The lessons of History

The references in the text, to various volumes of the Story are offered not as authority but as elucidations so come upon.
Synonyms: clarify:explicate:expound:expatiate(Prounciation : expayshiate ):dilate
Collocates:
Nouns: nature,research,study,role,text,relationship
..to elucidate her fickle nature..
..this popular opposition is elucidated by the ongoing research..
..elucidates a complicated relationship..

Pronunciation: eluu|s'ee|date

Treat my grandparents with deference owing to their experience and age.
Degree: regard:admiration:awe:reverence:esteem:deference:submissiveness:obsequiousness
Collocates:great,judicial,legislative,due,certain,court,respect,agency,tradition
Verbs with deference: GIVE,SHOW,treat,grant,state,demand,deserve,accord

..he must have been accorded much deference and positive consideration for his views..
..He dropped the due deference normally accorded sentencing judges...
..No deference should be accor

We tried to defer our conclusions until we had completed our survey of the narrative.
Degree: submit:concede:comply:defer:accede:adjourn:reschedule
Collocates: tax,decision,income,payment,dream,judgment,action,agency,to,until,agree,simply,rather

..tax deferred at 6% annually..
..If you sell atleast 30%, you can defer capital gain taxes..
..You get a defer of the taxes on those profits as long as..

Pronounciation: coun'sil
Degree: advice:warniing:counsel:guidance
...counsel given by my parents, friends...
Collocates: special,legal,chief,outside,senior,office,house, president,defense,appoint,seek,investigate,serve
..He gave the President dubious counsel..
..counsel appointed to investigate..

Pronounciation: ri|buff not reebuff
Degree:decline:reject:rebuff:spurn:snub:repulse:slight
Collocates: attempt,request,suggestion,administration,repeatedly,initially,firmly,prepare,quickly

Have you derived from history any illumination of our present condition, any guard against the rebuffs of surprise and vicissitudes of change?

My boss rebuffed my request to take the day off.

Pronounciation: ill'eeu|mi|nay|shun
Degree: explanation:insight:illumination:clarification:enlightenment:elucidation
Collocates: provide,achieve,cast,reveal,refer,light,depict,glare,flicker,round

..to cast illumination..
..to provide illumination by referring to..

No Synonyms
..vicissitudes of life..

with noun (life, history, nature)
..after the vicissitudes earlier in life...
-...to trace the vicissitudes of American history...
-...Arab East is dominated by the vicissitudes of political nature...

with verbs (cope, deal, describe)
-...to cope with life's vicissitudes...
-...Physicionas deal with the vicissitudes of fatal viability...
-...despite life's vicissitudes she describes how...

..immense past...
Degree: huge:vast:massive:enormous:giant:immense:gigantic:mammoth:colossal:incalculable:immeasurable
Collocates: power,challenge,practical,enormous

Pronounciation : weea|rrie
Degree: jaded:disenchanted:disillusioned:weary:sleepy:exhausteD:shattered:drained:drowsy:whacked:fatigued: somnolent
Collocates: eye,face,voice,traveler,smile,sigh,rest,look,bone,soldier,foot,suddenly,increasingly,sad,sick
..so sad , so lost and weary..
..the young man's voice sounded bone weary ..
..I know in my weary bones how critical it is to sleep..
..the face looked weary and frightened..
I felt weary after the 8-hour trek.

Degree: attack:rush:assault:storm:raid:beset:assail:blitz//criticise:abuse:berate:assail:revile
Collocates: doubt,critic,democrat,republican,thought,nose,denounce,question,democratic,dare,immediately,memory,record
..to assail any person/democrat/republican..
multitude of doubts assail our enterprise..
multidute of doubts about my skills assail me..

Pronounciation: Prae|de|lection
Degree: preference:tendency:penchant:fondness:liking:predilection:partiality
Collocates: personal,strong,innate,aesthetic,habit,type,teaching,explain,indicate

..How can I explain my predilection..
..dreams and aesthetic predilections of the advocates..
..her interest in gardening is motivated less by aesthetic predilection than it is by philosophical belief..

new|aance [aa as in pronounciation of hour]
Degree:note:tone:touch:distinction:shade:hint:trace:nuance:tinge:gradation
Collocates:subtle,emotional,stylistic,miss,grasp,explore,expression,character,complexity

..get into the nuances and subtleties of steroids..

Try to learn the nuances of circuit designing at the radio frequency.

