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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make shiny |
| Synonyms: | buff, burnish, finish, furbish, glance, glaze, lacquer, polish, rub, shine, varnish, veneer |
| Antonyms: | dull |
| Main Entry: | lacquer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating |
| Synonyms: | covering, finish, glaze, lamination, layer, varnish, veneer |
| Main Entry: | paint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tinted covering |
| Synonyms: | acrylic, chroma, color, coloring, cosmetic, dye, emulsion, enamel, flat, gloss, greasepaint, latex, makeup, oil, overlay, pigment, rouge, stain, tempera, varnish, veneer, wax |
| Main Entry: | palliate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gloss over; cover up |
| Synonyms: | abate, allay, alleviate, apologize for, assuage, camouflage, cloak, conceal, condone, cover, diminish, disguise, dissemble, ease, exculpate, excuse, extenuate, gloze, hide, hush up, justify, lessen, lighten, make light of, mask, minimize, mitigate, moderate, mollify, prettify, put on a Band-Aid, qualify, quick fix, relieve, screen, soften, soothe, sugarcoat, temper, varnish, veil, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | accuse, blame, condemn |
| Main Entry: | polish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shine, brightness |
| Synonyms: | brilliance, burnish, finish, glaze, glint, gloss, luster, sheen, smoothness, sparkle, varnish, veneer, wax |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | smooth |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make level |
| Synonyms: | burnish, clear, even, flatten, flush, glaze, gloss, grade, iron, lay, level, make uniform, perfect, plane, polish, press, refine, round, sand, sleek, slick, varnish |
| Antonyms: | coarsen, roughen, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | veneer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover, overlay |
| Synonyms: | blanch, coat, extenuate, face, finish, gloss, palliate, plate, shellac, sugarcoat, surface, varnish, whiten, whitewash |
| Notes: | veneer is a very thin layer of material or superficiality; venire is a panel of prospective jurors from which a jury is selected |
| Antonyms: | strip, uncover |
| Main Entry: | shellac |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | batter |
| Synonyms: | defeat, strike, trounce, varnish |
| Main Entry: | whitewash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover up the truth |
| Synonyms: | blanch, camouflage, conceal, exonerate, extenuate, gloss over, launder, liberate, make light of, paint, palliate, sugarcoat, suppress, varnish, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten |
| Antonyms: | expose, reveal, tell truth |
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