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artisan
COUNTABLE NOUN
An artisan is someone whose job requires skill with their hands.
Synonyms: craftsman or woman or person, technician, mechanic, journeyman
ideologue
noun [ C ] formal
a person who believes very strongly in particular principles and tries to follow them carefully
apprenticeship
VARIABLE NOUN
Someone who has an apprenticeship works for a fixed period of time for a person who has a particular skill in order to learn the skill. Apprenticeship is the system of learning a skill like this.
After serving his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, he became a manager.
…a period of apprenticeship.
Synonyms: traineeship, probation, studentship, novitiate or noviciate
arresting
adjective
Prodigal
very attractive in a way that attracts a lot of attention:
an arresting-looking woman
1. ADJECTIVE [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person. [literary] ...the parable of the prodigal son. Prodigal is also a noun. The prodigal had returned. 2. ADJECTIVE [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left. Prodigal habits die hard.
vacuity
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN [usually with poss]
If you refer to the vacuity of something or someone, you are critical of them because they lack intelligent thought or ideas.
[formal, disapproval]
His vacuity was a handicap in these debates.
…a campaign notable for its intellectual vacuity and personal nastiness.
subversion
Peer
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Subversion is the attempt to weaken or destroy a political system or a government.
He was arrested in parliament on charges of subversion for organizing the demonstration.
Synonyms: trouble-making, rebellion, insurrection, revolution
- VERB
If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly.
I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all. [VERB preposition]
He watched the Customs official peer into the driver’s window. [VERB preposition] - COUNTABLE NOUN
In Britain, a peer is a member of the nobility who has or had the right to vote in the House of Lords.
Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981.
Synonyms: noble, lord, count, duke More Synonyms of peer - COUNTABLE NOUN [usually plural]
Your peers are the people who are the same age as you or who have the same status as you.
…children who are much cleverer than their peers.
His engaging personality made him popular with his peers.
Synonyms: equal, like, match, fellow [old-fashioned]
modish
Eminence
ADJECTIVE
Something that is modish is fashionable.
[literary]
…a short checklist of much that is modish at the moment.
…modish young women from London society.
Synonyms: fashionable, current, smart, stylish
- UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Eminence is the quality of being very well-known and highly respected.
Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.
Beveridge was a man of great eminence.
Synonyms: prominence, reputation, importance, fame More Synonyms of eminence - VOCATIVE NOUN [poss NOUN, also PRON: poss PRON]
You use expressions such as Your Eminence or His Eminence when you are addressing or referring to a Roman Catholic cardinal.
‘Your Eminence,’ Pantieri broke in, ‘I wonder if you would allow me a word.’.
His Eminence the Cardinal celebrated Mass.
CONVERSANT
Dissolution
ADJECTIVE [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it.
[formal]
Those in business are not, on the whole, conversant with basic scientific principles.
- VARIABLE NOUN [oft a NOUN]
Dissolution is the act of breaking up officially an organization or institution, or of formally ending a parliament.
[formal]
He stayed on until the dissolution of the firm in 1948.
Politicians say it could lead to a dissolution of parliament.
Synonyms: ending, end, finish, conclusion More Synonyms of dissolution - VARIABLE NOUN [oft a NOUN]
Dissolution is the act of officially ending a formal agreement, for example a marriage or a business arrangement.
[formal]
…the statutory requirement for granting dissolution of a marriage. [+ of]
Synonyms: breaking up, parting, divorce, separation More Synonyms of dissolution - UNCOUNTABLE NOUN [also a N, oft NOUN of noun]
Dissolution is a process in which something becomes weaker and then disappears.
[formal]
…the dissolution of traditional family life.
Synonyms: disintegration, fall, decline, degradation
Balkanize
VERB
1. (transitive)
to divide (a territory) into small warring states
2. to divide (a group or organization) into small factions
transatlantic
- ADJECTIVE [ADJECTIVE noun]
Transatlantic flights or signals go across the Atlantic Ocean, usually between the United States and Britain.
Many transatlantic flights land there.
…the first transatlantic radio signal. - ADJECTIVE [ADJECTIVE noun]
Transatlantic is used to refer to something that happens, exists, or begins in the United States.
[British]
…transatlantic fashions.
Ardour/ardor
unbridled
aquiline
peasant
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something. [literary] ...songs of genuine passion and ardour. ...my ardor for football.
ADJECTIVE [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe behaviour or feelings as unbridled, you mean that they are not controlled or limited in any way.
…the unbridled greed of the 1980s.
…a tale of lust and unbridled passion.
Synonyms: unrestrained, uncontrolled, unchecked, violent
ADJECTIVE [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If someone has an aquiline nose or profile, their nose is large, thin, and usually curved.
[formal]
He had a thin aquiline nose.
- mainly history
a. a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistence
b. (as modifier)
peasant dress - informal, derogatory
a person who lives in the country; rustic - informal, derogatory
an uncouth or uncultured person
patrician
disseminated
- COUNTABLE NOUN
A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank.
[formal]
…the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.
Synonyms: aristocrat, peer, noble, nobleman or woman - ADJECTIVE
If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
…her crisp, patrician voice.
Synonyms: aristocratic, noble, lordly, gentle [archaic]
VERB
To disseminate information or knowledge means to distribute it so that it reaches many people or organizations.
[formal]
…disseminating information about family planning. [VERB noun]
They disseminated anti-French propaganda. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: spread, publish, broadcast, distribute More Synonyms of disseminate
dissemination (dɪsemɪneɪʃən) UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
He promoted the dissemination of scientific ideas. [+ of]
Synonyms: spread, publishing, broadcasting, publication
amend
- VERB
If you amend something that has been written such as a law, or something that is said, you change it in order to improve it or make it more accurate.
The president agreed to amend the constitution and allow multi-party elections. [VERB noun]
‘You must admit that the man has got charm,’ said Nicolson. ‘Glamour,’ amended Wells. [VERB with quote]
…the amended version of the Act. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: change, improve, reform, fix
defeasible
ADJECTIVE
capable of being defeated or rendered void
ironclad
adjective [ usually before noun ]
very certain and unlikely to be changed:
ironclad rules
racket
sinecure
- SINGULAR NOUN
A racket is a loud unpleasant noise.
He makes such a racket I’m afraid he disturbs the neighbours.
My dream was interrupted by the most awful racket coming through the walls.
The racket of drills and electric saws went on past midnight.
Synonyms: noise, row, shouting, fuss - COUNTABLE NOUN [oft noun NOUN]
You can refer to an illegal activity used to make money as a racket.
[informal]
A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.
Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man last night.
COUNTABLE NOUN
A sinecure is a job for which you receive payment but which does not involve much work or responsibility.
She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
…a lucrative sinecure with a big law firm.
Synonyms: cushy number [informal], honesty, gravy train [slang], soft option More Synonyms of sinecure
sophistry
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Sophistry is the practice of using clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
[formal]
Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.
Synonyms: fallacy, quibble, casuistry, sophism
salubrious
- ADJECTIVE
A place that is salubrious is pleasant and healthy.
[formal]
…your salubrious lochside hotel.
Synonyms: healthy, beneficial, good for you, wholesome More Synonyms of salubrious - ADJECTIVE
Something that is described as salubrious is respectable or socially desirable.
[formal]
…London’s less salubrious quarters.
Synonyms: agreeable, respectable, grand, pleasant