Pronounciation : buh|roke
No Synonyms
Collocates: Classical,spanish,modern,gothic,italian,french,music,period,pearl
..a string of baroque freshwater pearls from Scottish rivers..
..toys having baroque pearls from the workshop

Degree: unstable:shaky:unsafe:precarious:insecure:wobbly:unsteady // risky:hazardous:precarious
Pronounciation: pre|care|eous not precayreous
Collocates: position,state,angle,financial,remain,already,rather,maintain,somewhat
..the financial system is as precarious as their industrial system..
..very weak financials and precaious balance sheets..
..going through a precarious financial condition..
It was a precarious trek.
..was weary after the precarious trek..

Degree: illusion:delusion:hallucination:apparition:mirage// misunderstanding:misconception:delusion:misapprehension:delusion
Collocates: paranoid,false,experience,labor,persist,dangerous,collective,belief

Pronounciation: [like illusion]

I think you are deluded in your ideas for the project.

Pronounciation : a|llusion [ a as in about ]
Degree:suggestion:hint:mention:citation:quotation:allusion:insinuation:Inuendo
Collocates: literary,historical,direct,intertextual,reality,apprecite,poem,link,lace,reinforce,abound,theme,biblical
..the first biblical allusion accompanied by a citation..
..the message sprinkled with biblical allusions and lines from spirituals..

Degree: magic:illusion:deception:misconception:delusion:artifice:trickey:misapprehension
Collocations: optical,aesthetic,grand,visual,three-dimensional,reality,create,give,shatter
..to have illusions about the difficulty of the project..
..the painting produces a 3-D optical illusion..

Degree: croon(sing softly):crow:coo:gurgle:warble(sing with uneven quavering voice):burble(a stream burbles as it bubbles over rocks and trees)
Collocations: water:throat:stream:like:something:over,hear,down,gurgle,away,around,low
..the actor's lines gurgled back down his throat like water down a drain..
..that hurt his throat terribly and he gurgled,choked and spat..
..she gurgled deep in her throat with wonder..
..water began to gurgle down through the dry pipe..
..gurgling away through culver

saav|wai|gry saav as in have,wait as in wait , gry and not gree, g pronounced as letter 'g'
degree: cruelty:ferocity:savagery:barbarism:viciousness:barbarity
collocates: human,noble,pure,unprecedented,civilization,kind,war,act,violence,conquest,embody,confront
..no industrial democracy has confronted this kind of savagery since 1945..
..there's an implicit readiness to confront this act of savagery..

degree: emission,discharge,sewage,run-off,effluent,overflow,seepage
Collocations: industrial,septic,treated,national,secondary,discharge,treat,pump,meet,require,toxic
..the septic effluents need to be treated before sea discharge..

Pronouciation : Prim as in Primary
Degree: developing:embryonic:primordial:nascent
Collocates: matter, material,EARTH,SOUP,WAVE,GRAVITY,ASSOCIATE,ARISE,ROOT,COSMIC
..13.7 billion years .. and you land squarely in the primordial soup of the big bang..
..No one knows about primordial gravity waves..
- With their primordial black matter...
- Comets are primitive bodies containing primordial material

Pronounciation : sub|sten|tive not sub|staan|tive
Degree: basic:primary:essential:fundamental:elementary:principal:substantive// independant:separate:substantive:autonomous // practical:functional:applicable:utilitarian
Collocation: issues,change,difference,anything,serious,environmental,provide,than,rather,due

..one of the most substantive developments is due to..
..efforts to provide a substantive course in physics..

com|place|ent
Degree: satisfied:smug:complacent:self-righteous:contented:self-satisfied
Collocates: Society,smile,attitude,consumer,thinking,storm,become,comfortable,alert,grow,smug,afford
..can we afford to be complacent in their fund-raising?..
..MS can never afford to be complacent , the nature of the industry is volatile and ever-changing and challenging
..they've attacked him as a "smug complacent man" who is leading the nation to disaster..

Pronounciation: Naa|eve
Degree: innocent:naive:inexperienced:childlike:trusting:guileless:ingenuous // unsophisticated :: foolish:naive:unwise:gullible:unsophisticated:credulous
Collocation: realism,beliefs,view,optimism,faith,think,young,believe,enough,maybe,little,sound
..I don't think I am naive about..
..naive concepts concerning physics..

