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thicket,n.shrubbery,copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny,coppice.thick-headed,a.pachycephalic, pachycephalous;dull,stupid, doltish.thicklip,n.blobberlip.thickness,n.denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy.Associated words: pachometer, pachymeter.thick-skinned,a.pachydermatous; obtuse,dull,unimpressible.thick-tongued,a.pachyglossal, crassilingual.thief,n.robber, pilferer, filcher,peculator;embezzler,defaulter,peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.thievery,n.theft, larceny;embezzlement,peculation; shoplifting.thievish,a.light-fingered,pilfering,predatory;stealthy,sneaking.thill,n.shaft (of a vehicle).thin,a.emaciated,slender,poor, wasted,peaked,gaunt,scrawny, lank,spare,meager,haggard,scraggy; tenuous,delicate,fine; incompact;dilute,rare, rarefied,subtile, attenuated;sheer,flimsy,sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous,transparent;sparse,scanty;inadequate,insufficient, superficial.thin,v.dilute,reduce, attenuate, rarefy,diminish, subtilize.thing,n.object,article.things,n. pl.(Colloq.)clothes,furniture, appurtenances, belongings,goods,luggage, accessories, chattels, effects,traps, impedimenta (Mil.),paraphernalia.think,v.meditate, cogitate,ponder, contemplate,brood,reflect,muse,consider,speculate,ruminate, opine, deem,apprehend, excogitate,infer,surmise,mull.thinkable,a.conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.thinking,a.rational,pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.thinking,n.cogitation,meditation, contemplation,thought.thinness,n.emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity,delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity,subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.thinning,n.dilution,reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization.Associated words: attenuant, diluent.thin-skinned,a.leptodermic;sensitive, impressible,irritable.third,a.tertiary.thirst,n.dryness,aridity,drought.Antonym: adipsy.Associated words:slake,quench, dipsetic, adipsous.thirty years.Associated words: tricennial, tricennially.thorn,n.spine,prickle,brier;torment,plague, infliction.thornless,a.spineless, inermis.thorny,a.spiny, briery,prickly;vexatious,troublesome,annoying.thorough,a.complete,profound.Antonyms: superficial, cursory,partial, sciolistic.thought,n.reflection, cogitation, revery, musing,meditation,consideration,abstraction,imagination,brown study, contemplation,deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration,rumination, preoccupation, excogitation;idea,concept,surmise,inference.thoughtful,a.contemplative,meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful,pensive, preoccupied,abstracted;considerate,heedful, circumspect,wary.thoughtless,a.inconsiderate,careless,unmindful,remiss,rash, inadvertent,indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.thousand,n.Associated words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.thrash,v.thresh.thread,n.filament, fibre, stamen, staple,pile, raveling, lint,warp, woof, thrum.--v.thrid.threadbare,a.napless, pileworn,seedy,trite, hackneyed.threat,n.menace,threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.threaten,v.menace;augur,forebode,portend; impend, be imminent.threatening,a.imminent,ominous,impending, minatory, fulminating.three,n.trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets.Associated words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.three-colored,a.tricolored.three-flowered,a.trifloral, triflorous.threefold,a.triple.three-forked,a.trisulcate, trifurcated.three hundred years.tricentenary.Associated words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.three languages.Associated word: trilingual.three-leaved,a.trifoliate, trifoliated.three-legged stand.trivet, tripod.three letters.triphthong, trigraph.three months.trimester.Associated words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.three-parted,a.tripartite.three-pointed,a.tricuspidate, tricuspid.three-pointed spear.trident.three-sided,a.triangular, trilateral.three-sided