| 1. | a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine. |
| 2. | Sports. a competitor considered likely to win. |
| 3. | a person or thing popular with the public. |
| 4. | a person treated with special or undue favor by a king, official, etc.: favorites at the court. |
| 5. | regarded with particular favor or preference: a favorite child. |
| 1. | to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate. |
| 2. | to put an end to; extinguish. |
| 3. | to kill; slay. |
| 4. | to render ineffective or useless; nullify; neutralize; invalidate. |
| 5. | to defeat completely. |
| 6. | to engage in destruction. |
| 1. | to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. |
| 2. | to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. |
| 3. | Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play. |
| 4. | to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer. |
| 5. | to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion. |
| 6. | to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise. |
| 7. | to do something creative or constructive. |
| 8. | British. to make a fuss. |
| 1. | a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent. |
| 2. | an armed foe; an opposing military force: The army attacked the enemy at dawn. |
| 3. | a hostile nation or state. |
| 4. | a citizen of such a state. |
| 5. | enemies, persons, nations, etc., that are hostile to one another: Let's make up and stop being enemies. |
| 6. | something harmful or prejudical: His unbridled ambition is his worst enemy. |
| 7. | the Enemy, the Devil; Satan. |
| 8. | belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals: enemy property. |
| 1. | a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. |
| 2. | a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony. |
| 3. | a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe? |
| 4. | a member of the same nation, party, etc. |
| 5. | (initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker. |
| 6. | Rare. to befriend. |
| 1. | composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system. |
| 2. | characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc.: complex machinery. |
| 3. | so complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with: a complex problem. |
| 4. | Grammar.
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| 5. | Mathematics. pertaining to or using complex numbers: complex methods; complex vector space. |
| 6. | an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex. |
| 7. | Psychology. a system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses that is usually repressed and that gives rise to abnormal or pathological behavior. |
| 8. | a fixed idea; an obsessive notion. |
| 9. | Mathematics.
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| 10. | Also called coordination compound. Chemistry. a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion. Compare ligand (def. 2). |
| 1. | easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools. |
| 2. | not elaborate or artificial; plain: a simple style. |
| 3. | not ornate or luxurious; unadorned: a simple gown. |
| 4. | unaffected; unassuming; modest: a simple manner. |
| 5. | not complicated: a simple design. |
| 6. | not complex or compound; single. |
| 7. | occurring or considered alone; mere; bare: the simple truth; a simple fact. |
| 8. | free of deceit or guile; sincere; unconditional: a frank, simple answer. |
| 9. | common or ordinary: a simple soldier. |
| 10. | not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious: a simple way of life. |
| 11. | humble or lowly: simple folk. |
| 12. | inconsequential or rudimentary. |
| 13. | unlearned; ignorant. |
| 1. | the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. |
| 2. | a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account; chronicle: a history of France; a medical history of the patient. |
| 3. | the aggregate of past events. |
| 4. | the record of past events and times, esp. in connection with the human race. |
| 5. | a past notable for its important, unusual, or interesting events: a ship with a history. |
| 6. | acts, ideas, or events that will or can shape the course of the future; immediate but significant happenings: Firsthand observers of our space program see history in the making. |
| 7. | a systematic account of any set of natural phenomena without particular reference to time: a history of the American eagle. |
| 8. | a drama representing historical events: Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies. |
| 2. | (used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, prec. by a possessive): He insists on being his own doctor. |
| 3. | to have or hold as one's own; possess: They own several homes. |
| 4. | to acknowledge or admit: to own a fault. |
| 5. | to acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc.: He owned his child before the entire assembly. They owned the king as their lord. |
| 6. | to confess (often fol. by to, up, or up to): The one who did it had better own up. I own to being uncertain about that. Kristen |
| 1. | a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. |
| 2. | a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. |
| 3. | sexual passion or desire. |
| 4. | a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart. |
| 5. | (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love? |
| 6. | a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour. |
| 7. | sexual intercourse; copulation. |
| 8. | (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid. |
| 9. | affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor. Kristen |
| 1. | to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry. |
| 2. | to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it. |
| 3. | to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility. |
| 4. | intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility. |
| 5. | the object of extreme aversion or hostility. |
| 1. | the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son's success. |
| 2. | a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated: Her prose style is a pure joy. |
| 3. | the expression or display of glad feeling; festive gaiety. |
| 4. | a state of happiness or felicity. |
| 5. | to feel joy; be glad; rejoice. |
| 6. | Obsolete. to gladden. Kristen |
| 1. | a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire. |
| 2. | Chiefly British Dialect. pain or smart, as of a sore. |
| 3. | Obsolete. grief; trouble. |
| 4. | to arouse anger or wrath in. |
| 5. | Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to smart; inflame. |
| 6. | to become angry: He angers with little provocation Kristen |
| 1. | a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes blackʹbirdʹ from blackʹ birdʹ. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages. |
| 2. | words,
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| 3. | a short talk or conversation: Marston, I'd like a word with you. |
| 4. | an expression or utterance: a word of warning. |
| 5. | warrant, assurance, or promise: I give you my word I'll be there. |
| 6. | news; tidings; information: We received word of his death. |
| 7. | a verbal signal, as a password, watchword, or countersign. |
| 1. | Also, outdoors. characteristic of, located, occurring, or belonging outdoors: an outdoor barbecue; outdoor sports. |
| 2. | outdoorsy. |
| 1. | out of doors; in the open air: He's happiest when he's outdoors. |
| 2. | (used with a singular verb) the world outside of or away from houses; open air: Our whole family likes the outdoors. |
| 3. | outdoor. |
| 1. | sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness. |
| 2. | harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.: a stark landscape. |
| 3. | extremely simple or severe: a stark interior. |
| 4. | bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized: the stark reality of the schedule's deadline. |
| 5. | stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc. |
| 6. | rigid in death. |
| 7. | Archaic. strong; powerful; massive or robust. |
| 8. | utterly, absolutely, or quite: stark mad. |
| 9. | Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously. |