Degree: merry:cheerful:brisk:jolly:carefree:jaunty:sprightly:spry:chirpy
Collocations: angle,hat,cap,air,head,tune,wave,voice,look,pose,beret,fedora,give,wear,little,white,set,walk,almost
..the song is so downright jaunty..
..Mozart's Instrumentals are simply downright jaunty!..
..Kennedy, whose cigar was stuck in his mouth at a jaunty angle..

Degree: Artificial:fixed:forced:affected:unnatural:manufactured:contrived
Collocates:situation,experience,image,nature,lab,plot,version,exercise,setting,scenario,performance,natural,hastily,less
..these are too contrived and short-lived to make much of a difference..
..the movie was too contrived..
..the novel seems too contrived..

Pronounciation: gen|tile tile as in tile not till
collocations:include,marry,define,oppose,kill,preach,allow,convert,fill,secular,native-born,inclusion
..The inclusion of gentiles and Jews..
..they objected to her marrying a gentile..

..a whiff of a pizza from Ugo's !..
collocations: faint,strong,sweet,deep,slight,occasional,sharp,stale,warm,catch,get,carry,smell,detect,waft,emit
..it carries a whiff of danger..
..he mission, only minutes old, already carried the whiff of defeat!..
..the strong whiffs of kerosene/paint/varnish..

Collocates: age,cage,mirror,ceiling,wood,plique-a-jour,pine,above,huge,top,French,ornately
In America during the Gilded age and Progressive Era..
gilded silver,plique-a-jour (French: letting in daylight : is a vitreous enamelling technique ,light shines through the translucent enamel : in japan this tech is called as shotai-jippo)

Pronounciation: Pre|hen|sil not sile
Collocations: tail,tongue,hand,digit,branch,toe,limb,its,long,around,only,strong,sensory
..it is a glorious tail:prehensile,muscular..
..the only primates that have prehensile tails are some of the SA monkeys..

Pronounciation: Cch|lamber Stress on Cch like kkhan.
Degree: Crawl:scramble:scale:clamber
Collocations: foot,rock,side,back,ladder,wall,bed,tree,slope,seat,boat,roof,fence,up,over,across,steep
..clamber across 11,500 foot deep valleys..
..the kids happily clambered through a 2-story climbing structure..

Parody as in pair|adee not pair|odie
Degrees: Satire:parody:takeoff:caricature:mockery:spoof:burlesque:lampoon
Collocations: grotesque,funny, perfect,modern,cruel
..The alien's face contorted in its grotesque parody of a human smile..
..it was the perfect parody of her instructor..
..Ritchie's hilarious smile was the funniest beauty-pageant parody of all time..

per|em|tuh|ree per as in "as per laws" "emp-> p is silent"
Degree: direct:determined:decisive:snap:hasty:resolute:no-nonsense:peremptory:unthinking //
definite:commanding:authoritative:unconditional:dognamtic:dictatorial:imperious:peremptory

Collocates: challenge,tone,excerice,gender-based,remove,appear,exclude,yet,whether
..Instead, we consider whether peremptory challenges based on gender ...
.."You must" she said in a peremptory voice/tone..

Degree: period:turn:shift:stretch:spell:stint
Collocations: brief,6-month,career,enjoy,complete,editor,army,teaching,follow,4-year..
..It was a 4 month stint..
..After a 4 month stint at the Autistic center as an assistant teacher, she now teaches at the Waldorf inspired curative center..

prefect like effect in pronounciation
Collocates: head,sacred,senior,teacher,elect,act,become,appoint,serve
..If you serve as an Augustal Prefect in Egypt..
..He is the prefect of the sacred Congregation for the doctrine of faith..

Usage : [ See word Postlude ]
Pronounciation: ee|pak : pak as in pluck
Degree: age:period:date:era:epoch:eon
Collocates: early,new,hostorical,different,current,emergent,modern,history,universe,age,star,culture

..The universe in its earliest epochs expanded so quickly that..
..the so called recombination epoch occurs..
..6 exhibits focus on different geologic epochs..
..which epoch do you belong to?..

Pronounciation: Drivel like driven
Degree: bunk:gibberish:drivel:hogwash:malarkey:hokum:twaddle:balderdash
Collocations: pretentious,flood,hear,marvel,publish,write,read,listen,follow,kind,age,interested

..It was a pretentious drivel..
..a way of immersing truth in a flood of drivel..
..i sat before the television and marveled at the drivel that passed for entertainment..

