phoenix (myth)
• proper name: furnace (Furnace Creek, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: firewall (computers), firewall (other)
• pursuit, capture & escape: smoke out
• punishment & recrimination: coal (rake somebody over the coals)
• representation: torch (carry a torch), torch (other), torchbearer (person)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: smoke (smoke clears)
• resemblance: aflame (resemblance), tinderbox (resemblance)
• speech: coal (rake somebody over the coals), combustible (adj), fiery (speech), grill (v), grilled, incendiary
(speech), inflammatory (adj), roast (v)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: aflame (adj), die out (end), fire (catch fire), ignite (v), rekindle (v),
smolder (v)
• substance & lack of substance: fire (substance)
• subterfuge: smokescreen (concealment)
• superlative: incandescent (character)
• survival, persistence & endurance: Phoenix (myth), trial (trial by fire)
• transmission: torch (other)
• warning: flare (n)
FISH (2) (see also animal)
• acceptance & rejection: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• attraction & repulsion: bait (v), bait (n), lure (v), lure (n)
• condition & status: dead (dead in the water)
• configuration: sardined
• consumption: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• creation & transformation: spawn (v), spawned
• enthusiasm: hooked
• environment: fish (fish out of water), fishbowl (in a fishbowl), fishbowl (other)
• evidence: fishy (something smells fishy, etc.)
• extent & scope: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• failure, accident & impairment: belly-up (adj)
• importance & significance: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• movement: fishtail (v)
• perception, perspective & point of view: fisheye (fisheye view, etc.)
• power: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• punishment & recrimination: hook (off the hook)
• pursuit, capture & escape: bait (v), bait (n), dragnet (cast a dragnet), dragnet (n), expedition (fishing
expedition), fish (v), hook (off the hook), land (land a job, etc.), lure (v), lure (n), net (cast a net), nibble (n),
reel in (v), trawl (v), troll (v)
• searching & discovery: expedition (fishing expedition), trawl (v)
• size: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• strength & weakness: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow
• suspicion: fishy (something smells fishy, etc.)
• taxonomy & classification: fish (different kettle of fish)

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FIST (2) (see also hand)
• accusation & criticism: bash (v), bashing (n), beaten (beaten up), pummel (v)
• affliction: smitten (afflicted)
• comprehension & incomprehension: hit (comprehension)
• conflict: bare-knuckled (adj), hitter (heavy hitter)
• curtailment: knock out (v)
• destruction: pound (pound targets, etc.)
• driving force: fist (armored fist, etc.)
• effect: hit (affect), hit (affected), punch (punch in the gut, etc.), struck (affected)
• feeling, emotion & effect: beating (take a beating, etc.), blow (body blow, etc.), blow (bitter blow, etc.), hit
(take a hit, etc.), hit (affect), hit (affected), hit (affect), knockout (knockout voice, etc.), pummeled, punch
(punch in the gut, etc.), smitten (effect), strike (tragedy, etc.), striking (adj), struck (affected), stunned (feeling),
stunning (adj)
• force: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up (storm), clobbered (by
rain, etc.), fist (armored fist, etc.), fist (with an iron fist), fist (iron fist / other), knockout (force), pound
(snowfalls pounded the Northeast, etc.), pummel (the storm pummeled the island, etc.), punch (the storm
packed a punch, etc.), strike (forces of nature)
• occurrence: strike (forces of nature), strike (tragedy, etc.)
• oppression: fist (with an iron fist), fist (iron fist / other), ironfisted
• power: clout (n)
• punishment & recrimination: beat (beat oneself up)
• readiness & preparedness: punch (sucker punch / verb)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: beat back (v), hit back (v)
• restraint & lack of restraint: punch (pull a punch), punch (sucker punch / verb)
• speech: bash (v), bashing (n)
• subterfuge: punch (sucker punch / verb)
• success & failure: crush (verb / accomplishment), smash (smashed the record, etc.)
FLAGS & BANNERS (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: banner (under the banner), banner (behind the banner), banner (banner of Islam,
etc.), rally (v)
• assembling: rally (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: flag (raise a flag, etc.), flagpole (run something up the flagpole)
• commitment & determination: flag (plant one’s flag)
• experimentation: flagpole (run something up the flagpole)
• identity & nature: colors (true colors)
• person: standard-bearer
• possession: flag (plant one’s flag)
• representation: banner (carry a banner), flag (raise a flag, etc.), flag-bearer, standard-bearer
• resistance, opposition & defeat: flag (plant one’s flag), stand (last stand, etc.)
• size: banner (size)
• subterfuge: flag (false flag)
• warning: red flag
FLAWS & LACK OF FLAWS (1)
• affix: over (overheated, etc.)
• air: airtight (adj), overinflated (adj), tempestuous (adj), turbulent (turbulent childhood, etc.)
• allusion: Goldilocks (Goldilocks zone, etc.)
• animals: riddled
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• ball: roll (on a roll)
• Bible: Garden of Eden
• blade: dull (adj), edge (lose one’s edge)
• bodily reaction: hiccup (n)
• books & reading: story (horror story), storybook (storybook romance, etc.)
• bullet: bulletproof (adj)
• burden: overload (n), overloaded
• chemistry: rust (functioning), rusty (adj)
• cloth: fray (v), frayed, ragged (adj), seamless (adj), tatters (in tatters), wrinkle (n)
• clothing & accessories: ragged (adj), tatters (in tatters)
• color: black eye
• cooking: half-baked (adj)
• direction: downside (n), upside (n)
• ear: tin ear (n), tin-eared (adj), tone-deaf (adj)
• equilibrium & stability: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance), balanced, disequilibrium (n), shaky
(equilibrium), solid (adj), sure-footed (adj), unstable (adj), wobbly (condition)
• explosion: bombproof
• eye: black eye, eyesore (n), pretty (adj), ugly (adj)
• fatness & thinness: flabby (adj)
• food & drink: palatable (adj), stale (adj), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• fruits & vegetables: lemon (n), plum (desirable)
• ground, terrain & land: bumpy (adj), ground (shaky ground, etc.), ground (firm ground, etc.), mired (stuck),
rocky (adj), terrain (dangerous terrain, etc.)
• hardness & softness: edge (rough edges, etc.), smooth (lack of flaws)
• health & medicine: fit (adj), fitness (ability), flabby (adj), lethargic (adj)
• hole: chink (n), hole (flaw), riddled
• hygiene: chaotic (adj), clean (a clean record, etc.), dirty (dirty energy, etc.), mess (n), messy (adj), sloppy (adj)
• insect: riddled
• journeys & trips: bump (speed bump), bump (bump in the road, etc.), path (tough / easy path, etc.), road (tough
/ easy road, etc.)
• knife: dull (adj), edge (lose one’s edge)
• light & dark: bright (bright side), polished (adj), shine (n), side (dark side)
• mark: blemish (n), black eye, blot (n), mark (black mark), scar (blemish), scarred (battle-scarred, etc.), smear
(n), smear (v), stain (n), stain (v), unblemished
• materials & substances: coarse (speech), crack (flaw), crude (speech), flawed (adj), flawless (adj), flimsy (adj),
ironclad (adj), jewel (n), lapidary (adj), lily (gild the lily), polish (v), polished (adj), sag (v), solid (adj), sound
(solid), sticky (a sticky situation, etc.), unpolished, weak (fragile)
• mechanism: broken (failure), misbehave (machine), point (sticking / friction point)
• mining: lapidary (adj)
• movement: roll (on a roll)
• music: note (right note), pitch-perfect (adj), tin ear (n), tin-eared (adj), tone-deaf (adj)
• orientation downside (n), underbelly (concealment), underside (n), upside (n)
• picture: sketchy (adj)
• plant: thorny (adj)
• religion: Garden of Eden, heaven (environment), paradise
• rope: kink (n)
• scale: balance (off balance), balance (out of balance), balanced
• sensation: rough (adj), smooth (lack of flaws), thorny (adj)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: strain (pressure), strained, stretch (v)

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• smell: stink (v)
• speech: broken (English, etc.), note (right note), pitch-perfect (adj), stumble (stumble over one’s words), tin ear
(n), tin-eared (adj), tone-deaf (adj)
• sports & games: level (fairness), playing field (uneven playing field, etc.), track record (bad)
• stomach: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• storm: stormy, tempestuous (adj)
• taste: palatable (adj), sweet spot, taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• teeth: teething
• verb: fray (v), polish (v), sag (v), smear (v), stink (v), stretch (v), stumble (stumble over one’s words), water
(hold water)
• walking, running & jumping: lame (lame excuse, etc.), misstep (n), stumble (n), stumble (stumble over one’s
words), sure-footed (adj)
• water: water (hold water), watertight (adj), turbulent (turbulent childhood, etc.)
• weight: overload (n), overloaded
• wind: tempestuous (adj)
• weapon: bulletproof (adj), surefire (a surefire investment, etc.)
• wounds & scars: scar (blemish), scarred (battle-scarred, etc.)
FLOOD (2)
• amount & effect: deluge (n), deluged, flood (flood of refugees, etc.), flood (amount), flooded, floodgate (open
the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other), floodwaters, inundate (v), inundated
• constraint & lack of constraint: floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice gates), floodgate (other)
• extent & scope: high-water (high-water mark)
• movement: deluge (n), flood (move)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: high-water (high-water mark)
FLYING & FALLING (2)
• activity: flurry (activity), fly (activity)
• amount & effect: flurry (activity)
• configuration: hover (numbers)
• constraint & lack of constraint: fly (constraint)
• decline: crater (v), free-fall (in free-fall), free-fall (n), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive (noun / decline),
plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), spiral (spiral downward, etc.), spiral (in a spiral),
spiral (into a spiral), spiral (on a downward spiral), spiral (downward spiral, etc.), spiral (other)
• destruction: crash (crash and burn), shot down (and shot down in flames)
• development: trajectory (n)
• extent & scope: roof (through the roof)
• feeling, emotion & effect: ballistic (go ballistic), fly (fly into a rage, etc.), soar (a heart can soar)
• growth & development: ground (get off the ground), take off (v)
• heart: soar (a heart can soar)
• inauguration: drop (product launch), launch (v)
• increase & decrease: nosedive (verb / decrease), nosedive (noun / decrease), plummet (decline / decrease),
plunge (noun / decline), plunge (decline / decrease), rocket (increase), roof (through the roof), soar (v), take off
(v)
• initiation: launch (v), take off (v)
• involvement: plunge (plunge into something), plunge (involvement)
• speed: fly (activity)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: launch (v)
• throwing, putting & planting: launch (v)

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FOG (2)
• consciousness & awareness: fog (fog of war, etc.), fog (mental fog, etc.), foggy (adj)
FOOD & DRINK (2) (see also cooking; fruits & vegetables; meat; taste)
• absorption & immersion: drink in (v), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), imbibe (v), imbibed,
ingest (v), lap up (v)
• acceptance & rejection: choke (v), go down (digestion), hook (hook, line and sinker), Kool-Aid (drink the
Kool-Aid, etc.), retch (v), stomach (accept), swallow (accept)
• affliction: choke (v), eat (destroy)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: egg (put all one’s eggs in a basket, etc.), Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.)
• alternatives & choices: buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), menu (computer), menu (other), smorgasbord (n)
• amelioration & renewal: beef up (v), fresh (fresh evidence, etc.), spice up (v)
• amount: bellyful (amount), buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), crumb (amount), fed up, helping (amount), lion’s
share, menu (other), morsel (amount), scrap (n), morsel (amount), smorgasbord (n), taste (taste of freedom, etc.)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: chew over (v), nutshell (in a nutshell)
• appearance: feast (feast for the eyes, etc.)
• appearance & reality: chalice (poisoned chalice)
• attainment: cakewalk (dance)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: teapot (internet teapot, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: marmite (n)
• bases: break and better (livelihood), bread-and-butter (adj), mother (mother's milk)
• behavior: wolf down (food)
• character & personality: bitter (personality), sour (personality), sweet (personality)
• commitment & determination: eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), egg (put all one’s eggs in a
basket, etc.), Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.)
• comprehension & incomprehension: digest (v), digestible (adj)
• computer: menu
• configuration: pancake (v), pancake (n), pancaked, sandwiched, spaghetti (snarl)
• consumption: appetite (appetite for fur, etc.), bellyful (amount), chew (v), choke (v), devour (devour the classic,
etc.), diet (n), digest (v), digestible (adj), drink in (v), eat (consume), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and
sleep, etc.), fed up, feed (fuel), feed (supply), feed (satisfy), feed (feed on / off / into something), food (food for
thought), glutton (person), gobble up (v), go down (digestion), gorge (gorge on), hook (hook, line and sinker),
hungry (adj), imbibe (v), imbibed, ingest (v), insatiable (adj), Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.), lap up (v),
palatable (adj), ravenous (adj), ravenously, retch (v), stomach (accept), sustenance (n), swallow (accept),
swallowed, taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste (taste of freedom, etc.), taste (taste for violence, etc.), taste (a bad
taste), thirst (n), unsavory (adj), voracious (adj), voraciously
• content: filling (content), food (food for thought)
• corruption: apple (bad / rotten apple), curdle (v), fresh (fresh evidence, etc.), rot (v), rot (n), rotten (adj), sour
(adj), sour (v), spoil (v), spoiled (adj), stale (adj), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• cost & benefit: gravy (n), gravy train, jar (cookie jar), meal ticket
• creation & transformation: hash out (v)
• destruction: cannibalize (v), cannibalized, consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), devour (destroy),
devoured, eat (destroy), eaten alive, etc., nibble (nibble at, etc.)
• development: appetizer (n), main course, table (set the table)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: cakewalk (dance), picnic (no picnic), picnic (other)
• directing: feed (direct)
• eagerness & reluctance: drool (v), hungry (adj), mouthwatering (adj), stomach (eagerness)
• enthusiasm: crave (fans crave the bout, etc.), eat (eat and breathe, etc.), eat (eat and sleep, etc.), glutton
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• experience: chew (v), diet (n), medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine), taste (taste freedom, etc.), taste (taste
of freedom, etc.), treat (in for a treat)
• extent & scope: hook (hook, line and sinker)
• fate, fortune & chance: chalice (poisoned chalice), medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bitter (personality), bitter (bitter weather, etc.), bitter (a bitter blow, etc.), bittersweet
(adj), fed up, mouthwatering (adj), retch (v), savor (v), sour (v), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory
• flaws & lack of flaws: palatable (adj), stale (adj), taste (a bad taste, etc.), unsavory (adj)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: dish out (v), fork over (v), pepper (v), peppered
• group, set & collection: buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), menu (other), smorgasbord (n)
• hyperbole: retch (v)
• identity & nature: bowl (salad bowl / mixture), gumbo (mixture), pie (apple pie)
• importance & significance: bread-and-butter (adj), mother (mother’s milk), nothing-burger
• increase & decrease: feed (fuel), feed (feed on / off / into something)
• judgment: taste (in good taste, etc.), taste (judgment)
• mixture: bowl (salad bowl / mixture), brew (mixture), gumbo (mixture), ingredient (n), soup (mixture), soup
(alphabet soup), stew (mixture)
• person: cannibal (other), glutton (person)
• possession: fork over (v)
• relationship: feed (fuel)
• revenge: dish (revenge is a dish best served cold)
• reversal: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• sacrifice: belt (tighten one’s belt), belt-tightening
• script: recipe (n)
• sequence: table (set the table)
• shape: pancake (pancake ice, etc.)
• strength & weakness: beef up (v)
• substance & lack of substance: food (food for thought), meat (substance), nothing-burger
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: bellyful (amount), belt (tighten one’s belt), belt-tightening, famine (feast to
famine), feast (feast to famine, etc.), fed up, glut (n), glutton (person), insatiable (adj), starvation (n), starvation
wages (n)
• superlative: cream (superlative), feast (feast for the eyes, etc.)
• supplying: feed (fuel), feed (direct), feed (supply), feed (feed on / off / into something), serve up (v)
• survival, persistence & endurance: shelf life
• taxonomy & classification: fish (different kettle of fish), vintage (similar vintage, etc.)
• time: fresh (fresh evidence, etc.)
• transmission: feed (video, etc.)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: crave (v), feed (satisfy), hunger (n), hungry (adj), ravenous (adj), starved, stomach
(food), taste (taste for violence, etc.), thirst (n)
• work & duty (plate (on one’s plate)
FOOT (2) (see also heel; leg; toe)
• access & lack of access: foot (foot in the door)
• action, inaction & delay: feet (drag one's feet), foot-dragging
• amelioration & renewal: feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.)
• bases: footing (solid footing, etc.), footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: footstep (retrace one's footsteps)
• death & life: feet (feet first)
• destruction: stamp out (v), trample (v), trampled
• direction: footstep (in the footsteps)

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• dismissal, removal & resignation: kicked off, kicked out, kick out (v)
• disruption: toe (step on toes)
• eagerness & reluctance: feet (cold feet), foot-dragging, heel (dig in one’s heels), kicking and screaming
• equilibrium & stability: footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
• experimentation: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: shoot (shoot oneself in the foot)
• feeling, emotion & effect: kick (kick in the teeth, etc.), teeth (kick in the teeth), toe (step on toes)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: kickback (corruption)
• haste: feet (think on one’s feet)
• initiation: kick in (start), kick off (v), kickoff (n), kick up (v)
• involvement: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• oppression: heel (under the heel), trample (v)
• orientation: foot (orientation)
• position, policy & negotiation: footing (position)
• presence & absence: foot (one foot / the other foot), foothold (n), footprint (n), toehold (n)
• punishment & recrimination: kick (kick oneself)
• readiness & preparedness: feet (think on one’s feet), flatfooted (caught flatfooted), foot (on the back / front
foot), foot (back / front foot), toe (on one’s toes)
• representation: foot (put a foot forward)
• resiliency: feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: foot (put one’s foot down), heel (dig in one's heels)
• responsibility: feet (at the feet of someone, etc.)
• social interaction: kickback (corruption)
• speed: pace (at a pace), pace (speed)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: foot (on the right / wrong foot), kick in (start), kick off (v), kickoff (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: toehold (n), foothold (n)
FOOTBALL (2)
• action, inaction & delay: clock (run the clock, etc.), tackle (v)
• avoidance & separation: end run (n)
• competition: football (conflict)
• conflict: football (conflict)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: punt (v), punt (n), tackle (v)
• failure, accident & impairment: fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled
• fate, fortune & chance: Hail Mary
• initiation: kick off (v), kickoff (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: kick off (v), kickoff (n)
• subterfuge: Belichick (the racing Bill Belichick, etc.)
• success & failure: football (spike the football), goalpost (target), goal line (across the goal line)
• superlative: Super Bowl
• target: goalpost (target)
FORCE (1) (see also power)
• air: downdraft (n)
• animal: bear (a bear of an epidemic, etc.), beast (power), bull (bull in a china shop), paper tiger, teeth (force),
teeth (take the teeth out), toothless (adj)
• arm: elbow (force), nudge (n), push (force), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• atmosphere: downdraft (n), wind (wind of change, etc.)
• boat: wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
• boxing: knockout (force), punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.)

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• cows & cattle: bull (bull in a china shop)
• direction: march (march ahead, etc.)
• explosion: blast (destroy), wave (blast wave, etc.)
• fist: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up (storm), clobbered (by rain,
etc.), fist (armored fist, etc.), fist (with an iron fist), fist (iron fist / other), knockout (force), pound (snowfalls
pounded the Northeast, etc.), pummel (the storm pummeled the island, etc.), punch (the storm packed a punch,
etc.), strike (forces of nature)
• gesture: nudge (n), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• hammer: hammer (blizzards hammered the Karakoram, etc.), hammer (hammer of the law, etc.), maul (a storm
mauled the Bahamas, etc.), pound (snowfalls pounded the Northeast, etc.)
• health & medicine: impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), neuter (v), potency (strength), potent (adj)
• height: wave (crest of a wave)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up
(storm), clobbered (by rain, etc.), hammer (blizzards hammered the Karakoram, etc.), knockout (force), lash (a
storm lashed the Philippines), maul (a storm mauled the Bahamas, etc.), pound (snowfalls pounded the
Northeast, etc.), pummel (the storm pummeled the island, etc.), punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.), strike
(forces of nature)
• love, courtship & marriage: crush (love)
• military: onslaught (n)
• movement: barrel (v), churn (move), hurtle (v), march (march ahead, etc.), momentum (gain momentum, etc.),
momentum (n), muscle (muscle its ways through, etc.), rip through (v), traction (gain / build / get traction)
• plane: headwind (n), tailwind (n)
• religion: juggernaut
• river: current (n), Niagara (the river and falls), undercurrent (n)
• sea: floodtide (n), wave (crest of a wave)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: flex (muscle, etc.), muscle (political muscle, etc.), muscle (muscle its way
through, etc.), muscular (adj)
• sports & games: wave (crest of a wave)
• storm: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat up (storm), clobbered (by rain, etc.), downdraft (n), hammer
(blizzards hammered the Karakoram, etc.), lash (a storm lashed the Philippines), maul (a storm mauled the
Bahamas, etc.), nature (force of nature), pound (snowfalls pounded the Northeast, etc.), pummel (the storm
pummeled the island, etc.), punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.), storm (v), storm (by storm), strike (forces of
nature), tornado (force)
• teeth: teeth (take the teeth out), teeth (force), toothless (adj)
• tide: floodtide (n)
• tiger: paper tiger
• tools & technology: bulldoze (v), bulldozer (n), buzz saw (n), chainsaw (n), hammer (hammer of the law, etc.),
leverage (n), leverage (v), sledgehammer (n), steamroll (v), steamrolled, wrecking ball (n)
• train: freight train (force), steam (pick up steam, etc.), steam (lose steam), steam (full steam, etc.), steam (take
the steam out, etc.), train (runaway train)
• verb: barrel (v), batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up (storm),
bulldoze (v), churn (move), elbow (force), flex (muscle, etc.), hammer (blizzards hammered the Karakoram,
etc.), hurtle (v), lash (a storm lashed the Philippines), march (march ahead, etc.), maul (a storm mauled the
Bahamas, etc.), momentum (gain momentum, etc.), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.), pound (snowfalls
pounded the Northeast, etc.), pummel (the storm pummeled the island, etc.), push (force), push (coercion and
motivation), rip through (v), steam (pick up steam, etc.), steam (lose steam), steam (take the steam out, etc.),
steamroll (v), storm (v), strike (forces of nature), teeth (take the teeth out), traction (gain / build / get traction)

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• violence: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up (storm), clobbered (by
rain, etc.), lash (a storm lashed the Philippines), pound (snowfalls pounded the Northeast, etc.), punch (the
storm packed a punch, etc.)
• walking, running & jumping: march (march ahead, etc.)
• water: floodtide (n), Niagara (the river and falls), wave (crest of a wave)
• wave: wave (crest of a wave)
• whip: lash (a storm lashed the Philippines)
• wind: downdraft (n), headwind (n), tailwind (n), wind (wind of change, etc.), wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
FORCE (2) (see also hitting, slamming & lashing)
• accusation & criticism: blast (criticize), lay (lay into), slam (v)
• activity: rage (v), raging (adj)
• behavior: pushy (people), rage (v), raging (adj)
• character & personality: pushy (people)
• coercion & motivation: pushed around, pushy (people)
• commitment & determination: pushing (keep on pushing, etc.)
• comprehension & incomprehension: hit (comprehension)
• computer: hit (computer)
• control & lack of control: rage (v), raging (adj)
• development: wave (wave of the future, etc.)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: pushover (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: pushed out
• effect: hit (affect), hit (affected), impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), strike (affect), struck
(affected)
• feeling, emotion & effect: crush (love), crushed (feeling), daze (in a daze), devastated (emotion), devastating
(feeling), hit (affect), hit (affected), impact (affect), impact (effect), impacted (affected), jolt (n), rage (v),
raging (adj), shock (v), shock (in shock), shock (feeling), shocked (adj), shocking (feeling, emotion and effect),
smitten (effect), strike (affect), striking (adj), struck (affected), stun (v), stunned (feeling), stunning (adj)
• increase & decrease: boost (v), boost (n)
• movement: barrel (v), churn (move), hurtle (v), muscle (muscle its way through), rip through (v)
• relationship: drive (drive somebody to do something)
• resiliency: push on (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: push back (v), pushback (n)
• speech: blunt (speech), lay (lay into), slam (v), strong (language, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: push on (v)
• success & failure: crush (verb / accomplishment), smash (smashed the record, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: push on (v)
FOREST (2) (see also tree)
• amount: forest (a forest of cranes, etc.)
• area: woods (neck of the woods)
• danger: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: patch (rough patch)
• location: woods (neck of the woods)
• obstacles & impedance: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
• resemblance: forest (a forest of cranes, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
FORTIFICATION (2) (see also military)
• amount & effect: besiege (v), besieged, siege (under siege), siege (other)

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• conflict: battering ram, parapet (n), siege (under siege)
• division & connection: drawbridge (protection), moated
• importance & significance: salient (important)
• isolation & remoteness: moated
• proper name: castle (Castle Peaks, etc.), rampart (Upper Ramparts, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: bastion (n), breach (n), bristle (with security, etc.), bulwark (n), castle
(protection), citadel (n), drawbridge (protection), entrenched, fort, fortress, harden (protect), loophole (n), moat
(n), moated, rampart (protection), redoubt (n), Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar), stronghold (n)
• resemblance: palisade (n), rampart (resemblance)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: siege (under siege), siege (other)
• shape: castle (sand castle)
• strength & weakness: Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar)
• survival, persistence & endurance: entrenched
FOUNTAIN (2)
• amelioration & renewal: Fountain of Youth
• resemblance: fountain (resemblance)
• source: fountain (source), fountainhead
FOX (2) (see also animal)
• appearance & disappearance: ground (go to ground)
• concealment & lack of concealment: ground (go to ground)
• protection & lack of protection: ground (go to ground), holed up, hole up (v)
• pursuit, capture & escape: ground (go to ground)
• subterfuge: fox (subterfuge), outfox (v)
FROG (2) (see also animal)
• consciousness & awareness: frog (frog in boiling water)
• environment: frog (frog in boiling water)
• situation: frog (frog in boiling water)
FRUITS & VEGETABLES (2) (see also cooking; food & drink; meat; taste)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: layer (analysis), onion (n), peel (peel back the layers, etc.)
• behavior: nuts (crazy)
• character & personality: apple (bad / rotten apple), nut (person)
• coercion & motivation: carrot (reward), carrot-and-stick
• consciousness & awareness: vegetable (consciousness)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: fruit (low-hanging fruit)
• failure, accident & impairment: banana (n), lemon (n)
• flaws & lack of flaws: lemon (n), plum (desirable)
• growth & development: fruition (n), ripe (adj)
• product: apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, etc.), bear (bear fruit, etc.), fruit (product)
• relationship: apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, etc.)
• superlative: plum (desirable)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: ripe (adj)
• worth & lack of worth: fruitful (adj), fruitless (adj), plum (desirable)
FUNCTIONING (1) (see also operation)
• animal: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• blade: honed, sharp (adj)
• chemistry: chemistry, rust (functioning), rusty (adj)
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• death & life: dead (functioning)
• direction: down (functioning)
• engine: sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• equilibrium & stability: stability (n)
• health & medicine: atrophy (v), basket case, comatose (adj), cripple (v), crippled, hamstrung, handicapped,
hobble (v), hobbled, impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), paralyze (v), paralyzed (functioning), paralysis (n),
potency (strength), potent (adj)
• knife: honed, sharp (adj)
• leg: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• manufacturing: machine (publicity machine, etc.)
• mechanism: break down (functioning), broken (failure), comatose (adj), down (functioning), full-on (adj), gear
(in full gear), gum up (v), hum (hum along), machine (publicity machine, etc.), machinery (n), misbehave
(machine), neutral (in neutral), pedal (pedal to the metal), speed (up to speed), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled
(progress), wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• movement: cripple (v), crippled, hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled, paralysis (n), paralyze (v),
paralyzed (functioning), speed (up to speed), stall (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: break down (functioning), down (functioning)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: atrophy (v)
• sleep: comatose (adj)
• snow & ice: freeze (computers, etc.)
• sound: click (v), hum (v), sputter (v)
• speech: tongue (lose one's tongue)
• sports & games: game (at the top of one’s game)
• tongue: tongue (lose one’s tongue)
• verb: break down (functioning), click (v), cripple (v), gum up (v), hobble (v), hum (hum along), misbehave
(machine), paralyze (v), sputter (v), stall (v), wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• walking, running & jumping: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
FUNCTIONING (2)
• feeling, emotion & effect: broken (feeling), broken-hearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heart (broken heart),
heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken, paralyzed (feeling)
• heart: broken-hearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken (adj)
• speech: broken (English, etc.)
FUTURE (1) (see also past & present, time)
• bridge: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• container: future (in the future), hold (the future can hold something), tap (on tap), time (in time / future)
• corner: corner (spring is just around the corner)
• day: day (a new day), day (day has arrived, etc.), day (day after tomorrow), tomorrow (future)
• direction: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), approach (winter is approaching, etc.), approach (the approach of
summer, etc.), approaching (adj), before (we have hard work before us), come (winter is coming, etc.), come (to
come), come (see something coming), come (for a time to come), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the
coming months, etc.), day (day has arrived, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), forward (the future is
forward), forward-looking, front (the future is in front of us), head (head into the future, etc.), headed, lie (lie
ahead), look (look forward / toward something), near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.), road (come down the
road / pike), road (road ahead, etc.), road (down the road, etc.), time (time has passed), time (the time can arrive
or come, etc.), train (future), way (autumn is on the way, etc.)
• distance: away (a week away, etc.), close (future), corner (spring is just around the corner), day (day after
tomorrow), distant (future), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), end (no end in sight, etc.), future (in the

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 distant future), go (a month to go, etc.), horizon (on the horizon), near (near future, etc.), near (v), remote
(future), road (down the road, etc.), run (in / over the long run), sight (in sight), way (a long way off)
• eye: come (see something coming), end (no end in sight, etc.), envision (envision the future, etc.), forward-
looking, horizon (on the horizon), look (look forward / toward something), look like (be like, etc.), myopia (n),
myopic (adj), nearsighted, see (see something coming), see (future), seen (future), seer (person), shortsighted,
sight (in sight), vision (n), visionary (adj), visionary (person)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: future (the future can bring something)
• health & medicine: prognosis (n)
• horizon: horizon (on the horizon)
• journeys & trips: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), end
(no end in sight, etc.), go (where are we going, etc.), lie (lie ahead), road (road ahead, etc.), road (down the
road, etc.)
• magic: crystal ball, fortuneteller (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person), tea leaves
• mechanism: time machine
• movement: approach (winter is approaching, etc.), approach (the approach of summer, etc.), approaching (adj),
bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), come (winter is coming, etc.), come (to come), come (see
something coming), come (for a time to come), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming months, etc.),
day (day has arrived, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), go (where are we going, etc.), go (a month
to go, etc.), head (head into the future, etc.), headed, near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.), place (at a place
where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (come down the road / pike), run (run into next week, etc.),
run (in / over the long run), see (see something coming), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has
passed), train (future), way (autumn is on the way, etc.), year (year has come and gone)
• person: fortuneteller (person), oracle (person), prophet (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person), visionary
(person)
• place: place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time)
• position: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), ahead (before a future event), before (we have hard work before us),
front (the future is in front of us), near (near future, etc.), time (ahead of his time, etc.)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), ahead (before a future event), away (a week away, etc.),
before (we have hard work before us), forward (the future is forward), front (the future is in front of us), near
(near future, etc.), time (ahead of his time, etc.), way (autumn is on the way, etc.)
• religion: handwriting (on the wall), oracle (person), prophet (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person), spell
(spell disaster, etc.), writing (writing on the wall), written (fate)
• river: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it)
• sky: horizon (on the horizon)
• speech: time (time will tell)
• train: train (future)
• verb: approach (winter is approaching, etc.), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), come
(winter is coming, etc.), come (see something coming), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming
months, etc.), day (day has arrived, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), envision (envision the future,
etc.), future (the future can bring something), head (head into the future, etc.), hold (the future can hold
something), lie (lie ahead), look (look forward / toward something), near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.),
road (come down the road / pike), see (see something coming), see (future), spell (spell disaster, etc.), time (the
time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has passed), year (year has come and gone)
• walking, running & jumping: run (run into next week, etc.), run (in / over the long run)
• water: tap (on tap)
GAMBLING (2) (see also cards; sports & games)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: horse (back the wrong horse), in (all in)
• appearance: poker-faced (adj)

