This document discusses words that can be classified in four different parts of speech: noun, adjective, verb, and adverb. It provides the word "best" as an example, listing its definitions and part of speech classifications as a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb according to Wordnet, a lexical database of English. The document encourages downloading Wordnet to explore the semantic relationships between words, such as synonymy, hypernymy, and others. It provides several other words as examples and their Wordnet classifications.

1. Words classifiable in 4 different ways as a Noun,
Adjective, Verb and Adverb
Andrew Ernest Ritz
Langtech
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2. Introduction
Words classifiable in four different ways as either a noun, adjective,
verb or adverb, are very useful when trying to understand the semantic
relationships that exist between words and are defined in Wordnet.
Wordnet is a free lexical database of English available from Stanford
University.
The main semantic relationships defined between words are
Synonymy/Antonymy
Hypernymy/Hyponymy,
Meronymy/Holonymy
Troponymy
Entailment
Why not download Wordnet and type in one of the words listed in
this presentation and explore these relationships.
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3. best
noun –1. (6) best – (the supreme effort one can make; ”they did
their best”)
verb –. (1) outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop – (get the better of;
”the goal was to best the competition”)
adj –1. (94) best – ((superlative of ‘good’) having the most positive
qualities; ”the best film of the year”; ”the best solution”; ”the best
time for planting”; ”wore his best suit”)
adv –1. (14) best – (in a most excellent way or manner; ”he played
best after a couple of martinis”)
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4. better
noun –1. (1) better – (something superior in quality or condition or
effect; ”a change for the better”)
verb –1. (1) better, break – (surpass in excellence; ”She bettered her
own record”; ”break a record”)
adj –1. (69) better – ((comparative of ‘good’) superior to another (of
the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or
suitability; more highly skilled than another; ”You’re a better man
than I am, Gunga Din”; ”a better coat”; ”a better type of car”; ”a
suit with a better fit”; ”a better chance of success”; ”produced a
better mousetrap”; ”she’s better in math than in history”)
adv –1. (45) better – (comparative of ‘well’; in a better or more
excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a
greater degree etc.; ”She had never sung better”; ”a deed better left
undone”; ”better suited to the job”)
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5. bitter
noun –1. bitter – (English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with
strong flavor of hops (usually on draft))
verb –. bitter – (make bitter)
adj –1. (12) acrimonious, bitter – (marked by strong resentment or
cynicism; ”an acrimonious dispute”; ”bitter about the divorce”)
adv –. piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter – (extremely and sharply; ”it
was bitterly cold”; ”bitter cold”)
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6. broadside
noun –1. (1) circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer,
throwaway – (an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a
leaflet) intended for wide distribution; ”he mailed the circular to all
subscribers”)
verb –. broadside – (collide with the broad side of; ”her car
broad-sided mine”)
adj –. broadside – (toward a full side; ”a broadside attack”)
adv –. broadside – (with a side facing an object; ”the train hit the
truck broadside”; ”the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized
it”)
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7. clean
noun –. (1) clean and jerk, clean – (a weightlift in which the barbell
is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead)
verb –1. (16) clean, make clean – (make clean by removing dirt, filth,
or unwanted substances from; ”Clean the stove!”; ”The dentist
cleaned my teeth”)
adj –1. (17) clean – (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean
habits; ”children with clean shining faces”; ”clean white shirts”;
”clean dishes”; ”a spotlessly clean house”; ”cats are clean animals”)
adv –1. (1) clean, plumb, plum – (completely; used as intensifiers;
”clean forgot the appointment”; ”I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out”)
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8. clear
noun –1. clear – (the state of being free of suspicion; ”investigation
showed that he was in the clear”)
verb –1. (16) unclutter, clear – (rid of obstructions; ”Clear your
desk”)
adj –1. (55) clear – (readily apparent to the mind; ”a clear and
present danger”; ”a clear explanation”; ”a clear case of murder”; ”a
clear indication that she was angry”; ”gave us a clear idea of human
nature”)
adv –1. (3) clear, all the way – (completely; ”read the book clear to
the end”; ”slept clear through the night”; ”there were open fields
clear to the horizon”)
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9. close
noun –1. (8) stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion,
close – (the temporal end; the concluding time; ”the stopping point
of each round was signaled by a bell”; ”the market was up at the
finish”; ”they were playing better at the close of the season”)
verb –1. (32) close, shut – (move so that an opening or passage is
obstructed; make shut; ”Close the door”; ”shut the window”)
adj –1. (38) close – (at or within a short distance in space or time or
having elements near each other; ”close to noon”; ”how close are we
to town?”; ”a close formation of ships”)
adv –1. (17) near, nigh, close – (near in time or place or relationship;
”as the wedding day drew near”; ”stood near the door”; ”don’t shoot
until they come near”; ”getting near to the true explanation”; ”her
mother is always near”; ”The end draws nigh”; ”the bullet didn’t
come close”; ”don’t get too close to the fire”)
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10. cod
noun –1. pod, cod, seedcase – (the vessel that contains the seeds of
a plant (not the seeds themselves))
verb –1. gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one
over, put one across – (fool or hoax; ”The immigrant was duped
because he trusted everyone”; ”You can’t fool me!”)
