| prefer | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. prefer | like better; value more highly.; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside" |
| ~ like | find enjoyable or agreeable.; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. choose, opt, prefer | select as an alternative over another.; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast" |
| ~ compare | examine and note the similarities or differences of.; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" |
| ~ cop out, opt out | choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing.; "She copped out when she was supposed to get into the hang glider" |
| v. (social) | 3. favor, favour, prefer | promote over another.; "he favors his second daughter" |
| ~ elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade, advance, raise | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ advantage | give an advantage to.; "This system advantages the rich" |
| v. (social) | 4. prefer | give preference to one creditor over another. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ pay | give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" |
| overdo | | |
| v. (social) | 1. exaggerate, overdo | do something to an excessive degree.; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups" |
| ~ overpraise | praise excessively. |
| ~ do, make | engage in.; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" |
| ~ oversimplify | simplify to an excessive degree.; "Don't oversimplify the problem" |
| ~ overleap | defeat (oneself) by going too far. |
| very | | |
| adj. | 1. very | precisely as stated.; "the very center of town" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 2. identical, selfsame, very | being the exact same one; not any other:.; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" |
| ~ same | same in identity.; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street" |
| adv. | 3. rattling, real, really, very | used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal.; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" |
| adv. | 4. very | precisely so.; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" |
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