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• certainty & uncertainty: bet (all bets are off)
• character & personality: card (hold one’s cards close)
• commitment & determination: double down (v), in (all in)
• concealment & lack of concealment: card (cards on the table), hold (close held, etc.), poker-faced (adj), tip (tip
one’s hand), vest (play something close to the vest, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: bet (all bets are off), card (in the cards), card (dealt cards), dice (n), die (the die is cast,
etc.), draw (luck of the draw), gamble (n), lot (lot in life, etc.), lottery (win the lottery, etc.), odds (fate), roulette
(n), wheel (spin of the wheel, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: poker-faced (adj)
• importance & significance: stake (importance), stake (high stakes)
• interest: stakeholder (person)
• person: stakeholder (person)
• position, policy & negotiation: bluff (v), bluff (n), chip (bargaining chip)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: bluff (v), bluff (n), card (cards on the table)
• strategy: bluff (v), bluff (n), card (play one’s cards), card (guilt card, etc.), gamble (v), gamble (n), poker
(game)
• strength & weakness: ace (n), bluff (v), bluff (n), card (strong card), card (trump card), card (hold all the cards)
• subterfuge: bluff (v), bluff (n)
• success & failure: jackpot (hit the jackpot), lottery (win the lottery, etc.), sweepstakes (win the sweepstakes)
GATE (2) (see also doors & thresholds; house; roof)
• access & lack of access: gate (society), gatekeeper (person)
• control & lack of control: gatekeeper (person)
• division & connection: gate (society)
• inclusion & exclusion: gate (society)
• obstacles & impedance: gate (society)
• person: gatecrasher (person), gatekeeper (person)
• portal: gate (portal), gateway (portal), portal (entrance)
• proper name: gate (Iron Gate, etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gatecrasher (person), gatekeeper (person)
• society: gate (society)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: gate (out of the gate)
GEOMETRY (2)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: angle (from an angle)
• division & connection: intersection (n)
• perception, perspective & point of view: angle (from an angle)
• proper name: Triangle (Ilemi Triangle, etc.)
• relationship: triangle (fire triangle, etc.), triangle (love triangle, etc.)
• shape: triangle (Ilemi Triangle, etc.)
• sign, signal, symbol: triangle (fire triangle, etc.), triangle (love triangle, etc.)
• speech: tangent (on a tangent)
GESTURE (2) (see also bodily reaction; breathing)
• acceptance & rejection: embrace (v)
• accusation & criticism: elbow (sharp elbows, etc.), finger (accusation), finger (point a finger), finger-pointing,
finger-wagging
• achievement, recognition & praise: applaud (v), back (pat on the back / verb), back (pat on the back / noun), cap
(tip one’s cap), hat (take off one’s hat to somebody, etc.), head (pat on the head), nod (acknowledge), nod
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• action, inaction & delay: hand (throw up one's hands), shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders), shrug (gesture)
• admiration & contempt: look (look down on something), nose (look down one’s nose)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: embrace (v)
• attachment: embrace (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: chest (beat one’s chest), eyeball (eyeball-popping), head (turn heads)
• attraction & repulsion: beckon (v), embrace (v)
• avoidance & separation: shrug off (v)
• character & personality: handwringer (person)
• coercion & motivation: nudge (n), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• commitment & determination: lean into (lean in / into something)
• comprehension & incomprehension: head (scratch one's head), head (shake one's head), head-scratching
• concealment & lack of concealment: tight-lipped (adj)
• conflict: blink (America will not blink, etc.), chest (beat one’s chest)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: blink (America will not blink, etc.), lean in (v), shrug (gesture)
• consciousness & awareness: slap (awareness)
• creation & transformation: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
• division & connection: embrace (v)
• dominance & submission: blink (America will not blink, etc.)
• eagerness & reluctance: nose (hold one’s nose)
• eye: eye (roll one’s eyes)
• fate, fortune & chance: finger (fingers crossed)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blush (embarrassment), eye (bat an eye / eyelash), eyeball (eyeball-popping),
eyebrow (raise eyebrows), eye-roll (dismissal), hat (hold on to your hat), head (turn heads), head (keep one’s
head up), head (hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), jaw (jaw-dropper, etc.), jaw (jaw-dropping), nail
(bite one’s nails), nail biter (n), nail-biting (fingernails), shiver (n)
• fictive communication: beckon (v)
• force: nudge (n), push (coercion and motivation), shove (n)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: give (give a wink, etc.)
• insult: flip off (v), middle finger (n), nose (thumb one’s nose), slap (punish), slap (slap in the face, etc.)
• judgment: frown (v), smile (v), thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• language: language (of sports, cars, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: head (keep one’s head down)
• resiliency: head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high), shake (shake something off)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: applaud (v), frown (v), smile (v)
• sign, signal, symbol: frown (v), smile (v)
• speed: finger (in the snap of a finger)
• subterfuge: wink (n)
• transmission: give (give a wink, etc.)
• unanimity & consensus: nod (agree)
• welcome: embrace (v)
• work & duty: sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
GIFT (2)
• ability & lack of ability: gift (gift for languages, etc.), gifted
• cost & benefit: gift (benefit)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: gift (v)
• worth & lack of worth: gift (benefit)

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GIVING, RECEIVING, BRINGING & RETURNING (1) (see also taking & removing)
• bodily reaction: cough up (v)
• direction: turn in (give)
• family: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• food & drink: dish out (v), fork over (v), pepper (v), peppered
• foot: kickback (corruption)
• gesture: give (give a wink, etc.)
• gift: gift (v)
• hand: handed (given), hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed down / out (punishment, etc.), hand over (v),
handover (n)
• history: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• justice: hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed down / out (punishment, etc.)
• money: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history), lend (lend a hand, etc.)
• speech: command (deserve and get)
• tools & technology: rake in (v)
• verb: bring (v), command (deserve and get), deliver (v), dish out (v), fork over (v), furnish (give), gift (v), give
(give a wink, etc.), give (give a start, etc.), hand down / out (punishment, etc.), hand over (v), inherit (v), lend
(lend a hand, etc.), offer (v), pepper (v), rake in (v), turn in (give)
GIVING, RECEIVING, BRINGING & RETURNING (2)
• amelioration & renewal: bring back (restore)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: come away with (v), take (analysis), takeaway (n), take away (a
message, etc.)
• commitment & determination: bring (bring it), leave it somewhere (commitment)
• comprehension & incomprehension: get (understand), take in (comprehend)
• feeling, emotion & effect: give (give a start, etc.)
• future: future (the future can bring something)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: bring back (restore)
• survival, persistence & endurance: bring back (restore)
• time: future (the future can bring something)
• transmission: received wisdom, etc.)
GLACIER (2) (see also snow & ice)
• creation & transformation: calve (v), calving
• speed: glacial (adj)
GOSSIP (1) (see also social interaction; society)
• animal: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• farming & agriculture: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
• manufacturing: mill (gossip / rumor mill), mill (grist for the mill)
• place: water cooler (digital water cooler, etc.)
• plant: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grapevine (through / over the grapevine), grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
• wheat: grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
GOVERNMENT (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.)
• action, inaction & delay: red tape
• allegiance, support & betrayal: vote (n)
• behavior: diplomacy (n), diplomatic (adj)
• competition: race (elections)
• cost & benefit: jar (cookie jar)

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• dismissal, removal & resignation: oust (v), ousted (removed)
• epithet: Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.)
• obstacles & impedance: red tape
• operation: apparatus (government), organ (of government, etc.), wheel (wheels of justice, etc.)
• oppression: tyrant (n)
• person: ambassador (role), diplomat (n), strongman (power)
• power: czar (n), strongman (power), tyrant (n)
• representation: ambassador (role), diplomat (n)
• role: diplomacy (n), diplomatic (adj)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: franchise (n), license (n), passport (n)
GROUND, TERRAIN & LAND (2)
• access & lack of access: lie (lie open)
• accusation & criticism: dirt (political dirt, etc.), mud (drag something through the mud), mud (dragged through
the mud), mudslinging (n), stone (throw stones, etc.), sully (v)
• achievement, recognition & praise: height (at the height), heights (to new heights, etc.), heights (other)
• action, inaction & delay: dust (collect dust)
• amelioration & renewal: swamp (drain the swamp)
• amount & effect: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), landslide (in a landslide), landslide (by a landslide),
landslide (other), tectonic (adj)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: contour (n), dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), drill (drill down, etc.),
lay of the land
• appearance & disappearance: dig up (v), ground (go to ground), turn up (appear), uncover (v)
• appearance & reality: fool’s gold
• area: area (territory), borderland (n), contour (n), ecosystem (n), fiefdom (control), ground (area), lay of the
land, landscape (n), terrain (known and unknown terrain), terrain (area), territory (area), territory (assigned
area), topography (n), turf (control), wilderness (area)
• attachment: embedded
• bases: bedrock (n), footing (solid footing, etc.), footing (finding one’s footing, etc.), grassroots, ground (prepare
the ground), groundwork, rock (support), tectonic (adj), underlie (v), underlying (adj)
• behavior: edge (over the edge), ground (high ground), mud (in the mud)
• biodiversity: ecosystem (n)
• center & periphery: coast (n)
• certainty & uncertainty: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory),
uncharted (adj)
• character & personality: ground (both feet on the ground)
• commitment & determination: flag (plant one’s flag)
• competition: jungle (competition), turf (turf war, etc.)
• complexity: morass (n)
• concealment & lack of concealment: bury (conceal), buried (concealment), dig up (v), ground (go to ground),
open (in / into the open), uncover (v)
• conflict: last-ditch (adj), turf (turf war, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: open (in / into the open)
• constraint & lack of constraint: room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.)
• content: dirt (political dirt, etc.)
• control & lack of control: turf (control)
• corruption: swamp (fever swamp), swamp (drain the swamp)
• danger: edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), jungle (competition), precipice (at the precipice), precipice (other),
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• decline: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), precipitous (adj), rock-bottom (adj), sinkhole (n)
• destruction: abyss (n), edge (push something over the edge), cliff (glass cliff), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: last-ditch (adj), rock (turn over every rock, etc.), stone (turn over every stone, etc.)
• direction: landmark (n), negotiate (terrain, etc.), uncharted (adj), way (know one’s way around)
• disruption: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• division & connection: balkanization (n), barrier (n), chasm, crack (division), divide (n), fault (fault line),
fissure, gap (n), ground (common ground), ground (middle ground), rift (division), shore (far shore), stranded
(separated)
• dominance & submission: ground (hold / stand one’s ground)
• effect: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• environment: contour (n), desert (environment), ecosystem (n), jungle (environment), landscape (n), lay of the
land, morass (n), oasis (environment), sand (political sands, etc.), swamp (fever swamp), terrain (area), territory
(area), wasteland (environment)
• equilibrium & stability: earthquake (effect), earthshaking (adj), footing (find one’s footing, etc.), ground (shaky
ground, etc.), ground (firm ground, etc.), upheaval (disruption)
• extent & scope: earthshaking (adj), ground (cover ground), tectonic (adj)
• fate, fortune & chance: brink (on the brink), brink (to the brink), brink (from the brink), brinksmanship (n), cliff
(fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), last-ditch (adj), precipice (at the precipice), precipice
(other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope), territory (come with the territory, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: earthquake (effect), upheaval (disruption)
• failure, accident & impairment: crack (fall through the cracks, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: bumpy (adj), ground (shaky ground, etc.), ground (firm ground, etc.), mired (stuck),
rocky (adj), terrain (easy & difficult terrain)
• growth & development: ground (get off the ground), ground (fertile ground)
• identity & nature: embedded
• importance & significance: ground (break ground), groundbreaking, landmark (n), salient (important)
• involvement: thick (in the thick of things)
• isolation & remoteness: cold (in the cold), wilderness (in / into the wilderness)
• knowledge & intelligence: way (know one’s way around)
• obstacles & impedance: barrier (n), ditch (n), bogged down, mired (stuck), morass (n), mud (sink in the mud),
quagmire (n), quicksand (in / into the quicksand), rut (in a rut), stuck (adj), thicket (n)
• oppression: buried (buried in debt, etc.), rock (between a rock and a hard place)
• perception, perspective & point of view: grassroots, ground (on the ground), level (ground level, etc.), worm’s-
eye (adj)
• possession: claim (stake a claim), flag (plant one’s flag), soil (on one’s soil), territory (stake out territory)
• position, policy & negotiation: brinksmanship (n)
• presence & absence: endemic (adj), footprint (n), ground (on the ground), territory (come with the territory,
etc.), there (out there, etc.)
• progress & lack of progress: ditch (n), ground (gain ground), ground (lose ground, etc.), mired (stuck), morass
(n), mud (sink in the mud), quagmire (n), rut (in a rut), stuck (adj)
• proper name: oasis (Oasis of the Seas, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: dug in, entrenched, ground (go to ground), holed up, hole up (v), lie (lie open)
• proximity: brink (on the brink), brink (to the brink), brink (back from the brink), edge (on the edge of a cliff,
etc.), precipice (at the precipice), precipice (other), verge (on the verge), verge (to the verge)
• pursuit, capture & escape: ground (go to ground), rock (turn over every rock, etc.), stone (turn over every stone,
etc.)
• readiness & preparedness: ground (prepare the ground)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: dust (dust settles)
• relationship: embedded

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• reputation: mud (drag something through the mud), mud (dragged through the mud)
• resemblance: cavernous (adj), desert (environment)
• resiliency: dig (dig out), hole (dig oneself out of a hole)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: dig in (v), flag (plant one’s flag), ground (hold / stand one's ground), ground
(give ground), last-ditch (adj)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ground (high ground)
• searching & discovery: come up with (discovery), dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), dig (dig through), dig
up (v), frontier (n), pay dirt, rock (turn over every rock, etc.), stone (turn over every stone, etc.), turned up
(discovered), turn up (discover), uncover (v), unearth (v), unearthed
• situation: rock (between a rock and a hard place), room (wiggle room), spot (tight spot, etc.), trapped
• size: cavernous (adj)
• society: exile (in exile), exile (n), exiled, shore (far shore), stranded (separated), wilderness (voice in the
wilderness), wilderness (in / into the wilderness), wilderness (society)
• source: aquifer (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ground (break ground), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• success & failure: pay dirt
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: desert (food desert, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: brink (back from the brink), dig (dig out), entrenched
• worth & lack of worth: dirt (worthless), fool’s gold, pay dirt
GROUP, SET & COLLECTION (1) (see also assembling)
• allusion: cornucopia (variety)
• animal: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.), herd (herd immunity, etc.), pack (group), stable (n), zoo (group)
• astronomy: constellation (n), galaxy (n)
• bird: gaggle (press gaggle, etc.)
• center & periphery: inner circle (n)
• color: palette (n)
• container: bag (collection), package (benefits, etc.), package (commercial)
• crime: mafia (group), mob (group)
• family: brotherhood, family (gang / group)
• food & drink: buffet (n), cornucopia (variety), menu (other), smorgasbord (n)
• history: horde (people)
• horse: cavalcade (n), stable (n)
• house: house (hype house)
• infrastructure: suite (suite of tools, etc.)
• military: arsenal (amount)
• money: brain trust, treasure trove (and trove), treasure house
• person: tribe (group)
• plant: bouquet (collection)
• religion: cult (n)
• river: reservoir (group)
• school & education: fraternity (n)
• sports & games: all-star (adj), scrum (reporters), team (dream team), varsity (n)
• theater: cast (cast of candidates, etc.), repertoire (n)
• tools & technology: set (skill set), toolbox (n), toolkit (n), toolshed (n)
• verb: pool (v)
• walking, running & jumping: parade (n)
• water: pool (v), pool (people), pool (things), reservoir (group)
• weapon: arsenal (amount), quiver (n)

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• zoo: zoo (group)
GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT (1) (see also progress & lack of progress)
• air: oxygen (fuel)
• animal: fledgling, lamb (n)
• astronomy: apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), supernova (achievement)
• atmosphere: oxygen (fuel)
• baby: baby (development), baby (younger), crybaby (person), infancy (in infancy), infancy, infant (n), nascent
(beginning), newborn, nourished, nurture (v), nurtured, stillborn (adj), teeth (cut one’s teeth), teething, wean
(v), young (adj)
• biology: embryonic, petri dish
• bird: fledgling, full-fledged (adj), incubator (n)
• birth: embryonic, germinate (v), gestate (v), gestation (film, etc.), nascent (beginning), newborn, rebirth (n),
reborn, renaissance (n), stillborn (adj)
• chemistry: oxygen (fuel)
• day: day (early days), evening (decline)
• death & life: adolescence (n), adult (development), age (come of age), baby (development), boy (big boy, etc.),
brought up, career (n), crisis (mid-life crisis), crybaby (person), girl (big girl, etc.), grow (develop), grownup
(person), grow up (grow up together, etc.), infancy (in infancy), infancy (other), infant (n), life (begin life), life
span (n), mature (v), maturity, newborn, pants (big girl pants, etc.), raised (reared), reared (raised), stillborn
(adj)
• direction: apex (highest point), apogee (at an apogee), apogee (n), arise (v), ascent (on the ascent), ascent (with
the ascent), ascent, rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.), rise (on the rise)
• explosion: explode (increase)
• farming & agriculture: cultivate (v), cultivated, drought (in a drought), fallow (adj), fruition (n), ground (fertile
ground), grow (develop), grow (grow the economy, etc.), hotbed (n), hothouse (n), plant (create), rainmaker
(person), seed (n), seed money, soil (fertile soil), sow (v), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell), spell
(throughout a dry spell), spell (dry spell / other)
• fire: oxygen (fuel)
• flying & falling: ground (get off the ground), take off (v)
• fruits & vegetables: fruition (n), ripe (adj)
• ground, terrain & land: ground (get off the ground), ground (fertile ground)
• hand: hold (take hold)
• health & medicine: cancer (n), cancerous (adj), growth (cancerous, etc.), malignant (adj), metastasize (v), tumor
(n)
• height: rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (on the rise), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.)
• history: dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other), gilded (Gilded Age), golden age / era, medieval (adj),
Middle Ages (history), renaissance (n), revolution (n), revolutionary (adj), revolutionize (v), Stone Age
• insect: cross-pollination
• journeys & trips: fall behind (progress), lag (progress), passage (n), rite (rite of passage)
• leg: leg (grow legs)
• light & dark: supernova (achievement)
• mountains & hills: peak (at the peak)
• movement: fall behind (progress), lag (progress)
• person: neophyte (n)
• plane: ground (get off the ground), take off (v)
• plant: bloom (v), blossom (v), budding, burgeoning (adj), cross-pollination, cultivate (v), cultivated, drought (in
a drought), fallow (adj), flourish (v), flower (v), flowering, fruition (n), germinate (v), ground (fertile ground),
grow (develop), grow (grow the economy, etc.), hotbed (n), hothouse (n), kernel (n), neophyte (n), nourished,

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 nursery (n), nurture (v), nurtured, plant (create), rainmaker (person), root (growth), ripe (adj), seed (n), seed
money, shoot (plant), soil (fertile soil), sow (v), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell), spell (throughout a
dry spell), spell (dry spell / other), tendril (growth), thrive (v), transplant (n)
• rain: drought (in a drought), rainmaker (person), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell), spell (throughout a
dry spell), spell (dry spell / other)
• religion: rite (rite of passage)
• school: graduate (v)
• season: autumn (in the autumn), spring (growth), winter (decline)
• sheep: lamb (n)
• size: stunted
• snow & ice: frozen (development)
• sports & games: fall behind (progress)
• standing, sitting & lying: feet (stand on one’s own two feet)
• star: supernova (achievement)
• teeth: teeth (cut one’s teeth), teething
• tree: branch out (v), root (take root, etc.)
• verb: arise (v), bloom (v), blossom (v), branch out (v), cultivate (v), explode (increase), fall behind (progress),
flourish (v), flower (v), gestate (v), graduate (v), ground (get off the ground), grow (grow the economy, etc.),
grow up (grow up together, etc.), hold (take hold), lag (progress), leg (grow legs), life (begin life), mature (v),
nurture (v), plant (create), revolutionize (v), sow (v), take off (v), thrive (v), wean (v)
• walking, running & jumping: fall behind (progress), lag (progress)
• weather & climate: drought (in a drought), rainmaker (person), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell),
spell (throughout a dry spell), spell (dry spell / other)
GUILT (1) (see also responsibility)
• blood: blood (blood on one's hands, etc.), bloody (guilt), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• hand: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• hygiene: hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
• justice: get away (get away with something)
• light & dark: clear (clear conscience)
HAIR (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: scalp (n)
• conflict: hackles (raise hackles)
• danger: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: shave (removal), shed (v)
• fate, fortune & chance: call (close call / danger), shave (close shave)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bristle (emotional arousal), hackles (raise hackles), hair (hair on fire), hair-raising
• proximity: hair’s breadth (come within a hair’s breadth, etc.), whisker (come within a whisker, etc.)
• punishment & recrimination: scalp (n)
• resemblance: hair (resemblance)
• searching & discovery: comb (v)
• shape: hairpin (shape)
• success & failure: scalp (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: scalp (save one’s scalp)
HAMMER (2)
• creation & transformation: hammer out (v), hammered out
• force: hammer (blizzards hammered the Karakoram, etc.), hammer (hammer of the law, etc.), maul (a storm
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• proper name: hammer (Thor's Hammer, etc.)
HAND (2) (see also fist)
• achievement, recognition & praise: thumbs-up
• action, inaction & delay: hand (throw up one’s hands), hand (sit on one’s hands), handle (deal with), handled,
handwringing (n), hold (on hold), holdup (n)
• alternatives & choices: hand (on the one / other hand)
• amount: handful (amount)
• attachment: cling (v), clingy (adj)
• attainment: empty-handed, fingers (slip through one’s fingers), grasp (in one's grasp), grasp (out of one’s
grasp), grasp (attainment), palm (in the palm of one's hand)
• attempt: hand (try one's hand)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: grabbing (attention-grabbing)
• attraction & repulsion: beckon (v)
• avoidance & separation: hands-on, hands-off
• certainty & uncertainty: grab (up for grabs)
• character & personality: clingy (adj), handwringer (person)
• coercion & motivation: hand (force someone’s hand), squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on
something), squeeze (pressure), squeezed (oppressed), whip hand (n)
• comparison & contrast: hand (on the one / other hand)
• comprehension & incomprehension: grasp (comprehend)
• concealment & lack of concealment: hold (close held, etc.), vest (play something close to the vest, etc.)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: go (let something go), grip (come to grips), hand (take matters into
one's hands), handle (deal with), handled, handling
• consciousness & awareness: hand (the right hand vs. the left hand)
• constraint & lack of constraint: hand (hands are tied, etc.), handcuff (v), handcuffed
• control & lack of control: grip (in the grip), grip (control), hand (get out of hand), hand (upper hand), hand (in
hand), hand (control), handle (get a handle on something), handle (deal with), handled, handling, hands-off,
hands-on
• creation & transformation: shape (v), shaped, reshape (v)
• curtailment: break off (v)
• destruction: crush (destroy)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: finger (lift a finger), hand (have one's hands full), hand (all hands on deck)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: brush aside (v), brush off (v), brush-off
• division & connection: hand in hand (go hand in hand, etc.), handshake (n)
• dominance & submission: hand (upper hand)
• eagerness & reluctance: handwringing (n)
• experience: old hand (experience)
• failure, accident & impairment: fumble (v), fumble (n), fumbled
• fate, fortune & chance: hand (fate)
• feeling, emotion & effect: clingy (adj), crush (confidence, spirit, etc.), gripped, gripping (adj), handwringing
(n), hold (hold something in), possessed, seized (by an emotion)
• fictive communication: beckon (v)
• fictive possession: capture (v), catch (catch the imagination, etc.), claim (take), grab (v), grabbing (attention-
grabbing), grip (in the grip), gripped, gripping (adj), hold (verb / possession), hold (noun / possession), hold
(take hold), possessed, recapture (v), seize (v), seized (by an emotion), snatch (v)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: handed (given), hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed down / out
(punishment, etc.), hand over (v), handover (n)
• growth & development: hold (take hold)

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• guilt: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.), hand (bloody hands, etc.)
• help & assistance: finger (lift a finger), hand (bite the hand that feeds one), hand (help), handmaiden (help),
handout (n)
• importance & significance: right-hand (right-hand man, etc.)
• involvement: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (at the hands), hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.), hand
(bloody hands, etc.)
• judgment: even-handed (adj), thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• obstacles & impedance: holdup (n)
• oppression: grip (control), hand (iron hand, etc.), ham-handed, heavy-handed, squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put
the squeeze on something), squeeze (pressure), squeezed (oppressed), thumb (under the thumb), whip hand (n)
• person: handmaiden (help)
• possession: cling (v), clingy (adj), empty-handed, fall (fall into the hands, etc.), finger (slip through one’s
fingers), go (let something go), grab (v), grab (up for grabs), grab (land grab, etc.), grasp (in one’s grasp), grasp
(out of one’s grasp), grasp (possession), grip (in the grip), grip (control), gripped, gripping (adj), hand
(possession), handed, handed over (possession), hand-me-down, hand over (v), handover (n), hang on to (v),
hold (long-held), hold (verb / possession), hold (noun / possession), hold on (possession), palm (in the palm of
one’s hand), possessed, seize (v), seized (by an emotion)
• presence & absence: hand (on hand)
• protection & lack of protection: hand (hands off)
• proximity: fingertip (at one’s fingertips), hand (at hand)
• punishment & recrimination: hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed down / out (punishment, etc.), wrist
(slap on the wrist)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: go (let something go)
• relationship: hand in hand (go hand in hand, etc.)
• resiliency: go (let something go), hang on (v), hold on (survival), pick (pick oneself up)
• responsibility: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (at the hands), hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.), hand
(bloody hands, etc.)
• restraint & lack of restraint: hand (get out of hand), loose (let loose)
• shape: handle (shape)
• situation: hold (on hold)
• social interaction: hand (one hand washes the other)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: hand (wash one’s hands)
• subterfuge: underhanded (or underhand)
• success & failure: crush (verb / accomplishment)
• survival, persistence & endurance: cling (v), hand (all hands on deck), hold on (survival)
• starting, stopping & continuing: break off (v)
• taking & removing: claim (take), grab (v), seize (v), seized (by an emotion), snatch (v)
• transmission: handed down (transmission), hand-me-down, pass on (v)
• work & duty: hand (work), hand (worker), hand (all hands on deck)
HARDNESS & SOFTNESS (2)
• amelioration & renewal: cushion (v), cushion (n), smooth (v), soften (speech)
• attenuation: cushion (v), soften (v)
• character & personality: hard (character), hard-nosed, snowflake (person), teacup (person), teddy bear
• conflict: velvet (Velvet Revolution)
• experience: hardened (battle-hardened, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: harden (feelings), hardened
• flaws & lack of flaws: edge (rough edges, etc.), smooth (lack of flaws)
• heart: hard-hearted (adj), soft-hearted (adj)

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• increase & decrease: harden (increase)
• protection & lack of protection: harden (protect)
• speech: soften (speech)
• strength & weakness: soft (soft on crime, etc.), snowflake (person), teacup (person)
HASTE (1) (see also speed)
• bird: fly (on the fly), wing (wing it)
• crashes & collisions: crash (crash course, etc.)
• engine: gas (take one’s foot off the gas)
• foot: feet (think on one’s feet)
• health & medicine: rash (hasty)
• horse: canter (n), headlong, spur (on the spur of the moment), spur-of-the-moment
• justice: rush (rush to judgment)
• movement: jump (jump at the chance, etc.), rush (oil rush, etc.)
• train: track fast track)
• verb: jump (jump at the chance, etc.), scramble (v)
• walking, running & jumping: jump (jump at the chance, etc.), run (on the run / haste), scramble (v)
HAT (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: cap (tip one’s cap), hat (take off one’s hat to somebody, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: hat (hold on to your hat)
HEAD (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: head (pat on the head)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: head (reason)
• appearance & disappearance: head (rear its head, etc.)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: head (turn heads)
• behavior: hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• character & personality: coolheaded (adj), hothead (person), hotheaded (adj)
• coercion & motivation: head (hold something over one’s head)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: head (rear its head, etc.)
• comprehension & incomprehension: head (scratch one’s head), head (shake one’s head), head (go over one's
head / comprehension), head (get one’s head around something, etc.), head-scratching
• conflict: head (butt heads), head-on, head-to-head, horn (lock horns)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: head-on
• consciousness & awareness: head (clear head)
• control & lack of control: head (keep / lose one’s head), hothead (n), hotheaded (adj)
• creation & transformation: brainchild
• destruction: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.), snake (cut off
the head of the snake, etc.)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll,
etc.)
• disruption: head (turn something on its head, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: head (come down on one’s head, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: chopping block (on the chopping block), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: coolheaded (adj), head (keep / lose one’s head), head (turn heads), head (keep one’s
head up), head (hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s head), hothead (n), hotheaded (adj)
• gesture: nod (agree)
• hierarchy: head (go over one’s head / hierarchy)
• idea: brainchild, brainstorm (v), brainstorm (n)

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• interest: brain (on the brain)
• involvement: head (get in over one’s head, etc.)
• knowledge & intelligence: brain (n), brain drain / gain, brain trust
• leaking: brain drain / gain
• orientation: head (orientation)
• person: hothead (person)
• protection & lack of protection: head (keep one’s head down)
• punishment & recrimination: head (heads will roll, etc.), head (have one’s head handed to oneself, etc.)
• resiliency: head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high)
• survival, persistence & endurance: scalp (save one’s scalp)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: head start
• violence: brainwash (v), brainwashed
• warning: heads-up (warning)
HEALTH & MEDICINE (2) (see also addiction) (wounds & scars; skin, muscle,
nerves & bone)
• ability & lack of ability: basket case, fit (adj), fitness (ability), handicapped
• acceptance & rejection: leper (person), quarantine (v)
• accusation & criticism: eviscerate (v), eviscerated, lacerate (v), vivisection (n)
• activity: comatose (adj), convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), febrile (adj), fevered (adj), feverish (adj),
feverishly, fever pitch (n), frenzied (adj), frenzy (other), lethargic (adj), spasm (n), torpor (n)
• affliction: boil (affliction), cancer (n), cancerous (adj), convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), disease
(affliction), epidemic, fester (v), gall (v), growth (cancerous, etc.), headache (n), hives (n), infection
(corruption), malignant (adj), metastasize (v), neck (pain in the neck), pain (economic pain, etc.), pain (pain in
the neck, etc.), pathology (n), patient zero, plague (v), plague (n), plagued, rash (affliction), scar (v), scar
(psychological scars, etc.), scarred (afflicted), scarring, scathing (adj), sickness (n), sore (affliction), spasm (n),
spasmodic (adj), tumor (n), ulcer (n), unscathed (adj), wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: anodyne (adj), antidote (n), balm (n), Band-Aid (n), bromide (n), cure (n), cure (v),
cure-all, disinfect (v), disinfectant (n), heal (v), invigorate (v), lance (v), life (breathe life), mend (on the mend),
nostrum (n), panacea, pill (miracle pill), prescription (n), reinvigorate (v), remedy (v), remedy (n), resuscitate
(v), revive (v), salve (n), shot (shot in the arm, etc.), soothe (sensation), surgery (n), tonic (effect)
• amount: dose (amount), rash (affliction)
• amount & effect: epidemic, plague (n), rash (affliction)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: autopsy (analysis), diagnosis (n), dissect (v), misdiagnose (v), post-
mortem
• appearance: eyesore (n)
• area: alley (Cancer Alley, etc.)
• attenuation: atrophy (v), impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), neuter (v), potency (strength), potent (adj)
• avoidance & separation: allergic (adj), allergy (n), quarantine (v)
• behavior: addictive (adj), delirious (adj), delirium (n), demented, fever (behavior), frenzied (adj), frenzy (other),
rabid (behavior), rabidly, schizophrenic (adj)
• character & personality: incurable (adj)
• computer: disinfect (v), infect (computers), quarantine (v), viral (computers), virus (computers)
• condition & status: ailing (adj), anemic (adj), atrophy (v), basket case, bill of health, brain death (n), comatose
(adj), dead (dead on arrival), diseased, exhausted (adj), exhaustion (n), fatigue (n), fit (adj), handicapped, health
(in good / bad health), health (condition), healthy (condition), hemorrhage (n), hurting, last rites (n), life support
(on life support), malaise (decline), moribund (adj), prognosis (n), robust (adj), sclerotic (adj), shape
(condition), sick (condition), sluggish (adj), test (stress test), unhealthy (condition), weary (condition), well
(health), well-being, wheezing (condition), wounded (adj)