Pronounciation : por\ten\tous stress on t por as in paw\r
Degree: 1.vanity(grave:arrogant:solemn:pretentious:pompous:haughty:self-important:portentous
2.significant:crucial:ominous:threatening:fateful:portentous
Collocates: tone,word,moment,sign,air,music,vocie,sky,battle,more,seem,most,sound
..the teacher would sound portentous..
..the word sounded portentous..
..he had the portentous air of a merchant banker..

Pronounciation : cata\pull\t
Degree: shoot:toss:project:fling:propel:hurl:sling:hurtle:catapult
Collocations: fame,stardom,prominence,top,record,career,limelight,plane,album,rank,song,celebrity

..to catapult to fame..

Pronounciation: Cay\dense
Degrees: Accent:cadence:inflection:intonation:modulation:lilt
pace:stroke:rhythm:pulse:tempo:cadence

Collocations: slow,steady,low,rhythmic,final,soft,harmonic,design,echo,increase,maintain,pedal
..we reflect the slow cadence of nature's cycles..
..i have learned to appreciate the slow cadence of the season's change..
..my journey became the steady cadence of hiking,observing and thinking..

Pronounciation: ree|ssivi\dism
Degrees: tendency:repetition:recidivism:backsliding
Collocates: low,high,significant,crime,break,report,percent,offender,program

..factors related to jail recidivism..
..what can break the recidivism cycle? ..

Pronounciation: deck|kuh|dunt not decay|dent
Degrees: immoral:degenerate:decadent:self-indulgent:profligate:depreaved:dissolute:licentious:debauched
Collocations: dessert,chocolate,society,cake,west,music,artist,dinner,treat,literature

..I have few bites of the most decadent dessert available..
..they were regarded as decadent and corrupt..

Pronounciation: hawm|e|side not home|e|side
Degree: shooting:killing:homicide:assasination:slaughter:manslaughter:stabbing
Collocations:negligent,double,vehicular,justifiable,unsolved,guilty,violent,involved,detective,investigation

..She was a homicide detective..
..He is charged with 35 counts of negligent homicide..
..half of the homicides are unsolved..

Pronounciation: O|pass|city Stress on Pass

Degrees: Obscurity- complexity:obscurity:vagueness:opacity:obtuseness:impenetrability
Opaqueness- dullness:cloudiness:smokiness:impenetrability:Opaqueness
Collocates: strong,linguistic,multiple,dark,nuclear,nodular,develop,degree,layer,vary,reduce,appear..
..to use the notion of linguistic opacity..
..due to institutional opacity and bureaucratic closure..
..That creates a nice balance of opacity and transparency..
..blend into one image havin

Pronounciation: di|sid|jew|us

Collocations: tree,forest,shrubs,leaf,evergreen,species,vine,conifer,area,zone,shade

..The valley is characterized by deciduous and conifer forests..

Degree: division:disagreement:faction:contention:strife:discord:schism:dissension:disharmony:disunity:sectaranianism

Collocations: warring,political,various,different,rival,conservative,military,radical,armed, part,leader,rebel,peace,movement

..pitting the Sunnis against the Shiites and faction against faction..
..the greed for gold drove them to break up into factions and to savagely abuse the natives..
..It might be a faction of another political movement..

Pronounciation: Spew|rious
Degree: fake:phony:bogus:forged:counterfeit:spurious:specious:inauthentic:sham
Collocates:signal,result,argument,claim,effect,correlation,association,reduce

..people who retreat to the opera for gross fantasies of spurious glamour..
..It will produce spurious results..
..it is a spurious argument..

Pronounciation: ske|jew|le le as in rule!
Degree: Plan:list:agenda:schedule:diary:calender:roster:timetable:rota( row|tta emphasis on ta)
Collocations: busy:daily:regular:flexible:full:hectic:tough:tight:work,time

..The schedule includes a special note..
..try to fit my schedule..
..

Pronounciation: Arc|kay|typal
Degrees: typical:conventional:classic:representative:exemplary:archetypal:prototypical:archetypal:model
Collocations:image,character,form,figure,theory,experience,story,symbol,psychology,process,myth,pattern

..we would not besurprised by the coincidence of archetypal theories..
..an archetypal labyrinth..
..And while Palin perfected the archetype of the rugged pioneer woman, even that necessity has faded away....In some ways, Walmart represents the archetype of M/C

Pronounciation: RESER|vo|a the last letter r is silent
Degrees: tank:lake:reservoir:basin
COLLOCATIONS:large,huge,vast,deep,central,natural,main,underground,slow,nearby,water,lake,dam,river,creek

..the Great Sacandaga Lake, an artificial reservoir 29 miles long..
the water levels of many california reservoirs and lakes have fallen dramatically in recent years..

