| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light; making light |
Synonyms: |
beam, brightening, brightness, brilliance, flame, flash, gleam, lighting, lights, radiance, ray |
Antonyms: |
darkness, dimness |
| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clear understanding |
Synonyms: |
awareness, clarification, edification, education, enlightenment, information, insight, inspiration, instruction, perception, revelation, teaching |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, misconception, misunderstanding, obscurity, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
Antonyms: |
barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | clarification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
Synonyms: |
description, elucidation, exposition, illumination, interpretation, resolution, simplification, solution, unravelment, vivification |
Antonyms: |
complication, misunderstanding, muddle |
| Main Entry: | decoration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beautification, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
adornment, beautifying, bedecking, bedizenment, designing, elaboration, enhancement, enrichment, festooning, flounce, flourish, frill, furbelow, garnish, garnishing, illumination, improvement, ornament, ornamentation, redecorating, spangle, trimming |
Antonyms: |
eyesore |
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
Synonyms: |
betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, irradiation, knowledge, learning, nurture, schooling, teaching, tuition, uplifting |
Antonyms: |
destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | firecracker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fireworks |
Synonyms: |
Roman candles, bottle rockets, bursts, cherry bomb, fire flowers, illuminations, pyrotechnics, rockets, sparklers |
| Notes: | the term for a combustible or explosive or pyrotechnic ('pertaining to fire art') projectile was 'rocket' until fireworks was used in 1777 to describe these in connection with the first Fourth of July celebration. 'Rockets' are still the most popular form of firework. Rockets are lifted by recoil from the jet of fire created by the burning ingredients - and they are designed for maximum combustion and maximum thrust. Fireworks originated in ancient China. The word firecracker refers to those that make loud sounds and sparklers are those that send off a shower of sparks. |
| Main Entry: | fireworks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pyrotechnic display at celebrations |
Synonyms: |
Roman candles, bottle rockets, bursts, fire flowers, firecrackers, illuminations, rockets, sparklers |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
Synonyms: |
beam, bedazzlement, blaze, burst, coruscation, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illumination, imprint, impulse, incandescence, luster, phosphorescence, quiver, radiation, ray, reflection, scintillation, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle, twinkling, vision |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
Synonyms: |
advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |