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  • Stampede: when many large animals or many people suddenly all move quickly and in an uncontrolled way, usually in the same direction at the same time, especially because of fear

    September 16, 2009

  • Sartorial:

    relating to the making of clothes, usually men's clothes, or to a way of dressing

    September 16, 2009

  • super-connector: the thought leader

    September 16, 2009

  • MAR: verb

    to spoil (something), making it less good or less enjoyable.

    e.g. Water will mar the finish of polished wood.

    September 14, 2009

  • PERVADE:

    to spread through all parts of (something.

    e.g. The influence of the early jazz musicians pervades American music.

    Synonyms:

    charge, diffuse, extend, fill, imbue, impregnate, infuse, overspread, penetrate, percolate,

    permeate, suffuse, transfuse

    Antonyms:

    deplete, drain, empty, exhaust, spend, take, use, void

    September 14, 2009

  • ERRATIC: changing suddenly and unexpectedly.

    e.g an erratic schedule

    Synonyms:

    aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, directionless, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, fluctuant, idiosyncratic, iffy, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, shifting, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, undirected, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical.

    Antonyms:

    certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging

    September 14, 2009

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