Pronounication: kaur|porate
Collocations: executive,tax,culture,profit,world,sponsor,governance,interest

..the issue of corporate abuse and its potential effect on the upcoming elections..
..he is the head of the newly created task force for corporate fraud..

Pronounciation: ris|plen|dent

Degrees: impressive:stunning:magnificient:glorious:spelndid:dazzling:glittering:resplendent
collocations: garden,quetzal(a bird ),silk,light,gold,dress,suit,shirt,uniform,robe

..Matthei botanical gardens have resplendent looks!
..dressed in resplendent gowns..

..not in 60000 lemmas
..He and his followers were bitterly assailed, but his irenic spirit did not forsake him.
The irenic character of the Augsburg Confession was owing to this principle.

Pronounciation: inter|reg|num reg as in regular and not as region

Degrees : pause:interval:wait:interruption:lapse:lag:hiatus:interregnum
collocates: long brief,strange,17-year,chaotic,year,model,power,exile,period,create,follow

..an attempt to calm markets during the long interregnum between his election
..When Charles II came to the throne he was treated as if he had succeeded in 1649 – thus 1649-1660 was called the interregnum..

Pronounication: rec|creant rec as in record not as in re-play
Not in 60000 lemmas

A recreant is a heavy-duty coward. If your friend shoves you in front of him when a growling dog approaches, you'd quickly recognize him for the recreant that he is. And in the future you’d choose your friends more carefully.

..What El Nino’s departure meant for Liverpool fans was evident immediately; he was a rat, a deserter, a recreant, a traitor.

Pronounciation: mo|a|tea mo as in more : a as in letter 'a'
collocates: opposite,ancient,totemic,ritual,member,group, affiliation,cult,neighborhood,clan,initiation,depict,perform,set

..members of the opposite moiety..
..marry a person of the opposite moiety..
the wolf-moiety is the equivalent of the eagle in parts of southeast asia..

Pronounciation: b is silent.

Degree: DIE: depart:expire:succumb:perish
GIVE AWAY: submit:surrender:succumb:accede:capitulate
Collocates: pressure,temptation,disease,cancer,illness,charm,infection,lure,fever,attack,impulse,attack,heat,desire

..succumb to injuries on the battlefield..
..the author of strange fictions succumbed to the virus/madness/death..

Pronounication : avaant| guard
Not in 60000 lemmas

Avant-garde solutions..
..It is a landmark site for avant-garde and experimental music, and it is as sparse as a single note played repeatedly on a piano..

In the music business, Bill Graham was a famous impresario who arranged concerts for huge bands such as The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. An impresario signs a band — or other entertainment — and makes a deal with the venue.

Degrees: stop:pause:ending:interruption:termination:close:cessation
Collocates: smoking, complete,immediate,total,permanent,driving,experience,weight,define,promote

..to give brief smoking cessation advice..
..the four states were about to experience a total cessation of poultry production..

Degree:measure:bit:drop:minimum:scrap:mite:modicum:smidgen
Collocates: common,certain,security,sense,respect,stability,order,control,privacy,success,support,freedom,provide,maintain

..a modicum of arithmetic ability..
..exercise a modicum of caution..

Degree: seemingly,presumably,supposedly,allegedly,ostensibly,superficially
collocates: protect,although,design,independent,purpose,objective,defend,aim,promote,intend

..Ostensibly intended to prevent strength wars
..to illuminate paintings..
..to make the product irresistible to the impulse buyer..

Pronounciation : crow-ni-izm
Collocates: political,rife,rampant,economic,bureaucratic,possible,entrenched,special,prone,incompetance

..to loathe cronyism
..45 years of communist cronyism
Persian businessmen are struggling in an environment of cronyism and corruption..

