Reverse Dictionary #20

Read the definition and guess the word it defines.

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Last updated: July 14, 2024
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Definition
First Letter
Word
A person who looks at and interprets letters or other information that is written.
R
Reader
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
S
Size
A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
P
Pleasure
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
W
Waste
A person of any sex who has been trained to put out (usually self-sustaining) chemical reactions involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smoldering.
F
Firefighter
A detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
S
Soap
A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
C
Coalition
To see or view briefly or incompletely.
G
Glimpse
A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful.
A
Admiration
A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person.
T
Telephone
A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets in the air.
R
Rainbow
Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
F
Feedback
A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.
S
Summit
A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
E
Empire
A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
U
Unrest
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
P
Plug
Broadly or completely covering elements or aspects of something; including a large proportion of something.
C
Comprehensive
A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
S
Stamp
To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
R
Remain
A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
F
Finish
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
H
Health
Of, belonging or relating to a series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., to convey a mood; or to its performance or notation.
M
Musical
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
C
Career
An opening resulting from an incision or wound.
C
Cut
(of a sound) Of great intensity.
L
Loud
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2 Comments
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Level 67
Jul 14, 2024
Comprehensive is very tricky! I thought it meant physically covering something, not figuratively.
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Level 76
Jul 14, 2024
Fixed. Thanks for helping me to improve these quizzes.