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• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: triage (n)
• consciousness & awareness: amnesia (n), comatose (adj), conscious (aware), dead (brain dead), opiate (n)
• constraint & lack of constraint: hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled
• consumption: pill (bitter pill, etc.)
• corruption: contagion (n), corrupting, corruption (n), fester (v), ill (ills of society, etc.), infect (corrupt),
infected, infection (corruption), malignant (adj), sickness (n)
• creation & transformation: doctored
• decline: life support (on life support)
• dependency: addicted (dependency), addiction (dependency)
• destruction: dismember (v), dismembered, eviscerate (v), eviscerated, fatal (adj), fatally (fatally wounded, etc.),
lacerate (v), mortal (adj), mortally (mortally wounded, etc.), pill (poison pill)
• development: head (come to a head)
• directing: inject (v), injection (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: amputate (remove)
• division & connection: amputate (remove), hip (joined at the hip)
• enthusiasm: addict (chess addict, etc.), addicted (enthusiasm), addiction (enthusiasm), crave (fans crave the
bout, etc.), delirious (adj), delirium (n), disease (enthusiasm), fever (enthusiasm), flu (enthusiasm), infection
(enthusiasm), junkie (person), mad (crazy), madness (enthusiasm), mania (n), maniac (person), rabid
(enthusiasm), withdrawal (feeling)
• epithet: Galen (Galen of Islam, etc.), pharmacy (Pharmacy of the World, etc.)
• evidence: symptom (n)
• experience: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• extent & scope: epidemic
• failure, accident & impairment: malpractice (n), miscarriage (of justice, etc.), misdiagnose (v)
• fantasy & reality: demented, dream (fever dream), swamp (fever swamp)
• fate, fortune & chance: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• feeling, emotion & effect: addictive (adj), anodyne (adj), bromide (n), bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj),
crippling, febrile (adj), heartsick, hurt (feeling and emotion), injury, nostrum (n), pain (economic pain, etc.),
pain (emotional), painful (adj), paralyzed (feeling), pill (bitter pill, etc.), shot (shot in the arm, etc.), sick
(disgusted), sick (with anxiety, etc.), soothe (sensation), tonic (effect), withdrawal (feeling), wound (wounds of
Vietnam, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: fit (adj), fitness (ability), flabby (adj), lethargic (adj)
• force: impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), neuter (v), potency (strength), potent (adj)
• functioning: atrophy (v), basket case, comatose (adj), cripple (v), crippled, hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v),
hobbled, impotence (weakness), impotent (adj), paralyze (v), paralyzed (functioning), paralysis (n), potency
(strength), potent (adj)
• future: prognosis (n)
• growth & development: cancer (n), cancerous (adj), growth (cancerous, etc.), malignant (adj), metastasize (v),
tumor (n)
• haste: rash (hasty)
• heart: heartsick
• identity & nature: incurable (adj)
• increase & decrease: steroids (on steroids), swell (v)
• initiation: patient zero
• judgment: triage (v), triage (n)
• leaking: bleed (v), bleed (n), bleeding, hemorrhage (n)
• power: potency (strength), potent (adj), steroids (on steroids)
• proper name: fever (fever tree, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: immune (adj), immunity (n), inoculate (v), inoculation, quarantine (v)

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• relationship: hip (joined at the hip), Siamese twins, sneeze (v)
• resemblance: rash (road rash, etc.), scar (resemblance)
• reversal: medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
• script: prescription (n)
• size: bloated (size)
• society: leper (person)
• speech: bromide (n), eviscerate (v), eviscerated, lacerate (v), scathing (adj), vivisection (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: fester (v), spasmodic (adj)
• strength & weakness: anemic (adj), flabby (adj), healthy (strength), impotence (weakness), impotent (adj),
neuter (v), potency (strength), potent (adj), puny (adj), robust (adj), stalwart (n), steroids (on steroids)
• substance & lack of substance: Band-Aid (n)
• subterfuge: pill (poison pill)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: overdose (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: life (breathe life), resuscitate (v), revive (v)
• taxonomy & classification: strain (type)
• throwing, putting & planting: inject (v), injection (n)
• time: prognosis (n)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: golden hour
• transmission: contagious, infectious (adj), sneeze (v), viral, virulent (adj)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: crave (v)
HEART (1)
• bird: chicken-hearted
• container: heart (container)
• direction: downhearted, heart (heart sank), soar (a heart can soar)
• flying & falling: soar (a heart can soar)
• functioning: broken-hearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken (adj)
• hardness & softness: hard-hearted (adj), soft-hearted (adj)
• health & medicine: heartsick
• materials & substances: heart (heart of stone, etc.), stone-hearted
• mechanism: broken-hearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken (adj)
• memorization: heart (by heart)
• person: sweetheart (other)
• size: bighearted
• taste: sweetheart (other)
• temperature: coldhearted (adj), heartwarming (adj), warmhearted (adj)
• weight: heart (heavy heart), heavy (heavy heart, etc.), heavy-hearted, light-hearted (adj)
HEART (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: heart (allegiance), heart (change of heart)
• amount: heart (half-hearted, etc.)
• bases: heart (basis)
• center & periphery: heart (center), heartland (n), heartwood
• character & personality: good-hearted, hard-hearted (adj), heart (young at heart, etc.), kind-hearted, soft-hearted
(adj)
• commitment & determination: half-hearted, heart (commitment)
• courage & lack of courage: chicken-hearted, faint-hearted (the faint-hearted)
• death & life: heartbeat (n), heart (beating heart)
• destruction: heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heart (stake through the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart)
• eagerness & reluctance: faint-hearted (the faint-hearted), heart (eagerness and reluctance)

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• empathy & lack of empathy: coldhearted (adj), heart (empathy), heartless, stone-hearted
• feeling, emotion & effect: broken-hearted, coldhearted (adj), downhearted, heart (a broken heart, etc.), heart
(heart sank), heart (knife in the heart, etc.), heart (miscellaneous), heartache (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartfelt,
heartsick, heart-stopping, heartthrob, heartwarming (adj), heart-wrenching, heavy-hearted (adj), knife (knife in
the heart), light-hearted (adj), soar (a heart can soar)
• identity & nature: heart (young at heart, etc.), heart (identity), heartland (n)
• person: sweetheart (other)
• reversal: heart (change of heart)
• shape: heart (shape)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart (sincerity), heartfelt (adj), heart-to-heart
• size: bighearted
• speed: heartbeat (in a heartbeat)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: heart-stopping
• vocative: sweetheart (vocative)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: heart (goal)
HEATING WATER (2)
• activity: boil (initiation), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj), percolate (v), simmer (v),
simmering (activity)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: boil (boil down to something)
• appearance & disappearance: bubble up (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: teapot (internet teapot, etc.)
• bases: boil (boil down to something)
• environment: cauldron (n)
• feeling, emotion & effect: boiling point, boil over (v), seethe (verb)
• initiation: boil (initiation), boiling point, boil over (v), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj),
percolate (v), seethe (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity)
• situation: hot water (in hot water), hot water (into hot water)
HEEL (2) (see also foot; leg; toe)
• eagerness & reluctance: heel (dig in one’s heels)
• oppression: heel (under the heel)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: heel (dig in one’s heels), heel (on one’s heels)
• sequence: heel (on the heels)
HEIGHT (2) (see also direction; position)
• achievement, recognition & praise: elevate (v), elevation (n), height (at the height), heights (to new heights,
etc.), lofty (adj), pinnacle (achievement), rise (achievement), rise (achieve), rising (rising star, etc.), summit (at
the summit), zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during the zenith), zenith (other)
• admiration & contempt: high (high art, etc.), look (look up to somebody), look down (look down on
somebody), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base, bad / noun), nose (look down one’s nose), pedestal (on a
pedestal), pedestaled
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: loom (loom large, etc.), low (lie low), profile (low profile), profile (high
profile), profile (attention), raise (attention), relief (in bold relief)
• behavior: above (above the fray, etc.), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), low (base, bad / adjective), low (base,
bad / noun), mud (in the mud), rise (rise above something), road (the high road), stoop (behavior), upright
(upright man, etc.), upstanding (adj)
• character & personality: cavalier (adj), upright (upright man, etc.), upstanding (adj)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: rise (rise to the challenge, etc.)
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• feeling, emotion & effect: depression, head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high), head (hang one’s
head), low (emotion), point (low point / emotion), raise (feeling)
• force: wave (crest of a wave)
• growth & development: rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (on the rise), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.)
• height: rise (rise and fall / verb), roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
• hierarchy: cavalier (adj), higher-up (person)
• importance & significance: capstone, paramount (adj), towering (towering figure, etc.)
• increase & decrease: ceiling (high point), elevated (level), floor (low point), heighten (v), rise (on the rise)
• past & present: down (down through the centuries, etc.), present (up to the present), up (up to now, etc.)
• perception, perspective & point of view: bird’s-eye (bird’s-eye view), grassroots, ground (on the ground), level
(ground level, etc.), worm’s-eye (adj), zoom out (v)
• presence & absence: loom (loom large, etc.)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: dwarf (v), head (head and shoulders above), height (at the height),
rise (rise and fall / noun), rise (rise of agriculture, etc.), rising (upcoming), zenith (at the zenith), zenith (during
the zenith), zenith (other)
• progress & lack of progress: point (at a low point / progress)
• pursuit, capture & escape: low (lie low)
• reputation: high (high regard), standing (reputation)
• resiliency: head (keep one’s head up), head (hold one’s head high)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: pedestaled
• success & failure: rise (rise and fall / verb)
• superiority & inferiority: cavalier (adj), dwarf (v), head (head and shoulders above), loom (loom large, etc.)
• time: down (down through the centuries, etc.), up (up to now, etc.)
HELP & ASSISTANCE (1) (see also allegiance, support & betrayal)
• allusion: Marshall Plan
• animal: mother (den mother, etc.), mother hen, wing (under one’s wing)
• baseball: backstop (n)
• bird: mother hen, wing (under one's wing)
• blade: hack (a fix), hacking (fixing)
• boat: steward (n), wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
• boundary: backstop (n)
• boxing: sparring partner (role)
• bridge: stepping stone
• clothing & accessories: eye (naked eye)
• creature: angel (guardian angel), angel (trail angel, etc.)
• death & life: rescue (v), rescue (n)
• direction: ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.), turn (turn to something, etc.)
• family: godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.), mother (den mother, etc.),
mother hen, sister (big sister)
• finger: finger (lift a finger)
• hand: finger (lift a finger), hand (bite the hand that feeds one), hand (help), handmaiden (help), handout (n)
• history: logroll (v), logrolling (n), Marshall Plan
• infrastructure: backstop (n), caretaker (role), custodian (role), scaffold (v), scaffolding (n)
• journeys & trips: stepping stone
• ladder: ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.)
• magic: magic (trail magic, etc.)
• mechanism: wheel (training wheels)
• Middle Ages: knight (knight in shining armor), white knight

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• military: ally (n), armed, arsenal (amount), weapon (help)
• money: lend (lend a hand, etc.)
• person: caretaker (role), custodian (role), friend (n), friendly (adj), handmaiden (help), knight (knight in shining
armor), mother (den mother, etc.), mother hen, servant (help), sparring partner (role), steward (n), white knight
• plane: steward (role), tailwind (n)
• religion: angel (guardian angel), angel (trail angel, etc.), savior (n)
• river: stepping stone
• royalty: handmaiden (help)
• speech: thanks (n)
• sports & games: backstop (n)
• standing, sitting & lying: crutch (n), lean on (support)
• theater: repertoire (n)
• throwing, putting & planting: pitch in (help)
• tools & technology: instrument, tool (help)
• train: steward (role)
• tree: logroll (v), logrolling (n)
• verb: finger (lift a finger), lean on (support), lend (lend a hand, etc.), logroll (v), pitch in (help), rescue (v),
scaffold (v)
• verb to noun: thanks (n)
• weapon: armed, arsenal (amount), weapon (help)
• wind: tailwind (n), wind (wind at one’s back, etc.)
HIERARCHY (1) (see also competition; society; superiority & inferiority)
• animal: apex (apex animal, etc.), food chain, lion (position), pecking order, top dog (hierarchy), underdog
(hierarchy)
• bird: pecking order
• chain: chain of command
• direction: basement (hierarchy), bottom (at the bottom), head (go over one’s head / hierarchy), higher-up
(person), ladder (hierarchy), mountain (at the top of the mountain), tier (hierarchy), top (hierarchy), top dog
(hierarchy), totem pole, under (hierarchy)
• dog: top dog (hierarchy), underdog (hierarchy)
• head: head (go over one’s head / hierarchy)
• height: cavalier (adj), higher-up (person)
• history: pyramid (hierarchy)
• horse: cavalier (adj)
• ladder: ladder (hierarchy), rung (on the bottom rung), rung (bottom rung), rung (other)
• line: rank-and-file (adj)
• lion: lion (position)
• military: chain of command, foot soldier (duty), rank-and-file (adj)
• mountains & hills: mountain (at the top of the mountain)
• movement: move (move up)
• person: higher-up (person), lion (position), top dog (hierarchy)
• position: apex (apex animal, etc.), barrel (at the bottom of the barrel), bottom (at the bottom), head (go over
one’s head / hierarchy), mountain (at the top of the mountain), over (dominance), tier (hierarchy), top
(hierarchy), top dog (hierarchy), totem pole, under (hierarchy), underdog (hierarchy)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: over (dominance), under (hierarchy)
• shape: pyramid (hierarchy)
• society: caste, untouchable (person)
• ticket: second-class (adj)

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• verb: head (go over one’s head / hierarchy)
HISTORY (1)
• burden: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
• burden: baggage (n)
• journeys & trips: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
• sports & games: track record (good), track record (bad)
• weight: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
HISTORY (2)
• accusation & criticism: tar (tar and feather, etc.)
• achievement, recognition & praise: belt (notch in a belt), laurels (praise), scalp (n)
• activity: gold rush
• allegiance, support & betrayal: fealty (n), Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.), wagon (hitch one’s wagon to
something)
• amelioration & renewal: renaissance (n)
• amount: horde (people)
• amount & effect: gold rush
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: Rosetta Stone
• behavior: badlands (environment), barbaric (behavior), Caligulan, cowboy (person), vigilante (person), wild
West
• birth: renaissance (n)
• certainty & uncertainty: Bermuda Triangle
• character & personality: Caligulan, carpetbagger (person), cowboy (person)
• coercion & motivation: hatched man (person)
• commitment & determination: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.), shield (on one’s shield)
• competition: race (arms race)
• complexity: baroque (adj), byzantine
• comprehension & incomprehension: Latin (Latin of Korea, etc.), Rosetta Stone
• conflict: arena (in / inside the arena), cold war, gladiator (n), joust (v), jousting (conflict), match (death match),
Stalingrad (epithet), wagon (circle the wagons), warpath (on the warpath)
• constraint & lack of constraint: Geneva Convention
• control & lack of control: badlands (environment), cowboy (person), wild West
• cost & benefit: gold rush, Pyrrhic victory
• decline: dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other)
• dependency: banana republic
• destruction: Chernobyl, holocaust, vandal (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: Gallipoli, Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, slave (v), trail (trail of tears)
• disruption: Bolshevik, Jacobin, revolution (n), revolutionary (adj), revolutionize (v)
• division & connection: balkanization (n), Ceuta and Melilla, iron curtain, Maginot Line, Yugoslavia
(separation)
• environment: badlands (environment), wild West
• epithet: Gallipoli, Lawrence (T.E.), nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor,
etc.), Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet), Waterloo
• failure, accident & impairment: Chernobyl
• fantasy & reality: Arthurian (adj), El Dorado
• fate, fortune & chance: Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: trail (trail of tears)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• group, set & collection: horde (people)

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• growth & development: dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other), gilded (Gilded Age), golden age / era,
medieval (adj), Middle Ages (history), renaissance (n), revolution (n), revolutionary (adj), revolutionize (v),
Stone Age
• help & assistance: logroll (v), logrolling (n), Marshall Plan
• hierarchy: pyramid (hierarchy)
• hyperbole: slave (v)
• identity & nature: carpetbagger (person), time (a man of his time, etc.)
• importance & significance: blaze (verb), pioneer (person), pioneering, revolution (n), revolutionary,
revolutionize (v), triumvirate (n)
• judgment: inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media lynching, etc.)
• knowledge & intelligence: Dark Ages (in the Dark Ages), Dark Ages (other), medieval (adj), prehistoric (adj)
• money: gilded (Gilded Age)
• oppression: baggage (n), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.), inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media
lynching, etc.), McCarthy, McCarthyite, mob (society), reign of terror / fear, etc., tar (tar and feather, etc.),
tyrant (n), vigilante (person), witch hunt
• past & present: ancien regime, dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other), down (down through the
centuries, etc.), medieval (adj), Middle Ages (history), prehistoric (adj), present (up to the present), Stone Age,
up (up to now, etc.)
• person: gladiator (n)
• power: baron (power), czar (n), empire (enterprise), mogul (n), overlord (person), pharaoh (power), tyrant (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: ancien regime, gilded (Gilded Age), golden age / era, legacy
(obsolescence), medieval (adj), old guard, prehistoric (adj), renaissance (n), Stone Age
• protection & lack of protection: rank (close ranks), wagon (circle the wagons)
• punishment & recrimination: scalp (n), tar (tar and feather, etc.)
• reputation: legacy (reputation)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: barricade (storm the barricades), Pyrrhic victory, Spartacus (the Black
Spartacus, etc.), underground railroad, Waterloo, Young Turk
• restraint & lack of restraint: bridge (a bridge too far, etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: Young Turk
• searching & discovery: El Dorado
• size: Pharaonic (adj)
• social interaction: logroll (v), logrolling (n)
• speech: tar (tar and feather, etc.)
• subterfuge: nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.)
• success & failure: Pyrrhic victory, scalp (n), Waterloo
• superlative: golden age / era
• survival, persistence & endurance: trail (trail of tears)
• time: age (Age of Columbus, etc.), ancien regime, dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other), down (down
through the centuries, etc.), medieval (adj), Middle Ages (history), prehistoric (adj), Stone Age, time (a man of
his time, etc.), up (up to now, etc.)
• transmission: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• violence: medieval (adj)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: El Dorado
• work & duty: slave (v)
• worth & lack of worth: gold rush
HITTING, SLAMMING & LASHING (2) (see also force)
• accusation & criticism: bash (v), bashing (n), slam (v), tee off on (v)
• affliction: smitten (afflicted)

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• conflict: brawl (n), thrash (v), thrashed, trounce (v), trounced, tit-for-tat (adj)
• curtailment: knock out (v)
• destruction: pound (pound targets, etc.)
• effect: hit (affect), hit (affected), strike (affect), struck (affected)
• feeling, emotion & effect: hit (take a hit, etc.), hit (affect), hit (affected), knockout (knockout voice, etc.),
smitten (effect), strike (affect), strike (tragedy, etc.), struck (affected), thrash (v), thrashed, trounce (v), trounced
• force: batter (the hurricane battered the city), beat (beat down / the sun, etc.), beat up (storm), clobbered (by
rain, etc.), hammer (blizzards hammered the Karakoram, etc.), knockout (force), lash (a storm lashed the
Philippines), maul (a storm mauled the Bahamas, etc.), pound (snowfalls pounded the Northeast, etc.), pummel
(the storm pummeled the island, etc.), punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.), strike (forces of nature)
• occurrence: strike (forces of nature), strike (tragedy, etc.)
• power: clout (n)
• revenge: tit-for-tat (adj)
• social interaction: tit-for-tat (adj)
• speech: bash (v), bashing (n), slam (v)
HOLE (2)
• affliction: riddled
• appearance & disappearance: ground (go to ground)
• concealment & lack of concealment: ground (go to ground)
• configuration: riddled
• conflict: pit (bear pit), snake pit
• danger: pitfall (n)
• destruction: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.), puncture (v)
• environment: hellhole, pit (bear pit), snake pit
• failure, accident & impairment: balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
• fantasy & reality: rabbit hole (fantasy)
• feeling, emotion & effect: hole (feeling)
• flaws & lack of flaws: chink (n), hole (flaw), riddled
• involvement: hole (situation)
• protection & lack of protection: ground (go to ground), holed up, hole up (v)
• pursuit, capture & escape: ground (go to ground)
• situation: hole (situation), dig (dig out)
HORIZON (2)
• experience: horizon (expand one's horizons)
• extent & scope: horizon (extent and scope)
• future: horizon (on the horizon)
• time: horizon (on the horizon)
HORN (2)
• branching system: multipronged, prong (part)
• conflict: head (butt heads), head-to-head, horn (lock horns)
• experience: greenhorn (person)
• proper name: horn (Horn of Africa, etc.)
• shape: horn (shape)
HORSE (2) (see also animal)
• achievement, recognition & praise: spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.)
• affliction: gadfly (person), pester (v), saddle (a burr in the saddle)

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• allegiance, support & betrayal: horse (switch horses), horse (back the wrong horse), wagon (hitch one’s wagon
to something)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: trotted out
• avoidance & separation: shy (shy away)
• behavior: stampede (n)
• branching system: spur (shape)
• certainty & uncertainty: hands down (certainty)
• character & personality: cavalier (adj), gadfly (person), hard-charging (adj), maverick (person), stud (n)
• coercion & motivation: spur (v)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: cavalcade (n), sunset (ride into the sunset)
• commitment & determination: charge (in, into, etc.)
• competition: dead heat, jockey (v), neck and neck (adj)
• configuration: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• conflict: wrangling
• consciousness & awareness: blinder (n), blinkered (adj)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: shy (shy away)
• consciousness & awareness: blinkered (adj)
• control & lack of control: corral (v), harness (v), horse (hold your horses), rein (rein in), rein (reins of power,
etc.), reined in, runaway (control), run away (v), saddle (in the saddle), unbridled
• constraint & lack of constraint: rein (free rein), unbridled
• destruction: founder (v)
• development: homestretch (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: hands down (easily)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: factory (glue factory), pasture (put something out to pasture), pasture (put out
to pasture), unseat (v)
• disruption: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), unseat (v)
• driving force: charge (in, into, etc.), outrider (n)
• eagerness & reluctance: balk (v), bit (champ at the bit), charge (in, into, etc.), horse (hold your horses)
• equilibrium & stability: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• experience: ride (rough ride, etc.), rodeo (first rodeo), spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: founder (v), stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.), unseat (v)
• fictive position: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• group, set & collection: cavalcade (n), stable (n)
• haste: canter (n), headlong, spur (on the spur of the moment), spur-of-the-moment
• hierarchy: cavalier (adj)
• initiation: spur (v), spurred
• movement: canter (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), stampede (n)
• position, policy & negotiation: horse-trading
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: pasture (put something out to pasture), pasture (put out to pasture)
• progress & lack of progress: inroads (make inroads)
• oppression: saddle (oppress), saddled
• perception, perspective & point of view: blinder (n), blinkered (adj)
• power: oats (feel one’s oats)
• proper name: saddle (Saddle Island, etc.), spur (Geneva Spur, etc.)
• resiliency: saddle (get back in the saddle)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: balk (v), buck (v), cavalry (n)
• restraint & lack of restraint: unbridled
• role: saddle (acting saddle, etc.)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: buck (v)

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• sex: stud (n)
• shape: saddle (shape), spur (shape)
• sound: gallop (sound)
• speed: breakneck (adj), canter (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), galloping (speed)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: balk (v), gate (out of the gate), homestretch (n), saddle (saddle up)
• strength & weakness: oats (feel one’s oats), workhorse (n)
• subterfuge: stalking-horse (n)
• superiority & inferiority: cavalier (adj), horse (high horse)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: wire (down to the wire)
• work & duty: harness (in harness), workhorse (n)
HOUR (2)
• superlative: hour (finest hour)
• time: hour (finest hour), hour (timeliness)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: golden hour, hour (timeliness)
HOUSE (2) (see also doors & thresholds; gate; roof)
• acceptance & rejection: welcome (v), welcome (n)
• amelioration & renewal: house (a house in order), house (clean house)
• appearance & disappearance: woodwork (come out of the woodwork, etc.)
• area: neighborhood (area)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: house (hype house)
• bases: edifice (n), foundation (n)
• concealment & lack of concealment: basement (hierarchy), closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
• configuration: neighbor (v), neighbor (n), neighboring (adj)
• destruction: roof (a roof can cave in)
• disruption: house (clean house)
• effect: home (hit home)
• epithet: roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
• evidence: closet (in / out of the closet, etc.)
• extent & scope: roof (through the roof)
• failure, accident & impairment: roof (a roof can cave in)
• feeling, emotion & effect: home (hit home), home (feel at home), home (close to home), welcome (welcome
news, etc.)
• group, set & collection: house (hype house)
• increase & decrease: ceiling (high point), floor (low point), roof (through the roof)
• judgment: bed (lie in one’s bed)
• location: home (home for the archive, etc.), live (location)
• orientation: floor (pelvic floor, etc.), roof (roof of the mouth, etc.)
• origin: home (home of golf, etc.), house (origin)
• place: home (home for the archive, etc.), live (location), nest (empty nest)
• protection & lack of protection: home (home in Islam, etc.)
• proximity: backyard (in somebody's backyard), backyard (other), doorstep (on / at the doorstep), home (hit
home), home (close to home)
• responsibility: bed (lie in one’s bed)
• substance & lack of substance: house of cards
• welcome: home (feel at home), welcome (v), welcome (n)
HUNTING (2)
• accusation & criticism: go (go after somebody / attack)

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• affliction: bird-dog (v), follow (afflict), hounded (dogged)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: find (discover), follow (the facts, etc.)
• appearance & disappearance: ground (go to ground)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: catchy (attention), low (lie low)
• attraction & repulsion: bait (v), bait (n), dangle (v), lure (n), lure (v)
• behavior: hotshot (n)
• character & personality: hotshot (n)
• competition: game (game of cat and mouse, etc.)
• concealment & lack of concealment: Easter egg, footstep (conceal one’s footsteps, etc.), ground (go to ground),
track (cover one’s tracks, etc.)
• danger: pitfall (n), sitting duck, trap (n)
• destruction: gut (destroy), gutted (destroyed)
• eagerness & reluctance: pounce (v)
• enthusiasm: hound (autograph hound, etc.)
• evidence: trail (digital trail, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: gutted (feeling)
• involvement: caught (other), caught up (in or by something), ensnare (v), ensnared, snare (v), trapped
• movement: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• past & present: catch up (his past caught up to him, etc.)
• person: hunter (plants), hunter (other), tracker (person)
• predation: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• protection & lack of protection: ground (go to ground), sitting duck
• pursuit, capture & escape: bait (v), bait (n), bird-dog (v), capture (v), catch (catch the imagination, etc.), catch
up (his past caught up to him, etc.), caught up (in or by something), ensnare (v), ensnared, expedition (fishing
expedition), fish (v), follow (afflict), footstep (conceal one’s footsteps, etc.), game (game of cat and mouse,
etc.), go (go after somebody / attack), ground (go to ground), headhunter (n), hounded (dogged), hunt (v), hunt
(n), hunt (in the hunt), hunt down (v), hunter (plant), hunter (other), low (lie low), lure (v), lure (n), out (leave
somebody an out, etc.), pursue (pursue a dream, etc.), pursuit (in pursuit), pursuit (other), recapture (v), scent
(throw somebody off the scent), snare (v), stalk (v), track (cover one’s tracks, etc.), track down (v), tracked
(followed), tracker (person), tracking, trail (follow), trail (throw somebody off the trail, etc.), trail (digital trail,
etc.), trap (in a trap), trap (n), trapped
• searching & discovery: Easter egg, expedition (fishing expedition), find (discover), find (hope, etc.), follow (the
facts, etc.), search (for truth, cure, etc.), track down (v), trail (digital trail, etc.)
• situation: caught up (in or by something), ensnare (v), ensnared, trap (in a trap)
• speech: go (go after somebody / attack)
• subterfuge: scent (throw somebody off the scent), stalking-horse, track (cover one’s tracks, etc.), trail (throw
somebody off the trail, etc.), trap (n)
• success & failure: dog (dog won’t hunt)
HYGIENE (2)
• amelioration & renewal: act (clean up one’s act), clean (come clean), clean (v), clean up (improve), disinfect
(v), disinfectant (n), house (clean house), order (get something in order, etc.)
• amount: laundry (laundry list)
• appearance & reality: artwash (v), sportswash (v), sportswashing (n)
• behavior: act (clean up one's act), dirty (behavior)
• character & personality: mess (person)
• concealment & lack of concealment: artwash (v), clean (come clean), dirty laundry, launder (v), sanitize (v),
sanitized, sanitizing, scrub (remove), sportswash (v), sportswashing (n)
• condition & status: clean (addiction)

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• corruption: filthy (corruption)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: filter (v), flush (remove), scrub (remove)
• disruption: house (clean house)
• environment: cesspit (n), cesspool (n)
• flaws & lack of flaws: chaotic (adj), clean (a clean record, etc.), dirty (dirty energy, etc.), mess (n), messy (adj),
sloppy (adj)
• guilt: hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
• insult: dirty (dirty people, etc.), scum (insult)
• involvement: hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
• responsibility: hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
• sex: dirty (sex), filthy (sex)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: clean (come clean)
• situation: mess (n)
• speech: clean up (speech), dirty (dirty word)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: hand (wash one’s hands)
• subterfuge: launder (v)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: filthy (filthy rich)
• violence: brainwash (v), brainwashed, cleanse (violence), cleansing (ethnic cleansing), cleanup (military), scum
(insult)
• worth & lack of worth: filthy (bad), scum (insult)
HYPERBOLE (1)
• bodily reaction: retch (v)
• clothing & accessories: pants (scare the pants off somebody)
• death & life: die (hyperbole), death (to death)
• food & drink: retch (v)
• history: slave (v)
• money: soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: skin (jump out of one’s skin)
• stomach: retch (v)
• verb: retch (v), skin (jump out of one’s skin), slave (v), soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
IDEA (1)
• animal: sacred cow
• container: box (in / out / outside the box)
• head: brainchild, brainstorm (v), brainstorm (n)
• light & dark: light bulb (and bulb)
• religion: iconoclasm (n), iconoclast (person), iconoclastic (adj), piety (n), sacred cow, shibboleth
• storm: brainstorm (n), brainstorm (v)
• verb: brainstorm (v)
IDENTITY & NATURE (1) (see also behavior; character & personality)
• air: air (environment)
• allusion: believer (true believer)
• animal: animal (political animal, etc.), breed (type), creature (creature of habit, etc.)
• atmosphere: air (environment)
• biology: DNA (in the DNA), DNA (other), gene (in one's genes), gene (other)
• birth: born (born teacher, etc.)
• blood: blood (in one's blood), blood (identity), vein (tap a vein)
• breathing; live (live and breathe)

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• carpets & rugs: tapestry (n)
• cloth: cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.), dyed-in-the-wool, tapestry (n)
• color: blue (politics), red (politics)
• container: melting pot (n)
• cooking: bake (attach), baked (baked in / into)
• creature: creature (creature of habit, etc.)
• death & life: live (live and breathe)
• face: faceless
• family: child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.)
• fire: melting pot (n)
• flags & banners: colors (true colors)
• food & drink: bowl (salad bowl / mixture), gumbo (mixture), pie (apple pie)
• ground, terrain & land: embedded
• health & medicine: incurable (adj)
• heart: heart (young at heart, etc.), heart (identity), heartland (n)
• history: carpetbagger (person), time (a man of his time, etc.)
• infrastructure: built in
• manufacturing: product (n)
• mental health: identity crisis
• mining: melting pot (n)
• music: anthem (n)
• person: carpetbagger (person), child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.)
• plant: root (origin)
• religion: born-again, soul (identity)
• sign, signal, symbol: pie (apple pie)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: bone (racist bone, etc.)
• taste: flavor (regional flavor, etc.)
• temperature: melting pot (n)
• time: time (a man of his time, etc.)
• tree: root (origin)
• verb: define (v), live (live and breathe)
• writing & spelling: define (verb)
ILIAD & ODYSSEY (2)
• alternatives & choices: Scylla and Charybdis
• attraction & repulsion: siren (siren call), siren (other)
• coercion & motivation: hector (v)
• computer: Trojan horse (computers)
• danger: Scylla and Charybdis
• development: odyssey (on an odyssey), odyssey (other)
• epithet: Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.)
• initiation: ship (launched a thousand ships)
• message: Cassandra
• proper name: Odyssey (Mars Odyssey, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: Achilles’ heel (n)
• strength & weakness: Achilles' heel
• subterfuge: Trojan horse (subterfuge)
• superlative: epic (n), Homeric (adj)

