sentient, animate – endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; “the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God’s stage”- T.E.Lawrence
[Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- + Middle English usen, to use; see use.]
pe·rusa·ble adj.
pe·rusal n.
pe·ruser n.
Usage Note: Peruse has long meant “to read thoroughly” and is often used loosely when one could use the word readThe librarians checked to see which titles had been perused in the last month and which been left untouched. Seventy percent of the Usage Panel rejected this example in our 1999 survey. Sometimes people use it to mean “to glance over, skim,” as in I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly, but this usage is widely considered an error. In a 1988 survey, 66 percent of the Panel found it unacceptable, and in 1999, 58 percent still rejected it.
peruse – examine or consider with attention and in detail; “Please peruse this report at your leisure”
examine, see – observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; “The customs agent examined the baggage”; “I must see your passport before you can enter the country”
leaf, riff, riffle, thumb, flick, flip – look through a book or other written material; “He thumbed through the report”; “She leafed through the volume”
variola – a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: “obdurate conscience of the old sinner”(Sir Walter Scott).
b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.
2. Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. See Synonyms at inflexible.
[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdrtus, past participle of obdrre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + drus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
auspicious – auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; “an auspicious beginning for the campaign”
propitious – presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success; “propitious omens”; “propitious gales speeded us along”; “a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration”
2. A critical or censorious remark: “entertained serious animadversions concerning the U.S.S.R. and its behavior on the international scene”(Adam B. Ulam).
[Latin animadversi, animadversin-, from animadversus, past participle of animadvertere, to turn the mind toward; see animadvert.]
2. A critical or censorious remark: “entertained serious animadversions concerning the U.S.S.R. and its behavior on the international scene”(Adam B. Ulam).
[Latin animadversi, animadversin-, from animadversus, past participle of animadvertere, to turn the mind toward; see animadvert.]
cold – having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; “a cold climate”; “a cold room”; “dinner has gotten cold”; “cold fingers”; “if you are cold, turn up the heat”; “a cold beer”
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