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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | background, breed, clan, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, house, kin, kindred, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, race, species, strain, tribe, type, variety |
| Main Entry: | training |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preparation |
| Synonyms: | background, basics, buildup, chalk talk, coaching, cultivation, discipline, domestication, drill, education, exercise, foundation, grounding, groundwork, guidance, indoctrination, instruction, practice, preliminaries, principles, readying, schooling, seasoning, sharpening, teaching, tuition, tune-up, tutelage, upbringing, warm-up, workout |
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, area, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, environs, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, location, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, place, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, vicinity, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mise en scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scene |
| Synonyms: | arena, backdrop, background, blackout, display, exhibition, flat, flats, landscape, locale, locality, location, mise en scène, outlook, pageant, picture, place, representation, scenery, seascape, set, setting, show, sight, site, spectacle, spot, stage, tableau, theater, view |
| Main Entry: | mise en scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, atmosphere, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, world, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedagogics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
| Main Entry: | pedagogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogics, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
| Main Entry: | schooling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
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| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aerial, aeriform, airy, anhelous, antipluvial, atmospheric, billowing, bioclimatic, blowing, blustering, boisterous, boreal, breezy, cirrus, clement, cloudy, containing air, cumuliform, dyspneal, effervescent, eolian, favonian, flatulent, fogbound, gusty, high-pressure, innubilous, irrespirable, low-pressure, meteorological, moazogotl, nebulous, nepheligenous, nimbiferous, nubilous, offshore, onshore, oragious, overcast, pulmonary, pulmonic, seasonable, semitropical, sneaping, squally, stormy, stoury, subarctic, subtropical, suspirious, sussultatory, temperate, tempestuous, thwankin, tobaccoey, unseasonable, weatherproof, weatherwise, windfirm, windy, zephryr, zephyrous
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