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IMPORTANCE & SIGNIFICANCE (1)
• allusion: titan (n), triumvirate (n)
• animal: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• arm: arm (right arm)
• astronomy: planet (n)
• center & periphery: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), background (fade into
the background), burner (front burner), centerpiece, central (adj), foreground (n), sideshow (n)
• circus: sideshow (n)
• creature: giant (achievement), titan (n)
• direction: burner (front burner), back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), back seat
(take a back seat), breakthrough (n), fore (come to the fore), forefront (center), front (front and center)
• farming & agriculture: ground (break ground), groundbreaking
• film: marquee (attention)
• fish: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• food & drink: bread-and-butter (adj), mother (mother’s milk), nothing-burger
• fortification: salient (important)
• gambling: stake (importance), stake (high stakes)
• ground, terrain & land: ground (break ground), groundbreaking, landmark (n), salient (important)
• hand: right-hand (right-hand man, etc.)
• height: capstone, paramount (adj), towering (towering figure, etc.)
• history: blaze (v), pioneer (person), pioneering, revolution (n), revolutionary, revolutionize (v), triumvirate (n)
• infrastructure: capstone, ground (break ground), milestone (n), monument (n), monumental (adj), towering
(towering figure, etc.)
• journeys & trips: blaze (v), landmark (n), milestone (n), pathbreaking, trail (blaze a trail), trailblazer (person),
trailblazing
• key: key (important)
• light & dark: leading light (person), luminary (person)
• mechanism: cog (n), fulcrum (n), kingpin (person), linchpin, pivotal (adj), point (tipping point), turning point
(n)
• military: breakthrough (n), salient (important)
• money: million-dollar
• mountains & hills: paramount (adj), watershed (n)
• movement: breakthrough (n)
• music: fiddle (second fiddle)
• number: fiddle (second fiddle), trinity (Holy Trinity), zero (place and time, etc.)
• object: thing (a matter)
• person: leading light (person), luminary (person), pioneer (person), trailblazer (person)
• picture: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• position: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), background (fade into the
background), back seat (take a back seat), burner (front burner), centerpiece, fiddle (second fiddle), fore (come
to the fore), forefront (center), foreground (n), front (front and center), right-hand (right-hand man, etc.)
• potato: potato (small potatoes)
• religion: fetish (n), fetishize (v), god (importance), hallowed (adj), idolized, immortal (person), Olympus
(Mount Olympus), pantheon (n), sacred (adj), trinity (Holy Trinity), Valhalla (n), venerate (v), worship (v)
• river: watershed (n)
• size: big (big name, etc.), blip (n), colossus (n), fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), giant
(achievement), huge (significant), minnow (n), potato (small potatoes), teacup (storm in a teacup), titan (n),
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• sound: keynote (n)
• sports & games: big-league (adj), game (game-changer)
• statue: colossus (n)
• theater: role (function or part)
• tools & technology: blip (n)
• verb: background (fade into the background), fetishize (v), revolutionize (v), trail (blaze a trail), venerate (v),
worship (v)
• weight: heavy (substance), weighty (substance)
IMPRESSION (1)
• fire: burned (impressed), seared
• mark: burned (impressed), engraved (impression), etch (v), etched, imprint (n), inscribed, mark (effect), seared,
stamp (impression), stamped
• materials & substances: plastered (impression)
• sensation: burned (impressed), sensation
• tools & technology: engraved (impression), etch (v), etched, inscribed, stamp (impression), stamped
• verb: etch (v)
INAUGURATION (1)
• cloth: unveil (make public), wrap (take the wraps off something)
• flying & falling: drop (product launch), launch (v)
• mechanism: drop (product launch), drop (a product, etc.), roll out (v), rollout (n), launch (v)
• verb: launch (v), drop (a product, etc.), hit (hit the market, etc.), roll out (v), unveil (make public), wrap (take
the wraps off something)
INCLUSION & EXCLUSION (1) (see also acceptance & rejection)
• container: in (inclusion), left out (excluded), out (exclusion)
• gate: gate (society)
• infrastructure: square (public square)
• party: floor (dance floor), party (invited to the party, etc.)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: in (inclusion), out (exclusion)
• sheep: fold (to / into the fold)
• snow & ice: freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded)
• society: cold (in the cold), freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded), tent (inclusivity), wilderness (in / into the
wilderness), wilderness (society)
• speech: square (public square)
• table: table (inclusivity)
• temperature: cold (in the cold), freeze out (v), frozen out (excluded)
• tent: tent (inclusivity)
• verb: freeze out (v)
INCREASE & DECREASE (1) (see also decline)
• air: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated, overinflated (adj), oxygen (fuel), pump up (v)
• astronomy: wane (v), wax (wax & wane)
• atmosphere: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated, overinflated (adj), oxygen (fuel), pump up (v),
stratospheric
• ball: rebound (numbers)
• balloon: balloon (v), ballooning (adj), inflate (v), inflated
• blade: appetite (whet the appetite), sharpen (v), whet (whet the appetite)
• chemistry: oxygen (fuel)

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• direction: boost (v), boost (n), ceiling (high point), climb (increase), dial (dial down / back), dip (v), dip (n),
down (go down), drop (prices dropped, etc.), drop (drop in sales, etc.), elevated, fall off (v), falloff (n), floor
(low point), heighten (v), jack up (v), jump (increase / verb), jump (n), ladder (increase), level (take something
to a higher level), level off (v), nosedive (noun / decrease), pick up (v), pile up (v), plummet (decline /
decrease), plunge (noun / decline), plunge (decline / decrease), rise (prices rose, etc.), rise (on the rise), rocket
(increase), roller coaster (development), roof (through the roof), shoot up (v), sink (decline), skyrocket
(increase), slip (v), slump (v), soar (v), spiral (downward or upward), spiraling (increase), stratospheric, up
(increase / verb), up (go up), up (higher), upsurge (n), uptick (n), upturn (n), yo-yo (up and down)
• electricity: amp up (v), step up (increase)
• engine: rev up (v), turbocharge (v)
• explosion: blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun), boom (increase), booming (adj), explode
(increase), exploding (adj), explosion (increase), explosive (increase)
• fire: accelerant (n), fan (v), fire (fuel on the fire, etc.), flare-up (n), fuel (v), fuel (n), fuel (pour fuel on
something, etc.), fueled, gas (pour gas on something, etc.), inflame (v), inflammatory (adj), kindle (v), oil (pour
oil), oxygen (fuel), stoke (v), stoked (increased)
• flying & falling: nosedive (verb / decrease), nosedive (noun / decrease), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge
(noun / decline), plunge (decline / decrease), rocket (increase), roof (through the roof), soar (v), take off (v)
• food & drink: feed (fuel), feed (feed on / off / into something)
• force: boost (v), boost (n)
• hardness & softness: harden (increase)
• health & medicine: steroids (on steroids), swell (v)
• height: ceiling (high point), elevated (level), floor (low point), heighten (v), rise (on the rise)
• house: ceiling (high point), floor (low point), roof (through the roof)
• infrastructure: build up (v)
• knife: appetite (whet the appetite), sharpen (v), whet (whet the appetite)
• ladder: ladder (increase)
• light & dark: burnish (v)
• mechanism: brake (control), crank up (v), dial (dial down / back), gear up (v), pump up (v), ratchet up (v), turn
up (increase)
• military: multiplier (force multiplier)
• moon: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• mountains & hills: peak (at the peak), peak (other), plateau (n), plateau (v)
• movement: accelerate (v), brake (control), creep (mission creep, etc.), escalate (v), jump (n), momentum (n),
rebound (numbers), roller coaster (development), yo-yo (up and down)
• number: multiplier (force multiplier)
• pile: mount (v), mounting, pile on (increase), pile up (v)
• plane: nosedive (noun / decrease), nosedive (verb / decrease), spiral (downward or upward), take off (v)
• plant: burgeoning (adj), grow (increase), growing (increasing)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: down (go down), pick up (v), pile up (v), pump up (v), up (go up), up (higher)
• pressure: loosen (loosen control, etc.), ratchet up (v), relax (relax control, etc.), tighten (tighten control, etc.)
• rocket: rocket (increase), skyrocket (increase)
• roof: roof (through the roof)
• sea: tide (rising tide)
• shape: bulge (shape), bump (increase), plateau (n), plateau (v), spike (increase), spike (spike in business, etc.)
• size: balloon (v), big (v), shrink (downsize), swell (v)
• sky: skyrocket (increase)
• snow & ice: snowball (v), snowball (snowball effect)
• sound: amplify (v), amplified, tone down (v)
• sports & games: roller coaster (development), yo-yo (up and down)

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• starting, going, continuing & ending: accelerate (v)
• tide: flow (increase), surge (intransitive verb / increase), tide (rising tide)
• tools & technology: jack up (v), ramp up (v), ratchet up (v)
• verb: accelerate (v), amplify (v), balloon (v), big (v), blow up (attention / verb), boom (increase), boost (v),
boost (n), build up (v), burnish (v), climb (increase), crank up (v), dial (dial down / back), dip (v), down (go
down), drop (prices dropped, etc.), escalate (v), explode (increase), fall off (v), fan (v), feed (fuel), flow
(increase), fuel (v), fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.), gas (pour gas on something, etc.), gear up (v), grow
(increase), harden (increase), heighten (v), inflame (v), inflate (v), jack up (v), jump (increase / verb), kindle
(v), level off (v), loosen (loosen control, etc.), mount (v), nosedive (verb / decrease), oil (pour oil), pick up (v),
pile on (increase), pile up (v), plateau (v), plummet (decline / decrease), plunge (decline / decrease), pump up
(v), ramp up (v), ratchet up (v), rebound (verb), relax (relax control, etc.), rev up (v), rise (prices rose, etc.),
rocket (increase), sharpen (v), shoot up (v), shrink (downsize), skyrocket (increase), slip (v), slump (v),
snowball (v), soar (v), spike (increase), spiral (downward or upward), step up (increase), stoke (v), surge
(intransitive verb / increase), swell (v), take off (v), tighten (tighten control, etc.), turbocharge (v), turn up
(increase), up (go up), wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• walking, running & jumping: jump (increase / verb), jump (n), leap (leaps and bounds)
• water: buoyant (strong), flow (increase), surge (intransitive verb / increase), tide (rising tide)
• wave: tide (rising tide)
• weapon: shoot up (v)
INFRASTRUCTURE (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: milestone (n), pinnacle (achievement)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: prop (n), prop up (v)
• amelioration & renewal: bolster (v), bolstered, buttress (v), prop (n), prop up (v), put (put something back
together), rebuild (v), scaffolding, shore up, smooth (smooth the road, etc.)
• amount: suite (suite of tools, etc.), warehouse (amount)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: deconstruct (v), deconstruction (n), frame (characterize)
• appearance & reality: facade (n), paint (coat of paint), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood,
etc.)
• attachment: built in
• attainment: milestone (n)
• bases: building block, cornerstone, infrastructure (n), keystone, pillar (basis), plank (n), plumbing (n)
• behavior: guardrail (behavior), gutter (in the gutter / behavior), gutter (out of the gutter), gutter (gutter politics,
etc.)
• characterization: frame (characterize)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: ramp (off-ramp)
• complexity: labyrinth (n), maze (terrain), maze (structures), maze (bureaucracy, etc.), warren (n)
• computer: warehousing (data)
• concealment & lack of concealment: astroturf (n), astroturfer (n), astroturfing, ceiling (glass ceiling), facade (n),
paint (coat of paint), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• configuration: built, built in, built-in
• conflict: arena (in / inside the arena)
• constraint & lack of constraint: ceiling (glass ceiling), ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.), guardrail (behavior)
• course: road (road from / to something), road (along / on the road)
• creation & transformation: architect (v), architect (creator), build (create), drawing board (on the drawing
board), drawing board (other), engineered, engineering (n)
• curtailment: dismantle (v), plug (pull the plug)
• death & life: life (life is a building)
• decline: gutter (in the gutter / decline), gutter (end up in the gutter), gutter (gutter politics, etc.)

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• destruction: buckle (give way), collapse (n), crash (crash down), drain (go down the drain, etc.), pipe (go down
the pipes), ruin (v), ruin (financial ruin, etc.), ruin (in ruins), ruin (road to ruin), ruined, tube (go down the
tubes)
• directing: pipeline (other)
• direction: lighthouse (protection)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: dismantle (v), plug (pull the plug)
• division & connection: wall (obstacle)
• environment: warehouse (neglect)
• evidence: signpost (n)
• experience: alley (up one’s alley), lane (experience)
• failure, accident & impairment: buckle (give way), collapse (n), drain (go down the drain, etc.), pipe (go down
the pipes), pothole (n), toilet (in the toilet), tube (go down the tubes), tumble down (v)
• group, set & collection: suite (suite of tools, etc.)
• help & assistance: backstop (n), caretaker (role), custodian (role), scaffold (v), scaffolding (n)
• identity & nature: built in
• importance & significance: ground (break ground), capstone, milestone (n), monument (n), monumental (adj),
towering (towering figure, etc.)
• inclusion & exclusion: square (public square)
• increase & decrease: build up (v)
• obstacles & impedance: ceiling (glass ceiling), ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.), hump (n), pothole (n), stonewall (v),
wall (obstacle)
• past & present: memory lane (down memory lane)
• perception, perspective & point of view: tunnel vision
• person: architect (creator)
• place: bowels (n)
• portal: avenue (portal)
• power: hall (halls of academe, etc.), corridor (corridors of power)
• progress & lack of progress: blind alley (n), milestone (n)
• proper name: buttress (Castle Buttress, etc.), corridor (Siliguri Corridor, etc.), courthouse (Devil's Courthouse,
etc.), Hilton (Fontana Hilton, etc.), pillar (Pillar Rock, etc.), pipeline (Pipeline, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: bolster (v), bolstered, guardrail (protection)
• readiness & preparedness: brace (v), braced
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: tunnel (light at the end of the tunnel)
• resemblance: buttress (n), pillar (resemblance), street (cloud street, etc.), tunnel (resemblance)
• resiliency: put (put something back together)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: barricade (storm the barricades), buckle (give way), stonewall (v)
• route: alley (Death Alley / U.S. 61, etc.), avenue (route), bridge (air bridge, etc.), corridor (route), expressway,
highway (iceberg highway, etc.), path (path to / toward something), pipeline (other), road (road from / to
something), superhighway
• script: blueprint
• shape: canal (birth canal, etc.), pipe (sports), pipeline (shape)
• sign, signal, symbol: corridor (corridors of power), milestone (n), signpost (n)
• situation: maze (bureaucracy, etc.)
• size: monumental (adj)
• social interaction: street (two-way street)
• society: square (public square), street (society)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ground (break ground)
• substance & lack of substance: facade (n)

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• subterfuge: astroturf (n), astroturfer (n), astroturfing, façade (n), paint (coat of paint), whitewash (n), whitewash
(v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• success & failure: blind alley (n)
• supplying: spigot (open / close, etc.)
• time: memory lane (down memory lane)
• transmission: corridor (route)
• transportation: canal (birth canal, etc.)
INITIATION (1) (see also starting, going, continuing & ending)
• air: oxygen (fuel)
• allusion: Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), ship (launched a thousand ships)
• atmosphere: oxygen (fuel)
• bird: hatch (v), hatched
• boat: ship (launched a thousand ships)
• bottle: uncork (v)
• bubble: bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj)
• chemistry: catalyst (n), oxygen (fuel)
• cooking: stir (v), stir up (v)
• creature: genie (initiation), Pandora's box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), worm (can of worms)
• death & life: life (spring to life)
• dog: unleash (v), unleashed
• earthquake: tremor (n)
• electricity: galvanize (v), spark plug
• engine: jump-start (v), jump-start (n), kick in (start), kick-start (v)
• explosion: blow up (attention / verb), blowup (attention / noun), blow up (emotion), blowup (conflict), burst
(burst into violence, etc.), detonate (v), explode (increase), explode (emotion), explode (initiation), explosion
(violence, etc.), explosive (violence, etc.), fuse (n), go off (v), powder keg, primed (ready), set off (v), time
bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.), tripwire (initiation), volatile
• fire: ablaze (adj), aflame (adj), alight (fire), combustible (adj), fan (v), fiery (character), fiery (speech), fire
(catch fire), flare (v), flare up (v), flare-up (n), flashpoint, fuel (v), fuel (n), fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.),
fueled, gas (pour gas on something, etc.), ignite, incendiary (speech), incendiary (other), inflame (v),
inflammatory (adj), kindle, oxygen (fuel), re-ignite, rekindle, spark (v), spark (n), stoke (v), stoked (increased),
tinderbox (violence, etc.), volatile
• flying & falling: launch (v), take off (v)
• foot: kick in (start), kick off (v), kickoff (n), kick up (v)
• football: kick off (v), kickoff (n)
• health & medicine: patient zero
• heating water: boil (initiation), boiling point, boil over (v), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling
(adj), percolate (v), seethe (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity)
• horse: spur (v), spurred
• leg: kick in (start), kick off v), kick-start (v), kick up (v)
• mechanism: button (push a button / action), button (push a button / emotion), gear (kick into gear, etc.), kick in
(start), launch (v), launching pad, primed (ready), springboard (n)
• military: tripwire (initiation)
• movement: swirl (v)
• plane: take off (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: bubble up (v)
• pressure: blow up (emotion), blowup (conflict), explode (emotion), uncork (v)
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• rocket: launching pad
• scale: scale (tip the scales)
• sports & games: kick off (v), kickoff (n), tee off (start)
• teeth: toothpaste (put the toothpaste back in the tube)
• temperature: boil (initiation), boiling point, boil over (v), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling
(adj), combustible (adj), fiery (character), fiery (speech), incendiary (speech), incendiary (other), percolate (v),
seethe (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity)
• throwing, putting & planting: launch (v)
• verb: blow up (attention / verb), blow up (emotion), boil (initiation), boil over (v), brew (activity), bubble (v),
bubble up (v), burst (burst into violence, etc.), button (push a button / action), button (push a button / emotion),
detonate (v), erupt (v), explode (emotion), explode (initiation), explode (increase), fan (v), flare (v), flare up (v),
fuel (v), fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.), galvanize (v), gas (pour gas on something, etc.), go off (v), hatch
(v), ignite (v), inflame (v), jump-start (v), kick in (start), kick off (v), kick-start (v), kick up (v), kindle (v),
launch (v), life (spring to life), Pandora’s box (open a Pandora’s box, etc.), percolate (v), re-ignite (v), rekindle
(v), scale (tip the scales), seethe (v), set off (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity), spark (v), spur (v), stir (v), stir
up (v), stoke (v), swirl (v), take off (v), tee off (start), trigger (v), trigger (pull the trigger), unleash (v)
• volcano: erupt (v), eruption, tremor (n)
• water: boil (initiation), boiling point, boil over (v), brew (activity), bubble (v), bubble up (v), bubbling (adj),
percolate (v), seethe (v), simmer (v), simmering (activity), springboard (n), swirl (v)
• weapon: blow up (emotion), blowup (conflict), draw (late / early on the draw), explode (emotion), fuse (n),
hair-trigger, primed (ready), time bomb (ticking time bomb, etc.), trigger (v), trigger (n), trigger (pull the
trigger), tripwire (initiation)
• weight: scale (tip the scales)
INSECT (2) (see also animal)
• activity: abuzz (activity), bee (busy as a bee), beehive (activity), buzz (activity), crawl (activity), hive (n),
hornet's nest, hum (n), swarm (v), swarm (n)
• affliction: gadfly (person), infest (v), infested, pest (person), pester (v), riddled
• amount & effect: swarm (v), swarm (n)
• appearance & disappearance: woodwork (come out of the woodwork, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• avoidance & separation: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation)
• behavior: descend (descend on), swarm (v), swarm (n)
• character & personality: butterfly (social butterfly), gadfly (person), grub (character)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: descend (descend on)
• configuration: riddled
• conflict: hornet’s nest
• creation & transformation: web (spin a web)
• danger: hornet’s nest
• dismissal, removal & resignation: mothball (v)
• division & connection: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation)
• eagerness & reluctance: itchy (adj)
• enthusiasm: bitten (enthusiasm), bug (enthusiasm), itch (enthusiasm)
• environment: beehive (activity), hornet’s nest
• epithet: mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: butterfly (butterflies in stomach), sting (n), stinging (adj), stung (feeling)
• flaws & lack of flaws: riddled
• growth & development: cross-pollination
• insult: grub (character), termite (n)

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• involvement: web (entanglement)
• isolation & remoteness: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation), cocooned
• perception, perspective & point of view: worm's eye (adj)
• person: gadfly (person)
• presence & absence: fly (fly on the wall)
• proper name: beehive (Beehive cluster, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation)
• resemblance: cocoon (resemblance)
• searching & discovery: feeler (put out feelers, etc.)
• sex: bee (the birds and the bees)
• shape: butterfly (shape), web (spider web, etc.)
• situation: web (situation)
• size: mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.)
• society: butterfly (social butterfly)
• sound: buzz (sound), cricket (n)
• strength & weakness: mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.)
• subterfuge: web (spin a web)
• surveillance: fly (fly on the wall)
• violence: termite (n)
INSULT (1)
• animal: animal (insult), beast (insult), dog (insult), donkey (insult), grub (character), jackass (n), monkey
(insult), pig (insult), snake (insult), termite (n)
• circus: clown (person)
• dog: dog (insult)
• face: face (slap in the face), slap (punish), slap (slap in the face, etc.)
• finger: middle finger (n)
• gesture: flip off (v), middle finger (n), nose (thumb one’s nose), slap (punish), slap (slap in the face, etc.)
• hygiene: dirty (dirty people, etc.), scum (insult)
• insect: grub (character), termite (n)
• nose: thumb (thumb one’s nose)
• person: snake (insult)
• religion: hell (go to hell)
• snake: snake (insult)
• speech: joke (it’s a joke, etc.), punchline (joke), talk (trash talk)
• verb: flip off (v), nose (thumb one’s nose), slap (punish)
• waste: talk (trash talk)
INTEREST (1)
• dog: dog (dog in the hunt)
• gambling: stakeholder (person)
• head: brain (on the brain)
INVOLVEMENT (1)
• animal: wallow (v), web (entanglement)
• astronomy: drawn in, orbit (n)
• blood: hand (bloody hands, etc.), blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.)
• boxing: weigh in (v)
• burden: drag (drag somebody into something)
• burial: buried (buried in debt, etc.)

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• center & periphery: sideline (on the sideline), sideline (involvement)
• cloth: entwined, skein (entanglement), tangle (n), tangled, web (entanglement), wrapped (wrapped up in
something)
• container: get (get into something), hole (situation), in (in deep, etc.), into (involvement)
• depth: deep (in deep), end (deep end)
• direction: get (get into something), leave (leave something alone)
• eye: eyeball (up to one's eyeballs)
• flying & falling: plunge (plunge into something), plunge (involvement)
• foot: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• ground, terrain & land: thick (in the thick of things)
• hand: blood (blood on one’s hands, etc.), hand (at the hands), hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.), hand (bloody
hands, etc.)
• head: head (get in over one’s head, etc.)
• hole: hole (situation)
• hunting: caught (other), caught up (in or by something), ensnare (v), ensnared, snare (v), trapped
• hygiene: hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.)
• insect: web (entanglement)
• mixture: mix (in / into the mix), mixed up
• movement: bound up, draw in (v), drawn in, drawn into, enmeshed, web (entanglement)
• neck: neck (up to one's neck)
• picture: frame (in the frame / involvement), picture (out of the picture), picture (in the picture)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: in (in deep, etc.), into (involvement)
• rope: bound up, enmeshed, ensnare (v), ensnared, ensnarled (involvement), entangled (involvement), entwined,
string (attachment), tangle (n), tangled
• shape: loop (in the loop)
• sound: chime in (v)
• spider: web (entanglement)
• sports & games: game (in / into the game), sideline (on the sideline), sideline (involvement), weigh in (v)
• standing, sitting & lying: sit out (v)
• throwing, putting & planting: throw (throw oneself into something)
• toe: toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.)
• verb: chime in (v), dive in (v), drag (drag somebody into something), draw in (v), end (go off the deep end),
ensnare (v), entwined, get (get into something), head (get in over one’s head, etc.), jump (jump in), leave (leave
something alone), plunge (plunge into something), sit out (v), snare (v), step in (v), stumble (stumble into a
situation), sucked in / into (involved), throw (throw oneself into something), wade (wade in / into), wallow (v),
weigh in (v)
• walking, running & jumping: jump (jump in), step in (v), stumble (stumble into a situation)
• water: deep (in deep), dive in (v), end (go off the deep end), end (deep end), head (get in over one's head, etc.),
immerse (v), immersed, immersion, plunge (plunge into something), plunge (involvement), sucked in / into
(involved), throw (throw oneself into something), toe (dip one’s toes in water, etc.), wade (wade in / into),
water (deep water)
• weight: weigh in (v)
ISLAND (2) (see also sea; tide; tsunami; wave)
• configuration: archipelago (n)
• division & connection: insular (adj), island (society), island (island of affluence, etc.), shore (far shore),
stranded (separated)
• environment: island (island of affluence, etc.)
• epithet: Ellis Island (epithet)

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• isolation & remoteness: castaway (person), insular (adj), marooned, Robinson Crusoe
• migration: Ellis Island (epithet)
• person: castaway (person)
• resemblance: island (beech island, etc.)
• society: castaway (person), island (society), marooned, Robinson Crusoe, shore (far shore), stranded (separated)
ISOLATION & REMOTENESS (1)
• animal: carapace (protection), shell (protection)
• astronomy: black hole
• bird: cooped up
• bubble: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• color: black hole, black site (national security)
• container: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine)
• electricity: insulate (v), insulated, insulation (n)
• epithet: hermit (epithet), North Korea (epithet)
• farming & agriculture: silo (academic silos, etc.), siloed
• fortification: moated
• ground, terrain & land: cold (in the cold), wilderness (in / into the wilderness)
• insect: cocoon (v), cocoon (isolation), cocooned
• island: castaway (person), insular (adj), marooned, Robinson Crusoe
• journeys & trips: no man’s land (people), path (off the beaten path), track (off the beaten track), way (out of the
way / remote)
• light & dark: black hole, black site (national security)
• map: no man's land (people)
• person: castaway (person), hermit (person)
• place: cloistered
• religion: cloistered
• river: backwater
• sea: castaway (person), insular (adj), marooned, Robinson Crusoe, shell (protection)
• throwing, putting & planting: castaway (person)
• verb: cocoon (v), insulate (v)
• water: bubble (isolation), bubble (quarantine), shell (protection)
JOURNEYS & TRIPS (2) (see also movement)
• achievement, recognition & praise: milestone (n)
• action, inaction & delay: can (kick the can down the road), road (push something down the road)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: get along (v), go along (v)
• alternatives & choices: crossroad (at a crossroad), crossroad (other), fork (a fork in the road, etc.), path
(alternatives and choices), road (fork in the road, etc.)
• amelioration & renewal: path (clear a path), smooth (smooth the road, etc.), way (pave the way)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: arrive at (an answer, etc.), come to (come to an answer, etc.), explore
(analyze), follow (argument), get (get somewhere), go on (explain), reach (reach an answer, etc.)
• area: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), waters (uncharted waters,
etc.), wilderness (area)
• attainment: get (get somewhere), milestone (n), reach (a place on a journey), way (all the way)
• certainty & uncertainty: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory),
uncharted (adj), waters (uncharted waters, etc.)
• character & personality: easygoing (adj)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: back (no way back, etc.), circle back (return), get (get
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• commitment & determination: return (point of no return), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• competition: fall behind (progress), keep up (progress), lag (progress), pass (progress)
• comprehension & incomprehension: follow (argument)
• condition & status: go (progress)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: can (kick the can down the road), bridge (we will cross that bridge
when we come to it), go (not go there), road (go down that road, etc.), road (push something down the road)
• consciousness & awareness: road (road to Damascus)
• course: detour (n), direction (course / on a course), direction (purpose), journey (in one’s journey), journey (on
a journey), journey (n), passage (n), path (on the path), path (on a path), path (down a path), path (path of peace,
etc.), path (path to / toward something), road (road from / to something), road (along / on the road), road (long
road), route (course), way (along the way)
• curtailment: track (stop something in its tracks)
• danger: patch (rough patch), woods (out of the woods)
• decline: direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.)
• development: course (development), crossroad (at a crossroad), crossroad (other), hegira (and hejira), odyssey
(on an odyssey), odyssey (other), path (a path can turn), reach (a place on a journey), return (point of no return),
road (turn in the road, etc.), saga (n), trajectory (n), take (take somebody somewhere), turn (take a turn), turn
(development)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: corner (cut corners), mile (go the extra mile), patch (rough patch), path (tough /
easy path, etc.), path (clear a path), road (long road), road (tough / easy road, etc.), shortcut (v), shortcut (n),
slog (v), slog (long hard slog, etc.), trail (trail of tears), way (go out of one's way)
• directing: guide (v), shepherd (v), take (take somebody somewhere)
• direction: beacon (n), bearing (direction), chart (v), course (on course), course (change course, etc.), course
(stay the course), course (reverse course), course (course of action, etc.), crossroad (at a crossroad), crossroad
(other), detour (n), follow (a path, route, road, etc.), footstep (in the footsteps), fork (a fork in the road, etc.), go
(direction), guide (v), guide (person), guide (nonperson), head (development), headed, landmark (n), lead (one
thing leads to another), light (guiding light), lodestar (n), lodestone (n), lost (direction), mislead (v), misleading
(adj), navigate (v), negotiate (terrain, etc.), plot (v), road (turn in the road, etc.), uncharted (adj), way (lose one's
way), way (find one's way), way (direction), way (the wrong way), way (know one’s way around)
• division & connection: stepping stone, traverse (v)
• driving force: pathbreaking, pathfinder (person), pioneer (person), way (lead the way)
• eagerness & reluctance: go (not go there), path (beat a path), road (go down that road, etc.)
• epithet: crossroad (epithet), Marco Polo (Muslim Marco Polo, etc.)
• evidence: signpost (n)
• experience: go through, etc. (endure), road (down a road before)
• extent & scope: ground (cover ground), mile (go the extra mile)
• failure, accident & impairment: circle (go in circles), cul-de-sac, dead end, direction (the right / wrong
direction, etc.), mislead (v), misleading (adj), pothole (n), sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), turn (wrong
turn), way (lose one’s way)
• fate, fortune & chance: path (cross paths), return (point of no return), Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: follow (follow a feeling or emotion), trail (trail of tears)
• fictive transportation: take (take somebody somewhere)
• flaws & lack of flaws: bump (speed bump), bump (bump in the road, etc.), path (tough / easy path, etc.), road
(tough / easy road, etc.)
• future: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), end (no end in
sight, etc.), go (where are we going, etc.), lie (lie ahead), road (down the road, etc.)
• growth & development: fall behind (progress), passage (n), lag (progress), rite (rite of passage)
• help & assistance: stepping stone
• history: baggage (n), freighted, loaded

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• importance & significance: blaze (v), landmark (n), milestone (n), pathbreaking, trail (blaze a trail), trailblazer
(person), trailblazing
• isolation & remoteness: no man’s land (people), path (off the beaten path), track (off the beaten track), way (out
of the way / remote)
• knowledge & intelligence: way (know one’s way around)
• migration: nomad (person)
• movement: plod (v)
• obstacles & impedance: bogged down, bump (speed bump), bump (bump in the road, etc.), gridlocked, impasse
(n), patch (rough patch), path (in the path), path (clear a path), pothole (n), roadblock, way (in the way), way
(out of the way / obstacles), woods (out of the woods)
• operation: course (course of justice, etc.)
• oppression: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
• past & present: back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go back in time), circle back (return), road (down a road
before), walk (walk somebody back)
• person: guide (person), Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.), nomad (person), pioneer (person), trailblazer (person)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: lost (extinction), pass by (progress), way (on the way out), way
(give way to something), way (go the way of something), wayside (fallen by the wayside, etc.)
• progress & lack of progress: beginning (just the beginning, etc.), blind alley (n), checkpoint (at a checkpoint),
circle (go in circles), come (come a long way), direction (the right / wrong direction, etc.), fall behind
(progress), far (progress), forward (move forward, etc.), go (a distance to go, etc.), go (progress), ground (gain
ground), ground (lose ground, etc.), headway (n), impasse (n), journey, keep up (progress), lag (progress),
milestone (n), move (progress), nowhere (go nowhere, etc.), pass (progress), pass by (progress), plod (v), road
(road from / to something), setback (progress), sideways (go sideways), step (a step in the right direction), there
(destination), turn back (v), way (come a long way, etc.), way (in the way), wind (wind its way)
• proper name: Odyssey (Mars Odyssey, etc.), pathfinder (Mars Pathfinder, etc.), road (the Silk Road, etc.)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: end (no end in sight, etc.), get (get on with something), get (get through
something), get (get over something), move on (resiliency)
• relationship: guide (person), land (landed him in jail, etc.)
• resiliency: carry on (v), drive on (resiliency), get (get on with something), get (get over something), get (get
through something), go on (v), move on (resiliency), push on (v), roll on (resiliency)
• reversal: backtrack (reversal), course (reverse course), turnabout (reversal)
• route: pathway (route), road (road from / to something), trail (campaign trail, etc.), way (route)
• script: road map
• searching & discovery: explore (discover), explorer (person), pathfinder (person)
• sequence: way (give way to something)
• sign, signal, symbol: milestone (n), signpost (n)
• social interaction: get along (v), go along (v)
• speed: plod (v)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ahead (go ahead), beginning (just the beginning, etc.), course (change
course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course), embark (embark on something), end (no end in
sight, etc.), go on (v), head start, jumping-off place / point, move on (resiliency), move on (change the subject,
etc.), outset (from the outset), outset (at the outset), push on (v), road (end of the road), set out / off (v), set sail
(v), strike out (start), underway, way (on the way), way (every step of the way)
• success & failure: blind alley (n), cul-de-sac, dead end, nowhere (go nowhere, etc.), way (all the way), wayside
(fallen by the wayside, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: get (get on with something), get (get through something), get (get over
something), get by (v), go through, etc. (endure), go on (v), patch (rough patch), push on (v), road (road from /
to something), trail (trail of tears), wayside (fallen by the wayside, etc.), woods (out of the woods)