figure.triangle.three-toothed,a.trident, tridentate.three years.triennium.Associated words: triennial, triennially.threshold,n.doorsill.thrift,n.frugality,economy, thriftiness, providence;prosperity.thriftless,a.wasteful, improvident,extravagant,prodigal.thrifty,a.sparing,economical, provident,frugal;thriving, prosperous;luxuriant.thrilling,a.moving,exciting,sensational.thrive,v.flourish, prosper.thriving,a.flourishing,thrifty, prosperous.throat,n.pharynx, fauces;gullet, esophagus.Associated words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.throb,n.beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v.palpitate, pulsate,beat.throbbing,a.pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.throne,n.sovereignty.Associated words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.throw,v.pitch, hurl, fling,cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate,floor.throw away.squander;reject,decline,refuse.throw by.discard.throw in.inject; contribute.throwing,n.Associated words:missile, putting.throwing out.ejection,expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.throwing overboard.jettison.throw off.expel;reject, discard,abandon.throw out.expel, evict,oust,reject; emit;discharge, excrete,eject, egest,void, ejaculate, eliminate.Antonym:retain.throw up.resign;vomit,puke, disgorge.thrush,n.aphtha.thrust,n.push, shove, allonge,stab, protrusion.thrust,v.push,force, impel, shove,stab,pierce, protrude.thug,n.ruffian,rough, assassin.thunder,n.Associated words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.thunder,n.fulmination,denunciation.--v.fulminate, denounce.thunder,v.detonate,roll,boom.thundering,n.fulmination.--a.fulminatory.thunderstruck,n.dumfounded, astounded, amazed.thwart,v.frustrate,baffle,foil,balk,contravene.tickle,v.titillate;please, delight,gladden.tickling,n.titillation.--a.titillative.ticklish,a.difficult,critical,delicate.tidbit,n.delicacy,dainty,junket.tide,n.Associated words:ebb,flood,flow, marigray, marigram.tidy,a.orderly,neat,trim.tie,v.secure,fasten,bind, tether, leash.tie,n.knot, fastening;bond,obligation; (R.R.)sleeper, crosstie.tight,a.taut, tense;snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.)close,penurious,stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.)stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy,fuddled, intoxicated,drunk.tighten,v.straiten.tile,n.Associated words: tegular,mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.till,v.cultivate.tillable,a.arable,cultivable.tilt,v.slant,slope,incline,tip,cant.time,n.duration; while,spell,season,interval, interim,lapse, interregnum,period;season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.)measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance;age,date, eon, epoch, era, term.Associated words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics,contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence,contemporary, contemporaneity,simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence,coincident,coincidence, gnomon,coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram,chronic, coeval, coetaneous.timely,a.seasonable, punctual,opportune.Antonyms:untimely, inopportune.timepiece,n.time-keeper, chronometer, horologe,clock,watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater,sundial, isochronon.time-server,n.temporizer, trimmer.time-serving,a.temporizing,trimming.timid,a.timorous,shy,diffident,meticulous,faint-hearted,cowardly.timidity,n.diffidence,shyness, timorousness,cowardice.tin,n.stannum; latten, prillion.Associated words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.tin mine.stannary.tinsel,a.glittering, meretricious,specious,flashy.tinsel,n.spangle,pinchbeck,glitter, tawdriness.tinsmith,n.whitesmith, tinner.tintype,n.ferrotype, stannotype.tip,v.incline,lean,cant,tilt; careen,capsize, keel, overturn,upset.--n.end, apex, extremity.tiptop,n.