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accept
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v 1: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of
this church"; "accept an argument" [ant: reject]
2: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl
who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have
this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn:
accept, take, have] [ant: decline, pass up,
refuse, reject, turn down]
3: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot
accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" [syn:
accept, consent, go for] [ant: decline, refuse]
4: react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did
not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of
universal health care"
5: admit into a group or community; "accept students for
graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to
admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take
on]
6: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
"I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the
responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, accept,
assume]
7: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept
these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the
insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little
idiosyncrasies" [syn: accept, live with, swallow]
8: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the
dye" [syn: accept, take]
9: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
10: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take
an opportunity" [syn: take, accept]
11: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated
mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
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adept
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adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
"adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert
job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a
proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less
skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful
retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced,
proficient, skillful, skilful]
n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace,
adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin,
virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar,
whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
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backswept
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adj 1: used of hair [syn: backswept, sweptback]
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concept
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n 1: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from
specific instances [syn: concept, conception,
construct] [ant: misconception]
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except
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v 1: take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on
Saturday" [syn: demur, except]
2: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the
top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave
off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
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inept
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adj 1: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing
style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept
than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy,
cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]
2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn:
feckless, inept]
3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
disagreeable" [syn: inept, tactless]
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intercept
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n 1: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
v 1: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to
intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's
airspace" [syn: intercept, stop]
2: tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The
FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is
this hotel room bugged?" [syn: wiretap, tap, intercept,
bug]
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kept
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adj 1: (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or
disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept" [syn:
unbroken, kept] [ant: broken, unkept]
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percept
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n 1: the representation of what is perceived; basic component in
the formation of a concept [syn: percept, perception,
perceptual experience]
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precept
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n 1: rule of personal conduct [syn: principle, precept]
2: a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he
believed all the Christian precepts" [syn: teaching,
precept, commandment]
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swept
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adj 1: possessing sweep; "the sleek swept wings of the plane"
[ant: unswept]
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transept
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n 1: structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform
church; crosses the nave at right angles
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windswept
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adj 1: open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"
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sept
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n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
2: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family,
family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept,
phratry]
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unkept
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adj 1: (especially of promises or contracts) having been
violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises";
"broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant:
kept, unbroken]
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nympholept
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n 1: a person seized by nympholepsy
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unswept
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adj 1: not swept or having sweep; "a boxy little plane with
square unswept wings" [ant: swept]
2: not having been swept; "unswept floors"
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crept
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incept
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leaped
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leapt
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sidestepped
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slept
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stepped
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unwept
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upswept
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wept
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yclept
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prepped
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overslept
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