Words that rhyme with arete

• accelerate 0
  v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" [syn: accelerate, speed, speed up] [ant: decelerate, slow down]
• acculturate 0
  v 1: assimilate culturally
• adulterate 0
  adj 1: mixed with impurities [syn: adulterate, adulterated, debased] v 1: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
• agglomerate 0
  adj 1: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head" [syn: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered] n 1: volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together 2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus] v 1: form into one cluster
• aigrette 0
  n 1: a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume [syn: aigrette, aigret]
• alliterate 0
  v 1: use alliteration as a form of poetry
• ameliorate 0
  v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]
• aspirate 0
  n 1: a consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1: remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" [syn: aspirate, draw out, suck out] 2: pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds 3: suck in (air)
• asseverate 0
  v 1: state categorically [syn: assert, asseverate, maintain]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• barbiturate 0
  n 1: organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal
• barrette 0
  n 1: a pin for holding women's hair in place
• berate 0
  v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
• burette 0
  n 1: measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration [syn: burette, buret]
• camphorate 0
  v 1: treat with camphor
• carburet 0
  v 1: combine with carbon
• cigarette 0
  n 1: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag]
• coelenterate 0
  n 1: radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms [syn: coelenterate, cnidarian]
• collaborate 0
  v 1: work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" [syn: collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together] 2: cooperate as a traitor; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris"
• commemorate 0
  v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" [syn: commemorate, mark] 2: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War" [syn: commemorate, remember] 3: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]
• commiserate 0
  v 1: to feel or express sympathy or compassion [syn: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise]
• confederate 0
  adj 1: of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War; "Confederate soldiers" 2: united in a confederacy or league [syn: allied, confederate, confederative] n 1: a supporter of the Confederate States of America 2: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime] 3: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice, confederate] v 1: form a group or unite; "The groups banded together" [syn: band together, confederate] 2: form a confederation with; of nations
• conglomerate 0
  adj 1: composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England" n 1: a composite rock made up of particles of varying size [syn: pudding stone, conglomerate] 2: a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization [syn: conglomerate, empire] v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
• cooperate 0
  v 1: work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" [syn: collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together]
• corroborate 0
  v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: give evidence for [syn: validate, corroborate] 3: support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence" [syn: corroborate, underpin, bear out, support]
• curette 0
  n 1: a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity [syn: curette, curet]
• decelerate 0
  v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up] 2: reduce the speed of; "He slowed down the car" [syn: decelerate, slow down] [ant: accelerate, speed, speed up]
• decorate 0
  v 1: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify] 2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify] 3: award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to; "He was decorated for his services in the military" 4: provide with decoration; "dress the windows" [syn: dress, decorate]
• degenerate 0
  adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast] n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate] v 1: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]
• deliberate 0
  adj 1: carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony" [syn: deliberate, calculated, measured] 2: unhurried and with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed" [syn: careful, deliberate, measured] v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate] 2: discuss the pros and cons of an issue [syn: debate, deliberate]
• deteriorate 0
  v 1: become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" 2: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]
• elaborate 0
  adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" [syn: elaborate, luxuriant] 2: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme" [syn: detailed, elaborate, elaborated] v 1: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten] 2: produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey" 3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate] 4: work out in detail; "elaborate a plan" [syn: elaborate, work out]
• enumerate 0
  v 1: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise] 2: determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number, enumerate, numerate]
• evaporate 0
  v 1: lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" [syn: evaporate, vaporize, vaporise] 2: cause to change into a vapor; "The chemist evaporated the water" [syn: evaporate, vaporise] 3: change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes" [syn: evaporate, vaporise] 4: become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance" [syn: melt, disappear, evaporate]
• eviscerate 0
  adj 1: having been disembowelled v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn: resect, eviscerate] 2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach" 3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw] 4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
• exaggerate 0
  v 1: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 2: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups" [syn: overdo, exaggerate]
• exasperate 0
  v 1: exasperate or irritate [syn: exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate] 2: make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense] 3: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate]
• exhilarate 0
  v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify]
• exonerate 0
  v 1: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges" [syn: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate] [ant: convict]
• expectorate 0
  v 1: clear out the chest and lungs; "This drug expectorates quickly" [syn: expectorate, clear out, drive out] 2: discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth [syn: expectorate, cough up, cough out, spit up, spit out]
• exuberate 0
  v 1: to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?" [syn: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph, jubilate]
