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berate
3
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]
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ambulate
0
v 1: walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking
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articulate
0
adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear
expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate
orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate,
unarticulate]
2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn:
articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated]
v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of
wood" [syn: joint, articulate]
2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns
to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate,
word, phrase, articulate]
3: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces
French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can
the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn:
pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out,
enunciate, say]
4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone
articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones"
5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate,
vocalize, vocalise]
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ate
0
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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calculate
0
v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out,
reckon, figure]
2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon,
count on, figure, forecast]
3: keep an account of [syn: account, calculate]
4: predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate]
5: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a
certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct]
6: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you
any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet
on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn:
count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon]
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capitulate
0
v 1: surrender under agreed conditions
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circulate
0
v 1: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the
story went around in the office" [syn: go around,
spread, circulate]
2: cause to become widely known; "spread information";
"circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate,
circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate,
propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse,
pass around]
3: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among
the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass around, pass on,
distribute]
4: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the
starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here
does not circulate"
5: move in circles [syn: circle, circulate]
6: cause to move in a circuit or system; "The fan circulates the
air in the room"
7: move around freely; "She circulates among royalty"
8: cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize,
mobilise, circulate]
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collate
0
v 1: compare critically; of texts
2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
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confabulate
0
v 1: unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
2: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
3: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We
conferred about a plan of action" [syn: confer,
confabulate, confab, consult]
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congratulate
0
v 1: say something to someone that expresses praise; "He
complimented her on her last physics paper" [syn:
compliment, congratulate]
2: express congratulations [syn: congratulate, felicitate]
3: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
[syn: pride, plume, congratulate]
4: pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement [syn:
preen, congratulate]
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denticulate
0
adj 1: having a very finely toothed margin
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depopulate
0
v 1: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the
countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate]
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discombobulate
0
v 1: cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder,
bemuse, discombobulate, throw]
2: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think
clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This
question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even
the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle,
fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate]
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expostulate
0
v 1: reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
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flocculate
0
v 1: form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the
protoplasms flocculated"
2: cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist
flocculated the suspended material"
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gesticulate
0
v 1: show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his
desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion]
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manipulate
0
v 1: influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated
public opinion in his favor" [syn: manipulate, pull
strings, pull wires]
2: hold something in one's hands and move it
3: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures";
"cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge,
manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle,
misrepresent]
4: manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig,
manipulate]
5: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually
to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a
very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow
up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she
keeps in line" [syn: manipulate, keep in line, control]
6: treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
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osculate
0
v 1: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These
species osculate"
2: have at least three points in common with; "one curve
osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
3: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's
mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting,
etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her
grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn:
snog, kiss, buss, osculate]
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overpopulate
0
v 1: cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New
Jersey are becoming overpopulated"
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particulate
0
adj 1: composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate]
n 1: a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that
remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions
(usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn:
particulate, particulate matter]
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peculate
0
v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled
thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
[syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate,
misappropriate, malversate]
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perambulate
0
v 1: make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a
property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate
the bounds every five years"
2: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the
garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park"
[syn: perambulate, walk about, walk around]
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postulate
0
n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to
provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: postulate,
posit]
v 1: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no
future" [syn: contend, postulate]
2: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited
three basic laws of nature" [syn: postulate, posit]
3: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do
what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This
job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands
a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a
spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a
patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate,
need, require, take, involve, call for, demand]
[ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
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recapitulate
0
v 1: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
[syn: recapitulate, recap]
2: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the
embryonic phase of life
3: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise,
reprize, repeat, recapitulate]
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relate
0
v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect
these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these
facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn:
associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link
up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate]
2: be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to
her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
[syn: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to,
bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with]
3: give an account of; "The witness related the events"
4: be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations
related?" [syn: relate, interrelate]
5: have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her
peers"
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reticulate
0
adj 1: resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of
a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system" [syn:
reticulate, reticular] [ant: nonreticulate]
v 1: form a net or a network
2: distribute by a network, as of water or electricity
3: divide so as to form a network
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somnambulate
0
v 1: walk in one's sleep [syn: sleepwalk, somnambulate]
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speculate
0
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
[syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture,
hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose]
2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way
and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to
reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the
President had to resign after the scandal"
3: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think
over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate,
muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate,
speculate]
4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
speculating" [syn: speculate, job]
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tabulate
0
v 1: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table,
tabularize, tabularise, tabulate]
2: shape or cut with a flat surface
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vermiculate
0
adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn:
vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy]
2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or
vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate,
vermiculated]
v 1: decorate with wavy or winding lines
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pustulate
0
adj 1: (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin
[syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate]
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sacculate
0
adj 1: formed with or having saclike expansions; "the alimentary
tract is partially sacculated" [syn: sacculated,
sacculate]
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mandibulate
0
adj 1: having mandibles
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aydt
0
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ait
0
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repopulate
0
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scrobiculate
0
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subulate
0