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2021-05-08 16:00:00 Recall, noun.

Example: Most people find they can improve their recall of dreams with practice.

Synonyms:

1. recollection, memory, remembrance
2. (technical) anamnesis
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2021-05-07 16:00:00 Examination, noun.

Example: The examination of witnesses in open court.

Synonyms:

1. questioning, interrogation, cross-questioning, cross-examination, inquisition
2. the third degree
3. (informal) pumping, grilling
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2021-05-06 16:00:00 Experience, verb.

Example: The company is experiencing difficulties.

Synonyms:

1. undergo, encounter, meet, have experience of, come into contact with, run into, come across, come up against, face, be faced with, confront, be forced to contend with
2. feel, know, become familiar with
3. go through, live through, sustain, suffer, endure, tolerate
4. participate in, taste, try
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2021-05-05 16:00:00 Haste, noun.

Example: Working with feverish haste.

Synonyms:

1. speed, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, swiftness, rapidity, rapidness, quickness, promptness, briskness, immediateness
2. impetuosity, precipitateness, rush, rushing
3. (literary) celerity, fleetness
4. (rare) expedition, expeditiousness, promptitude

Antonyms:

1. slowness, delay
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2021-05-04 16:00:00 Mangle, verb.

Example: He's mangling the English language.

Synonyms:

1. spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, bungle, mess up, make a mess of, wreck
2. (informal) murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, butcher
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2021-05-03 16:00:00 Notion, noun.

Example: These figures give the lie to the notion that the country is strike-ridden.

Synonyms:

1. idea, belief, concept, conception, conviction, opinion, view, thought, impression, image, perception, mental picture
2. assumption, presumption, hypothesis, theory, supposition
3. feeling, funny feeling, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, hunch
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2021-05-02 16:00:00 Put someone off, phrase.

Example: The smell put Lisa off.

Synonyms:

1. deter, discourage, dishearten, demoralize, dissuade, daunt, unnerve, intimidate, scare off
2. offend, repel, disgust, revolt, repulse, sicken, nauseate
3. (informal) turn off
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2021-05-01 16:00:00 Work something out, phrase.

Example: Work out how much you can afford to spend.

Synonyms:

1. calculate, compute, reckon up, determine
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2021-04-30 16:00:00 Alike, adjective.

Example: All the doors looked alike.

Synonyms:

1. similar, the same, indistinguishable, identical, uniform, interchangeable, undifferentiated, homogeneous, much the same, of a piece, cut from the same cloth
2. resembling, corresponding, like, parallel, analogous, cognate
3. (informal) like peas in a pod, like two peas in a pod, much of a muchness, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Antonyms:

1. different
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