| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The power or quality of attracting: allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, draw, enchantment, enticement, fascination, glamour, lure, magnetism, witchery. Informal : pull. See LIKE. 2. A telephone communication: buzz, ring2. See WORDS. 3. That which provides a reason or justification: cause, ground (often used in plural), justification, necessity, occasion, reason, wherefore, why. Idioms: why and wherefore. See START. 4. The act of demanding: claim, cry, demand, exaction, requisition. See REQUEST. 5. A loud cry: halloo, holler, shout, yell. See SOUNDS. 6. An act or an instance of going or coming to see another: look-in, visit, visitation. See SEEK. | | VERB: | 1. To bring together: assemble, cluster, collect1, congregate, convene, convoke, gather, get together, group, muster, round up, summon. See COLLECT. 2. To demand to appear, come, or assemble: convene, convoke, muster, send for, summon. See REQUEST. 3. To describe with a word or term: characterize, designate, label, name, style, tag, term. See SPECIFIC, WORDS. 4. To give a name or title to: baptize, christen, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, name, style, term, title. See SPECIFIC, WORDS. 5. To tell about or make known (future events) in advance, especially by means of special knowledge or inference: forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, project. See FORESIGHT. 6. To speak or say very loudly or with a shout: bawl, bellow, bluster, clamor, cry, halloo, holler, roar, shout, vociferate, whoop, yawp, yell. See SOUNDS. 7. To communicate with (someone) by telephone: buzz, ring2, telephone. Informal : dial, phone. Idioms: get someone on the horn, give someone a buzz (or call) (or ring) . See WORDS. 8. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize: come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, pop in, run in, see, stop (by or in), visit. Idioms: pay a visit. See SEEK. | | PHRASAL VERB: | call down To criticize for a fault or an offense: admonish, castigate, chastise, chide, dress down, rap1, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, tax, upbraid. Informal : bawl out, lambaste. Slang : chew out. Idioms: bring (or call) (or take) to task, call on the carpet, haul (or rake) over the coals, let someone have it. See ATTACK, PRAISE. call for 1. To be a proper or sufficient occasion for: justify, occasion, warrant. See RIGHT. 2. To ask for urgently or insistently: claim, demand, exact, insist on or (upon), require, requisition. Idioms: cry out for. See REQUEST. 3. To have as a need or prerequisite: ask, demand, entail, involve, necessitate, require, take. See NECESSARY, OVER. call off To decide not to go ahead with (something previously arranged): cancel. Slang : scratch, scrub. See CONTINUE.
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