• federate 0
  adj 1: united under a central government [syn: federate, federated] v 1: enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise] 2: unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise]
• generate 0
  v 1: bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" [syn: generate, bring forth] 2: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate] 3: produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity" 4: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]
• inaugurate 0
  v 1: commence officially [syn: inaugurate, kick off] 2: open ceremoniously or dedicate formally 3: be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" [syn: inaugurate, usher in, introduce]
• incarcerate 0
  v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]
• incinerate 0
  v 1: become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly" 2: cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" [syn: burn, incinerate]
• incorporate 0
  adj 1: formed or united into a whole [syn: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged, unified] v 1: make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal" [syn: integrate, incorporate] [ant: disintegrate] 2: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: incorporate, contain, comprise] 3: form a corporation 4: unite or merge with something already in existence; "incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case"
• indurate 0
  adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous] v 1: become fixed or established; "indurated customs" 2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften] 3: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften] 4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]
• invigorate 0
  v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 2: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden] 4: impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating" [syn: invigorate, reinvigorate]
• iterate 0
  v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell] 2: run or be performed again; "the function iterates"
• itinerate 0
  v 1: travel from place to place, as for work; "an itinerating merchant"
• lacerate 0
  adj 1: irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves" [syn: lacerate, lacerated] 2: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] v 1: cut or tear irregularly 2: deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks"
• launderette 0
  n 1: a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers [syn: launderette, Laundromat]
• liberate 0
  v 1: give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: emancipate, liberate] 2: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain] 3: grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university" [syn: liberate, set free] 4: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate]
• macerate 0
  v 1: separate into constituents by soaking 2: become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water" 3: soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system" 4: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" [syn: waste, emaciate, macerate]
• majorette 0
  n 1: a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band [syn: drum majorette, majorette] 2: a female drum major [syn: drum majorette, majorette]
• maturate 0
  v 1: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow] 2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate] 3: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]
• meliorate 0
  v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]
• minaret 0
  n 1: slender tower with balconies
• moderate 0
  adj 1: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" [ant: immoderate] 2: not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism" [syn: moderate, temperate] 3: marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response" [syn: moderate, restrained] n 1: a person who takes a position in the political center [syn: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist] v 1: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair, lead] 2: make less fast or intense; "moderate your speed" 3: lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger" [syn: control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate] 4: make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears" [syn: mince, soften, moderate] 5: make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down, moderate, tame] 6: restrain [syn: chasten, moderate, temper]
• numerate 0
  adj 1: able to understand and use numbers [ant: innumerate] v 1: determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number, enumerate, numerate] 2: read out loud as words written numbers
• obliterate 0
  adj 1: reduced to nothingness [syn: blotted out, obliterate, obliterated] v 1: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate, wipe out] 2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide] 3: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" [syn: obliterate, efface] 4: do away with completely, without leaving a trace
• operate 0
  v 1: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate, run] 2: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction] 3: handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" [syn: operate, control] 4: perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense [syn: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate] 5: happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?" 6: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw] 7: perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life" [syn: operate on, operate]
• penetrate 0
  v 1: pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" [syn: penetrate, perforate] 2: come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom, bottom] 3: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 4: enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor" [syn: infiltrate, penetrate] 5: make one's way deeper into or through; "The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest" 6: insert the penis into the vagina or anus of; "Did the molester penetrate the child?" 7: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle]
• perforate 0
  adj 1: having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon" [syn: pierced, perforated, perforate, punctured] v 1: make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; "perforate the sheets of paper" [syn: punch, perforate] 2: pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" [syn: penetrate, perforate]
• perorate 0
  v 1: conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation 2: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
• preponderate 0
  v 1: weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes" [syn: preponderate, outweigh, overbalance, outbalance]
• proliferate 0
  v 1: grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area" 2: cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"
• prorate 0
  v 1: make a proportional settlement or distribution 2: divide or assess proportionally; "The rent was prorated for the rest of the month"
• prostrate 0
