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| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accessory, accrual, added, additional, additive, adjectitious, adscititious, anabatic, ascititious, ascriptitious, beblubbered, big, bigswoln, bloated, blowzy, bulbous, distended, dropsical, epactal, exaggerated, expanded, expansive, extra, fat, flabelliform, full-blown, full-formed, full-grown, gorbelly, gravid, hypertrophic, hypertrophied, increased, larger, obese, oedematous, on the increase, overgrown, patulous, phlogogenetic, pinguescent, planteric, pot-bellied, puffy, pulvinate, pursy, scaturient, subjunctive, sufflated, supervacaneous, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, sway-bellied, swelling, swollen, tumid, turgescent, turgid, undiminished, wide-open, widespread, évasé
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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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pleasure, queme, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ravishing, refreshing, resigned, satisfactory, satisfied, saturnian, seducing, sensual, seraphic, serene, suant, suboptimal, sweet, sybaritic, taking, thrice happy, thrilling, to one's liking, to one's mind, to one's taste, tolerable, transported, unafflicted, unalloyed, unmolested, unplagued, unrepining, unvexed, voluptuous, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, wilcweme, winning, winsome, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, without alloy
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| Main Entry: | refusal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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deaf to, impossible, not to be thought of, not willing to hear of, out of the question, recusant, refusing, restiff, restive, uncomplying, unconsenting, ungranted
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| Main Entry: | volition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abulic, autocratic, discretional, discretionary, free, intended, minded, optional, original, prepense, spontaneous, unbidden, volitient, volitional, voluntary, wilful
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| Concept: | Addition. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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addition, annexation, adjection; junction; superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase; increment, supplement; accompaniment; interposition; insertion.
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| Antonyms: | nonaddition |
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| Concept: | Choice. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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choice, option; discretion (volition); preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix; adoption, cooptation; novation; decision (judgment)., election, poll, ballot, vote, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote; plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; elective franchise; straight ticket [U.S.]., selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste, cut and paste; pick (best)., preference, prelation; predilection (desire).
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| Antonyms: | absence of choice |
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| Concept: | Pleasure. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure); satisfaction (content); complacency., well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness., treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury., mens sana in corpore sano [Juvenal]., happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitide, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium ( heaven) [more]; third heaven, seventh heaven; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism., honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, happy valley, Agapemone.
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| Antonyms: | pain |
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| Concept: | Refusal. |
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refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance; denial; declining; declension; declinature; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance., recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent; revocation.
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| Antonyms: | offer |
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| Concept: | Voice. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
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voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice (loud) [more]; musical voice; intonation; tone of voice (sound)., vocalization; cry; strain, utterance, prolation; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness of articulation; stage whisper; delivery., accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation., [Word similarly pronounced] homonym., orthoepy; cacoepy; euphony (melody)., gastriloquism, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism, polyphonist., [Science of voice] phonology (sound) [more].
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| Antonyms: | aphony |
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