Degrees and rank
2758 tight
17278 frugal
19552 stingy
22882 thrifty
29319 parsimonious
30127 miserly
44943 ungenerous
46351 penny-pinching
52072 sparing

Collocates: set,model,explanation,variable,predictor,teacher,use, relationship,theory,attitude

..a very parsimonious attitude..
..the model was adopted because it was more parsimonious and fruitful..
..the parsimonous businessman,supports welfare to work..
..they were parsimonious with their support to help the war refugees!..

pug|nay|sh|us pug like mug : sh|us ..not shee|us
Degree and rank
aggressive
9116 contentious
13941 confrontational
16670 belligerent
23769 argumentative
29172 pugnacious
39221 truculent

Collocates:face, man, personality, style,bulldog,response,press,editor,edge,attitude,small,young
..used to pugnacious advocacy..
..i think he did rev up his base by being pugnacious against the republicans..
..the pugnacoius edge to his face has softened..
..my face went pugnacious the moment i saw her!..

Pronounciation : un|sullied stress on 's'
Collocates :world, reputation,law,air,experience,view,image,horse,beauty,wilderness
Degrees and rank
2432 pure
13048 immaculate
23944 unblemished
34787 faultless
34718 unsullied
44156 untarnished

..20 years of career and his reputation remains unsullied..
..her innocence , unsullied by any experience that life has given her..

28522 servile
31950 obsequious
32371 smarmy
42057 fawning
43372 sycophantic

Collocates: ATTENTION,BIOGRAPHY,interview,devotee,bestow,falsely,ant-war,authorized,agitated,adoring

..who could possibly deserve all that fawning attention?
..fawning friends..
..in the course of a fawning interview with Frank..

Pronounciation: aar|go
Degrees and rank:

jargon
10990 dialect
13091 idiom
12796 jargon
14190 slang
17091 vernacular
33094 patois
34168 argot

collocates :black,personal,slang,underworld,network,manufacturing,mythology,studio,space

..every profession creating its specialized argot and every new generation forming its own slang..
..argot the children use..
..an argot of personal mythology..

chauvinism
5692 nationalism
8276 patriotism
14485 antagonism
18639 antipathy
23242 xenophobia
24277 chauvinism
38003 jingoism
45948 flag-waving

collocates: naive,aggressive,racism,age,recrimination,kind,drive,become

..community's response tothe jingoism and anti german nativism..
..how can we keep religion and jingoism mutually exclusive?

pronounciation: cun|eye|wins
collocates: local,critical,likely,official,state,government,press,party,leader,collusion

..i think i'll need your connivance again..
..we generally think of connivance a s a matter of active conspiracy..

verb form..
dither
3462 delay
3954 hesitate
9613 waver
9524 falter
17673 flounder
21929 dawdle
27455 dither
splash
4032 stumble
6793 splash
8261 flap
11751 thrash
13277 flail
15554 wallow
17673 flounder

..she floundered a bit, but resumed dancing gracefully!..
..she floundered across the slope..

heterogeneous
2830 diverse
2862 extensive
6472 varied
9911 eclectic
13673 heterogeneous
13498 wide-ranging

collocates: mix,collection,group,style,taste,approach,music,menu,art..
..we must use an eclectic and diverse approach to solve the problems in our economy..
..i have an eclectic taste in reading...

unorthodox
15075 unorthodox
18502 profane
20046 dissenting
21960 heretical
29283 sacrilegious
34653 heterodox

Pronounication: huh|retical not hey|retical
collocates: fact,idea,view,beliefs,act,theory,thought

..to testify any heretical acts of deed or of speech..
..they declared the changes heretical and drew astonished gasps from everyone..

Pronounication: uh|reena

stadium
522 ground
1684 ring
3616 arena
4161 stadium
5056 dome
15168 amphitheater

collocates: political,new,public,international,global,downtown,finance,dominate

..they're looking for some direction in the political arena after the soviet disintegrated..
..we need to acclimate our children to the political arena at an early age..

hope
1103 option
1147 hope
1197 possibility
1218 vision
1900 expectation
2079 potential
2337 prospect
4640 likelihood
5158 probability
5938 outlook
view
738 scene
1218 vision
2337 prospect
5938 outlook
6148 viewpoint
10099 vista
13456 panorama
31747 overlook

collocates: economic,top,long-term,political,better,democratic,financial,poor,dim
..i guess her prospects of getting a full-time are bright..
..is there any prospect about meeting face to face? ..
..Such an Android device is an unlikely pr

collocates: wrong,lot,critic,skeptic,climate,alarmist,doubter,chorus,prove,ignore,dismiss,silence,listen,complain
..it's challenging to be confronted with naysayers all the time..
Naysayers point out that all of this comes at a cost.

