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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | comprehend, get, grasp |
| Main Entry: | cater |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide, help |
| Synonyms: | baby, coddle, cotton, furnish, gratify, humor, indulge, minister to, outfit, pamper, pander to, procure, provision, purvey, spoil, supply, victual |
| Main Entry: | cloth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fabric |
| Synonyms: | bolt, calico, cotton, dry goods, goods, material, stuff, synthetics, textiles, tissue, twill, weave, yard goods |
| Main Entry: | coddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indulge, pamper |
| Synonyms: | baby, caress, cater to, cosset, cotton, favor, humor, make much of, make over, mollycoddle, nurse, pet, play up to, spoil |
| Antonyms: | ignore, turn away |
| Main Entry: | fawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ingratiate oneself to; serve |
| Synonyms: | abase, apple-polish, be at beck and call, be obsequious, be servile, blandish, bow, brownnose, buddy up, butter up, cajole, cater to, cave in to, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curry favor, debase, defer, fall all over, fall on one's knees, flatter, grovel, honey up, invite, jolly, kneel, kowtow, lay it on, lick boots, make up to, massage*, oil, pander, pay court, play up to, scrape, slaver, snow*, stoop, stroke*, submit, toady, truckle, woo*, yield |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding between people |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, bond, compatibility, concord, cotton, empathy, good vibes, good vibrations, groove, harmony, hitting it off, interrelationship, link, relationship, same wavelength, simpatico, soul, sympathy, the groove, togetherness, unity |
| Antonyms: | coldness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | bombast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boasting |
| Synonyms: | altiloquence, balderdash, bluster, bombastry, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, fustian, gasconade, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, pad, padded, pomposity, rage, rant, rave, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, stuff, stuffed, tumidity, turgidity, tympany |
| Antonyms: | plain speaking |
| Main Entry: | thread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a fine strand of twisted fibers |
| Synonyms: | braid, cord, cotton, fiber, fibril, filament, floss, gossamer, hair, lisle, ribbon, strand, string, wire, wool, yarn |
| Main Entry: | thread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiber |
| Synonyms: | cord, cotton, filament, flax, floss, ligature, lint, lisle, pile, ravel, raveling, silk, stamen, staple, strand, string, thrum, twine, warp, weft, wire, woof, wool, yarn |
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