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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
retake – retook – retaken undertake – undertook – undertaken *uptake – uptook – uptaken *withtake – withtook – withtaken: Strong, class 6: teach – taught – taught: Weak, class 1, subclass (ii) With Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law: tear – tore – torn uptear – uptore – uptorn: Strong, class 4: tell – told – told
Taking the piss is a colloquial term meaning to mock at the expense of others, or to be joking, without the element of offence. It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. [1]
Today's Wordle Answer for #1237 on Thursday, November 7, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Thursday, November 7, 2024, is EVENT. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.
The anti-Soviet sentiment in Reboly was still strong, and in 1921, after the Red Army re-took Reboly and Porosozero, local pro-Finnish activists formed a short-lived resistance movement known as the Metsäsissit (literally Forest Guerillas). [7] Together with Finnish volunteers, they were instrumental in the East Karelian uprising of 1921-1922.
A reclaimed or reappropriated word is a word that was at one time pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage, usually starting within its original target, i.e. the communities that were pejoratively described by that word, and later spreading to the general populace as well.