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advert
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n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad,
advertisement, advertizement, advertising,
advertizing, advert]
v 1: give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the
recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They
attended to everything he said" [syn: attend, hang,
advert, pay heed, give ear]
2: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to
the problem but did not mention it" [syn: allude, touch,
advert]
3: make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with
the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite,
name, refer]
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animadvert
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v 1: express one's opinion openly and without fear or
hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine,
speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off]
2: express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark
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avert
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v 1: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's
avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert
a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate,
deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off,
avoid, ward off]
2: turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King
entered" [syn: avert, turn away]
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controvert
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v 1: be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn:
oppose, controvert, contradict]
2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut,
controvert]
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convert
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n 1: a person who has been converted to another religious or
political belief
v 1: change from one system to another or to a new plan or
policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt" [syn:
convert, change over]
2: change the nature, purpose, or function of something;
"convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails";
"convert slaves to laborers"
3: change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; "She
converted to Buddhism"
4: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or
category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He
changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches";
"convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange,
commute, convert]
5: cause to adopt a new or different faith; "The missionaries
converted the Indian population"
6: score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the
ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end
zone; "Smith converted and his team won"
7: complete successfully; "score a penalty shot or free throw"
8: score (a spare)
9: make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or
validity of something; "He had finally convinced several
customers of the advantages of his product" [syn: convert,
win over, convince]
10: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute,
convert, exchange]
11: change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical
change; "The substance converts to an acid"
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covert
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adj 1: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or
shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert
funding for the rebels" [ant: open, overt]
2: (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a
woman covert"
n 1: a flock of coots
2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a
screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness";
"the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest
concealment is to match perfectly the color of the
background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
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covet
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v 1: wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the
property of another person); "She covets her sister's
house"
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culvert
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n 1: a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or
railway
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divert
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v 1: turn aside; turn away from [syn: deviate, divert]
2: send on a course or in a direction different from the planned
or intended one
3: occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion;
"The play amused the ladies" [syn: amuse, divert,
disport]
4: withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often
secretly and with dishonest intentions [syn: divert, hive
off]
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divot
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n 1: (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the
ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good
drive but the ball ended up in a divot"
2: a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals
hooves or a golf club)
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extravert
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adj 1: being concerned with the social and physical environment
[syn: extrovert, extravert, extroverted,
extraverted, extrovertive, extravertive]
n 1: (psychology) a person concerned more with practical
realities than with inner thoughts and feelings [syn:
extrovert, extravert] [ant: introvert]
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extrovert
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adj 1: being concerned with the social and physical environment
[syn: extrovert, extravert, extroverted,
extraverted, extrovertive, extravertive]
n 1: (psychology) a person concerned more with practical
realities than with inner thoughts and feelings [syn:
extrovert, extravert] [ant: introvert]
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introvert
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n 1: (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social
contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts
[ant: extravert, extrovert]
v 1: fold inwards; "some organs can invaginate" [syn:
invaginate, introvert]
2: turn inside; "He introverted his feelings"
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invert
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v 1: make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the
theme is inverted"
2: reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when
forming a question, invert the subject and the verb" [syn:
invert, reverse]
3: turn inside out or upside down [syn: turn back, invert,
reverse]
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overt
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adj 1: open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt
lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering";
"open ballots" [syn: overt, open] [ant: covert]
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pervert
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n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable
especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant,
deviate, degenerate]
v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch
the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was
accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors
subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn:
corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize,
demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate,
deprave, misdirect]
2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn:
twist, twist around, pervert, convolute,
sophisticate]
3: change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't
abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the
funds intended for the health care of his workers" [syn:
pervert, misuse, abuse]
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pivot
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n 1: the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and
maneuver [syn: pivot, pivot man]
2: axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that
turns [syn: pivot, pin]
3: the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went
to the driving range to practice his pivot"
v 1: turn on a pivot [syn: pivot, swivel]
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private
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adj 1: confined to particular persons or groups or providing
privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions";
"private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private
secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is
now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to
maintain a private life" [ant: public]
2: concerning things deeply private and personal; "private
correspondence"; "private family matters"
3: concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual
cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: individual(a),
private]
4: not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts" [syn: secret,
private]
n 1: an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines;
"our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
[syn: private, buck private, common soldier]
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reconvert
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v 1: convert back; "Hollywood is reconverting old films"
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revert
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v 1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
[syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn
back]
2: undergo reversion, as in a mutation
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semiprivate
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adj 1: confined to a small number of hospital patients;
"semiprivate room"
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subvert
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v 1: cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was
overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" [syn: overthrow,
subvert, overturn, bring down]
2: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch
the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused
of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young
children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert,
subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase,
profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
3: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance
sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn:
sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract,
subvert, weaken]
4: destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be
subverted by the current crisis"
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evert
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n 1: United States tennis player who won women's singles titles
in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954) [syn:
Evert, Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie
Evert]
v 1: turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward; "evert
the eyelid"
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retrovert
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v 1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
[syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn
back]
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vervet
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n 1: South African monkey with black face and hands [syn:
vervet, vervet monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops
pygerythrus]
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obvert
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olivet
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ambivert
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discovert
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