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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, benefit, birthright, business, claim, comeuppance, desert, deserving, due, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, immunity, interest, liberty, license, merit, permission, perquisite, power, preference, prerogative, priority, title |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
| Main Entry: | value |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, worth |
| Synonyms: | account, bearing, benefit, caliber, condition, connotation, consequence, content, denotation, desirability, distinction, drift, eminence, esteem, estimation, excellence, finish, force, goodness, grade, help, implication, import, importance, interpretation, mark, marketability, meaning, merit, power, preference, profit, purpose, quality, regard, repute, sense, serviceableness, significance, state, stature, substance, superiority, use, usefulness, utility, valuation |
| Notes: | a color's value is its brightness, its chroma is its strength, and its hue is its position in the spectrum |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | voice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion |
| Synonyms: | approval, choice, decision, expression, option, part, participation, preference, representation, right of free speech, say, say-so, suffrage, vent, view, vote, vox populi, will, wish |
| Main Entry: | volition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free will |
| Synonyms: | accord, choice, choosing, conation, desire, determination, discretion, election, option, preference, purpose, resolution, selection, will, willingness, wish |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal choice |
| Synonyms: | aim, appetite, attitude, character, conviction, craving, decision, decisiveness, decree, design, desire, determination, discipline, discretion, disposition, fancy, feeling, hankering, heart's desire, inclination, intention, liking, longing, mind, option, passion, pining, pleasure, power, preference, prerogative, purpose, resolution, resolve, self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint, temperament, urge, velleity, volition, willfulness, willpower, wish, wishes, yearning |
| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, choice, disposition, hankering, hope, hunger, inclination, intention, invocation, itch, liking, longing, pleasure, prayer, preference, request, thirst, urge, want, whim, will, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | pick of the litter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best choice |
| Synonyms: | apple of one's eye, champion, choice, cream, cream of the crop, crème de la crème, darling, dearest, favorite, lap dog, pet, preference, prime, prize, the best, the top of the heap |
| Main Entry: | one-sidedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bias |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash*, head-set, illiberality, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind trip, mind-set, narrowmindedness, partiality, partisanship, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tendentiousness, tilt, turn, unfairness, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | partialness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favor |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, benignity, esteem, favoritism, largess, obligement, partiality, patronage, preference |
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