adj –. collect, cod – (payable by the recipient on delivery; ”a collect
call”; ”the letter came collect”; ”a COD parcel”)
adv –. C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery – (collecting the charges upon
delivery; ”mail a package C.O.D.”)
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11. collect
noun –. collect – (a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the
Church of Rome or the Church of England)
verb –1. (16) roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile,
hoard – (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”)
adj –. collect, cod – (payable by the recipient on delivery; ”a collect
call”; ”the letter came collect”; ”a COD parcel”)
adv –. collect – (make a telephone call or mail a package so that the
recipient pays; ”call collect”; ”send a package collect”)
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12. counter
noun –1. (3) counter – (table consisting of a horizontal surface over
which business is transacted)
verb –1. (2) counter – (speak in response; ”He countered with some
very persuasive arguments”)
adj –. (2) antagonistic, counter – (indicating opposition or resistance)
adv –. (1) counter – (in the opposite direction; ”run counter”)
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13. crisscross
noun –. crisscross, cross, mark – (a marking that consists of lines
that cross each other)
verb –1. (1) crisscross – (cross in a pattern, often random)
adj –. crisscross, crisscrossed – (marked with crossing lines)
adv –. crisscross – (crossing one another in opposite directions)
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14. damn
noun –. (1) damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker’s damn,
tinker’s dam – (something of little value; ”his promise is not worth a
damn”; ”not worth one red cent”; ”not worth shucks”)
verb –. (7) curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise,
imprecate, maledict – (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; ”The bad
witch cursed the child”)
adj –1. (19) damn, goddamn – (used as expletives; ”oh, damn (or
goddamn)!”)
adv –. (2) bloody, damn, all-fired – (extremely; ”you are bloody
right”; ”Why are you so all-fired aggressive?”)
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15. double
noun –1. (12) double, two-base hit, two-bagger, two-baser – (a base
hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; ”he hit a double
to deep centerfield”)
verb –1. (12) double, duplicate – (increase twofold; ”The population
doubled within 50 years”)
adj –1. (5) double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold,
three-fold – (having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or
qualities; ”a double (or dual) role for an actor”; ”the office of a
clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence”-
R.W.Emerson; ”every episode has its double and treble
meaning”-Frederick Harrison)
adv –1. double – (downward and forward; ”he was bent double with
pain”)
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16. down
noun –1. (1) down, down feather – (soft fine feathers)
verb –1. (3) toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down,
drink down, kill – (drink down entirely; ”He downed three martinis
before dinner”; ”She killed a bottle of brandy that night”; ”They
popped a few beer after work”)
adj –1. (9) down – (being or moving lower in position or less in some
value; ”lay face down”; ”the moon is down”; ”our team is down by a
run”; ”down by a pawn”; ”the stock market is down today”)
adv –1. (98) down, downwards, downward, downwardly – (spatially
or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; ”don’t fall
down”; ”rode the lift up and skied down”; ”prices plunged
downward”)
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17. express
noun –1. express, express mail – (mail that is distributed by a rapid
and efficient system)
verb –1. (59) express, show, evince – (give expression to; ”She
showed her disappointment”)
adj –1. (1) express – (not tacit or implied; ”her express wish”)
adv –. (1) express – (by express; ”please send the letter express”)
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18. fair
noun –1. (1) carnival, fair, funfair – (a traveling show; having
sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.)
verb –. (1) fair – (join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly)
adj –1. (10) fair, just – (free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or
deception; conforming with established standards or rules; ”a fair
referee”; ”fair deal”; ”on a fair footing”; ”a fair fight”; ”by fair means
or foul”)
adv –1. fairly, fair, clean – (in conformity with the rules or laws and
without fraud or cheating; ”they played fairly”)
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19. fast
noun –. (1) fast, fasting – (abstaining from food)
verb –1. fast – (abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical
reasons; ”Catholics sometimes fast during Lent”)
adj –1. (18) fast – (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving
quickly; ”fast film”; ”on the fast track in school”; ”set a fast pace”;
”a fast car”)
adv –1. (16) fast – (quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining
form); ”how fast can he get here?”; ”ran as fast as he could”; ”needs
medical help fast”; ”fast-running rivers”; ”fast-breaking news”;
”fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters”)
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20. fine
noun –. fine, mulct, amercement – (money extracted as a penalty)
verb –. ticket, fine – (issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; ”I was
fined for parking on the wrong side of the street”; ”Move your car or
else you will be ticketed!”)
adj –1. (4) all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory – (being
satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; ”an all-right movie”; ”the
passengers were shaken up but are all right”; ”is everything all
right?”; ”everything’s fine”; ”things are okay”; ”dinner and the
movies had been fine”; ”another minute I’d have been fine”)
adv –1. (3) very well, fine, alright, all right, OK – (an expression of
agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence)
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21. firm
noun –. (26) firm, house, business firm – (the members of a business
organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; ”he
worked for a brokerage house”)
verb –1. tauten, firm – (become taut or tauter; ”Your muscles will
firm when you exercise regularly”; ”the rope tautened”)
adj –1. (12) firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering,
unshakable, unwavering – (marked by firm determination or
resolution; not shakable; ”firm convictions”; ”a firm mouth”;
”steadfast resolve”; ”a man of unbendable perseverence”;
”unwavering loyalty”)
adv –. (1) firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly – (with resolute
determination; ”we firmly believed it”; ”you must stand firm”)
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22. flush
noun –1. (1) flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom,
efflorescence, flush – (the period of greatest prosperity or productivity)
verb –1. (3) blush, crimson, flush, redden – (turn red, as if in
embarrassment or shame; ”The girl blushed when a young man
whistled as she walked by”)
adj –1. (1) flush – (of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one,
forming the same plane; ”a door flush with the wall”; ”the bottom of
the window is flush with the floor”)
adv –1. (2) flush – (squarely or solidly; ”hit him flush in the face”)
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23. forward
noun –1. forward – (the person who plays the position of forward in
certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey)
verb –. (3) forward, send on – (send or ship onward from an
intermediate post or station in transit; ”forward my mail”)
adj –1. (8) forward – (at or near or directed toward the front; ”the
forward section of the aircraft”; ”a forward plunge down the stairs”;
”forward motion”)
adv –1. (53) forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard
– (at or to or toward the front; ”he faced forward”; ”step forward”;
”she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new
sewing machine”; (‘forrad’ and ‘forrard’ are dialectal variations))
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24. free
noun –. free, free people – (people who are free; ”the home of the
free and the brave”)
verb –1. (6) free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose – (grant
freedom to; free from confinement)
adj –1. (38) free – (able to act at will; not hampered; not under
compulsion or restraint; ”free enterprise”; ”a free port”; ”a free
country”; ”I have an hour free”; ”free will”; ”free of racism”; ”feel
free to stay as long as you wish”; ”a free choice”)
adv –. loose, free – (without restraint; ”cows in India are running
loose”)
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25. home
noun –1. (55) home, place – (where you live at a particular time;
”deliver the package to my home”; ”he doesn’t have a home to go
to”; ”your place or mine?”)
