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111imagination — n. 1) to excite, fire smb. s imagination 2) to use one s imagination 3) to defy, stagger, stir smb. s imagination 4) an active, lively, vivid; creative; feeble; wild imagination 5) a figment of smb. s imagination 6) the imagination to + inf.… …
112daydream — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. reverie, castle in the air, fancy. See hope, imagination, inattention. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reverie, vision, fantasy; see dream 1 , fantasy 2 . v. Syn. fantasize, muse, stargaze, go woolgathering;… …
113dream — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vision, reverie, fantasy, fancy; daydream, chimera, nightmare; delusion, hallucination. See imagination, insubstantiality. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Mental pictures] Syn. nightmare, apparition,… …
114fiction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fabrication, falsehood; romance, myth, hypothesis. See description. Ant., fact. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Something invented or feigned] Syn. fabrication, untruth, invention; see fantasy 2 , lie 1 . 2.… …
115imagination — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Mental imagery Nouns 1. imagination, imaginativeness, originality, invention, fancy, creativeness, inspiration; mind s eye; verve, improvisation. 2. (image of perfection) ideality, idealism; romanticism …
116effigy — [16] Effigy comes ultimately from the Latin verb effingere ‘form, portray’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and fingere ‘make, shape’ (source of English faint, feign, fiction, figment, and related to English dairy and dough).… …
117fiction — [14] Fiction is literally ‘something made or invented’ – and indeed that was the original meaning of the word in English. It seems always to have been used in the sense ‘story or set of “facts” invented’ rather than of some concrete invention,… …
118figure — [13] Figure comes via Old French from Latin figūra ‘form, shape, figure’, a derivative of the same base (*fig ) as produced fingere ‘make, shape’ (whence English effigy, faint, feign, and fiction). Many of the technical Latin uses of the word,… …
119daydream — n 1. reverie, castle in the air, castle in Spain, dream, musing; fancy, flight of fancy, whim, whimsy, vagary, crotchet, notion, imagination; conceit, thought, idea, conception, concept. 2. fantasy, phantasm, fantasm, phantasma, Lit. fantasia,… …
120dream — n 1. vision, nightmare; apparition, will o the wisp, ignis fatuus, chimera, fairy; phantom, shade, specter, ghost, wraith, incubus, succubus, bugbear; fantasy, phantasm, phantasma, Lit. fantasia, Inf. pipe dream, romance; figment, figment of the… …
