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affect
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n 1: the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
v 1: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [syn:
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on,
touch]
2: act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects
my heart rate"
3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling
affects your business" [syn: involve, affect, regard]
4: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he
was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham,
pretend, affect, dissemble]
5: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child
impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me
as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike]
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checked
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adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn:
checked, checkered, chequered]
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collect
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adv 1: make a telephone call or mail a package so that the
recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church
of Rome or the Church of England
v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the
man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot
of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
[syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up,
amass, compile, hoard]
2: call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million
dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [syn:
collect, take in]
3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your
thoughts together" [syn: gather, garner, collect, pull
together] [ant: distribute, spread]
4: get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [syn: collect,
pull in]
5: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She
picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up
our trash twice a week" [syn: collect, pick up, gather
up, call for]
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confect
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n 1: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with
fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect]
v 1: make or construct
2: make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected"
[syn: confect, confection, comfit]
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connect
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v 1: connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can
you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes
together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, link, tie,
link up] [ant: disconnect]
2: 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]
3: be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets
connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The
travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: connect,
link, link up, join, unite]
4: join by means of communication equipment; "The telephone
company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this
area"
5: land on or hit solidly; "The brick connected on her head,
knocking her out"
6: join for the purpose of communication; "Operator, could you
connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?"
7: be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in
transportation; "The local train does not connect with the
Amtrak train"; "The planes don't connect and you will have to
wait for four hours"
8: establish a rapport or relationship; "The President of this
university really connects with the faculty"
9: establish communication with someone; "did you finally
connect with your long-lost cousin?" [syn: get in touch,
touch base, connect]
10: plug into an outlet; "Please plug in the toaster!"; "Connect
the TV so we can watch the football game tonight" [syn:
plug in, plug into, connect] [ant: disconnect,
unplug]
11: hit or play a ball successfully; "The batter connected for a
home run"
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correct
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adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
"the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right
answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"
[syn: correct, right] [ant: incorrect, wrong]
2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party
without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: correct,
right]
3: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
"what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open
oysters" [syn: correct, right]
4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right" [syn:
right, correct] [ant: wrong]
v 1: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant:
falsify]
2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate,
redress, correct] [ant: wrong]
3: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive
remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate,
chasten, correct]
4: adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or
air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance,
correct, make up, even out, even off, even up]
5: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The
teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn:
discipline, correct, sort out]
6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct]
7: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a
standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment
of the front wheels" [syn: adjust, set, correct]
8: treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his
myopia"
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project
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n 1: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he
prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking,
project, task, labor]
2: a planned undertaking [syn: project, projection]
v 1: communicate vividly; "He projected his feelings"
2: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out";
"A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out,
protrude, jut out, jut, project]
3: transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
4: project on a screen; "The images are projected onto the
screen"
5: cause to be heard; "His voice projects well"
6: draw a projection of
7: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
8: present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He
proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She
proposed a new theory of relativity" [syn: project,
propose]
9: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk
in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
10: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the
corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a
spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast,
contrive, throw]
11: throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile" [syn:
project, send off]
12: regard as objective [syn: project, externalize,
externalise]
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protect
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v 1: shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage;
"Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"
2: use tariffs to favor domestic industry
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recollect
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v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't
remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her
last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do
you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
[syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call
up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block,
draw a blank, forget]
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redirect
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v 1: channel into a new direction; "redirect your attention to
the danger from the fundamentalists" [syn: redirect,
airt]
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reflect
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v 1: manifest or bring back; "This action reflects his true
beliefs"
2: 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]
3: to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected
well in this auditorium" [syn: reflect, reverberate]
4: be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully--
the wet road reflects" [syn: reflect, shine]
5: show an image of; "her sunglasses reflected his image"
6: give evidence of a certain behavior; "His lack of interest in
the project reflects badly on him"
7: give evidence of the quality of; "The mess in his dorm room
reflects on the student"
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reject
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n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as
inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject]
v 1: refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of
starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
[ant: accept]
2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn:
refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant:
accept, have, take]
3: deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child
rearing methods" [syn: disapprove, reject] [ant: O.K.,
approve, okay, sanction]
4: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn:
reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh,
disdain, turn down]
5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign
tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
[syn: resist, reject, refuse]
6: refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of
fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
[syn: reject, turn down, turn away, refuse] [ant:
admit, allow in, intromit, let in]
7: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out
as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This
possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn:
rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject]
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respect
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n 1: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs
in that respect" [syn: respect, regard]
2: the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well
regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high
regard" [syn: esteem, regard, respect] [ant:
disesteem]
3: an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect
for him" [syn: respect, esteem, regard] [ant:
disrespect]
4: a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard;
"his deference to her wishes was very flattering"; "be sure
to give my respects to the dean" [syn: deference,
respect]
5: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children
were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school
out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience,
respect]
6: a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly
regard for love"; "he inspires respect" [syn: regard,
respect]
7: courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your
wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy" [syn: deference,
respect, respectfulness]
v 1: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement";
"We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem,
value, prize, prise] [ant: disesteem, disrespect]
2: show respect towards; "honor your parents!" [syn: respect,
honor, honour, abide by, observe] [ant: disrespect]
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resurrect
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v 1: cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead";
"Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected";
"Upraising ghosts" [syn: resurrect, raise, upraise]
2: restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He
revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in
this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect]
3: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to
uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise]
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sect
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n 1: a subdivision of a larger religious group [syn: sect,
religious sect, religious order]
2: a dissenting clique [syn: faction, sect]
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select
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adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize
carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn:
choice, prime(a), prize, quality, select]
2: selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-
ribbon event of the season" [syn: blue-ribbon(a), select]
v 1: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives;
"Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for
your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among
the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose,
take, select, pick out]
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subject
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adj 1: possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of
misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue
open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and
players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn:
capable, open, subject]
2: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
"subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject,
dependent]
3: likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to
taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he
didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very
sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of
love" [syn: subject, topic, theme]
2: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist
or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture
of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same
subject" [syn: subject, content, depicted object]
3: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn:
discipline, subject, subject area, subject field,
field, field of study, study, bailiwick]
4: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept
drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the
subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
[syn: topic, subject, issue, matter]
5: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the
grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
6: a person who is subjected to experimental or other
observational procedures; someone who is an object of
investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were
selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn
from two different communities" [syn: subject, case,
guinea pig]
7: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a
duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject]
8: (logic) the first term of a proposition
v 1: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable
to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant
subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in
Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to
the judgments of his superiors"
3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn:
subjugate, subject]
4: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted
the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]
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suspect
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adj 1: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the
accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely
queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were
suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny,
shady, suspect, suspicious]
n 1: someone who is under suspicion
2: a person or institution against whom an action is brought in
a court of law; the person being sued or accused [syn:
defendant, suspect] [ant: complainant, plaintiff]
v 1: 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]
2: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith
or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect]
[ant: bank, rely, swear, trust]
3: hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected
Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
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unchecked
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adj 1: not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an
unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage" [syn: unbridled,
unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned]
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brecht
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n 1: German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic
theater (1898-1956) [syn: Brecht, Bertolt Brecht]
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reelect
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v 1: elect again [syn: reelect, return]
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decked
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rechecked
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reconnect
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becht
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knecht
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pecht
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precht
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bedecked
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deregt
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nondirect
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fecht
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