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advise
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v 1: give advice to; "The teacher counsels troubled students";
"The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud"
[syn: rede, advise, counsel]
2: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent
was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send
word, apprise, apprize]
3: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator
proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose,
suggest, advise]
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allies
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n 1: the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War
II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter
of the United Nations in 1945
2: in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and
Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them
in opposing the Central Powers
3: an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common
enemy
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apprise
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v 1: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the
rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice,
send word, apprise, apprize]
2: make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the
tuition hike?" [syn: instruct, apprise, apprize]
3: gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn:
appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue] [ant:
depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue]
4: increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the
Deutsche Mark" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise]
[ant: depreciate]
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arise
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v 1: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new
religious movement originated in that country"; "a love
that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book
grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon
uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop,
uprise, spring up, grow]
2: originate or come into being; "a question arose" [syn:
arise, come up, bob up]
3: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn:
arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie,
lie down, sit, sit down]
4: result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this
discussion" [syn: arise, come up]
5: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn:
rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up,
uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down]
6: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn:
rebel, arise, rise, rise up]
7: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They
rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out,
arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to
bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip
down, retire, sack out, turn in]
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chastise
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v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive
remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate,
chasten, correct]
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comprise
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v 1: be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several
provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn:
consist, comprise]
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 or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
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demise
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n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his
plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying,
demise] [ant: birth]
v 1: transfer by a lease or by a will
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despise
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v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has
to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't
catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn,
disdain]
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disguise
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n 1: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of
something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always
associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn:
disguise, camouflage]
2: any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal
the wearer's identity
3: the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying
its appearance; "he is a master of disguise" [syn:
disguise, camouflage]
v 1: make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We
disguised our faces before robbing the bank" [syn:
disguise, mask]
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eyes
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n 1: opinion or judgment; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong
in her eyes"
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surmise
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n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete
evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition,
surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis]
v 1: infer from incomplete evidence
2: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is
a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn:
suspect, surmise]
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bise
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n 1: a dry cold north wind in southeastern France [syn: bise,
bize]
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baptize
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v 1: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized"
[syn: baptize, baptise, christen]
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decries
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complies
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applies
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ayes
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belies
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buys
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cries
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defies
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denies
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dies
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dries
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sky's
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spies
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supplies
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supply's
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bies
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crise
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deffeyes
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