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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantageous position |
| Synonyms: | commanding lead, connections, control, flying start, head start, lead, mastery, networking, right people, winning position |
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| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control, dominance |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, authorization, birthright, clout, command, connection, diadem, direction, domination, dominion, hegemony, imperium, influence, inside track, jurisdiction, law, leadership, license, management, might, moxie*, omnipotence, paramountcy, predominance, prerogative, prestige, privilege, regency, right, rule, say-so, sovereignty, steam, strength, strings, superiority, supremacy, sway, warrant, weight*, wire |
| Antonyms: | inefficiency, subservience, surrender, weakness, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross, burden, choke, clout, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, crunch, discipline, distress, drag, duress, exigency, force, full court press, hardship, hassle, heat, hurry, influence, inside track, load, misfortune, necessity, obligation, persuasion, power, press, pressure cooker, pull, requirement, strain, stress, sway, tension, trouble, unnaturalness, urgency, weight |
| Antonyms: | ease, facility, peace |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, invention, untruth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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able, able-bodied, adamantine, adequate, all-powerful, almighty, antaean, athletic, atlantean, bellipotent, brawny, broad-shouldered, buirdly, capable, cervicose, cogent, competent, cryptodynamic, cyclopean, deep-rooted, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, endothermic, equal to, exothermic, forcible, galliard, gigantic, hard, hardy, herculean, ignipotent, impregnable, in fine feather, in full force, in full swing, in high feather, in the plenitude of power, incontestable, indomitable, inextinguishable, influential, invincible, irresistible, like a giant refreshed, made of iron, male, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, maximious, mighty, more than a match for, multipotent, muscular, omnipotent, overpowering, overwhelming, plenipotent, potent, potential, powerful, productive, proof against, puissant, resistless, robust, rounceval, sinewy, sound as a roach, sovereign, stalwart, sthenic, stout, strapping, strong, strong as a horse, strong as a lion, strong as brandy, stubborn, sturdy, thick-ribbed, unallayed, unconquerable, unexhausted, unquenchable, unshaken, unweakened, unwithered, unworn, up to, valid, vigorous, virile, well-knit, wight, wiry, yauld
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| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accurate, actual, apodictic, as good as one's word, authentic, bona fide, candid, categorically true, certain, constant, correct, curious, definite, delicate, exact, faithful, fine, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, in its true colors, ingenuous, just, legitimate, literal, mathematical, natural, nice, official, open, open, ostensible, outspoken, particular, precise, punctual, pure, real, realistic, religiously exact, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, simple, solid, sound, sterling, straightforward, strict, substantial, substantially true, tangible, true, true, true as gospel, true to the letter, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, uncolored, unconfuted, undisguised, undissembling, undistorted, unerring, unexaggerated, unfeigned, unflattering, unideal, unimagined, unimpeachable, unperjured, unrefuted, unreserved, unromantic, unsophisticated, unvarnished, valid, veracious, veridical, veritable, well, well
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| Concept: | Power. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
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-nouns
power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength., ability; ableness; competency; efficacy; efficiency; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence., pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire., capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Latin]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.
-verbs
be powerful; gain power., belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can., give power, confer power, exercise power; empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel.
-adjectives
powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty., forcible (energetic); influential; productive.
-adverbs
powerfully; by virtue of, by dint of.
-phrases
à toute force ["At full strength" (French)]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis ["He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign"
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| Antonyms: | impotence |
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| Concept: | [Object of knowlege.] Truth. |
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fact, reality (existence); plain matter of fact; nature (principle); truth, verity; gospel; orthodoxy; authenticity; veracity; correctitude., accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness; precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision (regularity); conformity to rule; nicety., orthology; ipsissima verba; realism., plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
-verbs
be true, be the case; stand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water., render true, prove true; substantiate (evidence)., get at the truth (discover).
-adjectives
real, actual (existing); veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic., exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just; strict, severe; close (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut., genuine, authentic, legitimate; othodox; official, ex officio., pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka., well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.
-adverbs
truly; verily, indeed, in reality; with truth (veracity); certainly (certain); actually (existence); in effect (intrinsically)., exactly; ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking.
-phrases
the truth, the fact is; rem acu tetigisti; en suivant la verite; ex facto jus oritur; la verita e figlia del empo; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Cicero]; veritas nunquam perit [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Seneca]; the
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| Antonyms: | error |
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