| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
| Synonyms: | abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, bunion, carbuncle, contusion, corn, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, knurl, node, nodule, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, ridge, sore, tumescence, tumor, wale, wart, weal, welt |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
| Synonyms: | blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black and blue mark under skin |
| Synonyms: | black eye, black mark, blemish, boo-boo, contusion, discoloration, injury, mark, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | bulb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globular object |
| Synonyms: | ball, bunch, corm, corn, globe, head, knob, nodule, nub, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tumor |
| Notes: | tubers are different from bulbs and corms in that they have no basal plate or enveloping leaves |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | contusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bruise, injury |
| Synonyms: | bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
| Synonyms: | adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
| Antonyms: | emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tumor |
| Synonyms: | cancer, cancroid, excrescence, fibrous tissue, fibrousness, fungus, lump, mole, outgrowth, parasite, polyp, swelling, thickening, wen |