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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seed of fruit, vegetable |
| Synonyms: | achene, caryopsis, kernel, stone, utricle |
| Main Entry: | proper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly, decent |
| Synonyms: | becoming, befitting, by the book, by the numbers, comely, comme il faut, conforming, correct, de rigueur, decorous, demure, genteel, in line, kosher*, moral, nice, polite, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, refined, respectable, right, seemly, solid, square*, stone, straight*, strait-laced, stuffy |
| Antonyms: | crass, crude, misbehaving, objectionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chunk of solid object |
| Synonyms: | bar, billet, bit, board, boulder, chip, cut, cutting, hunk, ingot, lump, muck, piece, plate, portion, rod, slice, stave, stick, stone, strip, wedge |
| Main Entry: | throw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | propel something through the air |
| Synonyms: | bandy, barrage, bombard, buck, bunt, butt, cant, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, deliver, discharge, dislodge, drive, fell, fire, flick, fling, fling off, flip, floor, force, heave, hurl, impel, lapidate, launch, let fly, let go, lift, lob, overturn, overwhelm, peg, pellet, pelt, pepper, pitch, precipitate, project, push, put, scatter, send, shove, shower, shy, sling, splatter, spray, sprinkle, start, stone, strew, thrust, toss, tumble, unhorse, unseat, upset, volley, waft |
| Antonyms: | catch, receive |
| Main Entry: | trinket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knickknack |
| Synonyms: | bagatelle, bauble, bead, bibelot, curio, doodad, gadget, gewgaw, gimcrack, glass*, hardware, jewel, jewelry, junk, nothing*, novelty, objet d'art, ornament, plaything, rock*, sparkler, stone, toy, trifle, whatnot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something used to measure heaviness |
| Synonyms: | anchor, ballast, bob, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, mass, pendulum, plumb, plumb bob, poundage, pressure, rock, sandbag, sinker, stone |
| Main Entry: | brick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | block |
| Synonyms: | brickwork, cinder block, cube, slab, stone |
| Main Entry: | earthen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clay |
| Synonyms: | dirt, fictile, made of earth, mud, rock, stone |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
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