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Agenda
list, calendar, diary, plan, programme, schedule, timetable
Millennium
a period of 1,000 years
At the dawn of the third millennium.
Stretch
extend, cover, put forth, reach, spread, unroll
- pull, distend, draw out, elongate, expand, strain, tighten
[noun]
Synonyms:
- expanse, area, distance, extent, spread, tract
- period, space, spell, stint, term, time
: stretching its limbs.
Limb
part, appendage, arm, extremity, leg, member, wing
- branch, bough, offshoot, projection, spur
Related Words: shoot, spray, sprig, switch, twig, arm
Rubbing
a copy of a shape or pattern made by rubbing wax, chalk etc onto a piece of paper laid over it:
a brass rubbing
: rubbing its eyes.
Rub
polish, clean, scour, shine, wipe - chafe, abrade, fray, grate, scrape [noun] Synonyms: - polish, shine, stroke, wipe - massage, caress, kneading
Remnants
remainder, end, fragment, leftovers, remains, residue, rest, trace, vestige.
Nightmare
bad dream, hallucination
- ordeal, horror, torment, trial, tribulation
English Thesaurus: dream, nightmare, daydream, reverie, ambition, …
Drifting
Drift :
float, be carried along, coast, go (aimlessly), meander, stray, waft, wander
- pile up, accumulate, amass, bank up, drive, gather
[noun]
Synonyms:
- pile, accumulation, bank, heap, mass, mound
- meaning, direction, gist, import, intention, purport, significance, tendency, thrust
Barbed
cutting, critical, hostile, hurtful, nasty, pointed, scathing, unkind
- spiked, hooked, jagged, prickly, spiny, thorny
Wire
pickpocket, cannon, cutpurse, dip, diver, purse cutter
thin metal in the form of a thread, or a piece of this.
Wrinkle
crease, corrugation, crinkle, crow’s-foot, crumple, fold, furrow, line
[verb]
Synonyms:
- crease, corrugate, crumple, fold, furrow, gather, pucker, rumple
Examine
inspect, analyse, explore, investigate, peruse, scrutinize, study, survey
- question, cross-examine, grill (informal), inquire, interrogate, quiz, test
Dairy
journal, appointment book, chronicle, daily record, engagement book, Filofax
Opens the dairy.
Preoccupied
absorbed, absent-minded, distracted, engrossed, immersed, lost in, oblivious, rapt, wrapped up
Antonyms: unpreoccupied
Related Words: absorbed, forgetful
Medieval
connected with the Middle Ages (=the period between about 1100 and 1500 AD):
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Famine
hunger, dearth, scarcity, starvation
English Thesaurus: disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, debacle, earthquake, …
Plague
disease, epidemic, infection, pestilence
- affliction, bane, blight, curse, evil, scourge, torment
[verb]
Synonyms:
- pester, annoy, badger, bother, harass, harry, hassle (informal), tease, torment, torture, trouble, vex
Institution
Synonyms:
- establishment, academy, college, foundation, institute, school, society
- custom, convention, law, practice, ritual, rule, tradition
Starvation
suffering or death caused by lack of food ⇒ hunger:
people dying of starvation.
Violence
force, bloodshed, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, fighting, savagery, terrorism
- intensity, abandon, fervour, force, severity, vehemence
Prophets
one of the main divisions of the Old Testament of the Bible, consisting of the writings of Jewish holy men such as Isaiah, Hosea, and Jeremiah
- the Jewish holy men who did these writings.
Integral
essential, basic, component, constituent, fundamental, indispensable, intrinsic, necessary.
Concluded
complete, completed, done, down, ended, finished, terminated, through