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COMPREHENSION VOCABULARY
ALTERNATIVE/S
1. COLOSSAL adjective
1. extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge
2. of or resembling a colossus
3. (initial capital letter) architecture; noting or pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or mores stories of a building
Alternative/s: big, enormous, gigantic, grand, great, huge, humongous, immense, mammoth, monstrous, monumental, vast
COLOSSALITY adverb
COLOSSALY noun
2. LIMP verb
(used without object)
1. to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame
2. to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner
3. to progress slowly and with great difficulty; make little or no advance
Alternative/s: dodder, droopy, enervated, falter, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, floppy, gimp, hitch, hobble, lame, limber, loose, soft, stagger, weak, wilted, wobble
noun
a lame movement or gait
Alternative/s: claudication, flaccidity, lameness
LIMPER noun
LIMPINGLY adverb
3. VIRTUALLY adverb
for the most part; almost wholly; just about
Alternative/s: almost, basically, essentially, nearly, practically, totally
4. BLASTED adjective
1. withered; shriveled; blighted; ruined
2. damned; confounded
Alternative/s: accursed, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, damn, darn, execrable, infernal
5. CONSTANT adjective
1. not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable
2. continuing without pause or letup; unceasing
3. regularly recurrent; continual; persistent
4. faithful; unswerving in love, devotion, etc.
5. steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute
6. obsolete; certain; confident
Alternative/s: abiding, certain, chronic, confident, continent, continual, continuous, dependable, durable, endless, enduring, eternal, even, everlasting, faithful, firm, fixed, forever, habiual immutable, incessant, invariable, inveterate, lasting, loyal, nonstop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persevering, persistent, regular, relentless, resolute, solid, stable, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, sustained, true unceasing, undeviating, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, uniform, uninterrupted, unregenerate, unremitting, unswerving, untiring, unvarying, unwavering
noun
1. something that does not or cannot change or vary
2. Physics: a number expressing a property, quantity, or relation that remains unchanged under specified conditions
3. Mathematics: a quantity assumed to be unchanged throughout a given discussion
Alternative/s: parameter
6. GEAR noun
1. machinery
- a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion
- an assembly of such parts
- one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear
- a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear
2. implements, tools, or apparatus, esp. as used for a particular occupation or activity; paraphernalia: fishing gear
3. a harness, esp. of horses
4. nautical
- the lines, tackles, etc., of a particular sail or spar
- the personal tools, clothing, and other possessions of a sailor
5. portable items of personal property, inc. clothing; possessions
6. wearing apparel; clothing
7. armor or arms
Alternative/s: apparatus, appointments, equipment, paraphernalia, toggery, trappings
verb
(used with object)
1. to provide with or connect by gearing
2. to put in or into gear
3. to provide with gear; supply; equip
4. to prepare, adjust, or adapt to a particular situation, person, etc., in order to bring about satisfactory results
(used without object)
to fit exactly, as one part of gearing to another; come into or be in gear
Alternative/s: accessory, apparatus, apparel, appliance, baggage, belongings, cam, clothing, cog, cogwheel, derailleur, dress, duds, equip, equipment, garb, garments, goods, instrument, luggage, machine, material, mechanism, outfit, paraphernalia, personal effects, pinion, possessions, prepare, property, reverse, rig, rigging, sprocket, stuff, supplies, tackle, things, trappings
adjective
slang: great, wonderful
verb phrases
1. gear down
- automotive: to shift the transmission of a vehicle to a lower gear
- to reduce in scope or intensity
2. gear up
- to make or get ready for a future event or situation
- to get or put on equipment or clothing for a particular purpose
- to arouse or excite, as with enthusiasm or expectation
idioms
1. in gear
- machinery: in the state in which gears are conneced or meshed
- in proper or active working order; functioning continuously without trouble
2. in/into high gear, in/into a state of utmost speed, activity, or efficiency
3. out of gear, machinery: in the state in which gears are not connected or meshed
4. shift or switch gears, to change one's attitude, course of action, methods, etc., in an abrupt, dramatic, or unexpected manner
GEARLESS adjective
7. REINFORCED noun
1. something that reinforces
2. a metal band on the rear part of the bore of a gun, where the explosion occurs
REINFORCE verb
(used with object)
1. to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material
2. to strengthen (a military force) with additional personnel, ships, or aircraft
3. to strengthen; make more forcible or effective
4. to augment; increase
5. Psychology: to strengthen the probability of (a response to a given stimulus) by giving or withholding a reward
Alternative/s: augment, back, bolster, brace, buttress, energize, fortify, pillar, prop, shore, strengthen, supplement, support, toughen
8. BY THE WAY idiom
in the course of one's remarks; incidentally
Alternative/s: apropos, en passant, incidentally, parenthetically
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