The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene Ehrlich
Author:Eugene Ehrlich
Language: nld
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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oak, pertaining to an quercine
oar n. scull
oar-shaped adj. remiform
oath n. voir dire
oath, taking an juration
oatmeal n. flummery
obedience n. Bushido, deference
obedient adj. deferent, deferential, duteous, dutiful, malleable, obsequious, submissive, subservient, tractable
obituary n. necrology
object v. demur, expostulate, remonstrate, scruple
objectify v. 1. externalize, rationalize; 2. embody
objecting adj. exceptive
objection n. cavil, censure, demur, qualm, remonstrance, scruple
objectionable adj. noisome, odious
objective adj. disinterested
objects, everyday realia
obligated adj. beholden
obligation n. corvée, noblesse oblige, onus
obligatory adj. imperative, incumbent, irremissible, mandatory
oblige v. constrain
obliging adj. complaisant
oblique stroke solidus
oblivion n. lethe, limbo
oblivious adj. abstracted, unmindful
obnoxious adj. odious
obscene adj. blue, fescennine, ithyphallic, lascivious, prurient, raunchy, salacious, scurrilous
obscenity n. ordure, scatology, smut
obscure adj. abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, Delphic, elliptical, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, fuliginous, inglorious, inscrutable, murky, occult, oracular, recherché, recondite, tenebrous
obscure v. obnubilate
obscured adj. perdu, turbid
obscurity n. obliquity
obsequious adj. abject, deferential, fawning, groveling, menial, servile, subservient, sycophantic
obsequiously, act kowtow
obsequiousness n. obsequence
observant adj. 1. perceptive; 2. punctilious
observation n. espial, introspection
observe v. 1. espy, reconnoiter; 2. introspect, opine; 3. solemnize
obsess v. besot, preoccupy
obsession n. idée fixe
obsolete adj. superannuated
obsolete, make supersede
obstacle n. abatis, impediment, pons asinorum
obstetrician n. accoucheur, gynecologist
obstetrics n. tocology
obstinate adj. balky, crabbed, fractious, froward, intractable, mulish, obdurate, pertinacious, pervicacious, recusant, refractory, restive, stolid, unregenerate, willful
obstreperous adj. blatant, clamant, heckling, refractory, vociferous
obstruct v. encumber, filibuster, obturate, obviate, occlude, oppilate, preclude, stymie, thwart
obstruction n. embolism, embolization, embolus, encumbrance
obstructionist n. filibusterer
obtain v. beguile, exact, inveigle, wheedle
obtrusive adj. impertinent, intrusive, officious, protrusive
obtuse adj. insensitive, purblind
obvious adj. axiomatic, blatant, egregious, flagrant, manifest, obtrusive, palpable, patent, prima facie, transparent
occasionally adv. betimes
occult adj. cabalistic, metaphysical, supernatural
occult learning gramarye
occupant n. denizen
occupation n. métier
occupy v. engross, immerse
occur v. eventuate, materialize, supervene
occurrence n. contretemps, eventuality, incidence
occurring annually etesian
occurring suddenly fulminant, precipitate
ocean n. Davy Jones
ocean current El Niño
ocean farming mariculture
oceans, pertaining to pelagic
odds and ends flotsam, rummage
ode n. monody, parabasis, parodos, stasimon (see also poems and poetical terms)
odometer n. perambulator
odor n. gaminess
odorous adj. rammish, rank, redolent
off-color adj. risqué
offend v. affront, chafe, disoblige, incommode, nettle, pique
offense n. pique, umbrage
offense, apt to take umbrageous
offensive adj. crass, fetid, fulsome, invidious, mephitic, noisome, objectionable, odious, scarlet, unsavory, vexatious
offer v. bestow, proffer, propound, tender
offer n. proffer, tender
offering n. altarage, corban, oblation, offertory
offhand adj. extemporary, extempore, impromptu
office n. magistracy, pontificate, prelacy, prelature, priorate
officer n. bailiff, jemadar, justiciar, justiciary, manciple, prior, propraetor
officers, one of three triumvir
official adj. bona fide, ex officio
official n. bashaw, chamberlain, chiaus, dewan, Dogberry, functionary, gabbai, gauleiter, hayward, hierarch, induna, intendant, jemadar, Junker, macebearer, macer, mandarin, Master of the Revels, ombudsman, ombudsperson, ombudswoman, palatine, panjandrum, pasha, Pooh Bah, proconsul, procurator, prothonotary, provost, pursuivant, reeve, sacristan, steward, vizier, waldgrave
offset v. counterpoise, countervail
offspring n. get, issue, progeny
offspring, producing philoprogenitive
oil n. chrism, citronella, oil of catechumens, oil of the sick
oiliness n. lubricity, unctuousness
oily adj. lubricious, oleaginous, pinguid, unctuous, unguinous
ointment n. nard, pomade, pomatum, salve, unction, unguent
old adj. long in the tooth, patriarchal, superannuated, venerable
old, become superannuate
old age senectitude
old-fashioned adj. antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, fusty, moss-grown, obsolescent, oldfangled, passé, superannuated
old man Methuselah, patriarch, whitebeard
Old Testament Septuagint
old woman babushka, beldam, biddy, crone, dowager, Elli, matriarch
old-womanish adj. anile
olive, stuffed pimola
olive-shaped adj. olivary
omen n. augury, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, portent, presage, presentiment, prognostic
ominous adj. bodeful, direful, fateful, inauspicious,
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