| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | normal, typical amount |
| Synonyms: | mean, median, medium, middle, midpoint, norm, par, rule, standard, usual |
| Antonyms: | abnormality, exception, extreme, unusual |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is psychic |
| Synonyms: | augur, channeller, diviner, fortune-teller, haruspex, horoscopist, medium, oracle, palm reader, prophet, seer, sibyl, soothsayer, telepath, telepathist, visionary, voodoo doctor |
| Main Entry: | climate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood of situation |
| Synonyms: | ambience, ambient, atmosphere, disposition, environment, feeling, medium, milieu, mise-en-scène, mood, surroundings, temper, tendency, trend |
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instrument, tool |
| Synonyms: | Rube Goldberg invention, accessory, agent, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, article, construction, contraption, contrivance, creation, doohickey, equipment, expedient, gadget, gear, gimmick, implement, invention, machine, makeshift, material, means, mechanism, medium, outfit, resort, resource, rigging, shift, tackle, thingamabob, utensil, whatchamacallit, whatnot, whatsit |
| Main Entry: | element |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where one feels comfortable |
| Synonyms: | domain, environment, field, habitation, medium, milieu, sphere |
| Antonyms: | foreign land |
| Main Entry: | environment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surroundings, atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, 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, zoo |
| Notes: | environment emerged linked with nature, implying 'natural' (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments environment is the area in which something exists or lives; habitat is a the place or type of place where a person or thing is most likely to be found |
| Main Entry: | envoy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deputy |
| Synonyms: | agent, ambassador, attaché, bearer, carrier, chargé d'affaires, consul, courier, delegate, diplomat, emissary, intermediary, internuncio, legate, medium, messenger, minister, nuncio, plenipotentiary, representative, vicar |
| Main Entry: | expedient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resource |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, device, gency, instrument, instrumentality, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, medium, method, recourse, refuge, resort, scheme, shift, stopgap, stratagem, substitute |