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• time: ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go back in time), behind (in the
past), bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), course (over the course / time), end (no end in
sight, etc.), go (where are we going, etc.), here (we have been here before), lie (lie ahead), road (road ahead,
etc.), road (down a road before), road (down the road, etc.), walk (walk somebody back)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), head start
• unanimity & consensus: get along (v), go along (v)
JUDGMENT (1)
• allusion: draconian (adj), nemesis (n), Solomonic (adj)
• animal: chicken (come home to roost), kangaroo court
• astronomy: star (five stars, etc.)
• baseball: call (close call), call (the right call), scorecard (n)
• Bible: Solomonic (adj)
• bird: chicken (come home to roost)
• books & reading: book (books and covers)
• face: frown (v), smile (v)
• food & drink: taste (in good taste, etc.), taste (judgment)
• gesture: frown (v), smile (v), thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• hand: even-handed (adj), thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• health & medicine: triage (v), triage (n)
• history: inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media lynching, etc.)
• house: bed (lie in one’s bed)
• justice: call (close call), call (the right call), chicken (come home to roost), circle back (judgment), court (in the
court), court (other), crime (judgment), death warrant, firing squad, hanging (hanging offense), judge (role),
judged, jury (the jury is out), kangaroo court, nemesis (n), scale (scales of justice, etc.), sentence (life sentence),
trial (show trial), verdict (n), witch hunt
• letters & characters: box (tick all the boxes, etc.)
• mechanism: feedback (n)
• military: firing squad, muster (pass muster)
• person: judge (role)
• religion: nemesis (n), Solomonic (adj)
• scale: scale (scales of justice, etc.), weigh (analyze)
• school & education: grade (failing grade), mark (high mark), quiz (v), report card
• sign, signal, symbol: frown (v), seal of approval, star (five stars, etc.), smile (v), thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• sound: boo (n), cheer (n)
• speech: call out (v), callout (criticism), speak (the people have spoken, etc.)
• sports & games: call (close call), call (the right call), scorecard (n)
• star: star (five stars, etc.)
• stomach: gut (n)
• sword: sword (fall on one’s sword)
• taste: taste (in good taste, etc.), taste (judgment)
• theater: review (n)
• thumb: thumbs-down, thumbs-up
• tools & technology: measure (measure up, etc.)
• verb: bed (lie in one’s bed), call out (v), chicken (come home to roost), circle back (judgment), come back (to
bite, haunt, etc.), frown (v), muster (pass muster), quiz (v), smile (v), triage (v), weigh (analyze)
• violence: hanging (hanging offense), inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media lynching, etc.)
• weight: weigh (analyze)

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JUNGLE (2)
• competition: jungle (competition), law (law of the jungle, etc.)
• danger: jungle (competition)
• environment: jungle (environment)
• predation: law (law of the jungle, etc.)
JUSTICE (2)
• accusation & criticism: firing squad
• action, inaction & delay: stay (stay of execution)
• behavior: vigilante (person)
• certainty & uncertainty: jury (the jury is out)
• constraint & lack of constraint: Geneva Convention
• control & lack of control: police (v)
• death & life: capital punishment, death (death sentence), death warrant
• destruction: death (death sentence), death warrant
• epithet: Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: death warrant, jury (the jury is out), reprieve (n), stay (stay of execution)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed down / out (punishment,
etc.)
• guilt: get away (get away with something)
• haste: rush (rush to judgment)
• judgment: call (close call), call (the right call), chicken (come home to roost), circle back (judgment), court (in
the court), court (other), crime (judgment), death warrant, firing squad, hanging (hanging offense), judge (role),
judged, jury (the jury is out), kangaroo court, nemesis (n), scale (scales of justice, etc.), sentence (life sentence),
trial (show trial), verdict (n), witch hunt
• operation: wheel (wheels of justice, etc.)
• oppression: cage (jail, prison), kangaroo court, police (thought police, etc.), scapegoat (n), trial (show trial),
vigilante (person), witch hunt
• person: judge (role), vigilante (person)
• punishment & recrimination: Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.), hand down / out (punishment, etc.), handed
down / out (punishment, etc.), hanging (hanging offense), hook (off the hook), nemesis (n), reprieve (n),
scapegoat (n), sentence (life sentence), stay (stay of execution)
• pursuit, capture & escape: get away (get away with something), hook (off the hook)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: jury (the jury is out)
• responsibility: chicken (come home to roost), circle back (judgment), get away (get away with something)
• revenge: nemesis (n)
• reversal: chicken (come home to roost), circle back (judgment)
• sacrifice: scapegoat (n)
• sign, signal, symbol: scale (scales of justice, etc.)
• society: vigilante (person)
KEY (2)
• attachment: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• concealment & lack of concealment: lock (lock something away), lock (under lock and key), unlock (v)
• configuration: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• constraint & lack of constraint: lockdown (n)
• curtailment: lockdown (n)
• division & connection: locked (locked in a battle, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: lock (lock something away)
• importance & significance: key (important)

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• punishment & recrimination: key (throw away the key)
• searching & discovery: unlock (v)
KNEE (2)
• coercion & motivation: kneecap (v), kneecapped
• condition & status: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• decline: knee (bring to one’s knees), knee (on knees)
• dominance & submission: knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: knee (bring to one’s knees), kneel (v), kowtow (v)
KNIFE (2) (see also ax; blade; sword; weapon) (military)
• ability & lack of ability: edge (lose one’s edge)
• affliction: cut (a thousand cuts)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: backstabber (person), backstabbing (n), cutthroat (competition), stab (stab
somebody in the back)
• amelioration & renewal: hone (v), sharpen (v)
• amount: slice (piece), sliver (piece)
• attempt: stab (attempt)
• behavior: backstabber (person), backstabbing (n), cutthroat (competition)
• character & personality: backstabber (person)
• competition: cutthroat (competition)
• computer: scrape (v)
• condition & status: honed, sharp
• creation & transformation: carved out, carve out (v)
• curtailment: cut (budget cuts, etc.), cut (cut the budget, etc.), cut off (v), cut short (v)
• decline: whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• destruction: dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), gut (destroy), gutted (destroyed), heart (knife in the heart, etc.),
knife (knife in the heart)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: cut (a person from a team, etc.), cut off (v), scrape (v), slash (v), trim (v),
whittled, whittling (whittling down)
• feeling, emotion & effect: cut (cut both ways), dagger (insert the dagger, etc.), gutted (feeling), heart (knife in
the heart, etc.), knife (knife in the heart), stab (sensation), stab (stab of pain, etc.), stabbing (stabbing pain, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: dull (adj), edge (lose one’s edge)
• functioning: honed, sharp (adj)
• increase & decrease: appetite (whet the appetite), sharpen (v), whet (whet the appetite)
• person: backstabber (person)
• proximity: edge (at the edge)
• resemblance: slice (road slices, etc.)
• searching & discovery: scrape (v)
• shape: knife-edged
• speech: blunt (speech), cut off (speech), sharp (speech), sharp-tongued
• survival, persistence & endurance: scrape by (v)
• taking & removing: scrape (v)
KNOWLEDGE & INTELLIGENCE (1)
• allusion: Einstein (intelligence)
• books & reading: encyclopedia (n), encyclopedic (adj)
• boat: rope (learn the ropes, etc.)
• creature: genie (knowledge), wizardry (n)
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• ground, terrain & land: way (know one’s way around)
• head: brain (n), brain drain / gain, brain trust
• history: Dark Ages (in the Dark Ages), Dark Ages (other), medieval (adj), prehistoric (adj)
• journeys & trips: way (know one’s way around)
• light & dark: light bulb (and bulb)
• magic: genie (knowledge), wizardry (n)
• mechanism: brilliant (technology), dumb (technology), smart (technology)
• music: chops (expertise)
• person: genie (knowledge), guru (person), savant (n), scientist (rock scientist)
• religion: guru (person)
• school & education: IQ (ability), learn (v), lesson (n), masterclass (n), note (compare notes), schooled
• stomach: gut (n)
• verb: learn (v)
• verb to noun: know-how (n)
LADDER (2)
• help & assistance: ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.)
• hierarchy: ladder (hierarchy), rung (on the bottom rung), rung (bottom rung), rung (other)
• increase & decrease: ladder (increase)
LANGUAGE (1)
• gesture: language (of sports, cars, etc.)
• sound: language (of sports, cars, etc.)
• sports & games: language (of sports, cars, etc.)
• tongue: tongue (language)
LAP (2)
• dominance & submission: lapdog (n)
• possession: lap (fall into the lap, etc.)
• responsibility: lap (in the lap of)
• situation: lap (lap of luxury)
LEAKING (1) (see also fictive motion; movement)
• blood: bleed (v), bleed (n), bleeding, hemorrhage (n)
• health & medicine: bleed (v), bleed (n), bleeding, hemorrhage (n)
• knowledge & intelligence: brain drain / gain
• sound: drip (and drip-drip, etc.)
• verb: bleed (v), drain (remove), leak (v), leak out (v), ooze (v)
• water: drain (remove), drain (n), drip (and drip-drip, etc.), leak (v), leak (n), leaked, leak out (v), ooze (v)
LEG (2) (see also foot; heel; toe)
• bases: leg (leg to stand on)
• configuration: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• constraint & lack of constraint: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• dismissal, removal & resignation: kicked off, kicked out, kick out (v)
• division & connection: foot (foot in both worlds, etc.), straddle (connect)
• eagerness & reluctance: kicking and screaming
• feeling, emotion & effect: kick (kick one’s butt, etc.), kick (kick in the teeth, etc.)
• fictive position: astride (position), straddle (configuration)
• functioning: hamstrung, hobble (v), hobbled
• growth & development: leg (grow legs)
• initiation: kick in (start), kick off (v), kickoff (n), kick-start (v), kick up (v)

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• sequence: leg (first leg, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: kick in (start), kick off (v), kickoff (n), kick-start (v)
• success & failure: leg (grow legs)
LETTERS & CHARACTERS (2) (see also books & reading; writing & spelling)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: spelled out, spell out (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: asterisk (attention), exclamation point, footnote (n), full stop, punctuate (v),
underline (attention), underscore (attention)
• certainty & uncertainty: question mark
• configuration: punctuate (configuration)
• cost & benefit: box (tick all the boxes, etc.), plus (benefit)
• failure, accident & impairment: T-bone (v), T-boned
• judgement: box (tick all the boxes, etc.)
• mixture: soup (alphabet soup)
• money: dollar sign (n)
• movement: zig-zag (v)
• reversal: U-turn (n)
• shape: U-turn (n), zig-zag (v), zig-zag (n)
• substance & lack of substance: box (check the box, etc.)
LIGHT & DARK (2)
• access & lack of access: black hole, black site (national security)
• accusation & criticism: shade (throw shade)
• achievement, recognition & praise: leading light (person), luminary (person), star (achievement), supernova
(achievement)
• activity: alight (activity), light up (activity)
• amelioration & renewal: clear up (v), polish (v)
• amount: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.), scintilla (scintilla of doubt, etc.), shadow
(beyond a shadow of a doubt, etc.)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: illuminate (v), illuminating (adj), light (shed light), lighthouse
(illumination), opacity (n), opaque (adj)
• appearance: gloss (appearance)
• appearance & disappearance: fade (v), fade away, light (come to light), light (bring something to light), light
(see the light)
• appearance & reality: gloss (appearance)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: blaze (in a blaze of glory), dim (overshadow), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), flare (n),
glare (attention), highlight (v), light (shine a light), limelight (in the limelight), outshine (v), overshadow (v),
penumbra (n), shadow (attention), spotlight (in / under the spotlight), spotlight (into the spotlight), spotlight (out
of the spotlight), spotlight (shine a spotlight), spotlight (steal the spotlight), spotlight (other), sunlight
(concealment), supernova (attention)
• attenuation: shadow (devitalized), tarnish (v), tarnished
• attraction & repulsion: flame (attraction), moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
• certainty & uncertainty: clear (crystal clear), clear (unambiguous), cloudy (certainty), murky (adj), open-and-
shut (adj), shadow (beyond a shadow of a doubt, etc.), twilight (in a legal twilight, etc.), unclear (adj), waters
(muddy the waters)
• character & personality: brilliant (superlative), incandescent (character), light (shining light), light up (a room,
etc.), scintillating (adj)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: fade away (v)

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• comprehension & lack of comprehension: clear (crystal clear), clear (perception), clear (unambiguous), dawn
(v), illuminate (v), illuminating (adj), light bulb (and bulb), lighthouse (illumination), murky (adj), opacity (n),
opaque (adj), waters (muddy the waters)
• computer: darknet
• concealment & lack of concealment: black hole, black site (national security), bury (conceal), clarity (adj), day
(the light of day), gloss (appearance), gloss over (v), light (shed light), shadow (concealment), shadowy,
sunlight (concealment), transparency (n), transparent (adj)
• configuration: shadow (rain shadow, etc.)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: gloss over (v)
• consciousness & awareness: black hole, black site (national security), dark (in the dark), dawn (v), haze
(perception), light (come to light), light (bring something to light), light bulb (and bulb), opaque (adj)
• corruption: shady (adj), tarnish (v), tarnished
• decline: dim (decline), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), fade (v), star (decline), twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
• direction: beacon (n), light (guiding light), lighthouse (protection)
• division & connection: daylight (division)
• evidence: glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.), ray (ray of hope, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: tarnish (v), tarnished
• feeling, emotion & effect: brighten (v), cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), dark
(dark mood, etc.), darken (v), darkness (depression), day (dark day), dazzle (v), dim (feeling), gloom (n),
gloomy (adj), illuminating (adj), scintillating (adj), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow (in / under the shadow),
shadow (dark shadow, etc.), sunny (adj)
• flaws & lack of flaws: bright (bright side), polished (adj), shine (n), side (dark side)
• growth & development: supernova (achievement)
• guilt: clear (clear conscience)
• idea: light bulb (and bulb)
• importance & significance: leading light (person), luminary (person)
• increase & decrease: burnish (v)
• isolation & remoteness: black hole, black site (national security)
• knowledge & intelligence: light bulb (and bulb)
• message: flare (n)
• oppression: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), dark (dark mood, etc.), darken
(v), gloom (n), gloomy (adj), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow (in / under the shadow), shadow (dark shadow,
etc.)
• perception, perspective & point of view: clear (perception), haze (perception), light (in light of), light (in a
light), murk (in / amid the murk), murk (other), murky (adj), unclear (adj), waters (muddy the waters)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: dim (overshadow), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), fade (v), outshine (v),
overshadow (v), star (achievement), star (decline), supernova (achievement), twilight (in / into the twilight, etc.)
• proximity: shadow (proximity), shadow (follow)
• repetition: shadow (shadow government, etc.)
• resiliency: bright (bright side)
• searching & discovery: light (come to light), light (bring something to light)
• sign, signal, symbol: candle (candle of hope, etc.)
• situation: twilight (in a legal twilight, etc.)
• substance & lack of substance: shadow (devitalized), shadow (shadow boxing, etc.)
• subterfuge: gloss (appearance), gloss over (v), shady (adj)
• superiority & inferiority: dim (overshadow), eclipse (v), eclipse (n), outshine (v), overshadow (v), penumbra
(n), shadow (attention)
• superlative: bright (adj), brilliance (superlative), brilliant (superlative), coruscating (adj), glittering (adj), gloss
(add gloss, etc.), glowing (adj), incandescent (character), leading light (person), light (shining light), light up (a

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 room, etc.), luminary (person), luster (n), outshine (v), scintillating (adj), shining (superlative), sparkling
(superlative), star (achievement), supernova (achievement)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: candle (candle of hope, etc.)
• warning: flare (n)
LIGHTNING (2) (see also rain; storm; weather & climate; wind)
• appearance & disappearance: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: lightning rod
• fate, fortune & chance: lightning (fate)
• feeling, emotion & effect: lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.), thunderstruck (adj)
• origin: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• resemblance: thunder (sound)
• sound: thunder (sound)
• speed: lightning
LINE (2) (see also boundary)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: rank (close ranks), rank (break ranks)
• attainment: line (finish line)
• behavior: edge (over the edge), line (out of line), line (over the line), line (cross the line), line (red line)
• configuration: straddle (configuration)
• constraint & lack of constraint: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• division & connection: borderland (n), edge (edge cases, etc.), foot (foot in both worlds, etc.), line (division),
line (categories), straddle (connect)
• fate, fortune & chance: line (tread a line, etc.), line (on the line)
• hierarchy: rank-and-file (adj)
• position, policy & negotiation: line (a hard line, etc.), position (n)
• protection & lack of protection: rank (close ranks)
• sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: hew (hew to the line, etc.), line (government line, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: line (finish line), line (end of the line, etc.)
• success & failure: streak (winning streak)
• unanimity & consensus: hew (hew to the line, etc.), line (toe a line, etc.), line (in line), line up (v), lockstep (in
lockstep), rank (close ranks), rank (break ranks)
LION (2) (see also animal)
• amount: lion's share
• courage & lack of courage: lion
• epithet: lion (the Lion of Panjshir etc.)
• hierarchy: lion (position)
• person: lion (courage)
• strength & weakness: lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.)
LOCATION (1) (see also area; environment; place)
• earthquake: epicenter (n)
• forest: woods (neck of the woods)
• house: home (home for the archive, etc.), live (location)
• map: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.), pinpoint (locate), pinpoint (accuracy, etc.)
• mechanism: hub (center)
• nuclear energy: ground zero
• temperature: hotspot (place)
• verb: map (drop off the map, etc.), pinpoint (locate)

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LOVE, COURTSHIP & MARRIAGE (2)
• acceptance & rejection: spurn (v), spurned
• allegiance, support & betrayal: bed (jump into bed with someone), infidelity (n)
• attachment: married, wedded
• attraction & repulsion: court (v), courtship (n), darling (n), flirt (v), seduced, deductive (adj), sexy (adj), swoon
(v), woo (v), wooed
• behavior: infidelity (n)
• character & personality: odd couple
• coercion & motivation: marriage (shotgun marriage)
• concealment & lack of concealment: infidelity (n)
• conflict: honeymoon (n)
• division & connection: divorce (n), divorce (v), marriage (relationship), marriage (shotgun marriage), married,
wedded
• eagerness & reluctance: coy (adj), marriage (shotgun marriage), shy (adj)
• enthusiasm: fall (fall in love), infatuated (enthusiasm), love (in love), love (enthusiasm / noun), love
(enthusiasm / verb), lover (enthusiasm / person), romance (n)
• epithet: bride (Bride of the Red Sea, etc.), Romeo and Juliet (epithet)
• experience: coming out (party, etc.), debutant (n), innocence (n), maiden (adj), virgin (n)
• fate, fortune & chance: flirt (v)
• feeling, emotion & effect: crush (love), honeymoon (n), swoon (v)
• person: lover (enthusiasm / person), suitor (n)
• pursuit, capture & escape: court (v), courtship (n), darling (n), seduce (v), seduced, suitor (n), woo (v), wooed
• relationship: divorce (n), divorce (v), marriage (relationship), marriage (shotgun marriage), married, odd
couple, wedded
• subterfuge: infidelity (n)
MAGIC (2)
• ability & lack of ability: genie (knowledge), wizard (person), wizardry (n)
• affliction: cursed
• amelioration & renewal: bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.), dust (fairy dust, etc.), magic (magic bullet, etc.),
talisman (n), wand (magic wand)
• attachment: spellbinding (adj), spellbound (adj)
• attraction & repulsion: charm (v), charm (n), charmed (charmed by something, etc.), charming (people), pied
piper, spell (under a spell)
• character & personality: charming
• concealment & land of concealment: sleight of hand
• control & lack of control: hypnotize (v)
• cost & benefit: curse (n)
• creation & transformation: finger (snap one’s fingers)
• epithet: curse (Curse of Caricola, etc.), wizard (wizard of Menlo Park, etc.)
• fantasy & reality: magic (versus reality), magical (versus reality), make-believe (n), make-believe (adj)
• fate, fortune & chance: crystal ball, cursed, magic (trail magic, etc.), tea leaves
• feeling, emotion & effect: bewitch (v), charm (v), charmed (charmed by something, etc.), enthralling (adj),
entranced, magic (effect), magic (magic moment, etc.), magical (effect), mesmerizing, spell (under a spell),
spell (cast a spell), spellbinding (adj), spellbound (adj)
• future: crystal ball, fortuneteller (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person), tea leaves
• help & assistance: magic (trail magic, etc.)
• knowledge & intelligence: genie (knowledge), wizardry (n)
• message: fortuneteller (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person)

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• person: fortuneteller (person), genie (knowledge), seer (person), soothsayer (person), wizard (person)
• proper name: Magic (Magic Kingdom, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: charmed (charmed life, etc.)
• subterfuge: sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors
• time: crystal ball, fortuneteller (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person)
• worth & lack of worth: curse (n)
MANUFACTURING (2) (see also engine; mechanism; tools & technology)
• amelioration & renewal: recycle (v), salvage (v)
• characterization: cast (characterize), cast (characterized), recast (v)
• constraint & lack of constraint: mold (fit a mold)
• content: mill (grist for the mill), mill (gossip / rumor mill)
• creation & transformation: byproduct (n), churn out (v), fabricate (v), fabricated, fabrication, factory (creation),
forge (v), forged, grind out (v), hammered out, hammer out (v), machine (publicity machine, etc.), making
(creation), mill (n), mold (v), product (n), reshape (v), shape (v), shaped, strike (strike a deal, etc.), turn out
(create)
• destruction: unmaking (destruction)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: factory (glue factory), scrap (v), scrapped
• environment: crucible (n)
• epithet: Detroit (India’s Detroit, etc.), Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.)
• gossip: mill (gossip / rumor mill), mill (grist for the mill)
• identity & nature: product (n)
• operation: machine (publicity machine, etc.)
• product: byproduct (n), product (n)
• relationship: byproduct (n), product (n)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mold (fit a mold)
• script: boilerplate (n)
• worth & lack of worth: run-of-the-mill
MAP (2)
• area: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory), waters (uncharted waters,
etc.)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• certainty & uncertainty: terrain (known and unknown terrain), territory (known and unknown territory),
uncharted (adj), waters (uncharted waters, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• constraint & lack of constraint: latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
• direction: course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse course), navigate (v), plot (v),
uncharted (adj)
• epithet: Ptolemy (Chinese Ptolemy, etc.)
• extent & scope: latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
• isolation & remoteness: no man's land (people)
• location: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.), pinpoint (locate), pinpoint (accuracy, etc.)
• place: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• presence & absence: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• reversal: course (change course)
• script: road map
• searching & discovery: Dark Continent
• starting, going, continuing & ending: course (change course, etc.), course (stay the course), course (reverse
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MARK (2)
• acceptance & rejection: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• achievement, recognition & praise: belt (notch in a belt)
• affliction: scar (v), scar (psychological scars, etc.), scarred (afflicted), scarring, scathing (adj), unscathed (adj),
wound (wounds of Vietnam, etc.)
• characterization: brand (v), mark (black mark), stigma (n), stigmatize (v)
• configuration: dot (v), dotted (arrangement), speckled (configuration)
• effect: mark (effect)
• evidence: fingerprint, hallmark
• feeling, emotion & effect: bruise (v), bruised, bruising (adj), dent (n), mark (effect), wound (wounds of
Vietnam, etc.)
• flaws & lack of flaws: blemish (n), black eye, blot (n), mark (black mark), scar (blemish), scarred (battle-
scarred, etc.), smear (n), smear (v), stain (n), stain (v), unblemished
• impression: burned (impressed), engraved (impression), etch (v), etched, imprint (n), inscribed, mark (effect),
seared, stamp (impression), stamped
• measurement: benchmark (at a benchmark), benchmark
• oppression: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• representation: touchstone
• reputation: black eye, blot (n), mark (black mark), smear (v), smear (n), stain (v), stain (n)
• resemblance: mark (resemblance)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: rubber stamp (n), stamp (stamp of approval)
• speech: smear (v), smear (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: indelible (adj)
MATERIALS & SUBSTANCES (2)
• ability & lack of ability: brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.), flexible (adj), flexible (character), inflexible
(character), rigid (constraint), rigid (character), supple (adj)
• accusation & criticism: vitriol (n)
• affliction: wound (salt in a wound)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: stick (stick by / with somebody)
• appearance: gloss (appearance), stone-faced (adj)
• appearance & reality: gilded (other), gloss (appearance), lipstick (appearance), paint (coat of paint), sugarcoat
(v), unvarnished (adj), veneer (appearance), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• attachment: adhere (adhere to something), attached (attributed), attachment (n), glued, stick (stick by / with
somebody), stick (adhere to, follow), stick (persist)
• behavior: brazen (adj)
• character & personality: clay (n), flexible (character), hard (character), inflexible (character), made of
(character), mercurial (adj), putty (n), rigid (character), smooth (character)
• commitment & determination: grit (political grit, etc.)
• concealment & lack of concealment: gloss (appearance), lipstick (appearance), paint (coat of paint), stone-faced
(adj), sugarcoat (v), unvarnished (adj), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• condition & status: breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking point (to the breaking point), breaking point
(other)
• configuration: marbled
• constraint & lack of constraint: elastic (adj), flexible (adj), rigid (constraint), supple (adj)
• control & lack of control: putty (n), unglued
• corruption: contaminate (v), contaminated, contamination, poison (v), taint (n), taint (v), tainted
• creation & transformation: clay (n), putty (n)

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• destruction: meltdown (failure), poison (n), poison (v), radioactive (adj), shatter (destroy), shattered, shattering
(adj), toxic (adj)
• division & connection: fractured (separated), split (n), split (v), split (split apart / up, etc.)
• epithet: gold (black gold, etc.), oil (new oil, etc.)
• evidence: taint (n)
• extent & scope: stretch (extent), veneer (appearance)
• failure, accident & impairment: breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking point (to the breaking point),
breaking point (other), crack (v), fracture (failure), meltdown (failure), snap (v), split (n), split (v), split (split
apart / up, etc.), unglued, shatter (destroy)
• feeling, emotion & effect: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, breaking point (at the breaking point), breaking
point (to the breaking point), breaking point (other), brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.), caustic (adj), corrosive
(adj), crack (v), eggshell (walking on eggshells), fragile (feelings), noxious (adj), poisonous (adj), shatter
(emotions), shattering (adj), snap (v), stone-faced (adj), toxic (adj), unglued, vitriol (n)
• flaws & lack of flaws: coarse (speech), crack (flaw), crude (speech), flawed (adj), flawless (adj), flimsy (adj),
ironclad (adj), jewel (n), lapidary (adj), lily (gild the lily), polish (v), polished (adj), sag (v), solid (adj), sound
(solid), sticky (a sticky situation, etc.), unpolished, weak (fragile)
• heart: heart (heart of stone, etc.), stone-hearted
• impression: plastered (impression)
• mind: minded (steely-minded), tough-minded, weak-minded (adj)
• mixture: amalgam (n), blend (mixture)
• oppression: hand (iron hand, etc.), ironfisted, rod (iron rod, etc.)
• proper name: shard (the Shard, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: bend (v)
• restraint & lack of restraint: brazen (adj)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: sugarcoat (v)
• situation: sticky (a sticky situation, etc.)
• speech: acid (acid debate, etc.), acid-tongued, caustic (adj), caustically, coarse (speech), crude (speech), hollow
(hollow promises, etc.), silver (speech), silver-tongued, tongued (silver-tongued), vitriol (n)
• strength & weakness: cement (v), eggshell (n), flimsy (adj), fragile (weak), hardened (battle-hardened, etc.),
iron (strength), ironclad (adj), oak (strength), sag (v), solid (adj), sound (measure), steel (strength), teak (wood),
weak (fragile)
• substance & lack of substance: concrete, flimsy (adj), gilded (other), hollow (hollow promises, etc.), solid (adj),
veneer (appearance)
• subterfuge: gilded (other), gloss (appearance), lipstick (appearance), paint (coat of paint), sugarcoat (v), veneer
(appearance), whitewash (n), whitewash (v), whitewash (Hollywood, etc.)
• superlative: golden (golden opportunity, etc.), lapidary (adj)
• survival, persistence & endurance: cement (v), grit (political grit, etc.), stick (persist)
• worth & lack of worth: gold (black gold, etc.), oil (new oil, etc.)
MEASUREMENT (1)
• blood: pulse (n)
• depth: sound (measure)
• doors & thresholds: threshold (below the threshold), threshold (measurement)
• mark: benchmark (at a benchmark), benchmark
• surveying: baseline (n)
• temperature: thermometer (n)
• tools & technology: barometer (n), calibrate (adjust), calibrated (adjusted), dashboard (n), gauge (n),
thermometer (n), yardstick (n)
• verb: calibrate (adjust), sound (measure)

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• water: sound (measure)
MEAT (2) (see also cooking; food & drink; fruits & vegetables; taste)
• amelioration & renewal: beef up (v)
• consumption: hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.), meat (fresh meat), meat (piece of meat)
• experience: raw (raw recruit, etc.)
• failure, accident & impairment: butcher (v)
• oppression: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)
• product: meat (piece of meat)
• strength & weakness: beef up (v)
• substance & lack of substance: meat (substance)
• violence: butcher (n), hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.)
• worth & lack of worth: meat (piece of meat)
MECHANISM (2) (see also engine; manufacturing; tools & technology)
• ability & lack of ability: brilliant (technology), dumb (technology), smart (technology)
• accusation & criticism: wringer (through the wringer)
• action, inaction & delay: button (push a button / action), button (pause button), pause (n)
• activity: comatose (adj), gear (in full gear), gear (kick into gear, etc.), hum (hum along), hum (n), hyperdrive
(into hyperdrive), neutral (in neutral), overdrive (in / into overdrive)
• affliction: put (put somebody through something), wringer (through the wringer)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: bus (allegiance), truck (control)
• amelioration & renewal: fix (v), lubricant (social lubricant, etc.), mend (on the mend), mend (v), put (put
something back together), repair (v), repair (n), tinker (v), tune (and tune up), tune-up (n), tweak (n), unwind
(v), wheel (grease the wheels), wind down (relax)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: break down (explain), sort out (analyze), tire (kick the tires)
• attenuation: damper (n)
• avoidance & separation: steer (steer clear of something)
• bases: kingpin (person), linchpin, nuts and bolts, workings (n)
• branching system: hub (branching system)
• center & periphery: hub (center)
• character & personality: wound (tightly wound)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: parked (movement)
• commitment & determination: full-on (adj), pedal (pedal to the metal)
• complexity: part (moving parts)
• condition & status: broken (failure), comatose (adj), down (functioning), gear (in full gear), hum (hum along),
neutral (in neutral), speed (up to speed), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (wheels are falling off,
etc.), wheel (spin one’s wheels)
• consciousness & awareness: comatose (adj), wheel (asleep at the wheel)
• control & lack of control: brake (control), lever (levers of power, etc.), steering wheel, wheel (asleep at the
wheel)
• creation & transformation: machine (publicity machine, etc.)
• curtailment: shut down (v), shut off (v)
• decline: grind (grind down)
• dependency: wheel (training wheels)
• destruction: break (destroy / disrupt), break down (destroy)
• development: fulcrum (n), pivotal (adj), point (tipping point), turning point (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: gear up (v), grind (grind away, etc.), grind (daily grind, etc.), grinding (grinding
poverty, etc.), grind (grind down)
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• direction: steer (v)
• disruption: break (destroy / disrupt), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), gum up (v), misbehave (machine),
wrench (throw a wrench into something)
• division & connection: rupture (n)
• extent & scope: full-on (adj), pedal (pedal to the metal)
• failure, accident & impairment: break down (functioning), broken (failure), down (functioning), fall apart (v),
gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), grind (grind down), gum up (v), halt (grind to a halt, etc.), rupture (n),
sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (wheels are falling off, etc.), wrench (throw a wrench into
something)
• fate, fortune & chance: wheel (wheel of fate or fortune, etc.)
• feeling, emotion & effect: breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.), break down (feeling), broken (feeling), button
(push a button / emotion), button (panic button), button (hot button), fall apart (emotionally), grinding (grinding
poverty, etc.), heart (a broken heart, etc.), pump up (v), turned off, turned on, turn on (v), turn-off (disgust),
turn-on, wind down (relax), wound (tightly wound)
• flaws & lack of flaws: broken (failure), misbehave (machine), point (sticking / friction point)
• functioning: break down (functioning), broken (failure), comatose (adj), down (functioning), full-on (adj), gear
(in full gear), gum up (v), hum (hum along), machinery (n), misbehave (machine), neutral (in neutral), pedal
(pedal to the metal), speed (up to speed), sputter (v), stall (v), stalled (progress), wrench (throw a wrench into
something)
• future: time machine
• judgment: feedback (n)
• heart: heart (a broken heart, etc.), heartbreak (n), heartbreaking (adj), heartbroken (adj)
• help & assistance: wheel (training wheels)
• importance & significance: cog (n), fulcrum (n), kingpin (person), linchpin, pivotal (adj), point (tipping point),
turning point (n)
• inauguration: drop (product launch), drop (a product, etc.), launch (v), roll out (v), rollout (n)
• increase & decrease: brake (control), crank up (v), dial (dial down / back), gear up (v), pump up (v), ratchet up
(v), turn up (increase)
• initiation: button (push a button / action), button (push a button / emotion), gear (kick into gear, etc.), kick in
(start), launch (v), launching pad, primed (ready), springboard (n)
• knowledge & intelligence: dumb (technology), brilliant (technology), smart (technology)
• location: hub (center)
• movement: parked (movement), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• obstacles & impedance: damper (n), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.)
• operation: apparatus (government), clockwork (n), machine (publicity machine, etc.), machinery, organ (of
government, etc.), train (legal train, etc.), wheel (wheels of justice, etc.), wheel (wheels turn slowly, etc.),
workings (n)
• oppression: put (put somebody through something), wringer (through the wringer)
• past & present: time machine, wind back (v)
• person: kingpin (person)
• place: hub (center)
• progress & lack of progress: parked (movement), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (spin one’s wheels), wheel
(hamster wheel)
• pursuit, capture & escape: hatch (escape hatch)
• readiness & preparedness: primed (ready), tune (and tune up), tune-up (n)
• resiliency: put (put something back together)
• reversal: backpedal (v), gear (switch gears), pivot (n), roll back (v)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: fit in (v)
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• shape: hub (center)
• social interaction: wheel (grease the wheels)
• speed: brake (control), speed (up to speed), wheel (wheels turn slowly, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: button (pause button), gear (in full gear), gear (kick into gear, etc.), gear
(throw sand in the gears, etc.), grind (grind away, etc.), grind on (v), halt (grind to a halt, etc.), kick in (start),
launch (v), parked (movement), pause (n), reboot (v), reboot (n), reset (n), reset (v), stall (v), stalled (progress),
treadmill (n), wheel (spin one’s wheels), wind down (v)
• strength & weakness: robot (n)
• supplying: feed (auto feed, etc.)
• taking & removing: hoover (hoover up, etc.)
• taxonomy & classification: break down (divide)
• throwing, putting & planting: catapult (v), catapulted, launch (v), launching pad, thrust (v)
• time: hourglass (time), time machine, wind back (v), wind down (v)
• unanimity & consensus: bus (allegiance), truck (control)
• work & duty: grind (daily grind, etc.), treadmill (n)
MEMORIZATION (2)
• heart: heart (by heart)
MENTAL HEALTH (2) (see also health & medicine)
• activity: frenzied (adj), frenzy (other), rage (v), raging (adj)
• amelioration & renewal: pull (pull yourself together, etc.)
• behavior: amok (run amok), bedlam (n), berserk, craze (n), crazed, crazy (behavior), crazy (enthusiasm),
demented, frenzied (adj), frenzy (other), nuts (crazy), rage (v), raging (adj), schizophrenic (adj)
• character & personality: Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), nut (person)
• condition & status: troubled
• constraint & lack of constrain: straitjacket (n)
• control & lack of control: amok (run amok), berserk, crazy (behavior), rage (v), raging (adj)
• enthusiasm: craze (n), crazed, crazy (enthusiasm), mad (crazy), madness (enthusiasm), mania (n), maniac
(person), obsessed, rabid (enthusiasm), rage (enthusiasm), rave (v), rave (rave review, etc.)
• environment: bedlam (n), madhouse (place), snake pit, warehouse (neglect)
• euphemism: dog (black dog / mental health), pieces (go to pieces), unhinged (adj)
• fantasy & reality: delusion (under a delusion), delusion, demented, fantasy (delusion), pipe dream, rabbit hole
(fantasy)
• feeling, emotion & effect: breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.), break down (feeling), brighten (v), darkness
(depression), dog (black dog / mental health), emptiness (depression), empty (depression), mist (red mist), pain
(emotional), possessed, rage (v), raging (adj)
• identity & nature: identity crisis
• resiliency: pull (pull yourself together, etc.)
• speech: rave (v), rave (rave review, etc.)
• violence: mist (red mist)
MESSAGE (1) (see also evidence; suspicion; warning)
• allusion: Cassandra, jeremiad (bitter lament), messenger (shoot the messenger)
• Bible: gospel (preach the gospel, etc.), jeremiad (bitter lament), messiah (n), messianic (adj), pulpit (bully
pulpit, etc.), sermon (message)
• eye: seer (person)
• fire: flare (n)
• Iliad & Odyssey: Cassandra
• light & dark: flare (n)

