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oewn-00027360-a | acknowledged | a woman of acknowledged accomplishments | recognized or made known or admitted |
oewn-00027360-a | acknowledged | his acknowledged error | recognized or made known or admitted |
oewn-00027712-s | accepted | several accepted techniques for treating the condition | generally approved or compelling recognition |
oewn-00027712-s | recognized | his recognized superiority in this kind of work | generally approved or compelling recognition |
oewn-00028121-s | assumptive | assumptive beliefs | accepted as real or true without proof |
oewn-00028294-s | declarable | declarable income | that must be declared |
oewn-00028393-s | given | given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started | acknowledged as a supposition |
oewn-00028584-s | putative | the foundling's putative father | purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds |
oewn-00028584-s | putative | the putative author of the book | purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds |
oewn-00029097-s | secret | a secret marriage | not openly made known |
oewn-00029097-s | secret | a secret bride | not openly made known |
oewn-00029221-s | unconfessed | unconfessed sins | not admitted |
oewn-00029329-s | unrecognized | he was unrecognized in his disguise | not recognized |
oewn-00029456-a | acquisitive | an acquisitive mind | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
oewn-00029456-a | acquisitive | an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
oewn-00029882-s | accumulative | we live in an accumulative society | marked by acquiring or amassing |
oewn-00030046-s | avaricious | they are avaricious and will do anything for money | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030046-s | covetous | casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030046-s | grasping | a grasping old miser | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030046-s | grasping | grasping commercialism | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030046-s | greedy | greedy for money and power | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030046-s | prehensile | prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
oewn-00030621-s | possessive | small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys | desirous of owning |
oewn-00030911-s | predatory | predatory capitalists | living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain |
oewn-00031251-s | rapacious | a rapacious divorcee on the prowl | excessively greedy and grasping |
oewn-00031251-s | ravening | ravening creditors | excessively greedy and grasping |
oewn-00031251-s | voracious | paying taxes to voracious governments | excessively greedy and grasping |
oewn-00032087-a | active | an active toddler | characterized by energetic activity |
oewn-00032087-a | active | active as a gazelle | characterized by energetic activity |
oewn-00032087-a | active | an active man is a man of action | characterized by energetic activity |
oewn-00032471-s | about | up and about | on the move |
oewn-00032471-s | astir | the whole town was astir over the incident | on the move |
oewn-00032610-s | acrobatic | an acrobatic dance | vigorously active |
oewn-00032610-s | athletic | an athletic child | vigorously active |
oewn-00032610-s | athletic | athletic playing | vigorously active |
oewn-00032610-s | gymnastic | gymnastic exercises | vigorously active |
oewn-00033190-s | hot | a hot week on the stock market | marked by excited activity |
oewn-00033319-s | hyperactive | a hyperactive child | more active than normal |
oewn-00033472-s | on the go | is always on the go | (of a person) very busy and active |
oewn-00033687-a | inactive | illness forced him to live an inactive life | not active physically or mentally |
oewn-00033687-a | inactive | dreamy and inactive by nature | not active physically or mentally |
oewn-00034145-s | dormant | her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened | inactive but capable of becoming active |
oewn-00034435-s | inert | she was fat and inert | slow and apathetic |
oewn-00034435-s | sluggish | a sluggish worker | slow and apathetic |
oewn-00034435-s | torpid | a mind grown torpid in old age | slow and apathetic |
oewn-00034823-a | active | active duty | engaged in full-time work |
oewn-00034823-a | active | though past retirement age he is still active in his profession | engaged in full-time work |
oewn-00035037-s | activated | a newly activated unit | (military) set up and placed on active assignment |
oewn-00035187-a | inactive | inactive reserve | not engaged in full-time work |
oewn-00035187-a | inactive | an inactive member | not engaged in full-time work |
oewn-00035367-s | off | He's off every Tuesday | not performing or scheduled for duties |
oewn-00035578-a | active | an active seaport | full of activity or engaged in continuous activity |
oewn-00035578-a | active | an active bond market | full of activity or engaged in continuous activity |
oewn-00035578-a | active | an active account | full of activity or engaged in continuous activity |
oewn-00035892-s | brisk | doing a brisk business | very active |
oewn-00035981-s | bustling | a bustling city | full of energetic and noisy activity |
oewn-00036091-s | busy | a very busy week | crowded with or characterized by much activity |
oewn-00036091-s | busy | a busy life | crowded with or characterized by much activity |
oewn-00036091-s | busy | a busy street | crowded with or characterized by much activity |
oewn-00036091-s | busy | a busy seaport | crowded with or characterized by much activity |
oewn-00036276-s | going | a going concern | in full operation |
oewn-00036459-s | springy | he walked away with a springy step | (of movements) light and confidently active |
oewn-00036594-a | inactive | an inactive mine | lacking activity; lying idle or unused |
oewn-00036594-a | inactive | inactive accounts | lacking activity; lying idle or unused |
oewn-00036594-a | inactive | inactive machinery | lacking activity; lying idle or unused |
oewn-00036876-s | dark | the theater is dark on Mondays | not giving performances; closed |
oewn-00036992-s | dead | this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here | devoid of activity |
oewn-00037111-s | dull | business is dull (or slow) | (of business) not active or brisk |
oewn-00037111-s | slow | business is dull (or slow) | (of business) not active or brisk |
oewn-00037111-s | sluggish | a sluggish market | (of business) not active or brisk |
oewn-00037301-s | idle | the machinery sat idle during the strike | not in active use |
oewn-00037301-s | idle | idle hands | not in active use |
oewn-00037454-s | strikebound | a strikebound airline | closed or immobilized by a strike |
oewn-00037570-a | active | active tuberculosis | tending to become more severe or wider in scope |
oewn-00037766-s | progressive | progressive paralysis | advancing in severity |
oewn-00038232-s | flat | flat sales for the month | commercially inactive |
oewn-00038232-s | flat | prices remained flat | commercially inactive |
oewn-00038232-s | flat | a flat market | commercially inactive |
oewn-00038373-s | indolent | an indolent ulcer | (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless |
oewn-00038373-s | indolent | leprosy is an indolent infectious disease | (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless |
oewn-00038575-s | latent | latent infection | (pathology) not presently active |
oewn-00038575-s | latent | latent diabetes | (pathology) not presently active |
oewn-00038736-s | quiescent | a quiescent tumor | (pathology) causing no symptoms |
oewn-00038863-a | active | a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations | disposed to take action or effectuate change |
oewn-00038863-a | active | an active antagonism | disposed to take action or effectuate change |
oewn-00038863-a | active | he was active in drawing attention to their grievances | disposed to take action or effectuate change |
oewn-00040189-s | resistless | resistless hostages | offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation |
oewn-00040548-a | active | active volcanoes | (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt |
oewn-00040757-s | eruptive | a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring | actively spewing out lava |
oewn-00040908-a | dormant | a dormant volcano | (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct |
oewn-00041273-a | extinct | an extinct volcano | (of e.g. volcanoes) permanently inactive |
oewn-00041424-s | dead | Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range | physically inactive |
oewn-00041710-s | live | a live volcano | capable of erupting |
oewn-00041710-s | alive | the volcano is very much alive | capable of erupting |
oewn-00041710-s | live | the volcano is very much alive | capable of erupting |
oewn-00042449-a | passive | academics seem to favor passive sentences | expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb |
oewn-00042677-a | active | an active ingredient | exerting influence or producing a change or effect |
oewn-00043450-s | quiescent | the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation | not active or activated |
oewn-00043985-a | actual | the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different | presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible |
oewn-00043985-a | actual | actual and imagined conditions | presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible |