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To force someone to do something against his or her will using undue pressure, threats, intimidation, or physical violence.
Syn: Constrain, compel, pressure, bulldoze, dragoon; hector, browbeat, cow |
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To hold or stick together; to fit together into an orderly, logical, and unified while.
Syn: coalesce, combine, gel
Ant: Separate, fall apart, come apart, come asunder, diverge, disperse, dissipate, diffuse, scatter; incoherence; incoherent, disjointed. |
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Forceful and convincing; to the point.
Syn: Powerful, potent, effective, telling; persuasive, compelling; valid, sound; relevant, pertinent, apposite, germane, apropos.
Ant: Weak, ineffective, unconvincing, frivolous, inane, invalid, untenable, irrelevant |
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To work together on some kind of joint project
To cooperate with the enemy in some kind of treasonable activity.
Syn: cooperate, team up, join forces, pool one's efforts, intrigue, collude, conspire, partner, colleague, coworker, quisling, fifth columnist, fellow traveler, partnership, team effort, joint effort.
Ant: Work by oneself, dissociate oneself from, part company with, take leave of |
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Capable of use with some other brand or model
Capable of living or getting along together
Syn: Harmonious, agreeable, like-minded, consistent, congruous, parallel
Ant: Incompatible, antagonistic, inconsistent, incongruous |
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Overly self-satisfied; smug
Syn: content, self content
Ant: Dissatisfied, discontent, malcontent |
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Saying a lot in a few words
Syn: Bried, compact, succinct, terse; laconic, summary, pithy
Ant: wordy, prolix, verbose, garrulous, loquacious, long-winded. |
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To overlook or disregard an offense, thereby implying forgiveness, acceptance, or possibly approval of it.
Syn: Ignore, accept, countenance, stomach, tolerate
Ant: Condemn, denounce, disapprove, deprecate, castigate, decry, revile |
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A face to face encounter, usually suggesting a hotile or defiant attitude
Syn: Showedown, face off, shoot out |
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Conclusion based on inadequate evidence; a guess
To conclude from inadequate evidence; to guess
Syn: Surmise, supposition, presumption, suspicion, inference, speculation, theory, surmise, suppose, presume, suspect, infer, speculate, theorize
Ant: Fact, certainty, demonstrate, substantiate |
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