  adj 1: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate] 2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate] v 1: get into a prostrate position, as in submission [syn: prostrate, bow down] 2: render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy" 3: throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration"
• quadrate 0
  adj 1: having four sides and four angles n 1: a cubelike object 2: a square-shaped object
• recuperate 0
  v 1: regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses" [syn: recover, recoup, recuperate] 2: regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" [syn: recover, go back, recuperate] 3: restore to good health or strength 4: get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating" [syn: recuperate, recover, convalesce] [ant: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop]
• redecorate 0
  v 1: redo the decoration of an apartment or house
• refrigerate 0
  v 1: preserve by chilling; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil" 2: cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine"
• regenerate 0
  adj 1: reformed spiritually or morally; "a regenerate sinner"; "regenerate by redemption from error or decay" [ant: unregenerate, unregenerated] v 1: reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" [syn: regenerate, renew] 2: amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit 3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify] 4: return to life; get or give new life or energy; "The week at the spa restored me" [syn: regenerate, restore, rejuvenate] 5: replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue; "The snake regenerated its tail" 6: be formed or shaped anew 7: form or produce anew; "regenerate hatred" 8: undergo regeneration 9: restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient" [syn: regenerate, revitalize]
• regret 0
  n 1: sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" [syn: sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness] v 1: feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn: repent, regret, rue] 2: feel sad about the loss or absence of 3: decline formally or politely; "I regret I can't come to the party" 4: express with regret; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard"
• reintegrate 0
  v 1: integrate again; "Russia must be reintegrated into Europe"
• reinvigorate 0
  v 1: impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating" [syn: invigorate, reinvigorate]
• reiterate 0
  v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
• remonstrate 0
  v 1: argue in protest or opposition 2: present and urge reasons in opposition [syn: remonstrate, point out] 3: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
• remunerate 0
  v 1: make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated" [syn: compensate, recompense, remunerate]
• reverberate 0
  v 1: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: resound, echo, ring, reverberate] 2: have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life" 3: be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building" 4: to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium" [syn: reflect, reverberate] 5: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet] 6: treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"
• saturate 0
  v 1: cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance 2: infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" [syn: impregnate, saturate]
• separate 0
  adj 1: independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" [ant: joint] 2: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" [syn: freestanding, separate] 3: separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" 4: have the connection undone; having become separate [syn: disjoined, separate] n 1: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication [syn: offprint, reprint, separate] 2: a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments v 1: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" [syn: separate, divide] 2: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: separate, disunite, divide, part] 3: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart] 4: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify, unite] 5: divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" 6: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate] 7: make a division or separation [syn: separate, divide] 8: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up] 9: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: separate, part, split] 10: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart] 11: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn: discriminate, separate, single out] 12: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [syn: separate, divide, part] 13: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate]
• sequestrate 0
  v 1: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw] 2: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate]
• serrate 0
  adj 1: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn: serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched] v 1: make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth"
• sodium 0
  n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number 11]
• soubrette 0
  n 1: a pert or flirtatious young girl 2: a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy
• substrate 0
  n 1: the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment 2: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached; "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants" [syn: substrate, substratum] 3: any stratum or layer lying underneath another [syn: substrate, substratum] 4: an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population; "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English" [syn: substrate, substratum]
• suppurate 0
  v 1: cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate, mature] 2: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]
• swimmeret 0
  n 1: one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming [syn: swimmeret, pleopod]
• tolerate 0
  v 1: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up] 2: recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others); "We must tolerate the religions of others" 3: have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him" 4: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]
• ulcerate 0
  v 1: undergo ulceration; "Her stomach ulcerated" 2: affect with an ulcer; "Her stomach was ulcerated"
• underrate 0
  v 1: make too low an estimate of; "he underestimated the work that went into the renovation"; "Don't underestimate the danger of such a raft trip on this river" [syn: underestimate, underrate] [ant: overestimate, overrate]
• usherette 0
  n 1: a female usher
• venerate 0
  v 1: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius" [syn: reverence, fear, revere, venerate]
• vinaigrette 0
  n 1: oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic [syn: French dressing, vinaigrette, sauce vinaigrette]
• vituperate 0
  v 1: spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail]
• vociferate 0
  v 1: utter in a very loud voice; "They vociferated their demands" [syn: vociferate, shout out]
• acerate 0
  adj 1: narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves [syn: acerate, acerose, acicular, needle-shaped]

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