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| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Trophonian, bathed in tears, begrutten, blatant, curkling, dacryagogue, dissolved in tears, elegiac, epiphoric, flebile, illachrymable, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, in tears, lachrimose, lachrymal, lamenting, larmoyant, like Niobe all tears, mournful, mugient, plaintful, plaintive, querimonious, querulous, remugient, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, weeping, with moisture in one's eyes, with tears in one's eyes, with watery eyes
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| Concept: | [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional Volition |
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chance (hap); stand a chance (be possible)., toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die., speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards., risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
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| Concept: | Difficulty. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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be difficult; run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of (hinder)., meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty, fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles., have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to the pinch; bear the brunt., grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs., get into a scrape; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears., render difficult; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle; put a spoke in the wheel (hinder); lead a pretty dance.
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| Antonyms: | facility |
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| Concept: | [Failure of expectation] Disappointment. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
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be disapppointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast (wonder) [more]; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet., not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation., disappoint; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfounder.
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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| Antonyms: | good |
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| Concept: | Judgment. [Conclusion.] |
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judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind., deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween., form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate, rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon (believe); review; size up, settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence, doom; find; give judgment, deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm (assent)., comment, criticize; pass under review (examine); investigate (inquire)., hold the scales, sit in judgment; try a cause, hear a cause.
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| Antonyms: | misjudgment |
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| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
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pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of., forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery., raise pity, excite pity; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm., ask for mercy; supplicate (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
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| Antonyms: | pitilessness |
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