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• magic: fortuneteller (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person)
• Middle Ages: crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role)
• military: call (call to arms), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n), saber rattling
• money: sell (promote)
• movement: spin (message / verb), spin (message / noun), spin (spin control)
• person: apostle (person), convert (person), crusader (role), evangelist (person), fortuneteller (person), guru
(person), messenger (shoot the messenger), messiah (n), missionary (person), oracle (person), prophet (person),
seer (person), soothsayer (person), tout (person), whistleblower (n)
• plane: barnstorm (v)
• religion: apostle (person), choir (preach to the choir), convert (person), crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a
crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role), evangelical (adj), evangelist (person), golden rule, gospel (preach the
gospel, etc.), guru (person), high priest, jeremiad (bitter lament), mantra (message), messiah (n), messianic
(adj), missionary (person), oracle (person), preach, prophet (person), proselytize (v), pulpit (bully pulpit, etc.),
seer (person), sermon (message), soothsayer (person)
• sound: amplify (v), call (call to arms), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n), saber rattling, signal (signal
and noise), whistle (dog whistle), whistleblower (n)
• speech: preach (v), pulpit (bully pulpit, etc.), sermon (message), speak (carry a message), voice (voice of
reason), voice (message)
• sword: saber rattling
• tools & technology: amplify (v), megaphone (n), message (send a message, etc.), signal (mixed signals), signal
(signal and noise)
• verb: amplify (v), barnstorm (v), drum (beat / bang the drum), proselytize (v), sell (promote), speak (carry a
message), spin (message / verb), tout (v)
MIDDLE AGES (2)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: fealty (n)
• area: fiefdom (control)
• campaign: crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role)
• conflict: gauntlet (lay down a gauntlet, etc.), joust (v), jousting (conflict)
• control & lack of control: fiefdom (control)
• help & assistance: knight (knight in shining armor), white knight
• message: crusade (on a crusade), crusade (in a crusade), crusade (n), crusader (role)
• power: baron (power)
• proper name: Knight (Black Knights, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: armor (protection)
• pursuit, capture & escape: quest (in a quest), quest (on a quest), quest (other)
• searching & discovery: grail (holy grail), quest (in a quest), quest (on a quest), quest (other)
• superlative: champion (n)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: grail (holy grail)
MIGRATION (1)
• allusion: Lazarus (Emma Lazarus)
• bird: blow-in (n)
• epithet: Ellis Island (epithet), Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.)
• island: Ellis Island (epithet)
• journeys & trips: nomad (person)
• person: Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.), Lazarus (Emma Lazarus), nomad (person)
• place: Ellis Island (epithet)
• plant: transplant (n)
• verb: wash in (v)

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• water: wash in (v)
• wave: wash in (v)
• wind: blow-in (n)
MILITARY (2) (see also bullet; explosion; fortification; knife; sword; weapon)
• accusation & criticism: ammunition (n), attack (under attack, etc.), blast (criticize), broadside (n), fire
(criticism), fire (under fire), fire (draw fire, etc.), fire (fire back), firing squad, flak (criticism), fusillade (n),
incoming (criticism), salvo (n), snipe (v), sniping (n)
• achievement, recognition & praise: badge (badge of honor), coup (achievement), medal (n), Napoleon (of
surgery, etc.), salute (v), spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.), stripe (earn one’s stripes, etc.)
• action, inaction & delay: stand down (v)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: desert (v), insurrection, post (abandon one’s post), Quisling (Quisling of China,
etc.), rally (v), rank (close ranks), rank (break ranks)
• allusion: angel (Angel of the Battlefield), bridge (a bridge too far, etc.), cold war, Gallipoli, Geneva
Convention, Lawrence (T. E.), Maginot Line, Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, Napoleon (of surgery, etc.),
nine-eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.), Pyrrhic victory, Stalingrad
(epithet), Thermopylae, Waterloo
• amelioration & renewal: damage control
• amount: army (a large group), arsenal (amount), battery (amount), host (host of questions, etc.), legion (n)
• amount & effect: barrage (n), besiege (v), besieged, blitz (campaign), bombard (v), bombarded, bombardment
(n), bombshell (n), invade (v), invasion (n), onslaught (n), siege (under siege), siege (other)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: interrogate (v), interrogated, interrogation (questioning)
• appeal: call (call to arms), cry (rallying cry)
• appearance & reality: warrior (ironic)
• area: alley (Ambush Alley, etc.), no man’s land (danger)
• assembling: draft (v), muster (muster courage, etc.), rally (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: blitz (campaign), bombshell (n), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n),
drum up (v), dynamite (n), trumpet (v)
• behavior: cannon (loose cannon)
• campaign: blitz (campaign)
• character & personality: cannon (loose cannon), strongman (power), warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: last hurrah
• commitment & determination: charge (in, into, etc.), flag (plant one’s flag), mission (on a mission), mission
(other), shield (on one’s shield), warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• competition: race (arms race)
• computer: war (flame war)
• concealment & lack of concealment: camouflage (v), camouflage (concealment), smokescreen (concealment)
• condition & status: AWOL, missing in action (MIA)
• conflict: ally (n), attack (under attack, etc.), battering ram, battle (v), battle (n), battleground (conflict), battle
cry, ceasefire (n), combat (v), embattled, enemy (conflict), force (show of force), fight (v), fray (above the
fray), fray (conflict), front (conflict), last-ditch (adj), line (battle lines, etc.), outgunned, rebellion (n), scorched-
earth, siege (under siege), skirmish (n), Stalingrad (epithet), truce (n), war (at war), war (conflict), warfare (n),
war zone, zone (combat zone)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: retreat (withdraw)
• consumption: cannon fodder (n), hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.), meat (fresh meat)
• control & lack of control: cannon (loose cannon), no man’s land (danger), no man’s land (regulatory, etc.)
• cost & benefit: Pyrrhic victory
• courage & lack of courage: warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• creation & transformation: drum up (v)

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• danger: bomb (danger), booby trap, booby-trapped, landmine, line of fire, milk run (n), minefield, no man’s
land (danger), powder keg, tripwire (danger)
• destruction: attacked, damage (collateral damage), sabotage (v), sabotage (n), sabotaged, scorched-earth, shot
down (and shot down in flames), waste (lay waste), water (blow something out of the water)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: battle (uphill battle, etc.), last-ditch (adj), milk run (n)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: body count, coup (power), drummed out, guard (changing of the guard)
• disruption: sabotage (v), sabotage (n), sabotaged
• division: camp (n)
• division & connection: drawbridge (protection), Maginot Line
• driving force: charge (lead the charge), charge (in, into, etc.), march (on the march), march (n), point man (and
point person), vanguard, vanguard (in the vanguard), vanguard (other)
• eagerness & reluctance: charge (in, into, etc.)
• environment: no man's land (danger), war zone, zone (combat zone)
• epithet: Alexander (Muslim Alexander, etc.), Caesar (Chinese Caesar, etc.), Gallipoli, general (General Winter,
etc.), Hannibal (American Hannibal, etc.), Lawrence (T.E.), Napoleon (of surgery, etc.), nine-eleven
(Australia’s 9/11, etc.), Patton (the Patton of Asia, etc.), Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, etc.), Quisling
(Quisling of China, etc.), Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar), Stalingrad (epithet), Vietnam (epithet), West Point
(epithet), Waterloo
• euphemism: cleanup (military)
• experience: spur (earn one’s spurs, etc.), story (war story), stripe (earn one’s stripes, etc.), trench (in the
trenches), trench (other), veteran (n), veteran (adj)
• failure, accident & impairment: casualty (n), wound (self-inflicted wound)
• fate, fortune & chance: last-ditch (adj)
• feeling, emotion & effect: bombshell (n), shellshocked, retreat (withdraw)
• force: onslaught (n)
• group, set & collection: arsenal (amount)
• help & assistance: ally (n), armed, arsenal (amount), weapon (help)
• hierarchy: chain of command, foot soldier (duty), rank-and-file (adj)
• importance & significance: breakthrough (n), salient (important)
• increase & decrease: multiplier (force multiplier)
• initiation: tripwire (initiation)
• judgment: firing squad, muster (pass muster)
• message: call (call to arms), drum (beat / bang the drum), drumbeat (n), saber rattling
• money: war chest
• movement: march (move)
• person: cannon (loose cannon), enemy (conflict), foot soldier (duty), point man (and point person), standard-
bearer, warrior (n)
• place: battleground (conflict), front line (on the front line), front line (other), trench (in the trenches), trench
(other)
• possession: flag (plant one’s flag), surrender (v)
• power: chieftain (n), coup (power), force (show of force)
• presence & absence: beachhead (n), bridgehead (n), missing in action (MIA), outpost (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: guard (changing of the guard)
• progress & lack of progress: breakthrough (n), inroads (make inroads), march (on the march), march (n)
• proper name: Aegis Combat System, Predator (UAV), rampart (Upper Ramparts, etc.), star (Silver Star, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: aegis (n), armor (protection), bastion (n), breach (n), bristle (with security, etc.),
bulwark, castle (protection), citadel (n), drawbridge (protection), entrenched, foxhole (n), fort, fortress, guard
(off guard), guard (on guard), guard (keep one’s guard up), guard (lower one's guard), guard (keep one’s guard
up), guardian (protection), head (keep one’s head down), hedgehog (protection), loophole (n), moat (n), rampart

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 (protection), rank (close ranks), redoubt (n), Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar), shield (n), stronghold (n), wagon
(circle the wagons)
• punishment & recrimination: prisoner (no prisoners)
• readiness & preparedness: ambush (v), ambushed, dry run, guard (off guard), guard (on guard), guard (lower
one's guard), guard (keep one’s guard up), locked and loaded (adj), room (war room)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: ceasefire (n), hatchet (bury the hatchet), truce (n)
• relationship: march (together, etc.)
• representation: standard-bearer
• resemblance: march (move), rampart (resemblance)
• resiliency: soldier on (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: cavalry (n), combat (v), counterattack (v), counterattack (n), day (save the day),
fight (v), flag (plant one’s flag), give in (v), give up (stop trying), insurrection, last-ditch (adj), overrun (v),
overrun (overwhelmed), Pyrrhic victory, rebel (person), rebel (adj), rebel (v), rebellion (n), retreat (reverse),
revolt (v), revolt (n), rout (defeat / noun), rout (defeat / verb), routed (defeated), siege (under siege), siege
(other), stand (last stand, etc.), surrender (v), Thermopylae, Waterloo
• responsibility: watch (on one's watch)
• restraint & lack of restraint: bridge (a bridge too far, etc.), cannon (loose cannon)
• reversal: aircraft carrier (turn an aircraft carrier), about face; retreat (reverse)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: drummer (different drummer), rebel (person), rebel (adj), rebel (v)
• searching & discovery: scout (n), search (v)
• sign, signal, symbol: badge (badge of honor), medal (n)
• speech: broadside (n), fire (draw fire, etc.), flak (criticism), sniping (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: ceasefire (n), last hurrah, soldier on (v), stand down (v), truce (n)
• strength & weakness: big gun (and heavy gun), outgunned, Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar)
• subterfuge: camouflage (v), camouflage (concealment), smokescreen (concealment)
• success & failure: conquer (v), Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo
• superiority & inferiority: outgunned
• superlative: champion (n)
• survival, persistence & endurance: beachhead (n), bridgehead (n), entrenched, outpost (n), soldier on (v),
warrior (n), warrior through (v)
• transmission: infiltrate (v)
• unanimity & consensus: drummer (different drummer), lockstep (in lockstep), march (together, etc.), rank
(close ranks), rank (break ranks)
• warning: sentinel (n)
• work & duty: foot soldier (duty), marching orders, mission (on a mission), mission (other), soldier (n), soldier
on (v)
• worth & lack of worth: cannon fodder (n)
MIND (1)
• access & lack of access: close-minded, mind (open mind), open-minded (adj), openness (n)
• breadth: narrow-minded (adj), narrowness (n)
• comprehension & incomprehension: mind (wrap / get one’s mind around something, etc.)
• container: close-minded (adj), mind (container), mind (open mind), open-minded (adj)
• direction: high-minded (adj)
• materials & substances: minded (steely-minded), tough-minded (adj), weak-minded (adj)
• platform: mind (platform)
• size: small-minded (adj)
• space: mind (area)

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MINING (2)
• activity: bonanza (n), gold rush
• allegiance, support & betrayal: prop (n), prop up (v)
• amelioration & renewal: buttress (resemblance), prop (n), prop up (v), shore up (v)
• amount: nugget (n)
• amount & effect: bonanza (n), gold rush
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), drill (drill down, etc.), layer
(analysis)
• appearance & disappearance: dig up (v)
• appearance & reality: fool’s gold
• behavior: gold-digging
• character & personality: gold digger (person)
• concealment & lack of concealment: dig up (v)
• cost & benefit: bonanza (n), gold rush
• epithet: gold (black gold, etc.), Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.)
• evidence: canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
• failure, accident & impairment: cave (cave in), undercut (v), undermine (v)
• identity & nature: melting pot (n)
• mixture: melting pot (n)
• person: gold digger (person)
• resiliency: dig (dig out)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: cave (cave in)
• searching & discovery: dig (dig deep, etc.), dig (dig in / into), dig (dig through), dig out, dig up, gold (strike
gold), mine (search), mining (data, etc.), pay dirt, unearth (v), unearthed
• source: gold mine, mother lode, vein (source)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: vein (in that vein, etc.)
• success & failure: dry (come up dry), gold (strike gold), pan out (v), pay dirt
• superlative: gem (n), golden (golden opportunity, etc.), gold standard (n), jewel (n), lapidary (adj)
• survival, persistence & endurance: dig (dig out)
• taking & removing: strip-mine (v)
• worth & lack of worth: bonanza (n), fool's gold, gold (worth), gold (black gold, etc.), gold mine, gold rush,
karat (24-karat), nugget (n), pan out (v), pay dirt
MIRROR (2)
• consciousness & awareness: mirror (n)
• past & present: mirror (in the rear-view mirror)
• repetition: mirror (v)
• time: mirror (in the rear-view mirror)
MIXTURE (1)
• alcohol: cocktail (n)
• atmosphere: rainbow (mixture)
• bird: cocktail (n)
• chemistry: chemistry
• cloth: lace (v), tapestry (n), weave (mixture)
• container: melting pot (n)
• fire: melting pot (n)
• food & drink: bowl (salad bowl / mixture), brew (mixture), gumbo (mixture), ingredient (n), soup (mixture),
soup (alphabet soup), stew (mixture)
• letters & characters: soup (alphabet soup)

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• materials & substances: amalgam (n), blend (mixture)
• mining: melting pot (noun)
• sky: rainbow (mixture)
• temperature: melting pot (n)
• verb: lace (v)
MIXTURE (2)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: blend in (v)
• concealment & lack of concealment: blend in (v)
• disruption: scramble (disrupt)
• involvement: mix (in / into the mix), mixed up
MONEY (1)
• allusion: Great Gatsby, Midas (Midas touch)
• animal: nest egg
• bird: nest egg
• cat: fat cat
• cloth: threadbare (adj)
• clothing & accessories: shoestring (n), threadbare (adj)
• container: coffer (n)
• epithet: Great Gatsby, Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• fatness & thinness: fat cat
• history: gilded (Gilded Age)
• letters & characters: dollar sign (n)
• military: war chest
• place: Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• purses & wallets: purse (money), purse strings, pocket (deep pockets), pocketbook (money), checkbook, wallet
(money)
• sensation: tight (money)
• sign, signal, symbol: checkbook, dollar sign (n), pocket (deep pockets), pocketbook (money), purse (money),
purse strings, treasure (money), wallet (money), war chest
MONEY (2)
• acceptance & rejection: buy (buy into something), buy (accept), buy-in (n)
• achievement, recognition & praise: earn (v), tribute (pay tribute)
• action, inaction & delay: time (buy time, etc.)
• activity: bonanza (n), gold rush
• allegiance, support & betrayal: buy (buy into something), buy-in (n), sell out (v)
• amount: catalogue (list), rich (plentiful), tight (money), treasure house, treasure trove (and trove), wealth
(amount)
• amount & effect: bonanza (n), gold rush
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: bottom line
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: sell (promote)
• certainty & uncertainty: deal (done deal)
• character & personality: mercenary
• commitment & determination: buy-in (n), cost (at all costs, etc.), invest (v), investment (n), soul (sell one’s soul
to the devil, etc.)
• competition: marketplace (n)
• constraint & lack of constraint: budget (attention budget, etc.)

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• cost & benefit: afford (v), bonanza (n), bottom line, capital (money), cash in (v), cost (v), cost (at a cost), cost
(at all costs, etc.), costly (adj), dividend (pay dividends), expense (at the expense), gold rush, pay (benefit), pay
(pay a price), pay off, payoff, price (n), price tag, prize (n), prized, profit (v), reward (v), reward (n), rewarding,
spend (energy, etc.), toll (take a toll, etc.), toll (other), worth
• creation & transformation: coin (v), coined, minted
• epithet: Great Gatsby, Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• giving, receiving, bringing & returning: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history), lend (lend a hand,
etc.)
• group, set & collection: brain trust, treasure trove (and trove), treasure house
• help & assistance: lend (lend a hand, etc.)
• hyperbole: soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
• importance & significance: million-dollar
• message: sell (promote)
• obligation: debt (in somebody's debt), debt (obligation), indebted, owe (obligation), pay (obligation), repay (v),
tribute (pay tribute)
• person: gold digger (person), mercenary (person), rainmaker (person)
• position, policy & negotiation: haggle (v), haggling, horse-trading, transactional (adj)
• possession: own (possess), own (make something one's own), ownership (n), trade (v)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: legacy (obsolescence)
• protection & lack of protection: insurance
• relationship: coin (side of a coin), coin (double-sided coin), owe (relationship)
• reputation: legacy (reputation)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: cost (at all costs, etc.), sell out (v)
• responsibility: ownership (n)
• revenge: pay (revenge), payback (n), score (settle a score, etc.)
• searching & discovery: treasure trove (and trove)
• success & failure: jackpot (hit the jackpot)
• superlative: gold standard (n), rich (superlative)
• time: buy (time), cost (cost time, etc.), spare (a minute to spare, etc.), spend (time), time (buy time, etc.), time
(make time), time (steal time, etc.)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: spare (a minute to spare, etc.)
• transmission: heir (n), inherit (v), inheritance (n), legacy (history)
• wants, needs, hopes & goals: prize (n), soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.)
• worth & lack of worth: bankrupt (adj), bonanza (n), currency (worth), gold rush, pay off (v), payoff, prize (n),
prized, profit (v), rich (rich land, etc.), stock (worth), treasure (worth), treasure (v), treasured (worth), treasure
house, treasure trove (and trove), wealth (amount)
MOON (2) (see also astronomy; star; sun)
• appearance: moonscape (n)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
• decline: eclipse (v), eclipse (n), wane (on the wane), wane (v)
• development: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• increase & decrease: wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: wane (on the wane), wane (v), wax (wax and wane)
• resemblance: moonscape (n)
• superiority & inferiority: eclipse (v), eclipse (n)
MOUNTAINS & HILLS (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: peak (at the peak), summit (at the summit)
• amount: mountain (amount)

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• amount & effect: landslide (in a landslide), landslide (by a landslide), landslide (other)
• attainment: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• behavior: edge (over the edge)
• danger: edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), Mount Everest (and Everest), precipice (at the precipice), precipice
(other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• decline: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), downhill (go downhill, etc.), hill (over the hill)
• destruction: abyss (n), cliff (glass cliff), cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (push something over the edge),
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages, etc.), Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
• development: watershed (n)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: downhill (easy), hill (difficulty), mountain (difficulty), Mount Everest (and
Everest), uphill (difficult)
• direction: watershed (n)
• epithet: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• fate, fortune & chance: cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.), edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), precipice (at the precipice),
precipice (other), slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• growth & development: peak (at the peak)
• hierarchy: mountain (at the top of the mountain)
• importance & significance: paramount (adj), watershed (n)
• increase & decrease: peak (at the peak), peak (other), plateau (n), plateau (v)
• obstacles & impedance: overcome (v)
• past & present: down (down through the centuries, etc.), present (up to the present), up (up to now, etc.)
• presence & absence: foothold (n), toehold (n)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: hill (over the hill), peak (at the peak), peak (other)
• progress & lack of progress: level off (v), peak (other), plateau (n), valley (n)
• proper name: valley (Silicon Valley, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar)
• proximity: edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.), precipice (at the precipice), precipice (other)
• resemblance: mountainous (adj)
• shape: peak (other), plateau (n), valley
• size: Himalayan (miscalculation, etc.), Krakatoan (adj), mountainous (adj), Mount Everest (and Everest),
Olympian (size)
• source: watershed (n)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: slope (on a slippery slope), slope (slippery slope)
• strength & weakness: Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar)
• superlative: Mount Everest (and Everest), Mount Rushmore, Olympus (Mount Olympus)
• survival, persistence & endurance: foothold (n), toehold (n)
• time: down (down through the centuries, etc.), present (up to the present), up (up to now, etc.)
MOUTH (2) (see also tongue, throat)
• character & personality: loudmouth (person)
• creation & transformation: spit out (v)
• eagerness & reluctance: chops (lick one’s chops), salivate (v)
• orientation: mouth (entrance)
• repetition: mouthpiece (person)
• resemblance: mouth (entrance), spit (spit down), spit (v)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: lip service (pay lip service, etc.), mouth (speech), mouthpiece (person)
• speech: lip (speech), lip service (pay lip service, etc.), loudmouth (person), mouth (speech), mouthpiece
(person), mouthy (adj), muzzle (v), tight-lipped (adj)

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MOVEMENT (1) (see also fictive motion; leaking)
• animal: canter (v), duck (v), fishtail (v), flock (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), leapfrog (v), lurk (v), pounce
(v), prowl (on the prowl), snake (a trail can snake, etc.), stalk (v), stampede (n)
• atmosphere: drift (move)
• ball: bounce (v), ping-pong (v), pinball (v), ping-pong (n), rebound (recover), rebound (v), roll (move), roll in
(v), rolling (moving)
• boat: anchored, swamp (v)
• bird: duck (v), flock (v)
• blade: scissor (resemblance)
• cloth: weave (move)
• corner: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
• cows & cattle: stampede (n)
• direction: bounce (v), ping-pong (v), ping-pong (n), roll (move), roller coaster (development), seesaw (n),
weave (move), whiplash (n), yo-yo (up and down), zig-zag (v)
• doors & thresholds: revolving door
• engine: parked (movement), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• fan: fan out (v)
• fish: fishtail (v)
• flood: deluge (n), flood (move)
• force: barrel (v), churn (move), hurtle (v), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.), rip through (v)
• horse: canter (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), stampede (n)
• hunting: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• journeys & trips: plod (v)
• letters & characters: zig-zag (v)
• military: march (move)
• mechanism: parked (movement), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• person: migrate (v)
• predation: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• river: flood (move), flow (move), flow (n), river (amount and effect), wind (wind its way)
• sea: ebb (movement), tide (other), wave (amount and effect)
• shape: corkscrew (v), fan out (v), spiral (downward or upward)
• sheep: flock (v)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: muscle (muscle its way through, etc.)
• snake: snake (a trail can snake, etc.), wind (wind its way)
• snow & ice: freeze (position of body), frozen (movement)
• sound: drift (sound), drip (and drip-drip, etc.)
• speed: crawl (time can crawl, etc.), canter (v), gallop (v), gallop (movement), plod (v), race (hurry)
• sports & games: carrousel (n), merry-go-round, pinball (v), ping-pong (v), ping-pong (n), roller coaster
(development), seesaw (n), yo-yo (up and down)
• tide: ebb (movement), surge (n), surge (intransitive verb / effect), tide (other)
• verb: barrel (v), bounce (v), canter (v), churn (move), corkscrew (v), crawl (time can crawl, etc.), creep (v),
dance (resemblance), dart (dart about), drift (move), duck (v), fishtail (v), flock (v), flood (move), flow (move),
gallop (v), hurtle (v), jump (leave), jump (movement), leap (leap into action, etc.), leapfrog (v), lurch (v), lurk
(v), march (move), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.), pinball (v), ping-pong (v), plod (v), pounce (v), pour
(in, into, out, etc.), race (v), rebound (recover), rebound (v), ricochet (v), rip through (v), roll (move), roll in (v),
scramble (v), seep (v), snake (a trail can snake, etc.), spill (amount and effect), spiral (downward or upward),
stalk (v), stall (v), stream (move), stride (hit one’s stride), surge (intransitive verb / effect), swamp (v), trickle
(trickle in / out), vault (v), wash in (v), weave (move), whip (movement), zig-zag (v)

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• walking, running & jumping: canter (v), crawl (time can crawl, etc.), creep (v), dance (resemblance), gallop (v),
gallop (movement), jump (leave), jump (movement), leap (leap into action, etc.), leapfrog (v), lurch (v), lurk
(v), march (move), plod (v), pounce (v), race (hurry), scramble (v), stalk (v), stride (hit one’s stride), vault (v)
• water: cascade (v), deluge (n), drip (and drip-drip, etc.), flood (move), flow (move), flow (n), fluid (adj), gush
(n), pour (in, into, out, etc.), river (amount and effect), seep (v), spill (v), stream (amount & effect), surge (n),
surge (intransitive verb / effect), swamp (v), tide (other), torrent (n), trickle (n), trickle (trickle in / out), wash in
(v), wave (amount and effect)
• wave: swamp (v), wash in (v), wave (amount and effect)
• weapon: dart (dart about), ricochet (v)
• whip: whip (movement), whiplash (n)
• wind: drift (move)
MOVEMENT (2) (see also journeys & trips)
• ability & lack of ability: agile (adj), agility (n) clumsy (adj), flexible (adj), flexible (character), footwork (n),
handicapped, inflexible (character), nimble (adj), rigid (constraint), rigid (character), supple (adj)
• action, inaction & delay: can (kick the can down the road), feet (drag one’s feet), hand (sit on one’s hands),
inertia (n), move (take action), road (push something down the road), roll (slow-roll), sit (sit on one’s hands),
slow (adj), stand by (v)
• activity: convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), feverish (adj), feverishly, hop (v), rage (v), raging (adj), rush
(oil rush, etc.), spasm (n), spasmodic (adj), swing (in full swing), swirl (v)
• affliction: convulse (v), convulsed, convulsion (n), spasm (n), spasmodic (adj)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: get along (v), go along (v)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: arrive at (an answer, etc.), come to (come to an answer, etc.), follow
(argument), follow (it follows that, etc.), reach (reach an answer, etc.)
• appearance & disappearance: come (development), go away (v)
• attachment: come along (v)
• attainment: coast (coast to victory, etc.), reach (secure), reach (a place on a journey), sail (sail to victory, etc.),
stroll (stroll to success, etc.), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• attraction & repulsion: draw (attract), drawn in, drawn into, drawn to
• avoidance & separation: bypass (v), dodge (v), end run (n), go around (v), sidestep (v)
• attempt: go (have a go at something), go for it, etc.
• bases: revolve (revolve around something)
• behavior: go (behavior), rage (v), raging (adj), wall (ricochet off the wall)
• character & personality: flexible (character), inflexible (character)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: circle back (return), conga line, day (day has arrived, etc.),
footstep (retrace one’s footsteps), go (come and go), go away (v), hover (other), linger (v), lingering, loiter (v),
parade (n), parked (movement), reach (the news reached him, etc.), remain (v), return (v), return (n), revolving
door, time (time has passed), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.)
• commitment & determination: budge (v), charge (in, into, etc.), go for it, etc., immovable (adj), leap (leap into
action, etc.), waver (v), unwavering (adj), wobbly (commitment)
• competition: ahead (competition), behind (competition), catch up (catch up to something), fall behind
(progress), keep up (progress), lag (progress), race (competition), race (hurry)
• comprehension & incomprehension: follow (argument)
• condition & status: go (progress), handicapped, limp (v), ongoing (investigation, etc.), sluggish (adj), speed (up
to speed), stall (v), stalled (progress), wheel (spin one’s wheels)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), can (kick
the can down the road), go (not go there), hand (sit on one’s hands), road (go down that road, etc.)
• consciousness & awareness: come (see something coming), drift (consciousness), see (see something coming)

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• constraint & lack of constraint: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.), flexible (adj),
hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled, jump (rivers can jump their banks), jump (transmission), rigid
(constraint), spot (tight spot, etc.), supple (adj)
• control & lack of control: brake (control), carried away, check (in check), rage (v), raging (adj), spin (out of
control); spiral (out of control)
• creation & transformation: spin-off (n)
• curtailment: track (stop something in its tracks)
• death & life: gone (dead), passing (death)
• decline: slide (slide to perdition, etc.), slide (v), stagnant (adj), stagnate (v), tailspin (in a tailspin)
• development: come (development), come (see something coming), come to (development), follow (it follows
that, etc.), go (go wrong, etc.), go (development), head (development), here (go from here, etc.), lead (one thing
leads to another), pendulum (reversal), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), progress
(v), reach (a place on a journey), roller coaster (development), see (see something coming), seesaw (n), stand
(stand still / development), swing (swing around), swing (development)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: coast (coast to victory, etc.), drag (v), sail (sail to victory, etc.), shortcut (v),
shortcut (n), stroll (stroll to success, etc.), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• direction: approach (a better approach, etc.), follow (a path, route, road, etc.), footstep (in the footsteps), go
(direction), head (development), lead (one thing leads to another), meander (v), move (direction)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: shake (remove)
• disruption: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• driving force: charge (in, into, etc.), march (on the march), march (n)
• eagerness & reluctance: charge (in, into, etc.), go (not go there), jump (jump at the chance, etc.), leap (leap into
action, etc.), pounce (v), road (go down that road, etc.), spring (spring into action, etc.)
• equilibrium & stability: stride (knock somebody off stride, etc.)
• experience: go through, etc. (endure), ride (rough ride, etc.), road (down a road before)
• extent & scope: sweeping, swing (in full swing)
• failure, accident & impairment: circle (go in circles), falter (v), flounder (v), go (go wrong, etc.), halt (grind to a
halt, etc.), momentum (lose momentum), sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), stall (v), stalled (progress), stride
(knock somebody off stride, etc.), turn (wrong turn)
• feeling, emotion & effect: carried away, follow (follow a feeling or emotion), rage (v), raging (adj), roller
coaster (emotional roller coaster, etc.), send (emotion or effect), slide (v)
• fictive transportation: back (take somebody back in time), carried away
• flaws & lack of flaws: roll (on a roll)
• force: barrel (v), churn (move), hurtle (v), march (march ahead, etc.), momentum (gain momentum, etc.),
momentum (n), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.), rip through (v), traction (gain / build / get traction)
• functioning: cripple (v), crippled, hamstrung, handicapped, hobble (v), hobbled, paralysis (n), paralyze (v),
paralyzed (functioning), speed (up to speed), stall (v), stalled (progress)
• future: approach (winter is approaching, etc.), approach (the approach of summer, etc.), approaching (adj),
bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), come (winter is coming, etc.), come (to come), come (see
something coming), come (for a time to come), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming months, etc.),
day (day has arrived, etc.), draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.), go (a month to go, etc.), go (where are we
going, etc.), head (head into the future, etc.), headed, near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.), place (at a place
where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (come down the road / pike), run (run into next week, etc.),
run (in / over the long run), see (see something coming), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has
passed), train (future), way (autumn is on the way, etc.), year (year has come and gone)
• growth & development: fall behind (progress), lag (progress)
• haste: jump (jump at the chance, etc.), rush (oil rush, etc.)
• importance & significance: breakthrough (n)

