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| Main Entry: | orient |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | familiarize |
| Synonyms: | acclimatize, adapt, adjust, align, conform, determine, direct, get one's bearings, locate, orientate, turn |
| Notes: | the Occident is the region of the sky where the sun sets - the west (the opposite of Orient, the east) to orient was originally to make something face east (to the Orient), especially a church; use 'orient,' not 'orientate' |
| Antonyms: | disorient |
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| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inform of facts |
| Synonyms: | abridge, advise, apprise, edify, enlighten, epitomize, explain, fill in, inform, initiate, instruct, orient, prepare, prime, recapitulate, summarize, update, give rundown, give the lowdown, let in on, show the lay of the land, show the ropes, tip off |
| Antonyms: | hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | relate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correlate, pertain |
| Synonyms: | affect, ally, appertain, apply, ascribe, assign, associate, bracket, combine, compare, concern, connect, coordinate, couple, credit, identify with, impute, join, link, orient, pertain, refer, touch, unite, yoke, be joined with, be relevant to, bear upon, conjoin, consociate, correspond to, have reference to, have to do with, interconnect, interdepend, interrelate, orientate, tie in with |
| Antonyms: | dissociate |
| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change to suit; distort |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, bias, color, concentrate, direct, focus, influence, orient, point, prejudice, train, twist, warp, weight |
| Antonyms: | maintain, leave alone |
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| Main Entry: | lateral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
lateral, Hesperian, bilateral, collateral, contralateral, dextral, eastern, flanked, flanking, ipsilateral, levantine, many-sided, multilateral, occidental, occiduous, orient, oriental, parallel, parietal, ponent, quadrilateral, right-handed, sideling, sidelong, skirting, synallagmatic, trilateral, western
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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light, self, ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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