(Colloq.)pinnacle, apex.tirade,n.diatribe, invective,billingsgate,screed.tire,v.fatigue,weary,jade, fag,bore, irk, tucker,exhaust.tiresome,a.irksome, wearisome, fatiguing,tedious; toilsome,arduous.tissue,n.fabric,stuff,cloth,texture;web,network, fabrication.toad-eater,n.toady.toads,n. pl.Associated words: ranine, ranivorous.toadstool,n.fungus. SeeFungi.toady,n.sycophant,toad-eater,flatterer,fawner.tobacco,n.Associated words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish,plug,cud,quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.toe,n.digit.together,adv.unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.toil,n.labor, drudgery; toils,snare,trap.--v.labor, moil,drudge.token,n.sign, symbol, index,indication.tolerable,a.sufferable,endurable;passable,mediocre,so-so,ordinary.tolerance,n.endurance,toleration, sufferance.Antonym:intolerance.tolerant,a.indulgent,forbearing,charitable.Antonym:intolerant.tolerate,v.endure, suffer,brook;allow,permit,admit.toleration,n.tolerance,endurance, sufferance;allowance,permission.tomb,n.sepulchre,crypt,vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).tomboy,n.(Colloq.) hoiden, romp.tombstone,n.monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).Associated words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.tomfoolery,n.(Colloq.)folly,trifling, monkey-tricks,mummery.tone,n.sound,note; cadence,modulation;force,vigor,energy.tone down.subdue,moderate,soften.toneless,a.aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.tongue,n.Associated words: lingual, glossal, sublingual,fur, tchick, barb, papillæ,lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe.tonguy,a.(Colloq.)voluble,fluent,loquacious, garrulous.tonic,n.invigorant, roborant.tool,n.implement, utensil,instrument;cat's-paw, puppet,hireling.Associated words: ratten, cocobola, kit.tooth,n.(little tooth) denticle, dentile.Associated words: denticulation, serration, serrature. Seeteeth.toothache,n.odontalgia.Associated word: odontalgic.toothless,a.agomphious, edentate, edentulous.toothless animals.Edentata.toothsome,n.palatable,delicious,savory, gustable.top,n.summit,crest, apex,vertex,pinnacle,zenith, culmination, capsheaf,meridian.top,v.surmount,overtop,surpass.toper,n.drunkard,sot, inebriate, guzzler.topic,n.subject, theme;division,head, subdivision.topknot,n.crest.top-shaped,a.turbinate, turbinated.torch,n.flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.torment,n.pain,anguish,distress, torture; bane, infliction,scourge,thorn.torment,v.persecute,hector,tease,tantalize, harry; torture,grill,rack,distress.torn,a.rent, lacerated, ripped.tornado,n.hurricane,cyclone,whirlwind.torpid,a.numb,benumbed,unfeeling; lethargic,dull, hebetate,sluggish,stupid.torpidity,n.numbness,lethargy,inactivity, hebetude.touch,v.meet, impinge; graze.touch,n.touching,contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation;dash,sprinkling,soupçon, infusion; animadversion,censure,stricture,reflection,slur.Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.touchiness,n.irascibility, petulance, irritability.touching,a.pathetic,affecting,moving,tender.touching,prep.respecting,concerning, regarding.touchstone,n.criterion,test; basanite, Lydianstone.touchwood,n.punk, tinder, agaric,spunk.touchy,a.irascible,irritable,petulant,testy,choleric,snappish.tough,a.tenacious,unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate,refractory,stubborn; (Colloq.)difficult,arduous,hard.tour,n.journey,trip, excursion, expedition.tousled,a.(Colloq.)disordered,disheveled.toweling,n.crash.tower,n.steeple, campanile, minaret,spire,belfry, turret,cupola,dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martellotower;castle, citadel, donjon,keep,fortress.tower,v.overtop, rise above.toy,n.gimcrack,plaything,trinket, kickshaw,bauble, teetotum,gewgaw.trace,n.vestige,sign, impression.track,n.trace,vestige,footprint, footmark,foil;spoor;wake,trail.tract,n.Associated words: colporteur, colportage.trade,n.commerce,barter, traffic,business; handicraft.Associated words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational,Mercury.trade,v.exchange,barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).trader,n.trafficker,dealer,merchant,tradesman, monger.tradesman,n.trader,merchant;artisan,craftsman,mechanic,journeyman, handicraftsman.trading,a.commercial,mercantile;venal,corrupt, jobbing.