Pronounciation: Techhno|file file and not philly

collocates:full-on,complulsive,gadget,iphone,electronics

one of the best technophiles around us..
im a technophile of RF technology since my undergrad days..

Pronounication: Pree|vee
colloations: council,information,conversation,secret,discussion,audience

was privy to confidential information..
only a handful of senior officials were privy to her info/information about our strategy
Companies that are privy to the data..
..im sorry im not privy to any information about that..

Degrees and ranks:
allow
766 accept
1090 admit
1122 own
1660 acknowledge
1917 grant
4225 concede
yield
4225 concede
4696 compromise
13021 forfeit

Collocates: official,point,defeat,critic,administration,election,aide,supporter,opponent,expert,error,legitimacy,validity
..he explicitly refused to concede any validity to the claim..
..a rattled Garry Lasparov, conceded defeat after falling into a trapthat had been set by the russians..
..israeli security officials concede Arafat isnt involved in di

collocates: political,consummate,illegal,longtime,guilty,speculate,estimate,quote,track,comapny,information
..Wolf of Wall street..
siphoning millions of dollarsby carrying out ubsider trades in their companies..

employees
2441 personnel
5405 payroll
6712 workforce
Collocates : social,federal,total,annual,opening-day,highest paid,internal,income,raise,reduce

..he doubts the wisdom of cutting the payroll tax and taking social security out of the budget..
..There was a time when we barely made our payroll..
..Businesses are keeping their payrolls low by embracing new technologies.(Merriam)

Degrees and ranks :

daring
4535 risky
4901 brave
8320 courageous
9472 daring
11784 fearless
17053 audacious
22109 foolhardy
impudent
16778 disrespectful
17053 audacious
24618 cheeky
30295 overconfident
31209 impudent

Collocates: goal,plan,experiment,claim,attmept,decision,gamble,step,attack,act,birth,most,truly,particularly

..Have audacious goals..
..it's easy to lose sight of just how audacious a move he is about to make..
..Avalon - the most sweeping , moving, and visually audacious movie

Degrees and ranks :

prime
12636 heyday
16503 zenith
34389 prime
collocations: late, early,musical,brief,colonial,abstract,town,empire..
..the company ABC which had a brief hayday in the late /early forties..
..His heyday as the Microsoft CEO....
..this period is described as the heyday of abstract expressionism..

Pronounciation: fill|an|throw|peee throw without any stress on on 'w' like thr
Degrees and ranks:
3525 humanity
5037 compassion
8097 generosity
8940 goodwill
10299 patronage
13996 philanthropy
16278 altruism
19524 clemency
19662 benevolence
29350 amity

Collocates:corporate,private,jewsish,public,nonprofit,responsive,civic,involved,encourage,organize
..private investors,state governments,philanthropies..
..the child welfare league of America, a private philanthropy is already carrying its share

Degrees and ranks
crush
7558 flatten
11591 trample
14761 squash
19507 squelch
20549 squish
squish
6793 splash
19507 squelch
20549 squish
21009 gurgle
suppress
4349 crush
5013 suppress
7266 silence
8418 stifle
13445 repress
14761 squash
19240 quash
19507 squelch
40453 scotch

Collocates: attempt,effort,freedom,idea,rumors,impulse,speech,administration,enthusiasm
..to squelch competitive products/competitors..
..how a teacher can squelch a child..
..i squelched a grimace (grim|is, disgust but usua

Pronounciation : stell|ur stress on ste | ur as in urge
Collocates: evolution,career,performance,record,measure,despite,spectrum

Degrees and Ranks:

all-star
8044 stellar
8206 glamorous
11796 glittering
16535 starry
18510 big-name
19434 glitzy
23054 star-studded
23828 star-spangled
astral
7048 planetary
7167 astronomical
8044 stellar
15310 cosmological
23372 astrophysical
31921 astral

..my stellar academic career was an inspiration to many..
..my stellar performance was lauded by all...
..the

Pronounciation : bay|vee not bay|vie
Collocates:young,small, beautiful,unwanted,include,shelter

..grandma is always surrounded by a bevy of adorable children :)..
..Bevy of challenges/options/idiosyncracies..
..a bevy of pretty girls surrounded him like a cluster of flowers in a garden..

revamp its strategies/
revamp my reading skills..

highly personable..

That's not a refutation of their opinions..although correct in its perspective

even with that caveat,...

getting all those plaudits...

generate these blazes