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August 25, 2018
98%    2%    #56 votes

What does Causative mean?

causative(adj)
producing an effect

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August 24, 2018
71%    29%    #69 votes

What does Progeny mean?

offspring, progeny, issue(noun)
the immediate descendants of a person

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August 23, 2018
80%    20%    #118 votes

What does Savant mean?

initiate, learned person, pundit, savant(noun)
someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

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August 22, 2018
67%    33%    #31 votes

What does Indigenous mean?

autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous(adj)
originating where it is found

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August 21, 2018
92%    8%    #105 votes

What does Metaphor mean?

metaphor(noun)
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

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August 20, 2018
91%    9%    #60 votes

What does Analogous mean?

analogous, correspondent(adj)
similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

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August 19, 2018
83%    18%    #66 votes

What does Embellish mean?

embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise(verb)
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