thicket,n.shrubbery,copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny,coppice.

thick-headed,a.pachycephalic, pachycephalous;dull,stupid, doltish.

thicklip,n.blobberlip.

thickness,n.denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy.Associated words: pachometer, pachymeter.

thick-skinned,a.pachydermatous; obtuse,dull,unimpressible.

thick-tongued,a.pachyglossal, crassilingual.

thief,n.robber, pilferer, filcher,peculator;embezzler,defaulter,peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.

thievery,n.theft, larceny;embezzlement,peculation; shoplifting.

thievish,a.light-fingered,pilfering,predatory;stealthy,sneaking.

thill,n.shaft (of a vehicle).

thin,a.emaciated,slender,poor, wasted,peaked,gaunt,scrawny, lank,spare,meager,haggard,scraggy; tenuous,delicate,fine; incompact;dilute,rare, rarefied,subtile, attenuated;sheer,flimsy,sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous,transparent;sparse,scanty;inadequate,insufficient, superficial.

thin,v.dilute,reduce, attenuate, rarefy,diminish, subtilize.

thing,n.object,article.

things,n. pl.(Colloq.)clothes,furniture, appurtenances, belongings,goods,luggage, accessories, chattels, effects,traps, impedimenta (Mil.),paraphernalia.

think,v.meditate, cogitate,ponder, contemplate,brood,reflect,muse,consider,speculate,ruminate, opine, deem,apprehend, excogitate,infer,surmise,mull.

thinkable,a.conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.

thinking,a.rational,pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.

thinking,n.cogitation,meditation, contemplation,thought.

thinness,n.emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity,delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity,subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.

thinning,n.dilution,reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization.Associated words: attenuant, diluent.

thin-skinned,a.leptodermic;sensitive, impressible,irritable.

third,a.tertiary.

thirst,n.dryness,aridity,drought.Antonym: adipsy.Associated words:slake,quench, dipsetic, adipsous.

thirty years.Associated words: tricennial, tricennially.

thorn,n.spine,prickle,brier;torment,plague, infliction.

thornless,a.spineless, inermis.

thorny,a.spiny, briery,prickly;vexatious,troublesome,annoying.

thorough,a.complete,profound.Antonyms: superficial, cursory,partial, sciolistic.

thought,n.reflection, cogitation, revery, musing,meditation,consideration,abstraction,imagination,brown study, contemplation,deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration,rumination, preoccupation, excogitation;idea,concept,surmise,inference.

thoughtful,a.contemplative,meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful,pensive, preoccupied,abstracted;considerate,heedful, circumspect,wary.

thoughtless,a.inconsiderate,careless,unmindful,remiss,rash, inadvertent,indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.

thousand,n.Associated words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.

thrash,v.thresh.

thread,n.filament, fibre, stamen, staple,pile, raveling, lint,warp, woof, thrum.--v.thrid.

threadbare,a.napless, pileworn,seedy,trite, hackneyed.

threat,n.menace,threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.

threaten,v.menace;augur,forebode,portend; impend, be imminent.

threatening,a.imminent,ominous,impending, minatory, fulminating.

three,n.trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets.Associated words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.

three-colored,a.tricolored.

three-flowered,a.trifloral, triflorous.

threefold,a.triple.

three-forked,a.trisulcate, trifurcated.

three hundred years.tricentenary.Associated words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.

three languages.Associated word: trilingual.

three-leaved,a.trifoliate, trifoliated.

three-legged stand.trivet, tripod.

three letters.triphthong, trigraph.

three months.trimester.Associated words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.

three-parted,a.tripartite.

three-pointed,a.tricuspidate, tricuspid.

three-pointed spear.trident.

three-sided,a.triangular, trilateral.

three-sided figure.triangle.

three-toothed,a.trident, tridentate.

three years.triennium.Associated words: triennial, triennially.

threshold,n.doorsill.

thrift,n.frugality,economy, thriftiness, providence;prosperity.

thriftless,a.wasteful, improvident,extravagant,prodigal.

thrifty,a.sparing,economical, provident,frugal;thriving, prosperous;luxuriant.

thrilling,a.moving,exciting,sensational.