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• increase & decrease: accelerate (v), brake (control), creep (mission creep, etc.), escalate (v), jump (n),
momentum (n), rebound (numbers), roller coaster (development), yo-yo (up and down)
• initiation: swirl (v)
• involvement: bound up, draw in (v), drawn in, drawn into, enmeshed, web (entanglement)
• message: spin (message / verb), spin (message / noun), spin (spin control)
• obstacles & impedance: drag (drag on the economy, etc.), impasse (n), stuck (adj), wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• occurrence: spin up (v)
• past & present: ago (two days ago), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack
(go back in time), backwards (past), bridge (water under the bridge), bygone (adj), circle back (return), come (a
time comes along), day (day has arrived, etc.), go (the time has gone, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.),
here (go from here, etc.), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), pass (its time has passed, etc.), place (at a place
where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (down a road before), time warp, time (time has passed),
time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), walk (walk somebody back), year (year has come and gone)
• position, policy & negotiation: budge (v), immovable (adj), maneuvering (strategy), shift (change)
• possession: gone (absent)
• power: momentum (gain momentum, etc.), momentum (n), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.)
• predation: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: gone (absent)
• presence & absence: gone (absent), remain (v)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: bygone (adj), go (come and go), gone (those days are gone, etc.),
pass (its time has passed, etc.), pass by (progress), pendulum (reversal), tailspin (into a tailspin), tailspin (in a
tailspin), time (time has passed)
• product: outcome (n), spin-off (n)
• progress & lack of progress: advance (v), backwards (progress), beginning (just the beginning, etc.), behind
(progress), breakthrough (n), catch up (catch up to something), catch up (catch up with something), checkpoint
(at a checkpoint), circle (go in circles), climb (progress), come (come a long way), fall behind (progress),
forward (move forward, etc.), go (a distance to go, etc.), go (progress), ground (gain ground), ground (lose
ground, etc.), headway (n), impasse (n), inertia (n), jump (in jumps), keep up (progress), lag (progress), limp
(v), limp (n), march (march ahead, etc.), march (on the march), march (n), momentum (n), moored, move
(progress), move (move up), movement (progress), nowhere (go nowhere, etc.), parked (movement), pass
(progress), pass by (progress), plod (v), progress (v), roll (v), roll (on a roll), rut (in a rut), setback (progress),
sidetracked, sideways (go sideways), stall (v), stalled (progress), stand (stand still / progress), standstill (n),
stuck (adj), there (destination), wall (hit a wall, etc.), way (come a long way, etc.), wheel (spin one’s wheels),
wheel (hamster wheel), wind (wind its way)
• pursuit, capture & escape: stalk (v)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: bridge (water under the bridge), go away (v), move on (resiliency)
• relationship: bring (v), come along (v), draw (attract), follow (it follows that, etc.), lead (one thing leads to
another)
• resemblance: march (move)
• resiliency: flexible (character), go on (v), move on (resiliency), rebound (recover), soldier on (v)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: budge (v), come out (against something), immovable (adj), move (move an
inch, etc.)
• reversal: aircraft carrier (turn an aircraft carrier), backpedal (v), backtrack (reversal), pendulum (reversal),
swing (swing around)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: go-ahead
• sequence: follow (at a later time), following (sequence), following (at a later time), precede (at an earlier time),
preceding (at an earlier time), train (in one’s train / at a later time), wake (in the wake of / at a later time)
• situation: box (box somebody into a corner), corner (in a tight corner, etc.), drawn in, drawn into, spot (tight
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• social interaction: back (back and forth), get along (v), go along (v)
• speed: accelerate (v), brake (control), canter (v), crawl (time can crawl, etc.), gallop (v), gallop (movement),
leap (leaps and bounds), lethargic (adj), momentum (gain momentum, etc.), plod (v), race (hurry), slow (adj),
sluggish (adj), speed (up to speed)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: accelerate (v), ahead (progress), ahead (go ahead), ball (get the ball
rolling, etc.), beginning (just the beginning, etc.), creep (mission creep, etc.), escalate (v), falter (v), follow-
through (investigation, etc.), go on (v), halt (grind to a halt, etc.), inertia (n), march (march ahead, etc.),
momentum (n), move on (resiliency), move on (change the subject, etc.), ongoing (investigation, etc.), parked
(movement), pass (end), roll (on a roll), roll (v), rolling (movement), set out / off (v), spasmodic (adj), stall (v),
stalled (progress), strike out (start), swing (in full swing), tick on (v), tick-tock (n), traction (gain / build / get
traction), wheel (spin one’s wheels)
• strategy: maneuvering (strategy)
• strength & weakness: muscle (muscle its way through, etc.)
• subterfuge: slink (slink in, etc.), spin (message / verb), spin (message / noun), spin (spin control)
• success & failure: nowhere (go nowhere, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: go through, etc. (endure), go on (v), remain (v), soldier on (v)
• time: advance (a day can advance, etc.), ago (two days ago), approach (winter is approaching, etc.),
approaching (adj), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go back in time),
behind (in the past), bygone (adj), backwards (past), bridge (water under the bridge), bridge (we will cross that
bridge when we come to it), come (to come), come (winter is coming, etc.), come (a time comes along), come
(see something coming), come up on (a date, etc.), coming (in the coming months, etc.), course (over the course
/ time), crawl (time can crawl, etc.), day (day has arrived, etc.), drag on (v), draw near (winter is drawing near,
etc.), follow (at a later time), following (at a later time), fly (time flies), go (where are we going, etc.), go (the
time has gone, etc.), go (a month to go, etc.), go by (an hour can go by, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.),
haul (long haul), head (head into the future, etc.), here (go from here, etc.), long-run (adj), march (March of
Time, etc.), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), near (v), pass (its time has passed, etc.), pass (time can pass, etc.),
place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), precede (at an earlier time), preceding (at an
earlier time), race (the term raced to its end, etc.), road (come down the road / pike), road (down a road before),
run (run into next week, etc.), run (in / over the long run), running (continuing), see (see something coming),
stand (stand still / time), tick on (v), tick-tock (n), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time has
passed), time (passage of time), time (dead time), time warp, train (future), train (in one’s train / at a later time),
wake (in the wake of / at a later time), walk (walk somebody back), way (autumn is on the way, etc.), year (year
has come and gone)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: bridge (we will cross that bridge when we come to it), head start, lethargic
(adj), slow (adj), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.)
• transmission: hop (hop across, etc.), jump (transmission), slink (slink in, etc.)
• unanimity & consensus: get along (v), go along (v)
MUSIC (2)
• ability & lack of ability: chops (expertise)
• achievement, recognition & praise: praise (sing someone’s praises), unsung (praise)
• amount & effect: chorus (chorus of critics, etc.), crescendo (n)
• amelioration & renewal: fine-tune (v), tune (and tune up), tune-up (n)
• attainment: waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: bandwagon (n), fanfare (attention)
• complexity: note (one note)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: waltz in (v)
• commitment & determination: stop (pull out all the stops)
• consciousness & awareness: tone-deaf (adj)

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• difficulty, easiness & effort: stop (pull out all the stops), waltz (waltz to success, etc.)
• directing: orchestrate (v), orchestrated
• epithet: Mozart (Mozart of Rock, etc.)
• experience: chops (expertise)
• feeling, emotion & effect: blues (the blues), ear (music to one’s ears)
• flaws & lack of flaws: note (right note), pitch-perfect (adj), tin ear (n), tin-eared (adj), tone-deaf (adj)
• identity & nature: anthem (n)
• importance & significance: fiddle (second fiddle)
• knowledge & intelligence: chops (expertise)
• priority: fiddle (second fiddle)
• readiness & preparedness: tune (and tune up), tune-up (noun)
• repetition: refrain (common refrain, etc.)
• resemblance: chorus (resemblance), opera (n), symphony (n)
• restraint & lack of restraints: stop (pull out all the stops)
• reversal: tune (change one's tune), tune (change in tune)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: offbeat (adj), tune (dance to the tune)
• sound: opera (n), symphony
• starting, going, continuing & ending: dance (last dance), waltz (last waltz)
• superiority & inferiority: fiddle (second fiddle)
• unanimity & consensus: bandwagon (n), chorus (chorus of critics, etc.), harmony (in harmony), tune (in tune,
etc.), tune (out of tune), tune (dance to the tune), tune (different tune)
NAIL (2)
• pursuit, capture & escape: nail (nail somebody)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: nail down (settle)
• success & failure: nail (nail something), nail down (gain)
NECK (2)
• affliction: neck (pain in the neck), pain (pain in the neck, etc.)
• competition: neck and neck (adj)
• death & life: neck (save one’s neck)
• destruction: chopping block (on the chopping block), decapitate (v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: chopping block (on the chopping block); chopping block (other), decapitate
(v), head (heads will roll, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: chopping block (on the chopping block), chopping block (other), head (heads will roll,
etc.), neck (save one’s neck), neck (fate), neck (stick one’s neck out)
• involvement: neck (up to one's neck)
• obstacle & impedance: bottleneck
• oppression: neck (oppression)
• proper name: neck (Throggs Neck, etc.)
• punishment & recrimination: head (heads will roll, etc.), head (have one’s head handed to oneself, etc.)
• shape: bottleneck (impedance), neck (area)
• survival, persistence & endurance: neck (save one’s neck)
NOSE (2)
• ability & lack of ability: nose (ability)
• admiration & contempt: nose (look down one’s nose)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: nose (attention)
• character & personality: hard-nosed (adjective)
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• consciousness & awareness: nose (under somebody's nose)
• eagerness & reluctance: nose (hold one’s nose)
• insult: nose (thumb one’s nose)
• orientation: nose (orientation)
• proper name: Nose (Devil's Nose, etc.)
• punishment & recrimination: nose (bloody nose, etc.)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: nose (thumb one's nose)
• shape: nose (shape)
NUCLEAR ENERGY (2)
• affliction: fallout (effect)
• alternatives & choices: option (nuclear option)
• avoidance & separation: radioactive (adj)
• coercion & motivation: option (nuclear option)
• creation & transformation: breeder reactor (n)
• destruction: atomic bomb, Chernobyl, meltdown (failure), radioactive (adj)
• effect: fallout (effect), ground zero
• failure, accident & impairment: Chernobyl, meltdown (failure)
• feeling, emotion & effect: fallout (effect), melt down (emotions)
• location: ground zero
• place: ground zero
• punishment & recrimination: option (nuclear option)
NUMBER (2)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: add up (v), arithmetic, equation (n), calculus
• attainment: approach (a number, etc.), hit (hit $30, etc.), notch (a number), push (a number), reach (a number)
• commitment & determination: percent (one hundred and ten percent)
• computer: two point zero, two point oh (2.0)
• direction: neighborhood (numbers), north (numbers), south (numbers)
• division & connection: common denominator
• fate, fortune & chance: number (number is up, etc.), numbered (days are numbered)
• importance & significance: fiddle (second fiddle), trinity (Holy Trinity), zero (place and time, etc.)
• increase & decrease: multiplier (force multiplier)
• priority: fiddle (second fiddle)
• progress & lack of progress: two point zero, two point oh (2.0)
• proximity: neighborhood (numbers)
• script: formula
• strategy: arithmetic, calculus, equation (n), game (numbers game)
• superiority & inferiority: fiddle (second fiddle)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: countdown (n)
OBJECT (2)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: it (it girl, etc.), moment (have a moment / attention), new (orange is the new
black, etc.), thing (fad, etc.), thing (the next big thing)
• enthusiasm: thing (one's thing)
• evidence: calling card
• importance & significance: thing (a matter)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: it (it girl, etc.), new (orange is the new black, etc.), thing (fad, etc.),
thing (the next big thing)
• searching & discovery: search (n)

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OBLIGATION (1)
• money: debt (in somebody's debt), debt (obligation), indebted, owe (obligation), pay (obligation), repay (v),
tribute (pay tribute)
• verb: owe (obligation), pay (obligation), repay (v)
OBSTACLES & IMPEDANCE (1)
• arm: drag down (v), hold back (obstacle)
• atmosphere: headwind (n)
• boat: headwind (n), shoal (n)
• bodily reaction: choke (v)
• bottle: bottleneck (impedance)
• breathing: choke (v), choked, chokepoint
• burden: drag (drag on the economy, etc.)
• circus: hoop (jump through hoops, etc.)
• crashes & collisions: run (run into something), wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• dam: dam (psychological dam, etc.)
• direction: hump (n)
• forest: wood (out of the woods)
• gate: gate (society)
• government: red tape
• ground, terrain & land: barrier (n), bogged down, ditch (n), mired (stuck), morass (n), mud (sink in the mud),
quagmire (n), quicksand (in / into the quicksand), rut (in a rut), stuck (adj), thicket (n)
• hand: holdup (n)
• infrastructure: ceiling (glass ceiling), ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.), hump (n), pothole (n), stonewall (v), wall
(obstacle)
• journeys & trips: bogged down, bump (speed bump), bump (bump in the road, etc.), gridlocked, impasse (n),
patch (rough patch), path (in the path), path (clear a path), pothole (n), roadblock, way (in the way), way (out of
the way / obstacles), woods (out of the woods)
• mechanism: damper (n), gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.)
• mountains & hills: overcome (v)
• movement: drag (drag on the economy, etc.), impasse (n), stuck (adj), wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• neck: bottleneck (impedance)
• physics: drag (drag on the economy, etc.), friction (impedance), frictionless
• prep, adv, adj, particle: against (up against)
• river: dam (psychological dam, etc.), logjam (n), snag (n)
• rope: knot (n), snarl (v)
• sea: shoal (n)
• shape: bottleneck (impedance), hump (n)
• sound: din (attention), noise (worthlessness), noise (attention), noisy (data, etc.), static (n)
• sports & games: hoop (jump through hoops, etc.), hurdle (n)
• standing, sitting & lying: stand (stand in the way)
• throat: choke (v)
• verb: gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.), hold back (obstacle), hoop (jump through hoops, etc.), jump (lines),
mud (sink in the mud), path (clear a path), run (run into something), snarl (v), stand (stand in the way),
stonewall (v), wall (hit a wall, etc.), way (get out of the way)
• walking, running & jumping: hurdle (n), jump (lines), run (run into something), stumbling block, way (get out
of the way)
• wall: stonewall (v), wall (obstacle), wall (hit a wall, etc.)
• water: clog (n), clogged, dam (psychological dam, etc.)

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• wind: headwind (n)
OCCURRENCE (1) (see also appearance & disappearance; presence & absence;
searching & discovery)
• animal: blue whale, swan (black swan)
• bird: swan (black swan)
• color: blue whale, swan (black swan)
• direction: fall (on Friday, etc.), fall (night fell, etc.), fall (silence fell, etc.), go down (happen)
• fist: strike (forces of nature), strike (tragedy, etc.)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: strike (forces of nature), strike (tragedy, etc.)
• movement: spin up (v)
• pursuit, capture & escape: break out (v)
• sea: blue whale
• sky: swan (black swan)
• storm: strike (forces of nature)
• verb: erupt (v), go down (happen), spin up (v), strike (forces of nature), strike (tragedy, etc.)
• volcano: erupt (v)
OPERATION (1) (see also functioning)
• government: apparatus (government), organ (of government, etc.)
• journeys & trips: course (course of justice, etc.)
• manufacturing: machine (publicity machine, etc.)
• mechanism: apparatus (government), clockwork (n), machine (publicity machine, etc.), machinery, organ (of
government, etc.), train (legal train, etc.), wheel (wheels of justice, etc.), wheel (wheels turn slowly, etc.),
workings (n)
• train: train (legal train, etc.)
OPPORTUNITIES & POSSIBILITIES (1)
• doors & thresholds: door (opportunity), door (open the door, etc.), door (hold the door open, etc.), door (leave
the door open), door (get one’s foot in the door), door (close a door, etc.)
OPPRESSION (1)
• allusion: Big Brother, Cinderella, draconian (adj), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.), inquisition (n), Lord of
the Flies, McCarthy, McCarthyite, nineteen eight four (and 1984), Orwellian (adj), pitchfork (oppression),
procrustean (adj), reign of terror / fear, etc., witch hunt
• animal: back (get off my back, etc.), cage (jail, prison), goad (v), kangaroo court, lighten (v), scapegoat (n),
shackle (n), trample (v), yoke (under the yoke), yoke (from the yoke), yoke (other)
• atmosphere: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), cloud (cast a cloud)
• back: back (get off my back, etc.)
• books & reading: nineteen eighty four (and 1984)
• breathing: smother (oppress), stifle (v), stifling (adj), strangle (v), strangled, stranglehold, strangulation,
strangled, suffocate (v), suffocating
• burden: baggage (n), bear (a weight, etc.), burden (v), burden (n), freighted, get out (get out from under), heavy
(oppression), loaded, overload (n), overloaded, weigh (weigh heavily), weigh (oppress), weighed down, weight
(oppression), weight (under the weight)
• burial: buried (buried in debt, etc.), pall (cast a pall)
• chain: chain (oppression)
• cloth: pall (cast a pall)
• clothing & accessories: boot (oppression), wringer (through the wringer)
• cloud: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.)
• color: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted

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• creature: pitchfork (oppression), witch hunt
• direction: come down on (v), fall (weight)
• epithet: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.)
• fist: fist (with an iron fist), fist (iron fist / other), ironfisted
• foot: heel (under the heel), trample (v)
• government: tyrant (n)
• ground, terrain & land: buried (buried in debt, etc.), rock (between a rock and a hard place)
• hand: grip (control), hand (iron hand, etc.), ham-handed, heavy-handed, squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the
squeeze on something), squeeze (pressure), squeezed (oppressed), thumb (under the thumb), whip hand (n)
• heel: heel (under the heel)
• history: baggage (n), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.), inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media lynching,
etc.), McCarthy, McCarthyite, mob (society), reign of terror / fear, etc., tar (tar and feather, etc.), tyrant (n),
vigilante (person), witch hunt
• horse: saddle (oppress), saddled
• journeys & trips: baggage (n), freighted, loaded
• justice: cage (jail, prison), kangaroo court, police (thought police, etc.), scapegoat (n), trial (show trial), witch
hunt, vigilante (person)
• light & dark: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), dark (dark mood, etc.), darken
(v), gloom (n), gloomy (adj), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow (in / under the shadow), shadow (dark shadow,
etc.)
• mark: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted
• materials & substances: hand (iron hand, etc.), ironfisted, rod (iron rod, etc.)
• meat: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)
• mechanism: put (put somebody through something), wringer (through the wringer)
• neck: neck (oppression)
• person: bully (person), butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.), police (thought police, etc.), vigilante (person)
• pressure: clampdown (n), rock (between a rock and a hard place), squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on
something), squeeze (pressure), squeezed (oppressed), vise (pressure), wringer (through the wringer)
• religion: scapegoat (n)
• royalty: lord over (v), reign of terror / fear, etc.
• school & education: bullied, bully (v), bully (person)
• shadow: cloud (under a cloud), cloud (cast a cloud), cloud (dark cloud, etc.), shadow (cast a shadow), shadow
(in / under a shadow), shadow (dark shadow, etc.)
• shoulder: shoulder (oppression)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), squeeze (pressure),
squeezed (oppressed)
• society: blackball (v), blacklist (v), blacklisted, mob (society), vigilante (person)
• speech: cudgel (n), goad (v)
• temperature: chill (oppression)
• throat: throat (ram something down the throat)
• thumb: thumb (under the thumb)
• train: railroad (v), railroaded
• verb: bear (burden), blackball (v), blacklist (v), bully (v), burden (v), come down on (v), crack down (v), darken
(v), get out (get out from under), goad (v), lord over (v), pall (cast a pall), railroad (v), saddle (oppress), smother
(oppress), squeeze (coerce), squeeze (put the squeeze on something), stifle (v), strangle (v), suffocate (v), tar
(tar and feather, etc.), throat (ram something down the throat), weigh (weigh heavily), weigh (oppress), whip
(violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand (n)
• violence: billy club, crackdown (n), crack down (v), cudgel (n), Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.), goad (v),
inquisition (n), lynched, lynching (media lynching, etc.), mob (society), reign of terror / fear, etc., tar (tar and

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 feather, etc.), vigilante (person), waterboarding (n), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand (n),
witch hunt
• weapon: billy club, cudgel (n), gun (under the gun), rod (iron rod, etc.), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip)
• weight: baggage (n), bear (a weight, etc.), burden (n), burden (v), fall (weight), freighted, get out (get out from
under), heavy (oppression), heavy-handed, loaded, millstone (n), overload (n), overloaded, rock (between a rock
and a hard place), saddle (oppress), saddled, shoulder (oppression), weigh (weigh heavily), weigh (oppress),
weighed down, weight (oppression), weight (under the weight)
• whip: crackdown (n), crack down (v), whip (violence), whip (crack the whip), whip hand (n)
ORIENTATION (1)
• animal: nose (orientation), tail (orientation)
• direction: belly (orientation), floor (pelvic floor, etc.), foot (orientation), head (orientation), nose (orientation),
roof (roof of the mouth, etc.), tail (orientation), upstage (v), upstream (swim upstream)
• foot: foot (orientation)
• head: head (orientation)
• house: floor (pelvic floor, etc.), roof (roof of the mouth, etc.)
• mouth: mouth (entrance)
• nose: nose (orientation)
• river: downstream, upstream (swim upstream)
• roof: roof (roof of the mouth, etc.)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: flesh (inside), skin (outside)
• stomach: belly (orientation), underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• theater: upstage (v)
• verb: upstage (v)
ORIENTATION (2)
• amelioration & renewal: right (right a wrong, etc.)
• appearance & reality: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• concealment & lack of concealment: underbelly (concealment), underside (n)
• confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: head-on
• difficulty, easiness & effort: upstream (swim upstream)
• flaws & lack of flaws: downside (n), underbelly (concealment), underside (n), upside (n)
• protection & lack of protection: underbelly (soft underbelly, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: end (the end)
ORIGIN (1) (see also source)
• air: air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• allusion: Phoenix (myth)
• astronomy: big bang (“Big Bang” of country music, etc.)
• atmosphere: air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• baby: cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.)
• birth: birthplace (the birthplace of democracy, etc.), cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.)
• color: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• epithet: big bang (“Big Bang” of country music, etc.), birthplace (the birthplace of democracy, etc.), cradle
(cradle of Islam, etc.)
• family: ancestor (n), background
• fire: ashes (from the ashes), Phoenix (myth)
• house: home (home of golf, etc.), house (origin)
• lightning: blue (out of the blue, etc.)
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• plant: root (root of the problem, etc.), root (origin)
• royalty: house (origin)
• sky: air (out of thin air), blue (out of the blue, etc.)
• tree: root (origin), root (root of the problem, etc.)
• verb: come from (v)
PARTY (2)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: party (garden party)
• inclusion & exclusion: floor (dance floor), party (invited to the party, etc.)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: party (party is over)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: party (late to the party)
PAST & PRESENT (1) (see also future, time)
• allusion: ancien regime
• animal: breed (dying breed, etc.), dinosaur (n), dodo (n), fossil (n)
• antiques: antique (adj), antique (n), museum (n)
• Bible: antediluvian (old), Methuselah, relic (n)
• bridge: bridge (water under the bridge)
• clock: clock (turn back the clock), wind back (v)
• container: moment (in this moment, etc.), past (in the past), time (in our time, etc.), time capsule
• day: day (back in the day), day (days of yore), day (of one's day / of the day), day (these days), day (those
days), day (in the old days, etc.), day (old days), day (day has arrived, etc.), day (modern day), hour (of one’s
hour / of the hour), moment (for this moment), old (of old), today (the present), yesterday (the past), yesteryear
• direction: back (back to where), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), back (back
then), backwards (past), behind (in the past), bygone (adj), circle back (return), clock (turn back the clock),
come (a time comes along), day (day has arrived, etc.), down (down through the centuries, etc.), go (the time
has gone, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.), hindsight (with hindsight), look (look back), mirror (in the
rear-view mirror), pass (its time has passed, etc.), present (up to the present), throwback (n), time (time has
passed), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), up (up to now, etc.), walk (walk somebody back)
• distance: distant (past), far-off (time), past (in the distant past, etc.), past (distant past, etc.), remote (past)
• earth & world: world (lost world)
• eye: hindsight (with hindsight), look (look back)
• film: rewind (v)
• height: down (down through the centuries, etc.), present (up to the present), up (up to now, etc.)
• history: ancien regime, dark ages (in the dark ages), dark ages (other), down (down through the centuries, etc.).
medieval (adj), Middle Ages (history), prehistoric (adj), present (up to the present), Stone Age, up (up to now,
etc.)
• hunting: catch up (his past caught up to him, etc.)
• infrastructure: memory land (down memory lane)
• journeys & trips: back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go back in time), circle back (return), road (down a
road before), walk (walk somebody back)
• mechanism: time machine, wind back (v)
• mirror: mirror (in the rear-view mirror)
• mountains & hills: down (down through the centuries, etc.), present (up to the present), up (up to now, etc.)
• movement: ago (two days ago), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go
back in time), backwards (past), bridge (water under the bridge), circle back (return), come (a time comes
along), day (day has arrived, etc.), go (the time has gone, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.), here (go from
here, etc.), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), pass (its time has passed, etc.), place (at a place where, etc.), place
(place where), place (time), road (down a road before), time (time has passed), time (the time can arrive or
come, etc.), time warp, walk (walk somebody back), year (year has come and gone)

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• place: back (back to where), here (we have been here before), here (go from here, etc.), here (the present),
moment (moment where), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (down a road
before)
• position: behind (in the past), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), time (before her time, etc.)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: ago (two days ago), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.),
back (back then), backwards (past), bygone (adj), down (down through the centuries, etc.), gone (those days are
gone, etc.), present (up to the present), time (in our time, etc.), up (up to now, etc.)
• religion: antediluvian (old), Methuselah, relic (n)
• river: bridge (water under the bridge)
• school & education: new school, old school
• verb: back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), backtrack (go back in time), circle back
(return), clock (turn back the clock), come (a time comes along), day (day has arrived, etc.), go (the time has
gone, etc.), look (look back), pass (its time has passed, etc.), time (the time can arrive or come, etc.), time (time
has passed), walk (walk somebody back), year (year has come and gone)
• walking, running & jumping: walk (walk somebody back), wind back (v)
• water: bridge (water under the bridge)
PENDULUM (2)
• activity: swing (in full swing)
• configuration: suspended
• development: pendulum (reversal), swing (development)
• division & connection: suspended
• extent & scope: sweeping, swing (in full swing)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: pendulum (reversal)
• reversal: pendulum (reversal), swing (swing around)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: swing (in full swing)
PERCEPTION, PERSPECTIVE & POINT OF VIEW (1)
• allusion: Rashomon (point of view), Rorschach (test)
• animal: bird’s-eye (bird’s-eye view)
• apple: apple (proverb)
• bird: bird's eye (bird's-eye view)
• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• clothing & accessories: shoe (in somebody’s shoes)
• direction: forward-looking
• eye: blinded, blinder (n), blind spot, blinkered (adj), eye (perception), farsighted, fisheye (fisheye view, etc.),
forward-looking, myopia (n), myopic (adj), nearsighted, optics (n), see (perceive), seen (perceived),
shortsighted, view (perspective), view (v), view (in view), view (in somebody's view), view (opinion), viewed
(perceived), vision (n), visionary (adj), visionary (person), worm’s-eye (adj)
• fish: fisheye (fisheye view, etc.)
• film: Rashomon (point of view), zoom out (v)
• geometry: angle (from an angle)
• ground, terrain & land: grassroots, ground (on the ground), level (ground level, etc.), worm’s-eye (adj)
• height: bird’s-eye (bird’s-eye view), grassroots, ground (on the ground), level (ground level, etc.), worm’s-eye
(adj), zoom out (v)
• horse: blinker (n), blinkered (adj)
• infrastructure: tunnel vision
• insect: worm's-eye (adj)
• light & dark: clear (perception), haze (perception), light (in light of), light (in a light), murk (in / amid the
murk), murk (other), murky (adjective), unclear (adj), waters (muddy the waters)

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• picture: background (fade into the background), back up (v), color (v), colored, foreground (n), foreground (v),
picture (in the big picture), Rorschach (test), step back (perspective)
• position: back up (v), background (fade into the background), bird’s-eye (bird’s-eye view), fisheye (fisheye
view, etc.), foreground (n), grassroots, perspective (from a perspective), perspective (in perspective),
perspective (into perspective), perspective (other), point of view (from somebody's point of view), point of view
(other), step back (perspective), vantage point (from a vantage point), view (perspective), worm’s-eye (adj),
zoom out (v)
• religion: Olympian (perspective)
• sound: ring (ring false, etc.), ring (ring of truth, etc.), sound (perception), tenor (n)
• speech: greet (v), greeted
• tools & technology: lens (through a lens), lens (other), microscope (through a microscope), optics (n), periscope
(n), prism (through the prism), prism (other), telescope (n)
• verb: background (fade into the background), back up (v), color (v), greet (v), ring (ring false, etc.), see
(perceive), step back (perspective), view (v), waters (muddy the waters), zoom out (v)
• water: murk (in / amid the murk), murk (other), murky (adj), waters (muddy the waters)
PERFORMANCE (1)
• animal: dog-and-pony show (n)
• circus: circus (media circus, etc.), freak show (n)
• person: ringmaster (role)
• sports & games: charade (n), game (project, scheme, plan)
• standing, sitting & lying: chest (beat one’s chest), posture (performance), posturing
• theater: act (performance), act (insincere show), dog-and-pony show (n), drama (drama queen, etc.), dramatic
(dramatic child, etc.), gallery (play to the gallery), grandstanding (n), performative (speech), play (v), repertoire
(n), role (act), set piece (n), show (nature, etc.), show (performance), show business (performance), stage (v),
staged (directed), stage-manage (v), stunt (n), theater (performance), theatrics (n), trial (show trial)
• verb: play (v), stage (v), stage-manage (v)
PERSON (1)
• animal: gadfly (person), greenhorn (person), leech (person), lion (courage), shark (predation), snake (insult)
• astronomy: star (rock star), star (person)
• baby: babysitter (role), crybaby (person), grownup (person), nanny (person)
• back: backstabber (person)
• boat: buccaneer (person), pirate (person)
• books & reading: author (person), bookworm (person)
• circus: acrobat (person), clown (person), ringmaster (role), strongman (power)
• color: greenhorn (person)
• creature: genie (knowledge), troll (computers), wizard (person)
• crime: buccaneer (person), pirate (person), police (thought police, etc.)
• death & life: survivor (person)
• direction: guide (person)
• doors & thresholds: doormat (person), gatekeeper (person)
• family: boy (blue-eyed boy), brother (brother in arms, etc.), cousin (person), father (father of India, etc.),
favorite son, godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.), godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.), mother (mother of
invention, etc.), mother (mother ship, etc.), orphan (n), sister (relationship), stepchild (weakness)
• fire: firebrand (person)
• flags & banners: standard-bearer
• food & drink: cannibal (other), glutton (person)
• gambling: stakeholder (person)
• gate: doorkeeper (person)

