| Main Entry: | inside track |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantageous position |
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commanding lead, connections, control, flying start, head start, lead, mastery, networking, right people, winning position |
| Main Entry: | control |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, mastery |
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ascendancy, authority, bridle, charge, check, clout, containment, curb, determination, direction, discipline, domination, dominion, driver's seat, force, government, guidance, inside track, juice, jurisdiction, limitation, management, manipulation, might, oversight, predomination, qualification, regimentation, regulation, restraint, restriction, ropes, rule, strings, subjection, subordination, superintendence, supervision, supremacy, sway, upper hand, weight, wire pulling |
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helplessness, powerlessness, relinquishment, renouncement, weakness |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control, dominance |
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ascendancy, authority, authorization, birthright, clout, command, connection, diadem, direction, domination, dominion, hegemony, imperium, influence, inside track, jurisdiction, law, leadership, license, management, might, moxie*, omnipotence, paramountcy, predominance, prerogative, prestige, privilege, regency, right, rule, say-so, sovereignty, steam, strength, strings, superiority, supremacy, sway, warrant, weight*, wire |
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inefficiency, subservience, surrender, weakness, yielding |
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand, difficulty |
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adversity, affliction, albatross, burden, choke, clout, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, crunch, discipline, distress, drag, duress, exigency, force, full court press, hardship, hassle, heat, hurry, influence, inside track, load, misfortune, necessity, obligation, persuasion, power, press, pressure cooker, pull, requirement, strain, stress, sway, tension, trouble, unnaturalness, urgency, weight |
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ease, facility, peace |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
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accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
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falsehood, invention, untruth |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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male, able, able-bodied, adamantine, adequate, all-powerful, almighty, antaean, athletic, atlantean, bellipotent, brawny, broad-shouldered, buirdly, capable, cervicose, cogent, competent, cryptodynamic, cyclopean, deep-rooted, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, endothermic, equal to, exothermic, forcible, galliard, gigantic, hard, hardy, herculean, ignipotent, impregnable, in fine feather, in full force, in full swing, in high feather, in the plenitude of power, incontestable, indomitable, inextinguishable, influential, invincible, irresistible, like a giant refreshed, made of iron, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, maximious, mighty, more than a match for, multipotent, muscular, omnipotent, overpowering, overwhelming, plenipotent, potent, potential, powerful, productive, proof against, puissant, resistless, robust, rounceval, sinewy, sound as a roach, sovereign, stalwart, sthenic, stout, strapping, strong, strong as a horse, strong as a lion, strong as brandy, stubborn, sturdy, thick-ribbed, unallayed, unconquerable, unexhausted, unquenchable, unshaken, unweakened, unwithered, unworn, up to, valid, vigorous, virile, well-knit, wight, wiry, yauld
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| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
particular, sound, accurate, actual, apodictic, as good as one's word, authentic, bona fide, candid, categorically true, certain, constant, correct, curious, definite, delicate, exact, faithful, fine, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, in its true colors, ingenuous, just, legitimate, literal, mathematical, natural, nice, official, open, open, ostensible, outspoken, precise, punctual, pure, real, realistic, religiously exact, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, simple, solid, sterling, straightforward, strict, substantial, substantially true, tangible, true, true, true as gospel, true to the letter, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, uncolored, unconfuted, undisguised, undissembling, undistorted, unerring, unexaggerated, unfeigned, unflattering, unideal, unimagined, unimpeachable, unperjured, unrefuted, unreserved, unromantic, unsophisticated, unvarnished, valid, veracious, veridical, veritable, well, well
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| Concept: | Power. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength., ability; ableness; competency; efficacy; efficiency; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence., pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire., capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Latin]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.
-verbs
be powerful; gain power., belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can., give power, confer power, exercise power; empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel.
-adjectives
powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty., forcible (energetic); influential; productive.
-adverbs
powerfully; by virtue of, by dint of.
-phrases
à toute force ["At full strength" (French)]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis ["He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign"
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Antonyms: |
impotence |
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