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21palliate — palliate, extenuate, gloze, gloss, whitewash, whiten are comparable when they mean to give a speciously fine appearance to what is base, evil, or erroneous. Palliate may stress the concealing or cloaking or the condoning of the enormity of a… …
22gloser — [ gloze ] v. tr. <conjug. : 1> • XIIe; de glose 1 ♦ Expliquer par une glose, un commentaire. ⇒ annoter, commenter, interpréter. ♢ Trans. ind. Se perdre en discussions, en vains discours à propos de tout. « Nous glosions sur tout et coupions …
23palliate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. extenuate, excuse; mitigate, soften; relieve, ameliorate. See vindication, moderation, relief. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. apologize for, make light of, screen, hide, conceal, cover, veil, gloss over,… …
24whitewash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. calcimine, kalsomine; whiten; vindicate, exonerate; informal, shut out, blank, skunk (sl.). See covering, vindication, flattery. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cover with a lime wash] Syn. paint, whiten …
25Flattery — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Flattery >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 flattery flattery adulation gloze Sgm: N 1 blandishment blandishment blandiloquence Sgm: N 1 cajolery cajolery Sgm: N 1 fawning fawning wheedling & …
26gloss — gloss1 noun 1》 a shine on a smooth surface. ↘(also gloss paint) a type of paint which dries to a glossy surface. 2》 a superficially attractive appearance or impression: beneath the gloss of success. verb 1》 give a glossy appearance to. 2》… …
27gloss — I n 1. shine, polish, luster, sheen, brightness, glitter, shimmer, glow, luminousness; glaze, varnish, veneer, lacquer, enamel, japan. 2. front, facade, camouflage, mask, disguise; pretense, masquerade, deceptive show, show, surface, semblance,… …
28glose — ˈglōz archaic variant of gloze * * * glos(e, glos see gloze, gloz …
29Glose — Glose, n. & v. See {Gloze}. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …
30Gloss — Gloss, n. [OE. glose, F. glose, L. glossa a difficult word needing explanation, fr. Gr. ? tongue, language, word needing explanation. Cf. {Gloze}, {Glossary}, {Glottis}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word… …