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• government: ambassador (role), diplomat (n), strongman (power)
• hand: handmaiden (help)
• head: hothead (person)
• heart: sweetheart (other)
• health & medicine: maniac (person)
• history: gladiator (n)
• hunting: hunter (plants), hunter (other), tracker (person)
• infrastructure: architect (creator)
• insect: gadfly (person)
• island: castaway (person)
• journeys & trips: guide (person), Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.), nomad (person), pioneer (person),
trailblazer (person)
• justice: judge (role), vigilante (person)
• knife: backstabber (person)
• lion: lion (courage)
• love, courtship & marriage: lover (enthusiasm / person), suitor (n)
• magic: fortuneteller (person), genie (knowledge), seer (person), soothsayer (person), wizard (person)
• mechanism: kingpin (person)
• mental health: maniac (person)
• military: cannon (loose cannon), enemy (conflict), foot soldier (duty), point man (and point person), standard-
bearer, warrior (n)
• mining: gold digger (person)
• money: gold digger (person), mercenary (person), rainmaker (person)
• plant: dandelion (character), neophyte (n), shrinking violet (person)
• rain: rainmaker (person)
• religion: acolyte (person), apostle (person), choirboy (behavior), convert (person), crusader (role), devotee
(person), disciple (person), evangelist (person), guru (person), heretic (person), iconoclast (person), martyr
(person), missionary (person), muse (person), oracle (person), prophet (person), seer (person), soothsayer
(person)
• royalty: handmaiden (help), king (people), monarch (primacy), prince (person), princess (person), queen (role),
whipping boy (person)
• school & education: bully (person), chaperone (role), cheerleader (person), dean (person)
• sea: buccaneer (person), pirate (person)
• shark: shark (predation)
• snake: snake (insult)
• snow & ice: snowflake (person)
• society: castaway (person), gatekeeper (person), hermit (person), leper (person), non-person, outcast (person),
pariah (person), untouchable (person), vigilante (person)
• star: star (rock star), star (person)
• temperature: firebrand (person), hothead (person)
• violence: gladiator (n), vigilante (person)
• weapon: cannon (loose cannon)
• whip: whipping boy (person)
PERSON (2)
• ability & lack of ability: black belt (person), genie (knowledge), wizard (person)
• acceptance & rejection: heretic (person), hermit (person), leper (person), non-person, outcast (person), pariah
(n)
• access & lack of access: gatekeeper (person)

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• achievement, recognition & praise: boy (blue-eyed boy), dean (person), favorite son, golden (golden girl, boy),
leading light (person), luminary (person), star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement)
• admiration & contempt: doormat (person)
• affliction: backbiter (person), gadfly (person), leech (person), pain (pain in the neck, etc.), parasite (person),
pest (person)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: rat (snitch)
• appearance & reality: warrior (ironic)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: Barnum, cheerleader (person), name-check (v), pusher (drug pusher, etc.),
showman (person), tout (person)
• attraction & repulsion: darling (n), golden (golden girl, boy), sweetheart (other)
• avoidance & separation: hermit (person)
• behavior: boy (bad boy), cannon (loose cannon), child (spoiled child), choirboy (behavior), cowboy (person),
hell-raiser (person), hothead, hotshot (n), straight arrow (person), vigilante (person), vulture (behavior), wild
card (person)
• campaign: crusader (role)
• character & personality: cannon (loose cannon), carpetbagger (person), clown (person), cowboy (person),
dandelion (character), diva (person), firebrand (person), gadfly (person), gold digger (person), handwringer
(person), hot dog (person), hothead (n), hotshot (n), Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde), killjoy (person), leech (person),
live wire (person), mercenary (person), nut (person), orchid (character), shrinking violet (person), snake
(insult), snowflake (person), straight arrow (person), strongman (power), teacup (person), warrior (n), whiner
(person), wild card (person)
• coercion & motivation: bully (person), hatchet man (n)
• commitment & determination: warrior (n)
• competition: front-runner (n), pace-setter (n)
• configuration: neighbor (n)
• conflict: black belt (person), enemy (conflict), fighter (street fighter), gladiator (n)
• consumption: glutton (person)
• control & lack of control: cannon (loose cannon), chaperon (person), cowboy (person), gatekeeper (person),
hothead (n), hotheaded (adj), police (thought police, etc.)
• courage & lack of courage: lion (courage), warrior (n)
• creation & transformation: architect (creator), author (person), midwife (person), muse (person)
• dependency: babysitter (role), nanny (person), slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
• destruction: cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.), cannibalize (v), vandal (n), wreck (person)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: hand (all hands on deck)
• directing: ringmaster (role)
• direction: guide (person)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: outcast (person)
• dominance & submission: servant (dominated), slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
• driving force: pace-setter (n), pathfinder (person), pioneer (person), point man (and point person)
• enthusiasm: acolyte (person), addict (chess addict, etc.), bookworm (person), cheerleader (person), devotee
(person), disciple (person), evangelist (person), fanatic (person), glutton (person), hound (autograph hound,
etc.), junkie (person), lover (enthusiasm / person), maniac (person), missionary (person), rat (lab rat, etc.)
• experience: adult (development), chaperon (person), debutant (n), greenhorn (person), grownup (person),
neophyte (n), stranger (no stranger)
• failure, accident & impairment: wreck (person)
• fantasy & reality: Arthurian (adj), Kafkaesque, Quixote (Don Quixote), quixotic (adj), rabbit hole (fantasy),
Walter Mitty
• feeling, emotion & effect: firebrand (person), hothead (n), killjoy (person)

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• future: fortuneteller (person), oracle (person), prophet (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person), visionary
(person)
• group, set & collection: tribe (group)
• growth & development: neophyte (n)
• heart: sweetheart (other)
• help & assistance: caretaker (role), custodian (role), friend (n), friendly (adj), handmaiden (help), knight (knight
in shining armor), mother (den mother, etc.), mother hen, servant (help), sparring partner (role), steward (role),
white knight
• hierarchy: higher-up (person), lion (position), top dog (hierarchy)
• identity & nature: carpetbagger (person), child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.)
• importance & significance: leading light (person), luminary (person), pioneer (person), trailblazer (person)
• insult: snake (insult)
• isolation & remoteness: castaway (person), hermit (person)
• journeys & trips: pioneer (person)
• judgment: judge (role)
• knowledge & intelligence: genie (knowledge), guru (person), savant (n), scientist (rocket scientist)
• message: apostle (person), convert (person), crusader (role), evangelist (person), fortuneteller (person), guru
(person), messenger (shoot the messenger), messiah (n), missionary (person), oracle (person), prophet (person),
seer (person), soothsayer (person), tout (person), whistleblower (n)
• migration: Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.), Lazarus (Emma Lazarus), nomad (person)
• movement: migrate (v)
• oppression: bully (person), butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.), police (thought police, etc.), vigilante (person)
• performance: ringmaster (role)
• position, policy & negotiation: middle-of-the-roader
• power: baron (power), big shot (person), chieftain (n), czar (n), insider (person), kingpin (person), mogul (n),
nobody (a nobody), outsider (person), overlord (person)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: star (achievement)
• protection & lack of protection: guardian (protection)
• proximity: neighbor (n)
• punishment & recrimination: whipping boy (person)
• pursuit, capture & escape: darling (n), hunter (plants), hunter (other), suitor (n), tracker (person)
• relationship: companion, cousin (person), muse (person), stepchild (weakness)
• repetition: mouthpiece (person)
• representation: ambassador (role), standard-bearer, torchbearer (person)
• resiliency: dandelion (character), orchid (character), survivor (person)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: martyr (person), rebel (person)
• restraint & lack of restraint: cannon (loose cannon)
• sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: boy (bad boy), gatekeeper (person), heretic (person), iconoclast
(person), magisterial (adj), maverick (person), police (thought police, etc.), rebel (person)
• searching & discovery: detective (person), explorer (person), pathfinder (person), scout (n), sleuth (person),
talent scout (and spotter, etc.)
• sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: mouthpiece (person), straight shooter (speech)
• size: dwarf (size), pygmy (size)
• social interaction: hermit (person)
• society: butterfly (social butterfly), castaway (person), caste, climber (social climber, etc.), hermit (person),
insider (person), leper (person), mob (society), outcast (person), outsider (person), pariah (n), untouchable
(person), vigilante (person)
• speech: loudmouth (person), mouthpiece (person), straight shooter (speech), talker (slick talker), tout (person)

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• strength & weakness: dandelion (character), fighter (street fighter), orchid (character), stalwart (n), stepchild
(weakness), snowflake (person), teacup (person)
• sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: glutton (person)
• superiority & inferiority: top dog (hierarchy)
• superlative: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son, immortal (person), king (people), leading light (person),
luminary (person), monarch (primacy), prince (person), princess (person), queen (Queen of Soul, etc.), queen
(role), star (rock star), star (person), star (achievement)
• survival, persistence & endurance: hand (all hands on deck), survivor (person), warrior (n)
• taking & removing: buccaneer (person)
• time: fortuneteller (person), oracle (person), prophet (person), seer (person), soothsayer (person)
• violence: butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)
• warning: sentinel (n), whistleblower (n)
• work & duty: foot soldier (duty), hand (worker), hand (all hands on deck), servant (help)
• worth & lack of worth: boy (blue-eyed boy), favorite son, stepchild (weakness), rainmaker (person)
PHYSICS (2)
• conflict: friction (conflict)
• destruction: implode (v)
• development: trajectory (n)
• division & connection: atomization (n)
• obstacles & impedance: drag (drag on the economy, etc.), friction (impedance), frictionless
PICTURE (2) (see also analysis, interpretation & explanation; context)
• achievement, recognition & praise: masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, etc.)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: backdrop (against a backdrop), dot (connect the dots), illustration (n),
mosaic (n), picture (in the big picture), picture (big picture), picture (view), portrait (view), puzzle (problem)
• appearance & disappearance: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), foreground (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), foreground (v),
photobomb (v)
• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• certainty & uncertainty: sketchy (adj)
• characterization: cameo (n), illustrate (v), illustration (n), paint (characterize), picture (view), portrait (view),
profile, snapshot
• comprehension & incomprehension: puzzle (problem)
• constraint & lack of constraint: color (color outside the lines, etc.)
• context: backdrop (against a backdrop), picture (in the big picture)
• creation & transformation: masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, etc.)
• evidence: illustrate (v), illustration (n), picture (view), portrait (view), show (v)
• fictive communication: illustrate (v), show (v)
• flaws & lack of flaws: sketchy (adj)
• importance & significance: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• involvement: frame (in the frame / involvement), picture (out of the picture), picture (in the picture)
• perception, perspective & point of view: background (fade into the background), back up (v), color (v), colored,
foreground (n), foreground (v), picture (in the big picture), Rorschach (test), step back (perspective)
• presence & absence: picture (out of the picture)
• representation: billboard (n), icon (symbol), iconic (adj), poster (poster child, etc.)
• resemblance: paint (resemblance)
• sign, signal, symbol: billboard (n), face (smiley face), icon (symbol), iconic (adj), poster (poster child, etc.)
• superlative: masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, etc.)

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PILE (2)
• accusation & criticism: pile-on (n)
• amount: backlog (amount), pile (pile of money, etc.)
• amount & effect: heap (v), heaped
• dismissal, removal & resignation: dump (v), dumped
• increase & decrease: mount (v), mounting, pile on (increase), pile up (v)
• throwing, putting & planting: heap (v), lay (put)
• unanimity & consensus: pile-on (noun), pile on (gang up on)
PLACE (1) (see also area; environment; location)
• animal: nest (empty nest)
• bird: nest (empty nest)
• burial: grave (place), graveyard (place), place (resting place)
• computer: alley (Silicon Alley)
• death & life: grave (place), graveyard (place), live (location)
• earthquake: epicenter (n)
• farming & agriculture: bowl (rice bowl), bowl (salad bowl / agriculture), breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket,
etc.)
• house: home (home for the archive, etc.), live (location), nest (empty nest)
• infrastructure: bowels (n)
• map: map (on the map), map (drop off the map, etc.)
• mechanism: hub (center)
• military: battleground (conflict), front line (on the frontline), front line (other), trench (in the trenches), trench
(other)
• nuclear energy: ground zero
• temperature: hotspot (place)
• verb: map drop off the map, etc.)
PLACE (2)
• area: place (area)
• attraction & repulsion: mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.), pilgrimage (trip)
• avoidance & separation: cloistered
• biodiversity: Amazon (epithet), Galapagos (epithet), Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.)
• computer: alley (Silicon Alley), blogosphere (in the blogosphere), blogosphere (other), water cooler (digital
water cooler, etc.)
• danger: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• destruction: Chernobyl
• development: here (go from here, etc.), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), point
(point where), point (at a point / development)
• difficulty, easiness & effort: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• division & connection: cloistered
• enthusiasm: cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.), mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.)
• experience: road (down a road before)
• experimentation: laboratory
• failure, accident & impairment: Chernobyl
• feeling, emotion & effect: come from (emotion), place (in a place / feelings)
• future: place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time)
• gossip: water cooler (digital water cooler, etc.)
• isolation & remoteness: cloistered
• migration: Ellis Island (epithet)

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• money: Wall Street (Wall Street of fish, etc.)
• nuclear energy: ground zero
• origin: home (home of golf, etc.)
• past & present: back (back to where), here (we have been here before), here (go from here, etc.), here (the
present), moment (moment where), place (at a place where, etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (down
a road before)
• presence & absence: there (there is no there there, etc.)
• protection & lack of protection: cloistered, haven (safety), refuge (n), shelter (v)
• punishment & recrimination: Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.)
• pursuit, capture & escape: getaway (n)
• reverence: cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.), mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.)
• situation: place (in a place / feelings), place (situation)
• size: Mount Everest (and Everest)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: jumping-off place / point
• substance & lack of substance: there (there is no there there, etc.)
• superlative: capital (capital of crime, etc.), Mount Everest (and Everest), Mount Rushmore, Olympus (Mount
Olympus), pantheon (n), Paris (epithet), Valhalla (n)
• time: back (back to where), breathing space (and breathing room), here (we have been here before), here (go
from here, etc.), here (the present), look like (be like, etc.), moment (moment where), place (at a place where,
etc.), place (place where), place (time), road (down a road before), throughout (time), time (space of time), time
(at the time, etc.)
PLANE (2)
• achievement, recognition & praise: parachute (golden parachute)
• action, inaction & delay: pattern (holding pattern)
• appearance & disappearance: parachute (v)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: barnstorm (v)
• behavior: autopilot (on autopilot)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bail out (leave), land (arrive / plane), parachute (drop in),
parachute (golden parachute), parachute (v), parachuted
• consciousness & awareness: autopilot (on autopilot), blind (flying blind)
• control & lack of control: spin (spin out of control), spiral (spiral out of control, etc.)
• decline: crater (v), nosedive (verb / decline), nosedive (noun / decline), tailspin (into a tailspin), tailspin (in a
tailspin)
• destruction: crash (crash and burn), shot down (and shot down in flames)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: bail out (leave)
• force: headwind (n), tailwind (n)
• failure, accident & impairment: crash-land (v), flameout, flame out (v)
• growth & development: ground (get off the ground), take off (v)
• help & assistance: steward (role), tailwind (n)
• increase & decrease: nosedive (noun / decrease), nosedive (verb / decrease), spiral (downward or upward), take
off (v)
• initiation: take off (v)
• message: barnstorm (v)
• progress & lack of progress: headwind (n), tailwind (n)
• restraint & lack of restraint: envelope (push the envelope)
• starting, going, continuing & ending: flameout, flame out (v)
• superiority & inferiority: slipstream (in a slipstream)
• surveillance: helicopter (helicopter mom, etc.), helicopter (v)

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PLANT (2) (see also farming & agriculture; wheat)
• affliction: bane (n), thorn (n), thorny (adj)
• analysis, interpretation & explanation: root (root cause)
• appearance & disappearance: budding, crop up (v), emerge (v), emerging (adj), mushroom (v), pop up (v),
spring up (v), sprout (v)
• bases: deep-rooted (adj), root (at the root), root (root cause), root (root of the problem, etc.), rooted
• branching system: offshoot, tendril (growth)
• character & personality: dandelion (character), orchid (character), shrinking violet (person)
• coercion & motivation: carrot (reward), carrot-and-stick
• computer: root (root server)
• configuration: sown (mine-sown, etc.)
• consumption: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
• content: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grist (grist for the mill, etc.), hay (make hay, etc.)
• corruption: blight (v), blight (n), blighted
• creation & transformation: germinate (v), hothouse (n), kernel (n), nursery (n), plant (create), seed (n), shoot
(plant), sow (v)
• curtailment: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.)
• decline: shrivel (v), wilt (v), wither (v)
• destruction: root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v)
• dismissal, removal & resignation: prune (v), root (tear something out by the roots, etc.), root out (v), transplant
(n), weed out (v), uprooted
• experience: neophyte (n)
• extent & scope: tendril (growth)
• feeling, emotion & effect: withering (adj)
• flaws & lack of flaws: thorny (adj)
• gossip: fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.), grapevine (through / over the grapevine), grist (grist for the mill, etc.)
• group, set & collection: bouquet (collection)
• growth & development: bloom (v), blossom (v), budding, burgeoning (adj), cross-pollination, cultivate (v),
cultivated, drought (in a drought), fallow (adj), flourish (v), flower (v), flowering, fruition (n), ground (fertile
ground), grow (develop), grow (grow the economy, etc.), hotbed (n), hothouse (n), kernel (n), neophyte (n),
nourished, nursery (n), nurture (v), nurtured, plant (create), rainmaker (person), ripe (adj), root (take root, etc.),
seed (n), seed money, shoot (plant), soil (fertile soil), sow (v), spell (in a dry spell), spell (into a dry spell), spell
(throughout a dry spell), spell (dry spell / other), tendril (growth), thrive (v), transplant (n)
• identity & nature: root (origin)
• increase & decrease: burgeoning (adj), grow (increase), growing (increasing)
• migration: transplant (n)
• origin: root (root of the problem, etc.), root (origin)
• person: dandelion (character), neophyte (n), shrinking violet (person)
• product: fruit (product), reap (v)
• proper name: garden (Cactus Garden, etc.)
• relationship: root (root of the problem, etc.), root (origin)
• resemblance: garden (resemblance), tendril (resemblance), wilt (v)
• resiliency: dandelion (character), orchid (character)
• shape: mushroom (shape)
• strength & weakness: dandelion (character), orchid (character), root (take root, etc.)
• survival, persistence & endurance: root (take root, etc.)
• substance & lack of substance: husk (n)
• throwing, putting & planting: plant (put), plant (create), planted, sow (v), sown (planted)

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• worth & lack of worth: fruitful (adj), fruitless (adj)
PLATFORM (2)
• mind: mind (platform)
PORTAL (1)
• doors & thresholds: door (portal), portal (entrance), threshold (cross the threshold), threshold (portal)
• gate: gate (portal), gateway (portal), portal (entrance)
• infrastructure: avenue (portal)
• verb: threshold (cross the threshold)
• window: window (window to the West, etc.)
POSITION (2) (see also direction; height)
• achievement, recognition & praise: top (excellence)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: back (support / verb), backed, backing (support), beside (support), side (on
one’s side / time), side (on one’s side / person)
• appearance & disappearance: background (fade into the background), foreground (n)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center)
• basis: behind (basis)
• center & periphery: background (fade into the background), foreground (n), front (front and center), middle-of-
the-road, middle-of-the-roader
• competition: ahead (competition), behind (competition), front (in front / competition), outrun (verb), underdog
(competition)
• context: step back (perspective)
• danger: back (watch your back, etc.)
• dominance & submission: top (dominance)
• future: ahead (before a future event), ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), before (we have hard work before us),
front (the future is in front of us), near (near future, etc.), time (ahead of his time, etc.)
• hierarchy: apex (apex animal, etc.), barrel (at the bottom of the barrel), bottom (at the bottom), head (go over
one’s head / hierarchy), mountain (at the top of the mountain), over (dominance), tier (hierarchy), top
(hierarchy), top dog (hierarchy), totem pole, under (hierarchy), underdog (hierarchy)
• importance & significance: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), background
(fade into the background), burner (front burner), centerpiece, fiddle (second fiddle), fore (come to the fore),
forefront (center), foreground (n), front (front and center), right-hand (right-hand man, etc.)
• past & present: behind (in the past), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), time (before her time, etc.)
• perception, perspective & point of view: background (fade into the background), back up (v), bird’s-eye (bird’s-
eye view), fisheye (fisheye view, etc.), foreground (n), grassroots, perspective (from a perspective), perspective
(in perspective), perspective (into perspective), perspective (other), point of view (from somebody's point of
view), point of view (other), step back (perspective), vantage point (from a vantage point), view (perspective),
worm’s-eye (adj), zoom out (v)
• position, policy & negotiation: middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, position (n), shift (change)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: time (ahead of his time, etc.), time (before her time, etc.)
• priority: back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back burner), back seat (take a back seat), burner
(front burner), fiddle (second fiddle), fore (come to the fore), forefront (center), front (front and center)
• protection & lack of protection: back (watch your back, etc.)
• proximity: near (near future, etc.)
• relationship: behind (basis)
• responsibility: behind (responsibility)

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• sequence: after (at a later time), before (at an earlier time), follow (at a later time), next (at a later time), precede
(at an earlier time), top (on top of / at the same time), train (in one’s train / at a later time), wake (in the wake of
/ at a later time)
• situation: middle (in the middle)
• social interaction: side (on the good side, etc.), side (on the wrong side, etc.)
• strength & weakness: underdog (competition)
• superiority & inferiority: above (above the law, etc.), back burner (on the back burner), back burner (to the back
burner), back seat (take a back seat), burner (front burner), fiddle (second fiddle), fore (come to the fore),
forefront (center), front (front and center), top (dominance), top dog (hierarchy), underdog (competition)
• time: advance (in advance, etc.), after (at a later time), ahead (before a future event), ahead (the future is ahead,
etc.), before (at an earlier time), before (we have hard work before us), behind (in the past), follow (at a later
time), following (at a later time), front (the future is in front of us), mirror (in the rear-view mirror), near (near
future, etc.), next (at a later time), precede (at an earlier time), preceding (at an earlier time), side (on one’s side
/ time), time (ahead of his time, etc.), time (before her time, etc.), top (on top of / at the same time), train (in
one’s train / at a later time), wake (in the wake of / at a later time)
• timeliness & lack of timeliness: advance (in advance, etc.), ahead (ahead of schedule, etc.), behind (behind
schedule, etc.)
POSITION, POLICY & NEGOTIATION (1) (see also strategy)
• ball: ball (ball in somebody’s court)
• baseball: hardball (n)
• cards: bluff (v), bluff (n)
• direction: back (back and forth), give-and-take
• fence: fence (on the fence, etc.), fence (straddle the fence), fence-straddling)
• foot: footing (position)
• gambling: bluff (v), bluff (n), chip (bargaining chip)
• ground, terrain & land: brinksmanship (n)
• horse: horse-trading
• line: line (a hard line, etc.), position (n)
• money: haggle (v), haggling, horse-trading, transactional (adj)
• movement: budge (v), immovable (adj), maneuvering (strategy), shift (change)
• person: middle-of-the-roader
• position: middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, position (n), shift (change)
• sports & games: ball (ball in somebody’s court), hardball (n)
• standing, sitting & lying: footing (position), posture (position), posturing, sit down (v), sit-down (other), stand
(position), stance (take a stance), stand (a tough stand, etc.)
• table: sit down (v), sit-down (other), table (on the table), table (come back to the table), table (off the table),
table (turn the tables)
• verb: budge (v), fence (straddle the fence), haggle (v), sit down (v), stance (take a stance), stand (position), table
(come back to the table), table (turn the tables)
POSSESSION (1) (see also fictive possession)
• boundary: claim (stake a claim)
• container: lap (fall into the lap, etc.)
• crime: captive (held captive, etc.), hijack (v), hijacked, loot (v), time (steal time, etc.), usurp (v)
• direction: fall (fall into the hands, etc.)
• finger: finger (slip through one’s fingers)
• flags & banners: flag (plant one’s flag)
• food & drink: fork over (v)

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• ground, terrain & land: claim (stake a claim), flag (plant one’s flag), soil (on one's soil), territory (stake out
territory)
• hand: cling (v), clingy (adj), empty-handed, fall (fall into the hands, etc.), finger (slip through one’s fingers), go
(let something go), grab (v), grab (up for grabs), grab (land grab, etc.), grasp (in one’s grasp), grasp (out of
one’s grasp), grasp (possession), grip (in the grip), grip (control), gripped, gripping (adj), hand (possession),
handed over (possession), hand-me-down, hand over (v), handover (n), hang on to (v), hold (long-held), hold
(verb / possession), hold (noun / possession), hold on (possession), palm (in the palm of one’s hand), possessed,
seize (v), seized (by an emotion)
• lap: lap (fall into the lap, etc.)
• military: flag (plant one’s flag), surrender (v)
• money: own (possess), own (make something one's own), ownership (n), trade (v)
• movement: gone (absent)
• prep, adv, adj, particle: gone (absent)
• royalty: usurp (v)
• surveying: claim (stake a claim), stake out (v)
• verb: cling (v), fall (fall into the hands, etc.), finger (slip through one’s fingers), fork over (v), go (let something
go), grab (v), hand over (v), hang on to (v), hijack (v), hold (verb / possession), hold on (possession), loot (v),
own (possess), own (make something one’s own), seize (v), stake out (v), surrender (v), time (steal time, etc.),
trade (v), usurp (v)
• verb to noun: grab (land grab, etc.)
POTATO (2)
• importance & significance: potato (small potatoes)
POWER (1) (see also force)
• animal: beast (power), fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n), oats (feel one’s oats)
• boxing: heavyweight (n), punch (punch above one’s weight, etc.), weight (punch above one’s weight, etc.)
• cards: hand (strengthen one’s hand)
• center & periphery: inner circle (n), insider (person), outsider (person)
• chess: pawn (n)
• creature: giant (sleeping giant)
• dam: powerhouse (n)
• electricity: powerhouse (n)
• engine: turbocharge (v)
• explosion: blast (destroy), explosive (power)
• fish: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), minnow (n)
• fist: clout (n)
• government: czar (n), strongman (power), tyrant (n)
• health & medicine: potency (strength), potent (adj), steroids (on steroids)
• history: baron (power), czar (n), empire (enterprise), mogul (n), overlord (person), pharaoh (power), tyrant (n)
• hitting, slamming & lashing: clout (n)
• horse: oats (feel one’s oats)
• infrastructure: corridor (corridors of power), hall (halls of academe, etc.)
• Middle Ages: baron (power)
• military: chieftain (n), coup (power), force (show of force)
• movement: momentum (gain momentum, etc.), momentum (n), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.)
• person: baron (power), big shot (person), chieftain (n), czar (n), insider (person), kingpin (person), mogul (n),
nobody (a nobody), overlord (person), outsider (person)
• river: powerhouse (n)
• royalty: dynasty (sports dynasty, etc.), lord over (v), monarch (primacy), overlord (person), throne (power)

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• size: fish (big fish), fish (small fish), fry (small fry), giant (sleeping giant), minnow (n)
• skin, muscle, nerves & bone: flex (muscle, etc.), muscle (political muscle, etc.), muscle (muscle its way
through, etc.), muscular (adj)
• sleep: giant (sleeping giant)
• sports & games: pawn (n)
• storm: nature (force of nature)
• tools & technology: high-powered (adj), leverage (n), leverage (v)
• verb: blast (destroy), flex (muscle, etc.), hand (strengthen one’s hand), leverage (v), lord over (v), momentum
(gain momentum, etc.), muscle (muscle its way through, etc.), outweigh (power), punch (punch above one’s
weight, etc.), turbocharge (v), weight (put / throw one’s weight behind something), weight (punch above one’s
weight, etc.)
• violence: clout (n)
• weapon: big shot (person)
• weight: heavyweight (n), outweigh (power), punch (punch above one’s weight, etc.), weight (put / throw one’s
weight behind something), weight (punch above one’s weight, etc.)
PREDATION (1)
• allusion: Darwinian
• animal: apex (apex animal, etc.), blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), circle
(predation), coyote (coyote), dog-eat-dog, ferocious (adjective), food chain, hawk (n), hawkish (adj), heel (nip
at somebody’s heels), jugular (go for the jugular), law (law of the jungle, etc.), loan shark, lone wolf (person),
lurk (v), lurking, pounce (v), predation (n), predator (people), predatory (adj), prey (prey on something), prey
(fall prey to something), prey (other), prowl (on the prowl), shark (predation), sheep (predation), stalk (v),
tentacle (n), tooth and nail (adv), victim (fall victim to something), wolf (predation), wolf (wolf in sheep’s
clothing)
• arm: tentacle (n)
• bird: hawk (n), hawkish (adj)
• blood: blood (smell blood), blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), jugular (go for the jugular)
• clothing & accessories: wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• dog: dog-eat-dog; heel (nip at somebody’s heels)
• hunting: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• jungle: law (law of the jungle, etc.)
• movement: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• shark: circle (predation), loan shark, shark (predation)
• sheep: sheep (predation)
• verb: blood (smell blood), circle (predation), heel (nip at somebody’s heels), jugular (go for the jugular), lurk
(v), pounce (v), prey (prey on something), prey (fall prey to something), stalk (v), victim (fall victim to
something)
• walking, running & jumping: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• wolf: ferocious (adj), heel (nip at somebody’s heels), lone wolf (person), wolf (n), wolf (wolf in sheep’s
clothing)
PREDATION (2) (see also animal)
• accusation & criticism: savage (v)
• activity: frenzy (feeding frenzy)
• affliction: backbiter (person), eat (destroy), heel (nip at somebody’s heels)
• animal: octopus (n), wolf (wolf in sheep’s clothing)
• arm: octopus (n)
• behavior: backbiting, bloodthirsty (adj), frenzy (feeding frenzy), savage (v)
• blood: bloodthirsty (adj)

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• conflict: backbiting, blood (out for blood), blood (draw blood), blood sport (n), jugular (go for the jugular), pit
(bear pit), throat (predation)
• consumption: meat (fresh meat)
• destruction: consume (destroy), consumed (destroyed), devour (destroy), eat (destroy), nibble (nibble at, etc.)
• fate, fortune & chance: jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.)
• movement: lurk (v), pounce (v), stalk (v)
• proper name: Predator (UAV)
• punishment & recrimination: blood (out for blood)
• pursuit, capture & escape: stalk (v)
• speech: savage (v)
PREP, ADV, ADJ, PARTICLE (2)
• acceptance & rejection: in (inclusion), out (exclusion)
• activity: bubble up (v)
• admiration & contempt: below (behavior), beneath (behavior)
• allegiance, support & betrayal: against (opposition), behind (support), beside (support), down (down for
something), for (support), in (all in), out (want out), there (there for me, etc.), up (up for something), with
(support)
• amount: full (adj)
• appearance & disappearance: bubble up (v), come up (appear), crop up (v), dredge up (v), pop up (v), show up
(v), spring up (v)
• appearance & reality: underneath (basis)
• attention, scrutiny & promotion: drum up (v), play down (v)
• attenuation: tone down (v)
• avoidance & separation: apart (division)
• bases: behind (basis), underneath (basis)
• behavior: below (behavior), beneath (behavior)
• coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: back (return)
• commitment & determination: down (down for something), in (all in), out (all out, etc.), up (up for something)
• competition: ahead (competition), behind (competition)
• concealment & lack of concealment: dredge up (v)
• condition & status: down (functioning)
• creation & transformation: cook up (v), drum up (v), make up (v)
• decline: down (go down), down (decline)
• division & connection: apart (division), between (come between, etc.)
• enthusiasm: into (be into something)
• euphemism: with (no longer with us)
• failure, accident & impairment: break down (functioning), down (functioning)
• feeling, emotion & effect: down (feeling), inside (emotions), pump up (v), up (feeling)
• fictive transportation: back (take somebody back in time)
• functioning: break down (functioning), down (functioning)
• future: ahead (before a future event), ahead (the future is ahead, etc.), away (a week away, etc.), before (we
have hard work before us), forward (the future is forward), front (the future is in front of us), near (near future,
etc.), time (ahead of his time, etc.), way (autumn is on the way, etc.)
• hierarchy: over (dominance), under (hierarchy)
• inclusion & exclusion: in (inclusion), out (exclusion)
• increase & decrease: down (go down), pick up (v), pile up (v), pump up (v), up (go up), up (higher)
• initiation: bubble up (v)
• involvement: in (in deep, etc.), into (involvement)

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• obstacles & impedance: against (up against)
• past & present: ago (two days ago), back (take somebody back in time), back (go back in time, etc.), back (back
then), backwards (past), bygone (adj), down (down through the centuries, etc.), gone (those days are gone, etc.),
present (up to the present), time (before her time, etc.), time (in our time, etc.), up (up to now, etc.)
• possession: gone (absent)
• presence & absence: gone (absent)
• primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: bygone (adj), done (over), gone (those days are gone, etc.), in
(currency), next (next Steve Jobs, etc.), out (currency), over (finished), time (ahead of his time, etc.), time
(before her time, etc.), up (time is finished, etc.)
• progress & lack of progress: ahead (progress), behind (progress), left (left behind), there (destination)
• proximity: away (a week away, etc.), front (in front / proximity), near (near future, etc.)
• reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: behind (put something behind)
• relationship: behind (basis), underlying (adj), underneath (basis)
• resiliency: behind (put something behind)
• resistance, opposition & defeat: against (opposition)
• responsibility: behind (responsibility)
• searching & discovery: dredge up (v)
• sequence: after (at a later time), before (at an earlier time), follow (at a later time), following (at a later time),
last (at an earlier time), next (next Steve Jobs, e