thrive,v.flourish, prosper.

thriving,a.flourishing,thrifty, prosperous.

throat,n.pharynx, fauces;gullet, esophagus.Associated words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.

throb,n.beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v.palpitate, pulsate,beat.

throbbing,a.pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.

throne,n.sovereignty.Associated words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.

throw,v.pitch, hurl, fling,cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate,floor.

throw away.squander;reject,decline,refuse.

throw by.discard.

throw in.inject; contribute.

throwing,n.Associated words:missile, putting.

throwing out.ejection,expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.

throwing overboard.jettison.

throw off.expel;reject, discard,abandon.

throw out.expel, evict,oust,reject; emit;discharge, excrete,eject, egest,void, ejaculate, eliminate.Antonym:retain.

throw up.resign;vomit,puke, disgorge.

thrush,n.aphtha.

thrust,n.push, shove, allonge,stab, protrusion.

thrust,v.push,force, impel, shove,stab,pierce, protrude.

thug,n.ruffian,rough, assassin.

thunder,n.Associated words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.

thunder,n.fulmination,denunciation.--v.fulminate, denounce.

thunder,v.detonate,roll,boom.

thundering,n.fulmination.--a.fulminatory.

thunderstruck,n.dumfounded, astounded, amazed.

thwart,v.frustrate,baffle,foil,balk,contravene.

tickle,v.titillate;please, delight,gladden.

tickling,n.titillation.--a.titillative.

ticklish,a.difficult,critical,delicate.

tidbit,n.delicacy,dainty,junket.

tide,n.Associated words:ebb,flood,flow, marigray, marigram.

tidy,a.orderly,neat,trim.

tie,v.secure,fasten,bind, tether, leash.

tie,n.knot, fastening;bond,obligation; (R.R.)sleeper, crosstie.

tight,a.taut, tense;snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.)close,penurious,stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.)stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy,fuddled, intoxicated,drunk.

tighten,v.straiten.

tile,n.Associated words: tegular,mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.

till,v.cultivate.

tillable,a.arable,cultivable.

tilt,v.slant,slope,incline,tip,cant.

time,n.duration; while,spell,season,interval, interim,lapse, interregnum,period;season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.)measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance;age,date, eon, epoch, era, term.Associated words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics,contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence,contemporary, contemporaneity,simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence,coincident,coincidence, gnomon,coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram,chronic, coeval, coetaneous.

timely,a.seasonable, punctual,opportune.Antonyms:untimely, inopportune.

timepiece,n.time-keeper, chronometer, horologe,clock,watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater,sundial, isochronon.

time-server,n.temporizer, trimmer.

time-serving,a.temporizing,trimming.

timid,a.timorous,shy,diffident,meticulous,faint-hearted,cowardly.

timidity,n.diffidence,shyness, timorousness,cowardice.

tin,n.stannum; latten, prillion.Associated words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.

tin mine.stannary.

tinsel,a.glittering, meretricious,specious,flashy.

tinsel,n.spangle,pinchbeck,glitter, tawdriness.

tinsmith,n.whitesmith, tinner.

tintype,n.ferrotype, stannotype.

tip,v.incline,lean,cant,tilt; careen,capsize, keel, overturn,upset.--n.end, apex, extremity.

tiptop,n.(Colloq.)pinnacle, apex.

tirade,n.diatribe, invective,billingsgate,screed.

tire,v.fatigue,weary,jade, fag,bore, irk, tucker,exhaust.

tiresome,a.irksome, wearisome, fatiguing,tedious; toilsome,arduous.

tissue,n.fabric,stuff,cloth,texture;web,network, fabrication.

toad-eater,n.toady.

toads,n. pl.Associated words: ranine, ranivorous.

toadstool,n.fungus. SeeFungi.

toady,n.sycophant,toad-eater,flatterer,fawner.

tobacco,n.Associated words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish,plug,cud,quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.

toe,n.digit.

together,adv.unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.

