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🔑 Increase, verb.

💭 Example: Gas demand is likely to increase.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. grow, get bigger, get larger, become greater, enlarge, expand, swell
2. rise, climb, escalate, soar, surge, rocket, shoot up, spiral
3. improve, intensify, strengthen
4. heighten, lengthen, extend, stretch, spread, widen
5. multiply, snowball, mushroom, proliferate, balloon, build up, mount up, pile up, accrue, accumulate
6. (literary) wax

🧿 Antonyms:

1. decrease
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🔑 Saturnine, adjective.

💭 Example: His saturnine good looks.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. swarthy, dark, dark-skinned, dark-complexioned
2. mysterious, mercurial, moody
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🔑 Full, adjective.

💭 Example: He was full of mirth.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. abounding in, bursting with, brimming with, rich in, possessed by
2. (informal) awash with

🧿 Antonyms:

1. free of
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🔑 Grumble, verb.

💭 Example: The players grumble about the referee.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. complain, moan, groan, whine, mutter, grouse, bleat, carp, cavil, protest
2. object to, speak out against, find fault with
3. (Northern English) mither, twine
4. (informal) bellyache, beef, bitch, grouch, sound off, go on, pick holes in
5. (British • informal) whinge, gripe, grizzle, chunter, create
6. (North American • informal) kvetch
7. (South African • informal) chirp
8. (British • dated) crib, natter
9. (archaic) plain over
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🔑 Clear, adjective.

💭 Example: He made it clear to the team that he was in charge.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. obvious, evident, plain, apparent, crystal clear, as clear as crystal, transparent
2. sure, definite, unmistakable, manifest, indisputable, patent, incontrovertible, irrefutable, beyond doubt, beyond question, self-evident
3. palpable, visible, discernible, noticeable, detectable, recognizable, pronounced, marked, striking, conspicuous, overt, blatant, glaring
4. as plain as a pikestaff, staring someone in the face, writ large, as plain as day
5. (informal) as plain as the nose on one's face, standing out like a sore thumb, sticking out like a sore thumb, standing out a mile, sticking out a mile, as clear as day

🧿 Antonyms:

1. vague, possible
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🔑 Pierce, verb.

💭 Example: Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. penetrate, pass through, burst through, percolate, pervade, permeate, filter through, light up
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🔑 Tally, noun.

💭 Example: His tally of 1,816 wickets is still a county record.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. total, score, count, sum, result
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🔑 Day, noun.

💭 Example: He was the leading architect of the day.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. period, time, point in time, age, era, epoch, generation
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🔑 Watch out, phrase.

💭 Example: ‘Watch out’ he yelled.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. be careful, be watchful, beware, be on the watch, be wary, be cautious, be on your guard, mind out, look out, pay attention, take care, take heed, have a care, be on the alert, be on the lookout, keep a sharp lookout, be vigilant, be on the qui vive
2. (informal) keep an eye open, keep an eye out, keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned
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🔑 Firm, adjective.

💭 Example: The ground is fairly firm.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. hard, solid, unyielding, resistant
2. solidified, hardened
3. compacted, compressed, condensed, dense, close-grained
4. stiff, rigid, inflexible, inelastic
5. walkable
6. congealed, frozen, set, gelled
7. stony, steely
8. (literary) adamantine

🧿 Antonyms:

1. soft, yielding
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🔑 Stab, noun.

💭 Example: They gesticulated to us using violent stabs into the air.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. lunge, thrust, jab, poke, prod, dig, punch
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🔑 Uninhabited, adjective.

💭 Example: An uninhabited hut.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. vacant, empty, unoccupied, untenanted, tenantless, unfilled, to let, free
2. abandoned, deserted, forsaken
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🔑 Gift, verb.

💭 Example: He has gifted a new composition to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. present, give, bestow, confer, donate, contribute, endow, award, accord, grant
2. pledge, vouchsafe, furnish, bequeath, hand over, turn over, make over, leave, will
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🔑 Sick, adjective.

💭 Example: A sick joke.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. macabre, black, ghoulish, morbid, perverted, gruesome, sadistic, cruel, offensive

🧿 Antonyms:

1. in good taste
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🔑 Saying, noun.

💭 Example: You know the old saying about all work and no play?

🧲 Synonyms:

1. proverb, maxim, aphorism, axiom, adage, saw, tag, motto, precept, epigram, epigraph, dictum, gnome, pearl of wisdom
2. expression, phrase, formula
3. slogan, catchphrase
4. platitude, cliché, commonplace, truism
5. (rare) apophthegm
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🔑 Condition, verb.

💭 Example: The boards will need to be conditioned with water.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. treat, prepare, make ready, ready, prime, temper, process, acclimatize, acclimate, adapt, adjust, soften, season
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🔑 Harness, noun.

💭 Example: A horse's harness.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. tack, tackle, equipment, trappings, straps, yoke
2. (informal) gear
3. (archaic) equipage
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🔑 Lace, verb.

💭 Example: He laced up his running shoes.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. fasten, do up, tie up, secure
2. bind, knot, truss

🧿 Antonyms:

1. undo
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🔑 Survey, verb.

💭 Example: The BBC surveyed four thousand drug users and their families.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. interview, question, canvass, poll, cross-examine, investigate, research, study, probe, sample
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🔑 Tag, verb.

💭 Example: He became tagged as a ‘thinking’ actor.

🧲 Synonyms:

1. designate, describe, identify, classify, label, class, categorize, characterize
2. mark, stamp, brand, pigeonhole, stereotype, typecast, compartmentalize, typify
3. name, call, nickname, title, entitle, dub, term, style, christen, baptize
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