Sirocco, also Scirocco

Noun

1. A hot, humid, south or southeast wind in southern Italy, Scily and other Mediterranean isalnds coming from the Sahara.

2. A warm south or southeast wind accompied by rain, occuring in same regions.

3. Any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.

Analogy increasing intensity, Sirocco:Zephyr

Adjective

1.overbearing and/or oppressive

syn. sirocco , ant. estatic

Analogy cause:effect, eminent:highhandness

Verb

1. to occur again, an an event, experience. etc.

2. to return to the mind

3. to come up again for consideration, as a question

4. to have recourse

Syn. brood , Ant. siphon

Analogy decreasing intensity recur:pensive

Noun

1. a room or place where food is kept

2. a supply of food

 Syn. lode, Ant. siphon

Analogy Category:example, lode:larder

Adjective

1. having or showing great warth or intesity of spirt, feeling, enthusiasm, etc

2. hot, blurning, glowin

Syn. estatic, Ant. pacify

Analogy synonyms, fervent:impassioned

Verb

1. to draw or bring out or forth, evoke

Syn. sluice, Ant. insulate

Analogy antonyms elicit:shroud

Noun

1. A radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.

2. any encircling ring of light, halo

3. coron

4. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion

Syn. lode, Ant. Shroud

Analogy action thing acted upon aueole:sky

Adjective

1. fixed in direction, steadily directed

2. firm in purpose, ressolution, faith, attachment, etc.

3. unwavering

4. firmly established

5. firmly fixed in place or position

Syn. prim, Ant. beeline

Analogy increasing intensity steadfast:impassioned

Verb

1. to give authority ot official power, empower

2. to give authority for, formally sanction

3. to establish by authority or usage

4. to afford a ground for, warrant, justify

Syn. sanction, Ant. veto

Analogy ratify, authorization

Noun

1. A deep immeasureable space

2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite

3. the primal chaos before creation, hell, a subterranean ocean

Syn. brood, Ant. lode

Analogy increasing intensity abyss:lode

Adjective

1. penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought

2. oringinating in or penetrating to the depths if one's being

3. going far beneath the exteral or obvious

4. of deep meaning

5. pervasive or intense

6. far beneath the surface

7. low

Syn. abyss, Ant. shallow

Analogy noun closely related adjective brood:profound

 Noun

1. A tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another

2. a projecting tublar part of some animals

3. to convey, draw, or pass through

 Syn. sluice, Ant. staunch

Analogy action thing acted upon siphon:pipe

Noun

1. A person who carries a torch

2. A leader in a movement, campaign, etc.

Syn. steadfast, Ant. peer

Analogy decreasing intensity torchbearer:staunch

Adjective

1. filled with intense feeling or passion

Syn. fervent, Ant. pacfied

Analogy synonyms impassioned:fervent

Verb

1. to cause or try to cause the growth or development of something bad or harmful

Syn. devious, Ant. insulate

Analogy category example devious:fomenter

Noun

1. A direct route traveled quickly.

Syn. trample, Ant. steadfast

Analogy increasing intensity beeline:trample

Adjective

1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness

Syn. brood, Ant. estatic

Analogy noun closely related adjective sage:pensive

Verb

1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy

2. to leap, especially for joy

Syn. impassioned, Ant. pacified

Analogy increasing intensity exult:estatic

Adjective

1. characterized by or in a state of uproar

2. making an uproar

3. very funny, as a person or a situation

4. very loud, as sounds or utterances

5. expressed by or producing uproar

Syn. noisy, Ant. prim, decorum

Analogy decreasing intensity uproarious:exult

Noun, Verb

1. An evasionof the point of the arguement by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

2.to raise trivial objections

Syn. criticize, Ant. profound

Analogy increasing intensity cavil:quash

Noun/Verb/Adjective

1. a family of oppspring or young

2. A breed, species, group, or kind

3. to incubate

4. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or the body

5. to think or worry persistently or moodily about

6. to sit upon eggs to be hatched

7. to dwell on a subject or meditate with morbid persisitence

8. kept for breeding

9. to cover loom or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene

Syn. dwell upon, Ant. exult

Analogy decreasing intensity brood:pensive

Noun

1. the remote or less developed parts of a country

2. The land lying behind a coastal region

3. an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast

4. an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port

Syn. backcountry, Ant. city

Analogy decreasing intensity hinterland:tenement

Adjective

1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior

2. to draw up the mouth in a nice way

3. to make prim, as in apperance

4. to draw one's face, lips, etc. into a prim expression

Syn. decorum, Ant. exult

Analogy increasing intensity prim:protocol

Verb, Noun

1. to tread or step heavily and noisily

2. to tread or step heavily, roughly, or crushingly

3. to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly

4. to tread underfoot

5. to domineer harshly over

6. to put out or extinguish by trampling

7. the act of trampling

8. the sound of trampling

Syn. quash, Ant. pacify

Analogy action subject performing action trample:Godzilla

Noun, Verb

1. an artifical channel for conducting water

2. the body of water held back by a sluice gate

3. any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle

5. a stream of surplus water

6. an artificial stream or chanel of water for moving solid mater

7. a long sloping trough with grooves on the bottem, into which is diected to separate gold from gravel or sand

8. to let out water by or as if by opening a sluice

9.to drain a pond, lake by or as if by opening a sluice

10. to open a sluice upon

11. to flush or cleanse with a rush of water

12. to wash in a sluice

Syn. lode, Ant. staunch

Analogy decreasing intensity sluice:fount