toil,n.labor, drudgery; toils,snare,trap.--v.labor, moil,drudge.

token,n.sign, symbol, index,indication.

tolerable,a.sufferable,endurable;passable,mediocre,so-so,ordinary.

tolerance,n.endurance,toleration, sufferance.Antonym:intolerance.

tolerant,a.indulgent,forbearing,charitable.Antonym:intolerant.

tolerate,v.endure, suffer,brook;allow,permit,admit.

toleration,n.tolerance,endurance, sufferance;allowance,permission.

tomb,n.sepulchre,crypt,vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).

tomboy,n.(Colloq.) hoiden, romp.

tombstone,n.monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).Associated words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.

tomfoolery,n.(Colloq.)folly,trifling, monkey-tricks,mummery.

tone,n.sound,note; cadence,modulation;force,vigor,energy.

tone down.subdue,moderate,soften.

toneless,a.aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.

tongue,n.Associated words: lingual, glossal, sublingual,fur, tchick, barb, papillæ,lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe.

tonguy,a.(Colloq.)voluble,fluent,loquacious, garrulous.

tonic,n.invigorant, roborant.

tool,n.implement, utensil,instrument;cat's-paw, puppet,hireling.Associated words: ratten, cocobola, kit.

tooth,n.(little tooth) denticle, dentile.Associated words: denticulation, serration, serrature. Seeteeth.

toothache,n.odontalgia.Associated word: odontalgic.

toothless,a.agomphious, edentate, edentulous.

toothless animals.Edentata.

toothsome,n.palatable,delicious,savory, gustable.

top,n.summit,crest, apex,vertex,pinnacle,zenith, culmination, capsheaf,meridian.

top,v.surmount,overtop,surpass.

toper,n.drunkard,sot, inebriate, guzzler.

topic,n.subject, theme;division,head, subdivision.

topknot,n.crest.

top-shaped,a.turbinate, turbinated.

torch,n.flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.

torment,n.pain,anguish,distress, torture; bane, infliction,scourge,thorn.

torment,v.persecute,hector,tease,tantalize, harry; torture,grill,rack,distress.

torn,a.rent, lacerated, ripped.

tornado,n.hurricane,cyclone,whirlwind.

torpid,a.numb,benumbed,unfeeling; lethargic,dull, hebetate,sluggish,stupid.

torpidity,n.numbness,lethargy,inactivity, hebetude.

touch,v.meet, impinge; graze.

touch,n.touching,contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation;dash,sprinkling,soupçon, infusion; animadversion,censure,stricture,reflection,slur.Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.

touchiness,n.irascibility, petulance, irritability.

touching,a.pathetic,affecting,moving,tender.

touching,prep.respecting,concerning, regarding.

touchstone,n.criterion,test; basanite, Lydianstone.

touchwood,n.punk, tinder, agaric,spunk.

touchy,a.irascible,irritable,petulant,testy,choleric,snappish.

tough,a.tenacious,unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate,refractory,stubborn; (Colloq.)difficult,arduous,hard.

tour,n.journey,trip, excursion, expedition.

tousled,a.(Colloq.)disordered,disheveled.

toweling,n.crash.

tower,n.steeple, campanile, minaret,spire,belfry, turret,cupola,dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martellotower;castle, citadel, donjon,keep,fortress.

tower,v.overtop, rise above.

toy,n.gimcrack,plaything,trinket, kickshaw,bauble, teetotum,gewgaw.

trace,n.vestige,sign, impression.

track,n.trace,vestige,footprint, footmark,foil;spoor;wake,trail.

tract,n.Associated words: colporteur, colportage.

trade,n.commerce,barter, traffic,business; handicraft.Associated words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational,Mercury.

trade,v.exchange,barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).

trader,n.trafficker,dealer,merchant,tradesman, monger.

tradesman,n.trader,merchant;artisan,craftsman,mechanic,journeyman, handicraftsman.

trading,a.commercial,mercantile;venal,corrupt, jobbing.


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