verb –1. home – (provide with, or send to, a home)
adj –1. (7) home – (used of your own ground; ”a home game”)
adv –1. (59) home – (at or to or in the direction of one’s home or
family; ”He stays home on weekends”; ”after the game the children
brought friends home for supper”; ”I’ll be home tomorrow”; ”came
riding home in style”; ”I hope you will come home for Christmas”;
”I’ll take her home”; ”don’t forget to write home”)
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26. jolly
noun –1. jolly – (a happy party)
verb –. kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter – (be silly or tease one another;
”After we relaxed, we just kidded around”)
adj –. (2) gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful – (full of or
showing high-spirited merriment; ”when hearts were young and gay”;
”a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company”-
Wordsworth; ”the jolly crowd at the reunion”; ”jolly old Saint Nick”;
”a jovial old gentleman”; ”have a merry Christmas”; ”peals of merry
laughter”; ”a mirthful laugh”)
adv –. reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly,
middling, passably – (to a moderately sufficient extent or degree;
”pretty big”; ”pretty bad”; ”jolly decent of him”; ”the shoes are
priced reasonably”; ”he is fairly clever with computers”)
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27. last
noun –1. (3) stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion,
close – (the temporal end; the concluding time; ”the stopping point
of each round was signaled by a bell”; ”the market was up at the
finish”; ”they were playing better at the close of the season”)
verb –1. (19) last, endure – (persist for a specified period of time;
”The bad weather lasted for three days”)
adj –1. (109) last – (immediately past; ”last Thursday”; ”the last
chapter we read”)
adv –1. (4) last – (most recently; ”I saw him last in London”)
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28. light
noun –1. (46) light, visible light, visible radiation – ((physics)
electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; ”the
light was filtered through a soft glass window”)
verb –1. (12) light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate – (make
lighter or brighter; ”This lamp lightens the room a bit”)
adj –1. (14) light – (of comparatively little physical weight or density;
”a light load”; ”magnesium is a light metal–having a specific gravity
of 1.74 at 20 degrees C”)
adv –. lightly, light – (with few burdens; ”experienced travellers
travel light”)
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29. low
noun –1. low, depression – (an air mass of lower pressure; often
brings precipitation; ”a low moved in over night bringing sleet and
snow”)
verb –. moo, low – (make a low noise, characteristic of bovines)
adj –1. (55) low – (less than normal in degree or intensity or amount;
”low prices”; ”the reservoir is low”)
adv –. (3) low – (in a low position; near the ground; ”the branches
hung low”)
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30. okay
noun –. O.K., OK, okay, okey, okeh – (an endorsement; ”they gave
us the O.K. to go ahead”)
verb –. approve, O.K., okay, sanction – (give sanction to; ”I approve
of his educational policies”)
adj –. (2) all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory – (being
satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; ”an all-right movie”; ”the
passengers were shaken up but are all right”; ”is everything all
right?”; ”everything’s fine”; ”things are okay”; ”dinner and the
movies had been fine”; ”another minute I’d have been fine”)
adv –. okay, O.K., all right, alright – (in a satisfactory or adequate
manner; ”she’ll do okay on her own”; ”held up all right under
pressure”; (‘alright’ is a nonstandard variant of ‘all right’))
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31. out
noun –. out – ((baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a
base safely in baseball; ”you only get 3 outs per inning”)
verb –1. come out of the closet, out, come out – (to state openly
and publicly one’s homosexuality; ”This actor outed last year”)
adj –1. (3) out – (not allowed to continue to bat or run; ”he was
tagged out at second on a close play”; ”he fanned out”)
adv –1. (5) out – (away from home; ”they went out last night”)
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32. pat
noun –1. pat, rap, tap – (the sound made by a gentle blow)
verb –1. (11) chuck, pat – (pat or squeeze fondly or playfully,
especially under the chin)
adj –1. glib, pat, slick – (having only superficial plausibility; ”glib
promises”; ”a slick commercial”)
adv –. pat – (completely or perfectly; ”he has the lesson pat”; ”had
the system down pat”)
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33. plumb
noun –. plumb bob, plumb, plummet – (the metal bob of a plumb
line)
verb –1. (1) plumb – (measure the depth of something)
adj –. plumb – (exactly vertical; ”the tower of Pisa is far out of
plumb”)
adv –1. (2) clean, plumb, plum – (completely; used as intensifiers;
”clean forgot the appointment”; ”I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out”)
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34. plump
noun –. plump – (the sound of a sudden heavy fall)
verb –1. plummet, plump – (drop sharply; ”The stock market
plummeted”)
adj –. (2) chubby, embonpoint, plump – (sufficiently fat so as to have
a pleasing fullness of figure; ”a chubby child”; ”pleasingly plump”;)
adv –. plump – (straight down especially heavily or abruptly; ”the
anchor fell plump into the sea”; ”we dropped the rock plump into the
water”)
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35. pop
noun –1. (1) dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop – (an informal
term for a father; probably derived from baby talk)
verb –1. (3) start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out,
come out – (bulge outward; ”His eyes popped”)
adj –. popular, pop – ((of music or art) new and of general appeal
(especially among young people))
adv –. pop – (like a pop or with a pop; ”everything went pop”)
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36. quiet
noun –1. (1) lull, quiet – (a period of calm weather; ”there was a lull
in the storm”)
verb –1. (1) quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down –
(become quiet or quieter; ”The audience fell silent when the speaker
entered”)
adj –1. (13) quiet – (characterized by an absence or near absence of
agitation or activity; ”a quiet life”; ”a quiet throng of onlookers”;
”quiet peace-loving people”; ”the factions remained quiet for almost
10 years”)
adv –. (1) quietly, quiet – (with little or no activity or no agitation
(‘quiet’ is a nonstandard variant for ‘quietly’); ”her hands rested
quietly in her lap”; ”the rock star was quietly led out the back door”;
”sit here as quiet as you can”)
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37. right
noun –1. (41) right – (an abstract idea of that which is due to a
person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; ”they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”; ”Certain
rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in
the hands of the people”- Eleanor Roosevelt; ”a right is not
something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can
take away”)
verb –1. right, compensate, redress, correct – (make reparations or
amends for; ”right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”)
adj –1. (20) right – (being or located on or directed toward the side
of the body to the east when facing north; ”my right hand”; ”right
center field”; ”a right-hand turn”; ”the right bank of a river is the
bank on your right side when you are facing downstream”)
adv –1. (17) right – (precisely, exactly; ”stand right here!”)
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38. rough
noun –. rough – (the part of a golf course bordering the fairway
where the grass is not cut short)
verb –. (1) rough in, rough, rough out – (prepare in preliminary or
sketchy form)
adj –1. (13) rough, unsmooth – (having or caused by an irregular
surface; ”trees with rough bark”; ”rough ground”; ”rough skin”;
”rough blankets”; ”his unsmooth face”)
adv –1. (1) roughly, rough – (with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is
an informal variant for ‘roughly’); ”he was pushed roughly aside”;
”they treated him rough”)
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39. round
noun –1. (6) round, unit of ammunition, one shot – (a charge of
ammunition for a single shot)
verb –1. (3) round – (wind around; move along a circular course;
”round the bend”)
adj –1. (12) round, circular – (having a circular shape)
adv –. (3) round, around – (from beginning to end; throughout; ”It
rains all year round on Skye”; ”frigid weather the year around”)
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40. second
noun –1. (24) second, sec, s – (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of
time adopted under the Systeme International d’Unites)
verb –1. second, back, endorse, indorse – (give support or one’s
approval to; ”I’ll second that motion”; ”I can’t back this plan”;
”endorse a new project”)
adj –1. (108) second, 2nd, 2d – (coming next after the first in
position in space or time or degree or magnitude)
adv –. (9) second, secondly – (in the second place; ”second, we must
consider the economy”)
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41. short
noun –1. (3) short – (the location on a baseball field where the
shortstop is stationed)
verb –1. short-change, short – (cheat someone by not returning him
enough money)
adj –1. (43) short – (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or
seeming to be limited in duration; ”a short life”; ”a short flight”; ”a
short holiday”; ”a short story”; ”only a few short months”)
adv –1. (1) abruptly, suddenly, short, dead – (quickly and without
warning; ”he stopped suddenly”)
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42. solo
noun –1. (1) solo – (any activity that is performed alone without
assistance)
verb –1. solo – (fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers)
adj –. solo – (composed or performed by a single voice or instrument;
”a passage for solo clarinet”)
adv –. alone, solo, unaccompanied – (without anybody else or
anything else; ”the child stayed home alone”; ”the pillar stood alone,
supporting nothing”; ”he flew solo”)
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43. square
