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111life — n 1. existence, being, animateness, viability, flesh and blood, substantiality; lifetime, days, generation, life span; duration of life, life expectancy, longevity. 2. the human condition, vicissitudes, ups and downs; trials and tribulations, the …
112pliability — n 1. flexibility, flexility, bendability, pliancy; suppleness, litheness, softness, limberness, lis someness; malleability, plasticity, tractility, ductility, flaccidity; elasticity, stretch, stretchability; give, spring, springiness, resilience …
113resilience — n 1. elasticity, springiness, flexibility, suppleness; spring, bounce, give, kick, snap, recoil, rebound; plasticity, ductility, rubberiness, reflexiveness; tensibility, tensileness, extensibility; contractability, contractility, stretchability;… …
114spread — v 1.Often spread out stretch, extend, enlarge, widen, broaden, augment, aggrandize, amplify; stretch out, draw out, lengthen, elongate, protract, prolongate, drag out; expand, dilate, distend, swell, bloat; grow, develop, increase, advance,… …
115spring — v 1. leap, jump, bound, vault, hop, skip. 2. appear, come into view, uprise, come to light; come up, crop up, Inf. pop up, Inf. come out of nowhere. 3. recoil, rebound, resile, bound or bounce back, snap back, fly back, kick back, kick. 4. shoot …
116touch — v 1. feel, finger, thumb, palm; hold, pick up, handle, manipulate, twiddle, trifle with, play with; palpate, poke around in; examine or investigate or study with the hands, stroke, caress, pet, fondle, paw, Sl. feel up, Yiddish. glet; massage,… …
117bounce — 1. verb 1) the ball bounced Syn: rebound, spring back, ricochet; N.Amer. carom 2) William bounced down the stairs Syn: bound, leap, jump, spring, bob, hop, skip, gambol …
118flexibility — noun 1) the flexibility of wood Syn: pliability, suppleness, elasticity, stretchiness, springiness, spring, resilience, bounce; informal give 2) the flexibility of an endowment loan Syn: adaptability, adjust …
119spring — 1. verb 1) the cat sprang off her lap Syn: leap, jump, bound, vault 2) the branch sprang back Syn: fly, whip, flick, whisk, kick, bounce 3) …
120give — [[t]gɪv[/t]] v. gave, giv•en, giv•ing, n. 1) to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation: to give a birthday present to someone[/ex] 2) to hand to someone: Give me that plate, please[/ex] 3) to place in someone s care: I gave the… …
