IVB03 Crossword
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1) : a fixed amount of money that is paid to someone each year 2 : an insurance policy or an investment that pays someone a fixed amount of money each year
1: a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals
2: the right to receive an annuity
3: a contract or agreement providing for the payment of an annuity
Synonyms: allocation, allotment, appropriation, entitlement, grant, subsidy, subvention2) 1: to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition
2 archaic : to join together materially : unite
3: to add to something earlier, larger, or more important
4: to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state
: to obtain or take for oneself
Synonyms: adjoin, add, append, subjoin, tack (on)3) a word or phrase that is represented by another word (such as a pronoun)
something that came before something else and may have influenced or caused it
:the people in a family who lived in past times
: ancestors
Synonyms: cause, causality, causation, occasion, reason4) the science of human beings; especially : the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture
:the study of human races, origins, societies, and cultures5) : a note added to a text, book, drawing, etc., as a comment or explanation
▪ Without the annotations, the diagram would be hard to understand.6) strongly moved by love and especially sexual love
being in love
Synonyms: amatory, erotic, aphrodisiac (also aphrodisiacal), erogenous, erotogenic, sexy, steamy8) arrest, seize
2a : to become aware of : perceive b : to anticipate especially with anxiety, dread, or fear
to arrest (someone) for a crime : to catch (a criminal or suspect)
Synonyms: appreciate, comprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, conceive, cotton (to or on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand9) : a charm (as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (as disease or witchcraft)
; a small object worn to protect the person wearing it against bad things (such as illness, bad luck, etc.)
Synonyms: charm, fetish (also fetich), mascot, mojo, periapt, phylactery, talisman11) a drug that relieves pain
an agent for producing analgesia
Synonyms: painkiller, anesthetic, anodyne12) a remedy to counteract the effects of poison
2: something that relieves, prevents, or counteracts
: a substance that stops the harmful effects of a poison
: something that corrects or improves the bad effects of something
There is no antidote to/for this poison.
Synonyms: cure, corrective, curative, rectifier, remedy, therapeutic, therapy14) an opening or open space : hole
2a : the opening in a photographic lens that admits the light b : the diameter of the stop in an optical system that determines the diameter of the bundle of rays traversing the instrument c : the diameter of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope
; a hole or small opening in something
Synonyms: hole, opening, orifice, perforation |
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2) serving to alleviate pain
2: not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous
not likely to offend or upset anyone
Synonyms: harmless, benign, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe, white3) a short computer application especially for performing a simple specific task
a small computer application4) opposition in feeling
2: settled aversion or dislike
an object of aversion
a strong feeling of dislike [noncount] ▪
Synonyms: animosity, animus, antagonism, enmity, bad blood, bitterness, gall, grudge, hostility, jaundice, rancor5) capable of understanding or quick to do so
having awareness or knowledge of something : cognizant
Synonyms: alive, conscious, aware, cognizant, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware, witting6) one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom
:a great disaster : a sudden and very bad event that causes much fear, loss, or destruction
His book tells of an environmental apocalypse
Synonyms: disaster, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle (also débâcle), tragedy7) : a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
a short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence
▪ He told us all sorts of humorous anecdotes about his childhood.
Synonyms: story, tale, yarn10) sorry, the word is aphorism.
a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea : adage
When decorating, remember the familiar aphorism, “less is more.”
Synonyms: adage, saying, apothegm, byword, epigram, maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word13) a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people
racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa15) the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth; also : the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it
: the highest point of something
Synonyms: acme, apex, height, capstone, climax, crescendo, crest, crown, culmination, head, high noon, high tide, high-water mark, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, noontime, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, tip-top, top, zenith |
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