noun –1. (23) square, foursquare – ((geometry) a plane rectangle
with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular
polygon; ”you can compute the area of a square if you know the
length of its sides”)
verb –1. (4) square, square up – (make square; ”Square the circle”;
”square the wood with a file”)
adj –1. (7) square – (having four equal sides and four right angles or
forming a right angle; ”a square peg in a round hole”; ”a square
corner”)
adv –1. (2) squarely, square – (in a straight direct way; ”looked him
squarely in the eye”; ”ran square into me”)
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44. steady
noun –. sweetheart, sweetie, steady, truelove – (a person loved by
another person)
verb –1. (2) steady, calm, becalm – (make steady; ”steady yourself”)
adj –1. (11) steady – (not subject to change or variation especially in
behavior; ”a steady beat”; ”a steady job”; ”a steady breeze”; ”a
steady increase”; ”a good steady ballplayer”)
adv –. steadily, steady – (in a steady manner; ”he could still walk
steadily”)
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45. still
noun –1. (2) still – (a static photograph (especially one taken from a
movie and used for advertising purposes); ”he wanted some stills for a
magazine ad”)
verb –1. (1) calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize,
tranquillise, quieten, lull, still – (make calm or still; ”quiet the
dragons of worry and fear”)
adj –1. (16) inactive, motionless, static, still – (not in physical
motion; ”the inertia of an object at rest”)
adv –1. (233) still – (with reference to action or condition; without
change, interruption, or cessation; ”it’s still warm outside”; ”will you
still love me when we’re old and grey?”)
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46. tiptoe
noun –. tiptoe – (the tip of a toe)
verb –. (1) tiptoe, tip, tippytoe – (walk on one’s toes)
adj –. tiptoe – (walking on the tips of ones’s toes so as to make no
noise; ”moving with tiptoe steps”)
adv –. (1) tiptoe – (on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; ”standing tiptoe”)
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47. true
noun –. true – (proper alignment; the property possessed by
something that is in correct or proper alignment; ”out of true”)
verb –. true, true up – (make level, square, balanced, or concentric;
”true up the cylinder of an engine”)
adj –1. (83) true – (consistent with fact or reality; not false; ”the
story is true”; ”it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is
no ground whatever for supposing it true”- B. Russell; ”the true
meaning of the statement”)
adv –. (2) true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly – (as
acknowledged; ”true, she is the smartest in her class”)
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48. well
noun –1. (8) well – (a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain
water or oil or gas or brine)
verb –. (3) well, swell – (come up, as of a liquid; ”Tears well in her
eyes”; ”the currents well up”)
adj –1. (4) well – (in good health especially after having suffered
illness or injury; ”appears to be entirely well”; ”the wound is nearly
well”; ”a well man”; ”I think I’m well; at least I feel well”)
adv –1. (76) well, good – ((often used as a combining form) in a
good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is
a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’); ”the children behaved
well”; ”a task well done”; ”the party went well”; ”he slept well”; ”a
well-argued thesis”; ”a well-seasoned dish”; ”a well-planned party”;
”the baby can walk pretty good”)
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49. wholesale
noun –. wholesale – (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in
large quantities for resale to consumers)
verb –. wholesale – (sell in large quantities)
adj –. sweeping, wholesale – (ignoring distinctions; ”sweeping
generalizations”; ”wholesale destruction”)
adv –1. wholesale – (at a wholesale price; ”I can sell it to you
wholesale”)
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50. wrong
noun –1. (3) wrong, wrongfulness – (that which is contrary to the
principles of justice or law; ”he feels that you are in the wrong”)
verb –. (1) wrong – (treat unjustly; do wrong to)
adj –1. (15) incorrect, wrong – (not correct; not in conformity with
fact or truth; ”an incorrect calculation”; ”the report in the paper is
wrong”; ”your information is wrong”; ”the clock showed the wrong
time”; ”found themselves on the wrong road”; ”based on the wrong
assumptions”)
adv –. (1) incorrectly, wrongly, wrong – (in an inaccurate manner;
”he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported
them incorrectly”; ”she guessed wrong”)
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51. zigzag
noun –. zigzag, zig, zag – (an angular shape characterized by sharp
turns in alternating directions)
verb –. (2) zigzag, crank – (travel along a zigzag path; ”The river
zigzags through the countryside”)
adj –. zigzag, zig-zag – (having short sharp turns or angles)
adv –. zigzag – (in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; ”birds flew
zigzag across the blue sky”)
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