| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into sight |
| Synonyms: | arise, arrive, attend, be present, be within view, blow in, bob up, break through, breeze in, check in, clock in, come, come forth, come into view, come out, come to light, crop up, develop, drop in, emerge, expose, issue, loom, make the scene, materialize, occur, pop in, pop up, present, punch in, punch the clock, recur, ring in, rise, roll in, show, show up, spring, surface, time in, turn out, turn up |
| Antonyms: | disappear, hide |
| Main Entry: | award |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prize or reward |
| Synonyms: | accord, adjudge, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, concede, confer, decree, dish out, distribute, donate, endow, fork out, gift, grant, hand out, present, render, reward, shell out, sweeten the kitty |
| Notes: | an award is something awarded or granted, as for merit; a reward is something given or received in recompense for worthy behavior or in retribution for evil acts |
| Main Entry: | bestow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, allot |
| Synonyms: | accord, apportion, award, bequeath, come through, commit, confer, devote, donate, entrust, favor, gift, give away, grant, hand out, honor with, impart, kick in, lavish, offer, present, put out, render to |
| Antonyms: | deprive, refuse, take |
| Main Entry: | bid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer money or services |
| Synonyms: | present, proffer, propose, render, submit, tender, venture |
| Main Entry: | boon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, benefit, benevolence, blessing, break, compliment, donation, favor, gift, godsend, good, good fortune, grant, gratuity, help, largess, present, windfall |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | bounty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bonus; compensation |
| Synonyms: | donation, gift, grant, gratuity, largess, pay, premium, present, prize, recompense, reward |
| Main Entry: | bribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff to influence illegal or wrong activity |
| Synonyms: | allurement, bait, blackmail, buyoff, compensation, contract, corrupt money, corrupting gift, enticement, envelope*, feedbag, fringe benefit, gift, goody, graft, gratuity, gravy, grease, hush money, ice*, incentive, inducement, influence peddling, kickback, lagniappe, lure, payola, perk*, perquisite, present, price, protection*, remuneration, reward, sop, sweetener, sweetening, take |
| Main Entry: | cite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | note, quote |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, allege, allude to, appeal to, enumerate, evidence, excerpt, exemplify, extract, get down to brass tacks, give as example, illustrate with, indicate, instance, lay, mention, name, number, offer, point out, present, recite, recount, refer to, reference, rehearse, remember, reminisce, repeat, specify, spell out, tell |
| Notes: | cite means to make reference to, refer to; sight is the ability to see, the act of looking or seeing or observing, something worth seeing; site is the piece of land on which something is located or is to be located |
| Main Entry: | come up with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest, create |
| Synonyms: | advance, bring forth, compose, detect, discover, find, furnish, invent, offer, originate, present, produce, propose, provide, recommend, stumble upon, submit, uncover |